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Brunelleschi would have had plenty of practice in applying this knowledge when he set out to measure the height of surviving classical buildings in Rome in 1402-4. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
The glass fills with an image of me—perfectly applied makeup, Belle-bun without a single hair out of place, eyes that smile. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
I walk to the supermarket to pick up the Sunday paper, pausing to apply for a job while I’m there. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her suspension notice stated that Minnijean could not begin the process to apply for readmission until six school days had passed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Similarly, in physics it may be necessary to use different formulations in different situations, but two different formulations would agree in situations where they can both be applied. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because it only now occurs to me that the rule might apply to me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
“You’ve testified to having applied pressure to the deceased’s chest and that shortly thereafter a peculiar foam appeared at his mouth and nostrils.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
He taught her how to make numbers into something larger than themselves, applying them to larger concepts about motion and force, space and time, curves and circles and tightened springs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
He took those ideas and he applied them in an educated, methodical way. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dr. Leale immediately applies a mustard plaster to every inch of the front of Lincoln’s body, from shoulders down to ankles. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
Viola was bent over an elaborate cake, holding her breath and applying the final decorations of nonpareils, those tiny edible metallic nuggets that crunched thrillingly between the teeth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
There are so many doors to open I am impatient to apply my own knowledge and skills to the problem. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
With his criminal record struck off, he could apply to medical college when the war was over, or even go for a commission now in the Medical Corps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Stephen’s mom hasn’t stopped applying an ice pack to her son’s jaw. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z
He knew all the risks but he wanted to apply. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She tilts the rearview mirror away from me and starts to apply lipstick. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
He mixes colors and applies them to my cast as if I were a canvas. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
“Well?” said Root, slapping at a paramedic gremlin who was applying burn salve to his forehead. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
I fancied that, should I be discovered, 1 should be caged and tortured like the animals in the experimental chambers, burning compounds applied to my skin, incisions made near my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Fortunately, the ban applied only to the fish eagle, who carried Mwari’s messages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Estraven, however, was on the track of his luck, following what appeared to be hunch or intuition, but may have been applied experience and reasoning. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
I watched as he bent over his new gray shirts, pushing his glasses up on his nose while applying a precise military crease to the middle of each breast pocket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was talk of applying for a permit to move to decent matchbox houses the government was building for blacks in Tembisa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
This law doesn’t apply so strictly to the service jobs I’ve held so far. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
So I say, “I might go to Argentina or Singapore for school. I’m not applying any place less than two thousand miles away.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
“Would you like to apply for a charge?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
The same applies, for example, to the Seven Years’ War and the Nine Years’ War. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
Or did the rule only apply to food? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Disapproval and condescension no longer apply, so what outlook makes sense? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is possible that we are on the verge of developing a proper applied science, but it has to be said that we don’t have one yet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet when this book went to press, storing blood and tissues for research did not legally require informed consent, because the law governing such things doesn’t generally apply to tissue research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
But probably a hundred people from our grade applied to Georgia, and Abby’s friends with all of them. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
I apply a second coat of lipstick and slip the dress on over my head. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
But we have very little control over our human weaknesses, & this applies also to Fern & the hundreds of thousands of other people including ourselves—for we all have weaknesses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Emily looked up to see Matthew applying a bumper sticker for Flush to the face of the ticket machine. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
REELTOK: Free speech applies to everybody, even people who are mixed up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
He’d applied a fresh coat of war paint and added more feathers to his hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
“Those are hard words to apply to a winsome lass,” said the bard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
The year my aunt applied was one of the “girl” years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
“Can’t say. But there’s no use in trying to pin disease names on this. Human disorders apply to robots only as romantic analogies. They’re no help to robotic engineering.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
Perhaps the same is true of case: the case that applies to a whole coordination phrase is not necessarily the same as the case that applies to its parts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
See, every kid who applies to Beecher Prep is supposed to be interviewed and take a test at the school—but some kind of exception had been made for Auggie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
Later, when he applied for a job at Raincreek, Jack Dunlevy warned him the job would require a fair bit of digging. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
Before she got out of the car, she looked at my dad and said, “We have to apply for assistance, Tom.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
The same principles apply here that applied to the era of John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
In thinking about what college I might apply to, I ran into another problem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
“Only after the second week. I asked the librarian. You applied for membership once, but did not take out a card.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Happy or sad were states I never thought applied to him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
It applied only to those who believed as we did, and it did not apply to white people at all. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
After I was accepted to the University of Florida in Gainesville, the only school I applied to, I was required to attend an interview with the admissions office. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
Pocock had spent his days at Travers Island carefully sanding down the shell’s hull and then applying coat after coat of marine varnish, buffing each coat until the shell glistened. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Francesca applied to the city to make me a “heritage tree.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
I did not think this view should be universally applied and believed we should examine the issue on a case-by-case basis. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Virgil applied more pressure and said, “Why is it, Bull, that I’m always about five steps ahead of you?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Homes, you know it costs money just to apply to them fancy schools." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
My comparison of the histories of China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe in the epilogue of GGS suggested an answer to this question as applied to technological innovation in whole countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Her real name is Kennedy, but I call her Glamour Girl because every time I see her, she is applying lip gloss or fixing her hair. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
But it was five months since the poison had been applied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Coworkers got used to finding Mary standing quietly at their desks, enlisting them in her latest attempt to apply the engineer’s values of discipline, order, and progress to the social sphere. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
My daughter—her name is Lily—tried to convince me that we should apply for what they call a variance.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
They take the view that science is, in essence, common sense applied systematically, or, as Karl Popper put it, ‘common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Ma put some blush on the apple of Caroline’s cheeks and then applied some rice powder to her face. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Later that year, he schemed a perfect way out: he applied for a job to teach mathematics, natural sciences, and elementary Greek at the Znaim High School. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The fact that the insecticide was applied in very low concentrations is meaningless, as its explosive progress through the natural food chain in the lake demonstrates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Practically everyone he knew was urging him to follow the lead of many previous Review editors and apply for what would be a shoo-in clerkship with the Supreme Court. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“You first find a job and then you apply for a pass.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the morning after the parade, Oliver and I attended a meeting where each organization had to apply for accreditation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
These, too, were called sciences—but philosophy and theology were purely conceptual explorations that lacked an accompanying applied skill. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Prince did not apply to Harvard, nor Princeton, nor Yale, nor Columbia, nor Stanford. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Such alchemistic transformations have led to many erroneous reports, for if a chemist, knowing aldrin has been applied, tests for it he will be deceived into thinking all residues have been dissipated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Bobby, Bisguier, and about twenty other players and spectators stood around the tournament director’s desk as he applied the tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
It might seem that entirely new rules apply to competition between the world’s peoples, and that as a result new powers are emerging—such as Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, and especially Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
She applied another coating of termite mud, turned the boat over, and winced when she saw the damage caused by the spur of rock. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was an inborn talent, requiring none of the trying cabalistic study to which her Uncle Marcos had applied himself with far more effort and far less effect. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If I apply for the pizza thing, will you let me have Mom’s car?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
I apply myself to a module in which Sam Walton waxes manic about the perpetual inventory system, then I cautiously get up from the computer to see if Howard is anywhere around. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
While waiting for a reply, Bobby applied for a passport and then submitted an application for a visa to enter Russia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Swann helped Lawrence apply his raw tinker’s skills to the fashioning of effective experimental equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
They are listening, analyzing, visualizing, sequencing, and applying concentrated brainwork to understand what they are singing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
The elite colleges have not been giving much of a break to the low- income students who apply. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
The verb vulcanize means “to strengthen a material such as rubber by combining it with sulfur and then applying heat and pressure.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
“It’s your life, Ibtihaj, and you’re going to have to live it. I left the paperwork to apply for substituting on the dining room table.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The distinction can also be applied less formally. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
And if there is a differential in gasoline tax, the tanks are measured and the tax applied. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Lydia’s about to apply to every one of the best colleges in America; meanwhile, my mom is telling me to become a high school dropout.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
And then she did something special for me: she helped me apply to a private Catholic girls’ school, Our Lady of Mercy, for the eighth grade. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
I felt that it simply did not apply to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
I handed him one, seeing him fold the ice inside it and apply it to Mr. Norton's face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Not and come here. Besides, I’ll do better if I apply with all my coursework done.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
She was applying a rag wet with creek water to my forehead. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Aristotelians therefore recognize that, in the sublunary sphere, there are no regularities which do not have exceptions; in the supralunary sphere, all is regularity without exception; there are no regularities which apply in both spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
I was invited to apply to go to the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
“With your apparent musical bent, you might apply yourself to something worthwhile.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
She made a face as she applied a pale gold lipstick using a brush. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
It's like no rules apply, and that makes everything real edgy, if you know what I mean, like let's have a blast and who cares what happens. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
The same logic didn’t apply in the United States, where the president is independently elected and often does not represent the party that has a majority in the Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
The two of them talk for an hour and by the time they finish, Mrs. Olsen has promised to accept Negroes to apply for work at her bakery. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
It is best to use the term very cautiously when applying it to music, however. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
“And practice for when I go to college next year. I’ll have to drive myself to and from campus when I visit Bushwick. I'm applying to Georgetown.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“Thirty-five gallons,” Kelton brags, as he applies the caulking with the precision of a jeweler. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
James would roll his eyes that comical way he had and say, Alfred, my man, if she's a devil's agent I'm gonna go right down and apply for a . The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was sound advice, but Eric was downcast at the idea that he was unqualified to apply directly to the computing program. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
You have to apply the principles of geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Unlike Moushumi, who is having her hair and make-up professionally styled and applied, Gogol is ready in a matter of minutes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
As they could not afford a professional, though, Ralph applied himself to finding a way of doing the work for less. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
The discussion soon yielded a formal offer from Conant of a $12,000 salary to cover a full professorship, along with the deanship of a new graduate school of engineering and applied science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
There were laws restricting her ability to apply for a credit card in her own name, because she was a woman. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Their residues on the crops to which they are applied are therefore relatively short- lived compared with the chlorinated hydrocarbons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
"Okay, you're shy about public speaking, but how does that apply to writing down the answers? If you can read, then you can write, right?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
Their Match, which like all Matches had been monitored by the Committee of Elders for three years before they could apply for children, had always been a successful one. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
I would apply to Princeton and a scattershot selection of other schools, but without any more input from the college counselor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Some states, like Virginia, simply refused to comply: in 1936, a black student from Richmond named Alice Jackson Houston applied to the University of Virginia to study French, but she was denied admission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Melissa showed Kelly how to apply the blush high on the cheekbone and then blend downward, and how to choose colors to complement her light-brown skin. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
She pushed the control column forward to lower the nose of her aircraft, and applied power to gain speed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
“I suggest you apply to the University of Santa Clara,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
When Nancy Jaax first applied to join the pathology group at the Institute, the colonel in charge of it didn’t want to accept her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
But for the two of you, I can see this doesn’t apply. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
When Cantor applied for a position at the University of Berlin in 1883, he was rejected; he had to settle for a professorship at the much less prestigious University of Halle instead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Those of us with temporary status also have a variety of methods to apply for adjustment of status. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Since I had applied for such a nonentity of a job, Quackenbush, who had known as little about me as I had about him, knew now. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
Vu Lee refuses to apply to a real college, instead will go to a cooking school in San-fran-cis-co, where his idol once walked. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
Next she sits me down at the kitchen table and applies her homemade conditioner. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
In Aristotelian physics different laws apply in the sublunary and supralunary spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It probably wouldn’t help my case to tell her Tucker had applied to half a dozen Ivy League schools, and had already been accepted at twice as many less prestigious institutions. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
He found that he could communicate his material daydreaming—and, properly applied, that is all advertising is. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
She planned to be accepted by all the schools she applied to as well. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
Then, after applying a special-delivery stamp I’d found in Bobby’s top drawer, I took the letter down to the main mail drop in the lobby. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Danny received letters of acceptance from each of the three universities to which he had applied. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
It is fascinating that the word “explore” does not apply to the searching aspect of the activity, but has its origins in the sounds we make while engaged in it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“A person who applies motion study can be in and out of the tub in the time it takes one record to play.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“I applied to Yale. I have an interview with an alum later.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
It was the first hint in two hundred years–in exactly two hundred years, in fact–that Newton’s laws might not apply all the time everywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtle- necks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
Fist sat with a few of the more alert vlei people and applied himself to a mountain of food. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
But when he applied the same process to his face, he succeeded only in smearing his entire countenance with a more even layer of shiny black grease. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
He had applied an overdose of English Leather and Ben rolled down the window to cut the power of the scent. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
What she did tell her babcia: that she had applied and been accepted to an exchange program with an American university. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
It doesn’t seem to help to apply the inclusive term “biomedical” to our science, much as we would like to show that we are all one field of inquiry, share and share alike. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Without any shame he would faithfully apply my mother’s sundry ointments each morning and each night, slowly working into his scalp the brightly tinted gobs without romance or fuss. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
I applied and was accepted to mop long white tiled hallways that stretched around the entire perimeter of the office floors of the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“So why is it allowed there? Why don’t the same rules apply?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Like me, if I try to apply for a job and I use my address, they will not hire me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Similar numbers apply to the works of Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
His was an applied knowledge and theirs was not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
This young woman had applied for the vacancy with the most dubious of references, which spelt out to any experienced butler that she had left her previous situation under something of a cloud. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Truman is part of Bristol Township, referred to as the lower end of Levittown—a designation that applies both geographically and demographically. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
What was the point of applying if, once I got accepted, Mom wouldn’t be able to afford for me to go? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
“Are you interested in applying?” he asked, handing me the application. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
As he came into the bedroom, he saw Sula lying on fresh white sheets, wrapped in the deadly odor of freshly applied cologne. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
The students showed dramatic improvements in their test scores in several subjects, and many more of them graduated from high school and applied to college. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Her fingers touched a soft bandage that had been clumsily applied to her slashes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
Across the hall, in the smoke-choked room where Hickock was undergoing his second interrogation, Church and Nye were methodically applying a more roundabout strategy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
The tale applies to you: I promise you great trouble if you touch that bow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Although the Food and Drug Administration permits no residues of pesticides in milk, its restrictions are not only inadequately policed but they apply solely to interstate shipments. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
So many applied that patients had to have a doctor’s certificate stating that they did indeed have yellow fever in order to be let in. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
‘You’re bound to the code. Bound to aid any who—” “The code applies to our own. Members of the Resistance. Their families. Those who have given everything for our survival. Keenan, give her the leaf.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
White activists also used lynching for a purpose other than applying their own form of “justice.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
But activists should have asked why so many minority students could not meet those standards; why so many more would never be in a position to apply. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
We already saw in Chapter 7 that all of these statements also apply to plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
I told Jesse the big decision wasn’t whether to apply to the University of Chicago, but whether or not to go to college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the pre-DDT era, inorganic chemicals, applied on a scale that today would seem extraordinarily modest, produced here and there strains of insects that could survive chemical spraying or dusting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
But why did she apply, and what made her step back? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Regiments of Redcoats parading through the Streets & still encamped upon the Common; Officers fishing offi Balconies above the Water; Ladies in wide Windows, applying Lineament to each other’s Elbows; &c; the Stuffi of Nothing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
He talked faster and faster but he knew exactly when to apply the brakes and give the people time to contemplate what he was saying. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
Candidate instructors, it stipulated, were to have a fluent knowledge of both the French and English languages, and only those of temperate habits and unquestionable character need apply. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
I applied for a job at school and was told there were none available but was also given the address of the New York State employment service. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
A week after that, she was applying for a one-year leave of absence from school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Raytheon Company, a maker of radio tubes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had applied for a patent on a machine that sounded suspiciously like his spiral accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
He felt a certain loyalty to Ito because he had sponsored us when we applied for our visas. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Now, working on it in the so- called den in the basement, he applied a last coat of varnish. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Who did they say you had to go to if you wanted, you know, to apply?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
Harris argued that the top-down influence of parents is overwhelmed by the grassroots effect of peer pressure, the blunt force applied each day by friends and schoolmates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
I wouldn't have to wait till I could apply for a master’s degree, like Mother Lois had. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was decreed that incoming freshmen could apply to virtually any high school in the district. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Another 18.8 percent used formal means — advertisements, headhunters — and roughly 20 percent applied directly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I did a sketch of a food cart where my mother was applying for a shift. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“Ibtihaj, I was talking to some of my colleagues at work, and they all think you should apply to be a substitute teacher,” she said, while pulling pots and pans out for the evening meal. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“I could apply to Cambridge and DJ in London. Yes!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
The gwythaint did not struggle when Taran applied the poultice; soaking a piece of cloth tom from his jacket in another healing brew, he squeezed the liquid drop by drop into the bird’s beak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, he jerked upright as if an electric current had been applied to his limbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
She and Sosie had applied another coat of pitch to the ship. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
“Never lose sight of the fact that our special responsibility as landscape artists applies primarily to the broad, comprehensive scenery of the Exposition,” Olmsted wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
In the fall, she applied to the school, with Fisk as her backup plan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Seeing Slant was in some distress, I rose and I replied that I was gratified they had applied to me, but begged them continue without the imperfections of my cartography. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Many girls woke up early and spent hours applying hot combs to their hair, trying to straighten it to look, as some said, “almost white.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
She ended up kneeling on the small of his back, careful to avoid the spikes along his spine, squeezing and kneading and applying pressure in diverse ways. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
We started with our makeup, applying eye shadow between bites of soup and tostadas. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
Following that interview, I continued applying for jobs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
They had not applied iron metallurgy to warfare. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“To begin with, I don’t think they apply to Assistant Pig-Keepers, and besides I don’t know them. There,” she said, stepping back. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z
“All this only applies to my own doings, as I do not feel at all sure enough in any way to interfere with the pleasures of sons of the age of mine.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then, when nothing happened—as nothing would—he would apply the neutralizing compound to deactivate it so it didn’t just drip down the impervious metal and eat its way into the ground. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The taboo against women speaking in public did not apply in Quaker meetings, where women were encouraged to speak freely. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
“Let’s hire that lawyer and let’s apply pressure. But let’s not say anything negative about the team’s plan to raise money. They’re just trying to help.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
Hidden within what looked like an ordinary letter was the secret message that was only revealed when the reader applied the mask. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
It was shortly after the measles epidemic that Dad started applying motion study to surgery to try to reduce the time required for certain operations. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
And when the same provocations are applied to nation states, they too sometimes fly into murderous rages, egged on often enough by those seeking personal power or profit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some farmers used as much as 200 pounds per acre; one, in an extraordinary excess of zeal, applied more than a quarter of a ton to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“I think that they are good words. You could say them to anyone at any time. Why, you could say them to me, and it would apply to Archie or to my parents.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Then I apply some heavy-duty hand sanitizer for good measure. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
But we still hadn’t heard from the other schools I had applied to, and if I didn’t get into any of them, we had planned on my going back to Beecher Prep. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
It’s an average rate, in other words, and you can apply it to any large sampling. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“Maybe there just haven’t been a lot of people who have applied to those schools that come from West Oakland,” she said gingerly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
If you were applying to be white, the pencil went into your hair. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Newman is helping her put together a portfolio so she can apply to a summer art program. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
Then they’d apply another bandage, a big gauzy cloth, to the burns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
“They apply to everyone in the class. I make no exceptions. So if you work by these rules and keep your mind on your studies, then you and I will not have any problems.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first time, I realized that what people say about living in the ghetto and having brown skin doesn’t have to apply to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
If Mary had applied for a job as janitor, the doors to the school would swing wide open. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle applies to more than just measurements performed by humans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
When the time came, I applied to American universities to take my degree. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
She gives me a look, doubtlessly trying to decide why his pronouncement doesn’t apply to me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
You won't believe in my invisibility and you'll fail to see how any principle that applies to you could apply to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
They proposed that the allowable daily dosage for a human being should be one-hundredth of a roentgen, about a tenth of the standard applied to X-rays. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The method as here applied seems to have marked advantages over the conventional broadcasting of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Sitting at her mother’s makeup table, she’d felt a giddy joy as she’d applied the eye shadow — blue and too heavy — the pink blusher, the powder, and finally, a coat of red lipstick. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
Within a year after the heptachlor was applied, the vines in the treated yards were wilting and dying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Students are chosen by lottery, with any fourth grader living in the Bronx eligible to apply. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
Made me think the rules didn’t apply in Boston. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
If would-be artists sense that their gifts are not large enough to succeed as painters, sculptors, or architects, they may take up one of the countless special fields known collectively as “the applied arts.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
The University of Georgia is the only place I applied. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
“Well, it says on the internet that you get a lot of presents, but that doesn’t really apply to me.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
“Mrs. Rosenblatt—” “That name hasn’t applied to me for decades. You can call me Rain.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
But similar reasoning also applies to the diffusion of technological innovations, insofar as they are best suited without modification to specific environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“The magistrate told us that exemption didn’t apply to us.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
Did the word apply to an invisible man? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour’s acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z
At nightfall tribes in the Rocky Mountains entertained the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by applying torches to sap-dripping fir trees, which then exploded like Roman candles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
He puts a hand on my shoulder, then runs his fingers under my throat, applying just the slightest pressure. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
The ship’s doctor checked each one of them carefully, applying salves to their many wounds and giving medicine to those who appeared to be sickly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
And however rapidly technology may invent new uses for insecticides and new ways of applying them, it is likely to find the insects keeping a lap ahead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
There is no question about our good intentions in this matter: we all hanker, collectively, to become applied scientists as soon as we can, overnight if possible. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had applied to Congress for a patent on a steam engine he’d made to run a boat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
He does as they do, sitting on a folding chair, a cotton cap on his head, applying sunblock at intervals to his arms, reading, falling asleep after barely a page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
The old adage “Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer” didn’t apply to Bobby since he had two high-profile lawyers working for him pro bono. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m going to work with Spencer on getting his business up and running while I apply for other jobs.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
You are not permitted to apply for release. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
He applied for that card to start building credit, as Money magazine had advised. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
George Pocock, meanwhile, began applying a coat of sperm whale oil to the underside of the Husky Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
The night before we went to the bank with our parents to apply for a loan, Lynnie, Sammy, and I handed them a pink envelope with our money in it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
The same principle applies in acting, he instructed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Moreover, all this applies only to units of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
San Francisco had denied licenses to all Chinese applicants, but granted licenses to all but one of the non-Chinese laundry operators who applied. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Calculus allowed Newton to combine all these equations into one grand set of laws—laws that applied in all cases, under all conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
The evil Clyde has in vengeance given me a route that is a “White Elephant,” a term which he once applied to me during the course of one of our business conferences. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
After the war, Robert E. Lee applied for a pardon for his acts against the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
So she applied more force, the motors in her arms hummed a little louder, and the cords snapped. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
He was testing the waters in his cautious way, beginning to apply without having formally decided to apply. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
While I am still able, I go about the business of healing, crushing leaves of me to mb on aching joints and applying poultices to clear the lungs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Each of those nights, after applying cold cream and braiding her hair, which she tied up at the end with a black cotton string, she turned from me and wept; she missed her parents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
The initial letter of a sen-tence was first capitalised in the 13 th century, but the rule was not consistently applied until the 16th. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z
In 1951, McKissick applied to the law school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and was rejected because of his race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
If any of the questions applied to them, then they would have to stand on the white line. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
This thinking would apply to everything in my life: when I married while writing this book, it was because Henrietta wanted someone to take care of me while I worked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
“I’m going back to Berlin. I applied for a transfer weeks ago, when we started interrogating her and that pathetic French kid. God.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
It would have been better applied to cross sections of stems and the cells of algae. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
When Malcolm X talked about “the white devil” Mommy simply felt those references didn’t apply to her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Yale. Alumni admission interview. I applied early decision.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
We suspected his previous independence had brought down the wrath of the government and pressure had been applied. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“When he came to apply, I certainly didn’t think he was a police character.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
He bellowed when Mother tried to apply the salve. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whenever insecticides are applied only minimum dosages are used — barely enough to control the pest without avoidable harm to beneficial species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
But as I’d just pointed out, the Geneva Convention doesn’t apply to me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
The field of ethnomusicology is well positioned to contribute toward multicultural and diversity education, and, after a brief description of ethnomusicology, its tenets will be applied towards an examination of them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
As Saturday morning turned into afternoon, I was busy keeping to myself so I could apply my grown-up makeup. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’d apply for prestigious national fellowships and tell friends that the reason I won was because I was a minority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here, I could be more than the settings applied to my life by society. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
She pulled out a tube of lipstick and, with a weak hand, applied the melted color to her lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
Seventy-five people applied, and from those Zimbardo and his colleagues picked the 21 who appeared the most normal and healthy on psychological tests. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
There are restrictions on how molecules of air can move which do not apply to a vacuum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Although she applied to local flight schools, she was turned down due to her age—so she took up parachute training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
The problems of simultaneity do not apply to sound as they do to light because sound is propagated through some material medium, usually air. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Supreme Court decided that as far as schools and education were concerned, the separate-but-equal concept did not apply, because the facilities provided were always unequal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Layer after layer of Belle-powder and rouge are applied to my cheeks and eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Oakland’s open enrollment process allowed families to apply to any school in the district, and Oakland High was a popular choice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
A more special aspect that may not apply in all cases is that my files apparently are a tenement for assorted vermin. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Except for illness or injury unrelated to your training, do not apply for any medication. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
But in the early years of the eighteenth century this argument from probability was applied with devastating force. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Kids apply a whole year in advance to go here, so people are always touring, even on the first week of school. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
Each woman swallowed a rubber tube so that doctors could test her stomach acids, and her reflexes were tested by electric shocks applied to her arms. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
So during my last term I applied for a job only to those companies that would be sure to send me abroad. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Baby, you should at least apply to some programs. See what happens.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
“You will keep your voice down,” she commanded, “and you will respect my rules. What I said applies to you as well. No one leaves this house.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
“Man, you understand nothing! You are applying the logic of children in a display of childish ignorance.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
I feel kind of good filling out the form, like I’m applying to a special academy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
Did the conjure apply only to those who had an intention to run or to all colored persons who stepped over the line? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
They worked as an assembly line, with each man assigned to specific tasks that he applied to one identical house after another. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Their speculations were purely abstract and theoretical; they applied to any possible world and not to our actual world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Brick was right about that much—applying to college isn't cheap, let alone actually going. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Some of the schools charge up to ninety dollars, and since I’m what they like to call “low income,” Mr. Ingman is teaching me how to apply for waivers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
The scratches on her face show through hastily applied makeup. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
Much of the above applies as well to faith healers, psychic surgeons, and an assorted variety of other practitioners from homeopathic physicians to TV evangelists. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
She applied herself to her book but still heard laughing, laughing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
The laws of gravity were about to apply to a long ash that clung to the cigarette. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The family made it to a refugee camp in Mozambique, where Generose applied for refugee status and—she hoped—resettlement in a safer country. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
In 1912, Paul applied to lead the association’s congressional committee, the group that lobbied legislators on Capitol Hill. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Then I walked around the mountain to apply for the job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
With a small paintbrush she began applying it to the nails on her left hand. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
I know from my Key West experience to apply for as many as possible, since a help-wanted ad may not mean that any help is wanted just now. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their sister, who sat between them, with left leg balanced on right knee, was, by contrast, perfectly composed, having liberally applied perfume and changed into a green gingham frock to offset her coloring. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Our own day-to-day survival may no longer depend on our ability to sing, but our ancient ancestors were on to something that applies to modern lives, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
In the language of the day, they had “psychosis” and “severe neurosis”—terms that were sometimes applied to William, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
After Galileo applied the telescope to astronomy and news of his discoveries spread, Kepler developed his ideas about optics to explain how the telescope works. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
The Prince made a crablike step sidewise, then another, then darted forward, spun the great beast into his arms, began applying pressure to the spine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
“Do you think I’m too old to apply? Or just too dumb?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
He said he’d probably apply the following year, but he wasn’t sure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If you apply yourself, I have no doubt you could be at the top of your class,” his science teacher had told him after getting the highest grade on his midterm last year. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which they may have been applied a dozen years before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
By the time Descartes published the Discourse he had decided that the best way to introduce his philosophy was through applying scepticism absolutely to the limit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
But Tiwanaku was so different in so many ways that ordinary expectations rarely apply to it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Remarkably, the penalty would apply to people with no prior criminal convictions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
All four of these traits apply to what Americans think of as the familiar acute epidemic diseases of childhood, including measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, and smallpox. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
There was an excitement in the air, as some were applying to a program at Yale that allowed them to skip their senior year in high school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Before we got to a curve, Mr. Weaver applied the brakes, and the steel wheels of the locomotive and our man-trip squealed like a thousand tortured pigs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
He was much too meticulous an artist to permit so unsteady a hand to apply even a drop of paint to his hallways. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z
From Reyna’s years of study, she recalled that the term aegis didn’t apply only to Athena’s shield. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Was there a head grease that could be applied and then rubbed to a high shine? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z
My mother began beating my chest vigorously while applying pressure to the area below it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
This really applies to both people with and without arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
He had to hold his breath and bite his tongue to keep from crying out as he applied the salve. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z
Surreptitiously, I applied a fresh section of white towel to my wound, thinking that as soon as the bleeding stopped, I would take the late trolley back to the asylum. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
I meet Mr. Ingman after school every Thursday so he can help me prepare for the ACTs and apply to colleges. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
But when applied carefully and discreetly, document and handwriting analysis could be helpful. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
“You heard what Coach said. School rules apply here. Besides, we need him for tomorrow’s game.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
While Emily lay in obscurity on the floor, in the shadow of a sofa, with a medical uncle applying an expert tourniquet, a dozen relatives worked to calm her sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
He held both hands over his eyes and applied a steady pressure there as if to crush memory into place. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now I can’t get a part-time job, or apply to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
"Sure. Companies love it when... um ... people like you apply for jobs." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Japanese musical aesthetics are difficult to apply in the classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
I had applied for and received a grant to go to South Africa through the School for International Training, a Vermont-based program that offers the chance to live overseas for a semester or more. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
I discover that writing is like applying leeches to my mind, curing its grief and drawing out humors that cloud my understanding. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
“But weren’t you too late to apply for admission?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
He ripped off the compress, applied a fresh one, and told me to clamp it in place with my fingers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
She blew away freshly buffed nail fuzz, “Oh, and make sure you wash your hands after applying self-tanner. Otherwise, people might think you’re secretly Mexican.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
In 2008, as the Reggie saga wore on, Harsha and others were trying to apply what they knew about drunk driving and seat belts to the issue of cell phone distraction by motorists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Within a few months of our arrival, the authorities announced that those who wanted to study could apply for permission. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
She didn’t know if that applied to magical metal dogs, but she decided it would be better to tell the truth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Black newspapers, however, worked relentlessly to spread the word far and wide about available war jobs and exhorted their readers to apply. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He discovered so many elements not so much because he was serially astute as because he developed an ingenious technique of applying electricity to a molten substance–electrolysis, as it is known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Has he simply set general rules in place, or does he step in on each and every occasion to ensure the rule is applied? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
I almost never went inside it, though Elsbeth would occasionally sneak in and return with her mother's rouge for us to practice applying. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
“Of course, that doesn’t really apply in a correctional setting,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The future Reverend, skidding on his heels, rigid with fear, applied his terrified lips to the ring on the Patriarch’s middle finger, leaving it wet with spit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
I'm applying this fall for the Fiber Science and Apparel Design program at Cornell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“What colleges have you applied to?” he asked as he parked in front of the Bank of America. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
My mom’s paintings have always been brightly colored and beautiful, but something about applying all that color to her intricate, almost anatomical drawings of insects makes them something more than beautiful. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
If they use another of the many available products, they are applying 175 pounds of metallic arsenic to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
As of 1492, all of those operations to which animal, water, and wind power were being applied in Eurasia were still being carried out by human muscle power in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“He’s going to apply for a new position, one with less travel. And your grandmother’s going to visit more often.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
“Shrapnel. About two days ago. You stopped the bleeding by applying pressure but that pushed the fragments deeper, causing more pain. It’s infected. You poured liquid on it at some point.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
She applied glycerine to smooth her lips, resisted sweets to reduce her measurements. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Why wouldn’t the same principle apply in the case of a devastating natural disaster, such as a plague? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Sometimes he applied the chemicals with a hand spray, sometimes with an attachment to his hose. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Right now, you are a “professional student,” so as you read the material below, apply the criteria to your behavior and professional as a student. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
This will require the maturity to self-assess and thoughtfully apply criticism towards self-enhancement and development as a professional in your field. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Jon is big on purity, but only in art: it doesn’t apply to his housekeeping, which is an exuberant protest against all mothers and especially his own. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
This applies only for white liberals, by the way. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
He may be a terrible driver, but I can’t deny that he’s a brain—a very, very big brain—which is why he’s been getting invitations to apply to colleges for years. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
Workers erected a heated movable shelter that allowed them to apply staff to the exterior of the Mines Building no matter what the temperature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
The conversations were painless—mostly about how I liked school and what colleges I was applying to. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
As he cleaned the wound and applied disinfectant, I struggled to find the words to dismiss how I felt about him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
I applied and was accepted to Mercy College in New York City for the fall. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
“An efficacious method of transportation. Remind me to talk with you some other time about Newton’s laws of physics and how they apply to banister travel.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
The lake was surveyed, its volume determined, and the insecticide applied in such great dilution that for every part of chemical there would be 70 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Some of the principles of style that apply within a sentence, such as building an orderly tree and placing given before new information, apply to extended passages as well. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to music learning, and called his method the mother-tongue approach. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
It is worthy of note that the Lyons standard does not apply to suits for damages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Soon other Lost Girls found out they could apply to go to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the shop Pocock leaned over one side of a new shell and began to apply varnish to its upturned hull. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
When I knew that we had been accepted to go to America, I told John, fie was surprised and wanted to know why I hadn’t told him before that I was applying. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
But you lose your head in this crazy hellhole, you do, and different rules apply. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Like a prompt nurse, she peeled back my blood-wet clothes, drew a quick breath as she arrived at the original royal red towel, and applied a fresh bandage. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
When that business was over, he applied to Miss Bingley and Elizabeth for the indulgence of some music. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z
The kind my dad tried to get my brother to apply for because they pay decent money. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Other times I was sure I’d be rejected, and that God would punish me for applying, for trying to abandon my own family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Before the law could declare him to be just another piece of property subject to disposal as the tailor’s heirs saw fit, Jones applied to the courts for protection and obtained a certificate of freedom. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
He pulled a huge white handkerchief out of his pocket and applied it to my nose. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Rules didn’t apply to Jesse Franklin, and I loved him for it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
Mom spent the whole day on her computer, applying for jobs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Similar difficulties apply to personal-interview polls and mail polls as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Thus, if my mom wanted to apply for residency through her mom, then my dad had to technically be out of the picture. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
The gods would be ashamed to see that this is how you choose to apply yourselves! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
The tone of his voice implied at once a complete admission of his guilt and a sort of incredulous horror that such a word could be applied to himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
“I’m just looking around. I was thinking about applying.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“Don’t American laws apply in the Delta? What R.C. and those two men did was wrong, Grampa. It makes me sick just to think about it.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z
Emily looked up to see Matthew applying a bumper sticker for Flush to the face of the ticket machine. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
It doesn’t stop me from sneaking in some use of my hacked phone and glasses, of course—but it has kept me from applying for any real job I can do well. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Passing under the protection of the Yard ’s Great Gate allowed workers a small smile of relief and permission to apply their minds and bodies to the tasks at hand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Fortunately, after applying his extensive tool kit and considerable ingenuity to the problem, Rob managed to rivet together a special strap that made the crampons work. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Fourth term of my senior year, I only applied to one job, but it was a good one, being six hundred miles away from Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Cautiously, the mouth applied to the valve, I breathe. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was dimly aware of voices above her, of hands carefully washing the bleeding, sliced skin on her back, of cooling salves being applied. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
“So are you ready to talk about how it applies to the letter?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
I’m imagining the worst, like he got into a fight with his interviewer, and now he's banned from applying to any college at all, and his future is ruined. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
"I'm applying there, too. Their English department is outstanding." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The laws that drove Newton’s apples to the ground should also apply to the growth of the apple tree. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
What is a jingle but a sound bite applied to commerce? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
But I still wake up early to watch as she sets her hair in hot rollers and applies her makeup. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I applied the gas, and the car went roaring up the embankment and back onto the macadam. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
“It’s Jesus’s birthday, therefore that rule does not apply since it’s a clear violation of one of the Ten Commandments.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Now that the troop was close to the sleeping cliff, the animals spread out and applied themselves to digging in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet some 7,000,000 pounds of parathion are now applied to fields and orchards of the United States — by hand sprayers, motorized blowers and dusters, and by airplane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Beneath the table, I slid the old Band-Aid into my pocket and, without looking, pulled out a new one, unwrapped it, and then glanced down to apply it to my finger. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
I check it for lint, apply my pink lipstick, and end up looking nice, as far as I can tell. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
No one knows exactly how many people are excluded from public housing because of criminal records, or even the number of people with criminal records who would be ineligible if they applied. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
She applied her power brakes, and a Mercedes slammed into her from behind. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
The colonel’s hostility softened gradually as he applied himself to details. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
“Fine. If you were me, whom would you apply to?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The encrusted mud he had applied as balm had fallen away. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z
However, in American tournaments, where hotel ballrooms are rented and contracted for a specified period and players have made arrangements for flights home, it’s necessary to apply a tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
While Miranda was told the proper way to apply it, in swift upward strokes beginning at the base of her throat, he spun the lipstick carousel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
He applied for a special license that allowed businesses to serve both black and white patrons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Determined to apply economic pressure peacefully, black protesters let the nearly empty buses rumble on by like green ghosts, ignoring the doors that snapped open invitingly at the corners, and devised their own transportation system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
Although we were the poorest family on Little Hobart Street, Mom and Dad never applied for welfare or food stamps, and they always refused charity. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Almost entirely by themselves for thousands of years, these two centers of civilization were so different that researchers today have difficulty finding a conceptual vocabulary that applies to both. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Similar ones apply to other historical subjects whose place among the natural sciences is nevertheless secure, including astronomy, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geology, and paleontology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
It was then that we decided to apply for adjustment of status. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Why didn't they immediately apply for political asylum? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Until quite recently, it was customary to write “MP’s” and “1980’s” - and in fact this convention still applies in America. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z
The room had the same otherworldly quality it usually did, as if the regular rules of space and time that applied in the hallways were suspended here. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
When you apply for a bank loan, do you worry that, because of your race, you might be seen as financially unreliable? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Early one morning I went to apply for my pension. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
I even applied to Teach for America—the national teacher placement organization that places college graduates in needy schools in underserved communities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
I applied all my force to clean the burned bits from the bottom of the stew pot. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Thanks. It was stupid to apply, frankly. Guess I was just curious.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
As a student, I had been taught that South Africa was a place where the rule of law was paramount and applied to all persons, regardless of their social status or official position. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wearing considerably more, Perry, one balmy evening in wartime 1945, found himself inside a Honolulu tattoo parlor having a snake-and-dagger design applied to his left forearm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
They had arrived just before the kitchen closed and were busily applying themselves to curry and rice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She looks into the mirror and quickly applies some lipstick. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
“Hmmm, a thoughtful girl. Cumin is what I advise. Rare and odorous. Not in your queen’s herb bed, I am sure. A poultice applied to the side. I will prepare it now.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
“I was thinking, under the bed. I’ve been thinking for a while. You’ll have an income now. You could apply for more rooms.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
When it came time to apply to college, Joy got a perfect score on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
I then immediately applied for a two-week remand on the grounds that I had been transferred to Pretoria without being given the opportunity of notifying my attorneys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wood had been deemed good enough, and a crew of pirates and beauty queens were about the business of hammering and applying pitch to make the vessel seaworthy again. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
At first sight, Penrose’s result applied only to stars; it didn’t have anything to say about the question of whether the entire universe had a big bang singularity in its past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I bathed them and brushed them and helped the visiting vet nurse apply lotion to their over-scratched flea bites. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
How were these gemmular instructions from a father and a mother applied to a developing fetus? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
“Remember,” he said, “you can apply for the same amount next year.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
But she was the whole reason I applied. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
But their guidelines apply only to NIH research, and they’re not legally binding. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
Instead of treating the basic condition, suburbanites — advised by nurserymen who in turn have been advised by the chemical manufacturers — continue to apply truly astonishing amounts of crabgrass killers to their lawns each year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
My parents are discussing how I can apply for spring admission next year and transfer from whatever school I choose for fall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
I dipped in my brush and started applying the second coat of Overtly Olive to the window frame. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
The bleach Joe applied to my bangs left my hair a shade of yellow like the marigolds on Mrs. Hidalgo’s altar. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
Once the floor is swept, Mr. Jones applies tape to mark on the floor a smaller basketball court, a foursquare court, and a dodgeball area. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
So they applied for U.S. citizenship, sitting up at night reading the Constitution, a dictionary by their side, and studying for the exam. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
“Arrange flowers in a vase, talk to boys, tweeze your eyebrows, shave your legs, apply lipstick ...” “What about vomit in a sink? They teach a charming way to do that?” she asked. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
All I hear, as Tobias applies antiseptic to his skin, is the wind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
This was one of the state’s most barbarous techniques of applying pressure: imprisoning the wives and children of freedom fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the dining room, applying a second coat to the wall, was Marco, originally from El Salvador. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
Maybe it wasn’t lying as much as it was applying some imagination. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
"This is precisely what I would like to see. I would precisely like to see exactly how you apply the gas." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
The Goodmans estimate that this has eliminated some 270,000 pounds of pesticide and 8 million pounds of petrochemical fertilizer that would otherwise have been applied to those fields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
Applied biology,” as the Nazis understood it, was really applied genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
These are words that apply only to boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
This required thousands of brass nails and screws, the heads of which had to be patiently and laboriously filed down by hand before he could apply coats of marine varnish to the exterior. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
This case also attracted a large crowd — not to see me, but to find out whether the white man’s laws could be applied to a sangoma. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
She’s a year older than me, and between her and Janae, I know all about what to expect for applying to college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
The first is that the really effective control of insects is that applied by nature, not by man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I apply another coat of medicine and quietly pack up my gear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Much of what they said could apply to any former slave who overheard them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
I began making plans to go apply for one, even though I detested the idea of carrying a pass. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
The brilliant success of the screw-worm campaign has stimulated tremendous interest in applying the same methods to other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I had neglected to tell Adam that I was applying to Juilliard in the first place, which was actually harder than it sounded. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
After I thanked him for what he did to convince my father, he gave me some bad news: it was too late to apply to most colleges for the fall. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
And the same rule seems to apply to all “natural” memories. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Virtually the same applies in Egyptology, in which the study of the Ptolemaic “late period” has long been the neglected stepchild of a discipline engrossed by the Rameseses and Thut- moses of high antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z
“She told me that because I was driving her crazy. She threatened to apply for Elsewhere.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
The conductor stood in the aisle next to her seat and spoke a bit louder than he normally would, in order to be heard over the screechy din of the train’s brakes being applied. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
The point about Chrissie—and this applied to a lot of the veterans—was that for all her slightly patronising manner towards us when we’d first arrived, she was awestruck about our being from Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’ve...I’ve been subject to them lately. I want to...to congratulate you, of course. I’m very glad—” The inexpertly applied rouge made a pair of nasty red splotches upon her chalk-white face. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
“You didn’t not get into CSA. What I mean is you didn’t apply. That day?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
When the knot didn’t give, she applied her teeth to it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
It clearly applies to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, planets discovered long after Kepler’s death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
This is the meaning of the word “universal” as applied to Newtonian gravitation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Looking for another way to serve, she again applied for jobs in the Navy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Our records show that Mr. Nesbitt applied for a license to have a gun on the premises in August of 1989. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
With the card, I can apply for financial aid. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
Without hesitation she applied and became nervous only when the job was suddenly hers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
She didn’t wind up applying for the TV gig after all. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
This afternoon, the question still churning in her mind, she got home and found her mother in the living room, applying paint to a photograph of a stripped-down bicycle. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Girls who spent the last five minutes of class carefully applying rouge and lipstick to their faces because the teacher had run out of things to say. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
I started with my high-school diploma, applying one precious match with a feeling of remote irony, even smiling as I saw the swift but feeble light push back the gloom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
I apply another layer of the Egyptian rouge to my cheeks. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
“He only applied for a spouse because he wanted a dwelling,” he said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
For two genes on the same chromosome, the same principle applied: there was no simple way to separate the forked-bristle gene from the coat-color gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
“Holism,” a fabricated word, has been applied to concepts like the Superorganism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“A description which applies to no one on the train,” said Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
This time, however, he was judged too frail for doctors to apply electric currents to his brain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
“About real life. And how your studies apply to it.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
Then, it was that my sister had better start thinking more about her future and start applying to “safety” schools in case the good ones don’t work out. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z
“I have come to apply for a pass,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Snitches get stitches doesn’t apply to King Lords. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
As with everything of worth the zoo was built primarily for whites, and groups of blacks had to apply for special permits to visit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Asher’s parents had waited quite a long time before applying for a second child. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
Grandmother was equally delighted by the meal and for a few moments applied herself to steady eating. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was metallurgy as it applies to weapons, the philosophy of mortality, the psychology of immortality, and the literature of the Scythedom, from poetry to the wisdom found in famous scythes’ journals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
But the liberalism, I soon found out, was skin-deep, applying only between Coloureds and whites: blacks were still throttled by the full apartheid machinery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
The teachers taught us about how to apply for college admission and financial aid. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
I apply it to the Commander, but it seems too simple for him, too crude. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
“That’s dumb. No way I’m getting in. Who knows if I’m even going to apply? I want to go to Roosevelt like everyone else. They have a swim team.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
A nurse appears to re-bandage me as he makes notes in my chart and says, “A prosthetist will be in later today to apply it.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
“This is not unheard of, but still, it’s very impressive. Now, Lucy will need to apply officially online.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
She timed this operation very carefully, applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z
A small part of me felt like even applying was some kind of betrayal. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Citra came to his aid, trying some Bokator moves she had learned from Scythe Yingxing—and quickly learned that applying a martial art is much different from practice in a dojo. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Her father, Oliver Brown, applied to the school board to have her transferred to the closer school. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
“It just occurred. I just applied to university and got in. I acted completely on faith that I could rely on my mother, without even realizing that I was relying on my mother.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
The rules don’t quite apply to us, nor protect us either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Instead, the typical illustration portrays a happy family scene, father and son smilingly preparing to apply the chemical to the lawn, small children tumbling over the grass with a dog. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Nevertheless, we often find it difficult to maintain the distinction between fine and applied art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
I spent most of my days in the study, e-mailing people around the world, applying for grants, organizing fund-raising events. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
In this seminal case on texting and driving, the hearing examined how decades’ worth of attention science might be applied to the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
He wondered what criterion people used when they applied the tags “good” and “bad” to their fellowmen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mom had applied for a part-time job at the community theater. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
And this did not apply only to Negroes, who were no more “simple” or “spontaneous” or “Christian” than anybody else—who were merely more oppressed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
The only way he cared to tackle a challenge was head-on, right now, applying the full brunt of his extraordinary energy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Let us now return to that collision of hemispheres, applying what we have learned since Chapter 3. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
It occurred to Claire that she could check on the rules and answer her own question about whether she could apply for a spouse. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
As far as I was concerned it was comically out of reach for someone like me, but he insisted that it was not, so I applied. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She applied for a job and was hired right away, since she had a degree, and there were never enough teachers in Battle Mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Since there were no laws limiting genetic engineering, Rifkin regularly sued to stop it using any existing laws that might apply. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
I thought about the singer on the album cover and wondered who taught her how to apply makeup. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
All the brave Athenian talk about democracy applied only to a privileged few. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
To these is added a new kind of fallout — the chemical sprays applied to croplands and gardens, forests and fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
A bag of salt was sent for from the kitchen to be mixed into a solution that would be applied to the prisoners' legs and partially shaved head. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Yet in much of the country these forensic methods were applied even less consistently than fingerprint and ballistic techniques. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
I didn’t have the sense to apply for more than one job at a time and I never even heard back from them. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
So after much debate, Kitty and I have decided to get him settled into one place for his last three years of high school, and then he can apply to college. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
When Levi Jr. turned four, Mary Jackson filed an application with the Civil Service, applying both for a clerical position with the army and as a computer at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Even the Matching of Spouses was given such weighty consideration that sometimes an adult who applied to receive a spouse waited months or even years before a Match was approved and announced. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
In comparison to sixteenth-century philosophy, all our sciences are applied sciences, and all our scientific knowledge is robust enough to withstand real-world application, if only in the form of experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Though Harriet had repeatedly applied for a pension for herself or back pay to reimburse her for those years she had served with the Union forces, her claim was never allowed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then he applied some ointment to his aching foot and sat down at his desk to do some of the paperwork that had piled up. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
The same pattern perhaps applies to Ethiopia, where wheat, barley, and other Southwest Asian crops have been cultivated for a long time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
After it’s cooled, I apply an unreasonably thin layer of frosting, just enough to cover the cake. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
I went ahead and applied to the registrar of the Supreme Court for the records, documents, and books that I would need. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were the same laws, the same policies that applied to blacks all over Texas and all over the South. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Probationers and parolees are at increased risk of arrest because their lives are governed by additional rules that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Clearly whatever was going on down there in the world of the very small was not governed by the laws that applied in the macro world where our expectations reside. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
None of the teenage magazine descriptions of girls moping, one tear on each cheek like pearl earrings, applies to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
My remarks apply primarily to historians of North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
He cleaned off Aurora’s wound as well as he could and applied an ointment she told him would numb the area. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
We apply the law equally to both sides. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
She bought oils and pomades, applying one and then the other, on wet hair and then on dry hair, willing an unknown miracle to happen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“Even if God won’t” he remarked bitterly, we could apply to the Pope.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Do you think the dress code applies to everyone except you?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
From Saint Hilda’s they applied and were accepted to University College, in London. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
He had always ignored that announcement because he didn’t understand it and it had never seemed to apply to him in any way. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
The same law of gravity applies everywhere in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The old adage applies: Men make history, and the leading members of the revolutionary generation realized they were doing so, but they can never know the history they are making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Zita applied for a visa immediately and after many weeks of hassles and bureaucratic processing, she arrived in Los Angeles. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She would not hear of it when they applied to schools that were near home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
"I have always wanted to ride in a handicapped van. All my life, I have wanted to see how a disabled person like yourself applies the brakes and steps on the gas." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
The following year, with the aid of a cane, he returned to college and graduated, and without telling his parents he applied to continue his engineering studies abroad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
It appeared that Vaseline had also been applied to the moustache, for it gleamed very brightly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
For situations where mounds are numerous and mechanized methods are desirable, a cultivator which first levels and then applies chemical directly to the mounds has been developed by Mississippi’s Agricultural Experiment Station. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I wrote: ‘I cannot claim to represent socially disadvantaged Mexican-Americans. The very fact that I am in a position to apply for this job should make that clear.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
A temporary dressing was applied, but neither the wound nor the skin around it was cleaned or disinfected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
A wife had to obtain permission from her husband to apply for a passport. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
However, having applied unavailingly at a third door, which led into a “utility room,” and a fourth, the door to the kitchen, she rejoined her father, who said, “Maybe they’re asleep.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
By now, Norman Mackworth was the first director of the applied psychology unit at Cambridge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
"Well, let me tell you,” says Albert sourly, "it doesn’t apply to tramps like you.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
This is the element that distinguishes applied science from basic. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
I am amazed at how much his philosophy applies to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
Reed finished wiping down the Executioner and began applying drops of oil to its moving parts, working the action a few times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
But this was a guerrilla war, and the usual rules didn’t apply. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
At each halt, Taran fed the bird and applied the medicines. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z
Although the detailed sequence that I’ve just described applies to the Fertile Crescent, partly similar sequences also appeared elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
That applies also to Palestinians to whose plight I am sensitive but whose methods I deplore when they lead to violence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their pairing was watched and monitored for three years, after which they could apply for a child, if they wished. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
She put it on, wiped off her lipstick, applied a dark gloss, and powdered her nose. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
We would stick it to the egg, apply too much pressure, and end up covered in yolk. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
So we applied to get an apartment in the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Women’s faces were flaked with mud and ash, camouflage from the Russians they’d applied while trekking through the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
No one knew what that meant, but Leo could apply it to this sphere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
But plenty of women applied for the job. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
It advised all qualified instructors—it as much as said, in fact, that it couldn’t advise them fortement enough—to apply immediately for employment at the newest, most progressive, correspondence art school in Canada. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
“You’ve applied to UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Florida, the University of Buenos Aires, Northern Caribbean University, and the National University of Singapore. This is a very diverse list, but what happened to NYU?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
Stanton wrote in her autobiography, “but continued to use my ‘mother’s instinct,’ if ‘reason’ is too dignified a term to apply to woman’s thoughts.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Construction began July 9; workers began applying the final coat of staff in October. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Days after he graduated from university, bloated with knowledge about America, he applied for a visa at the American embassy in Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
I allow myself to let out a groan as I rinse away the first round of leaves and apply the second. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
I read through the application and rules for applying as I imagined myself on the cover of my own cookbook. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
However, this description does not apply to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Jesse is great, but he did apply four months late, and a lot of kids have worked hard to get into schools like that.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Northwestern would be a long shot, but a shot. Don’t let him apply to Chicago. He’ll get rejected and discouraged. Believe me, he hasn’t got a chance.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The same technology has been applied to human beings, with other kinds of rewards, and the results have been startling. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
He did two years of night school at City College in upper Manhattan—working during the days to make ends meet—signed up for the army, served his time, and applied to Harvard Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
He wanted to apply the same logic, the same trajectory, to his own future life in Iowa. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
“And when I finished there, I applied at Cornell Graduate School.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
Regardless, Grody stresses that questions of consent should apply only to the collection of future samples, not the millions already stored, including HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
No artery was spurting, but Yossarian pretended to absorb himself entirely into the fashioning of a tourniquet, because applying a tourniquet was something he did know how to do. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Informed consent focused on what doctors were required to tell their patients; there was little mention of how it might apply to research like Southam’s, in which subjects weren’t the researcher’s patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
They asked Burnham to apply the same citywide thinking that had gone into the White City to their own cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Not that any normal rules of dating applied here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
We suffered together for two or three miserable, feverish, itchy days, while Mother applied cocoa butter and ice packs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
How a piece of rhetoric sounds—and this applies just as much whether it is heard out loud or scanned by the inner ear while being read on the page—is vital to its effectiveness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
After Ben had applied slices of raw wild onion to their welts, he sent the boys off to rest. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
John listens and applies himself but says he wants to go into the army first. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“I’ve applied for a job. I’m just waiting to ask her if I got it.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Using my free hand and my teeth, I apply some Band-Aids to my cut hand. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
After graduating third in his class from Harvard University, Ellsberg stunned friends and professors alike by applying for officer’s training with the Marine Corps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
In the back of my mind were the stories I’d heard, of drunks, of old people, of careless skiers freezing to death, but for some reason none of this seemed to apply to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
“I’ve applied everywhere. You don’t know how hard it is to find work.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, unlike a similar ordinance adopted in Boston, San Francisco’s policy applies only to public employment, not to private vendors that do business with the city or county of San Francisco. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
I applied pressure to the artery with my fingertips, and then more pressure, and it still bled. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
He spent hours applying pomantum wax, padding, and lengths of brick- colored hair to fashion a high roll on Madam’s head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
For practical purposes, the fact that feeding is interrupted promptly is of course an enormous advantage, for crop damage stops almost as soon as the pathogen is applied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Guidance counselors and teachers would quietly pull a student aside and say that William and Mary, for example, did not accept blacks, so there was no need for you to apply. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
In 1939 they applied again for the use of Constitution Hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
More precisely, it appeared to solve the problem of how to produce high-energy particles without applying high voltages. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“Your real name is Margaret. Period. Your”—she curled up her lips in distaste—“other name no longer applies.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
The plan was to apply early decision to Yale as a forestry major. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Such plants are “weeds” only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
However, I trusted Mr. Penney and agreed to apply for the loan. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
I’d lined my eyes in the same dark cat-eye style, applied a dark lipstick, and gelled my hair so that it was kind of spiky on top with bangs over one eye. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
That summer, she applied for eleven openings for various orchestra jobs throughout Europe. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
“We applied for a univer-sity grant. I just got word: there is a place for you at the University of Paris. Yes, my dear, at the Sorbonne!” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Users of one product, for example, apply 60 pounds of technical chlordane to the acre if they follow directions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Tía Milagros shakes her head and applies another coat of her light orange lipstick in the mirror. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Mendel applied to the University of Vienna to pursue a degree in the natural sciences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
I applied coat after coat of stain, wiping each coat off. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
You stopped talking about where to put the crib and started talking about what colleges you wanted to apply to. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“I said, Your Lordship, I would swim with you,” offered Druggett again, applying more fat. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
‘I think the word means battles in Greek, but I don’t know how that applies, exactly.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
All fall she’s been worrying about where to apply to college based on where her boyfriend—Derrick—is applying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
“If you’re interested in wearing makeup, I can teach you how to apply it properly,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z
“We just had zero knowledge, less than zero knowledge, of the process. How to apply. The forms. Checkbooks. It was not our environment.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
He applied one single drop to the button, then pressed the gluey button to the axle, sat on his bed, and held it there for what seemed like hours. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
They made it very clear that Paulding Avenue was their home and their rules would apply. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
And he goes on to report a test where the unguent was applied by a sceptical clergyman, so that there could be no suspicion of either cheating or demonic involvement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
As the United States continued to apply pressure, South America tilted toward the Allies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Louisiana’s grandmother did not believe in stop signs, or she did not see them, or maybe she did not think that they applied to her. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
The man produced a ring of keys, selected a large one, applied it to the lock and pulled the door open. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
My plan was to apply for early admission in October. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
Because the rules apply to every situation except your own. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
While he gingerly applied the medicine, she cleaned and bound a series of smaller wounds and forced an uncooperative Vikus to let her wrap his wrist. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
I finally chose the schools to apply to according to the sound of their names, the beauty of their brochures, the personality of the coach’s letter, and the nature of their curriculum. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
For a time, he considered applying for permanent disability. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Now that you’ve wrestled with three major religious traditions, apply your newly enlightened mind to Alaska’s question. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
Deliberately, they are phrased so generally that they could apply to anyone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hughie and Jones sat for a while staring into space and then morosely they went over to the Hediondo Cannery and applied for jobs and got them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dad and I never smiled at each other—not really—but we were still in our magic forty-seven-minute window where the normal rules didn’t apply. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
“Because I’m old and missing too many things. The tsar makes his laws in Kiev, but they don’t always apply to us out here away from the cities.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
First, as any modern gardener or farmer still knows by experience, crop yields can be greatly increased by manure applied as fertilizer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The General was a portly, ugly man, his manners were not refined, and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
He applied for extensions on grants, often took months to answer letters, and at one point continued to pay a dead employee’s salary for three months before anyone noticed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
So if none of these situations apply to you, it's time to learn to transpose. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
“After everything I’ve said, how does Thug Life apply to the protests and the riots?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
The wedding took place on June 14,1958.1 applied for a relaxation of my banning orders and was given six days’ leave of absence from Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Two more years until we can apply," Starry says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
He shouldn’t apply directly to the computing school; he should enroll as a liberal arts undergraduate, and take some of the courses necessary to compete academically with the other computing applicants, then transfer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
We hastily help one another apply thick layers of makeup, pull on wigs and sunglasses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn’t want to apply any extra pressure or anything.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
I remembered that strangers who arrive at a place where they have no friends, and who want employment, sometimes apply to the clergyman for introduction and aid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
With a stray bit of gauze, he applied a waxy yellow ointment to the wound, then loosely bandaged it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
By dawn, Dill was ready to apply for college, complete with admission essay and financial aid documents. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
“Don’t ask, don’t tell only applies to proper Indian Muslim boys. With limits.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Thank you for applying for your new Argentis FreedomCard, the credit card that allows you the flexibility and spending power to pursue your dreams and plan for the future. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
When I was a senior in high school, consequendy, I did not hesitate to apply to secular colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“If you have compliance from the father, you can apply for a certificate of important information.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
Medieval painting, for instance, is to a large extent “applied,” in the sense that it embellishes surfaces which serve other, practical purposes as well—walls, book pages, windows, furniture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I was busy applying for colleges, you may have been weighing the pros and cons of going to university versus getting married right away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
I can see that this rule doesn’t apply to everyone because the white woman next to us is trying on a pair of high heels in her bare feet. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
That didn’t stop Langley engineers from imagining how the missile bodies and rocket engines and reentry problems involved in high-speed flight research might also apply to space vehicles. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
He had earned a master’s degree in applied sciences, and he taught physics and chemistry during the weekdays at the all-black George Washington Carver High School in North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
But he did not apply for a green card. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
We apply another round of medicine because the skin seems too delicate for the sunlight, but it doesn’t look half as bad on smooth skin and will be good camouflage in the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Beatrice passed the time in the camp by standing in lines to apply for resettlement by the UN. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
I filled out the application, and in my cover letter I made it extremely clear to them that I was not applying for financial aid—that I was a one-hundred-percent cash-paying student. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z
The second night, I applied a liberal dose of white liniment—Uncle Holt’s own concoction of hartshorn, arnica, witch hazel, camphor gum, eggs, and cider vinegar. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
Without Bobby’s knowledge, the nurses applied morphine patches to his body to ease his pain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
By eleven o’clock he was giving the cross its first coat, meticulously applying the paint with a small watercolor brush. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“All right, all right. Lower your voice. You have done better, which shows me, Calpurnia, that you can do this if you would only apply yourself.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
“Why don’t you go down to the bank and apply for a teller job?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
I applied myself to my daily tasks and lessons at the theatre and, to my surprise, began to actually enjoy them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
To put that number into perspective, if we took that new 2.4 percent figure and applied it to today’s population of 313.3 million, the result would be about 7.5 million soldiers and sailors killed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
When DDT powder was applied to a group of Korean soldiers the extraordinary result was an actual increase in the infestation of lice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Then she threw her shoulder against him and hooked her right leg around his, applying force, but not enough to make his knee buckle. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
The young black man in the checkered suit, after reading the letter, grudgingly gave me papers indicating that I was now qualified to apply for a pass. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
The law that applied to her was the law of sacrificial love. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
“No, Richy. This is the age of do your thing. Let everybody do his thing. If a kid wants to sell, let him. If he doesn’t, the same thing applies.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“And you are certain it’s still empty? That no one else has applied?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
These they take away and apply with devotion, like a healing penance from a priest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Each time one graduates, others apply for the job. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Walter had applied for bail — a decision I fully supported. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t care if he has a fancy job, and I don’t care if he ends up applying to Yale. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
He began leaving home at four in the morning for the superintendent’s office to apply for one. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Thirsty stopped wiping a table, and the paramedic spilled the disinfectant he was applying to Eye’s back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
The man questioning him did not even have to apply pressure. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the fall of 1979, her senior year of high school, Mia applied to the New York School of Fine Arts with a series of photographs she’d taken of abandoned buildings around town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“But they don’t have the same opportunities as those schools you applied to,” Momma says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
Later, after he was released, he applied to the bar for admission as an advocate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mom, who supported Lori’s New York plans and kept saying she wished she were going to the big city herself, suggested that Lori apply to the Cooper Union art school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
It had never occurred to him that under any circumstances, ever, he might apply for release. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
Grumbling, she applied herself to memorizing the anatomy of a frog. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
You could apply to the college and who knows? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
On Ceremony nights, of course, none of this applies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
One could be made visible by holding the paper over the flame of a candle; the other could be read by applying a common chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t understand how you simply...lied...so easily...and applied to NYU and now expect us to say, ‘Okay, go ahead’? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
They work only when the painter consciously applies them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
All the cherished question-begging epithets applied to the Negro race, and widely accepted as truth even by men of good will, simply prove untrue when one lives among them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even when companies recruit for jobs that have nothing to do with mathematics, they often encourage math majors to apply, since they know that analytical skills will serve anyone well, whatever the job. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
But then she says, “You’re the one who applied for the senior position. How is that project going?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Instead I took the LSAT, wrote my senior thesis, and dutifully reached for the next rung, applying to the best law schools in the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
As a spray applied to potato fields to destroy the vines they have taken a toll of human and nonhuman life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and sideways to many subsets of the human family, with great success and invariable opposition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were all fed generously once again, and more salve was applied to their wounds. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even though I don’t want to stay here, he says I have to apply to at least one school in the state, just in case. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
Regina worried that his pedophiliac tendencies might apply to boys as well as girls, and she didn’t want him to be alone with Bobby on the trip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
I can make out the words but they somehow don’t seem to apply to me, to what’s happening to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I have just finished applying more healing salve when I hear a shriek of laughter. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Do you think that the term ‘family feud’ could be accurately applied to the relationship between your family and that of the defendant? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
This uncertainty applies, incidentally, to relatively nearby things as much as to the distant edges of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
The pervading atmosphere of sorrowfulness in much of Josquin’s music, whether applied to sacred music or secular songs of unhappy love, is typical of his strife-filled time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
He even lets me borrow some from his personal collection and gives me a list of schools he thinks I should apply to, which is why he’s my favorite teacher. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
The nearest star for which this gravitational perturbation method can be applied is Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
There they began to apply skills they had learned from the Muslims: how to plant sugar cane, and how to refine sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
“Is there anything some of us can do with the administration? Pressure we can apply there?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“Can you find out if there’s any way a girl can apply?” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
If you want to get really complicated, you can apply both transposition and substitution to the same message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Then she carefully applied a fresh coat of red lipstick and gave him the kiss he had asked for. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
One may apply blacking as one will—for it is not in the application, but in the buffing, that the art of blacking lies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
“Yup. If you do a good job—if Ari gives you a positive review—then at the end of the summer, you can apply to the Food Network show.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
The maximum concentration applied to the water was 1/so part per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Thus, if nicotine sulphate is applied before rather than after the apple blossoms turn pink one of the important predators is spared, probably because it is still in the egg stage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“I don’t know, maybe they used to but no one paid attention to them. You could still apply yourself, though.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
“You understand now that you are the first black person ever to apply for membership.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
A man who had been with him as they waited for the bus to Johannesburg to apply for permits had brought my mother the grim news. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
And when he returned home to Louisiana, he applied his knowledge of engineering to refining sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
“Well, we came as graduate students. I applied to Emory University business school and Grandma applied to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
When I first applied during Thanksgiving break, Lucy told me she always suspected that it had been the other way around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
Among the many advantages of selective spraying is the fact that it minimizes the amount of chemical applied to the landscape. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
If she had figure faults, her clothes concealed them; if her face was less than divine, it was hard to tell once she got done applying substances. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
“Did you know at the time,” Knabe said, voice rising, “that he sustained that the state law didn’t apply at all in the city of Montgomery?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
The water cure consisted mostly of applying cold water to the outside of the patients body—with cold showers and baths. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
When it came time for me and Craig to think about college, we didn’t even consider applying to the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
It also allows you to apply for a green card without returning abroad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Increase all dimensions by one, and you have the situation that may apply to us: the universe as a four-dimensional hypersphere with no center and no edge, and nothing beyond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
When a crime is committed, it is the State that must apply the law in a manner that offers redress and that brings the guilty parties to justice. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had plans to apply to Berkeley next year, but they weren’t talking about going up for a campus tour anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
“I’ve dreamed of being in this pageant for as long as I can remember. There’s nothing in the rules that says fatties need not apply.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
As Uncle told me, some of it applied to everyone, including demons, and other parts of it applied only to the rich. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
I don’t think any of these words apply to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Not a cent. I have no job. I just applied for a permit to look for a job yesterday.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Yeah. She’ll want to apply. But she hasn’t thought it through yet. Not the way we just did.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
I pull my chair beside her and watch her apply her makeup. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
Similar criticisms apply to many of the new scholarly claims about Indians, according to Dean R. Snow, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“And you just apply these techniques to politics?” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
There was little experience of field use for either, and no one knew what their effects would be on wild birds, fishes, or mammals when applied on a massive scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Piper tried to explain while Coach Hedge applied some healing paste to the boys’ heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Like the laws of thermodynamics, the principle applies to nature itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
I have to dig the stingers out of his tracker jacker lumps, which causes him to wince, but the minute I apply the leaves he sighs in relief. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Just as the astrolabe embodies the medieval application of mathematics to the heavens, the sector embodies the new technical skills of the mathematician applying himself to the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“Wrong. The rule was we weren’t supposed to talk about the accident with each other. The rule doesn’t apply to anyone else.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
Its residues are long persistent in soil, on foodstuffs, or on surfaces to which it may be applied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
He applied to the city for a gun permit. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
But it enables us to establish the laws that would need to apply in any possible universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
In trails of copper ink guided by an invisible hand, the symbols were applied to the magnificent chest in honor of the gods of the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
In the spring of 1933, as Hermann Muller began his work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, he watched Nazi “applied biology” swing into action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Often the name of a scale simply reflects what it sounds like to the person using it, and the same name may be applied to different scales, or different names to the same scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
These conclusions surely apply with much greater force to the undocumented history of ancient technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
After three years of struggling to pay my tuition out of pocket, we were finally able to apply for financial aid for my senior year. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
She washed her face with cold water, dried it with a towel from an overhead rack, applied fresh lipstick, combed her hair, and left the room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
The Phaistos disk anticipates humanity’s next efforts at printing, which similarly used cut type or blocks but applied them to paper with ink, not to clay without ink. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
More than 2,500 women applied but many were excluded due to their age or ethnicity. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
Basically, we’re supposed to observe something that interests us and spend all year applying the scientific process to our capital-Q Question. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Feel free to apply whatever term you yourself would use to refer to this group if you were in my place. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
But although Watson and Crick knew this rule, they had no idea how it might apply to the final structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
A much longer list of contraband items applied to inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She applies lotion to her arms and legs, reaches for a peach-colored terry- cloth robe that hangs from a hook on the door. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Under sharia law, which applied to domestic and inheritance matters, the testimony of two women carried the weight of that of one man. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Artemis hunted the small magnet from its niche in the toolbox and applied both poles to the tiny screws. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
When you are organized to apply knowledge, set up targets, produce a usable product, you require a high degree of certainty from the outset. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
He went to the crowded United Nations refugee office in Cairo and applied for resettlement. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Even in her expert hands, it takes a long time to clean the wounds, arrange what shredded skin can be saved, apply a salve and a light bandage. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
The moment the children received permission, they applied themselves to finding the best strategies for “earning without learning,” as Constance called it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
“Steamer” was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Sal’s is one of the only places where the rules don’t apply. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
All over Europe astronomers were obsessed with it—and since they now knew Regiomontanus’s real technique for measuring parallax, they naturally tried to apply it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
I had never heard the word used in the sense in which it was applied to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Williams applied for engineering positions through the Civil Service but had been wary of moving to a state south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Perhaps someday he would apply to become an FBI agent, and Mr. Eberhardt could put in a good word for him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
And Malcolm X told a friend that he was going to apply to the Police Department for a permit to carry a pistol. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maybe that applied to the unseen things Pet was talking about: maybe they were seeing her even when she wasn’t looking for them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
But the many young mothers who entered the imposing gray building each day to apply for aid grasped instantly what lay behind the convenience of geography: the judgment that here sinners came to justice. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
She applied for a cashier job at a convenience store. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
When I applied the brakes, which I did every few feet, brooms and mops ended up in the front seat. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
I borrowed Tanu’s lipstick and kohl, waiting until I was out of the house to apply them while Tanu held a small mirror for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
The only concession to selfalteration seems to be metallic gold eyeliner that has been applied with a light hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
The same as was done to apply brass to wood or mother-of-pearl to lacquerware. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
Five years after my family moved to America, we had a major milestone: We were allowed to apply for United States citizenship. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
Since it took only men at the time, I applied to its sister college, Barnard, and was accepted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
That policy went unchallenged until early January 1939, when the Howard University School of Music applied to book Constitution Hall for an appearance by Marian Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
But it was not so painful as it had been on the mountainside, for here he could apply handfuls of cooling, soothing mud to the wound. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
I decanted about an ounce of the thick, oily liquid into the pressure vial and quickly applied the cap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Babi said they would go to Pakistan first, to apply for visas. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
She could support herself with the money we’d saved up until she found a job, and then she could apply to a school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Wally Funk, the baby of the group, applied to be an astronaut many times. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
“Do you have a spouse? Could you apply for a child, and then—I suppose this would be against the rules, but—could you choose the one that would be assigned to you?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
“I didn’t tell you that story so you could apply. It’s dangerous. Chiron, tell her.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
“I don’t think that law applies here,” said Isa, unconsciously adjusting her neat ponytail into an even neater ponytail. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
“Yes. I applied for a job as instructor in the Department of Sociology and I just got it,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
The problem with a tourniquet is, once you apply it only a doctor can undo it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
I think this is just astonishing—because it is offered as the sort of practical stage-management advice that a modern person would never think of applying to something entirely imaginary.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
Diana tried to help, recommending that I apply for a free treatment program at a trauma center in Manhattan. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
“The Führer is a talented watercolorist. He applied to art school”—Dr. Lange had lowered his voice—“but the school did not accept him. Oh, how they will regret it.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
I’d seen a help wanted sign in the window and applied right there in the store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
“I am applying for the job listed in this morning’s Chronicle and I’d like to be presented to your personnel manager.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Just about every flying club in the kingdom joined in, and so many thousands of people applied—free flight training!—that they could only take about a tenth of them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
To Ernest, the discovery was more than a triumph of applied physics; it was a means of reminding the GAC of the Rad Lab’s standing as the preeminent high-energy laboratory in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Police power had been so relentlessly and ruthlessly applied that when October rolled around the rebellion had been largely contained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
The same rule applies when subjects are paired with not only and but also: Not only the chairs but also the table was sold. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
And it would be decades before anyone thought to ask whether informed consent should apply in cases like Henrietta’s, where scientists conduct research on tissues no longer attached to a person’s body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
Somewhat surprisingly, the same principles apply to inanimate matter, as we shall see. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
"He didn’t think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the edge." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
There are names for people who take advantage of women who are not in full control of themselves, and none of those names will ever rightfully be applied to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
These laws operated to create an all-white electorate because they excluded African Americans from the franchise but were not generally applied to whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Not only was he one of the captains of the Permian team, not only was he number one in his class, but now he was thinking of applying to Harvard. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Does this new rule apply to coaches’ kids? A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z
There were 237 electricians who applied for the job my dad got. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
As she applied the compress to her swollen, split lip, she scolded me for not scraping candle wax that had dripped on the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
But then one day he saw her standing before the bathroom mirror, solemnly applying, with the head of a thumbtack, a fresh stroke of scarlet powder, which she stored in a small jam jar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Order was drawn from chaos by cunningly applied laws tested on previous moving days. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
He hated when his own advice applied to himself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
“Nightshade, perhaps. A few berries only. Leaves, moistened in wine, applied to the temple.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
“I’ve got a vague idea. It’s a region where some force applies. Is that it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
But no law applied to the editorial meeting. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
They quickly determined that Dill would apply to Middle Tennessee State University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
Nonetheless, suggestions are heard here and there that these sterilizing chemicals might be applied as aerial sprays — for example, to coat the foliage chewed by gypsy moth larvae. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Once our visas expired, we applied for political asylum, but after two years without progress, we were told there was no record of our application. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
We apply potent antibiotics to minor scratches and seal them with plastic. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Clara washed her daughter, applied cold compresses to her bruises, and rocked her until she had calmed down. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
After several minutes he said, “Is one allowed to speak as a human being, or does the thing about being seen and not heard have to apply?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Chew leaves and apply them to my stings that are deflated but still tender. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
But there were times when I wished for new rules that DID apply — like maybe,“Take a vitamin every day so you don’t get scurvy.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Discoveries in mechanics and steam technology were applied mainly to the perfection of weapons, the encouragement of superstition, the amusement of kings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
We’ve got to apply our Western ideals and teach the East to recognize them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
And he bought a new desk pad, that, like a real father, who needed to make a real living, he might apply himself to the doctorate on which the future of his children depended. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Don’t apply it to yourself— apply it to me. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
While Chapter 12 illustrated those alternatives for the spread of writing, they also apply to the diffusion of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Her voice trails off, and I watch her struggle to speak as I apply some Cal Stat from my travel bottle. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
In the eighth grade I applied to the High School of Art and Design on Fifty-seventh Street and Second Avenue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
“The second amendment doesn’t apply to BB guns, you jerk. And anyway, guns aren’t allowed on city property.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
Not that I blush easily, but the rest of the article did apply. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
When Rush applied for a position at the medical faculty of Columbia University in New York City, his appointment was blocked by another enemy of his cure, Alexander Hamilton. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
“I’ve never gone abroad but my father has promised that I will go for university. I wish I could just apply for my visa now instead of waiting to finish school,” Emenike said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“But trials might take all morning, the number of people who have applied.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
This applied not only to rides in the car but all the time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I’m a scientist. I did some research and applied my findings.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
He followed the enemas with doses of yogurt, applied to the digestive tract from both ends. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
She immediately applied for permission to visit me and was rebuffed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Have you given any thought to applying to NYU for spring admission?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
If you’ve got an equation that tells you about the force that is being applied on an object, the differential equation reveals exactly how the object moves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Besides, she was the Wraith—the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
The "paints" used were chunks of red and yellow ocher ground into powder and applied with brushes or blown onto the surface through hollow bones. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z
Selection may be applied to the family, as well as to the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Originally, the weapon salve is an unguent applied to the weapon which has caused a wound and thus cures the wound. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Late the next morning, Jam was twisting her hair in her bedroom, smearing whipped shea butter on her palms and applying it in sections while soca music played over her speakers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
In my new Remake Room in Special Defense, my prep team slaps me into my Mockingjay suit, arranges my hair, and applies minimal makeup before my coffee’s even cooled. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
Eric was interested too, talking about applying to the University of Illinois. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
In 1934, when he was twenty-two years old, my father applied for work as a common miner with Mr. Carter’s company. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
Every Therblig had its own symbol, and once they were painted on the wall Dad had us apply them to our household chores—bedmaking, dishwashing, sweeping, and dusting. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
Rate times time equals distance is not a universal law; it doesn’t apply under all conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
“They’ll probably sell it to you. And then you’ll pay me that very generous finder’s fee we discussed when I applied for this principal position.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
She had first applied for admission to NASA’s astronaut training program in 1985, but the Challenger disaster had delayed the process. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
Briggs had taken Szilard’s concerns about publicity to heart but applied them in a peculiarly counterproductive way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
He applied there, he said, out of a sense of “nonconformity” and despite his mother’s preference that he attend a Christian college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Brobeck applied for a job; informed that the lab had no money to pay him, he explained that he was willing to work for nothing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
This applies, in particular, to the designation “planets.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
When we apply Feynman’s sum over histories to Einstein’s view of gravity, the analogue of the history of a particle is now a complete curved space-time that represents the history of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the first five minutes, nobody says a word while we open milk cartons, apply heaping amounts of ketchup to our plates, and take our first bites. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z
Her perfectly applied lipstick has begun to fade. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Once you receive your green card, you have to wait five years before you can apply to become an American citizen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
She had bare legs and was applying bandages to her blistered toes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
She normally spent her time with the kids who were applying and going to colleges. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
They were prevented from even applying to many colleges and universities. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
And by another treaty, if you're not in any country's territory, maritime law applies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Pathos and proprietorship, rightly applied to a nature like Lancelot’s, might have been successful in binding him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
You’ve listened to the testimony and you’ve had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies to this case. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was applying for scholarships so he could get out of that mess. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z
The same procedure can be applied to reconstruct Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the ancestral language spoken by Austronesians after emigrating from Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
During this time I help tend to Gale, apply snow coat to my cheek, try to remember everything I can about the uprising in District 8, in case it will help us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Convinced that the DAR would not reverse its policy, Howard University applied to the Washington, D.C., The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
"I've been telling your mother for years to apply for asylum. Who could turn her away after all your father did and what happened to him? And after all he did for those soldiers?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
“I got an email from one of the jobs I applied for. I have an in-person interview next week. Guess I should go ahead and shave.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
Tuition bills scare some students from even applying and leave others with years of debt. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
Not because she isn't nice, because she is—she always hand-makes birthday cards, and she even sent me an e-mail when she heard I was applying to Prism to tell me good luck. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Kaede had not been to the Council chambers since her first visit to the Academy of Sages when she was eleven, to apply for admission. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
“A thing doesn’t have to be difficult if you give it some thought and apply a little elementary physics.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
I could feel the burning in my middle finger from the hand sanitizer I’d applied just before leaving, and so I was pressing the Band-Aid into my middle finger, simultaneously worsening and relieving the pain. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
Maybe Birdie was just like sweetheart or honey, a name that could apply to anyone. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
So I applied, and once I got accepted, I received a full scholarship, so I kind of had to go. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
By and large the Milagro lawyer’s articles had been fairly innocuous—generalized summaries of welfare problems, advice on how to pay less income tax, on how to apply for and receive food stamps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We have a novice who has opted not to apply herself to an elevated life of study and contemplation, and has decided to reenter the larger world. Foolish thing.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
“Technically, this is my room. So Mom’s rule about eating in her bedroom doesn’t apply here,” I say, sawing a piece of thick waffle with the tiny fork Muhammad brought me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
This is the logic the reformers applied to the cultivation of young minds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
The dialogue includes talk of colleges, elite schools where a couple of the characters have applied. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Webb promised he wouldn’t tell anyone, but does that apply to Nina? A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z
At the Academy, we’d found out that this phrase was basically a legal requirement that you shouted out to indemnify yourself when you were, for whatever reason, applying a bit of extra force. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Rêves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
It was rooted in practice and widely implemented, but it did not apply without exception to every situation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
If the rules didn’t apply to Gary Edwards, they certainly didn’t apply to Derric Evans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You will be applying for a position to work for this man,” he says without greeting, taking a faded business card from his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
The “Looks like an early winter,” or “Any good fishing hereabouts?” didn’t seem to apply. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
The same distinction, by the way, applies to continual and continuous, the adjective forms. convince/persuade. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Closer to home for Americans, Fort Bragg fever was the name applied to a new leptospiral disease that broke out in the United States in the summer of 1942 and soon disappeared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The balance of this book will take these ideas and apply them to other puzzling situations and epidemics from the world around us. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then I apply the burn cream to his chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
“I hope so,” Bull answered, applying shaving lather to his face as he talked to his wife. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wondered if they applied to us only because none of us seemed to push back. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another’s nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
They apply to the organization of entire countries: remember the perennial arguments about whether the best form of government is a benign dictatorship, a federal system, or an anarchical free-for-all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I haven’t gotten any offers yet. I applied all over the area,” Mom says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
While he ran on, Odysseus with zeal applied himself to the meat and wine, but inwardly his thought shaped woe and ruin for the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Cuvier resolved the matter to his own satisfaction by suggesting that Genesis applied only to the most recent inundation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
“So I hear you’re thinking of applying for membership at our club?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile, Maureen had graduated from high school and enrolled in one of the city colleges, but she never really applied herself and ended up living with Mom and Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
Eugenics was merely an applied form of genetics for Galton, just as agriculture was an applied form of botany. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
“Okay, seriously? That would be, like, so totally awesome! I could apply to Cambridge,” Shanti said in awe. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
First, the regular student code about not ratting people out—that didn’t apply at the Academy. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z
“The attentional limits we saw with pilots apply to drivers of cars. It was an important first step.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
This allowed the immigrant to apply for citizenship as the wife of a citizen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Increase all dimensions in this story by one, and you have a situation that may apply to us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mother used to say if he applied himself, he could get into the naval academy. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
It was a term applied to something alien, yet beloved. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
But in truth, the labels were currently applied in reverse. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
I planned to work for one year while I studied for the LSAT, then I would apply to law school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
He ground them to a paste between two stones, then scooped up some of the paste with two fingers and applied it to Tree-ear’s hand. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
At the nearby Normal School, for example, the number of women applying to become teacher trainees was said to be many times the usual. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
She applied for a permit, and it was approved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Lillian was in a slip at her dressing table carefully applying her makeup. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s the place to apply for public assistance when a father is dead or disappeared and there’s no dole money, no wages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
Noah said, "I don't think you can say just plain and apply it to Leonardo." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
The hazards discovered in treating cattle would presumably apply to the dog. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The same logic applies for well and good. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
But tonight loads of kids were walking to the village hall with their parents too, so that rule didn't apply. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
Three days go by like this and, to my chagrin, no one from the approximately twenty places at which I’ve applied calls me for an interview. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Harry shook his head and applied himself to his scrambled eggs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
She flinched as he applied the bloody tattoo between her eyes, a third-eye mark of shared destiny. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
She then washed Tendai’s monkey bite with boiled water and applied disinfectant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
As the deadline for early applications approached, Lexie had decided to apply early to Yale. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
“They apply equally to everyone. You’re entitled to a fair trial.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
“And it all snowballs. You saw that—Kevin wanted me to apply there. Leo Tilden wanted to see my sketches. Much ado about nothing.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
She's applied lipstick and eye pencil, twisted a dozen golden bangles on each wrist, strung two necklaces around her throat, and selected a pair of dangly earrings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Fortunately, Major Major had applied for aviation cadet training. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
I thought it was just a corny cliché when I first heard that expression, but I think it actually applies to Coach right about now, which makes me sort of sad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
When we strive to apply tree-thinking as we write, we may furrow our brows and consciously force the parts to harmonize with the whole. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
I apply the same tactic when I have to eat something I loathe. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
“Look, if he wanted to simplify this, he could have applied to Georgia.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
But they could not deny that two thousand pregnant BDM girls applied for support from the National Socialist People’s Relief Administration. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
I didn’t correct her, though—her words applied just the same. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
She had applied a salve and rewrapped it, and now she inspected the dressing’s condition. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
The divisiveness among scientific disciplines, especially between the basic sciences and the applied science of medicine, was then fostered deliberately by medical schools. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“I know. Anyway, we’ll serve as the sponsors. It should all hap­pen pretty quickly. He said the visa would be good for a year, plenty of time to apply for an adoption petition.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Then he applied his mind to his early morning meditations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
He has a few left but he gets them pulled at the clinic and applies for a false set. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z
Another British experimenter who applied DDT in acetone solution to his skin reported heaviness and aching of limbs, muscular weakness, and “spasms of extreme nervous tension.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Most people assumed that meant me, but if I died before I turned sixteen, the prophecy could just as easily apply to Nico. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
“Why don’t you apply for one thousand?” he said, bringing his pipe to a standstill and glancing at me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
One may also apply menthol and camphor rub to the chest, back, and neck. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
You may have been told by some pedant that over doesn’t apply to numbers, only to quantities. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
They washed the chemicals into the streams, and as this happened the farmers applied more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“When you’re in the dorm, you will treat it just like you are in this house. All the same rules apply. Do you understand?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Or maybe Hiroshi and Jamie, but either way, I didn't take those photographs, and I certainly didn't apply to Prism for drawing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Then he applied fresh bandages and stood up shakily. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
“So let’s just review the last twenty-four hours. One, you did not kill yourself. Two, you applied for college. Three, we made out. Those are three, like, really good things.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
“I like to see my students applying themselves, but don’t mistake a few weeks of practice for years of it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
It applies to everything in the Universe, and it does so at all times in the history of the Universe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
“It’s a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven’t figured ’em out yet,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
If laws of nature are something less than mathematical truths and something more than perceived regularities, then it would seem clear that they exist only because God has chosen to make them apply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
If there’s one thing I’d figured out about having a family crisis like ours, it’s that the old rules no longer applied — for example, I had probably gone four months without eating a single vegetable. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her eyes were on Julius, who was calmly applying the apron of antelope skin he wore over his tunic to his injured shoulder and pressing hard. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
It was so bizarre to apply those dry teachings to the eerie reality of this Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Proud that he could read the English as well as the Japanese, he figured he’d have an edge over anyone else applying. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
He would spend the nights walking around the room thinking aloud, searching for a way to apply the principles of the pendulum to oxcarts, to harrows, to everything that was useful when put into motion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
Then he remembered that such rules didn’t apply to him anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
When the onions were cooked to just the right softness, Dr. Bulkeley piled them in a mass on a linen napkin and applied the blistering poultice to Mercy’s chest. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
Bert Lewyn and his father stood in line at the Bolivian and then at the Chilean embassies, trying desperately to apply for a visa to South America. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
The lake water softened the clay Nhamo had so carefully applied. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The rules that applied to others did not apply to him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
My mom applied for a license to be able to operate a business on the property. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
He reached into his shirt pocket for the small tin of lotus-oil balm he carried with him at all times, and applied it to three spots on his forehead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
“You don’t know what I can do. Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly. Your indifference is half affectation, and a good stirring up would prove it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
Those who did know about it often thought of it as “the Nazi code,” something that applied to barbarians and dictators, not to American doctors. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
“No, unfortunately. But anyone in the neighborhood can apply to become members and have access to many of the facilities.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
They applied ice packs to my ribs, which were super uncomfortable because after a while the cold makes your skin feel like it’s burning. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
My own position is simple: in some matters of punctuation there are simple rights and wrongs; in others, one must apply a good ear to good sense. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z
Monday she borrowed Elaine’s blue dress, and she went down to the Kimo theater to apply for the job they advertised in the theater window. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
It would be only natural to suppose that this order should apply not only to the laws, but also to the conditions at the boundary of space-time that specify the initial state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
She urges me to apply to colleges out of state—Smith College in Massachusetts, for one, her alma mater. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
But for my twin who now teaches school and murders tree trunks I have heard various words applied by our neighbors, none with much fondness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
That is why Miss Charlotte Mortimer had sent the herbal poultice; at Swanburne her headmistress used to apply it to Penelope’s head every six weeks or so to maintain scalp health and repel lice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
He thought it applied to everything, but I wasn’t so sure. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
It’s Saturday, and Mom, Jude, and I are in the city at the museum’s rooftop café because Mom won the argument and we’re both going to apply to CSA in a year. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
She was now nearly as tall as I was and starting to think about applying to college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Were they motivated to apply this knowledge to developing food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The proverb “Misfortunes never come singly” definitely applies to today. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
It made Professor Nicholas Green suggest he apply for the foreign research grant at Nsukka, where he could write in a university environment. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
The car pool horn would honk, and she would rush out to join four other Japanese women who had fixed their hair that morning, applied the vanishing cream, and sported freshly ironed hankies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is administratively fashionable in Washington to attribute the delay of applied science in medicine to a lack of systematic planning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It won’t take you ten minutes to get there,” a friendly stranger with an obvious Talent for applying blue eye shadow informed her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
She had not told her parents she was applying to art school until the acceptance letter had arrived. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The War Department hired women to pose as mannequins and stand in the windows of Norfolk’s Smith & Welton department store, their task to entice other women to apply for war jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
But gravity isn’t limited to celestial bodies, it applies to people, too. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
All the colleges I applied to accepted me, but none offered me a scholarship or any other financial aid. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
She wants Roli to apply to the best colleges and for every scholarship. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
“I applied to some schools in New York City, so maybe we’ll be in the same state.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
If the same principle applied to animals and inheritance, then what force could possibly conserve any distinguishing feature of any variant organism? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Oh, how my brothers and I hated that word apply. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
He tried various chemicals and ways of applying them to wounds. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
At my next supervision, Professor Steinberg said that when I applied for graduate school, he would make sure I was accepted to whatever institution I chose. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
“I ain’t that small! Plenty boys my age are smaller’n me. Besides, a thing don’t have to be difficult if you give it some thought and apply a little elementary physics.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
Finally, let’s apply these lessons to comparing different industrial belts or businesses within the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Why are you applying to Brightwood when you want to go to Prism?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
Everyone Lexie knew was applying early and, as a result, all anyone could talk about in the Social Room was who was applying where. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
It’s applied indiscriminately to professional athletes, lottery winners, and kids who clean up at spelling bees. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I knew whatever reasons I’d had for dragging Fang out there no longer applied. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
He applied for many jobs but nobody would hire him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
As I apply some Sol-Glo to my face and neck, I feel a presence in the bathroom. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
I hum “Take This Waltz” by the late Leonard Cohen, one of those songs that never apply to me but help me lose myself anyway. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z
"I guess what I'll do is apply at some publishing house." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
The more fiercely Nick struggled and clawed, the more pressure Julian applied, yet Nick refused to yield. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
What else did a person need to apply for a job? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
“I’m sure this is not the proper protocol for applying for a position, but I figured why not. Here is my resume as well as my references. I have several years of secretarial experience.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Bobby tried to live and practice his beliefs; he felt truly born again, and he was applying the same sense of discipline and reverence to the Bible that he had all his life to chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Think of the tests, such repeated, remorseless, scandal- breathing tests, which day after day would be applied to you—until the last and certain day, when you would fail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Papa said afterwards that Camp actually applied himself that morning at the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
The same applies to any speech or extended piece of persuasive writing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
The author used Lyell’s geological theories, that the earth was constantly changing, and applied it to the living world, just as Charles did. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The third amendment applies here, as well,” Jamison announced. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had spent several weeks applying myself to the cause of liberty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“My parents waited quite a long time before they applied for my brother. I think I was eleven.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Although I did not mention Life Services in my article “Top Ten Tips for First-rate Funeral Behavior,” the same rules apply. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
I sucked in air when she applied the antiseptic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Fascinating and brain-teasing though this limitation might be, its main problem as applied to music was that the only people who understood or admired it were other musicians. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
Whenever I had a case outside Johannesburg, I applied to have my bans temporarily lifted, and this was often granted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
When a severe selection pressure is applied—a rise in temperature or a sharp restriction of nutrients—organisms with the “fittest” phenotype are selected. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
But the law was applied much more broadly, and soon thousands of mothers with children living in poor, marginalized communities where drugs and drug addiction are rampant were at risk of prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
I’m applying to three schools in New York, two in Boston, and one in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
She sits on the edge of the mattress, applies some blue cream from a tube to her calves and the bottoms of her feet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
She applied them to her tongue, one by one. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
There are two sorts of errors that can be made in applying this or any statistical test; they’re called, imaginatively enough, Type I and Type II errors. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Racing around in circles with library carts? Restocking shelves? Are these children applying for part-time jobs? Because they’re all far too young to be legally employed.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we’ve learned from those things to the future. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
Parallel syntax is just the Rule of One Variable applied to writing: if you want readers to appreciate some variable, manipulate the expression of that variable alone while keeping the rest of the language unchanged. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
I remember when I applied for a job at El Encanto, the director wanted me to be a model, to walk up and down the aisles in gowns and hats draped with chiffon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Why weren’t they applying pressure to their representatives in Parliament to force them to enact legislation abolishing Bantu Education and to address a myriad of other black grievances? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
A match was struck and applied to the pipe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
“But the artificial heat and mustard plaster that I had applied warmed his cold body and stimulated his nerves.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z
I’d never heard the expression applied to a member of the staff before, only to inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Before you go, Antain. Why don’t you do us a favor, since we cannot entice you to apply your clever hands to the making of beautiful things, no matter how many times we ask?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
It was an elegant demonstration of how to organize applied science, and for this reason it would have been a surprise if it had not succeeded. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Anxious to get out of Prague before everything fell apart politically, Kepler travelled to Linz, where he applied for a job as district mathematician and was accepted in June. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
Unlike where I live now, they do not apply for the same few spots in competitive colleges. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Before Prohibition was even one month old, more than fifty-seven thousand druggists had applied for permits to prescribe liquor, and within six months, fifteen thousand doctors had done the same. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
"How easy it is to snipe after the fact, to apply the knowledge we have now to the events of 1993," he wrote. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
That night Alba went to see her uncle in his tunnel of books and proposed that they apply the same system to his father’s weapons as she had to her mother’s provisions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Soon Bull began to work the bones of the boy’s right hand against each other, applying more and more pressure, until the boy began to scream for his friends to pull Bull off. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
So only after I got the creamy envelope embossed with The Juilliard School and a letter inviting me to audition did I tell Adam that I’d applied. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
He gives his orange corkscrew locks a shake and applies a fresh coat of purple lipstick to his mouth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
Knox was talking specifically about New York City, but his concluding thoughts on this process could be applied to all large urban centers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
The principle of mass production at last applied to biology. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Now they could apply for American driver’s licenses. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
A similar argument applies for every planet and asteroid and comet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I just meant to hold your tie. I never meant to apply pressure.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
I drove to the only grocery store in town, called Stokes, and applied for a job bagging groceries. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Lawrence had returned to the wartime mind-set of applying unlimited resources to a problem. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The descriptive literature that may be picked up in any hardware- or garden-supply store seldom if ever reveals the true hazard involved in handling or applying the material. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Many were so culturally alienated that they never thought to apply; they couldn’t even imagine themselves going to college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
She applied Tan- gee Orange to her lips, combed her hair, and stuck down her cowlick with some of Jem’s Vitalis. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
But even after seeing and hearing Elijah Muhammad in person, only a few of the interested visitors would apply by formal letter to Mr. Muhammad to be accepted for Nation of Islam membership. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is a movement often labelled Romanticism, although, like the terms ‘Renaissance’, ‘Baroque’ and ‘Classical’, it presents considerable difficulties when applied to music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
It was enough that they applied lipstick to their corpses and buried them in silk-lined boxes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
She picks up her phone with one hand, a Yale brochure in the other, and snaps some “applying to college” selfies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z
Colonel Hedgepath was on Bull’s back applying a half-nelson and laughing in victory before Bull was ever aware there was a fight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
That was when she’d applied for Social Security disability, she said, which she only got after several court appearances. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
Wheels squealed on steel and the train cars shuddered as the brakes were applied. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
After the motto was applied, Ignatius stood back and said to Miss Trixie, “It is complete.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
She removed the container of salve again from her pack, opened it, and applied it thickly to the gaping slice in her flesh. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
When I returned to our fly, evening having fallen, I found Dr. Trefusis applying cold tea to his sunburns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Asked his opinion of what the trial had accomplished, Ellsberg gave an answer that applied to everything he’d done—everything he’d risked—since his decision to begin copying the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
I slide a brown pencil along my upper eyelids and feather my lashes, apply Terra Coral lipstick, then blot my lips, apply it again, and tuck the gold vial in my purse. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
Likewise, if you know the way an object moves—whether it be a toy ball or a giant planet—the differential equation can tell you what kind of force is being applied. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
The emotions of religion applied to economic systems, rather than to extra-natural ones? I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
He cleaned the long ugly wound and applied a poultice of herbs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
We discussed Patrick Henry’s speech—“Give me liberty or give me death”—and applied it to our own situation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z
The word “writer” was enough to make a black Chicago Communist feel that the man to whom the word applied had gone wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
When this chemical was introduced in 1955, the manufacturer applied for a tolerance which would sanction the presence of small residues on any crops that might be sprayed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Perhaps you noticed the vigor I applied toward your walk in particular? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
She was carrying a can of Miller High Life beer; she smelled of beer and tobacco and recently applied nail varnish. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had applied a bright blue mask to her face, was smoking and sipping some bourbon with ice and leafing through a fat paperback book whose pages had buckled and turned gray from the water. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
The same rules that apply to if statements apply to those starting with as if or as though: He acts as if he were infallible. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The other part is looking at those marks and applying the judgment needed to ensure that the narrative that flies by your mind’s eye will be recognizable to an independent reader. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
The caulk Arturo had tried to apply lay splintered in the seams. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
She works as a paralegal, is applying to law schools nearby. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Yeah, maybe he’ll go over and apply at Media One, where a friend works and the wages are higher . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You could go look in the Hall of Open Records. You’d find the names. But think, son. If you apply for children, then who will be their parents-of-the-parents? Who will be their grandparents?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
But never, ever have I heard the word strong applied to me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
She was talking about putting nail polish on a runner in your hose, but I think the same rule applies here.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
Additionally, in this book we will explore ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
But any suggestion that litigants need not worry about policy reform because they can always sue for damages would be disingenuous—particularly as applied to race discrimination cases. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Enough income for us to apply for a loan. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
She frowned, wondering if maybe some of the old rules didn’t apply in Pittsburgh after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
I hope other scholars and advocates will pick up where the book leaves off and develop the critique more fully or apply the themes sketched here to other groups and other contexts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Not all of these apply equally commonly in all parts of the modern world, obviously. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
I could not apply myself fully with their speaking; I lifted my hands to my ears and pressed my fingers in. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
She’d asked him if he minded if she applied, and though the idea of her being so far had made him queasy he’d said no, of course not, that twelve weeks would go like that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
In the warm enclosed waters of farm ponds, conditions are very likely to be lethal for fish when insecticides are applied in the vicinity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Write and tell me how the littles are misbehaving and where you are applying to college and whether you have found true love. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
Technically, Jews and Episcopalians are supposed to be gay-friendly, but it's hard to really know how that applies to your own parents. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z
A coordination phrase is a strange entity, and the logic of trees that applies elsewhere in English syntax does not apply to it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
The same logic had to apply to the natural world, Paley reasoned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
We watched in awe as Abuelita Remedios lanced, compressed, and flushed Pita’s wounds one at a time before applying her concoction liberally to each laceration. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
She was against welfare and never applied for it despite our need, but championed those who availed themselves of it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
She began to plan and to dream, to apply for jobs in Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
But by the time his article came out, in 1963, he had realized that his findings applied far beyond Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“But your decision does not apply to me,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I can answer your question,” said Fitzwilliam, “without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z
“And then apply it to the card,” he finished, holding up the dripping red card for us to see. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insect larvae, or undesired fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“And we can apply for a protective order so Lenny has to stay away from us. They asked if he cares about his reputation enough to obey a protective order.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
Ema had pointed out that she might have more trouble convincing the bouncers that she was applying for work as a dancer, to which Rachel frowned and said, “Nonsense, you look hot.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z
It was a requirement, Guo Ming noted to himself, that did not apply to the United States. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
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