She catches herself, then looks around and lowers her voice. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I craned my neck to see, and there he was, standing in the middle of the hallway as the crowd passed him by, looking around and rocking back and forth on his heels. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Peeta looks around at our stunned faces, as if waiting for a reply. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With an effort, he sat up a little straighter and looked around at Harry, who was sitting next to him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I look around, Taro and Shoji are looking at me the same way. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

These men don’t even sleep on mats on the ground? she thought briefly, but then the horror of what was about to happen overwhelmed her and she looked around wildly for a means of escape. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the monster had completely turned to dust, the lions and the Hermes statue looked around in confusion. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room and saw four members of my chain of command looking down on me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

You had only to look around at the faces in the room to know that despite their strengths these girls would need to work hard to be seen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dad pulls me away by both shoulders which means the conversation is over NOW I look around for Michael because his mother was shot like Devon so he should be at the fun raiser too. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phoebe took one look around and whispered to me, “Mary Lou’s parents do not seem to have much control over things.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He took the other end from Tarik and looked around for a tree trunk to tie it to. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The three of them looked around the parking lot. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around for his bat, which had rolled across the quarterdeck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Violet looked around the cramped, smelly room in which they had been living. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I looked around to find the quickest route within the limits of the honesty in which I had been raised, and I realized that success required godparents, advanced studies, or capital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally took one last look around, taking in the ruins splayed out below them, the dark woods, the pearly strip of river stretching toward the glowing sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As she stood among them leading the conversation through small rhetorical hills, she looked around at “her girls” and could put them in categories by signs she recognized. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardening herself to wonder, she looked around again and saw, up ahead, the figure of a man with long dark hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Theresa looked around and said, “This is a real nice place.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s gesticulating again and looking around—for what, I don’t know. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Joey, but I didn’t see him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Outside, you walk a couple of quick blocks and then stop to look around: people with their coffee cups, people with their phones, people with their friends. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ron looked around as though hoping somebody else would intervene, but nobody spoke. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I looked around the table, smiling at everyone because of this special attention given to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around for the source of the light and saw a sliver of silver-white shining brightly from within a black cabinet behind him, whose door had not been closed properly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When we went back upstairs to join the others, I looked around the room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The other students fidgeted and looked around at each other, searching each other’s eyes for indisputable signs and glimmers of leadership. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo put his arm around Meggie’s shoulders as he looked around, but apart from a few stray cats he could see nothing moving in the parking lot or among the houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She went as far as the path in front of the house and looked around the darkness and saw nobody. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could clean the stalls or feed the animals, maybe even slide onto old Belle and have me a look around the place. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Standing, she smoothed down the wrinkled skirt of her dress and looked around for Gitl. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park sat up in bed and looked around dumbly. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Today I wasn’t there just to look around, like when I come in with Dad and he takes forever deciding which kind of wire to get. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it might be soundproofed like Alder Whin’s, but looking around I saw the walls and ceilings were bare grey stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What is this place?” asked Monsieur Frick, looking around. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked around but no one knew the answer. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked around, half expecting to see vultures perched on the lampposts. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The detective that wasn’t asking the questions started looking around. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

So then I looked around and tried to remember where the sun had been when we’d first entered the field earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What led you to investigate the defendant in the first place? Why did you think to look around his boat and to notice something like a new mooring line?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around for someone to trade spoons with, but lo and behold, nobody but our family even had any kind of a spoon at all! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentin would make Valya look around for the rest of his squadron while he flew, often thinking harder about his flight crews than about the enemy targets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around, but Alice was in the other room washing Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I looked around to make sure my parents were still in their room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No harm in taking a look around,” the taller one said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I hold his shoulders, like Dylan wants me to do when he’s panicking, but Arthur shakes me off and looks around the platform. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The chief guardian looked around the table at the eleven others as if he sought comments or questions. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it struck him that he ought to find a good place for the lean-to and so he decided to look around first. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then he looked down, looked up, looked around, looked down again, and said...drumroll, please,” Tats says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Thanks Bud, but I think I’ll look around,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would find myself looking around for her, to see what I might want to feel. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Paulette looked around in a daze, then buried her face in her hands and burst into tears. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Soundkeeper looked around with an expression of unrelieved sadness on her unhappy face. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

My sister looked around and saw everybody casting glances at my dad, lying on his throne. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I looked around while she went to get the coffee. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The singing faltered, and some of the bearers looked around in doubt and fear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He paused and looked around the room and then concluded, “I never expect to see a better rowed race.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She waited for her eyes to adjust, and looked around. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He looked around quickly to confirm the apartment was empty, then went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I look around and spot the one sign that doesn’t have an English translation: ¡BIENVENlDOS! Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I climbed up off the grass and looked around. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo stood in the door and looked around inside, at the empty tables with crooked legs of different lengths. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she says, looking around at all the decorations that we’ve put up, “The hearts are really nice. It’s like the school vomited construction paper.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Taro looks around my room, taking in the abundance of art prints I’ve collected over the years and the shelves of “creepy clay things” against the wall. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room, glad when I discovered my duffel bag on top of the low dresser. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The captain wouldn't mind. He often has visitors come aboard. We’re a sea-river vessel. Very unusual. People like to come aboard and look around.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Sisters and Brothers,” he began in a voice so deep I looked around to see where it came from. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He circled on the crutches to look around. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around for the other woman and, seeing just the top of her head rag in the grass, slowly realized where “yonder” was. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stood in the doorway looking around, looking puzzled. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Really, I'd like to look around for a better place, but this one will have to do because my ally is shot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas clamped his hands to his ears, looking around as the siren blared, his heart about to thump its way out of his chest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As Papá and Mamá checked in, I looked around the cramped office. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I see his body twisting to look around. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every time a teacher would drag our class to the Met for a field trip, I’d look around for good hiding spots, but I knew I would never be able to do anything that brave. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s wonderful having your young ones, but I keep looking around for her. I wish we could have the young ones and the old ones, too.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the garden before we left. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw a chart on the wall with all the names of the boys at the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looked around for the bird now because he would have liked him for company. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my distress growing every moment, I looked around, trying to get some sense of my whereabouts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and opened my coat slightly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She looks around, and then back at me, frowning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If only he had given himself time to look around instead of scuttling for the nearest chair! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly it was shooting off in a different direction, not flapping, and I looked around, and Henrietta was glaring at it too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She looked around to see if Salvador felt the same way, but he was listening raptly. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Eyes open again, she looked around once more and said, “But where is dear Professor Lupin?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She poked her head out and looked around. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He looked around, listening intently as he approached the barrier, then dragged it over to the side of the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His words lingered in her mind, and she looked around as more beastkeepers gathered. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Meg looked around her, realizing that she had been so breathless from the journey and the stop on the two- dimensional planet that she had not noticed her sur-roundings. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soft touch of a gentle paw on his back caused him to look around. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he looked around to all of us children. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Annabeth, though I knew she wasn’t here. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around for the rods and reels, at least some bamboo poles, but didn’t see anything. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around for where the noise is coming from. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Isabella looks around the room like there might be a hidden camera or something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She looked around as though she’d just realized that we were half in the woods, half leaning against the back of Bat Lady’s house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Trust me,” Lily said, looking around before forcing the door open. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I blew my breath out and took a look around. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Through the window I could see the tops of other buildings, and I decided to get up and look around to see how high up from the ground we were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gwydion looked around and then nodded with satisfaction. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father is looking around, making sure the curtains are closed. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the passenger car, but nobody else had noticed. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the courtyard, thinking the cops are going to come in through the breezeways and arrest all of us for murder. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around, unable to decide, until he pulled a Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar from the wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see if I had a place to run, but before I did, he smiled at me and surreptitiously gave me the thumbs-up ANC salute and was gone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room overwhelmed by the sea of white before me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and even though the arena was dim and only half-lit, the seats empty, and I was chilled to the bone without the full uniform and pads, I couldn’t help but smile. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and notice there is only one bedroom. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I looked around me—no houses, no ships, no wharves. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio hung his hat on Victor’s coatrack and looked around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And looking around the room, I remember thinking that my reading differences were like dragging a concrete block around every day, and how I felt sorry for myself. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He then looked around at Ron, who was smacking his lips. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They stepped through the entrance and paused, looking around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Back in Sam’s room the doctor had sniffed once at the air and looked around for the source of the smell. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just look around the locker room. There isn’t one guy who didn’t buy in wholeheartedly.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After everything was taken care of, I asked if I could look around the camp. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the walls that are full of my pictures. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and looked around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The look on my face must tell her to look around and figure out what's happened. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We looked around for the mine but didn’t see one. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looks around and gets a look on his face like he’s disgusted. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I woke up I had to look around a while before I remembered where we were. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around again wildly for someone to agree. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I decided to look around and see if there was anything left from the real farm this was back then. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After a couple of blocks, when I could breathe a little easier, I craned to look around. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around them, evaluating, then to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Silence fell down in the sifting dust, and all the leisure they might need to look around, to gather the reality of this day into their senses. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around the street but it is dark and empty, only a crisp breeze blowing through, rustling the leaves in the gutter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When we look around us in our little corner of the Milky Way, we see many stars surrounded by spherical shells of glowing gas, the planetary nebulae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still there were patches of woods here and there, so as I plowed along through the snow I kept looking around for woodlots to run to if something happened. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused to look around, making sure they were all listening. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around to the nearby houses where, through parted curtains, curious eyes watched. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could we look around for it? We won’t take long,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I took one last look around Halliday’s office; then, still clutching the egg in my hands, I walked across the room and stepped through the exit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I look around the room, refusing to believe there’s no water left in here. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The three lodgers stepped out of their room and looked around for their breakfast, astonished that they had been forgotten. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for something to talk about. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie lowered the sheet of paper and looked around, searching for him, but she couldn't see him anywhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this is beautiful,” said Summer, looking around as she dropped her sleeping bag in the hallway. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said they don’t eat meat,” Denna said, looking around nervously. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Still, a tiny balloon of hope fills my chest as I look around at the others. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She looks around the room, sees me and the way I’m looking at her, and knows. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All they could do was look around in horror. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

When I looked around, no one was even paying attention to me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly, kind of looking around—anxiously awaiting the outcome of Mr. Terupt’s surgery. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I used to do that for hours,” Elodin said, drawing a deep breath and looking around the room fondly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he slowly looked around at the others with the expression of dazed determination he used when the object was to carry people along with his latest idea. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see if I could catch their eyes, but they were concentrated on the invisible target in the swamp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until Redemption stood and looked around for Pet that Jam recognized the emotion he’d finally allowed take hold of him: rage. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around the warehouse for some heavy items. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and looked around, as if thinking, I bet she sat in this chair. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just need to drive through town and, uh, look around.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He looks around to see what I might be seeing and then he says, “Good poo, Todd.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around, then scooted over to his desk, plopped down into his plush desk chair, and spun until I got sick of it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Though I looked around, I didn’t see the water spout for the colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian looked around at the shelter, the comfort, the food, the fire, the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She put a hand up to her mouth and looked around as if she was searching for a misplaced book. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around him at the date palms. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whale rams us again, and finally the navigator looks around him to see the big picture. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the men still ducking their heads, but watching all the same. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around for a place to be. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I flexed my fingers and toes to make sure I could, then looked around. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The diamond-studded scythe and his rainbow of subordinates followed, looking around at the understated opulence of the mansion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Thus reassured that the white, the red and the brown would stay where they were—would not explode or burst forth from their restricted zones—he suddenly felt hungry and looked around for his hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around nervously and then pointed at her imaginary audience, yelling, “How can I act in front of you people? You’re all naked! This is extremely rude!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I need to look around a bit,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around, but there was no one near enough to have left it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But then I look around and everything she’s said is true. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella looked around frantically for a friendly face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My name is Fabiola,” I say, still looking around at the other women, who are all much more than just women. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around for something to pry with. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’d like to look around and not feel like I’m the outsider. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When you look around, it appears that every man here was fixing to go to a different party, and then suddenly they all got plunked here together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some trains in the yard and I looked around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry doubled back to see who had spoken and met Professor Lupin, looking around his office door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She closed the door behind her and looked around. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long, narrow windows let in the sunlight, and I sit in one of the pews and look around, thinking: What now? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I look around at the first few rows and notice that everyone’s already teamed up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s a long shot, but I’d like to look around, just in case.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He jammed his clothes into his pack, then looked around. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I look around, my heart a jackhammer in my chest, blood thudding in my ears. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle planted his fists on his hips and looked around. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around at the scraggly grounds, the overgrown bushes, the abandoned houses. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We were inside by then and I looked around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around, then points to another snake, soaking up the last sun of the day on a limb of the dead tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and unbolted the door; Hermione toppled inside at once, regained her balance, and looked around suspiciously. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He took a good look around before his eyes locked on the flag on the dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s breath caught in her throat, and she started looking around for the form of Penelope in the crowd, terrified at what Clara would think. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Him over there, with the red .. “... demon. A demon of wind and ...” I looked around in mute confusion until Wilem and Simmon hurried me away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The guy looked around and there was a space next to the territory I'd carved out for myself on the table with my pile of books. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around warily and darted back to the road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She looked around desperately and then began to yell, “Help! Somebody help!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Alaric pursed his lips and looked around before opening a drawer behind him with a skeleton key. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I slide my legs off the table and look around for a weapon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he looks around town for other traces of the artist. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked around the room, wishing there was someone she could talk to right now. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She had positioned herself right next to the curb and was making her way with incredible speed and assurance, never once swerving or looking around. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the dark trees, the boulders, the men hunched before him in blue mounds, waiting. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the man’s reflection look around, settle the knot of his tie, and go into the lawyer’s office. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel kept talking in this way until he looked around and realized that his guest was no longer by his side. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The pain in his head lessened — he looked around wildly to see where Quirrell had gone, and saw him hunched in pain, looking at his fingers — they were blistering before his eyes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Piper kept looking around like she expected an ambush. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The minder looks around, his eyes blinking wildly at the others on the block, now gathered in a semicircle around him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“So this is their plan,” said the bald man, looking around. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The king's father looked around, aghast, but only the lifeless stone Bauxi, held down by the monument as if pinned by a needle, remained. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was at her desk, green eyeshade low, and she did not look around at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper looked around, “Someone just gave me a very weird look.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned, looking around the room; he touched one finger gingerly to the letters on the wall and moved Theodora’s yellow shirt with his foot. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He therefore pulled his wand out of the inside of his robes, cast a nervous look around the office, looked back at the contents of the basin, and prodded them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone cheered, and I looked around at all the smiling faces. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I looked around, suddenly wishing for a witness, or a shield. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They waded through thick drying grass to get to it and Olanna looked around, half fearing she would see Mama’s skeleton lying somewhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around the little dead girl’s room and could see that even a hard-up thief wouldn’t find nothing much worth stealing in here. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look around the room for something to take with me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a plasma screen, because the costumes budget wasn’t big enough, but from underneath the skull I could look around without anyone noticing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm looking around. I'm having a marvelous----" "You must see the faces of many people you've heard about." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looked around and realized the house was emptying. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I look around for Grandma—I wish she’d print out her daily schedule and give it to me—and try again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Wherever he went, Lyra went, too, wishing she had something to fight with as Will was doing, but looking around, watching more widely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Daddy pauses and looks around my room like he’s trying to find what he wants to say hidden somewhere. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Gabe looked around at the piles of boards, the sawdust, the mess on the ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If he’s gone for the day, why don’t we just look around?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see where it was coming from, and that’s when I noticed that all the animals were out of their cages. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My sister just kind of looked around, uncomfortable. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He certainly had those, thought Harry, looking around the room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, no one said I couldn’t look around.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I started looking around her apartment for her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Light Hair reluctantly looked around at the burned village. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a scrubbed wooden table and chairs in the middle, and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Quietly she closed the door and looked around. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked around, suddenly I saw him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You go and look around. I will wait here for you.” Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slung it over one shoulder and looked around for Denna. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Stephanie and found her in conversation with a few juniors. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The baby looked around at everything, and then her hand found her mouth and in went a thumb. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I closed the Scoreboard and took a long look around my stronghold, wondering if it was for the last time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around and his heart seemed to fail: Death Eaters had penetrated Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Snape took his time looking around at everybody else, making sure he had no choice, before saying curtly, “Very well — Miss Granger?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ll get over it in a minute. Is everybody ready to go upstairs now and take a look around?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The solitary gray animal loped along the shore, stopping every dozen strides to look around and sniff among the rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Harry picked his up uncertainly and looked around — there were no waiters. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He put Security on his lap and looked around with interest. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went around to his back door and knocked, looking around to see if anybody had seen me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s looking around, taking pictures of the arena and the lines. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I looked around I saw Trip’s tent lying half collapsed and smoldering in his fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d disappear from my hands, and I’d look around for him, getting panicked, until I’d hear a telltale raspy laugh and find him dangling from a ceiling fan, revolving on one of the blades. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the sky began to turn a deep blue, Timothy roused himself and looked around. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow, not without a certain amount of hesitation, and a hasty look around for any House on the Rock personnel who might be watching, swung himself up onto the ledge beside the World’s Largest Carousel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“The security guards didn’t do anything. But the policemen were actually kind of efficient. One of them looked around the room while the other herded everybody in the hall and started asking questions.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I took one look around the empty house before I opened the front door. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked around, scanning the tops of the forest trees and the branches underneath. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked around again and then picked up the skin and let it unfurl. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she had an almost overwhelming desire to look around—to see what was behind the other doors and down the other corridors. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And it's like she's going a long way back somewhere so she can look around and remember. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started looking around for Henrietta, and when I came back around the big junk pile, the door was open. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang, she jumped at the sound and quickly looked around to see if anyone had seen her jump. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

George looked around to make sure no one else could hear. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My father, who sat back in his chair when there was no more food on the table, who looked around at us, and who said, “Isn't that orchid the most beautiful sight you ever saw?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Clara jerked as if slapped, and looked around at everyone clapping and smiling and giving her looks of sympathy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. At least I’ll get a look around. There might be some way out. What can I lose?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lovey bumped around in the kitchen while I kept looking around at all the old trinkets and pictures. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"I'm going to New York to work," I said, looking around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the beard and the turban, who did not believe in ghosts, was looking around him nervously. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I look around at the pile of rough-cut wood, the wide whitewashed planks of the porch walls. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he entered the house, he looked around at the blank-faced walls, the two prickly bushes outside the window—the tan shag carpeting, the lack of books, the tiny stove. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dale looked around as if someone might be watching. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I looked around at what I could see of Ill-ah-no-way from the Howard Johnson Motel, and it might as well have been seven thousand miles from the lake. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Taking a final look around, I knew that this was the only place that would ever be home for me. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She stands up and looks around the room, searching for clues to a murder that has yet to happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As she sucked in a huge breath, her eyes snapped open and she blinked, looking around at the crowd surrounding her. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I looked around and noticed the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more of them were gathering in a throng where the Shadow had collapsed, all looking around as if they'd just woken from a deep sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I look around for the fish and there it is, fifty or sixty feet away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the deserted alleyway and shivered. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As she speaks, I look around surreptitiously for these brothers of hers— Tribal men are notoriously protective of their unwed women, and I'm not looking for a fight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then he took a moment to look around. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They laced their coffee and Milkman looked around for his cigarettes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scarlett looked around, and saw a man in a fawn-colored raincoat squatting in front of a gravestone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Toby looked around at the boxes, stacked deep into the surprisingly large bathroom. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look around the room but I know there’s no place for her to hide. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at everyone, trying to hide the embarrassment that was already written on my face. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I finally take a look around and take a look inside, I’m not very excited about what I see. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As the waitress departs, Celia casts a long look around the room, scanning the crowd as though she is looking for someone but not finding a point to focus on. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He walked outside, still panting, and looked around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look around curiously at our rotting tents and the big iron pot hanging over the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone looks around to see what has interrupted him. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I stopped, looking around me; the girders marched off rhythmically into the dark, over the cobblestones the red lights shone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing nothing, he stood up slowly and looked around the room. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walkover to the table and put five cookies in a napkin, looking around to make sure no one is watching. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around, confused, then saw Jessie staring down at him. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around, blinking in the bright light. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rubbing their backsides and scowling, Jack and Sarah looked around to find themselves surrounded by stubby creatures with gray skin and pointed ears. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the garage and looked around. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, daring the others to object. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the clearing then and found that she was surrounded by all manner of forest creatures—owls and foxes, dormice and squirrels, bees and deer and rabbits. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I packed my things and looked around for some of my loyal nurses; I was disappointed at not being able to thank them and bid them farewell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Slughorn proved much more persuadable than I had expected. Harry’s doing, of course. Ah, hello, Nymphadora!”Harry looked around and saw that Mrs. Weasley was not alone, despite the lateness of the hour. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Polly looked around, but the smokehouse was so dark that she could distinguish only the shadowy figures of a couple of hams hanging from hooks. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, hoping something else will grab his attention. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I slowed to look around and Brer Fox snarled at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She looked around: gloom and desolation on every side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The small golden clock standing upon Slughorn’s desk chimed eleven o’clock behind him and he looked around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I looked around the arena and found my family sitting over by the uneven bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

First I looked around the aisle where they kept bandages and antiseptic. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Either that or look around for something to distract you. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see her look around for a seat. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around, eyes wide with confusion, muttering in a language I didn't understand. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around; all three of the Dursleys were cowering with their arms over their heads as their glasses bounced up and down on their skulls, their contents flying everywhere. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The next day, Quinn was well enough to get out of bed and walk by himself, strong and straight again, so I took him outside for air and a look around. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

With the little light cranked up to 100percent—because there’s no way I’m going in there with it lower—my guess is I’ll have all of ten minutes to look around. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Back on the ship we had an unused venting duct that we snuck into,” she says, looking around. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But if you wanted to get into the flat in the front—the empty one—to look around, you would find the door locked, and then where would you be?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

All the fighting stops immediately; people get to their feet, look around. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I’m about to go when something makes me take a final look around. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ned had not heard the eunuch approach, but when he looked around/there he stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While she finished getting ready, he sat down on her bed and looked around. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He looked around the front hall, took in all the signs of cleaning, ambled over and peered into the parlor, and put on an exaggerated mock expression of being impressed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t look around, if I kept my eyes locked on Eddie, I could imagine I was back in Chicago. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He paused and looked around to see if there were any white people within hearing distance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around twice as I cross the park. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After looking around the living room, Isa wandered into the kitchen in search of her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Old Brossard was a bridge fiend, and he started looking around the dorm for a game. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He looked around to make sure no one was listening, then leaned in close and whispered, “But you know what pays even better?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As Post looked around the room, he saw in the eyes of his peers great admiration but also something else. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I looked around; if there were other men could do this job and stick it out, then I could too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started blinking a lot and looking around, and the music sounded heavy like water. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I will not look around until I am next to the brook, where she almost fell the day we came; I will remind her about the golden fish in the brook and about our picnic. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey poked her head in, pulled it back out, and looked around. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I looked around the table and everyone looked like they were chewing very seriously. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We just all looked around at each other. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ulysses poked his head out and looked around the restaurant. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She looks around for a second, then heads over to a display at the front. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I looked despairingly in the pack and then looked around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We were so worried about the stupid code words, we didn’t think to look around for something to push—the last word, the last piece of the puzzle.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“His name was Lone Bear. They’d been friends since boyhood. They were separated in the fighting. After it was over, Crazy Horse was looking around for him.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rex Rollins, eating a Dorito by the piano, looks around and shakes his head, really digging this girl’s answer, and calls to Garret Charles, “I love the simplicity of that.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed our mistreatment by the security officer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some, with furtive looks around them, conjured fires with their wands; others were striking matches with dubious looks on their faces, as though sure this couldn’t work. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When he emptied out the last bucket of water, Chase looked around. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Grace quickly looked around to see if anyone had overheard that ugly name, but they were in the elevator, alone. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally finished looking around her kitchen, I realized I had gone through four more of the cookies. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded and continued to look around the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Holy . . . ,” he breathed, looking around at nothing in particular. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They weaved around bushes and through the alleyways, Mr. Dimblewit looking around nervously almost the entire way. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Chaol looked around the cavernous hall; in fact, most of the Champions’ sponsors went about as usual. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some of us looked around the village while others followed the tracks of the creature down the path to the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I get food that I don’t plan to eat and look around at the sea of tables and shouting kids falling into place naturally, finding friends, saving seats, knowing just where to go. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around and saw the fellows getting into position for the next play. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max rubs the middle of her forehead while I look around once more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around with enthusiasm, pleased as a schoolboy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan looked around to make sure they weren’t being observed, and spoke quietly. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He looks around at the rest of the room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He looks around and drops his voice low. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After looking around a bit, I perch on a slippery horsehair chair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She patted under her pillows, then looked around the room and pointed to a small puddle of satin lying on the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I look around until I find the clock on the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Isobel says, looking around to see if anyone is close enough to overhear their conversation, but most of the mourners have dissipated into the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He helped her up, and for the first time they looked around at the land where the ghosts were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was working at the dirt and looking around suspiciously all the time. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a punch on my shoulder and looked around and saw Valentine Carmina grinning back at me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around him, wondering where all the enemies had gone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stood, my hat in my hand, looking around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, memorizing the landscape to draw it for Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘Just having a look around. You should always scout a battlefield before the battle.’ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But just thinking such words made me look around guiltily, as if Mami were standing behind me with a hot pepper, set to rid me of the habit of vulgar speech. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the three men looked around, and for a moment Elinor thought he could see her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stopped atop the highest one and looked around, recognizing nothing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looked around, puzzled, then realized what it was. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were shaking, and he kept looking around like at any moment something might jump out of the shadows and devour him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She looked around at the assembled gods, meeting their frees individually. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then the sound of a door opening made him look around. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I rested for perhaps ten minutes, then got up and had a look around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They went to the post office; Ron pretended to be checking the price of an owl to Bill in Egypt so that Harry could have a good look around. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We look around the grocery store, spending a lot of time in the candy aisle observing how different the flavors are—green tea Kit Kat bars, wasabi drops, squid-flavored gummies, and melon soda. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know who to look for, so we just looked around for a while. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She crumples for just a half second before she lifts her head and looks around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After the swells died down, I pulled my hands into the sleeves of Marion’s sweatshirt and looked around. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper drew a deep breath of autumn air and looked around restlessly, as if waiting for something to happen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Flames far below glared on the underside of the intention craft, still somehow hovering in the air and now turning slowly as if to look around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sort of kept looking around for those two nuns I'd met at breakfast the day before, but I didn't see them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He felt suffocated as he looked around the library. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for guards asking us to leave. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the room full of red-eyed adults. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the family, Carmen and her dad, and Mop’s parents. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Jam closed the door behind her and looked around. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She looked around at her friends’ worried expressions. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I look around the room at all these men and women and think about each of us being someone’s seed, someone’s prayer, someone’s hope. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lana asked as she moved up to the corner of the building to look around at the clearing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Looking at Shay, I can tell she’s looking around the room wondering where she fits in now. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I take a shaky breath and look around. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Incidents of my past, both recognized and ignored, sprang together in my mind in an ironic leap of consciousness that was like looking around a corner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my chance. If I get inside, I can look around. There might be something in there that can connect him to the other boys.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He ripped off another hunk of meat and chewed it thoughtfully, looking around the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around when I was inside the mission with my parents to see if maybe the accordion-man was there, but he wasn’t. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I look around, try to think of a lie, but finally I just sigh. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never been in a house with a name,” Citra said as she looked around, doing her best to be unimpressed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around and saw Mr. Crouch standing up in the middle of the bench beside him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids were stationed behind the cardboard animals to keep them up, and they giggled and kept looking around the edges at each other. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine is looking around the room, her expression filled with wonder, and it’s no surprise. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even with the bandages doing their thing I can’t stand up straight all the way but I do my best and look around. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the staff parking lot, Jule looked around and found the bartender’s little blue sedan, unlocked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I stepped through the entrance, I glanced up—or in the direction that was currently “up” to me at the moment—and took a long look around. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I scramble to my feet, saying “Excuse me” loudly so the other people in the carriage will hear, but there’s hardly anyone in here and no one looks around. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, through his tears, and there, sitting on a Brussels sprout, was Margalo. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, grown-up stuff. You know, things like cool clothes and”—June lowered her voice and looked around like she was about to spill the world’s greatest secret—“love.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I looked around and noticed the One Stop was empty other than our booth and Abby’s family. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then I slowly got to my feet and looked around. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I look around his room and realize that it’s not at all what I expected. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I look around the gallery, and I can’t wait to get up close, really study the work. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around; the sun was gone, its light lingering for a few moments longer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Raymie looked around and saw that Beverly had opened the door to her father’s office and was standing and staring inside it. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then she lit it and took in a long drag and looked around. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Where is that guidebook?” he asks, finally breaking eye contact and making a show of looking around the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before I get a chance to look around, Kasim’s arms are around me and his lips are touching mine. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I look around and reach into my back pocket. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Chancellor looked around the table, but all mouths were silent, all eyes were stern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around, expecting someone to crack a smile, to let me in on the joke. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I think I hate this,” Bridge said, looking around. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room and saw the four children, Ethan, Noah, Nadia, and Julian sitting at a table on the far side of the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking around the hem to see if the quilt maker had stitched in her initials, but the edges were all raying away. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, as if afraid someone would overhear. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Who said that?” asked the man Jack, looking around. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No one is looking around awkwardly anymore like they did on the first day, no one but me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I remember looking around the confines of the campus, thinking I would be lucky to ever get out of Tampa again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I automatically look around for a good tree to nest in before I realize that's over. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought,” Eleanor said carefully, “that I might even look around. Old houses are usually cheap, you know, and it’s fun to make them over.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and notice that there isn’t just one campfire, but several, constellated across the span of the traffic-jammed freeway, in different clearings. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dee looks around and spots the nearly finished dovecote on the bench. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My knife is gone, and I look around wildly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

People had looked around at each other and started whispering. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You don’t get much call for Morgenstern nowadays. I don’t know any more what I got back there. You come in tomorrow, you look around.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The SS man with the list took one last look around the empty apartment, at the seven of us sitting or standing on the bare floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While Mandy stood dumbstruck, I looked around the kitchen, greeting every familiar object. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around and saw Moody sitting there again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked around, confused for a moment, then headed into a nearby store, dripping blood all the way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around at the fast-food options and walk ahead of him to a chicken spot. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Being thirsty, I looked around for another spout. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, and I see the others looking at us. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Each then looked around for more debris to throw into the hole: paper, bits of glass, butts of cigarettes, until all of the small defiling things they could find were collected there. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the rest of the masters and saw only nods. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize that everything is on the floor: the top sheet, the covers, the pillow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Clear up?” said Ron, looking around at the partly destroyed café. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Finally the train emerged from yet another long misty stretch into a red sunset, and Slughorn looked around, blinking in the twilight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was to look around the hood. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just Renee looked around at the dry twigs and towering trees. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Five girls in headsets looked around from their switch-boards, pointed to their chests, and mouthed silently, Me? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She fired that look around, Farrell got his medicine and blankets, and everyone felt ashamed of themselves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were glazed over as she looked around. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look around at the lords and ladies of Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I had intended—” and the doctor looked around at them with bright, anxious optimism—“I had intended to ask if you all played bridge?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around and tried to recall the way to her apartment, then set out haltingly along the sidewalk. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She nodded and looked around at the starry night sky and the crescent moon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are looks around the room and we wonder if it’s suicide he’s after. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They looked around; sure enough, there sat Neville with a bloody lip and several nasty scratches along the side of his face, but clutching an unpleasantly pulsating green object about the size of a grapefruit. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“This is some crazy room,” he says, looking around. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She walked slowly to the stairs up to her family’s flat, and then stopped and looked around. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I suggest you look around,” the Director yells, waving his arm over the camp, addressing the internees. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The girl had raised her head and was looking around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Karen looks around and then says with a sigh, “Mrs. Simpson went on to a better place.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ambrose yelled, looking around as if he couldn’t decide who he was asking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chester looked around at the newsstand—the box of Kleenex, the alarm clock, Papa’s pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I step off the bus and look around, trying to orient myself, everything seems un- familiar. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around a bit, and there were so many rooms that I wondered if the apartment’s inside was bigger than its outside. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody spoke as they settled down, looking around at the shadowy, gruesome pictures. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Katie looked around for a place where she could work for their rent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spun and looked around for the exit. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went into the lounge to look around and rest for a few minutes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around as if he thought it was going to come out and take a bow. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I took one last look around and headed for the exit, trying not to let my frustration get the best of me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm?”The old man looked around and saw me for the first time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around to confirm what he had noticed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

This is so surreal, I keep looking around for Salvador Dali to make an appearance. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He balled up his fist and looked around the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He mounted his horse and, without looking around, started back over the road they had just traveled. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around to see who’s here, reckoning I better ask some more maids to help us, now that it look like we squeaked by Miss Hilly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When she had visited the mini-museum earlier, she hadn’t really looked around. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I looked around the circle at all the faces, each one either nodding or smirking. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused as to where they had come from. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Without turning or looking around he addressed the cat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She looked around expecting others to gawk and point at us Negroes, carrying on. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We leave our shoes in the foyer, and I look around, finding myself wishing Anastasia could see this. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He looked around and started to whisper again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Woman and dæmon got down from the craft and looked around to see which way they should go. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After reading about Bobby Hutton, I had begun to look around at the Panthers who helped out at the Center. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try to warn Jan and get key, look around office; also feed cat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Everybody looked around furtively to check that everyone else was staring into their hoop, then hastily did as they were told. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She looks around the room, taking in the swags of green, the holly berries, red roses, and dried magnolia leaves set as centerpieces on all the tables. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Where shall we make our camp?” asked the shoe poet, looking around. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up the Littmus Lozenge wrapper in her beak and then dropped it and looked around. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck his head out and looked around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you look around at 24/7’s call center, you see that all the computers are running Microsoft Windows. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A young girl of thirteen or so looked around nervously and scurried inside, closing the door softly behind her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around the counter and observed a middle-aged Black male of approximately 200 pounds. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked very little now, but it was clear to Jonathan from their cautious looking around that they were wary, and not at all sure of where they were going, or what they might meet. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up, unable to bear it any longer, and looked around my room distractedly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After crawling into their room, Alaska looked around for a moment, then walked to the bookshelf. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Next to him was Shamika, who looked around at the crowd with wonder in her eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around; it was the Bulgarian Minister of Magic. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She looked around the table at the four pairs of hazel eyes, none as dark as hers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped in the road and lighted a cigar, looking around him at the tents and the wagons, listening to the rumble and music of the army in the night. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute or so, Karkaroff seemed to decide that he had hit some sort of animal; he was looking around at waist height, as though expecting to see a dog. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked around at them all, his breathing fast and shallow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as she said it, they all looked around and giggled, as if Nori might have heard. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was looking around for the pick when he passed the ball into the center. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I slid out of my overcoat and looked around. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the ICU, feeling kind of ridiculous. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re steady as can be, and I look around me, at the starry sky and the fields, and the dark, sleeping houses, and I’m here, motherf-—s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Principal Harrison takes the microphone and looks around. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It disappeared down his throat in one crunch and he looked around happily for more. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around to the back of the TV to find that it was merely plugged into the wall. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Book Girl looks around the bus, and our eyes meet. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I look around me—the kitchen is clean, quiet, and the refrigerator is filled with food and water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The only way out for him is to look around and find somebody else to accuse. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, then looked around the kitchen and the living room to make sure there was nothing weird sitting out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, the door creaked open and Louis Napoleon peeked out and looked around. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“This is...not the moment to discuss it,” said Lupin, avoiding everybody’s eyes as he looked around distractedly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He could feel everyone else looking around at him too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I had a dream,” she said, and she felt confused, lightheaded; the glamour of the circle still clung to her and she looked around desperately, trying to find any trace of it in the distance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the band hall, sure that Rachel was going to make a bunch of bloodthirsty nasties pop out of the walls; but we were still alone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked around quickly in fear and started to back away. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Leo looked around to see if the nymphs were laughing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And they’ll be looking around to see who else is sitting there with them. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She looked around again for Maisie and found her sitting over where the older boys were playing basketball. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The thing looked around vacantly with its one eye, as if it had lost her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I look around, but no one is paying any attention to me or Mr. Black, our teacher, who is literally the largest man I have ever seen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around him, wondering what on earth it was going to be. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I sit up and turn on a light and look around my room, as if the man might be lurking behind the desk or in the closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A few snickers escaped the crowd, and Gaily looked around, his face bright red. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Finn, why don’t you look around up here,” Chess suggested. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought everyone loved Shay, but as I look around the room, some kids are glancing at me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

As I’m looking around the room, I see Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Moore, and Mrs. Ruiz doing everything they can to make all of us feel special for tonight. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room, taking in the enormous four-poster bed and the silk bedspread on the floor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think about your mama, don’t think about your girlfriends, nothing. Just look around and be alert.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take slow sips and look around Uncle Carlos’s desk to avoid the curious eyes of the officers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We watched as Trotter looked around the backyard, then sat down on his back steps. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks into our foyer and looks around the hallway. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She looked around until her eyes fixed on something a few feet away, then abruptly stood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I regain mv balance and look around, I see the Wives and daughters leaning forward in their chairs, the Aunts on the platform gazing down with interest. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the table, suddenly irresolute; then his brow cleared, and he rose to draw up the two remaining chairs and a bench. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around me, coughing away, the world spotty and wavy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around and noticed others staring at us, and I realized that we were only cheering because this fellow was a black man and black faces were quite rare in Morocco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

DeVante squints against the sunlight and looks around like we brought him to another planet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She looked around in bewilderment: she was standing in the middle of the strangest scene. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shops everywhere, and I looked around for the knitting store while Noodles looked around for girls. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I think he left me here,” she said, looking around uncertainly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Riccio looked around for their pursuer but all he could see were bored faces staring into shop windows and a bunch of giggling schoolchildren. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for Charlie, but he’s nowhere to be found. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi laughed in her ear, his breath tickling.“Oh, right,” Ashish said, looking around, running a hand through his rumpled hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the hall she remembered the gray cat and looked around anxiously, but it was nowhere to be seen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He took a long look around the room, his inspection finally ending with the bald, aproned man behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he stood and looked around the yard. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And you”—he looks around at me in the back seat—“you keep quiet.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thatcher looked around for a teacher to save him. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Pressing himself into the shadows beside the door, he listened hard, and hearing nothing, he looked around carefully. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she looked around the room, and seeing where she was, shuddered; she gave a loud cry, and put her poor thin hands before her pale face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

You stand up here on the fourteenth floor and you look around, and people are trapped within the boundaries of this development. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop himself from looking around, into the shadows behind him; Voldemort’s voice had sounded so close. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Pig droppings nearby clinch the identification, and then, looking around, I see Crystal’s tracks in the soft loam. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, a weed of discomfort growing thick and spiky in her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He paused as he entered, looked around, and said, with a small smile, “I haven’t poisoned that chocolate, you know....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He poked his head out past the edge, just enough to look around with one eye. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked around one more time, the feel of the place completely different now that all the walls were solid with no way out. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were looking around, peering through the dimness into the trees. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the apartment as if he were sizing it up for sale. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the old gate and looked around. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around, and with a jolt of surprise saw an old wizard with large, pale eyes standing quietly by the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Trapis looked around at the quiet room, as if looking for an excuse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they walked, their heads bobbed awkwardly and they looked around from side to side. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a smile still on my face, I walk to the foyer and look around, but no one’s there. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the bay, the old town, the casino, the line of trees along the promenade, and the big hotels with their white porches and gold-lettered names. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t stop until I get to the back of the house, and then I look around the yard for a decent-sized stick. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The teacher pats her cloud hair and then looks around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Charlie looks around for adults, then pulls a flask from his jean jacket. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes, overcome by a new wonder, and looked around to make sure it was all real. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kept looking around, though, at the other people in line. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see who was there. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the truth, but looking around at all the nervous faces, Percy knew he couldn’t say it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then he looked around and smiled at her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Go on, now,” she said, looking around, and he darted inside the breast, finding a fur-lined pocket where he could sit securely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked around one more time, embarrassed, confused, angry. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At first confused and frightened, he looked around wildly, but when he saw Aunt Queen, he relaxed and smiled. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can stare, here, look around me, there are no white wings to keep me from it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked in and looked around and then asked me, “Do me a little solid, Chino, and open the fire escape for me. I have to show you something.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Still, I do look around for the harpoon. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around my crowded office, at the stacks of records and papers, each pile filled with tragic stories, and I suddenly didn't want to be surrounded by all this anguish and misery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So I look around, and two minutes go by. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sighing, Gabe looked around the clearing on the riverbank, the place he had claimed for his task, the place where he was now spending hours every day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she was finished, we looked around for something to clean her up with, but she just wiped her mouth with the sleeve of her shirt instead. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And looking around her, everything was the same as always. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Webb took a last look around his desk. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She stared at him, then looked around the room, running a hand through her hair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He looked around, spied Fairfax, sent him off with word to Lee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking to the station’s holding cell, looking around at the other six guys in there, I was thinking, This is no big deal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He looked around for something to carry the food in. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple hurried Mamma to the counter to pay before she could begin looking around the store for kaajal. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I'll go in every direction, in turn, and then look around and see if it looks any lighter ahead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I looked around the cafeteria, which was filling up now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He paused at a junction of two paths and looked around for some sign of Fleur. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room, and had to wait all of two milliseconds for hands to shoot up. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a rotten strawberry, looked around to make sure Papá was not looking, and threw it at Roberto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I look around the house one last time, almost convincing myself that I used to live here. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around at what had been his family. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was on the tip of my tongue to ask his name when Jordan looked around and smiled. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was becoming a solitary girl swiping nettles with a stick, and at last she stopped and tossed it toward the trees and looked around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When we get to the big wooden door of the Hall Library, Daddy looks around like he ain’t so sure anymore about seeing the library. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I lie there, gasping, and sit up, looking around. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But most of the kids were looking around uneasily. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He took a quick look around the sitting area, then went into the bedroom, where Armpit’s clothes were strewn across the floor. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the other Navajo men, some of whom were also looking in their new kits and holding up their razors. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around quickly to see who had spoken. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and catch my own reflection in the mirror across the room: a human girl, hair tousled, eyes feverish, a pool of blood forming at her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When they reached the room where Ana was to stay, it was so much grander than Ana’s room in Quinn House that Ash simply stared for a moment, looking around, to catch her breath. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto lays his arms down, palms open, in the bonobo sign of trust, as little Congo takes a wide-eyed look around and ventures out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hand Max the floorboards to set back in place, and look around. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As I crested the ridge, a prickly feeling crept over me, and I looked around to see a man watching me from a distant outcropping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He yawned, stretched, and looked around, confused, then remembered Claire and rushed to the bed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The moon was on the rise and shed some light for me to look around by, but also made strange shadows on the tombstones. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she dropped the panel gently back into place and looked around. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Renzo stood in the middle of the shop, underneath the chandelier with the colored glass petals, and looked around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Breathing hard and fast, Harry looked around him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mark ran his hands through his hair, looking around in anguish, as if some magical answer to all their problems might appear in a dark corner of the cargo room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We looked around, then ran under the other train, dodging the splatters of waste. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then he looked around the living room with his mouth wide open. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Violet looked around the crowded bedroom, and even though she didn’t like it, she felt very nervous about leaving. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He put the drawing back on my desk and looked around my room, one of the first times I think he had ever done that. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He set down his cup and looked around with a smile. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leroy slid his palms against each other as he looked around the room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He slid his sunglasses down his nose and looked around the room at us. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I look around wildly, expecting to see the silver armor and red capes of Empire legionnaires, but the backyard is still. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But then he looks around the apartment for reassurance, reminding himself of the life they’ve set up together and share. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But a few, finding themselves in places with few or none of their natural enemies, look around with the hopeful incredulity of juvenile delinquents who discover the mall’s security cameras are broken—and wreak havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Harriet comes down she looks around to see who rang the bell. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around in alarm, then rolled over and threw up, water splashing everywhere. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around for a sign of the ruby-encrusted hilt, but Scrimgeour did not pull the sword from the leather pouch, which in any case looked much too small to contain it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Antidotes!” said Snape, looking around at them all, his cold black eyes glittering unpleasantly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked around, seemed to have trouble focusing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I sat with him as he started to drift off, and began looking around his room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I started looking around the marina to see if I could spot the cops. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The bone ships surged closer, hemming us in, and I looked around wildly for some way to escape. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We burst out laughing and immediately looked around to see if anyone was watching us. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around to make sure we are still unobserved. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I look around at the couches, the rugs, and the beanbag chairs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

David looked around frantically for a place to hide. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I look around the playground, wondering where to go. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room at all the different faces, and I felt my heart swell up inside me with pure happiness. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around to find that no one seems to be concerned with it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused, as I tried to locate the owner of that voice. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He looked around for the elevators, then started off in the wrong direction, but Nancy Young stopped him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He thought: guess I better get down from here, look around. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything all right?” she asks, looking around the room, probably wondering what I’m hiding that I need the delay of “un momentito” before I say, “Come in.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

So was Citra’s—and as Rowan looked around, he could see that every scythe’s ring within ten yards was emanating the same warning glow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He moved out of direct view and leaned on the wall, looking around as if some magical weapon might appear in front of him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I look around the room—so sad, so dull, so lifeless. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“We need a tool,” Thomas murmured, looking around. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I went inside and looked around, Mother, and I could smell nothing except paint.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d sit quietly in the sanctuary when it was empty and just look around. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We should start by observing our surroundings,” Dylan says, looking around. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I look around to make sure the coast is clear, and then put my ear against Mae’s door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I look around the corner again, and this time, David’s eyes shift to mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I look around for the skid, but there’s none. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Meg looked around her, realizing that she had been so breathless from the journey and the stop on the two- dimensional planet that she had not noticed her surroundings. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay put the airplane box down on the table and looked around for it, his eyes bright as noontime. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Basta was looking around, scanning the room, but Fenoglio was too deeply absorbed in the sight of his two creations to reply. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hanako looked around uncomfortably, expecting everybody to be staring at her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While he fried the plain bamboo shoots in the pot over the fireplace, Minli looked around the bare room. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, confused, until I realize it's coming from the backpack I'm wearing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jacqui looks around in sheer awe, stepping off the cement path and onto the grass, and when her foot touches the ground, the dirt gives way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looks around, bewildered because there isn’t any noise. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My mother is sitting at the table with a girl who looks around eighteen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He paused at the word and looked around the table. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the street, and after a second, he did the same. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I look around, I see that only two faces are missing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I just sat there, looking around the room. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around to make sure the coast was clear. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, sitting on her pine branch proud and unafraid, though her heart was beating with the strangeness of it, and her dæmon fluttered to sit close to the warmth of her body. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble, Brian thought, looking around, was that all he could see was grass and brash. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his seat and looked around the table. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I closed the door behind me and stood in the center of the room, looking around as if I hadn’t spent every night of my life in this space. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I pause to look around the apartment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I look around the room while I wait for Dad to pack up his briefcase. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Violet looked around the small, scraggly yard, in which she had not been since she and Klaus had been forced to chop wood. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I look around the table and suddenly remember what Papi said. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I look around for Theresa and Jimmy, but they’re already inside. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman looked around, her eyes wide and unfocused. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His shirt is half tucked in and he’s staring at his phone, sneaking looks around every two seconds. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room for something to cut them with, but there was nothing. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Stuck in Saigon, and as intensely curious as ever, Marx started looking around for stories. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around the garden a moment before his heart dropped. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looks around us again, peering thru the leaves and over the river to Doctor Snow’s house. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She looks around, under tables, in my cage, by the trash can. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I bet you anything she warned the first person she met to look around corners with a mirror first! Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room for a ladder or something. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As he looked around for the corporals, there was a roar from close by, like the bellowing of a speared bull. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looked around the dark room in search of something. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I went back to looking around the room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stopped for a moment and looked around, as if maybe she hadn’t moved at all. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around, trying to see the familiar woods as Lissa saw them. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I climbed up onto the side of the fallen maple and looked around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around the room for a substitute. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, taking in the strange surroundings. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around slowly at all the friends he’d made, and he looked very hard so as not to forget any of them for even an instant. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around, like I’m setting him up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bailey looks around at the sheep, at the house and the barn up on the hill lined with apple trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She takes a moment to look around—at the ornate mantelpiece above the fireplace, the decorated oak moldings and brass chandelier. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She walked in and looked around at my tiny living room and the attached kitchen. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Just once, but once was all it took. She took a look around, shut her eyes as tight as she could, and demanded that I take her back home.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was as though I'd learned suddenly to look around corners; images of past humiliations flickered through my head and I saw that they were more than separate experiences. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around to make sure he was talking to me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn’t magic, then nothing else is, either. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Chamber- lain came back for one last look around. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why did Mom bother having three bookcases in here for just—Chess looked around—two books? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then Grumman turned and made his way up the gulch, and Lee looked around for the best place to make his stand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blearily, she looked around until she saw something that made her blood run cold as snow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Coach Nat loosens the circle, then looks around at each of us in turn. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The Buckeye looked around the hall, a little lost, then saw us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, but everyone is staring at their notebooks or up at what Mr. Owens is writing on the board. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The boy stood in front of the shop door for a moment, looked around with a face that gave nothing away, and then kneeled down to tie his shoelaces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I look around, the cars are beginning to grow a fine layer of gray dust. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Inigo looked around as best he could, and there it was, the six-fingered sword, glittering in the moonlight like lost magic. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The second option is to drop by my house when I’m not there and spend half an hour or so looking around. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps wearing a disguise, you would look around the bank and observe security guards, cameras, and other obstacles, so you could plan how to avoid capture or death during your burglary. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’d say looking around here, it was worth the life risk.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was touching her hand to her hair and looking around for the keys of the car. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dill’s mother, dressed in her maid’s uniform, walked in and looked around, her face grim. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Byron looked around and made us get real close to him. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the lock had turned behind her, Mrs. Coulter looked around at once for the microphone and found one in the elaborate light-fitting and another under the frame of the bed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She took a last look around the cell. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I looked around the graveyard but couldn’t find you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Both arms were folded across his chest, and I couldn’t help but look around for his massive hammer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t resist taking a quick look around to see if I could spot Link. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended the performance with a mournful shriek more than a little off pitch and looked around, grinning for her family’s approval. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the door, came in, looked around the big hot empty room. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of his voice had startled everything and it was quiet He looked around, listened with his mouth open, and realized that in all his life he had never heard silence before. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked around, he was back on his corner, directing traffic. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonesha looks around at everyone in the cafeteria, as if making sure that her audience is in place. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“In here,” she whispered and, looking around to make sure we hadn’t been seen, pushed me through a door into a cramped hovel that reeked of peat smoke. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone who heard looked around, and Harry slid the Cloak up over himself, and got to his feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell just from the way he looks around the room, but when he sees me staring, he grins. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Shadow looked around for the crocodiles, but could not see them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He looked around nervously before pushing it into my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It looked around owlishly with wide, dark eyes, but seemed unable to support its own head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around the floor, but he didn’t see it anywhere. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Harry soared around the perimeter of the grounds, looking around for the Snitch and keeping one eye on Harper, who was zigzagging far below him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bandit looked around, searching for a friendly face among the women. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nicole looked around for something — a weapon, a hole, a hiding spot. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And when I look around me—really look around me, I can see that the jewels are all attached to little plastic settings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The boy poked him to be sure, then looked around to see if the kapos were coming yet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

So instead I look around, wondering who I might be able to target in order to steal myself one more valuable power-up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don't feel much like singing or dancing when I think of it, so I step out of the line and look around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She looked around defensively, as if waiting for someone to argue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Now will you tell me where we are?” asked Tock as he looked around the desolate island. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the chapel to see if there were more empty seats than usual and found there were. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I looked around for a container and found a plastic grocery-style bag lining the wastepaper basket. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Walking in step with Shady, I tried to conjure up something smooth and sweet from those stories, but looking around, all I could muster was dry and stale. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But, looking around, she saw that half a dozen twins were already on their feet and advancing down the ward. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around him with a face still dazed by sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The detective sighs and looks around before taking a step forward and lowering her voice. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Seven reaches the second one, looks around, and I guess he doesn’t like it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She looked around but didn’t see where their mother had gone off to. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked around the crescent of fresh, strange faces. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Yanna said, dropping her voice to a whisper and looking around hastily. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Hilliard looked around the classroom she saw students with no direction, and she wondered if they saw any point at all in being well read and intelligent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in his maroon paisley pajamas, Ron stopped dead facing Harry across the room, and looked around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then I look around at the people going in and out of the park and realize I need to keep it down. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mariam stood in the middle of the living room, looking around. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looks around, checking for raccoons or stray mental patients on the frighteningly dark back road to my house, and sticks out her index finger at me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I dropped my bag on the floor and looked around the classroom. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frank looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The man was looking around helplessly, raising his hands, lowering them again, uttering little cries. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jam shook her head, and Bitter hummed to herself, looking around the bathroom. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Alfhercht stopped every now and then to look around for a second, and then started walking again. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lightheaded with weariness and relief, she looked around the familiar room. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around and spotted a couple of desks that looked like they were wedged firmly in place enough to climb. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Where’s the sign?” he says, his torn expression changing real quick and looking around in a sudden panic. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pulling the necklaces and headband off, she looked around the store, hands on hips. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Stretching his arms above his head he looked around his office mournfully. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Madam Hooch’s back was turned, and though Gryffindors below shouted in anger, by the time she looked around, Harper had already sped off. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Or ‘I don’t want you in ’ere just to look around! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But eventually a new question joined it when I looked around the room at all the complicated medical equipment: Who would pay for this? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I looked around for my mother, but there was no one else on the raft Just this huge Negro, myself, and a big black and gray cat that was licking his haunches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the great iron-and-glass hall was the entrance to another part of the museum, and because it was nearly deserted, she went through and looked around. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her battery was good and full, Roz looked around and realized that she was packed inside a crate. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fadi stood in the immigration line and looked around the sprawling airport in awe. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I looked around for things she might throw at me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She looked around for Taryn, but so far Ivy didn’t see her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She looked around at our rental house and said, “This is a nice one you two picked out. I like the curtains.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He let the book fall and took a last look around and made his way out into the cold gray light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bran looked around to see where it was coming from. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looks around as if I was speaking to someone else. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked around at the arguments breaking out across the Glade, Keepers doing their best to convince people they should take a chance and battle their way through the Griever Hole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sarai looked around, taking it all in, and momentarily forgot her hard line of questioning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She climbed up the tunnel, emerging whiskers first, and looked around warily. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around for a good idea, and then bought the first Dairy Queen in the state. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room has teal walls and hardwood floors, but I don’t take the time to look around. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I looked around the yard, with Dari’s thoughtful, precise setup, and it was true. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I recall looking around at my fellow inmates, thinking: Would someone, anyone, just shout out the word tired? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She slipped her notebook into the backpack and looked around. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I look around his room as my app downloads onto his phone, seeing the note I slipped under his door this morning sitting on top of his bed. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But one of you will be looking around with joy and anticipation, wondering what you can do to prepare your kids for the new world. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When she saw the sheriff there, she jumped up out of the chair with a gasp, looking around the room. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Where I usually walked with my head down, trying to avoid being seen, today I walked with my head up, looking around. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its five four-poster beds, and Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around the table, his green eyes shining with the grievance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big classroom,” I said, looking around a large room that held a few wooden tables and chairs. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ice-cold air hit them like an oncoming wind: Yaxley, confused, looked around for the source of the trouble and saw Harry’s disembodied hand and wand pointing at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They broke their gaze to look around, and saw the city no longer holding its breath. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look around the room or make notes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped when I had five nice little trout and looked around for a place to build a camp and make a fire. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around the room with the little smile. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Since when do children get engaged? You’d better look around a little. There are other fish in the sea.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy went back to her family’s little campsite and looked around for her pillow, but there were only a couple of cereal bar wrappers and some bottles of water. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It needs something,” I said, looking around the kitchen. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t know the song of the cave,” I said, looking around at my sisters for confirmation of our ignorance. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked around again and saw only the bare brilliance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

About fifty giggling kids stood up and looked around at each other. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

People were packed outside the kitchen craning to see into the back courtyard. “. . . jumped out the bathroom window ...” I heard. “. .. through the awning of the courtyard blood ...” I looked around in a daze. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking around the area on Google Street View to figure out exactly where we ended up today,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room, her eyes seeking out every blip of purple and white. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The little girls scrambled off, but curious Oscar stayed on, looking around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He looks around the room at each person in turn. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked around for his sword, but it was in the hearth, glowing among the coals. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jinny folded the letter and looked around for a place to put it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He drove into a vast parking area and said, “Why don’t you two go look around? I’m going to get a little shut-eye.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He looked around to see who was laughing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man stepped in and looked around nervously. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around inside the engine for about ten minutes and then wiped his face absentmindedly, so that the grease stained his cheek. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around my neighborhood and this school, and nobody looks like me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around him before he left, as if he was trying to remember what the family looked like and what they owned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The new Jews carried their luggage with them—everything they owned in the world—and they looked around with big, worried eyes at the buildings and streets of their new home. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie turned his attention to the unlit cigar and looked around, presumably for a cutter, before resorting to biting off the tip and spitting it over the railing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look around the room, and I want to clean up in here, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around himself to see what she was pointing at. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Harry watched him looking around for Percy, who had been prowling between the sleeping bags, telling people off for talking. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Look, Lennie. I want you to look around here. You can remember this place, can’t you? The ranch is about a quarter mile up that way. Just follow the river?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around for a teacher, but I didn’t see any. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, though there was no one else in the room with us. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, Cardan just looks around the room, but he has little choice, and he must know it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go have a look around, shall we?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Velia jumped on the rickety wagon and looked around for a way to navigate the newfound vehicle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Asta was impatient to go and see to Pan, so they moved up to sit on the grass beside Lyra, exhausted, shaking, and looked around. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With the knife in his right hand, Will balanced himself carefully and looked around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what to search for, so I look around and notice that Nico, the new boy from chorus, has a laptop open on his legs. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

This was a second storeroom, but for unwanted furniture rather than food, so he looked around quickly and moved on through the next archway. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She walked into the quiet, empty lecture hall and looked around. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I slowly stood back up and looked around. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around for my brother; he was gone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around at the signs of our imminent departure. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As everyone stirred in their sleeping shelves, we looked around at one another, wondering where our jailers were. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, her eyes and mind still fuzzed with sleep. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something made his father stop and look around, until his eyes rested on Jonathan. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

After Simmon took me to sign up for classes, I made my way to the Archives, eager to have a look around after all these years of dreaming. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You look around to be sure that no one is going to hear you. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She woke from terrible dreams and looked around the room blindly, crying for her mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she rotates away from him, Scoob can’t help but look around for all the places it might be possible to stash stolen jewelry. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

His suite was half the size of Benji’s presidential palace, and he only had a minute to look around, but he knew it was the nicest place he’d ever stayed. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier leaned forward to take a look around the edge of the door; then he started crawling into the large room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Vik asks suspiciously as he looks around for my mystery friend. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He frantically looked around for a hiding place and spotted an opening in a stack of wood. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They could see him sitting up, rubbing his head, looking around. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before I left, I took a look around my room and suddenly felt as if I’d returned to it after being gone for fifty years. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around, but his eyes search the air above me and beyond me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I look around and there are a bunch of kids around the monkey bars now staring at Josh. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the secret room and joined the others in looking around and around. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So he was in double distress when he emerged from under the rock and stood in all his angry might, looking around, baffled, for the cause of his pain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the three shocked faces, and as if he were seeing nothing there but calm agreement, he smiled delightedly and rubbed his hands together. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he looked around the church, at the people praying there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Presently Matt’s wheezing subsided and he was able to look around the room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The lost corner of England,” I said, and looked around me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His exaggerated motions acted out the confusion shared by all but one of the heirs as they looked around at the stunned faces of their neighbors to confirm what they heard. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize that everyone is writing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Iorek watched closely, and touched the edge of the window with his paw, and sniffed at it, and stepped through into the hot, moist air to look around in silence. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I read the poster again, then looked around at her clothes and at the bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, since we’re here, we might as well have a look around,” she says. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

His arms fell to his sides as he turned, looking around the Glade for a sign of Ben, trepidation building within him as he wondered what the boy would do when he saw him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He said the thing to do was tie them all up, then take our time looking around. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs were wobbly, and when I looked around, there were two of everything. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“No — no — Harry, I didn’t mean that!” she said hastily, looking around to check that they were not being overheard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Harry repeated, looking around at Ron and Hermione, who looked just as puzzled as he did. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Tucker took another deep breath and leaned against the podium, looking around at everyone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We waited, and I looked around for a pen so the desk wouldn’t be so scrubbed-clean. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was sweating and my eyelids trembled as I looked around the station. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Felicia looks around at the others in her mostly middle-aged brigade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe . She looked around the barracks. “Maybe it was a great blessing.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the alley, my head aching from the sudden movement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lily glanced toward her parents, who were looking around the platform with an air of wholehearted enjoyment, drinking in the scene. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I look around at the dishes piled in the sink, the strips of beet peel staining a wooden cutting board, a saucepan half full of translucent cabbage, a roasting pan charred and waxed with grease. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anya waited for someone to do something, but, looking around, she realized no one in the village could do anything. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Eliot’s mother nodded, too, looking around the room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The girl looked around and slowly walked in our direction. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She gets out and looks around like she’s just been dropped off on Mars or something. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stand to the side as Nora freezes and looks around the room, completely confused. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need nothing, but I looked around a bit and at midday got some rice and beans. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t say much at first, just “Hi,” and then the boys started looking around at the altars and the things on them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished loading up my plate with some fruit and looked around the dining area. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And no one said a word, but we looked around. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There was a gift table by the door, so I put my present down and looked around. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then stood there in a cold wind, looking around and wondering what to do next. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I sat up in the seat and looked around. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

While I was looking around for Bah and Dr. Tamba, a white woman pulled me to the side and introduced herself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sat on a log and looked around at our little island camp. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Finally I looked around and saw a stone drinking fountain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, look around, there’s hundreds of us,” I think to say, but don’t, managing just, “Uh.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the deep woods and the darkness within them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched his arms and looked around and was surprised to see how late it had gotten. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I looked around the train platform, which was now in complete pandemonium. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She looked around and noticed he was right. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I looked around for something, anything, we could use against him, I spotted a long, moss-covered object half-hidden in the foliage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and in the bushes I saw there were more men with submachine guns and grenade launchers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The nurse who dabs my arm with antiseptic is breathless and looks around at all the activity instead of at my wound. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

None of them looked around when Harry and Ginny joined their silent vigil. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You want us to stay here or can we look around?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We all looked around at the pocked moor, the hundreds of dirt hills, the mist hanging like still smoke above the ravaged ground. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the Circle sat down, the Keeper drew in a deep slow breath, looking around to acknowledge each person. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The barman nodded and looked around for the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and looked around the room, his golden earring swung and caught the light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around, in case there’s anyone nearby, but I only see a couple of kids playing catch down the street. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked around as if I expected to see a street sign in the kitchen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made it to the safety of the kitchen with her looking around in alarm and griping at me the whole way. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around at Krum, who had followed him into the trees, and was looking down at Crouch in alarm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He put the phone down and looked around. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood a little bit inside and looked around. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bailey asks, looking around at the seemingly never-ending stripes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I look around, like he’s actually there, speaking to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for something to write on and he hands me the score pad, a desktop notepad with a little smile-button face printed at the top of the page. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, as if to see that no one were near, and then said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Nick took another step back and rubbed his hand against the back of his neck as he looked around. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Sam and Patrick, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Alex said nothing as Jack unlocked the door and let them in, but while she went into the kitchen to make some tea, he quickly looked around the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I sneak a look around and see a man slide a paper ticket like mine into the small pocket in the seat in front of him. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That same young man came to the door. He looked around and went away.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As they spoke, he looked around the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She looked around: the thing that had once been the other father was between her and the steps up and out of the cellar. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Most of the other beastkeepers were still staring in bewilderment at the place where the candle had been; a few were looking around it trying to find what had caused it to combust. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He took another long look around the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Erin looks around the room and then looks at the ball for what feels like an eternity. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As he looked around he saw four boys spilling out of a 1955 Ford. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo looked around at everyone busily stuffing himself and then back at his own unappetizing plate. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around the room as if searching for something he's lost. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As I look around the stacks of drinks, I find a single case of water that someone abandoned there maybe yesterday, when it wasn’t such a precious commodity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, look, your dad’s in here, Ron — he’s all right!” she added quickly, for Ron had looked around in alarm. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bodega looked around and took a deep breath as if he were smelling a rose rather than Spanish Harlem air. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to do except to look around at the hills and fields. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsie looks around wide-eyed, a weird little smile on her face. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She looked around at Harry, who was watching Hogwarts disappear from view behind a mountain. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kasim looks around and I tug at the sleeve of his coat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She looked around again, and realized that they were all looking at her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Buildings around them began to rumble, witches looked around in confusion, but most important, the crackling energy of the gazebo fell. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The end,” said Dumbledore, looking around at them all, “of another year.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They looked around anxiously for a moment, and then jumped in too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath, smile, and look around the room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He looks around at the rest of us like a prosecutor making an argument to a jury. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked around the room for June, but she was gone and so was her mom. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now that she had got herself in charge, Abra looked around and inspected her conquests. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men looked around, then began walking down the town’s main street. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the countless shelves retreating off into the darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I looked around, a cloud of crows flew over me, straight for the woods in back of the barn, cawing their heads off. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She liked this, because it was the first time in her life that she looked around herself and saw...everything. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Esteban looked around at us like he was seeing us for the first time. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then she gasped, drew her head back, opened her eyes, and looked around with a puzzled gaze. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking around for some smokes,” the short guy said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a look around the tree house, figuring what I’d haul up with me next time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But life’s not a line, Comfort; it’s a circle. Just look around you and you’ll see that.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley looked around and said, “I can’t make it grow back, not when it’s been removed by Dark Magic. But it could have been so much worse....He’s alive.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jacobs writes my three things on the board and then looks around the class. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She looked around, and saw a log nearby. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looks around the room, his eyes widening in surprise. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of giving up, she started looking around like she’d lost something on the ground. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thor looked around to see what the noise was, and then he turned back and saw Hymir’s shoulders shaking. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When I looked around, Bunnicula was lying next to me, still sound asleep. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look around nervously, but then there’s that voice again. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around then put it down near a tree. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his eyes away from the microscope and looked around the table until he found a wooden stick that had a human eyelash glued to it with a dab of nail polish. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina was able to unwrap Poppy from her neck and look around. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and looked around at the low, snow-covered hills dotted with bare bushes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph put down his suitcase and looked around. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Bibbs, the foreman, told me to look around. I’m looking for a job,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my head high as I looked around to see all of us holding hands. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked around and saw the three of them standing in the doorway, Dumbledore in front, his wand outstretched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The guard ignored the question and instead looked around Zeitoun to Nasser, who was still sitting on the bed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Davey Cantor but could not see him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looks around with apprehension and then descends into the melting pot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To my left, thick roots were layered on top of one another, going up and back like stadium seating, which, I realized while looking around, was exactly what it was. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was about to climb down off my desk, but first I looked around to be sure that nothing was lurking on the floor. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I look around at the cabins that house our Fort Algernon soldiers—I helped to build every one of them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wiping his hands on his tunic, he stood and looked around. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I look around the warm kitchen as we eat. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I made a show of looking around, let my eyes land on every sorry piece of gristle in the room, but the name had already settled into me, so I left the best for last. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dimple looked around for a second and then awkwardly perched on the edge of his bed, toward the foot, close to his desk. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Harry and Cedric stood there in the darkness for a moment, looking around them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh my goodness!” cried Mom as she looked around for paper towels. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to disappear; I had looked around the shop, and the embroidery on the saris was very fine. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad will ration the water,” I say, looking around to make sure he’s not around. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My fellow prisoners and I looked around at one another like we were on some alien planet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw that the other kids and Mr. W. were looking rather nervous. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted Rufus and Tom Weylin to waste time looking around the plantation for me tomorrow when they realized they hadn’t seen me for a while. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around, to see if Rhiannon is near, and to see if the other guys in the room are seeing this happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then she stood and looked around for the building where her Scholar would be found, and set off toward it, feeling awkward and defiant. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the fence, the judge stood and looked around for a few minutes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stopped and, for the first time, had a look around. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room at all my pictures and artifacts. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It takes Mr. Allen a long time to climb the steps, but when he reaches the top, he looks around and says, “I’ve never seen so many trees.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re not making mimeographs or fixing your boss’s coffee, look around, investigate, and write. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and looked around, then looked at the ground, and then looked around again like he couldn’t help it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He shook his head to clear his eyes and looked around. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy too looked around him, and we came to a halt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, but I didn’t see anything else. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find myself looking around us now, wondering how much I could get if I nabbed some of these items for resale. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I flinched and looked around for the source of the noise. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She snapped the clutch bag shut and looked around with a sweeping, raptor-like gaze—the only thing about her, surely, that could remind me of my father, and it did. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I gasped and looked around in disbelief to see if anyone else was as angry as I was, but, no, I was the only one. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw Pike breathing heavily and clutching his shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Without any fear I went inside and looked around the smoke-filled rooms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I asked, and looked around to make sure Mom wasn’t sneaking up on us. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the end, we all just stopped and looked around with these massive, dumb-looking grins on our faces. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the room, wondering who I’ll pick to be my partner. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I was careful to have a good look around all the trees and high up in the sky before I slipped under the fence. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When finally Ivy could cry no more, she lifted herself up and looked around the empty cottage. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You could stop them,” Poppet mumbles, looking around at the multitude of books. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He thought I meant him, but I was looking around at the whole group. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and found a nail—you can always find a nail in an old basement—and hammered it in behind one of the stairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he reached the top, he crouched down and looked around the hallway. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“And one day you’ll wake up, look around, and wonder how you could ever have believed otherwise. If the world doesn’t end, of course.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I look around at the perfectly aligned end tables and the alphabetized collection of DVDs, but instead of feeling good, all I feel is Lenny. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They waited, looking around, expecting a recurrence of the unusual sound. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, since you’re here, we can have another look around for it.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood and looked around for a minute, and I held my breath in the shadow behind the barn, and was glad I was wearing a brown shirt and muddy jeans. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I looked around—only one person crossing the street.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there, looking around, and that’s when I saw the face pressed up against an upstairs window next door. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nat looked around and saw keen blue eyes in a square ruddy face, under a shock of white hair. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw several brickbats scattered about. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach the place where we’re supposed to turn, I press against the wall and look around the corner, careful to keep myself as hidden as possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Eric made a great performance of looking around and leaning in close. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I looked around me at the community of dead people that Uncle Allagash, Uncle Edisto, and then Daddy had buried for so many years. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. But when you looked around at everyone else, how come you didn’t notice they were ... brain damaged?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I looked around the basement where my beloved grandmother lay on her back, still and quiet. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and realized that nobody else was wearing his. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around her, wondering what that distinction might be. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At this the two men stirred and picked their way to the door and out, and sat down at the altar, looking around with wincing eyes as though the sword’s edge hovered still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down to the basement and looked around. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What did surprise him was that when Ron drew level with them, Parvati suddenly nudged Lavender, who looked around and gave Ron a wide smile. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Some people would call it impolite to always be listening to a man’s Noise,” I say, looking around me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the buildings and milling students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around, but who was there to see me? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I try to look around, but I’m too weak. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He started looking around frantically for his essay—under his desk, in his books. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

At least I can say that I’m a person who can look around and see what she’s accomplished in this world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the fire alarm, I looked around nervously. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. McDaniels called today and told me about your friend Liz. The one who turned out to be”—she looked around and lowered her voice—“a Negro.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy ducked, looked around with a terrified expression, and ran for it, doubling back and forth like a rabbit. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Why don't I just take a look around and give you two a chance to talk." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The idea made him nervous, and he looked around, as if someone might’ve heard his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the shelf and clock and everything. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie and I got up in our seats and looked around to see who it was. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When her senses had adjusted, Mrs. Coulter looked around, alive with curiosity. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He steeples his fingers again and looks around the office. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But when Mrs. Baker saw me hesitate, she looked around, then climbed down from the desk to the chair to the floor. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Professor Moore said, looking around, as though for help. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A breath of wind brushed across my face, and I thought I heard someone whisper my name, but when I looked around, nobody was talking to me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her bare arms and looked around as if she was suddenly uneasy that someone might find us here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around, but no one’s paying attention. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I am almost not here.”Jonathan looked around. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ma tugs at the straps of her bag and looks around to see if anyone’s listening. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was looking around at all the things on his desk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I pick up the squirrel and a brown paper bag dropped by a hiker, then look around for a meadow environment. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and realized Celia wasn’t there, and most of the class was watching us and waiting for my answer. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She looked around, trying to find somewhere suitable to sit. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Dark Lord is ... I believe...mistaken,” Bella panted, and her eyes gleamed momentarily under her hood as she looked around to check that they were indeed alone. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I go a little way into the forest to look around. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I looked around the Eolian as casually as I could manage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was standing at the door to his bedroom, and his hair was all kind of wild on top of his head, and he was looking around like he wasn’t sure where he was. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room and let that sink in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused, like maybe he’d been waving at someone else, but he laughed at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He tossed the box at me and looked around at our sorry yard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His fear died quickly, and he calmly looked around. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He spent a moment adjusting the microphone and smoothing his twisted speech, then he cleared his throat and looked around at everyone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“But like I said,” he whispers, looking around at the empty street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Holy he breathed, looking around at nothing in particular. By this time, Alby had gotten a good look as well, with a similar reaction. “No way,” he murmured, almost in a trance. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

He saw me at once, but still, he looked around—to see whether we were alone? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, let’s go have a look around,” Grandma suggested. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Trying not to think about it, are we?” said Malfoy softly, looking around at all three of them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I tried to look around me, my body refused to obey. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When appeased, she let go of him and—as if suddenly realizing she was in the middle of a crowded cafeteria—looked around, her eyes widening. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s just that looking around this room and at this beautiful boy standing in the doorway, I feel like I’m encroaching on something sacred. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I was little, Maman looked around, and here is what she saw. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Harry skidded to a halt and looked around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I turn on the lights and look around the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I start to look around, but all I see are tired and grumpy-looking adults. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee looked around incredulously at the soaking vegetation and said, “How?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuffle along on all fours a bit farther, I keep track of my bearings, look around me and observe the distribution of the gunfire so as to be able to find my way back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw Lynn playing with some kids closer to her age. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She shivered and looked around to find that more than half of the people milling about were ghosts, the dead crowding in for the evening show the same as the living. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Where are the others?” she asked, looking around the empty gully. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Take a good look around you," Mr. Sir said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ivy cracked open her locker again just enough to grab her math book, then looked around for June. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every time I looked around at the buildings and the trees and the view of the river, I was reminded of the sacrifices my mother was making to keep me there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I look around the bedroom, sizing up the job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now he went out, calling and looking around the whole cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around for an informatively worded sign but finds nothing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I always looked around to make sure I could see him nearby, because he was our little soldier; he made me feel safe. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Next time I’ll look around and see how much they are selling Sherman tanks for,” he said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He got up, pulled Harry to his feet, and they looked around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And when I looked around the kennel, I could see more of them, dozens, scores of them, scattered in front of the dogs. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra looked around solemnly, and their three dæmons clung together on the thwart. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had made herself get out to the stables, to socialize, but she was constantly looking around, waiting for the next media hit, maybe even the next acid attack. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I stood up and looked around the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I looked around the bathroom floor; there was no stick anywhere. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every time one of these Sleets would talk to me and look at me like they expected a answer I’d look around first to make sure no one was watching. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looked around, making eye contact with each of them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as Omakayas saw Tatah, an itchy, joking mood always came upon her and she looked around to see what tricks she could play on her quiet cousin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I said, looking around at all of them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I said looking around the empty room, eyeing the closed doors, trying to think of some way to persuade him to let me in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around to see Hector sitting happily on the linoleum floor, playing with some take-out containers. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She looks around, to make sure no one can hear. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around the office at the names of the right drugs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looked around uncertainly, as though he were just as surprised to find himself outside his study as Ophie was. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mark looked around and saw nothing that distinguished that part of the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room, mentally rearranging furniture, throwing out table lamps, removing artificial flowers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When you got someone as old as Herman E. Calloway crying you better look around, ’cause you know you’re square in the middle of one of those boiling tragedies. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and there must have been a million people in the audience. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, and he looked around the table, already jovial again, but rather watchful now, too, of him—and he wondered who, of all these, would sit in glory at the right hand of the Father? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hagrid had appeared in his doorway, shaking and white, looking around to see who had knocked. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I managed to sit up and look around. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room, nodding his head toward spaces between the wall and ceiling where he’d stuffed dried garlic and onions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She held a silver needle in her fingers and was looking around in confusion, for it was the Sea King's daughter who had sewn herself into the embroidery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around at his friends, trying not to feel like this was the last time they’d ever be together. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around and saw she was near this house where she had gone so many times in the summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I look around for my brother, hoping for some cover, but then I remember that Roli got his fancy senior portraits taken in July at a nice air-conditioned studio at the mall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Before starting back up, he took one last look around in all directions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I looked around to realize that the school had become populated while I’d been sitting there, absentminded. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look around my table, and everyone seems completely fascinated as Ms. Smith introduces the book, telling us about Fitzgerald’s life and asking us for a definition of materialism. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa stopped abruptly and looked around at the dark trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk past, I look around for Cutie Pi but don’t see him. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled to a halt, clutching at the stone wall, listening with all his might, looking around, squinting up and down the dimly lit passageway. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room at the solemn faces. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He carried the scroll into the shop and looked around for Pai. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Well!” said Lupin, clapping his hands together and looking around cheerfully. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I looked around on the grass at the foot of the elm-trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Peewee and saw him and Monaco together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hale didn’t see it at first, but as he looked around the table, he could see all the uncomfortable faces glancing back and forth from Jules to him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He nudged me again and I looked around. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked around the table, her confidence apparently crumbling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room, and Moss watched her do a silent tally. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Taylor looked around as if she were seeing everything for the first time: the arsenal, the unassailable wall of green, the volcano stretching up from the land like an angry fist of rock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the circle of faces as if he did not understand why everyone was staring at him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and there, about fifteen yards away, a leopard was approaching. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around the room with a knowing glance. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A pink snout and white fuzz poked out and looked around. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He unbolted the many locks of the office and grimaced as he looked around the room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the room one more time and watch each pair join together, laughing and talking and getting to know one another. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Often she looked around at the middle table, but the mute had his back turned to her and did not see. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nick walks in, nods to all three of us, looks around the room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both looked around for a dreaded but familiar sight. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Arthur looks around, and we smile for a photo while the cake is still lit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Tyson said, looking around at the hundreds of sheep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the baby’s dismay vanished at once, and she lay in Sister Fenella’s arms, looking around with a lordly complacency. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He swallowed and cast a quick look around the garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In a sudden awakening the old man had started to his feet; he looked around as though wondering where he was, his eyes lighting in surprise on the two dogs by the door. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I casually looked around the room and I glanced to my left and there, just a few feet away, right next to the coal stove, was Koko. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath and look around the compound. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see dozens of birds flitting and singing, careless of the dead one in my hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t get why none of us remembered this stuff. I’ve been through the Changing, but everything I saw was . . .” He looked around quickly, like he’d just said something he shouldn’t have. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined everyone in the room staring at me, but I didn't look around to see for sure. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lon walked quietly into the center of the indoor meadow and looked around. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He looked around the room and brought a porcelain pin tray to his desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My little sister is a creature of slovenly habits,” Jerome said, looking around. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was looking around confused when I woke up from the dream. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse lowered the binoculars and looked around. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You really ought to come and stay with me and look around.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It seems long since I left here,” said Robin, looking around as if he expected things to be changed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I looked around like I was losing my mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a guard standing next to it, a cigarette slipping out of his hand, looking around to see what was happening—but looking the wrong way. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to earth again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beetle had been to fairs, but only to beg a turnip or some pig bones for a stew, and never had her belly been full enough for her to lift her head and look around. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron looked around at Harry, his expression very serious indeed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We could have a look around, I suppose.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One last look around before I walk out into the heat and sun and dust. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I peered in one of the gaping windows to look around, only to have a chunk of the windowsill snap off in my hands when I leaned on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mia looked around at the photographs, as if they were old friends and she was reminding herself of their faces. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the other kids who’d been sent by their homeroom teachers and tried to figure out why. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It coiled up and looked around as if bewildered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I look around for my lieutenant, but he hasn’t arrived yet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had only a second to look around because he was aware that the man sitting in a chair beside the table was watching him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

People looked around at each other in the sudden silence. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just wrong,” I say, looking around for more examples. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He said quietly and with great dignity, “Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” says Kelton, looking around at all the dead fish, “they definitely didn’t come for sushi.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hassan sniffled and his eyes shot open and he looked around. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t edge away nervously, though, or look around for an excuse to leave me standing there making weird noises to myself. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have looked around, but I didn’t want to. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then, looking around, he saw a pool of water less than a hundred yards away from where he was standing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ralph looked around because he knew he was being talked about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I go down two floors to have a look around: first to the kitchen, then to the private office and then to the coal bin to open the cat door for Mouschi. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I am nearly sixteen when i look around the store and realize that it has barely changed in all the time I’ve been here. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be looking around much. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

James looks around the cafeteria for a minute, then back at us. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Sam blinked at the sudden glare and looked around apprehensively. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom slipped them on and, blinking, looked around the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fire snapped, making him blink and look around the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around at the physical manifestation of Guillermo’s trouble, whatever it is, and a mixture of excitement and fear weaves through me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She stopped jumping and looked around the kitchen. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His finger slid right through mine, and he paused to look around. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked around for more of her own drawings, ones that June shouldn’t have. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While I wait for the cue to start the car, I look around. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Nice room,” Clary said, looking around with interest. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chas looked around the circle of our dirty and tired teammates, and he bullet passed the ball to me and said, “Winger.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thread my fingers through his and look around. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mars looked around, and noticed that everyone was still silently kneeling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around the crowd, as if daring anyone to contradict him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room nervously and then came up to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't even look around much for my tie. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ruth looked around at Corinthians, who ignored her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, he stood on his toes, he craned his neck, and then he cursed. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We were supposed to go sledding,” Tyler said, looking around again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Only he and Guosim remained at the edge of the quarry with Matthias, who settled any further debate by saying, “I’m going down there for a look around as soon as it’s light.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The librarian drove us back to Maine Street, where my parents were standing and looking around, waiting. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Jabir was standing on the other side of the tent, looking around, as his dogs surrounded him and whined. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s nowhere to hide,” Viola says, looking around us and down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He blinked, looked around, realized what he had done, and retraced his steps, stopping in front of it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Time seemed to slow for Dill as he looked around the garishly lit emergency room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She kept looking around like she sensed something was wrong. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I kicked and paddled, doing my best to tread water as I sucked down air, and looked around in confusion. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She looks around the room—at the fresh paint on the walls, the shiny tile floor covered with our rug from the Hideout, the furniture, some of it familiar and some not. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around and then leaned in and whispered. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around, half expecting to see something that would explain what I’d just heard. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She propped herself on her elbows and looked around, but Ess was nowhere in the cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look around for something to scoop it up with; I know I shouldn’t touch it with my bare hands. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around, wondering why a dog would be in the library. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around anxiously and saw that everyone else looked terrified, too. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Rufus, knowing that he must be nearby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With a quick look around I grabbed the bacon and slipped it into the duffel bag. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A short silence follows as we look around his booth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for someone to have my back but even the kids who cheered me on in the training gym won’t meet my eyes now. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She looked around her in wonder, as if she had been deposited on Ida Nee’s property by mistake. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She looked around her, at the dishes drying in the kitchen, the banner hanging on the curtain, the door to the bedroom where Nunu was sleeping, safe and sound. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took the kettle away and looked around. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So my job was to look around the store and let Mr. Charles know what was missing. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I look around for Cardan, but he is lost in the crowd. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They stopped and looked around for a moment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the cafeteria, looked around to see if Maurice was there, saw he wasn’t, and went and dropped a quarter in the machine. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around triumphantly, pointing to the neat white hills of rice and the husks in a rustling brown heap. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, but I don’t see Daddy’s sock anywhere. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I got up slowly, taking a good look around. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I look around at the people in Chinatown, I don't feel like I'm desperate for their acceptance. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After talking to Mom, I looked around my room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of answering, I look around the cafe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around to see if she had forgotten anything. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, not knowing what to do. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we quit running or fighting long enough to look around, France turns out to be a beautiful place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, the cat stands up, looks around stunned, and shoots back into the woods as quickly as it came. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He looks around for the waiter, signals for the check, dismayed that their plates are empty, that the hour has passed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around as if just coming to terms with where they were. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I looked around to make sure that Trotter wasn’t anywhere in sight, then I hurried back to the house. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I looked around to size up the others as I took a seat, easing down by a woman who resembled Mother Lois in her coloring. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When it was all the way off, I quickly looked around the room to see if my great-grandma and that run-over Chihuahua were present. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I look around a couple of times and finally spot Maya waving at me from a table. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around to check that Hermione was well out of earshot. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She looks around and her eyes stop at me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around at my three closest friends, and my eyes well with tears again. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Parker looked around as he entered the house. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Winn-Dixie’s ears went straight up on his head, and he barked once and looked around. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, worried that someone will hear her. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Zis is nothing,” she said dismissively, looking around at the sparkling walls of the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sierra looked around to make sure no one was following her, unlocked the gate with the key Manny had given her, and slipped inside. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I stopped inside the gym doors and looked around, trying to be inconspicuous about spinning in circles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Silently, we step out and see other families from our block doing the same, looking around, some bewildered, others clearly angry. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was a noise in the cubicle behind them; Harry looked around; Yaxley had just appeared. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He looked around at each one of us and began to laugh. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around like he was lost in thought. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“My dear man, please believe me, I have no pleasure at all in being inside your — er — d’you call this a house?” said Lucius Malfoy, sneering as he looked around the small cabin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I look around this class and nobody I see fits into the box I used to put them in. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I made my way down to his nest of crates and looked around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around at all the noise and confusion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around the hall, saw heads turn quickly, eyes politely averted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She inhales, pulls the hood of her coat over her head, and looks around as if searching for someone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He edged among them, looking around, and suppressed a laugh as he imagined the look that would spread over Dudley’s piggy face if he could see where Harry was now. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before he started talking, he looked around quickly to be sure no one who mattered was looking. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had, before coming out of the garden, looked around carefully to be sure Dragon was nowhere in sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The jingle of harnesses made me set aside the letter, grab my hat, and take one last look around. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The swallow, as though in response, peeked its head out and looked around. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The whole class looked around at Harry, who hastily tried to recall what Dumbledore had told him the night that they had gone to visit Slughorn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When we came to the next traffic light, the driver eased off the gas a bit to look around and check the road. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"So what shall we take now?" said Grete and looked around her. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cop takes one final look around and then steps toward the door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

MC boy looked around at the swarming, grinning, chattering crowd. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were still just standing there looking around and wondering what to do, when suddenly Melanie pointed at the horizon. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for a trash can, but there isn’t one. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I turned back and took another long look around the room, surveying the long line of monuments to the history of computing and videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I look around and notice a Negro woman who has a small child with her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looks around for a second before glancing up. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the blank walls of the room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I stayed there the rest of the day, looking around, and that night. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking around the room, at the furniture and the wallpaper, at Father’s large, cluttered desk, at the framed pictures on the walls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

You look around for the enterprises that we engage in collectively and unconsciously, the things we build like wasp nests, individually unaware of what we are doing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I picked myself up and looked around, I realized that it could only have belonged to Miss Peregrine. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Daniel pauses, looks around the forest like just maybe his mom came today and could be listening. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead I just sat at the kitchen table and looked around at all the things that I was used to, that now suddenly seemed so strange. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She tried to look around her, but her neck was still in a brace. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When the shivering eases, I sit up and look around. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I look around, Helena is standing in the doorway of the bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked around, making eye contact with every one of my sisters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She follows me into his room and stands for a moment, looking around as if she’s seeing it for the first time. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He looks around as if he doesn’t know where to sit. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give one last look around, wishing I wasn’t ten minutes early. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He lifts it to his mouth, looks around the kitchen, sees Lucky the dog and throws it to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then the man raised his voice a little and looked around. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around for the ovens and other apparatus used in alchemy, but saw none. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, as if to see if anyone was watching. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking around now, wondering which naked human being was Billy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been scared out of his wits that he was about to be thrown out of school, he would have been very pleased to have a chance to look around it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and looked around awkwardly because we were standing outside Kitchen Kapers, in the middle of the mall, having a Moment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Miig sighed, looked around at the tops of the trees with his hands on his hips, and said, to all of us and to no one in particular, “Today’s the day.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I feel myself still looking around anxiously for Emery. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looked around the church as if he had never seen such a building before, and how could he have? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I look around, taking in Day Street, wide and tree-lined, with a combination of dilapidated Victorians where college students live, warehouses, the occasional business, and the church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was too hungry to eat slowly, and the soup and bread were gone before she had time to look around. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for any sign of Ellen as I follow him up to the lunch line. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the time I made it to the carousel and looked around, you weren't there. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the hooded faces, and though there was no wind, a rustling seemed to run around the circle, as though it had shivered. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Drawing it back, I looked around me, and it was like seeing everything through a train’s thick window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, looking around first to be certain he wouldn’t be overheard, he told her the name of the person with whom Kira would have to do battle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time she looked around and around. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Father rubbed his eyes; he looked around sharply to be sure none of his officers saw him with his guard down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around in outrage, as if waiting for someone to contradict what he was reading. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So when I looked around the door the first thing I saw was the red tie he had on and I was thinking what the hell kind of a man would wear a red tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to explain, as I looked around. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like traveling through this country alone, and I kept looking around all the time for galloping horsemen. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great monster looked around the forest, scanning the stretch of undergrowth, narrowing his eyes and extending his gaze as best he could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She looked around self-consciously, but thankfully, Paulette was nowhere to be seen. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Connor and I looked around at the stacks of boxes, the piles of junk, the shelves stuffed with old books and papers and props. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sat straight up in bed, looking around the quiet room filled with moonlight. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and I saw that Sam and Patrick had left with Brad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t here, so I went to look around. Visited Ruth and her friends.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, all innocent-like, and she stomped over to her exchange- student buddies. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jus looks around again and then sticks his hands in his pockets. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Just want to see. Just want to look around.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While she was getting it from the kitchen, I looked around the room again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked off the blankets and ran over, looking around wildly. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jack and several others stepped outside and looked around. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you looked around, where else did you see a single black role model, except in church? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Witchlings looked around for a way to bypass the Shroudeds and still follow the prints, but they were bordered by Oso Mountain on one side and a marsh on the other. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gregor looked around and realized by the skyline that they were in Central Park. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kekrops looked around at his army, now reduced to six guys. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I got bored and looked around for alternative entertainment. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Corporal Reynolds looks around before he points me to a side door, which he quickly opens and then ushers me through. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She turned, looking around, and caught him peering out from behind the butcher shop, way on the other end of the square. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around and waited for the sound to come again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When she looked around, she could see how weakened everyone was. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around for a few minutes, lifting the dead leaves with my stick, but I saw nothing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Violet looked around the dim and messy room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I look around and see Muhammad in front of the refreshments table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, Colonel, we looked around, and there was this here stone wall, and it was comfortin’, you know?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before supper the next day, the Mysterious Benedict Society, hopeful for clues, climbed the hill beyond the gym to take a look around. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in his car, I realized, and it had only just occurred to me to look around, to get a sense of where we were, who he was. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, I look around to see that many of the kids at the bus stop have stepped closer to me, as if to give me silent support. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I looked around to make sure we were alone. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

At first, the cousins look around at each other, not wanting to embarrass themselves by calling out, "Me! Me!" and then having Tío Vic cry, "April Fool!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You must forgive this intrusion,” he said, when Mrs. Weasley looked around at him, beaming and wiping her eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Matty looked around for Frolic and saw that he was curled in the corner, asleep. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He plops down on the couch next to me and looks around. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I look around and pretend to address a crowd of people. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d been having the best time of my life, but looking around at the faces, I could see they were all worried. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around for a stick or something he could use as a crutch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around her, and everything felt wrong. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked around him, blond and pale, arms ringed with gold, a vague smile hiding his shock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their eyes narrow as they look around the room. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chuckles at himself, dabs at his shirt, then looks around to see if anyone’s seen him spill. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around himself to see what she was pointing at. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around our small room, searching for a tiny piece of home I could hide in my pocket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for Dylan or the intruder, but I don’t see anyone. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He looks around, then finds a secure spot to put his phone. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I’m looking around, and none of the other girls seem to even know who Suzette Charles is. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As I look around at all the happy faces, I feel so lucky to be here. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She looked around nervously, for every pair of eyes in the place had followed Father’s accusing gaze straight to her nakedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, the steps behind were filled with those who had been inside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, trying to calculate our current situation, but the numbers just aren’t adding up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “I guess I'd start by looking around for someone to trust.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was looking around at everybody congratulating me and I knew he was digging it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and find Nico, sitting on the floor in front of the lockers with his legs sticking out in front of him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He looked around fearfully and began to stagger up the bluff. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“No way,” James says, finishing his last bite of burger, wiping his mouth, and looking around the cafeteria. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around the table at the six faces. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pull the sheets up to my neck and look around my room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Maybe we can even ...” She looks around with exaggerated caution, then focuses back on him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You can even answer to get the teacher to move on, and then look around and wink, like it’s an inside joke. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He looked around constantly: Every movement in the grass was a lion stalking, every stillness a lion waiting to spring. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scarlet woman?’’ she repeated, shaking with suppressed giggles as she looked around at Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I look around for another minute to assure myself that the forest really is empty. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His ears flap up in alarm, he stiffens, looks around him in haste, and jumps. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blinking back to life, he looks around at the floor and then at his hands. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Calder asked, looking around at the peeling paint. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those of us who did not know black liberation history and the ANC’s role in it still looked around for models to emulate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around: There were a number of large white stones, smoothed by the sea, marking the edge of the flower beds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Luke leaned against the railing and looked around the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Crouching behind the high table, Lyra darted along and through the door into the Retiring Room, where she stood up and looked around. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was able to look around a little, and everything she could see was rusty and gray. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Qareeb asked, already looking around the back lawn of the school where all of the students were dismissed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She, too, looked around the room, as if she noticed in the lampshades, in the teapot, in the shadows frozen on the carpet, something the rest of them could not. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around for a second like he thought I must have been talking to the brick wall or the lamppost nearby. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everything moved very, very fast when Momma was near, she was like a tornado, never resting, always looking around us, never standing still. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As Arm looked around the clearing at the many villagers gathered there, he realized the outcome of the argument wasn’t at all certain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now when she looked around at the crowd of people, all sharing the same moment, the same sadness, not one person was like any other. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Dimple looked around, her throat tight, her heart racing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mark takes a quick look around and sees that the others are fidgety and nervous. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She looked around, sure she was being watched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I look around from where I sit on top of hot rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy shifted hesitantly beside her, still looking around like a lost child. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He stood in her doorway, looking around slowly from left to right, and his gaze swept past the tree. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Seeming confused, he looked around the small cottage, where there was no place for a person to hide. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I finished the posts for the bed and was looking around for a bigger ash to fell and make slats for the springs when I nearly jumped out of my shoes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy took a few seconds to look around the office and get her breath back. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now, looking around in the Hatchery cafeteria, Claire was aware that all the other workers took a pill every morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But instead I continue looking around, my heart beating faster now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around, saw that the rope had been tied to a wall peg, thrown over a beam. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the Finch Auditorium as if Raymie’s father were there somewhere—hiding under a table or behind a curtain. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t taken me more than thirty seconds to look around the room and know that this was the place where the masters of the universe ate their tuna fish sandwiches. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When they began speaking the angel language again, they looked around as though they weren’t sure what might be lurking in the darkness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t look around to see where they’re coming from, but the farther I walk, the louder and sharper they get, until I recognize them as gunshots. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She stopped and looked around, as if she might see it scampering away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around the rubble-strewn lot and knew someone had to do something about it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He didn't even look around to see where I was at. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She looked around warily, then signaled for me to join her. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby was still holding it under her arm as she clung to the handrail, looking around in confusion. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He watched Tayo look around at the hogan and then back down at the Ceremonial grounds and city streets in the distance. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bunny, settling in his chair, took a sip of water and looked around happily. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After Justyce puts the car in park, he takes a minute to look around. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“So you can look around at the books, pick something up if you like. But ah, I also...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look around at the dozen or so people enjoying themselves in vaguely psychedelic stupors. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I blinked and looked around, parched, and grabbed the bottle of water Navid had left me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mom looked around and said, “So where is Arthur?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried her in through the door, and took one look around and started to cry. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I look around, thinking there must be some mistake. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room, toward the hall, and finally she said, “You have career. You are busy. You want to live like mess what I can say?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the hedge, gasping for breath, and looked around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Sit down,” said Moody, and Harry sat, looking around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kit looked around at the much mended clothing and the sparse furnishings of the little room. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the soldiers, hearing children’s voices crying out from close by, looked around startled. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I babbled on, hardly aware of what I was saying, and afraid to look around. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d give just about anything for a cold beer,” he said, looking around the place, at the house, the shed, and the corrals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around and, noticing the empty shop, narrowed her eyes at them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they had recovered enough to look around them, Kaisa said, “It is only a pavane. Come, the steps are simple.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Patron looked around the audience, and several people tried to smile.They met El Patron’s steely eyes and immediately sobered up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he’d looked around for a good place, he’d found the den, filled with three cold, stiff kit bodies and one little ball of gray fur still warm and breathing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sunjin looked around and casually backed away from the house before dashing out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around, spotted the other hulking device on the ground where Alec had dropped it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I look around to see who’s talking but no one’s lips are moving. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kennedy walked into the yearbook room and looked around. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I look around for flies, but there are none I can see. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Dicey snapped up the shades and looked around there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around once more—then he stood up to his full height. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look around my bedroom for ideas: from the checkered rug on my floor to the calendar of Georgia O’Keeffe flower paintings Dad bought me at the art museum he took me to last summer. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quad was, as a result, a place I nearly always avoided, so I didn’t really know what I was searching for as I looked around. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

James poked his head out and looked around. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stretched out on the bed and looked around. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel asked, looking around at the vacant parking garage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But when I looked around, then down at my body, there was nothing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He lowered his eyes and looked around at his mother, his brother, and two sisters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling myself back onto the ladder, I looked around to a town blessedly dark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around him at the hushed guests. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we were dancing, Milton squared his shoulders and looked around the floor, as if daring anyone to make a crack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused due to the fact that I’d forgotten where I was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No one for three hundred thousand?” the little girl says, looking around. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked around, the bruise on her temple a sharp contrast against her pale skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Driving up to Lighthouse Avenue he waved at a dog that looked around and smiled at him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to look around, but eejits didn’t do such things. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When lunchtime came, I got a hummus-on-pita and a chocolate chip cookie, went out to the blacktop, and looked around. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nat looked around the room that had been his home for five years. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid takes a quick, frantic look around and then races away. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I looked around wildly, ready to spring to my feet and dash off searching for it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then she craned her neck, looking around the room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I released her arms and looked around, my head unclear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And having recently been in much the same position, it was easy to recognise the signs of her looking around for some opportunity to do something nice, something really special for me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around at Dumbledore again, and though her cheeks were flushed, her gaze was steady. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And as he looks around the motel room, his eyes watering from yawning so big, he says, “Are we having popcorn for breakfast?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And I was trying to see Mr. Scoresby through the window, and Iorek, and to see where Pan had gone, and when I looked around, they just weren’t there.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around the stage to see the tearful eyes of the other eight. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Oak looks around in mild confusion and pleasure. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A grin spread over Russell’s face, and he held the phone away from his ear and looked around the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, Scipio looked around as if to check whether it would be worth making a run for the bushes, but each time Prosper held on to his sleeve. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, feeling conspicuous on the empty bridge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Freak has probably already guessed I'm a learning disabled, because he's had a look around my room and it isn't exactly the public library. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She started looking around for somebody to go with her when a cop grabbed me by the arm and said, “You come with us.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the other underclassmen on either side of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If you want to get a good idea of whether I’d make a good employee, drop by my house one day and take a look around. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I looked around stupidly, then cursed, dropped the pinecones, and took off running, following the road north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As they made their way to the cottage, Fflewddur looked around with interest. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Turner looked around and found a dish towel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As my feet sunk into the mud and sad, yellowed grass, I had my first good look around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dimblewit looked around as if the bookshop smelled but also like she was appraising it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tally looked around, realizing that she was up on the cliffs, tangled in her sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Barry looked around his neighborhood—the little houses, the scraggly lawns surrounded by chain-link fences, the palm trees and big oaks. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He drove them into the middle of a forest, got out, looked around, shook his head, got back in the car, and off they went again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He clicked the flashlight to life and took a quick look around the room with the bright beam. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I kept looking around to make sure that the other parents couldn’t hear us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around to see if anyone notices, and my excitement fades. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After looking around at everybody, Mary Elizabeth turned to me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around her camp, her eyes focusing on a few faces she recognizes among the eighty girls she lives with. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry slowed down a little, slipped his wand back inside his robes, and looked around, listening again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Someone up the street in the dark yelled, "Break it up! Break it up!" and I thought, Cops, and looked around for Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around the parking lot for signs of the four men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You should look around the house and put your bag in the first room on the corridor. I’m going for a walk, to clear my head, i nugo?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stood on the other side of Dad and looked around. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They invite themselves in and then look around. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize my little plan has a flaw: A public washroom does not offer a lot of places to hide a bundle of clothes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words sprang to Tad’s lips, but as he looked around, he realized he didn’t want to talk about Frankie and his choices. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eye was able to look around confidently: ninety-five percent of his eyesight was blocked out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought it must be inhabited—perhaps the poor man on the beach lived here—but I looked around me again, and saw no sign of recent occupation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They looked around for a wedding present and decided to give Katie the fine pillow they had bought for Andy and which he had used so briefly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around at the other two, now mere outlines in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I came along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore did not blink, look around at Harry, or indeed move at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Goodness,” he said distractedly, looking around my room, at the unmade four-poster bed and my clothes scattered on the rug beside it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look around and notice sealed, unused boxes against a wall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was no way I wasn’t going to look around and see what I could see. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A movement behind him made him look around; Riddle was still standing there. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Meggie caught him at it when she looked around once more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I regained some sensibility and my vision started to come back, the circle diminished and I started to look around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She closed the dispensary door and looked around the outer office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t sign his name, but when I looked around, he was at his locker watching, grinning. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Harry’s fists clenched as they watched Snape skid to a halt next to the tree, looking around. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Grandfather put down his knife and fork and looked around the table. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy looked around, imagining Lakota warriors on horseback. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Marly was glad it was something easy, because she wanted to look around at the other children. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Women of Lelia’s shape would approach the door, buzz an apartment, look around, slip inside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The man who called himself her master looked around in astonishment,” Mrs. Grayson said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The three of us huddled together and looked around. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dahlia would look around and sometimes she would wink. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Candles—on the shelf over there,” said Alice, scooping up Lyra and the bottle and looking around for anything that would give them away, but there was too much to pick up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” he says, looking around like he’s nervous or something. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There was a horrible screech of pain and everybody looked around, terrified, to see Susan Bones of Hufflepuff wobbling in her hoop with her left leg still standing five feet away where she had started. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

With a dawning lightheadedness, the feeling that he was dreaming but awake at the same time, he stood up and looked around for the cat, his guide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash looked around the perimeter of the pavilion until she found her stepmother and Clara seated on a bench on the far side of the dance floor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, looking around the room, I could see that wasn’t the case at all. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take a good look around the meadow,” said Seth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I had no intention of accepting anything more, but I couldn’t help looking around. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He admitted that maybe he had taken a look around there too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around at his friends and family. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He squinted, his eyes stinging from the hot, filthy air, and looked around. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Laurent took another long look around himself, and then he hurried out the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look around and know that this is his room. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They then escorted the two out of the hut and told them to look around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, wondering if he had dropped it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around to make sure everybody was watching, a big ole grin on his face like he was the funniest person in the universe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Prosper placed the bag with Scipio's loot on one of the chairs and looked around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were all looking around the house as if they were finally seeing the inside of a building they had long been watching from afar. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around, wide- eyed and startled, and dropped his stick in the grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around, taking it all in: this place that he only knew from his worst nightmares. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looked around miserably, like a trapped animal searching for a way to escape. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn in my seat to look around. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her heart was pounding and she kept looking around for Valley, but she had completely vanished. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I look around for smoke and flames, but instead of a fire, I see a grinning fireman descending from the truck carrying a big wrench and an even bigger radio. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I exhale my aggravation and look around the room, taking in the whole bizarre scene. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fudge got to his feet and, after a moment’s hesitation, the Prime Minister did the same, watching the new arrival straighten up, dust down his long black robes, and look around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the guys were looking around, their weapons moving, shaking almost as if they were alive, looking for an enemy to fire upon. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around to see that almost everyone is sitting on blankets, something we never did when I used to come here years ago. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Once she’d finished talking, she lifted her face and looked around. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I take it from the shelf, looking around to make sure it’s okay. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I looked around the gas station—they sure were. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He decided to look around for just a minute. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“But it’s chaos here, and it has been since Wednesday. Everyone is working twenty- four-hour shifts. I haven’t been home since Wednesday, either. I can’t stop to look around for your mother.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the woods, looked around, could not see the crow, but noticed a big stick nest in a scrabbly pine. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

High John looked around one more time, then checked the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I looked around at all the other people sitting with us, wondered if any of them were going to Mexico too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I began steaming inside with frustration as I looked around and saw all the white children touching and picking up and trying on. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hunter, who had brought news of the North from Birmingham to Meridian, looked around. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Mom. I have friends here. I have—” She looked around, as if one of the Richardson children might appear. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Arthur looks around the train, and his tired, hurt blue eyes look up at me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then, looking around and not seeing Grandma, Genie asked where she was. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t answer, though from time to time he’d glance up at the sky, then look around. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around, holding Hermione’s wand high, and saw the place: a flattish rock lying in the shadow of a sycamore tree. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around at him once more, and saw him indicating the large chunk out of his nose to Dumbledore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The first time he got the ball, he looked around and then came right at me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then I took one last look around, inhaled one final breath of fresh air, and carried my bag through the front door and into the lobby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I struggled to stay afloat, I looked around wildly for the children who I clearly saw fall into the water seconds before me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The girl stood behind him, looking around the room, pretending not to pay attention to us. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In rising panic, he looked around for his pack. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Birmingham’s white society did not like outsiders coming into their city and taking a look around. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around for the rat, but it was gone, and the marble with it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He looked around but there was nothing to see. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hung up and looked around at her friends. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I looked around the circle of dear faces and considered all the gifts that had come to me over the past year. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Malcolm cut a thick slice for himself and another for Alice, and carved some cheese to go with them as the woman Doris Whicher woke up nearby and looked around blearily. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I look around, and my eyes fall on the microwave clock flashing the time in bright-green numbers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused, until my eyes landed on the tree stump. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A passing wind billows his black cape, and he looks around the backyard like he’s arrived at a garden party. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z