| 单词 | in the way |
| 例句 | I start to cry, but quietly, in the way I’ve learned to cry since the accident. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The farm and the family was a self-contained world, in the way I imagine all American farm life once was. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The little yellow ones were too small to provide much in the way of nourishment, but there were red ants in the grass, and those were bigger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There’s little in the way of basic sanitation. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I couldn’t let my personal feelings get in the way of my art. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This was not the time to be in the way. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “So I’d like to know what we can expect in the way of mayhem and ructions,” he finished. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z At least not in the way Cynthia thought. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Than and then are similar only in the way they sound. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see her face, but there was something terrifying in the way she slumped against her seat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I told them they’d better figure out where they needed to go or I was going to collect a tax from them for getting in the way. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I just happened to be standing in the way. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “But like you said, maybe we’re in the way now. We don’t have any choice, do we?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z We were poor, but in the way Japanese are poor, meaning we never borrowed money from anyone, period. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was twelve years her senior and glamorous in the way only an equestrian director can be. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “So that child gets punished for his family’s wrong?”I can easily imagine my mom shaking her head in the way that she does, lips pressed together. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Stuff got in the way. She hasn’t studied in a long time.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z You cannot see an infinity of images because the mirrors are not perfectly flat and aligned, because light does not travel infinitely fast, and because you are in the way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dogs get in the way,” Dr. Martin says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was a kind of local celebrity in the way that a longtime educator can be—always recognized by someone at the supermarket—but he never sought or expected any wider acclaim. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z There was something earnest in the way she put stylus to paper, like a littlie learning how to read. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The store had little to offer in the way of food that I could manage. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z An Imperial Affliction was my book, in the way my body was my body and my thoughts were my thoughts. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z We were all pretty scared of her and didn’t think of her in the way we did the other guardians. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Some material substance must be in the way of the water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Zeitoun used that as a bedrock and constant guide in the way he and Kathy did business, and the workers took note. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I mean, my mom never actually said anything like that, but I could just feel it in the way she held me, in the way she sang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I liked Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, even though he didn’t have much in the way of a technical personality, but mostly I liked that his adventures kept happening. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a great stone in the way, but the Orcs had got through somehow, for he could hear their voices on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Maybe I should have picked up something in the way they greeted me, but I’m sure there wasn’t anything obvious. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z How he would never quite describe the man who stole Roza, at least not in the way that other people would. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The dream island never materialized, and there wasn’t much in the way of vacation, either. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z REELTOK: Too bad that pesky First Amendment keeps getting in the way. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The sundress offered the most in the way of my rib cage and collarbone that Augustus had seen. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He couldn’t play no ball but there was something in the way he moved, something in the way he walked, that was me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t see it from floor level because of the mountains of paper in the way. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Every now and then I’ll pass another hiker on his or her way down, and we’ll nod or say hello, in the way that people surrounded by acres of silence do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Privacy in the way we think of it today was entirely foreign to us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a thing in the way of diversions, nowhere to buy a book or even a magazine that didn’t involve speedboats, customized cars, or guns and ammo. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And it worked, too, but not in the way Maddie might have been hoping for. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It sat on its haunches and stared at her, in the way the wolves did, its perfect coat glimmering in the moonlight. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z But you see their connection in the way they twirl their hair or chew on their bottom lips or how they whistle through their straws before each sip. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When your bodyguard and champion showed up at my office, I was expecting something more in the way of an invitation to play tennis. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He smiled at her in the way Mrs. Coulter had: as if they were both in on a secret. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I should pick up the phone and call her, but my angry bubbles get in the way. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Where I can visit you in one way, if not in the way I really want to. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Sometimes that gets in the way of him doing what’s good for others—seeing the big picture, you know? It’s only been two weeks since we got out. You got to give him more time.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t mean defeating death in the way the Death Eaters mean it, Harry,” said Hermione, her voice gentle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A strip of hide came off the zebra’s belly like gift-wrap paper comes off a gift, in a smooth-edged swath, only silently, in the way of tearing skin, and with greater resistance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t really comprehend time’s passing, at least not in the way that I used to, when time was available to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Our bodies are the same but there's a heaviness in Mabel's shoulders, a weariness in the way my hip leans against the counter. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We are friends in the way people in an unprovisioned lifeboat are, chance consorts who are sure that they’ll be picked up soon, any day now, but not exactly how or when. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This time the page clattered up the stairs with the usual noise, in the way of pages, bringing light with him at the same time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For the present they were no longer climbing, but the ground was now more broken and dangerous in the dark, and there were blocks and lumps of fallen stone in the way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “They slowed us down a bit,” Chiron admitted, “but I think they’re intended mostly to keep mortals out. Kronos doesn’t want puny humans getting in the way of his great victory.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He was famous, he thought wryly, but not in the way he’d wanted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When my father saw me, he comforted me, but not in the way I wanted. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I backed away, ready to apologize for getting in the way. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “It gets in the way of basketball,” Angie replied with a shrug, spinning the ball on her index finger. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Well, why would I do that? He was so kind to offer. Don’t let me stand in the way of a good deed.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And Bridge’s head tingled in the way that happens when someone points. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z There are states which tell you what you may expect to find in the way of road conditions ahead, while others let you find out for yourself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually, linguistic change is a crucial marker of a modification in the way in which people think—it both facilitates that change and makes it easier for us to recognize it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was sitting in her cage, staring at Harry with her enormous amber eyes, and clicking her beak in the way that meant she was annoyed about something. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Something in the way he said it made Lyra imagine dust with a capital letter, as if this wasn’t ordinary dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Not odd in the way Cecile’s green, prickly stucco house was odd in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I’d never done anything like that before, never even dreamed of it, but there was something in the way he looked at me, the way he smiled at me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I was speaking at so many events, but I felt that my height got in the way of being authoritative. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He ran a finger down her arm and reveled in the way goose bumps sprouted on her skin. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Kino hovered; he was helpless, he was in the way. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma was standing by the table, her free hand placed on her head in the way that people do when they are in shock. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Something in the way the tennis players hold themselves, or the way they toss the ball, or the fluidity of their motion triggers something in his unconscious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a clear shot—too many trees stood in the way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Later, Odenigbo came in and looked searchingly into her eyes in the way he often did, as if looking for proof of something. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Naturally, wheels and writing aren’t directly linked to latitude and day length in the way crops are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could wake Grampa, but he’d be no good against R.C., and if he got in the way, R.C. probably would hurt him too. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It seemed like it was mostly just trying to get out of there, and poor Alby was in the way.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I could see his mind running in the way that it does sometimes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She was shaking with fury and disappointment, so I guess she was moving again, but not in the way I wanted her to. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There were patterns in the way people moved, the way they clustered around power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Fine,” Margaret said, smiling and lifting an eyebrow in the way she does when she is secretly amused. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t the kind of grandma who was going to let crying get in the way of her talking. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “I was wired to explode anyway; he just got in the way.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There is little furniture to get in the way. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I hope it puts you in the way of some better-paying work,” his mother said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d been stabbing his eggs with his fork, but stopped suddenly, as if eating was getting in the way of thinking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m ready to begin, but in the few days leading up to Christmas I allow work to get in the way. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And, much in the way of Miggery Sow, he was not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z But now there was a new imprecision in the way Mary Anne expressed her thoughts on certain subjects. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That said everything I wanted to say without letting the words get in the way of it, anyway. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her lips weren’t pursed in the way they got when she was focused. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But this woman was beautiful in the way that a bolt of lightning shattering the sky was beautiful. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Instead, unblinking, she looked at him, unable to hurt him in the way that was demanded and in some undefined way still loving what he was, his kindness, his seriousness, the goodness in his heart. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Stand back, there!” they said, whenever an animal got in the way. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She smiled, in the way that meant she had found that funny, and he felt accomplished to have made her smile. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was looking at him in the way a hawk hanging lazily in the air might study a mouse on the ground. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z She and her Dad were alike in the way that now they always had to be fooling with something. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was in the way his hair met his golden skin—in the tiny gaps between the strands, in the way it fell across his brow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When I went back to school the next day, the first thing I noticed was that there was a big shift in the way things were. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z One day they were on the point of trampling Úrsula, who made an effort to be useful precisely where she was most in the way. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I can sense what she expects of me, in the way of control. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There is very little in the way of interaction or engagement with the music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Hazel responded, in the way that you do. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Well, he probably could have, but perhaps not in the way he wanted, and in that case the defeat would have been even more stinging. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in the way that the world opened up to Chantal when a fancy private high school offered her a full scholarship. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But how could he get there, with the bed on which his mother and sister slept standing squarely in the way? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to see her crumple up like that, because I have nothing to offer her in the way of solace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Harvard had made clear to the world that they were prepared to pay handsomely to get what they wanted in the way of a new head coach. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The mathematicians began to handle evidence in the way that lawyers and theologians had been handling it for many centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I know what you believe, but things are different here. You already know that; you’ve already seen. The dive is dangerous, I won’t deny that, but not in the way you think.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was something like warmth in the way she glared at me now. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But the Osage Nation was in the way of the economic drive of the European world...and life as they once knew it would never be the same.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Each of these was a real and important factor in the way the fire was able to race through the city unchecked, yet none was singled out as the cause. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It was in the way he stood, his feet slightly apart, his arms comfortably crossed on his chest, his head titled a little toward the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some would simply deny that it is possible to escape culture and discover nature in the way that scientists claim. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was staring at them and fixed his mouth in the way people do when they're thinking, Not bad. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” agrees Kelton, “but not in the way a burglar would.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The biggest improvement was made in the way water was supplied to Philadelphia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The fever rose without warning or notice or much in the way of understanding by those outside its reach. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But Ged paid him for it in sorcerers’ kind, healing his eyes of the cataracts that were in the way of blinding him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He was drunk; I could see it in the way he was sitting, not in an inebriated manner per se but as if a different person—a sluggish, sullen one—had occupied his body. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was probably figuring I wouldn’t get in the way. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw something there, in the way she looked at me, and it wasn’t just deception. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Australian Aborigines, of course, stood in the way of European food production, especially because what was potentially the most productive farmland and dairy country initially supported Australia’s densest populations of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But it’s the mean part that gets in the way. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She kissed his neck, his ear, in the way that always made him pull her close on the nights that Ugwu slept out on the veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When you have such a public role and so many people counting on you, I believe you must always act in the way people expect of you. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the Clinic, there was comedy in the way Tessie, idly picking up a waiting-room magazine, found herself reading about the juvenile sexual rehearsal play of rhesus monkeys. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I think in the end we must have absorbed quite a lot of information, because I remember, around that age, a marked change in the way we approached the whole territory surrounding the donations. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your Aunt Spiker and I are about to become millionaires, and the last thing we want is the likes of you messing things up and getting in the way.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Not in the way that Princess put all her dresses and skirts into trash bags and started dressing like the son I never had. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The Duke’s Daughter paid the butcher’s bill, A Phantom Hand put down a new carpet, and the Curse of the Coventrys proved the blessing of the Marches in the way of groceries and gowns. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hot and smelly, and I couldn’t move without getting in the way of someone else. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z To Casteen, these are steps to remove what he describes as “artificial barriers” to a college education placed in the way of otherwise deserving students. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They hung around the burned house, offering to help in any way they could, feeling official and generally getting in the way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He held his friend by the arm and looked into his face in the way that he used to do when they parted each day before work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was always in the way, and he could see nothing behind it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The yellow ones weren’t “outward” rings and the green ones weren’t “homeward” rings; at least, not in the way he thought. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Not in the way that you mean, she thought. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Every aesthetic “law” advanced so far has proven of dubious value, and usually gets in the way of our understanding. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you ever noticed the difference it makes in the way you think?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z At length Mrs. Weidenbach separated the two old warriors, though her hoopskirt got in the way. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazel smiled in the way people who have superior information do, and walked away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The others couldn’t see it in the way I did but recognized its shadow projected on the wall and that of its ropelike tongues. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Maybe there was a kind of miracle in those words, I like you, I want to take care of you, Ifemelu thought, but not in the way her mother meant it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I felt my face grimacing in the way Finny’s did when he was really irritated. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z By the early twenties, the mine still had not produced much, if anything, in the way of gold, or rubies, or even garnets for that matter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Which left me with little in the way of distractions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t they know we have a contract to compete for? And they’re going to let a little snow get in the way? They must not want to work for me much longer,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Punctuation directs you how to read, in the way musical notation directs a musician how to play. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Their joy was evident in the way they nodded and grinned while they resumed shoving cake into their mouths with reckless abandon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Their bodies were in the way of everything she had to do, but as they worked they talked, and the talk was a welcome window into the world beyond the tavern. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z For sure I was in the way and I ought to slip on out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Not in the way that causes sponsors to rain gifts on you. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z All I have in the way of a wallet is a zippy pouch thing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Early farmers wouldn’t have noticed the difference, in the way that they did notice and selectively harvest big berries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bono and I crawled along a row and put ourselves in the way of one man who stooped there, suckering plants. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They were antique steel full moons, and when he put them on he invariably underwent a quiet transformation, becoming suddenly professorial, handsome in the way that some outdoorsmen are yet scholarly at the same time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There’s something in the way he pauses and turns. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think he has a girlfriend. I don’t want to be in the way.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “But....but what use will I be? I’ll just be in the way.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. It will offer little in the way of protection from cold or water.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The streets were quiet, in the way that streets only are when the first snow falls. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The slope of the mountain was in the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “We didn’t team up with the Ellisons. You invited Leen because you want her to be your girlfriend and left me dealing with Wiki getting in the way.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful river just in the way it was. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He speedily learned that Perrault and François were fair men, calm and impartial in administering justice, and too wise in the way of dogs to be fooled by dogs. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z At least not in the way she means. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It looked to be a good harvest this year, though in the way of sharecroppers, they had to pay off the landowner first. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had little in the way of education. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Most institutions still choose to get permission, but there’s no uniformity in the way that’s done. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To get moving toward the nest, no matter how far away it is or the debris in the way. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When she thinks of that day, she’s certain she has romanticized it in the way of first loves. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was like a dead body in the way it seemed to draw his eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Farmer was forty now, a medical superstar, and he had the credentials to operate in the way Hiatt envisioned, the way that Jim Kim liked to operate—on an executive level. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I could see it in the way he looked at me now. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I don’t know exactly where I got the singing part from, but Chas, Joey, and Kevin weren't about to stand in the way of my willingness to compound my idiocy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I wonder if she’s still afraid of him, in the way that I’m still afraid of him, like a nightmare that keeps resurfacing during the day. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Then she is leaning in the empty doorway, arms akimbo, almost standing in the way I would glimpse her when I left her countless times before, her figure steeled, allowing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Butterscotch trotted behind—never in the way, just close by me all the time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And then, in the way of dreams, the picnic was done and they were playing in the meadow, running and shouting and tossing a glittering ball from one to another. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z But the truth is that I had never wanted him to kiss me, not in the way you are supposed to want these things. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But my tongue kept getting in the way, like a huge obstruction, and my mouth was dry. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t get in the way, but they were there if they were needed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But not exactly in the way the district supervisor had had in mind. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who knows anything about firearms will tell you that a 9mm handgun cannot misfire in the way that gun did. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then, as if he were staking me to a public challenge, he added, “It is therefore not the South Africa government which now stands in the way of Mr. Mandela’s freedom. It is he himself.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in good conditions it was not easy for him, a one-armed man, to steady his camera in the way he would like. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But now things weren’t turning out in the way I thought they should, and I didn’t know what to do about it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z All that stands in the way of our assessment of our sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ancestors as cruel, barbaric monsters is what they produced in art, poetry, architecture and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And the attendant—maybe her name was Gertrude—realized I was just going to be in the way. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z One bowl of Cream of Wheat each week and nothing more in the way of support. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I made my way from one end to the other, saying “Excuse me” to inmates in the way, and repeated my mantra. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If Matt were around, hed be down there underfoot, getting in the way, wanting to help with the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “When he spoke, they listened,” and not just in the way that younger kids in that community did when coaches talked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He let go of Esperanza and fetched his bike, wishing he hadn’t brought it, certain it would get in the way. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She says you wouldn’t want the neighbors to know what you have in the way of a wash but there’s nothing like the sweetness of clothes dried by the sun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry if frozen time is getting in the way of your napping.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z With Harry working on the house full-time, they weren’t receiving much in the way of attention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the baby’s side of the room, they didn’t have much in the way of furniture, but they’d found a crib, a changing table, and rocking chair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Lizabeth look mad around her mouth and scared in her eyes and sad in the way she set in the chair. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So as not to be in the way, I sat real still-like to fade into the woodwork. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Full-time jobs, commutes, and children or parents who need care often get in the way. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “The door’s in the way, but I think it’s only one person.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And in the way, way back—ice cream. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He is not a forest ranger, wise in the way of the woods. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Kids, they realized, were a great deal more sophisticated in the way they watched than had been imagined. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never thought of my parents as old—old in the way of parents, maybe, but not old. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But the police here aren’t looking for us in the way police back in the metropolis must be. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I didn’t really connect to them in the way I think Harry hoped I might, but that was just a genetic issue. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Even if they didn’t look it wasn’t his fault, he had put himself in the way. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Sitting behind the wheel he felt his father’s contours in the way the seat molded under him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Particularly if you don’t exactly blend in the way they would like you to.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Urvashi had been beautiful in the way a rose was beautiful. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Nothing is supposed to get in the way of the four of us all sitting down at the same time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Dany’s clothes were hardly more than rags, and offered little in the way of warmth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z April nodded and her eyes flicked across Melanie’s in the way they always did when their imaginations were tuned in. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The double entendres, the two-pronged sentences, slid over his tongue to dart rapier-like into anything that happened to be in the way. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t do my training with people in the way—tell them to clear out.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb’s boy. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z This demandingness is called government, and it can also be seen in the way that verbs and adjectives are picky about their complements. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They emerged and flew about in the way of flies, in great, lazy orbits except when they came close to each other, when they spiralled together with dizzying speed and a burst of buzzing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I can see that. But why*.” “To save the world, kid. But hey, we’re real sorry about your getting in the way.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And there was something in the way these children spoke; as a practiced liar, she knew liars when she met them, and they were lying about something. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the beginning of a major change in the way farmers operated and the way we get our food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sound, of course, and headaches, but I’ve also learned to look out for things like changes in space, as in the way you see it, the way it feels. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Something in the way he said it got it through this time. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He and I had some uncomfortable conversations about my family and about how they might not accept him in the way that his family had accepted me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He wears his pride in his posture, in the way his eyes claim everything they land on. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z "And if you or anyone else gets in the way of that, you will be repurposed," she threatens haughtily. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z These pieces were like the Agua Florida in the way they made him remember. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We are almost opposite Jess and Jason’s house, but I can’t see across the carriage and the tracks, there are too many people in the way. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashid shoved harder, shifting a bunch of boards and debris that were in the way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He is all muscle and force, and yet I can see in the way he fights that he is holding himself back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But this fact sustains me only in the way that, say, the prospect of heaven cheers a terminally ill person: it’s nice to know, but it isn’t much help from moment to moment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not averse to dying at war in the way Americans were. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At one point, he heard some men—familiar customers—talking about the river level, and he stopped to listen in the way he’d always done and that hardly anyone noticed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Muselmanners were different in the way they breathed through their mouths, in the way they dragged their feet when they walked—if they could walk. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Neither school had a penny for recruitment, nor virtually anything in the way of well-heeled patrons. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He seemed drunk, almost manic, in the way he shook Richard’s hand, pumping up and down. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dell hangs around for a while but he's just in the way. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Frank rolled up one of the pancakes and started munching—not a guy to let impending death stand in the way of a hearty breakfast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It just sat there, in the way, and was covered over by leaves and papers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Laila sensed anxiety in the way she tugged at her sleeves, adjusted her hijab, pushed back a curl of hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The man, who was trained and fit and hard, could have dealt with Will, but the cat was in the way, and as the man tried to move back, he tripped over her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see a similar light in his eyes here in the way he throws his punches—but this is a darker intensity. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Would they stand in the way and demand papers or something? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was quiet in an ominous way; it was quiet in the way of small, frightening sounds. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Stanley started to go, but Mr. Sir lay in the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Lee was in the way, in the road; men were gathering around him, calling to him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in the way; they shoved her aside and rushed to tie things down. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It appeared, then, that her father would throw no obstacle in the way of Rosamond’s union with St. John. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There was nothing dreamlike in the way he moved forward now, alert as a cat, to the door. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He goes on about how hard he works and how he’ll work for the seventh grade so that we’re represented in the way that we deserve. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Like Gabriel said, people only got in the way of things. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But this brought him little in the way of consolation, for today he was terrified of his thoughts. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Now she was acting like an in-law, like an aunt, dabbling at helping Ruth and the girls, but having no interest in or knowledge of decent housekeeping, she got in the way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The kiss was arousing in the way that unknown things are arousing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was not a lot of wind where we lived with buildings in the way. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He told Genie that he could come too, but the way he said it—like a no-look pass too fast to catch—was in the way that really meant, please don't come. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at something lovely in the landscape. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “You know more than you think you do. Your baby . . .” It went on and on like that in the way that some books do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Is there anything you need in the way of furnishing, for example? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the small girl playing in the dirt only whimpered and spat; she had tried tasting some pebbles, in the way of toddlers, and had found herself with a mouthful of foul-tasting grit. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On their own initiative the Congolese seem unable to produce much in the way of hair—half of them are bald as a bug, even the girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don’t tell attorney Fitzgerald that part—about how my father’s wife and children are his greatest regret because we got in the way of the life he dreamed for himself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I notice a big change in the way he talks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It irked him, but this wasn’t the time or place to let being called a child get in the way of helping Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She was so kind and understanding, I was sure she wouldn’t stand in the way of Mama going. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The air is stuffy in the way only air at school can be stuffy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z ‘Down in the wood, back in the way that we have just come. It is he. Cannot you see him, passing from tree to tree?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But when the killing started, there was no right or wrong except in the way you did your job, except in the way that you were part of the killing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, in the way of dreams, he was standing on the black deck of the new ship, and someone was looking down at him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Some of the zombies were helpful just by standing in the way, blocking monsters and taking fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Everything is off, in the way dreams are—the house is much bigger than I remember, and there are giant oak trees everywhere. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma closed her eyes, in the way that people do when they want to remember something unpleasant. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It stank of desperation; such driftwood could not turn the tide of a fight, only get in the way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t eat cookies,” he said, and was about to close the door on them when Matthew stuck his foot in the way and held the door open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If his son wanted this, and if his son was destined to swim—if God had made him a swimmer—then Mahmoud could not stand in the way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “How are customers supposed to get to La Cocina with this mess in the way?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z "I would have handled it if he hadn't got in the way," snapped Belet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But here in her home she walked over everything, put herself in the way. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I was impressed by the fact that Dante could be so systematic in the way he organized everything in his room. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was pathetic, a blundering liability to my own team, always in the way of an opportune pass or unwittingly blocking an open lane. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He stood in the way, bulky, his eyes hardly visible under the low brim of his cap. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Could they have picked up something in the way I stopped, turned to them, and now waited with the growling Oscar on the leash? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z If there is a ring particle in the way, the proton or electron is absorbed by this small snowball. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I handed him a carrot and rubbed his head in the way he liked for me to do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She would only be in the way, and we cannot afford it. ” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko grabbed for his gun but it wouldn’t come out of his holster—the seat belt was in the way. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably nothing in the way of promotion Holman’s Department Store ever did attracted so much favorable comment as the engagement of the flag-pole skater. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But my pride gets in the way of agreeing to such a grotesque lie. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The atmosphere darkened, they heard reports of violence and unrest, and both Edmond and Isaac knew, in the way they knew things, that something bad was going to happen. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the angle of the light or something in the way the face spread out with the smile, but Bull caught a glimpse of a crooked nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I know. And I can see it in your eyes and in the way your body stands. A man can’t lie about a thing like that. You’ll like the boys, I think.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “In fact, Captain, I’m glad to hear that you wouldn’t stand in the way of our medical care—” “Yes,” Patria swiftly cut in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It's more in the way one might be glad to see an affectionate trio of pets at the end of a particularly difficult day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She worried about the big subject that was in the way of their happiness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stumbling around, getting in the way, don’t know what the hell you’re supposed to do.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Mong started clearing space for a makeshift barbecue pit, me and Rondell trying to help out but really just getting in the way. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She couldn’t revel in the way synapses fired and blood cells defended against foreign invaders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Who am I to stand in the way of a quest?” he said. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z But I knew, in the way I knew Dieter at some level did think about shooting me when he merely joked about it, that he was serious. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And there is a certain bombast in the way we speak that I had also forgotten. I started feeling truly at home again when I started being bombastic!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Besides, they don’t have a penny to their name and nothing in the way of a hope chest. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, she wouldn’t stand in the way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There was an uncanny familiarity in the cut of his jaw, in the way he wore his dark, tapered hair, and in the narrow shape of his eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His eyes scrutinize the layout, memorizing the location of every stagehand and prop, not wanting anything to get in the way of his exit. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I know it probably ain’t right to feel this way ’bout your own ma and pa, but I was sore disappointed in the way they were acting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I used to stand about doing nothing except get in the way. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Mostly, it was in the way he smiled. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And it worked, too, but not in the way Maddie might have been hoping for. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z And not in the way that the world opened up to Primadonna when she threatened to run away with her new boyfriend if I didn’t let her go on dates with him. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Wondering about why I didn’t like girls in the way Darrell liked them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “Tr-tr-tr-tr-Trotter ...” was all the child could manage in the way of an answer. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Totally. Of course. I don’t want to get in the way of your friendship.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She wanted him to come home and pull her forcefully to him in the way he had not done in a long time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I start to shut the door behind me, when Zack sticks his foot in the way. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t think that’s a good idea. My parents are there and I have too much to do. You’ll just get in the way.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I definitely didn’t want to get in the way of Mr. Spizz’s whizzing tricycle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The new ciphers were not as demanding as those she had cracked earlier in the war, and they did not yield much in the way of vital intelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The engineers, Burnham charged, “had contributed little or nothing either in the way of originating novel features or of showing the possibilities of modern engineering practice in America.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Farmer didn’t believe in Marxism, but he was impressed, as I was, by just how much a country with little in the way of natural resources could accomplish. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What Cornwallis did not know was that French ships under de Grasse now stood in the way. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But an enormous obstacle lay in the way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He failed, however, to produce much in the way of evidence, and the theory was considered too crackpot to merit serious attention. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In his fifteen years of teaching, he had never let anything get in the way of his work. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Not in the superhuman sense, but in the way that there was something incredible about him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Everything in me was charging me to get up, run after him, and knock him down in the way I couldn’t have the night before. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I could have challenged Ruth, told her she was twisting things, that even if I might have laughed, it wasn’t in the way she was implying. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It’s how we’re used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Egos, competing agendas, career goals, and inertia may get in the way. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nancy wrapped herself around him and rested her head against his neck in the way they had held each other since college. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her name was Karen and Karen was kind in the way that people can be, when kindness doesn’t cost them anything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then one of the women told him he was in the way there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was something aggressive in the way the boy had spoken, and Sergeant Maples had heard it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “You and me, maybe we’ve got a future. I mean, I have this big house, but not much in the way of inhabitants.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, “Did you notice any changes in the way you went to the bathroom?” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She could not say it was beautiful, exactly—that is, not beautiful in the way a wedding kimono was. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If anything, the donations went back to being a subject to be avoided, but not in the way it had been when we were younger. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one’s responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to go to her, but there were too many other kids in the way. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Right now, her head starts to throb in the way that she knows means dehydration. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z From Cleopatra’s point of view, only Octavian stood in the way of Ptolemy XV Caesar’s destiny as Caesar’s heir. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Something in the way that he said this made an impression. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s in the way she holds herself, the way she speaks. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She stepped back so that she would not be in the way as the huntress came around to unhitch her horse. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, having had his insight, Smith was curiously uninterested in understanding why rocks were laid down in the way they were. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When I returned to the ghetto, there was a wall in the way. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Maybe they were in the way your father smiled at you even after you’d messed something up real bad. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just a hundred tons of rock in the way, is all.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I wondered if people were talking about the ball in the way they do the day after a party. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “All these activities can’t get in the way of your studies.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But Mr. Lyons, he kept trying to be helpful in the way people do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The deck of Black Betha churned as crewmen ran to their tasks, pushing through the soldiers who always seemed to be in the way no matter where they stood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We didn’t have much in the way of gangs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z And even with her eyes glued to the road, Dolores could tell that Marigold was spinning that red bracelet of hers around her wrist in the way she did when she was upset. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was obvious in the way he spoke of them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “What if it does not end in the way you hoped for? You would only appear to be a grasping fool. And even worse, you would be ... you would be false.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The arrogance had always been there, but formerly it had come out in pride in his work—not in the way he wore his hat and walked. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see it in the way he looked at her, when he looked at her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Even with Caputo and Hayes in the way, I could see that my mother and father looked all wrong. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “I have seen it, Herbert, and dreamed of it, ever since the fatal night of his arrival. Nothing has been in my thoughts so distinctly as his putting himself in the way of being taken.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all in the way you look at things.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Get the kids into the bathroom so they don’t get in the way of the revolution.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” my father said to the one standing directly in the way. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She was being super flirty, but not in the way I wanted her to mean it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The wind was shifting, Davos could feel it, see it in the way the black canvas rippled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Rasheed chorded and shook his head, but Mariam thought she saw uncertainty in the way he crossed his arms, the way his eyes shifted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Or was there a genuine change in the way things happened, and of the kinds of things that happened, after “history” began? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “But she also made a big mistake. Maybe that doesn’t make her a failure in our eyes, but the world doesn’t always see people in the way we want.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Because British municipal governments had invested heavily in gas lighting and placed regulatory obstacles in the way of the competing electric light companies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I don't know if I still love her in the way that I used to, but I still find her just as beautiful. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We had only heard rumors of freedom, but he had lived it, and it showed in his every word, his every movement, in the way he sat tall in his seat. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Styx drew on his candy cigarette, in the way that meant he had a lot of thoughts he wasn’t going to say. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I’d end up annoyed at him for a time, in the way one gets annoyed at others when one has done them a disservice. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Maybe there were magic powers hiding in the way your older brother made all the worst thugs in the neighborhood play basketball with you even though you double-dribbled every time they threw you the ball. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And for the second time that day, I could hear my mom loud and clear: Take pride in the way you present yourself, followed up by, And ain’t no pride in looking like a tumbleweed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I’m standing in the way of birds pooping on my car.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Still, every one of us loved to play baseball and didn’t let the rest of it get in the way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee can see it in the way the artillery crews are positioning their cannons toward his lines. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And sometimes, by accident, there is a planet in the way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not hum round in the way it did, jigging to music, whirling in a sea of faces. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Come to think of it, I guess I’ve always been in the way. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Even though Big Creek gave Miss Riley little in the way of lab equipment to demonstrate what was in our new chemistry book, she was inventive. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nearly thirty voices were subtracted from the world that day, not even counting the six gods or the dozen humans who, like the Ellens, had gotten in the way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Packingtown had grown over the last half of the nineteenth century as part of a massive transformation in the way America’s meat was processed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But it sounded Congolese in the way it rolled out with equal weight on every syllable—a pig in a sack—as if no single word wanted to take over the whole sentence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I don’t want you in the way. It’s considered a sweet practice for you to get drunk.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he simply says, “It is fragile, but not in the way that you suppose.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a new confidence in her voice, a new authority in the way she carried herself. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z That one word, in the way it was shouted, contained more exclamation points than anything Ben had ever said to me in his entire life. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I leapt up— and thank God, Pefta’s desk was in the way, for I could have slapped the fat, smug look off his face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something in the way the old woman carried herself, strong despite her feeble body, unbothered by the jungle’s danger. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As I watch my friend, something in the way Soojin looks so sure of herself impresses me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The change was gradual, but by the time I was seven, I had started to notice a difference in the way some of my classmates treated me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She wore it in the way that Ugwu imagined his mother would if she had the same wrapper: uncertainly, as if she did not believe that she was no longer poor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My pride got in the way—I didn’t like having a mule get the best of me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not much in the way of defensive wounds,” Riley said doubtfully. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z You can see their long history just in the way they lean toward each other. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There was something mysterious and smug in the way he spoke, as though he had everything figured out—whatever he was talking about. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z People went back to ignoring me in the way they always had. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Nope,” Dad declared grandly, “this corn is growing in the way of progress.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The difference in the boys’ descent was clearly shown in the way each acted in face of a great danger which came to them before they were a year old. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I keep getting a little bit off track and letting my emotions about this—about them—get in the way, but I’ll try to stick to the facts. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Still and all, common sense tells you this much: everwhat makes a wheel run over a track will make it run over a boy if’n he’s in the way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She glanced up at him, the edge of the hoodie in the way, so he could see only half her eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And as much as Barack’s staffers respected me and valued my contribution, they’d never given me much in the way of guidance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z ‘Can’t? Your mother signed the paper—and you’re a wicked girl to stand in the way of your sister’s good fortune.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals—I travelled down the road of life—and I did other things with my fingers than try to measure latitude. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She had chafed under his demands before, but he had never treated her in the way that Elowen assumed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Even when two people really, really love each other, like your dad and me, sometimes life gets in the way.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was late in the afternoon, though, and he saw the exhaustion on their faces, in the way they slouched their bodies. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to be in the way here,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s something of our mother in this man’s ferocity, something of our father in the way he carries himself. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It isn’t a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At times I found him almost childlike in the way he lived so relentlessly in the present. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z To him, it just looks like a big mess that is getting in the way of an area he needs to tar. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They all wanted to do something in the way they saw fit. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lenin remained where he was, and, still staring at Chacko, screeched effortlessly, in the way only children can. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d follow Mama around every step she made, getting in the way and feeling hurt because she didn’t have time to pay him any mind. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Prince Balekin, the firstborn, and his set are known as the Circle of Grackles, for those who enjoy merriment and who scorn anything getting in the way of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was supposed to mimic the support of a corset without yielding too much in the way of flexibility. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z And then I just turned off and went to sleep, but not sleep in the way you do every night. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Such difficulties as these tend to be all the more preoccupying nowadays because one does not have the means to discuss and corroborate views with one's fellow professionals in the way one once did. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Etymologically, “invective” is a cavalry charge, and when Cicero hit a gallop, woe betide whoever was in the way. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was a hero, not in the way people always talked about him—not the soldier, not the war hero—but because of the person he was. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was about to lose it, but Tucker stepped in the way. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She laughed in the way people do when something’s not funny but awkward, and said, “I’m not entirely sure you do.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You won’t let anything stand in the way of the permanent directorship, will you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “No, we can waste the milk. Barrels would get in the way. We just need to relieve the pressure.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Plus, I was in the middle of something, and Trevor was getting in the way. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Because what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “There’s a flange in the way. It’s soft. I can bang it back.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing wistful in the way he said this. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z You could see that she was considering brushing past, but Lily stood in the way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “We don’t have much time. We can’t have people in the way.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Your dad won’t want her getting in the way of scavenge.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A toy soldier, sighting down the barrel of a rifle pressed tight to its hard green cheek, aiming at whatever happened to be in the way. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I told you the flight last night would get in the way of school.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The slavers of Yunkai had trained them in the way of the seven sighs, but that was not why Victarion wanted them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This time there wasn’t anybody in the way to run over. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Obinze was drawn to his gaucheness; in the young man’s clothes, and in the way that he stood, was an outsiderness he could not shield even if he had wanted to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The whole of it was eventually picked clean in the way a forest tree gets gleaned by leaf-cutter ants: nuts, bolts, and anything that might serve for roofing material trailed off into the jungle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Termites are even more extraordinary in the way they seem to accumulate intelligence as they gather together. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She worried that her stepmother would see her; she worried that Kaisa would somehow discern a new awareness in her, in the way she held herself, her body tilting slightly, selfconsciously, away. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good morning, sir,” the chaplain replied, discerning wisely that Colonel Korn expected nothing more in the way of a response. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I sensed an unease in her now, saw it in the way her eyes began to flick side to side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But there was some powdery stuff that got in the way of his lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Her hair was in the way, so I moved it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Cloke, however, presented little or nothing in the way of physical threat and besides, he had problems enough of his own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, this won’t get in the way of us walking the dogs.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And yet there was something gentle and tender about him, in the way he had his arm around Boobie, who was wearing a red T- shirt and shorts with his shoulder tilting down slightly. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing in the fridge but baking soda in the way back and half-empty bottles of ketchup, barbeque sauce, and mustard on the door. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z One of the key differences between the two was in the way their communities saw them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Shame and guilt and standards, the same icky stuff that got in the way of me and June being together. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He could see it in their eyes, in the way they looked at one another or frowned above their cups. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Second, in the way my father had taught me, by attempting to find or reconstruct the correct text, the text the commentator who had offered the simple explanation must have had before him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I just continued to feel comfortable in the way I saw things. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And when a man’s feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The minute I walked into that room, I knew something had changed in the way the Lord Jesus would be among us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He obviously wasn’t a drinker, I mean a drinker in the way I’d seen real drinkers, which is to say the liquor was beginning to affect him in a manner I couldn’t predict or call. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They got in the way of all the work. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was so much feeling in the way he said her name, and it was hard to read because it wasn’t...pure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “He and Erlan have been friends for eight years, and I’m not going to let some idiotic television show get in the way of that.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Abnegation stood in the way of her desire for power, so she found a way to eliminate it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The sea was closer, only five leagues north, but Asha could not see it Too many hills stood in the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In fact, in the way it ducked its head it seemed to want to hide from me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But only in the way the stupid, bloody slaughter of a bull in a bullfight can be called beautiful. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z What if you start thinking I'm getting in the way of your fun? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And when Lysias informed him this man was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to put him to death in the way that is customary there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I shake him in the way you should never shake an injured person, but I don’t know what else to do. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They’re just words, I then told him firmly, confidently—in the way a father believes he should—but mostly because I didn’t know what else to say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a slight stiffness in the way she said “Morning,” which told Harry that she was still disapproving of the way they had arrived. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t wish to be sent off as if I was in the way,” began Amy, in an injured voice. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I had nothing but his heart in mind and the worst of me got in the way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And not enough scythes argued—because those born in the post-mortal age found mortal-borns to be too uncomfortably different in the way they thought, and in the way they lived their lives. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was a revolution in the way humans lived—the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It will be a total disruption to her routine, a complete twist in the way her life is supposed to go. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They were meaningful in the way that a schoolchild’s homemade Christmas card is meaningful. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I saw it in my father, in the way he moved around as if nothing were wrong with his body, as if the disease that would someday take his life just didn’t exist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Holly smiles in the way she does that means she thinks she knows something that I don’t. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z A poor pharmacist with little in the way of advanced apparatus, he discovered eight elements–chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen–and got credit for none of them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He'd made them, and he loved them in the way one loves things that come of one's own hands, but even that wasn't the extent of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There's a strength in the way she carries herself, but she never seems to relax, never lets down her guard. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His lips were so pale they were almost white, and his tongue seemed to flop around uselessly in his mouth as he spoke, as if it kept getting in the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Then the Turks invaded back. My hand got in the way.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Aunt Nancy might take a shovel to it, and not in the way that Byrd would use the shovel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There was strength in his high cheekbones and curved nose as well as in the way he held himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The moon would be a great place to observe the stars because there is no atmosphere to get in the way and block the view. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Smooth my fingers over her neck in the way she likes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I called to my brother, knowing that he was very curious and therefore would be in the way of the men who were working. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Were the other children aware of what was happening, and were they helping, or were they just in the way? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked at her, in the way of the night before, and Desdemona blushed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I haven’t slept in days but I don’t feel tired, not in the way I normally do, though my body aches as I walk. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But if he could not kill them outright, he could put them in the way of tolerably certain death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She would let nothing—not even the state of Virginia’s segregation policy—stand in the way of her pursuit of the career that had rather unexpectedly presented itself to her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Nothing had changed in the way in which the virus was being spread. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, Momma gets in the way of those types of plans. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I jerked back, but there was something in the way, and I fell. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the people around me, calm, happy, excited in the way of people open to the spirit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I’m not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I’m happy, and I intend to stay that way! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Success required the ability to do what had to be done without letting anything—like fear—get in the way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But she was no closer to Dorian than she’d been in early autumn, and would certainly make no progress with Lillian in the way. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Maybe because I would like to hold Kalinda’s hand too, and I know now that we never will—not in the way these two women do. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Very well. Fra Pavel, you would do well to continue that line of investigation. Whatever you need in the way of clerical or secretarial help is yours to command. Please stand down.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z To give love in the way she wanted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s easy to oversimplify what was undoubtedly a rapid and dramatic expansion, and to picture all Khoisan in the way being trampled by onrushing Bantu hordes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At that point in my life I needed to believe that my hated spots looked like magical pixie dust and would not stand in the way of my dream. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He chewed the paint from the top rail, still crying, but gradually becoming interested in the way the paint peeled off the metal and clung to his front teeth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie scrunched her body into itself and tucked her bare feet under the low stool, fearful of seeming in the way. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Where I feel it—that he doesn't want me there, that I'm in the way. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And he saw in the set and color of her eyes and hair, even in the way she held her shoulders—high in a kind of semi-shrug—that Aron looked very like her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She told herself she must endure it in the way her mother and Kabuo’s mother counseled her and not struggle against those larger forces that could not be struggled against. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And you crouched down on the floor and put your hands over your ears and you were in the way of everyone. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She was finespun in the way that used to make Olanna wonder if she wasn’t uncomfortable, dressing up every day and simply sitting at home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I do not know if my head is correct,” she said, and pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, in the way that one checks the degree of a fever. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They simply end up sounding distinctive, because some part of their personality appears to express itself automatically and unconsciously in the way they work the Morse code keys. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My short time on death row revealed that there was something missing in the way we treat people in our judicial system, that maybe we judge some people unfairly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Every generation continued to live like the previous generation, making only small improvements here and there in the way things were done. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z You are a very special person and I've loved being with you, but I fear we come from two different worlds, and that's going to get in the way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Next time he felt carefully in the way he’d learned, letting the tip search for the resonance that revealed a world where the ground was in the same place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He’s staring and I’m staring and I can tell how much he loves her in the way he’s looking at me, a tsunami of feeling rolling out of him to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When he was in the house, she had to disappear into the shadows and be more prudent in the way she addressed the servants, as well as in the care she lavished on Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Citra would never willingly accept the scythe’s ring as long as her feelings for him got in the way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If a thing is done in the way the teacher wants, at a signal, and a suitable reward given immediately to reinforce the action, it becomes learned. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year after that, the daughter came for her father's birthday, and in the way of women, soothed and stitched and patched over the hurt feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Was there something odd in the way he processed information? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If dark found him near a village, he slept outside a house and accepted whatever was offered in the way of food. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Someone had sat down there recently, and picked up my knitting because it had been in the way. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Had the Americas not been in the way, Columbus’ expeditions would have failed utterly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you don’t care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you?” and Mrs. March looked anxious as she put the question. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When we finally started to talk about making a trip to visit the ruins of the camp, something would inevitably get in the way of our plans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Toad and Misty ran alongside them, trying to help without getting in the way. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Franny seemed intensely interested in the way Lane was dismembering his frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “But don’t let us get in the way of some good family drama.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The hr aches were like beagles, and trotted along with the master in the way that beagles always have trotted, and a charming way it is. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of how wishes can come true, but not always in the way you expect. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We want warm biscuits and tag and jacks on the porch, our too-long sweater sleeves getting in the way sometimes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z No one in my immediate family had much in the way of direct experience with college, so there was little, anyway, to debate or explore. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Nana’s voice floated out of the sky, riding the breeze in the way only an elder’s voice could. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Soviet stores had never sold much in the way of pretty underwear, and most Soviet women at the time made their own. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones—a fleeting look, a feeling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I could almost hear Dad chuckling at Mom’s comment in the way he always did when he was truly enjoying something. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Or maybe your greed got in the way of good judgment.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was Georgian like the rest of the school, and it combined scholasticism with grace in the way which made Devon architecturally interesting. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When I divorced, it was because she’d decided he was getting in the way of the book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “So far the country had offered little in the way of food except palm-tops,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Sort of. I don’t want to get in the way, though.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was the first to bring out and express that meaning in the way in which he set words to music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “This guy’s final resting place is in the way. Raphael somebody?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the doorway, she wraps me in her tan, muscular arms and holds me in the way only an aunt can, planting a kiss on my cheek that's both soft and firm. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With the steering wheel in the way, I can’t get comfortable. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And this one probably doesn't have much in the way of weapons while I've got this excellent knife. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The girl, a scrawny thing in soiled leathers, was dodging and managing to get her stick in the way of most of the boy's blows, but not all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z TimeStar said, “As you see, me dropping in the way I did changed things.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We only hold hands in the way that young girls do, when they’re five and skipping down the street together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t eat cookies,” he said, and was about to close the door on them when Matthew stuck his foot in the way and held the door open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He said them both now, only there was something frightening in the way he rolled them out. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lisa. I thought maybe you were there with her, and I didn’t want to be in the way.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Market women were shouting, and many had both hands placed on their heads, in the way that people do to show despair or shock. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Now, there’s still one stump in the way,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up a pencil and held it over a sheet of white paper, but my feelings stood in the way of my words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They were disgusted, and it showed in the way they looked at Papá, as if they wanted to shoot him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Moss couldn’t remember her name, but he saw her in the way Estelle nodded her head when he spoke. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Preliminary experiments,” he wrote, “indicate that there are probably no serious difficulties in the way of obtaining protons having high enough speeds to be useful for studies of atomic nuclei.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Widget pauses, considering the change in the way the man in the grey suit watches him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z You saw it in his eyes, you could see it in the way he moved his body. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see it haunting her in the way her face droops. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z None of the girls at school would own leather shoes, purple coats, or plaid skirts, so she wouldn’t fit in the way she liked to do. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She almost said: Then she won’t be making a noise and fussing and being in the way. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z His father, Elmo, a huge St. Bernard, had been the Judge’s inseparable companion, and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z She flew around again, aiming directly for Lyra’s face; but Will took out the knife and threw himself in the way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There had always been something special about Boobie, even in the way he was born, on April 16, 1970, en route to St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston with a police escort. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t have gotten in the way. I was tossing it into the yard. Besides, what are you complaining about? At least the water cooled you off.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer had a leg that got in the way. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “These steps were not made for people to sit on,” she said, “especially since you might get in the way of others who would wish to use them.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Would he be able to touch its heart, its hidden secrets, in the way that he can now? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks pretty in the way that older girls do. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Like you had all these other friends. Like I was just in the way.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The hooches were half underground and didn’t look as if they could take much in the way of direct hits. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They admire me, but only in the way you admire something you know will soon be gone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The voice was reasonable and kind, in the way that pleasant adults sometimes have with children. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But here in Sachsenhausen, death was so common, so ordinary, that the dead were like fallen trees in the forest—so unremarkable that they were only moved when they got in the way. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She was on the verge of hysterics, trying to hold it back in the way she did when really scared. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Her mother shrugged in the way that was meant to say so-so. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Just when the moon neared the bright star, a cloud got in the way. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He had left the radio behind back up in the campsite, thinking it would be in the way. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Now Elsbeth is gone, in the way I don't like to think about. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “But not in the way he meant. In other ways.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Gesturing to the manager he added, “If he gets in the way, shoot him.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some just sit there, in the way of the buses and cars. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Something in the way he said this caused Mrs. Frisby’s hopes to lift a little. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But I’m sorry for letting him get in the way of you trusting me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He said this without malice, without empathy, without even much in the way of interest. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I couldn’t know one way or another, but I also couldn’t bring myself to stand in the way of his aspiration, that thing always tugging at him to try for more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You’ll just be in the way,” the old woman had said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Not with Cap! I was trying to punch someone else, but his face got in the way! It was all because of nonviolence!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I had considered writing about Volpe many times, but other projects always got in the way or I found some reason not to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Bea screams, Henry laughs and throws up a V, and it all goes hazy and warm in the way Alex loves. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Hercules dined alone, but he understood that Admetus must as a matter of form attend the funeral and the fact did not stand in the way of his enjoying himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She who sees signs in the way trees stand, in the forms of passing clouds. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Celia, clearly not well versed in the way of certain Indian families, could not seem to wrap her head around this fact. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was something in the way the women looked at him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The woman looked off into the distance, nodding continuously in the way that people do when searching for the right words to use. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z To be fair, many people who couldn’t punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Lynyrd Skynyrd was blasting through the pickup truck’s open windows as it pulled up alongside us, creaking and groaning in the way all old cars seem to do. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There was something comforting in the way that Papa was treating Amil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Every cat lover knows that cats are not submissive to humans in the way dogs instinctively are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Vincent follows this proposal with a letter the next day, making sure that Theo understands that they are partners: “My studies and everything in the way of work in the studio is definitely your property.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Ritchie’s pleading with me, but I don’t let it get in the way. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In the case of the Koreans, one kind of deeply rooted legacy stood in the way of the very modern task of flying an airplane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She drifted around the kitchen like a ghost, picking things up, putting things away, without ever getting in the way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She never lets any love get in the way. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z There were no combination locks in the way. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “It is, if you stop getting in the way.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Dari seemed older than everyone else in our year, not in the way he looked—although he was the tallest boy in our class—but in the way he was. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Or was it also about self- control, staying on top of your feelings, repressing those that got in the way of an emotionally difficult job? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the difference lies in the way we have been growing up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the Jankburg in my grey pores, seeping out and ticking you off and getting in the way of your Oprah mind-set.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn while they are not in school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They had made a leap to marry even though they had one big difference between them that could stand in the way of their happiness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps more than his body was die change in his mind, or in the way he was—was becoming. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The strike, the New York Tribune warned, was “another experiment in the way of Bolshevizing American industry.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Our branches never looked as bright as the demonstrators’, though, and sometimes as we drove past, I wondered what it would be like to join them, chanting “Freedom,” standing in the way of cars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He was entitled in the way a child was: blindly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I had a lot of sulking to do. and this peach project might just get in the way of that. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He seized Odysseus’ little son and put him directly in the way of the plow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Singer moved about the room with smiles and refreshments and did his best in the way of politeness to make his guests comfortable. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I know. He is standing on one foot as he does in sleep. I can feel it in the way he grips my shoulder. He is very still.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The new tests proved what Thyon already knew—not what he understood or believed, but what he knew, in the way that a man who falls on his face knows the ground. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Since getting in the way meant standing between guns and innocents, and saved a great number of lives.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I was a fascinated spectator in the way the surviving passengers must have been as they watched the Titanic sink. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not funny in the way a joke is funny, but when Mom tells it, Via and I just start cracking up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Very quickly, I realized that Barack would need little in the way of advice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I don’t know what she was scared of but she was adamant that she wouldn’t go, in the way little children are adamant that there might be something hiding in the closet in the dark. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I lost myself, too, as the music captured me in the way that only great music can. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Do everything I needed to do and more and skip everything that would get in the way. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z To them, she was interesting, unusual in the way she bluntly spoke her mind. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He had a hard time getting the brake closed—you had to know which doors tended to jump out and get in the way—but finally succeeded, a little bit winded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw it in the way he clenched and unclenched his fists. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Mom tries to help, but she’s really just in the way. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z What Lydia said wasn’t bad in the way he feared, but it still wasn’t what he wanted to hear. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z There was something sad and lonely in his eyes, in the way his mustache drooped over his frown. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z There is little in the way of small-town ties or big-city amenities—grandparents and cousins, longtime neighbors, vibrant boulevards, homegrown shops—that let roots sink in deep. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I feel it in the way he holds me tight. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Eventually he became a kind of mascot, and the bigger boys liked him in the way they always like the smallest and the youngest member of their group. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Judge Rumpff expressed irritation with the explanation and said he did not see why the State of Emergency should stand in the way of his trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Something in the way she looked at Manolo when she said that tells me there’s trouble between them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Kyla is sitting one aisle over, but there are too many biographies in the way to tell if she’s freaking out, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Something in the way Derek looked made the condition look like more than just being knocked out. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s the only place where I can pretend, for a moment, that we’re still living in the Before, in the way things used to be. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They might watch, if they were careful not to get in the way. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he grunted a couple of times and started to bend over but his big belly got in the way and wouldn’t let his arms reach to the ground. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z There was magic in the way her wrist turned when she held a crayon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was comedy in the way Milton, while still worrying about me, kept one eye on the rocketing taxi meter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He’s a consummate professional parceled in immaculately tailored Tom Ford, ruffled by absolutely nothing, whose affection for his charge shows in the way he tends to him like a favorite houseplant. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He dreamed of it in the way other soldiers dreamed of their hearths or allotments or old civilian jobs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Later, as the other children came along and grew, Samuel belonged to the valley, and it was proud of him in the way a man who owns a peacock is proud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For the most part, the citadel gardens had been ornamental—full of exotic flowers, with little in the way of edibles. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He took it in the way a younger brother takes the hand of his older sister when he wants things to be okay. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Lucy’s body never stood in the way of her happiness. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z |
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