He couldn’t see even a few feet in any direction, and— with no engines—had no way to keep the plane in the air for long. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A drizzle hung in the air when we set off, and before long it had turned into a steady, merciless, deadfall rain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something huge stirred in the air, and the ground rushed up at Sierra again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There was a latent freshness in the air, as though spring were returning in the middle of the summer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now in the mornings there was a sharp freshness in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I said, waving the pipe wrench in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of mist hung in the air like ghostly ribbons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His entire body flopped back and forth in the air, swaying against the wind and jolting at every bump of the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A wisp of scented smoke hung in the air, drawing her down the winding path to where the red priests had fired the great iron braziers outside the house of the Lord of Light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stood by his side and beamed with satisfaction, waving one small arm in the air, while the people, released now from their solemnity, whistled and stamped their feet in ap-preciation. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog kicked her legs in the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Werner, only a few feet away, hears no change in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He rested one hand on an imaginary belly and raised the other in the air, waggling a disapproving finger. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of intense white, a lashing crack, and the monkey’s form was flung high in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lunch wraps took flight and wheeled in the air like gulls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Tension hung in the air, a continual threat, even though you could not put your finger on it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dan, spewing blood from a dozen wounds, leaped high in the air. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At intervals mild summer lightning quivered in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rest of her fingers stick up in the air and move like they’re waving. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We close the space between us, our hands still very much to our sides or in the air, but we’re dancing against each other. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I use the tip of my finger to draw explanatory lines in the air. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At once they beat their wings and surged forward, and she darted with them, surfing on the turbulence their pinions caused in the air and relishing the speed and power it added to her flight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muhammad bursts in as I’m fingering the wood veneer on them, his phone in the air. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Now when they teamed up with other Soviet pilots in the air, everyone would know there were women flying with them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The women of the 125th Guards liked and appreciated the Frenchmen who flew for the Normandie-Niemen Regiment and protected them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then out of nowhere he thrust his arm straight up in the air. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Trying to answer a question with Hermione next to him, bobbing up and down on the balls of her feet with her hand in the air, was very off-putting, but Harry had a go. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She pulled three crisp dollar bills out of her wallet and held them up in the air for us to see. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Beowulf seized handfuls of white linen napkins, quickly shredded them with his teeth, and flung them in the air around her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He adjusts his stance until his feet are planted wide, bows his head so that his hair obscures his face, and holds the microphone up in the air in one hand—classic rock star pose. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Karen giggled, like a handful of coins tossed in the air. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took hold of it and waved it in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath him, Seabiscuit bounced along with his tail fanned out high in the air. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phone’s to the side, and she’s typing away on the laptop with her nose in the air. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He had tossed Meggie up in the air, he had carried her around the house on his shoulders, he had taught her how to make a bookmark of a blackbird’s feathers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The salmon began to drown in the air, gasping for water, and then it thrashed and twitched, and now they were carrying a panting Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The tone of disapproval in my voice hung in the air of the classroom like a threat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I began to feel a shift in the air. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Cool stuff, like a globe that floated in the air and a Rubik’s-type cube made with little mirrors. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stared at her, then walked off in the direction of the Warriors’ bench, taking a tangerine out of my pocket and tossing it up in the air. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He’s shimmering in the air exactly like he’s been in my mind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The sound vibrated in the air and into Anya’s ears, making them ring as she fled. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now, on a sunny day, with a sweet haze in the air and the promise of rain low and far at the edge of the horizon, Omakayas and Angeline started for the cornfield. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Frightful watched his spectacular sky dance twice more, then she flew off the bridge and traced the same design in the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fairies hovered everywhere, gathered in the air all around the tree house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They stood and stared at me; but when I was almost all the way past, I saw Dunlap put his hand up in the air and wave back. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They could all see him standing, waving one hand in the air, the other was in his trouser-pocket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After the first Friday, a bone-weary Ernest Lawrence boarded a red-eye flight west for a few days at Balboa and was back in the air two days later for another grueling week. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Can you smell the spring in the air? The winter is just melting away.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The leaves fell from the trees and the snap of fall was in the air. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The coachman had fired his own revolver once in the air to alert police, once at Prendergast, and Prendergast had returned the shot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Ku-Ang fell backward off the cliff, slowly turning and spinning in the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was smoke in the air, sweet from the fragrance of perfume, and there was laughing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he held it up in the air, just like Victor had shown him in St. Mark's Square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to reach that sheet and it blew above me in the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop threw his hands in the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So I raise my hand in the air and give Daphne some of what she been giving me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ninja paused, her foot poised in the air. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He pulled out of his dive, his hand in the air, and the stadium exploded. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Delsa’s eyes shimmered, her little hands fluttering in front of her as they drew a picture in the air of a girls’ bike. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He leaped in the air, kicked the first guy square in the chest with both feet. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There is excitement in the air, the feeling that things are almost back to normal since President Kennedy died; 1964 is a fresh, new year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The great noise increased, beating of wings in the air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand vaguely in the air before him; but he was in fact now facing southwards, as he came back to Shelob’s tunnel, not west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of covering her ears like me, Imani starts bopping her head and swinging her hand in the air. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He saw the specks of Gulf clouds flame high in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my finger in the air and connected the twinkling dots above the planet, tracing the Leo constellation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I started to say something about being glad to see him, too, but I felt something wrong in the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the air, riding on a beeline right out to McNab’s head, the same line it came in on, only faster. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is just moonlight now, in the mill, and the musty smell of rotted grain hangs in the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I lifted my chin in the air and said it confidently, as though my brain weren’t racing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He suddenly began backing up his threats by waving a bone-handled switchblade knife in the air. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, the boy smiled and flopped down on the hay, rolling over on his back and waving his limbs in the air. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He held his hand at knee height in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The following week she was back in the air, in a desperate battle that ended with her having to parachute out of her crippled plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had three rings on the hand he waved in the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otis Amber flung his arms in the air. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dire music trembled in the air; a shadow flickered across the lowering sky. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a question hanging in the air, and they can both see it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tables with their feet upside-down and rows and rows of refrigerators with round corners and couches that spin dust in the air when you punch them and a hundred T.V.’s that don’t work probably. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining, the breeze was steady, and seagulls shrieked in the air above us. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Mrs. Lyons and Annabelle and the whole class, really, pretended it hadn’t happened, though you could feel the energy of pretending in the air. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The journal pages spun and coiled in the air until they formed a humanoid figure. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He put both his hands up in the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seven channels, if someone holds one end of the foil up in the air by the window, but that’s annoying. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as I step into the lunchroom, I can smell the tortilla soup in the air. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I could still smell the scent of spices, perfume, and incense swirling around in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The chill in the air had put color in her cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They stood back a bit, one boy holding a device in the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The heat and the sun were sickening and there was a heavy stink in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You could smell death in the air. The fields were irrigated with blood and men hung from trees like rotting fruit.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Gracie shouts, punching her fist in the air. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and kept my hands in the air. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He traced in the air the convolutions, visible in the picture, of the creature’s cry. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had only gone a few paces when Hermione’s bandy-legged ginger cat, Crookshanks, came pelting out of the garden, bottlebrush tail held high in the air, chasing what looked like a muddy potato on legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The land was flooded, leaving the scent of rainwater in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Little Mary stepped forward and held the doll high in the air. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When everything was ready we stood by the door and people began to tumble in with wide smiles, wearing their best clothes, arms full of flowers and sweets, rose perfume floating in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As Johnson had hoped, several American planes were already in the air above the Gulf. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gregor and Boots shot up fifty feet in the air and yo-yoed up and down like they were on a big rubber band. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hull had pushed his arm into Shawna even harder, had lifted her in the air, and Shawna was struggling to breathe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Howard ran from his box with his fist in the air. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Sargon leaped away, twisting in the air to land sure-footed on the marble floor among the fallen armor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I find the girls dancing like it’s their last day on earth, their hands flying in the air and their hips swinging back and forth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tony Johnson’s blue figure moved in the air lock, and she heard the nozzles begin to hiss. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smell of mildew and of wet paper was in the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know,” she says, waving her phone in the air. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hand in the air, my index finger extended. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“That little fella’s not for sale. He’s a Manchurian Fire Thrower. They’re ones that shoot upwards of three hundred feet in the air and explode in two different colors.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She waves her hand in the air as if I should know what a typical genius activity is. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Something floated in the air gently behind him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunny turned around awkwardly and threw his hand up in the air to me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A plane was writing high up in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly Antonapoulos made a slow circle in the air with his plump forefinger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the dinner table, she wiggled her fingers in the air and said, “I think it looks cool.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“He said to tell you, no, to warn you, that — and this is his plural, not mine” — he lifted one hand from my waist and made little quotations marks in the air — “ ‘We’ll be watching.’ Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I said, stepping in front of Jack and holding my hands up in the air like a traffic cop. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run oh ahead, but danger hung in the air. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In a flash, game in her talons, Frightful and the rabbit were in the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if she had stepped into a slice in the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He took the bag and flung it in the air, almost as if he was swatting at a fly, just to open the bag up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There is a strange heaviness in the air—I say heaviness for want of a better word; I mean that it oppresses us both. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was a strange sharp smell in the air that smarted in their noses. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On our way out, the woman at the desk stops me, her hand waving in the air like she’s hailing a taxicab. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His bottom was lifted in the air, a habit he’d had as a baby and that still came back sometimes when he was very tired. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I plant my sandals beside the white square on the dirt and lift the bat in the air, trying to imitate the coach's stance. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention Sin on Sunday, but I could feel the words hanging in the air. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Zoya, in the air with a full view of what was about to happen to Olga, called to her friend over the radio: “Jump!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For over a week mourners arrived into the darkened sala, where the window shades had been drawn and the scent of flowers hung heavy in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalton stooped slowly, her hands trembling in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded a bend and the crack of a whip sounded in the air like a firecracker. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He waves his hand clasping the book in the air. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

That first day, the words were merely sounds in the air, broken like shards of glass, beautiful from a certain angle and jagged from another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Donna walks as if she’s a supermodel—with her done-up face and her flowing hair and her nose in the air. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She slipped carefully out of her shoes and then bobbed up in the air like a balloon. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In some ways the rain is a blessing, as it lightens the humidity in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something wistful and sisterly hung in the air. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed a picked flower to Elen, who grasped it in a fist and waved it in the air. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’ll put her nose in the air and pretend she never had such an idea in her head. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In Seattle, Joe’s half siblings whooped and hollered and cheered and tumbled about the house, tossing seat cushions and pillows in the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and grabbed Rosaleen from behind, stopping her with one foot poised in the air, searching for the next step. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The projector’s light traps a galaxy of swirling skin flakes and popcorn husks in the air. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Princess Vasilisa swept down hallway after hallway, saying nothing but leaving a trail of sizzling wrath in the air behind her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wheel on that side had buckled, so the plane sat at a crazy angle, the opposite wing high in the air. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He faltered in the air as its pinions beat against his cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A day like that you can feel summer in the air, and the smell of cut grass, and the sting of salt from the harbor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hit it up in the air just before it went into the basket. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

O’Dell got up and did a little jig and then fell back on the couch and put his feet up in the air and made like he was riding a bicycle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She began to move in fanning circles, now flying the sleeves in the air, now trailing them on the grass, dancing in the middle of the light. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a muggy, overcast night, with the feeling of thunderstorms in the air, but as long as it wasn’t raining, Alex enjoyed the walk. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Possibly there were slight differences in the air pressure. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to make out their expressions, but the tension in the air was like the hot static buzz you feel before that first clap of thunder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of hysteria in the air. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the tank collapsed, the molasses inside seemed to hover in the air for a split second—a massive roiling cloud. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

A happy home had nothing to do with three men in a bubble eating sawdust food and watching pencils floating in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hull held a ziplock bag up in the air, and Moss’s heart dropped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The tiny legs on one side hung twitching in the air above, the ones on the other side were pushed painfully into the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something glittered in his eyes at her words, and Dimple felt herself flushing at whatever was going on, practically rippling in the air between them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The stillness in the air, the glory of the light, the feeling of comparative safety—all had made me think so. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before she could continue, a sparkle of light appeared next to us, like someone had opened a gold curtain in the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

No noise besides pans being slid into the oven, and the weird giggles of T-N-T holding their cell phones in the air, posing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Loki had lost his appetite, which his friends attributed to his flight in the air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ghost stalked beside Jon’s horse as the rangers and recruits formed up, then stopped and sniffed, his breath frosting in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Leroy patted his hands in the air to calm the class. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

His body was stiff and straight, his head high in the air, his large muscles quivered and jerked under his glossy coat, but something went wrong. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stayed cold that Monday, and even though it was pretty bright out, there were snowflakes in the air that afternoon again, drifting like they didn’t care if they landed. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Yet, the feelings in the air were not all placid. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s up in the air what will happen when school starts again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

You could imagine these feathers moving in the air. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is reason to believe that recollection was an ex post facto elaboration; those on the scene recall a sensation more suggestive of relief and euphoria in the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He dances on the demon of ignorance, his four arms held out in choreographic gesture, one foot on the demons back, the other lifted in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her words stuck in the air, like flies caught in a spider’s web. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it was just a shimmer against the craggy mountainside; a quivering spot in the air like heat waves rising from a hot car. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ethan Potter saw and raised his right arm in the air. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The King waved his sword menacingly in the air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slight smell of gasoline in the air, and even the glowworms whirling aimlessly through the night didn't seem to know what had brought them to this place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The inexplicable scent of wood shavings hung heavy in the air. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Frightful was in the air before Leon Longbridge could say another word about female peregrine falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She turned her wrist in the air, the purple jewels glinting in the sunlight. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Do 1 feel a coldness in the air this evening?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Buttercup’s mother noted a certain tension in the air. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He waved his hands in the air, stomped around their bikes, and leapt up and down in a full-on tantrum. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He made the fire climb high in the air, as if to set the stars alight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The pilot let go of his wheel, raised his hands in the air and took his feet off the pedals to show Brian he was actually flying the plane alone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ripred lifted his nose in the air and took a deep sniff. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Izzy lay on her stomach on the armchair, chin propped on one armrest, feet in the air over the other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a chill in the air, and I loved it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It curled in the air before it landed on the womans shoulder. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laney yelled, waving an arm in the air. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In his functioning ear, in the radio, in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he gets home from work he picks them up and throws them in the air. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope the Beast is ready to boogie, because Mrs. Turton is ready to dance. Look,” she added, wiggling one of her sneakers in the air. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It had just rained, and the streets were covered with wet leaves; their earthy tobacco scent hung in the air, mixing with the spice of wood smoke. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, something grabbed her by the wrists and yanked her up cruelly, spinning her in the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Speeding after the other planes in the air, Raisa managed to chase close behind one of the men’s La-5s, a successful attack position, even though she wasn’t going to shoot at him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Turning away, Sefia glanced up, noting the moisture in the air, the speed of the clouds as they crossed the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fields shine green and wet, and tree leaves drip, and I can almost see, hovering in the air, those mysterious red arrows and black letters hiding a world from me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching the meadow from the forest above, Gray stopped suddenly, nose in the air. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Freak nods, he's really into this story, and he's making shapes in the air with his hands. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the Memorial Hospital, Hooper lay with his broken leg hoisted up in the air, and played Snakes and Ladders with Mrs Helena Kingshaw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

For instance, this one, now, coalescing in the air like a queer humidity. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over it hangs a glossy painting called Three Oaks with three trees floating in the air against a yellow backdrop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Renly was unhorsed so violently that he seemed to fly backward off his charger, legs in the air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Benji drew an invisible check mark in the air with his finger. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Towering at least thirty-five feet in the air and topped with wicked coils of barbed wire, it makes ours back in District 12 look childish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His office desk, legs in the air, had been fastened to the top. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he was done he felt a pleasing lightness in the air around him which slipped silkily over his skin and through his nostrils. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some of them had dark feathers—charcoal—and as they exploded on the ground and in the air, Palmer thanked them for so clearly not being Nipper. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’s spinning a pot in the air with his hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

No one’s talking, the tension so thick in the air you’d need a machete just to make it to the refrigerator and back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They are waving toys in the air in some kind of back seat celebration. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Salt in the air and on my face and Rondell sneezing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If his foot wasn’t in the air when she checked on him, she’d whip his back with a belt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just a chill in the air, an arc of gray sky overhead. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“The boy is innocent,” says Ben and when I turn I can see his hands are in the air. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He always returned with the poor dog hanging off him, suspended in the air, impaled on his immense masculinity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Country Joe raised the guitar high in the air, gave a triumphant wave to the audience, and walked offstage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of snow was in the air. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The upward rush of the machine slackened off; a moment later they were hanging motionless in the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ball’s hit on the ground, he takes off; if it’s a line drive, he freezes until it clears the infield; and if it’s in the air, he laser-locks on Webb at third. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As he got over his initial shock, he noticed other details: the frost spreading from the base of the Doors, the purplish glow in the air around them, and the chains that held them fast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There had been a hard freeze during the night, and their breath steamed in the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa waved a clenched fist in the air, but a smile whispered on his lips, and he made no attempt to conceal the delight in his voice. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt the expectant hush in the air, like the trees were waiting for something. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Any of those soldiers could have picked her up and tossed her in the air. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He beat his wings once, twice, and flew up in the air high enough to catch a breeze that rode him out over the water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

High in the air with her knickers down. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hedge is destroyed, the rails of the light railway are torn up and rise stiffly in the air in great arches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were in the air, I lost my nervousness and studied the geography of Ethiopia, thinking how guerrilla forces hid in these very forests to fight the Italian imperialists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her internal compass and the increasing moisture in the air sent her westward. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Violet said, “I love the great feeling of Coke’s carbonation going down my throat, all the pain, like ...” She waved her hands in the air and looked at the ceiling, trying to think of something. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull put his hands up in the air. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

There was a mustiness in the air, a hint of damp cellar, a whiff of stale sweat left behind by a rowdy congregation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His words were still swirling in the air around us, and I breathed deeply, trying to draw them into myself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fist in the air, brown hair mussed from the wind. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The answer dangled in the air right in front of Sierra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It unfurled from the ball, unspooling in the air like loopy cursive letters. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Outhouse raised his front legs in the air and waved them excitedly. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

With the smell of her skin in the air that he breathed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their slim black boy wrists made G clefs in the air as they executed the tosses. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood shivering in the night, looking back out as the beetle ran by and skidded back to the centre of the avenue, whirling laughter in the air all about it, gone. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I picked up enough English to understand holocaust was in the air. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her arms raised high in the air, her fingers tickling the sky. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Whooooooa!” they all yell and hands fly in the air and women stand and clap and clap. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few bats fluttered in the air near the car and he could hear their high screeching sonar—then they were gone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wave a hand in the air quickly, like I'm trying to erase what I've said. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was tension in the air, as if the hill itself were holding its breath, waiting for something bad to happen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Vegetarianism and reincarnation are in the air, but that’s taking it too far. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They hovered in the air for a long moment, over his mum as she tried to scramble back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He threw a shadowboxing punch in the air between us, and I almost took him up on it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Flies buzz in the air, drawn by dirt and debris. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one could say it was a pretty city but today with spring in the air, it was at its best. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds up a fist, and I pretend to bump it in the air. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But five seconds later, when a bright red door came into sight ahead, he suddenly waved his gold-topped cane in the air and shouted, “Stop the boat!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He jumped what seemed about three feet up in the air and broke into a dead run down the tracks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like “did a somersault in the air and then face planted into the snow” wiped out. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Corcoran stopped crying instantly, in mid-sob; he held the baby high in the air and looked up at it adoringly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His hand simply hung in the air in front of her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something foul grew in the waters here, and festered in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sr. Rivera stepped back, raising his hands in the air to show he meant no harm. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she says, throwing her hands helplessly up in the air. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh coughed, and bees tumbled out of his mouth to form a question mark that shivered in the air. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I have to hold the pad up in the air with one arm and try to carefully write the words down so they don’t come out too sloppy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She might wave her hands in the air, or tremble if she can’t put her hand to something with another chore just around the bend from the one she is doing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands waved in the air, followed by random shouts of “Amen” and “Praise Jesus.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Women and men wave their gambling tokens in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nora is sandwiched between both beaming, proud parents, screaming at the top of her lungs, and Luna is throwing Claremont campaign pamphlets in the air like a mafioso with hundred dollar bills. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The circles went round and round, all the skirts going one way and all the boots going the other way, and hands clasping and parting high up in the air. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began to descend towards the coast, the roadside growing more populous, the smell of the ocean in the air. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs went up in the air like she was doing a backward tumble. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With two free hands, Alfhercht turned back to the water and wove his fingers in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Butterflies danced in the air between us as he looked us over, and I learned how an especially small ant must feel when facing a particularly large elephant. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She could only hear his fear ringing in the air. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

James punched a fist in the air and shouted, “We must defend Steve’s honor!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stared at Newcharlie for a moment, my question hanging in the air over his bed. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Em threw both arms up in the air, did a graceful U-turn, and started running back to her team. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Slow and deep, breathe in the air, little human, stop thinking. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mom asked, throwing her arms up in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I threw the ball in the air, trying to make the shot with him in my face. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He liked to lean back and look upwards when he talked, as though he were searching for something in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I had finished I lashed the oar in a vertical position to the inside of one of the corners of the raft, flat part, the masthead, rising in the air, handle disappearing underwater. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Jack is pumping one fist in the air and chanting, “Treasure hunt! Treasure hunt!” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter's head and pieces flew all over the platform. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Red clouds hung in the air like vaporized blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she spoke, her breath clouded in the air before her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Fireflies began to wink on and off in the air around him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

You can always smell them in the air, even out to sea.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the parade, the issue of where the African American women would march remained up in the air. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He held his hands, covered in flour, up in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And there it was: like a sheet of glass hanging unsupported in the air, but glass with no attention-catching reflections in it: just a square patch of difference. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its tone remained sarcastic, but its fur was bristling, and its brush of a tail stuck up in the air. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I drew a little circle in the air around the side of my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She lunged for the sword, her left hand wrapping around the cool hilt as she twisted in the air and swung. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Cameras flashed as Doug posed, smiling broadly, index fingers high in the air. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is an embarrassment!” he pronounced, waving my report in the air. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss threw his hands up in the air as he let out a breath of relief. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jerome proclaimed in a hoary voice, shaking his fist in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The place was alive with vermin and the smell of cooking hung in the air day and night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He addressed a few short sung syllables to the boys on the ground, and they both smiled up at him and waved their sticks in the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I got closer, the smell of tobacco in the air grew denser. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We started to run with the sand at our backs and just a trace of smoke in the air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romance was floating in the air like moondust and the two lovers, for some reason we younger ones could never understand, did not seem to be very keen on us tagging along with them. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to where Sigurd dangled in the air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I looked at the handle sticking in the air, then at T. Ray as he walked around the room touching things, the piano, the hatrack, a Look magazine on the drop-leaf table. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed the book in the air again, caught it again, before putting it in his bag and closing the locker door. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Early in 1864 talk of the presidential election was in the air. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to climb into his too-tall truck but his two fingers walk in the air. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The coolest thing was that the whole park floated in the air! The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At dinner, an odd atmosphere seemed to hang in the air between the two gentlemen. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stuck one finger up in the air and said, “What kind of greeting do Jews use to one another?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The smoke in the air was thinning, the roar of the fire dulled in his ears. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a frost in the air, and the sky was a pale clear blue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“No way!” one of the boys cried out, and he started flicking his hand in the air like he’d just touched something hot. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The picture on the song’s cover was a guy holding a small child in the air. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Fried mung-bean pancake with spicy sauce, wafting in the air with the bricks of pungent soybean paste hawked by a nearby merchant, so strong you could taste it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The word “embarrassment” hung in the air like a foul smell. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

With the decision up in the air and the San Antonio less than a week away, Howard, Smith, and Pollard parted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her feet flew up from under her, and she contorted herself in the air so she would not fall backward. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger caught the skillet and lifted it high in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve got to swallow it,” Milo ordained with dictatorial grandeur, and almost broke his neck when he let go with one arm to wave a righteous finger in the air. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Just by the patches in the air I can tell who has recently been in which rooms. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I say, tossing the ball in the air and catching it bare-handed. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell salt in the air, which brought back memories of going to the ocean with Ellie and Sol as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The silver-gray dust being thrown in the air by the wind was not snow, but ash. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But she was a deadly foe in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By then a second flight was in the air, and the archers were fitting a third arrow to their bowstrings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The molasses hovered in the air like a black, roiling cloud. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

People roared and cheered around me, teammates slammed and hugged me, even Coach O, who’d donned his own skates for the moment, carved an arc around me, pumping his fist in the air. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A man appeared above the porch, floating in the air—a blond dude in a white toga, with sunglasses and a cocky smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She put on her meanest, most fearsome look, and kept her chin up in the air. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And all these birds rose in the air, alarmed and confused by this new anger, beating their black wings, flying just above, waiting for the noise to stop. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firemage had conjured a ladder in the air, a crackling orange ladder of swirling flame that rose unsupported from the floor of the bazaar, reaching toward the high latticed roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On and on she went, pacing back and forth and waving her arms in the air. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And if it was cold on the ground, it was seriously cold in the air, with icy rain stinging my skin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He took that, too, and started waving both in the air. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was an eagerness in the air to please by being creative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Biff played an astounding solo — the notes just seemed to shimmer in the air like floating fire — and Mr. W. was simply incredible. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached her fingers toward the water, setting them against invisible threads in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was as if a switch had been thrown and Alex could almost feel the raw fear in the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She danced around the beach area, swinging Tidbit in the air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the mound builders in Louisiana built these massive constructions at a time when agriculture was barely under way—it was like the whiff in the air from a faraway ocean. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My question floated into my parents’ sudden silence and hung like a bubble in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fishtail lit the pipe, and the fragrance of burning red-willow tobacco hung peacefully in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tock sniffed suspiciously at the wind and the Humbug gingerly stabbed his cane in the air, but there was nothing at all to see. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Hub is marked by an American flag fluttering fifty feet up in the air, and large black plastic letters above the door: MOBIUS. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That started a decon cycle running in the air lock that would eliminate any hot agents that might have leaked into the air lock as they were going through. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vuvv is there, with symbols hanging around it in the air. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At one point, she launches up in the air, over a small barrel and lands poised on her tiptoes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Elouise trades a triangle of toast for her car keys and curls her fingers in the air. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Masha always tried to get Galya to distract her in the air on the way to a mission, to take her mind off the hard and terrifying work that lay ahead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Pa,” Kim repeats, his words softly floating in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brothers went up in the air and Ice went around him for a reverse slam. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Flames leapt ten feet in the air from three huge stone- lined firepits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sky is very dark now, and the moisture in the air is turning into a thick fog. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angela, too frightened to notice that Sydelle ran through the apartment with her crutch in the air, found her partner in the bathroom frantically tossing soiled towels from the hamper. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I puffed my way up to him, he pointed up in the air, back the way we came. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He sits up and spins his hands in the air like Guillermo. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Screaming her head off, shaking her fists in the air. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Someday I’ll be fired on in the air, and I’ll go down in flames just because I’m too blooming scared to fly the plane.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I carelessly wave another apple slice in the air. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could feel, like some sort of mist that hung in the air, that I was unwelcome. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt an invisible thread of possibility hanging in the air between them, but she didn’t know what was supposed to happen next. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The big house on the hill could feel a change in the air. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The smell was thick in the air, worse than ever before. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Back in East St. Louis, as the little porch fell, wood chips—ignited and smoking—exploded in the air. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was in the air a silent mockery that challenged him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Rishi sat down, there was a weird sort of hesitant, crackling silence in the air. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be free of all the anger in the air. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped back and took two more slow swings, feeling the groove he left in the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dozens of colorful power-ups pop up around the level, suspended in the air and over the monuments and down on the ground. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then he’d tell us about how, when he was in the air force and his plane’s engine conked out, he made an emergency landing in a cattle pasture and saved himself and his crew. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He threw his hands in the air, repeating the word Jewish. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She hopped up on it, pulled a potato from the sack next to her, and started peeling with a small knife, her feet kicking in the air under the bench. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And do you remember the deep blatting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the light upon the pallet, half-expecting her to still be there; but there was only a pool of warm blood, a faint veil of vapor hovering in the air above it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You set your beads down and hummed the tune along with me, and Kutti stuck his nose in the air and yowled. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The cub crouched, quivered, pounced again, and this time he got his muffled front paws on the thing, and a moment later, had bitten it off its string and was flinging it in the air. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Farther, to the horizon, majestic ocean ray-like creatures glide in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a dream within my dream, but suddenly I imagined the two-headed god Janus shimmering in the air next to Daedalus, smiling as he tossed a silver key from hand to hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The day Stick got his head cut, I’d stood in this same room, with its uncomfortable rows of chairs and the bitter smell of blood and medicine mixing in the air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A child got in the center, bounced, and then was flipped twenty feet up in the air, like a toy rocket. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma sketched a casual pattern in the air with one hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I actually throw my hands up in the air as I say it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

High in the air, the people filed out through exits between their bleachers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The storm is just dust in the air; it's not dangerous to the rovers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry,” he said, raising his hand in the air, the spatula his scepter, “I got this.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A thin, acrid smell of petroleum hung in the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She says nothing as she wrings out the cloth and holds it in the air to cool somewhat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you know. You can see Ebola particles clearly in the air spaces of the lung.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now more people stood up to speak to each other, confusion and gossip swirling in the air as Stephanie left the auditorium. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There were many hummers which can stand still in the air and look like bits of polished stone and have long tongues to sip honey with. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sulfur of the match hangs in the air for a moment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” Dr. Somerset said, tossing her hands in the air. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can taste the dust in the air. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The mention of “openings” recalled the mysterious window in the air through which she had entered this world; and the first words seemed to say that she should go upward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom said, lifting her hands in the air. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She swallowed hard, and then the domovoi appeared in the air over Sigurd’s head. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was still no river to be seen, but in front they could perceive a flicker and dance of mirrored light in the air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Somerset threw her hands in the air. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what it is, but it hangs in the air like a scent. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke that hovers in the air is condensed around the bookshelves, which are burned to cinders. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A small woman sat on a recliner, her stocking-covered feet up in the air. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He throws his glove in the air and catches it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kevin held up his hands and framed a marquee in the air. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Charlie kept his left hand in the air with his wrist bent for emphasis. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He awoke on this birthday morning with the feeling that there was menace in the air around him—that something irrevocable had occurred in him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The old lady with the tambourine held it in the air and shook it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I jumped about a foot straight up in the air and came down running. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Summer can find the village,” Bran said suddenly, his words misting in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Moss saw the baton raised in the air, but it happened so quickly that he couldn’t shout out a warning in time. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At first, he saw mostly photographers and reporters, and then there was Enrique, his arm in a sling, his other holding his skateboard up in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, smelling rain in the air, I returned to the greystone to make a shelter for my lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna,” Fyrian sang, spinning a pirouette in the air. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maribel and I ducked under the lowered parking gates and walked across the empty lot, our sneakers making prints in the snow, our breath heavy in the air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Whose fate is hovering in the air like a bee. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Will felt in the air with the tip of the knife: any world, out of this one. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She left it hanging in the air, and then said, “Hey, speaking of tomorrow, as thanks for your hard work and dedication on this remarkable evening, I would like to give you a small gift.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

After swimming, we sat on boulders and collected smooth pebbles to juggle in the air. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The pad on the inside of his palm lusted for the gripe of the hilt His whole arm remembered the balance of Joyeux and wanted to wag him in the air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music did not seem so jolly then; he heard discords and strange silences, and notes that hung in the air bleeding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The words hummed in the air between them, stronger than any magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The smell of pepper spray hung in the air. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Aunt Carrie didn’t feel the chill in the air, and neither did Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I take a tiny jump and hang in the air just a bit longer than I’m used to. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

James punched his fists in the air and tilted his head back to shout at the ceiling, “STEVE SURVIVES!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As if there was something in the air she might be able to clutch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After about an hour in the air, dawn lightened the terrain below. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chestnutt waited for her to answer, too, and finally the pilot threw one hand up in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As if he had called it to us, a small hummingbird suddenly flitted past, hovering in the air in front of us before swerving off to the left. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Phil walks over to the beach and lofts the plaid blanket in the air; it billows out as he brings it to rest on the sand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He stood on his hind legs and his front ones churned in the air. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Freedom is a delicate idea, like a pretty leaf in the air: It’s hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it,” she observed quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many birds about the cliffs and the rock-chimneys, and all day high in the air flocks of birds had been circling, black against the pale sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I clasp my hands over my ears as more bullets ring in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some—many— of the people in the crowd don't have their fists in the air. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Frightful noted the moisture in the air, the clouds, the wind, and the other migrating birds passing overhead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he lifted his beer in the air and said, “Drinks are on me tonight.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she saw rough hands picking apart ropes and twining them together again, with salt in the air and a breeze in the sails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That last line lingers in the air, stinging me right down to my toes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Little plumes of smoke, thick as worms, began to writhe in the air. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But pathologists soon realized that too many variables—from the humidity in the air to the type of clothing on the corpse—affect the rate of decomposition to allow a precise calculation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be a dancer, my feet in the air, my head a faceless oblong of white cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presto let go of the wheel and held his palms up in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Always his arm was in the air, waving and gesticulating. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It felt like an idea, a particle of dust floating around in the air that hadn’t landed yet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A remarkably foul odor hung in the air, and the passage descended to a lonely black door with an iron padlock. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The distinctive antiseptic tang in the air let me know that I was somewhere in the Medica. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was loud grumbling, and even shouts of protest, but his actions—though nothing was ever proven to be in the air— struck me as totally sensible. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman laughed, shook out her hair and waved a leathered hand in the air. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a terrible moment, the phantom hung in the air, a reverse shadow, long, dusty fingers reaching out toward Sierra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jay threw his hands up in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She pivots and marches away from me, leading me down the hall with her hand up in the air as if I might otherwise lose her. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was quieter now and very warm and wet, a softness in the air, a mountain peace. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the slats, his legs dangle in the air. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She waves her hand in the air and you find yourself thinking of young chimpanzees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

So how long before their flying machines were in the air, delivering invaders to the garden terrace and to the flat of the seraph’s palm, right where Sarai now stood? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He threw the torch high in the air where the fireball had just been blazing, caught it as it came down, lit more, juggled with three, four, five torches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All around them, men and women hurled their hats in the air, poured onto the track, drummed on the rails, and slapped one another on the back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes!” exclaimed Kelly, who waved two fingers in the air at George like a victory sign. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo brought the bottle and they sat in the living room, the radio turned low and the aroma of Ugwu’s soup in the air. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He saw Carter snaking through the line again, like some monstrous reptile in his helmet, but suddenly Carter became all arms and legs tossing and turning in the air, hit devastatingly low by Croteau. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind, suddenly impossibly old, floated out of his body and hovered high above him in the air, from where it jabbered useless warnings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat waved its paws in the air and slowly rolled back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mommy,” I watch him whisper, waving a thermos in the air, “my water isn’t hot anymore.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He flung his hands in the air: “Boom!” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now I’m standing in the air, out of reach above the upturned faces. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though they all did the same thing they did every night, there was tension in the air, a nervous silence. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I can practically smell the glamour in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well—all bouncy and boundy and laughing and going up in the air.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A glowing rainbow began to float in the air like ribbons from the tip of the arrowhead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And every day, as he came near to it, he would lift his small pointed nose high in the air and sniff the wonderful sweet smell of melting chocolate. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

By now the motor was completely submerged and the bow was pointed nearly straight up in the air, which meant that the boat was about to capsize. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And yes, I did promise, and when he told me, his words hung heavy in the air for maybe a minute, my voice stuck in my throat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was a peculiar floating sensation coming over him, as though he were floating up in the air like a balloon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

His fellow Fourth-Yearlings, the same boys he fought and sweated and suffered with for years, thump the flagstones with their boots and pump their fists in the air. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She kept putting her right hand in the air and waving it in front of her face like she was fanning away a stinky burp. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And though I can't feel it, I can see wet in the air. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Jules didn’t turn around, but she shot a peace sign in the air as she kept marching them forward. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He began jumping in the air, trying to catch the edge of it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

You all line up and make an X with your wrists in the air as you pace along to the music. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of the hockey players was chasing them, growling, hands in the air as if he was a bear. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Squaller turned in the air, stirring the storm into a frenzy, sending ice flying until it stung her cheeks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hands in the air like Jesus himself had thrown down that dunk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Scott roared like a dinosaur and shook his wheel in the air. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Ready,” said Alice very quietly behind him, and he nearly leapt in the air with shock. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Stalking off, she simply raised her right arm and reproachfully wagged a forefinger in the air. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something unpleasant is in the air around this place, like the electric charge before a thunderstorm. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The planes bounced and shuddered from the force of the explosions in the air around them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma ignored that and put two fingers in the air. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As he talks, I leave my hand in the air and think, What ifl went there and stood on that point? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And though the words meant nothing to me, or almost nothing, I felt their weight, the deep groove they made in the air of time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I held the bundle in the air and waved it at her—almost making fun of myself with mock extra enthusiasm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad took a picture of Sookie holding the dripping jaws in the air. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I raise my fist in the air to quiet them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My lungs expand as I gulp in the air around me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He made a chopping motion in the air with his hand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a chill in the air and she shivered when I opened the door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The same bright lights that bordered the winding path hung in the air over the walls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says it with her nose and chin in the air. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seven feet in the air, I almost fell off my ladder. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I saw her scrape off the fish scales, which flew in the air like shards of glass. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed him high in the air and shouted, ‘Catch him, Manhugger!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But conceivably Wilson had heard some of these same explanations before, from Myrtle, because he began saying "Oh, my God!" again in a whisper--his comforter left several explanations in the air. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could smell cashews roasting and ripe star fruit and the scent seemed to dance with the notes in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He raised his fist in the air and we stopped moving. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I saw his body, so immeasurably vital, stretched in the air above me, a fleet­ing, furred rainbow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant made a circle in the air with his hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Voices hung in the air as densely as the misty rain. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was someone in the air, hovering in the sky high above her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And with a bow, the goldfish man walked away; his bowls of goldfish cast pieces of rainbows in the air, making him sparkle in the sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the cigarette back from the woman in red, holds it to her mouth, lets her hand rest in the air a moment, all five fingers outspread. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to stop you right now,” the professor cut in, holding his hand in the air. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And I hung in the air, descending more slowly than the rain, falling sideways, falling sideways. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We make our way through the underside of the tables, with ballads and drinking songs sung above us, screams and whispers in the air, and the soft footfalls of dancers echoing around us like rain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As graceful as any queen, with her head high in the air, and her long red tail arched in a perfect rainbow, my little dog walked down the table. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carbon joins with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which plants need to live, and nitrogen is in the air we breathe and the fertilizer we need to grow crops. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What news could I announce to my family? Everything was up in the air.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad huffed a near laugh, reached down for a handful of coal dust, and tossed it in the air. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a stillness in the air—a kind of shadow swooping in on us in this little house of ours, leaking out from the walls. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The charred smell of the burning would remain in the air even as the new cotts rose. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dirt spins in the air around me like it had around Quetzalcoatl. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other boys were too busy laughing to keep the ball in the air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is asleep on his back, his enormous stomach piled two feet in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banners of white samite flapped in the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

My eyes catch on a funny, rippling square hanging like a warped pane of glass in the air. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He raises a finger in the air and wags it like he’s about to make a brilliant observation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Everything remained the same, the dryness in the air, the dusty winds, the refugees tilling dried soil, but Kainene was not back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s because you’ve got that nose of yours stuck so far in the air that you never get to look down to see us common nits on the ground.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tosses the box in the air and jumps back toward me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He bent in the air like a thrashing fish and spun into the ground shoulder first. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke and drifting ash still lingered in the air about the pit as Jon trotted back to the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We must have used his fuse in one of our canisters. Just cut me a piece off that roll. Better make it good and long. Three hundred feet in the air is pretty high.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I scrambled out of the net and began a victory lap around the rink, tearing off my glove and holding one finger in the air. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a storm in the air, and as I hurried down the sidewalk, the first patter of rain came, and in the distance, I saw lightning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She tossed her new weapon up in the air, caught it again, brandished it, and urged the horse forward. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘Listen! You can hear the machines! They’re all whirring again! And you can smell the smell of melting chocolate in the air!’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What do you take us for, mister? A couple of them schoolboys? You expect us to believe these here cans shoot up in the air and explode in color?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of gas and cut grass tangled in the air. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

These waves fit together so well, in the instrument, and in the air, and in your ears, that they sound almost like different versions of the same note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

No trace was ever found of the other, not in the air or on the smooth surface of the jade waters below. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old man waved Hugo’s box of matches in the air. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Matt looked up into the blinding, blue sky and heard the leathery flap of wings as the bird turned in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she had to be really tired to sleep in the air, despite her fear of heights, but she didn’t have much to worry about. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her second stride seemed longer; she hovered in the air for a split second before landing and then hurtling toward the sea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She threw it very high in the air. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“About three feet away from me, in the air.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tyrion blinked up at the dripping girl twisting in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were rain clouds, heavy and dark, and sometimes airy tufts of white that cast delicate shade and twisted into shapes like hunting ravids or castles in the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He marches over to one of his security guards, takes his handgun, raises it in the air, and shoots. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of bells in the air—and he looked up immediately. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A conclusion was needed, something to shine a light on his idea and make it gleam, but he had none, so it just hung there in the air, sounding, frankly, ridiculous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She watched A-Fu’s braid fly in the air; as she pulled it down, the cut pieces of her sleeve flapped like the tail of a kite . Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t remember things the way everyone else could, or see the models that were in the air, you know, of chromosomes or stamens. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a sigh of joy, a sound of happiness that floated like a butterfly in the air. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There’s not a hint of rain in the air, and someone in the valley must have their fireplace going, because I can smell it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then a wisp of acrid smoke twisted upward in the air, the metal sizzled, and a jagged hole appeared. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Planes were new, and they went high in the air. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fields were bright and green and the sharp smell of pine trees was in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is just the kind of day when my last words might come in handy. There’s that damp chill in the air that gets down into your lungs.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When they call the place usamriid, they drawl the word in a military way, making it sound like “you Sam rid,” which gives it some hang time in the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya just waved her hand in the air. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The smell of unfamiliar food in the air now, fish caught from the nearby river, pig knuckles, hominy grits, fried baloney, black-eyed peas. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She let that hang in the air for a moment. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The shadow of night rose, dividing the eastern sky into pale blue above and gray below, with a rosy border where the sunlight still shone on a haze of dust in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod watched as the man stopped in the air at the zenith of his spring, and hung there for a moment, before he was sucked through the ghoul-gate, down and down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They nodded to security guards and hurried down a dark hallway beneath the stands, their breath forming frost clouds in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The acid in her voice hung in the air. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the ball floated in the air, Penelope twisted her hips and back and swung her right arm back over her shoulder, coiling like a really pretty snake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke in the air made his eyes water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So we ran again into the deep woods of Salisbury Park, the damp smell of pine thick in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’m thousands of feet in the air in a “Freedom Writer Only” plane, on my way home from Washington, D.C. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lawson must sense my thoughts hovering in the air between us, because he says, “You’re rather quiet, all of a sudden.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was the smell of freshness in the air, that edible scent the baked soil gave out at the first touch of rain. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I looked back and saw Jack leading the chant, fist in the air, smiling and signaling for me to keep going, and Amos shouting through his hands: “Woo-hoo, little dude!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Final question," he says, lifting his coin in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I just stare at my hands, and I imagine that my insides are liquid metal hardening in the air, taking a shape they will never leave again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, and she wasn’t just breathing in the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As we hurried past, I saw a woman spit at a soldier, I saw the soldier raise a whip in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sickly sweet stink of rotting corpses hangs heavy in the air, and every time the wind shifts, I gag. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Beverly threw the baton up in the air once, twice, three times. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lori was lurching around the living room, her eyebrows and bangs all singed off and the smell of burned hair in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A terrific exercise is to sit on the floor, place a heel in each hand and raise both legs in the air. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And here I am thinking of two things: One is Benny Kilmartin because that’s the last time I saw the pink in the air. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I do want to see all the pretty angels who wear white dresses and fly in the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If there are any smells in the air, you perceive them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, if any of the radios failed on the ground or in the air, or there was any kind of interference with the radio transmission, the system didn’t work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I watched the smoke from Doc’s pipe curl in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His father tapped his watch and made a circular motion with his finger pointed in the air. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Lord Fredrick made a swooping gesture with his cigar, leaving trails of smoke in the air. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

All the belief—more belief than any person ever had in a god, Luke was sure—and they didn’t have the one part necessary to get that plane up in the air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The weather was breathlessly hot, there was thunder in the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And George just lets the words hang in the air between them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Wes hurriedly smoothed the shirt down and put his hands in the air, not wanting the cops to think he was armed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The boy noted that there was a sense of fear in the air, even though no one said anything. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled it up on to her belly, and it lay curled there, butt in the air, feet precisely tucked one under the other. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its nostrils are flared, showing red, its muzzle straight in the air. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Face triumphant, he hoists her hand up in the air like it’s a trophy that he’s won. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he kamikazis the corner at 500 mph, at an absolutely fatal angle, she raises both hands in the air and whoops in delight. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Pinmei screamed, and her scream froze in the air, along with her legs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hauptmann lifts an hourglass from a shelf and sets it in a crate, and his pale silver-tipped fingers hang in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I said now” Retvenko etched a circle in the air, and the door slammed shut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It seems to echo the discomfort in the air between us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, we don’t have to worry about these melting,” she used to say, holding a cone in her elegant, leather-gloved hand, her breath visible in the air even as she took a bite. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone immediately ran forward, forming a packed crowd around her, a palpable excitement hovering in the air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The fish righted himself and swam off again slowly with the great tail weaving in the air. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He back-flipped in the air and came down on a water tupelo tree about three miles from Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Just a kind of window in the air.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they rose up in the air, Gregor felt like he would burst from excitement and happiness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth sticks her pinky in the air as if she’s holding a delicate teacup. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It hung in the air for a second and came looping back toward him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Peach was running in my direction, waving his skinny arms in the air, his head bobbing on his thin-as-a-noodle neck as he ran. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were still spiral staircases of glass leading to thin bridges in the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Where do you go when you get burned up and turn into smoke in the air? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice thinned in the air as she flushed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He flicked it open, held it up in the air, and clicked it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I stayed on my knees, hands in the air, and considered dying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he arrived in Anaheim — and saw the palm trees and orange groves, and smelled the citrus in the air — Carl said to himself, “This is heaven.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay whooped and threw our hands in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The name hung in the air like an impending storm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was carried on to the platform with my arms and legs held tight by many hands, and I lay there suspended in the air, facing the ceiling. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He grunted, and then I pressed him up, held him in the air off his feet. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if we both were floating in the air, the land, buildings take shape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The spears, which had been pointing in the air, bowed to a horizontal line and pointed at each other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted, slow and steady, until, once more, I was up in the air above my body. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ship’s propeller would spin uselessly in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa threw his hands up in the air. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

His hands jumped with the recoil, but he saw the red mist, a spray of blood in the air; a body tumbled off the ramp and crashed into a group of three people below. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were pointing out at something drifting in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He picked her up with a fist snared in the front of her dress and held her in the air, feet kicking, trying to find purchase. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was a nervous feeling in the air as kids coupled up around them, tiny smiles and eyes darting to the ground. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was wired for sound, so that you could hear the crackle and, of course, you could watch it leap in the air stream that fed it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I look, and this is what I see: Farther down the sidewalk, a shop clerk with an apron on comes running out of the convenience store, waving his arms in the air. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

David flickers his fingers up and down, like he’s playing a piano in the air. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just past our house, the police have stopped a car, and the passengers are getting out with their hands in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The seats might be raised high in the air, but it was still difficult to see what was going on sometimes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Soon she could even feel the heat in the air, as red R’hllor’s worshipers lifted their voices in prayer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be centered in the air above them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The closer we got to the Badlands, the more wicked were the whispers in the air: Slow down, slow, slow, slow. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I make the little fish swim in the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Will shaded his eyes to watch her and the other ragged, elegant figures wheel in the air and dart up over the trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rests her hands on the table in front of her, and the silence hangs in the air between them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Amil sat on his bed drawing pictures in the air, humming softly to himself. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a little before dawn, but the oppression in the air had not lessened. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatchet wavered in the air, in a tug-of-war with a ghost, but the girl did not falter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was pressure in the air; rain coming, sometime soon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ever since his trip in the air as a boy, he’d been uneasy about planes, but watching the P-38S, he felt a pull. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“All those women in bikinis strutting around Cape Canaveral, and there’s old Wernher and his boys with their big rockets sticking up in the air. How do you feel when our rockets work?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the air, my question loses its pace. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She rewards him by removing his hat, placing it on her head, and then posing with her trunk curled in the air. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The whole class is raising their fists in the air and chanting: "Freak the Mighty! Freak the Mighty! Freak the Mighty!" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance below him, but still high above the lower foothills, dark dots were circling in the air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gulls wheeled in the air and rode, with folded wings, on the waves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the other Cloud-Men immediately let out a strange high-pitched whoop of joy and started jumping up and down and waving their arms in the air. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the baton in the air like a wizard casting a spell and yelled, "We got work to do!" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The lock shuddered and the cylinder popped out, hovering in the air, and then the springs and pins came out of the cylinder like they were being pulled apart by invisible hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eleanor went to shake his mom's hand, but she waved them in the air, like sorry, my nails are wet, a gesture that Eleanor didn't seem to recognize. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She used it to write a message in the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He walked down the highway with his thumb high in the air, and he didn’t look back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was dust and sand in the air, and when her teeth met she felt the grit. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the table could be slanted and the right legs up in the air.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kaltain swept past them, the skirts of her dress floating in the air around her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it is, but I taste it in the air, like far-off rain clouds gathering. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It’s like a new sound I can hear in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like an etching in the air that slowly filled with beauty, Sarai was gathered out of nothingness and bound back into being. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Draw the direction of the phrase in the air with your finger as you sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Soldiers had observed him, hanging in the air like a plump gray fruit, were beginning to point and grin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t discuss any more of those serious things, and if the others sensed something still in the air, they didn’t remark on it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But having come this far, he realized it was foolish to turn back now and leave things forever up in the air. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads the way into her room, hung with purple cloths at the windows, a sweet, herbal smell in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

That leaves a little in the air for the bacteria to breathe, but not enough to maintain a fire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of pipe tobacco hung in the air. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the background still looks off to me, so I take a medium-thick brush and paint black stick figures pulsing in the air around Liberty, thorny scars that look like barbed wire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be subtle, a whiff of humidity in the air, a slight lifting of the sky. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An hour later I was in the man box, and Shawn and Luke were standing on either end of a beam, twenty feet in the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Six mornings a week he wakes her before dawn, and she holds her arms in the air while he dresses her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“All in the air? Or do some of you stay on the ground with the children?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She threw the baton up in the air and caught it in her grubby hand. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lucas smirked, shaking his head slightly from side to side, his hands spread apart to signify the bird’s enormousness in the air. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She slowly ran the cloth over a figurine, one of its match-stick-size legs raised high in the air, before she spoke. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a slight nip in the air, dear. Andrew, would you kindly excuse us? I need to talk to Miss Muldauer in private.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

His name and stats also appeared, floating in the air above him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She wiggles her fingers in the air like she's casting a spell and giggles. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I glance around as the crowd quiets, an expectant hush in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Doc saw Mack’s broken mouth through the music, the music that was in his head and in the air. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark twirls the ski cap around in his hand for a moment, then throws it in the air and catches it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ivan scooted between them, hands up, water still hanging in the air over him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like quite a recipe. But even if you can get it off the ground, and I’m not saying I believe you can, how you going to get it to explode in the air?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed about it; and a black smoke swirled in the air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a delicious crispness in the air. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He took off the robe and pumped his arms in the air. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We’d have the whole crowd in a frenzy, a thousand people in the street chanting along with their hands in the air. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye, Luna could see the pearly heart of the Sorrow Eater floating in the air between them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

White mist hung in the air like frozen spiderwebs, and the roaring flames of the Burning Sea faded as a blanket of eerie silence covered us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Something in the air shifted after the visit from the doctor. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blunt stood up and opened the window, letting in the air and the sound of the traffic. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then something happened that made him jump about a foot in the air — several people behind him screamed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As each one landed, it emitted a thick cloud of white smoke, which hung malevolently in the air. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgiven Tessie for breaking off' their engagement years ago, but it was always there in the air between them, like the talcum powder that sometimes puffed out of his clerical collar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was stable in the air and easy to handle, and thought of as one of the best Soviet fighter aircraft available. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Asha could see the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, a faint orange glow floating in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe there is just bad electricity in the air, because, that afternoon, Annabelle’s mood gets worse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wave like a princess, my nose high in the air. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her laugh turns into a cry and I am up in the air finally, but I’m not a kakapo anymore. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before the aromas of the delicacies were captured in our most ornate box, they floated in the air, causing all the neighborhood animals to whine at our door. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I smell some sort of sweet smoke in the air and then see that Mike is puffing on a joint. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust motes floated in the air as a serving girl filled two green glass cups for Ser Jorah and the widow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She loved the feeling of flying in the air. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Late in 1943, an unusual section of the French Air Force, later known as the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, had joined the Soviet troops to defend them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Juan Tomas raised his hand in greeting and did not say the greeting and left his hand in the air for a moment uncertainly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly he jumped back and began waving his stick madly in the air. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The dust got in their eyes and the wind made a high singing sound in the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can taste the coming winter in the air. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, we knew our affection would revive when we saw one another on the dock the following June, salt spray in the air, pale sun glinting off the water. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On the cover was a picture of a man lying on a couch, knees crossed, one foot dangling in the air and smoking a cigarette which made a big smoke ring over his head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Statues stand at sharp corners, and fountains spray rainbow-colored water in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was a twang! in the air and a high-pitched shriek. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But as he did so, Hare slipped out of his skin and sailed away in the air. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There were no lights in the air lock; it was dim, almost dark. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t actually see the rocket hit the jet but I saw the jet twist in the air, hesitate for a long moment, and then start down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to fire again, Powell raised the pistol high in the air and brought down a crushing blow to Frederick’s head. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the great whirring of fragments in the air, saw air bursts in bright electric sparks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the parking lot we toss chips in the air and try to catch them in our mouths. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There was a charred smell in the air, faint but evident, and a light breeze on my arms and face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The smell of the powder and smoke bit in the air; the battle lay across my tongue already; I could taste its iron, and I wished to chew. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“My dad died not long ago, and when I come here, I think of him. I think of him when I see you with your kids, throwing them in the air and over your shoulder. . . .” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sky was lighter already; there was a faint fresh stir in the air. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe it, so I read it a fourth time, then walk out on her porch and sit down, dangling my legs in the air. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a feeling of ozone in the air and a hawk soaring in the sky. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The eagle soared off the side of a mountain and circled gently in the air, with only the crisp air between them and the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see: the rain was driving into her eyes, and there was still gas in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of cigarettes and preservatives lingered in the air. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As for the British women, now that the war was over, the situation in the air was the same as it was in the United States and the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Spring’s in the air today. You ought to get out,” she says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Aru tossed the ball form of Vajra in the air and caught it with one hand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for staying with your brother last night so we could—” Her voice catches, but the reminder of what happened hangs in the air. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We breathed in the air, looked outside and both felt that the spell shouldn’t be broken with words. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A dark smell of brewing tea hung strong in the air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The roaring furnace, sparks crackling in the air, the sizzle of hot metal into cold water—it all reminded me of that unmentionable place the preachers liked to go on about. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby Smythe, who, by the way, is wearing a sleeveless athletic jersey even though it’s the middle of January, raises both his arms in the air, makes a stupid roaring noise, then sits back down. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He waved it wildly in the air and shouted friendly assurances to the man. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” the Savage went on to admit, “there are some very nice things. All that music in the air, for instance . . .” “Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun shone white and clean, and there was chill in the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long red body, stretched to its fullest length, seemed to float in the air as he sailed over it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt back and shouted at me to stop, raising her blade so that it hung quivering in the air just between my eyes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Esteban bent down and removed her burden, held it in the air for a moment, and then hurled it violently to the side of the path. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that the tension in the air increased Clara’s mental powers and disturbed the spirits that were hovering around the child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the door closed, I notice the faint scent of bleach and artificial lemon in the air. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“She rose up in the air,” said Harry, before either Ron or Hermione could speak, “and then began to scream, and collapsed. Professor, can I see Professor Dumbledore, please?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Finally she waved a piece of paper in the air. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pleasant feeling of anticipation in the air that day. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s always a good idea to keep a plan B in the back of your mind so you can get safely down to earth no matter what happens to you in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Rearing up on his hind legs, he met the lion in the air. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time this year, I feel autumn in the air, hanging just out of reach. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a chill in the air, and errant flakes of snow drifted down and melted on the ground. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She waves her hand in the air like a magician. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The horses, their breath making small clouds in the air, paid little attention to her as she climbed in. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one picture, the lizard man was standing on a curved bridge, laughing as he watched the little boy falling forward over the bridge rail, his slippered feet already in the air. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the second day of their riding drew on, the heaviness in the air increased. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It flashed in the air, and she caught it with one hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The incident alarmed and upset the household, and as Ophie carried the trays up and down the stairs she could sense a change in the air. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But with her giant arms lifted in the air, she looked impressive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she hit the smoke, she stumbled in the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

My father said, “She does not have cancer, Sal. She does not have amnesia. Those are fishes in the air.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He heard the whip before he felt it, a whistle in the air, thin and sharp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Humans may notice a slight shimmer in the air if they are paying close attention—which they rarely are. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I put my hands up in the air so he could see I wasn’t crossing my fingers. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of vidfeed windows materialized in the air, all over the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a chill in the air, so I pull my hoodie up over my head. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The smell of kerosene lingered in the air. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an uneasiness hanging in the air as I walked into the darkened family room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The witch moved her hands in the air. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I held my finger up in the air and it was only a little scratched up and bloody on the tip. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went about picking tools off the shelf, holding them in the air so the sunlight bisected them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A cuco emerged from the woods, its snout up in the air, its beady eyes snapping to Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, in an instant, they came inward with the synchronicity of a flurry of birds pivoting in the air. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arnold Jones was being hoisted in the air above Finsterwald’s backyard fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ball goes flying and the guys in the outfield don’t even run or lift their gloves in the air because they know that ball is gone. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She let herself down on a dragline until she hung in the air just in front of the big pig’s snout. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I feel a million of their tiny pulses in the air, and in the moment their collective heartbeat finds my own, I also feel a distinct sense of connection to them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

With our hands in the air and bodies jumping up and down, we wave excitedly to our uncle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sonny jumps up with his arms in the air. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So here she is, laying across my bed on her stomach, with her short legs waving in the air every time Larry says something to her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter couldn’t understand how we couldn’t feel the cool moisture in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He seemed to hang in the air above the old man in the skiff. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beverly threw the baton up in the air and caught it. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd laughed as Woody shook the principal’s hand and looked up at his family, throwing his arms in the air in a triumphant stance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was the buzz of flies in the air, the lazy afternoon humming. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I smelled the funniest odor in the air—something familiar, though I couldn’t place it. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drift back upstairs thinking about what my father said about keeping all the balls in the air. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t move! Get your hands in the air!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I spun around in the air and dangled upside down. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And he would have thought of it, but the evening was falling and his bones ached in the air left raw and chill when the sun withdrew. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it came from Zero, but it seemed to be in the air, hanging heavy all around him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I watch him go, my body folding over my legs, arms dangling in the air below my feet, reaching, dizzy at the height. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jennifer jumps a few inches in the air and stomps her feet. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And in the air, unmistakable, was the salt smell of the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The word “chimney” here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That got the brow up in the air. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Up in the air, Harry was suddenly able to clamber back on to his broom. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, there’s no smell, no movement in the air surrounding her body. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I'm another thirty feet in the air when I hear the crack and look down to see Cato flailing as he and a branch go down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He waves The Catcher in the Rye in the air like a weapon. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She draws circles in the air with her right hand, which is the universal sign for “improvise.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Amazon jail was at the top of a storage aisle, sixty feet in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped head first into the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single solution rose up quickly, its hand in the air—promising to be the answer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the ceremony is over, we throw our caps in the air, and we are officially graduated from college, the senior class of Brandeis University in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finality hung in the air, heavy and hollow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint scent of danger in the air now. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The confession hovered in the air a moment, before floating away with the smoke rising from her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You call that unharmed?” snapped Mrs. Teavee, peering at the little speck of a boy who was now running to and fro across the palm of her hand, waving his pistols in the air. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Welcome, my trusted advisors, my beloved ladies, and my ever-loyal court"—she waves a hand in the air—"to the most important day in our kingdom. The naming of our most glorious treasure." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Cal was looking at a spot in the air right over Lee’s head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she could smell the tang of iron in the air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sadness in her eyes deepened, and Jam took her hand, not understanding what pain was coming up but feeling its ripples in the air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, Wishbone sat by the kitchen door with his nose twitching in the air and his tail wagging a mile a minute. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The way its many sorrows lingered in the air, as persistent as fog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

From eleven to twelve he planned to stand still and watch flies on the boards, watch bees in the clover, and watch swallows in the air. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Yep,” I said, fanning my hand in the air, “medium oven for sure. Maybe even hot.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Barry raised his hand too, and he and Jay linked their pinkies together in the air. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he goes out the door, he doesn’t turn around, but raises his free hand in the air and waves slightly like he knows I’m watching him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We were high in the air—so high my heart climbed into my throat and stayed there—and yet the different lands appeared sharp and focused, like I had zoomed in on a map. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She throws the baton in the air and does some sort of crazy spinning flip, then she lands with her back to us and catches the baton as it’s about to hit the floor. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Before the sound had even settled in the air, we heard the screams. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It hangs in the air between them, as physical as the kicked-over chair. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The view was okay, but if there’s anything I like less than a confined space, it’s a confined space six hundred feet in the air. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

No folk could they see, nor hear any feet upon the paths; but there were many voices, about them, and in the air above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few of them were still shaking their fists in the air and yelling, but most of them tramped silently, looking tired and discouraged. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their breath hung in the air like white mist as they paddled toward the island. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I closed the door, the soft click of the latch exploded in the air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That means you don’t really know if Ebola spreads in the air.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove away leaving that name, Castor, hanging in the air like some horrible apparition, like the key to a lock, like the solution to an unsolved crime. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lifted their arms stiffly in the air with the same awkward motion of a bride reluctantly throwing her bouquet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that word lingers in the air here. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And in that moment, with all of the new things in the house, and the sharp, bitter smell in the air, and Byrd’s soft words about a hard thing, Axel realizes two things. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The stranger’s hand hovered in the air, as if ready to strike me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I lift the heavy, rounded bat in the air. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She felt an old peace there, and something in the air that smelled like magic. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal caught a feeling—a feeling of calamity, of destruction in the air, and a weight of sickness overwhelmed him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There went the frightened, snorting cattle, stampeding through the trees with their tails in the air like it was heel-fly time. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I could see a fine shading of dust in the air out behind the church, rising slowly and drifting away. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they felt heavy enough in the air. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They appeared ten feet in the air, hovering over a restaurant courtyard that Reyna recognized. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Christmas carols were in the air; they issued from the radio of the four women and mixed strangely with Miami’s sunshine and the cries of the querulous, never thoroughly silent seagulls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That much water in the air can cause any amount of electrical problems, so I spent the next few hours doing full systems checks on everything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Marie-Laure’s mind, it shifts and gleams, draws needles and thorns in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kin’s fingers struggled in the air, and whenever he would grab hold of a thread, Sigurd would swing his sword at Kin with a snarl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Pumping his arms in the air, the returning hero rode their shoulders into school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Stuart felt himself being hoisted high in the air. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Pol saw the growing frustration on her face, and he took the bow from her and showed her, again, the smooth rhythm of the draw, the arrow in flight, his hand in the air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bits of Sunday dresses that he saw did not fly; they hung in the air quietly, like the whole notes in the last measure of an Easter hymn. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's good. That's very good," he said, rubbing his back on the turf and waving all four legs in the air. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I can smell spiced wine in the air, but not yet that other perfume of tournaments—fresh blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car revved louder and louder and suddenly, with a crunching noise, the bars were pulled clean out of the window as Fred drove straight up in the air. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” he said, and ran ahead, the scent of cigarette smoke lingering in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I had never been someplace with that much of angry in the air, like it was crammed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at the dragon, now high in the air, surrounded by rings of storm clouds like the circles of an archery target. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the scary part, I threw my popcorn in the air and a bunch of it went down the back of Alex’s coat. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His Roman candle is still poised in the air, but the tube is smoking, empty. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots already in the air had all been sent together to turn back a huge raid the Germans were launching on a nearby town just south of Voronezh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The dark electric scent hung heavy in the air. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If I throw a stick up in the air, it always falls down. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed quite empty except for a sharp, spicy fragrance that lingered in the air. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear her word—any word at all—and the letters wrote themselves in the air. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Claire was sick and getting sicker, and lay curled in Bronwyn’s lap, sweat beading her forehead despite a chill in the air. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Though the desolation had not yet arrived, was still in the air, it was certain as man could make it. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his job to aim the bomb at the T-shaped Aioi Bridge—a centrally located feature that could be identified from high in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a German prisoner, the radio broadcasts to the German troops at the front warned, “Attention, attention, the ladies are in the air, stay at your shelter.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One very certain hand rises high up in the air. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Brian would bounce the baby on his hip, toss the baby in the air. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could have easily killed myself, killed my mother and father, killed the birds, killed the trees, and killed the oxygen in the air. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

O’Dell danced around with both his hands in the air like a victorious boxer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up Hunter and held him in the air with such delight it made me happy to watch him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was all high up in the air now, and inside it was beginning to get dark. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon twisted violently in the air, wounds smoking, the girl clinging to his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t say things like that to him, but they hung neatly in the air and cleared out the tension. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He stopped in mid-step, with one foot still in the air. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The stink of vomit and the salty smell of rotting seaweed hung in the air, and overhead, a leaf drifted down in slow motion as if arriving from outer space. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I try to imitate it, turning my wrists in the air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically, his free hand floated up and his thick fingers bat­ted at something in the air. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Håkon was on the bed, lying on his back, hands up in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A beam of light shot over my shoulder, projecting a three-dimensional image of Earth in the air a few feet in front of me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He could toss me in the air and catch me or hoist me over the fence with ease. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives among us, in the air, the trees, the stones, the red earth. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Down lower, where an Indian Creek feeder streamlet crossed under the road and the valley floor’s marshy fields began, at least a dozen bats in the air actually frightened him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon was on his back with his claws in the air and in his breast was St. George’s spear. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold rain was so light, it seemed suspended in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, raising his head high in the air, he made my eardrums ring with his deep voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I catch it, “Why didn’t you tell me I asked if I could kiss you?” is flying from my mouth to hover in the air above us. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He’s right, Esperanza. You had them talking heads on TV, sayin’ how it was a bad neighborhood, and how if he’d just put his hands in the air when asked, it wouldn’t have happened.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her little legs kicked helplessly in the air, and a tiny fire burned on one foot. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Every few steps, we swing Andrecito in the air and he squeals with delight. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chant for justice and hold signs, fists high in the air for black power. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then it righted itself in the air and sped out of the stadium. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it grew dark while they were in the air—and none of the three pilots in Tamara’s squadron had done any night flying in fighter aircraft at all, not even in training. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she carried him in a scarf tied diagonally across one shoulder and her back, his lifeless feet dangling in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Islimach made a mighty leap, hung poised in the air a moment, then plummeted to the rocks below. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would not move, lest any disturbance in the air bring the woman back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The small community was too settled and too frightened to run and hide in the woods because of something in the air and the premonitions of a couple of kids. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In class she was always flapping her hand in the air, asking questions, though the question often had nothing to do with the subject. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Now put your hands right up in the air where I can see them.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My feet dangling in the air, I squeeze my eyes shut and wrap my arms around his neck, not wanting to let go. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the evil was all about, hidden behind the brush fence, crouched beside the house in the shadow, hovering in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily had picked up a fallen twig and twirled it in the air, and Harry knew that she was imagining sparks trailing from it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the drums reached a crescendo, three of the girls leapt above the flames, spinning in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sunlight filtered through the branches overhead, throwing spotlights on the path, and there was a certain distinctive, heady spring lightness in the air. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

While still in the air, he unscrewed the poison pin, keeping it in its small sheath; he then tossed the silver dollar to the ground below and returned the pin to his pocket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively he rolled over and stuck his big feet in the air. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were hints of much worse things around us now like a faint odor in the air, evoked by words like “plasma” and “psycho” and “sulfa,” strange words like that with endings like Latin nouns. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other as if some question had been asked or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get at any more rocks to throw that way, but it sure didn’t keep him from dancing up and down in the air and screaming. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild bacteria consume the cell culture, eat it up, and make a variety of different smells in the air while they’re prowing, whereas viruses kill cells^ without releasing an odor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled it out and tossed it in the air. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up, shielding my eyes from the sun; a small drone hovers in the air above us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The baby waved a fist in the air and wailed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Despite what Bernard said, I know I look ridiculous with my bottom stuck up in the air. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The plane was hard to take off, and once it was in the air at last, it was also tricky to land. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I held up my finger and traced it in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was in the air and all around. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She would get right up on the flower and then snap the shot, again and again, pulling the pictures from the mouth of the camera and waving them around in the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Struggling to keep the other circling in the air, he found the blazing course of the second star and pulled it back toward him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Both young women managed to claw their way out while their Pe-2 was still in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The fall would’ve been bad enough, considering I was a hundred feet in the air. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the song is over, she rolls down her window and trails her hand in the air, introducing a new music into the car. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care about the stupid party,” she snaps, grabbing the paper from me and tossing it in the air. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She sets the jeans gently down under the shirt and begins to walk in a slow circle around the outfit, chanting and holding her hands up in the air. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dust hung in the air, for the wind had died and the evening was heavy. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Grab flung his arms up in the air in frustration. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sam was quivering, the fine, delicate fear-quivering of a hornet suspended in the air, undecided between fear and hate. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I toss the ball high in the air and capture it in my feet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She made a sign in the air—a circle—and she folded her hands together and touched them to her forehead, her mouth, her heart. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a shuffle in the back of the room, a hand thrust up in the air, a white sheet of paper in it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was in the air for another second before sharp leaves raked my face as I hit the upper fronds of a bushy branch, sinking in until I stopped, panting, mired in brambles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fire flared for an instant and then dropped, smoke and steam rising and disappearing in the air above the river, and the boys quieted, scrambling off the rocks toward the beach. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of snow is in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of trying to set up the telescope, Diego threw his hands in the air and admitted defeat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And there was a faint, sweet smell of incense in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Alfred came out of the shower, Bud and Lou were throwing slow, creaky punches in the air, and laughing. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when Mr. Douglass came and took me from Ma, walked high up on the stage with me, and held me up in the air over his, head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A remark of Gebu’s sprang into his mind: “...him and his paltry wineskins! There are far bigger birds in the air than Rekh the goldsmith.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I stop and turn to him, my hands thrown up in the air. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And Joon would glare in silence as she had the night before, chin tilted up, nose in the air. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I turned up the steam, Laura’s feet were flying; I had her in the air, down, sideways, around; backwards, up again, down, whirling. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally put together some semblance of a figure and raised her left hand in the air, trying to ignore how much it was trembling. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then with both hands he made a great circular sweep in the air and watched with delight as all the musicians began to play at once. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jam opened her eyes, and colored spots hovered in the air before her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On top of his papers and framed photographs is Eduardo’s goldtone ballpoint pen, obviously a family gift, maybe from high school graduation, and here’s the little boy taking it, writing slowly in the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like little bits of powdery sand floating in the air. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Everything was up in the air,” said Alvin Hooks, settling his arms across his chest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It grew palpable in the air, heating it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’m so in awe of the floating dust particles in the air, I don’t notice that Courtney has stopped dead just inside the doorway until I smack right into him; he doesn’t budge. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the words came out of her they seemed to hang in the air in a cloud of desire, and the texture of them surprised even Ash. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke of the first fires seeped out through the walls of the brush houses, and the first smell of cooking corn- cakes was in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself was now sensing something peculiar—a kind of luminosity—in the air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Party noises hung in the air: loud music, the raised voices and high laughter of boys and girls, all of them looser and freer than they would be the next day. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He lifted his fist silently in the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Owen’s nowhere to be found, so I head to the swings and hang in the air for a while. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like the particles of light Koffi had seen before, she felt the nameless song’s movement in the air, notes of a song she could not name but knew. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Despite the beginning of the war, there was a festive mood in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hardly,” he said as he continued to keep the balls in the air, sometimes higher, sometimes lower, until, as abruptly as he’d begun, he gathered them in, and they rested upon his great slablike hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The air outside was still and muggy, but I could smell cordite in the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Names that catch fire and leave a burnt smell in the air. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

One kept waving his arm in the air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in the air but the sea sounds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poe appears, wearing a face mask, a scrub cap, and gloves, and swings a pair of tongs in the air. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were glazed with hate as it hung in the air surrounded by churning water and a million diamond droplets of water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the zebras spooks, barking and throwing his striped muzzle high in the air. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When she leaves the room a few minutes later, there’s a change in the air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shaking voice felt thin and weak in the air. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A gull poised himself high in the air, silent and alone, and then spread his wings wide and swooped beyond the lawns to the woods and the Happy Valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kreacher, who was now lying flat on his back with his arms and legs in the air, gave Harry one upside-down look of deepest loathing and, with another loud crack, vanished. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They clustered around Boots eagerly, waving their antennas in the air and shuddering in delight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hung in the air for a terrifying moment, and then her hands grasped the lantern’s base. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the little man under the arms, hoisted him up in the air, and spun him around in a circle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time we pulled into the neighborhood, the tension lay thick in the air between us, like something inevitable or predestined was finally about to happen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Using her man’s knife, she turned up the edges, tied them in place, and let the cup freeze in the air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover pointed the nozzle in the air and water hissed out in a thick white mist. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fresh smell in the air and, once in a while, a crackling in the long grass that bordered the paths. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The woman continued her rant, throwing her arms in the air and spitting on the floor of the hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Doc says it’s something in the air that spreads ague—something off bad water and garbage. A miasma, he called it.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The question hangs in the air for a minute. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I had managed it, I jerked the turtle in the air and brought it onto its back on the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I run full speed to second with my fist in the air. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She saw Will reach the spot and move his hands deftly in the air, and the window vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With his nose in the air, Magister Spurge marched past the two goblins and headed back to his seat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Right. The moment they weren’t touching it”—he motioned to that piece of asphalt hovering at chest level—“it refroze in time wherever they left it. Even if they left it in the air.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

While echoes of the song shivered in the air, Henry Reed bowed his head, said “Thank you,” and returned to his place in the line. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flipped it in the air, caught it again with his other hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the ref wasn’t calling touch fouls and Nick and Trip were helping out anytime Ice went up in the air and brought the ball back down. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We had thought that the village was more than three days away, but after only a day and a half of walking, we began to smell the scent of cooking palm oil in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The horse stood quietly in the center of the chaos, his tail in the air and his ribs heaving in and out as the waves of fans pushed up to his sides. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds up his hands like he’s defending himself, like he's trying to push the words in the air back into me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Out the bay window the wind bends the trees down, down, the branches creaking without relief, a deepening growl in the air. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For one or two very long seconds they hung there, suspended in the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Midges swarmed in the air, and a dragonfly floated over the stream, darting here and there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They gazed at each other; Harry felt that the answer was dangling invisibly in the air above them, tantalizingly close. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The last trick was just them throwing all the cards in the air. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Its legs moved feebly in the air, steam coming out of its ruined head in odd places. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After an in­tense stare at Orange Juice, the hairs on its neck and shoulders stood up and its tail rose straight in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My true journal is written with no pen or paper, but in my mind, with an invisible hand in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It pays attention to what's in the air and balances it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood transfixed, looking down at the mad man waving the pistol in the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing that would seem to make this bill float in the air. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But she had to avoid the various flying beings who were still fighting in the air, and keep clear of the rising land below. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The owl was so small, in fact, that it kept tumbling over in the air, buffeted this way and that in the train’s slipstream. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’m a pile of bones in the air. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma answers, sing-songing in my head, “Because love is in the air, my blind little bat. Now get a strand of your hair into his pocket. Immediately.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The rain finally stopped, and the warmth in the air felt wonderful. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flicked the plastic star in the air and watched it spin across the room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ivan was in his nightclothes, lying upside down on the bed with his feet in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For birds that can sail around in the air all day with hardly more than a movement of their wing tips, they sure were clumsy and awkward about getting started. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A notable smell hung in the air of the makeshift Pathfinder control room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright red in the face, he balanced first on his right hand and then on his left, bare legs up in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Juliet!” he shouted, his sister’s name hanging in the air long after he had disappeared down the stairs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Why should a thousand feet up in the air make any difference? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who’d taken the thing from him was holding it up in the air with both hands and dancing in a slow circle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

All round, for as far as I could see, hanging in the air, were the twisting and turning roads of a great suspended city. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another blast ripped through the runway behind them, but then they were in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There’s this weird hormonal energy in the air that I’ve never noticed before. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Everything was turned to a fine, atomized dust that hung suspended in the air for a second before slowly settling to earth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The strange, lovely smell in the air grew stronger. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What was he in for? hangs in the air—a question that none of her sisters would dare ask. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For the last two hours he had been whirling a pair of dumb-bells in the air—he called them “poises”—and singing to himself a song with no words and no tune. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Cassiopeia raised her tiny fists in the air. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

This path meandered like a river of light, and as she walked, her feet kicked up tiny flecks of silver dust that hovered in the air. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova made sure her fighter planes were equipped with radios, which let her pilots to talk to each other in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The heavy smell of chemicals hung in the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The hollow is bent and twisted, its tongues waving in the air, open jaws dripping black on the mat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a hot day, but there came a chill in the air as I finished my pie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I pictured her socks in the air, her little tennis socks with the balls at the heels, those ensanguined balls, bouncing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He only managed to fall over backward with his legs kicking in the air. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sense of anxiety in the air. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sun shone down through a hazy sky, and there was the smell of burning in the air, as well as something less pleasant. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Black dots jumped about in the air in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up excitedly, holding my pillow in the air. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Canton shrugged, tossed it up in the air. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He lets my question hang in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Only problem: the Athena Parthenos is still thirty feet in the air. Gonna be fun hauling you guys and your gear to the top of that temple.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Palmer began to notice a gray, sour smell in the air. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Or you jealous, that’s what it is,” he said, sticking his nose up in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So much horror hung in the air, everything scattered by the explosion. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the things on his desk were the same as when I first walked into his office last summer: the same mirrored cube, the same little globe floating in the air. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was a bright ball of glittering fire; there was no fog in the air today. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He put his nose up in the air and sniffed, but he didn't smell cat. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He kept hitting the ball straight up in the air with his head, feet, and knees, never letting it touch the ground, just keeping it going and going and going. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wild, tormenting rumours of an armistice and peace are in the air, they lay hold on our hearts and make the return to the front harder than ever. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never locked our doors, but tonight there was something strange and fearful in the air. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is the smell of war in the air,” said Zafoona ominously. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of heat going to the water, some would get stored in the air, which could superheat and melt the bag. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt I could see through to something pure inside them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Otis had his arms shot straight up in the air. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself at a podium in front of thousands of people, arms in the air, declaring my answer. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He held his stick in the air and egged on the crowd again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The memory-stealing snow—which had been suspended in the air—began to fall again. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Smoke lingers in the air, making everything look hazy. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I tossed my first-baseman’s mitt up in the air and tried to have it land on my head, but it fell in a mud puddle. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It sounds rich and mysterious, lingering in the air even after his hand moves away. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry bawled, but the jet of water that soared from the tip of his wand evaporated in the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He disappeared completely, his voice remaining in the air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie picked up a handful of them and held them in the air like a warrior, and Genie knew that his brother Ernie was back. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Each time it fell, a fine red dust rose up, spreading a rich, acrid smell in the air. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

That old quiet moss smell would linger in the air, and bees would come, and crickets, and herons build their nests in the deep dark woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the walk home from pageant practice, Beatriz grooves to the rhythms of Newark traveling in the air. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She dropped backward off the bunk, flipping in the air to land on her feet, and casually pulled her hair back into a ponytail. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He threw his free hand up in the air. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could just see her raising her wrinkled fist in the air and warning Connor about the coming revolution. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at him with big, sad eyes, but her hand stayed in the air. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They flipped them in the air and clapped several times before they caught them, and continued pounding and singing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine bobbed her head in the air—what seemed to be a nod. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"I think we should also maybe practice stop, drop, and roll with Mrs. S," Maddy barreled on, rolling her hands in the air. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The stink of horse dung was heavy in the air, mingled with the woodsmoke and the smell of cooking meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder how he felt flying in the air. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Ignore it,” Hermione said in a dignified voice, holding her head in the air and stalking past the sniggering Slytherin girls as though she couldn’t hear them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Addison had crashed in flames, the trout no longer ringed the pool, and a cloud covered the sun and put a chill in the air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

History was in the making, freedom and hope were in the air again! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She lifts my right hand in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She threw her baton up in the air and caught it with an elegant twist of her wrist. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Again the track star thrust his I'm-number-one fingers high in the air. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alicia, are you pregnant?” she asked, still standing with a cake knife poised in the air. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Next thing I knew, I was hanging off the edge of the porch roof, swinging in the air above the front steps. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Riders are about again, up in the air,’ he said in a hoarse whisper. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Shawn was standing on a wooden pallet, twenty feet in the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to look at my parents to know that they’re angry; I can literally feel it in the air. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was a whiff of war in the air. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fired their guns in the air in their joy at having found water, and they shouted “Allah akbar!” which means “God is great!” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then there was the whine of a bullet in the air, here and past, gone away, death sliding through the air a few feet above him, disappearing behind him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaime removed the cord from around her neck, held her upside down and dangled her in the air, and with two resounding slaps introduced her into the suffering of life and the mechanics of breathing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was going to be one of Nadya’s first missions in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There is a cool breeze in the air. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Slopper pumped his fist in the air, being a huge fan of fresh deer meat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The sky above us grows dim, and dark figures swoop around in the air above us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A moment later the earth jolted, there was a rushing sound in the air, and the top of the thicket was cuffed as with a gigantic hand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even so, there was something in the air that made Tyrion uneasy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Josephine shook her head and waved a hand in the air. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“What was I supposed to do, wave my hands in the air?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a horse’s body where his legs should be, tiny little ladies that had wings big enough to carry them in the air, and a guy with a bull’s head. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They slapped each other’s hands high in the air, then low. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Doc drained his glass and waved two fingers gently in the air and he said, “Hah! There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shell bursts were appearing in the air, white flakes, round puffs. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts one hand from the grips of her rollator, lets it dance around in the air like something important is coming to her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The leaves are just starting to spot brown with defoliant and I can still smell the sour chemical in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Those words would hang in the air for a moment, then everyone would know where I’d gone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I thought about my victory lap, knee-high jogging with my gloves in the air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya saw him twist his fingers in the air in front of him, and the familiar sound of his whistle turning into magic reached her ears. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon we were flying past perfect rows of citrus trees, and that glorious scent was in the air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused for a moment, his arms still in the air. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breath forms ghostly puffs in the air. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The steam from his breath formed a silver-gray cloud that froze in the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he shook his head, other times a leg, and sometimes he even shook his hands quickly in the air. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hummingbirds, bumblebees, and butterflies swirled in the air above the handheld mirror. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I sit down on the couch, ready to turn on the television, when I notice a strange odor in the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Officer Hull reached into it, pulled out another textbook, and ripped open both the covers, shaking the book in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only I can feel the wet in the air as I putt along. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were high above her head, swaying in the air, and she was singing with the rest: Dr it e the devil from my sou/ . A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My feet dangle in the air, no foothold anywhere. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She twirled them in the air for a second and snapped her fingers forward like she was shooting marbles. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Spilled tea—or any other liquid— forms throbbing spherical globs in the air: the surface tension of the liquid overwhelms gravity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of pine liquor is alive in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The northern sunshine seemed to pick up faint particles of whiteness floating in the air and powdering the sleek blue sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a feeling of hope in the air. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There they were, all together, up in the air. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The trees even smell different, sending a sharp tang in the air I can taste on my tongue. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There is an embarrassed silence in which the words her reputation are as palpable as if someone had hung a wedding dress in the air. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A foul and pungent smell, an earthy mix of rust and excrement, hung in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a group of coatis running with their tails in the air and their long noses pointed along the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cheered again, raising our guns in the air, shouting and whistling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The tension in the air was as taut as the glass string I was tug­ging with my bloody hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was already damp, and a sheen of salt water hung in the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The choppers and the jets would be in the air already. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine seemed to be waiting for the pigeon to tire out and give up, but then she got impatient and began swinging the pigeon around in the air by its leg. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That’s what he liked to say, before he sat at the funeral and let all the water in his body and in the air and on the planet pour out of him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The man left an awkward pause in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her hair spills out behind her, waves of red floating in the air as if she were suspended in water. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Elodin shouted, waving his arms in the air like a farmer trying to startle crows out of a field. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up her own super-fluffy pillow and raised it in the air. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The driver lifted his hands from the wheel and shimmied them in the air, laughing at her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got his hands in the air, looking for the dish from me. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She glanced sideways at Percy, then looked in the air and started reciting to the clouds. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg watched a phosphorous bomb hit a house, and saw the explosion spread in the air like the petals of an enormous white flower. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dusk was just approaching and I saw a few bats in the air as we walked. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands hovered in the air for a moment. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as we passed the camp’s entrance, we sensed something out of the ordinary in the air. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the flare in the air at arm’s length and waved it slowly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could see the blue flame of the other aircraft’s exhaust, and it cheered them up to know they weren’t alone in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And then there’s a weird zipSNICK sound in the air and Viola lets out a little gasp, a little oh sound. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The old man raised his open hands in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I think he wanted to come running out and toss us in the air, but instead we were all formal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Travis is doing that thing where he wiggles his fingers in the air and asks his daily question, “What are these?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A forest composed of stacks of used books loomed around him, the usual spicy-vanilla scent of pipe tobacco and old paperbacks wafting in the air. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Cynthia would wail and flail overdramatic fists in the air, all leading up to the big finish, Cynthia planting her face flat on the desk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He drew in the air a Greek letter, making clear the spelling of his mockery. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re free,” I say, and I throw it in the air, a soaring bird in a violet sky. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Quentin shoved his fists in the air and made little mixing moves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He goes on to explain that he’s footing the bill for all these ‘castles in the air,’ as he calls them, gesturing to the paintings. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Men and women raised their hands in the air, waved handkerchiefs, snapped their fingers as they tapped the ground, then stomped with their feet. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I do talk about “after the war,” but it’s as if I were talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But there was plenty of oxygen in the air for me and my hair-fire to breathe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Passing through the village, the stench of rotten flesh and human waste hangs heavily in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The referee held a single finger in the air, one point for Lowry. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Of Ariel the Fairy, flying high in the air, across the stage of the Festival Theater, his legs splayed out as though he really was flying. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A solemnness hung in the air after she said this, until eventually Mr Taylor said to me: 'Harry here does a lot of organizing for our local member. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He left something hanging in the air, like he wanted to finish with except for Saturday night. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There was a little smell in the air of mist and damp, the smell that comes with the first fall of the leaf. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her question hung in the air, suspended somewhere between truth and lie. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her voice seemed to hang in the air. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He seemed to dance in the air, and his happiness made her feel as light as the clouds around her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She raises her finger high in the air, turning so that the whole audience can absorb that she is about to outdo the elephant once and for all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Toby went to stand up, but Jimmy held a hand in the air, lowering Toby back down to the ground with just the movement. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Other times he sat back in his chair and waved his hands in the air. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spray from the rapids is floating in the air. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She tossed her head, put her chin in the air, and refused to look at him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s on a special farm,” JimmyTrotter said fast and plain, like when he “Yes’m-ed” Miss Trotter about the cool in the air. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She had watched in helpless anguish while the flaming plane slowly glided to earth, knowing that her friend Zhenya was burning to death in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A voice floating in the air scratches a sentence in vuvv and then translates, “Is breakfast included with the double king-size room?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ma shouted, throwing her arms in the air to thank God. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s and Hermione’s wands shot out of their hands, high in the air, and Black caught them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caldwell throws her pen in the air, her mouth all twisted up at me like I’m wasting her time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The king eagerly lifted off its lid and rich, warm aromas floated in the air, making Minli’s stomach grumble. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their cries were angry, and I guessed that seven or eight might be in the air. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the noses of all the witches in that room went up in the air, and all the nostrils began to suck and sniff. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It hung in the air—the promise of something horrible, as if the news wasn’t horrible enough. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He is so close by, Tats in between us, and there’s this question in the air: What are we going to do now? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Retreat!” he told his men, and the grenade’s blast got only a few men, whose split bodies flew in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The scents of pine oil, tar, and sawdust hung in the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The steam from boiling hung in the air. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd cheered wildly, and Thorn whooped and waved her witch’s hat in the air. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woman swirls one finger in the air in a circle motion. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I got my quarter back after the third call and tossed it up in the air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The box filled with water, became heavier than the stone, fell, and the stone went up in the air. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I said something pathetic like: “It’s all right, I didn’t see anything much,” which hung stupidly in the air. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I spied what appeared to be a man hovering in the air. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan reached up and grabbed its threads, bringing it to a halt in the air before it hit any of them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the poster, he’s got his head down and his fist in the air, utterly in the zone. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The thing seemed to hover in the air above the packed dirt floor. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to know the color, the smell, the feel of the boiling liquid so well, he could almost taste in the air that it was ready, just now. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Static rippled in the air, and it was like she and Mini were now standing on a giant television screen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He waves his hand in the air, flicking me away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey whooped and Grandpa Bobby clapped and I pumped a fist in the air. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It makes the floating isles wobble in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The last arrow of Legolas kindled in the air as it flew, and plunged burning into the heart of a great wolf-chieftain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tore into that package with ribbon and paper flying in the air. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A second later, Natalie whipped her hair back over her shoulder and thrust her chin high in the air and shoved past the Gustanos and Chess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Garvey returned with juice and warm oatmeal, Edwin appeared at the door and announced, “The plane is in the air. Should be landing in about thirty minutes.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then Calvin puts his small hands in the air. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Two seconds later, Sierra Russell was floating in the air, drifting up and to the left. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The twigs went flying, bits of marshmallow exploded, and a cloud of glitter burst in the air. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry looked at Ron, who was still standing with his wand in the air. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The smell of rain hung sweet in the air. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave Omakayas two smooth sticks to clack together to frighten the flocks, and Angeline his tattered old shirt to flap in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Both schools of thought are castles in the air, connected to the ground by the thin strings of meagre archaeological remains and anthropological observations of present-day foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, Guy was in the air hurtling down towards the crowd, Lili held her breath as she watched him fall. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She could see a number of cars, some up in the air on gleaming steel poles, others over pits in the ground, and still others parked here and there. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He leaps in the air, his arms thrown wide, his mouth wide open, yelling; he staggers, in his back the bayonet quivers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of weed lingers in the air and most of the people around drink 40s like it’s going out of style. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She opened a vidfeed window in the air in front of her and spun it around so the rest of us could see. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As a pilot, Anya was one of several rookies in the air that night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This truth hung in the air, and Horatio did not contradict it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The memory of his mouth on mine shimmers in the air between us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He threw his hands up in the air and moaned, “I give up!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having regained his attention, she sketched a rectangle in the air and pointed at the ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He held it down close to the blacktop, then up high in the air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We had to put stuff on it to neutralize it. But you could still smell it in the air.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes, Werfel saw the glow from the crackling lightning flicker on the rocks as the elf meditated and hovered in the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A loud splashing echoed in the air, and a giant beast burst from the lake as if ripping through a paper moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The snout-nosed butterflies were everywhere, flittering in the air, resting on our bedclothes, even tangled in our hair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if he were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then I slowly pulled it up as if there was a drum roll in the air. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now she was flying, twisting and rotating in the air, seeing sky, then earth, then sky, then earth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nathan stuck out his arm and could feel that there was something in the air. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a figure sprinting toward them from the school, hands in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wiped a broad arc in the air. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You have my thanks, Lord Snow. For the half-blind horse, the salt cod, the free air. For y hope.” t Their breath mingled, a white mist in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They walked out of the warm gas station, and their breath steamed in the air. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Something in the air seemed to shift, but he kept still, waiting for a thing he wasn’t even sure he could name. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a tired feeling lingering in the air. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Sketching in the air, I do the living room: a deep, sunken green, and a school of shad angles toward the landing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each time, Dad caught the ball in the air, flipped it up into the basket, and told me I had gotten it in by myself. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In his eagerness to help her, he knocked the gravy boat flying; Bill waved his wand and the gravy soared up in the air and returned meekly to the boat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I toss the ball up in the air and catch it just as the four o’clock bell rings. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Artur Gartner, a Luftwaffe pilot, said that most Germans were shocked to discover that there were Soviet women fighting against them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This one had picked up the shovel handle from the sidewalk and was jabbing it in the air in the boys’ direction every time they moved. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really was starting to like Arizona—the constant sunshine, the smell of orange blossoms in the air, the soft green grass I walked on barefoot whenever I could. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She smiled wide, still rolled her eyes just a little, and wiggled her fingers in the air. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The stern kicked off the ledge, slapped him up and away, clear of the raft, completely in the air. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Doug leaped on a table and thrust his index fingers high in the air. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped the ball to Marcus, who put two fingers in the air to call a play. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There was a persistent din in the air, a combination of excited and angry voices clashing with one another. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She batted her lashes as though bothered by something in the air. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bristles cast a powder in the air and I closed my eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Raising his small red head high in the air, he bawled his challenge to the devil cat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth put her arms in the air and grunted. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of falling to the ground, they stayed in the air and rotated at his will, with only the smallest touch and encouragement of his fingers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Crenshaw’s tail rose and fell, making lazy Ss in the air. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The road was white and dusty, and the dust rose under the wheels and hung in the air behind us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sense of the Coming’s imminence was like an electric tension in the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shimmering green mist hovers in the air around him. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the air of her scream they coalesced. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Luxa and Henry wanted him to leap so they could laugh at him flailing around in the air. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dangled her fingers loosely, limply in the air over his back, wishing she could Google it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the castle, there was a buzz of Christmas in the air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He pops a lacrosse ball straight up in the air. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, some parents feel that there’s enough tension in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Inej looked at her strange crew, barefoot and shivering in their soot-stained prison uniforms, their features limned by the golden light of the dome, softened by the mist that hung in the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I rolled over just in time to see her with her hands in the air, a clear surrender, and still—still—they shot her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The clouds were thick in the air, weaving in and out among the soaring heights of the mountaintops. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Nose in the air, and silent — and rude. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Today is Sunday and throughout the valley the church bells are pealing dong dong la-dong, that most warming of sounds ringing in the air, dong dong la- dong. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Babulya grumbled and dropped the spoon into the potion, then hooked her fingers in the air over the simmering pot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My shirt was in his fists and I was hoisted high in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tyrion Lannister could smell the salt in the air, mingled with the stink from the latrine ditches behind the slave pens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gently, I smooth out the strands that stick up in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, dozens of people came tearing out of the surrounding woods with fists raised in the air, yelling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a faint, metallic scent in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to feel a chill in the air again, but every weekend I felt less and less enthusiastic about getting out of bed to go out there. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He began raising it on its long journey to his mouth, some fifty feet up in the air. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I says each time,—and I goes out in the air to say it under the open heavens,—‘but wot, if I gets liberty and money, I’ll make that boy a gentleman!’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The final plink of the tune was suspended in the air expectantly, waiting for the next note that would never come. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

June and Taryn immediately started dancing, swaying their hips and lifting their arms in the air. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then Avery picked up a handful of straw and threw it high in the air and gave a loud yell. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was always that great moment when the wrapped bulk swung clear of the window and twisted dizzily in the air for a moment before it righted itself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been in the air with space between herself and the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sun slanted through the dirty attic window, lighting the dust motes dancing in the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She fanned a red taloned hand in the air, drying it, her eyes still fixed on the screen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There is another ingredient,” Mona said, and a moment later she straightened, waving the knife in the air to let the blade cool off. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Phoebe’s tales were like my fishing in the air: for a while I needed to believe that my mother was not dead and that she would come back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

With that order still ringing magnificently in the air, I strode proudly off down the street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scream loud as I can, fist high in the air, tears in my eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The smell of hay thickened in the air as Koffi neared the temple's stable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I can see all the birds flying in the air and the creatures crawling on the ground. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not the one who is floating around in the air. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the air you couldn’t escape it: the memory of the suffering faces of the young and the old. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I spun twice around in the air, my body fully extended, and added another half twist before landing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The words hung in the air around me, I wanted out so badly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke from the campfire curled in the air, which was filled with the clink-clank noise of safari tents being erected by the MacDonalds’ staff. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the weather changed, and a wind came from the West laden with rain, and it blew loud and chill, and the yellow leaves whirled like birds in the air. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her tongue was close behind it, perched in the air like a pink slug gargoyle. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama, furious that her work was all for nothing, shook her fist in the air and called out to Andeg. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She half waved her palm in the air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Moss repeated, perhaps louder than he’d ever been, and he saw people in the crowd nod at him, smile, raise their fists in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It shot hundreds of feet in the air, as bright and beautiful as Fourth of July fireworks. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Air Force weather plane flying over the western Pacific detected high levels of radiation in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed forward, brushing aside floating mirrors that reset themselves in the air once the pair were clear of them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ghost was twisting and snapping, legs flailing in the air, but he could not break free. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her heels went straight up in the air over her head. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shackles to prevent a person from absconding, from moving their hands, or to suspend a body in the air for a beating. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I take another step, too, the knife in the air like it’s of no use at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley’s car was thundering down the slope, headlights glaring, its horn screeching, knocking spiders aside; several were thrown onto their backs, their endless legs waving in the air. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A golden ray of light escaped her like a ribbon, like a snake coiling in the air before it lashed across Fedu's cheek. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She lifted the stake high in the air and brought it down, splitting his head like a watermelon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The deck officer flashed a thumbs-up to the pilot, then arced his arm in the air, signaling the catapult crewman to hit his button. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But there was something else, in the air. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam saw a big man, bearded like a patriarch, his graying hair stirring in the air like thistledown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this Gollum’s fear and agitation became so great that he spoke again, hissing behind his hand, as if to keep the sound from unseen listeners in the air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her mother screamed and pulled at Dustfinger’s hand, but he only held the note higher in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton throws her hands in the air like she’s praising the Lord, and I swear my jaw drops past my shoulders. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Anorak makes a grand gesture with his right hand, and three keys appear, spinning slowly in the air in front of him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Strange smells wafted in the air around them as the Witchlings peered around the brick building and saw Mr. Dimblewit pulling something from a barrel. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Smoke from burning wood lingers in the air. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Raymie watched the Tag and Bag cart rise up in the air as if it were attempting to leave the earth altogether, and then it entered Swip Pond with a surprisingly small splash. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Otto’s arm and whirled him to my front, holding him in the air and checking for wounds. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Trevor put his hands up in the air, but looked me straight in the eyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I try to keep myself in the air, anything to keep that dog from ending up between my talons. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of smoke still lingered in the air. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamison raised his fists in the air, as if daring something in the sky. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There's a chill in the air, and a few fallen leaves dot the lawn at Seaside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s been working so fast,” said Smith, “we’re afraid he’ll run right out of his hide. Already he has to run a bit sideways to keep from flying right in the air.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soft moans that seemed to hover in the air above me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Mary watched one day as a zalif examined the hole in her front wheel, touching here and there, lifting her trunk up in the air and back again, as if sampling the scent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was drawing his fingers along threads in the air, rolling them between his fingertips. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The foreboding in her expression was so strong that Ekon felt it emanate in the air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at Annabeth and drew a circle in the air with his finger. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A cat twists in the air, letting out a scream, its blazing green eyes going out like a light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If he is in the air, he will be safe,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lenny yells, pumping his fist in the air as the refs unpack the pile of players and signal the Patriots now have possession. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She threw her hands in the air and smiled, looking pleased for a moment before the scowl came back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was now the blues in the air. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

People stopped talking throughout the room as they noticed the pair and watched as the co-chairs of the charrette came together and raised their glasses in the air. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Xan,” he said, as Fyrian danced and spun in the air,screeching a newly created song about his love for everyone that he knew. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He tried to be glad because of the colt, but the bloody face, and the haunted, tired eyes of Billy Buck hung in the air ahead of him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she removed her shoes and began stamping on the shells in her bare feet, slowly at first, then faster and faster in a mad flamenco, her arms thrown up in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex heard a bark and spotted Rex rolling on his back in the outfield grass, wiggling and kicking his paws in the air. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes I get the knack of tossing the pan so that the pancakes which are done on one side sail up, turn in the air and are caught again as they come down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark, brittle ash flew in the air like dying moths. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He lifted out an untouched, unpeeled banana and waved it triumphantly in the air. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sensation is identical to entering the circus, even down to the scent of caramel lingering in the air, but there is something deeper beneath it, something heavy and ancient underlying the paper and string. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’d have to hold it in the air above the river. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Katya and Raisa took off determined to prove that, in the air at least, they were as good as any man. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I lost myself in the rhythm of the strokes, my arms tracing long ellipses in the air as if pulling something toward me that refused to come. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We could meet you in the air, beat you back, keep you from landing, distract you till your fuel ran out and you turned tail until the next wave. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Calder pulled out one of his pentominoes and tossed it up in the air. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But there was so much more stillness in the air than usual. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a twist, Oksi caught it in the air and returned to the oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alec Bings. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a great rushing sound in the air that takes Mark back to his family’s visit to Niagara Falls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was restlessness in the air now, as if we had all packed everything too quickly and too well and we needed something else to do. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With his nose in the air he explains to us that he was brought up that way. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was not only not a wimp, he came out to play with the gang, running alongside us, tossing us up in the air, and wrestling against the entire pack without getting hurt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He moved his hand fishily in the air, unable to describe what he imagined. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Nick twisted in the air and somehow got the ball against the backboard. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seven or eight hands went up in the air. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She waved my pen around in the air. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross-legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was after the change that it began to get hard, and Mrs. Virgil would curl her lip slowly as if there was a bad smell in the air. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Sean stuck his hand up in the air for a high five from Drew, but Drew didn’t go for it. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

None of this has been said, but the knowledge of his power hangs nevertheless in the air as he pats my thigh, withdraws himself behind the hanging sheet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest could trace fiery letters in the air as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She hunched over and murmured to herself, and I swear I saw silver symbols etched in the air before they disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On our way home, we were slapping each other’s hands and pumping our fists in the air, as if we’d won a boxing match. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He throws his hands up in the air as Henry stares at him blankly, and around them, people start cheering too, hundreds of shoulders shimmying to the shouty, Lil Jon-flavored nostalgia of “Get Low.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The upper edge of the circular cutout was now thirty feet in the air, the lower edge fully sunk into the ground and out of sight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The smell of the stew hung in the air, floated across the yard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re amazing creatures—the fastest birds on earth. They’re like shape- shifters, the way they streamline their bodies in the air.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It had gold tassels behind its ears and a flying tail and three golden hooves on the ground and one in the air. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The same salt smell was in the air, and the water chuckling against the hull was just as he remembered it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And it appears to float in the air. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The clown waved his finger in the air like a schoolmarm. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ivan gasped a little, then threw his arms up in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt his breath in the air as he walked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was in the air, long before it came. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snorted and pawed the ground before turning and trotting off, tail held high in the air. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now my mother is moving forward, she’s smiling, laughing, they all move forward, and now' they’re raising their fists in the air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother listened for a moment, chewing her lip, then threw her hands in the air and said that she’d had no idea the costume would be so immodest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She stood up and held her hand high in the air. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not allowed to move so freely in this your world, it said with a trace of bitterness that pooled, oily, in the air between them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

More than the slow speed, or the sitting still in the air waiting to fall, I hated the noise. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Him and his paltry wineskins. There are far bigger birds in the air than Rekh the goldsmith. Eh, my friend?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Cross, Mr. Thompson was just on your back yelling yee-haw while circling his arm in the air as if winding an imaginary lasso." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The old woman advanced through the field, hands up and strumming the threads of magic in the air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We raised our guns in the air and cheered. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He obliged, pinching his thumb and forefinger together and shaking them in the air for emphasis, like a French chef on a TV commercial. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a...feeling in the air like something was lurking, watching and following us as we arrived. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This was the Em who Bridge saw on the soccer field, the one in the yellow sweatshirt who threw two fists in the air after every goal. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are times when I stare at my brother from across the room and search for the martial artist who jumped in the air and made me laugh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu sensed, between them, the presence of spiky thorns floating in the air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the air force, and Mom was in the USO, but when they met, she was on leave visiting her parents at their cattle ranch near Fish Creek Canyon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She ran the beam of the flashlight about the room as she searched, the thick dust in the air making the light beam seem almost solid. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed, stick my foot up in the air, and dangle the locket off one toe. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you feel the storms in the air, Hugor Hill? Dagger Lake is ahead of us, where pirates prowl. And beyond that lie the Sorrows.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A ceaseless thrumming and groaning trembled in the air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

On these benches you see men sleeping, stretched out, or couples sitting, young couples, who steal glances at each other shyly and whose hands flutter in the air, happening to touch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could see a bright, whirling torrent of crystals in the air around him, and he could see them gather on the backs of his hands, like cold fur. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A fine haze of dust still hung in the air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The faint green smell in the air felt like an embrace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She snorted, stuck her tail in the air and made for him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the nearby drinking fountain, I pressed one finger over the hole, making the water squirt high in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My father stood at the stove sipping from his usual mug, the smell of burned coffee and almost-burned toast in the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Ivan says he sees threads in the air, and I don’t see anything.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There’s this amazing moment when both are hovering maybe twenty feet in the air. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church, when she was called upon to sing, she seemed to pull out plugs from behind her jaws and the huge, almost rough sound would pour over the listeners and throb in the air. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are invisible places in the air,” came the answer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not necessary,” I say, throwing my hand in the air with my pinky pointed to the sky. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In his relations with her he felt that he was riding a seesaw; never were they on a common level; either he or she was up in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stalked off, leaving a sour smell in the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom shouted, punching her fist in the air. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alex hung in the air, dangling at the end of the parachute. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Gbenye was the first to move, pulling my antelope off the pile and holding it proudly in the air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I shouted as I plopped my book bag down on the kitchen floor and waved the letter in the air. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king’s words seemed to hang in the air. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

As the bowl spun in the air, it grew and grew. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the other two boats finally passed them, the freshman boys raised a lusty cheer and pumped their fists in the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bell rings, and Doc closes the door and turns around to face the class, but before he can say “Good morning,” Jared’s hand is in the air. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooking hangs in the air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

At home, they called him Allen; in the air corps, they called him Phillips. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a movement in the air only, which said, “Now attend to me. Give me some love. Stroke my mane, will you, please?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this, he shoved his finger in the air. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the triangle and held it in the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He ran out the front door to meet Woody, who was sitting on the curb lightly tossing a football in the air. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I can feel it like a shift in the air, like when a cloud moves over the sun. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Our scout was returning, and I threw my arm in the air in silent signal to him and then, the most astounding thing, something flew—thunk!—into my hand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I wave my hand in the air, realize what I’ve just done. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It took no less than six months of furious battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a crisp autumn night, and leaves danced in the air, the threat of a storm whispering in the wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was at a standstill, anyhow, and a nasty quiet feel in the air. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

High in the air small clouds like puffs of cannon smoke were driven eastward by the March wind. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the moment of intermingling with a noise like thunder, the spectacle of broken lances sailing in the air while hones pawed that dement before they went down backward. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place where she had pointed was a city park hovering in the air. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I can feel her in the walls, in the air. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The woman who was born on Aviation Day, the woman who was born to be in the air, had vanished in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Could have straightened up and seen what was coming, for it was thick in the air all around us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re in the air, and I alternate between closing my eyes and opening them. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Initially, President Eisenhower tried to pooh-pooh the Russians’ “small ball in the air” as an insignificant achievement, but the American people would have none of it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was even a reassuringly medicinal smell in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We waded through Queen Anne’s lace and thick-stalked purple flowers, into dragonflies and the smell of Carolina jasmine so thick I could almost see it circling in the air like golden smoke. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stink of food and sewage mingled with the dust in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he blew into all the holes, sliding upward, and drew in the air to slide back down. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He swam the fingers of one hand around in the air, clumsy in his grasping. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Angela Davis smiles, gap-toothed and beautiful, raises her fist in the air says, Power to the people, looks out from the television directly into my eyes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mist hung in the air—hazy shreds of white that coiled and undulated as if they were alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The word hangs in the air between us—church as opposed to the synagogue were buying this suit for. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They carried Gum Baby by the arms while she swung her legs in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The starter held the gun in the air again. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She unlocked two bolts on the front door and waved her hand in the air, saying, “Smells like I got a mouse in one of those traps.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My hair is literally sticking straight up in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I re­member one green sea turtle that hung from the side of the lifeboat for two days, the whole while thrashing about madly, free flippers beating in the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cost of failure in the air was astronomical, in lives and dollars. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Women squeeze my hands as I pass, and wave their beauty tokens in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He gave a jump in the air, twirled, ran a few steps, stopped, looked all around, sniffed the smells of afternoon, and then set off walking down through the orchard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When they spot each other, Mayumi raises her hands in the air and squeals in triumph. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Turning in the air, she caught a northeasterly wind and went back to the West Branch of the Delaware. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The green mist around Quinton and Maria swirls in the air before colliding into the far wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The Last Custodian,” said Kojo, framing the words dramatically in the air. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Will waits. The horse’s head goes down again. You’d think he never could get it up in the air. The horse makes out like he’s got no bones.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi’s house is so close to the water I can practically taste the salt in the air. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He put his paws up in the air. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now Lupin’s tortured white face seemed to swim in the air before him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“VISERION7” He snapped the whip in the air with a crack that echoed off the blackened walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ice fell away from his hand, which rose up to tremble in the air for a moment, afflicted and blue, before coming to rest on my arm. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Mother, did you hear? You’ll be two miles up in the air.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The child strained toward Taisin while his mother tried to pull him back, and it was almost as though he was suspended in the air between the two of them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a smell of dampness in the air as the frosted ground thawed, a smell of things getting ready to grow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s something in the air, something off, and it concerns me.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The brand on my cheek scorched, as if the fire within me called to the fire in the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Doors close in two minutes,” Newt said, a statement so succinct and final it seemed to hang in the air like a burial shroud caught in a puff of wind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a chorus of laughter from a bunch of kids as a boy kicks his skateboard in the air. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Abboud rushed toward the bathroom for tissues, which were so small and thin that she threw them up in the air when she returned. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paused, took a sip of my coffee, letting the word boyfriend rest out in the air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a Golden Ticket!” screamed the shopkeeper, leaping about a foot in the air. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She waved it in the air for a few seconds, then began painting the nails on her right hand. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The dogs, who had climbed down on their own, waited nearby, their breath steaming out in the air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Up in the air like releasing a bird or an apple, then arcing my arm, rotate shoulder, bring down the power and the anger and don’t forget to aim. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted her hands in the air to mimic splashing water, still holding the paring knife in one of them. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The fear of serious mass rioting set off by some unpredictable spark hung steadily in the air. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stabbed the Transvice in the air to emphasize his point. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she remembers her great-aunt’s hands floating on a white surf of keys, overlapping like gulls in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winston heard a succession of shrill cries which appeared to be occurring in the air above his head. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

What were these black-garbed women rushing at them in the air? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Papa,” he said finally, raising a stiff finger in the air. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Like my hands might float up in the air if I let them. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was waving his feet in the air. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conant knew Lawrence well enough to have confidence he was not drawing castles in the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We were more than one hundred feet in the air. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke kept pouring out of the clay-daubed chimney, hanging heavy in the air. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The perfect name will arrive in the air one day.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She landed smack on her back, right in the water, with her legs stuck in the air. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Biryani spices hang in the air around me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was Ophie’s tone, or maybe it was the strange thickness in the air finally seeping into her mother, but whichever it was, Mama climbed into the hole after Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“But you’ve heard how it is near the holes. There was ashes in the air all the time. Disgusting. Everything started to die and turn into glass.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His words hung in the air between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shimmied her arms in the air like a Pentecostal preacher. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Esquimaux Curlew looked like he was just coming onstage, his body leaning forward, his neck stretched out, his bill stuck up in the air like he was about to sing or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The plane curved in the air and began the journey home. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She watched until the delicate flames consumed the rag, watched until the blaze was hot and floating in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grilled meat smoke still hung heavy in the air, but Pax could only get a general scent of the humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She took it out of the box and held it up in the air, and I said, “No,” and she said, “No what?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

From where we sit, we can taste the salt in the air and see the lights of downtown Los Angeles reflected on the water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She waved it in the air and held it up toward the nearest window, as if that would make a difference. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were delicious February days, with all the summer’s promise hovering in the air. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melisandre gazed up at it, her breath a warm moist cloud in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Esme always gives me one of those spoons hanging in the tree to stir it, and we drink with our pinkies in the air and laugh. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The light skipped ahead in the air in front of Ilya. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine, what it would feel like, to straddle a dragon's neck and soar high in the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fumes shimmered in the air, and one by one, they “topped” her tanks, loading them right to the brim and securing them for sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like losing my balance on earth and floating in the air like a balloon. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

James punched his fists in the air and tilted his head back to shout at the ceiling, “STEVE SURVIVES!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then I see smoke swirling in the air up ahead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Silence hung in the air, but before they could think to speak, the Gran emerged from the Cursed Forest with the Town Uncle in her arms. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a chill in the air just like there was when Aunt Pooh took me weeks ago. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The man lifted a hand in the air and continued with what he was writing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached up and tugged on the curtain and studied the dust as it rose up in the air and swirled and swooped. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred. If they did, they would feel weightless, like they were floating.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of birds was clear in the air; the sun dappled the ground in patches of yellow and light green; the new leaves whispered gently when the breeze rustled through. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck my leg up in the air and rubbed it with soap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A certain sleepiness seemed to precede the battle, a quality of haze, of unreality, of dust in the air, dust in the haze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would throw it in the air and she would swoop out of the sky and catch it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ay!” snapped the Matron, waving the butcher knife in the air. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the cell door slid open, he stood in the center of the floor, his hands in the air, his eyes level. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Seeing as how we’re wrapped in vines nine hundred feet in the air, you might want to talk nice. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She waves a hand in the air like she’s given up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was carrying the smoked meat in a small bag that I waved in the air to increase the speed at which we kicked our feet from side to side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Celia soon grew to love Havana, its crooked streets and the balconies like elegant chariots in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My words hang in the air for a long moment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The scents in the air were familiar—hay and sweat and manure—but inside the wood-paneled confines, they were nauseating. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But there was an evil feeling in the air, as if things might indeed be passing up and down that eyes could not see. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The moment we arrived at the Globe that morning, we sensed that something was in the air. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The anticipation in the air was almost visible at this moment, blazing, electric. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grains of golden sand and dust bounced on the floor before rising and swirling in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

American women still didn’t have any way to serve their country in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We might have watched her, hanging by a strap umpteen feet in the air, but, even worse, she had been forced to watch us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I stood aside, afraid to move or speak against the fragile balance in the air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a bitter tang in the air of Mordor that dried the mouth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even the teens of Shaker Heights—whose main exposure to Shakers was singing “Simple Gifts” in music class—could feel that drive for perfection still in the air. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I throw a lumpia in the air and it lands on the table with a dull plop. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Lister developed a device to spray the acid solution in the air around an open wound when surgeons operated and changed dressings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, if they tossed one in the air, it would shoot upward in a streak of white phosphorus, alerting the Argo II that the team was in trouble. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge pumped his fists in the air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We both laughed, and most of the tension in the air dissipated. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bull calculated the distance between himself and Ben, then lobbed the shot putt in the air. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even bounced a little in the air before flying speedily down the length of the throne room toward the door. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One morning in early summer, a renewing warmth in the air, Obinze arrived at the warehouse and knew right away that something was amiss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I leaned next to her and looked down at Dari, who was frantically waving his arms in the air. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tally somersaulted in the air, turning headfirst for a few terrifying moments, her face passing low enough to spot a discarded bottle cap in the grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To my horror and delight the thing vaulted in the air in an explosion of water and spray. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp scent of peppermint hovers in the air. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” Ashe continued briskly, putting away his pencil, “I’ve got to wait for my vacation. It’s only two weeks off, but this Herbie business has everything up in the air.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They rose high in the air, bending first one way and then the other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first pupil with his hand in the air, the fastest player on the soccer field, but for all that, just another kid in Conor’s class. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He climbed a tree, dropped back to peer into my face, then climbed another tree, holding on to the trunk with his feet while his arms flailed in the air. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Calista looked at me for a long time, her marker raised in the air, and she didn’t say anything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Conor felt suddenly light, like he was somehow starting to float in the air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I swear I jump a whole foot in the air. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A great, full-clawed paw rose in the air and cuffed my shield. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Musa jumped in the air and we all began to laugh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It shoots a thing up in the air and it makes a big light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The newsies' hands wave in the air, scattering the ink across the pages. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If they hit us while we were in the air, we didn’t have a chance. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m alerted by, I don’t know, a soft shift of sand or maybe just a change in the air currents. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She was smoking in the house? Just what Nicole needs, cancer in the air.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Seven was in a sitting position, floating in the air beside Valley and Thorn as they walked. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The nearly dead call out for help, reaching up to soldiers rushing by, and die with their hands in the air. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z