Not for what they wanted to do with him, but for what they did to the earth with their machines, and to the animals with their packs of dogs and their guns. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger tractors and machines, chemical weed killers, and artificial fertilizer made it easier for one farmer to handle more acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He is one of the first of the new soldiers, the cold-eyed men who have sensed the birth of the new war of machines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I admire your vending machine and your alligator.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Also, each alligator had three machine guns and a seventy-five-millimeter howitzer. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly if the theory of heavy neutron bombardment was sound, then the linear accelerator was the right type of machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was the law of the machine, as immutable as the forces that propelled the Chicago Limited across the prairie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped a stolen machine gun; he wanted to sell it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the horse-pulled machine cut a swathe—literally—through the wheat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep, only to be chased in my nightmares by a screaming Mrs. Kluck riding her ice cream machine like a horse. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We’d been met with small arms and machine gun fire, but no enemy bombs or shells were falling among us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lawrence machines went, this one was a fiasco, not even yielding substantial or unique knowledge to advance the science of accelerator design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The guards in the watchtowers kept their machine guns on them and surveyed them with binoculars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

No other country could crack them, in part because no one could guess how the machine was built. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It all seems effortless, like a beautiful machine. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to destroy myself even if it destroyed the machine; I wanted freedom, not destruction. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leonardo’s drawing is clear enough for a model of the machine to have been built and demonstrated to be functional. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was never easy to get these massive machines safely off the ground. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he and Pa hitched all the other horses, eight of them, to the smaller machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being the center of attention felt something like it might feel to be in a pinball machine—as the ball. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

First, tracks had to use the pari-mutuel wagering machine instead of the bookmakers whose corruption had prompted the betting ban. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also known as Enigma G, it was the machine Elizebeth’s spies were likely to be using. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My memories pour out of my mouth like the fresh juice flowing from the machine’s spout. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was filled with animals and machines and piles of straw, and two robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And a man without dreams is just a meaty machine with a broken gauge. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The powerful spheres were usually reserved for motors and big machines, but up here, tiny Jade orbs twinkled in the windows of fancy shops and cafes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kluck has specifically told us about a million times that no one is allowed to touch the new machine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe because the rental equipment resembles a machine gun, he looks interested. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I'm there by myself for too long, the house becomes some kind of time machine, teleporting me back three or four years, listening to my mom and dad fight and scream every night. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But Weaver did appreciate what was surely the main point urged upon him by his host: “Biology and medicine will have first call on the machine.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

April 21—I figured out a new way to set up the mixing machines in the bakery to speed up production. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the PSFs at Thurmond carried the noise machines around with them, blasting them at small, rowdy groups, or just to see a few kids squirm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” I whispered as he sat down at the machine to examine the other tray I had completed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And men and women everywhere took their lives in their hands for a chance to ride in these amazing machines, or better yet, to take the controls themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When Hugo's last bonus life finally erupted in a shower of stars, the machine did bleepy whoops and announced that the All-Time Top Score'd been topped. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Carrying sewing machines up and down factory stairs no longer wore him out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was a machine like a jade-green insect, a praying mantis, delicately rushing through the cold air, indistinct, countless green diamonds winking over its body, and red jewels that glittered with multifaceted eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t feel like carrying any old sewing machine. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the men were working as fast as they possibly could, but the machine kept right up with them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did you do, machine gun most of them?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several machines are set up around it, and there ate wires everywhere. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Dumplin’,” she calls over the sewing machine, not even acknowledging what I just said. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With this cautionary tale in mind, let us begin by asking a question which seems too obvious to need asking but is in fact an essential preliminary: What is a machine? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It looked like it only cut about a two-foot-wide area, and it was nothing like the fancy new machines. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Plastic tubes were connected to beeping machines next to Albert’s bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Especially if he was going to stop at the rez casino and play slot machines first. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

"After all,” he added defensively, "I bought you a washing machine for Montclair. I can’t have washing machines scattered all along the Atlantic seaboard, you know.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take off the protective glasses and look past the electric saw machines and wood planks for Tommy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I was going to give her an excuse, an apology I worked on all afternoon at the machines, but I tell her the truth instead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nineteen Martian machines stand in a line, their metal arms dangling. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson, the art teacher, poured pink sugar into a cotton candy machine. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His foster mother at the time had tried to placate him with candy from the vending machine, but he had just cried under the table until she dragged him out and they went home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Thus the modern idea of the machine was born by giving a new meaning to the Latin term machina. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I was alone, I wandered and poked my fingers into strange chemicals, watched intricate machines trace red and black lines upon ruled paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the real world, Pac-Man machines didn’t save their high score if they were unplugged. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I think you got your han’ caught in a machine. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Now show the others this magnificent machine that’s about to carry you to the moon.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reconnected with Mike Tanner, who had worked on a machine near mine in Schindler's factory in Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Martha stood up on a platform at the adding machine show, and answered the problems quicker than the calculators could operate. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dismantles the machine, stares into its circuits, lets his fingers trace the journeys of electrons. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Explosions were common at the brickworks, for companies would use dynamite to loosen the clay before the great machines scooped it up to make bricks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth fiddles with the machine needle, seems worried by it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At nearly 800 feet long and 110 feet high, it was the largest flying machine ever crafted. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Julie Hopper yelled from the front of the store, “Patrick! Be my cash machine? I only have two bucks.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She bought three packs of peanut M&Ms from a vending machine and sat on top of her bags. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I do try to reach Gavin, but the message machine seems to be the only one home. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The cutting machine worked like a deli sheer, peeling off slices about this size: The slices fell onto a droplet of water and rested on the droplet’s surface. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Photocopy machines were a lot slower in 1969—each sheet had to be set on the glass by hand, and it took several seconds to copy a single page. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She probably knew everything, like who stole from the vending machine or carved curse words into the desks. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When ail the vacation Bible schools ended, I would watch Mama Lessie sew at her old sewing machine. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie smiles at him and goes back to the flour sacks in the corner near the mixing machines. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I became a student once again, and learned about what keeps satellites in orbit, and about how weightlessness affects the human body, and about how to fly machines without wings. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A machine drawing with an instruction manual that told him what to do. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo and I read the notices on the board for secondhand Legos, kittens needing homes, good-as-new washing machines for £10 OBO, and ads promising you hundreds of extra pounds in your spare time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I stare up at the ceiling as he gets to work, powering the machine on and rolling it even closer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It rang a half dozen times on the other end before the Eberhardts’ answering machine picked up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon their insights allowed them to build their own working copy of a Japanese Type B machine—even though they had never seen one, or even any designs for one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As my avatar neared it, I reflexively reached out and grabbed the joystick of a Time Pilot machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the locomotive rumble a few closed cars and then a machine gun in a blister, two gunners crouching beside it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Next night, a black car speeds past the gateway of our church, machine gun blazing. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was marveling at the glittering cityscape when the truck turned off the street and began galloping so heavily that we were all shaking as if we’d been placed on a vibrating machine. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jacqui’s in the middle of a game on the classic Twilight Zone machine. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sees himself in a white coat, striding past machines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the floor and drew pictures of clocks and gears, imaginary machines and magicians on stage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The car began to quiver, then howl, sounding more beast than machine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Toby was lit up like a pinball machine. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also two wooden privacy screens to change behind, some freestanding mirrors, and a worktable laid out with sewing machines and bolts of raw fabric. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Plus, we had to do this against an unknown enemy force dug in and waiting for us with rifles, machine guns, mortars, and artillery. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin worked late that night in the factory and was among the last of the sewing machine repairmen to walk into a ten o’clock meeting of ideological struggle, a mandatory session of self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then he ran outside to look for the Martian attack machines. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Hands-on cyclotron operators, a species of which Bethe was not a member, understood that there were so many imponderables about how the machine worked that empirical experience still trumped even the most carefully polished theory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were wonderful, the sound and feel of a machine after nine days of nothing but wind and wave slaps. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make it play, Jeremie, to see if that machine works,” I say after a while. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But outdoors jobs we can master & if we cant, show him or me how its done & in just a couple of days we can master a job or machine. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

To translate it as ‘machine of the world’ is to mistranslate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I got home on Sunday, my answering machine was filled with messages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

News of the machine had spread to the villages, and people were starting to arrive. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Quentin and I followed him through the shop, his machinists busy at their drill presses and milling machines and lathes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The machine had gained altitude and left the firestorm behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was even a machine for sucking the crumbs and dirt from the floors. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roar of a hovercar passed slowly overhead, and Tally imagined the Specials’ machines searching every crevice in the rock for signs of their prey. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They dump their items into the bin and watch closely as they go through the machine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Iceman was the same size and shape as a Coke machine, with blue eyes and hair so blond it was almost white. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There are pinball machines in the back and it reminds me too much of the bar where very bad things happened to Jodie Foster’s character in The Accused. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the can reflects the lights from the machines, and I remember something that’s been itching at the back of my mind since yesterday. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The roar of machines covered the slap of their boots on the wet snow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though they called it the aeroplane, or sometimes the flying machine, Father and I always thought of it as Dragonwings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler specifically said that ‘my aim...is to show that the machine of the universe is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And now there came a sort of sucking noise, and very quickly all the blue frothy mixture in the huge basin was sucked back into the stomach of the machine. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was nevertheless extremely dangerous flying, at the limit of the aircraft’s range, and one of the Italian machines had crashed on the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The MAV is a sleek, perfectly functional machine, ready to do what it's told. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scythe Faraday had told him, “or you’ll be nothing more than a killing machine.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Even when technology succeeds in manufacturing a machine as big as Texas to do everything we recognize as human, it will still be, at best, a single individual. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lightning, great sheets and lances of brilliance, flared and cracked above and around the machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mother asks, feeding more cream into the machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Those machines, like a lot of things required by the USDA, are way too expensive for a small, local meat processor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We’d even divided the cleanup duties as we waited for the machine to ding. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I turned a corner and I beheld an astonishingly huge machine, spotlights bolted to its side, tearing at a wall of coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, camouflaged white soldiers, about a dozen of them, jumped off the back of the trucks, machine guns in hand, and raced every which way. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had tables and chairs and a couple of vending machines in the corner. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We took the escalator down into the station and walked to the ticket machine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She grabs a video from Dad’s box and pushes it into the machine. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Once hooked up to the scoring machines using a body cord, points register when any part of the blade makes contact with either the metal mask or the lame. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By the time the operator had taken this all in, come to his senses, and turned the machine off, the boy had gone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was full of odd machines and doctors and nurses in masks and gowns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The cars had old chairs and sewing machines and washtubs tied to their roofs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But what of the vaster machines that will be giving instructions to cities, to nations? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each machine has an eye painted in gold on the side, flanked by two small golden wings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw a Gallivespian, mounted on a dragonfly, diving to attack a flying machine whose human pilot tried to fight him off hand to hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ail you could hear for a moment was labored breathing, carbonated bubbles going berserk in two dozen beer bellies, the beer coolers humming, and the ice machine tumbling chunks into its aluminum trough. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its fragile arms and legs are hooked up to machines ten times its size. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Now, he’s as cheerful and flashy as the winning slot machine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Shin had watched him go into a rage when one of the seamstresses in Gong’s stable broke the axle of a sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bykovski stopped the milling machine and came over and grabbed me by my shoulder, giving me a good shake. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I’m going to get some more paper towels and another bottle of water from the good vending machine at the end of the hall.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But there was something else now, as Betonie said: it was everything they had seen—the cities, the tall buildings, the noise and the lights, the power of their weapons and machines. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Arranged in a horseshoe along the edge are stainless steel sinks and counters, a scalding tank, and a feather-plucking machine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the 587th Regiment finally went to war, most of its tail gunners were men, because the machine guns in the Pe-2s required so much strength to recharge. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This year, our school got all healthy and took out the snack machines. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I pressed my back against the closed door, trying to put space between me, the man, and the machine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The children could work all of the machines, even when they were little and had to stand on apple crates to reach them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I happen to have a machine whose sole purpose is liberating oxygen from C02. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see her waving us toward her, but the machine under Zu’s other hand had heated to a terrifying molten glow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Our bodies were viewed as mere vehicles, pasty, potbellied machines designed to transport our thoughts from one place to another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He probably got ‘war machine’ from one of his fifteen-year-old girlfriends. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crouching marines, their machine guns aimed outward, guarded the landing zone as about sixty people shoved onto each helicopter. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Within a few days I was quite adept at the machine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother works at the Bucks County Courier Times, feeding advertising supplements into a “big giant machine” that inserts them into the newspapers that get delivered to homes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After all Hazel had been through, she trusted the wisdom of the gods about as much as she trusted a New Orleans slot machine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The machines have stilled now, but soon, the drums will be turning and printing the news of another, competing paper. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The machine turned abruptly and came back to him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I wouldn’t give for God to really be in the machine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

To improve security, they had given their top South American spies a present—a coding machine called Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All morning you could hear the rattle of the machine as it went round and round, while the tall grass fell down behind the cutter bar in long green swathes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mama turned to me from her sewing machine. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Technically it was an old computer, or at least a machine made from salvaged parts, but it was faster and more efficient than any other piece of equipment he'd ever owned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The next morning she awoke to chaos, the sounds of running, shouting, and the scream of machines invading her dreams. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Beside the washing machine in the basement was a wide counter and a deep steel sink. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that just typical,” Maria said.11 We can shrivel up in the heat, but the machines get a first-class hotel room.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

John outlined a safety regime for the lab, including the relocation of the cyclotron controls from their place next to the machine and into a separate room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even the terror of the machine, and of being strapped down to the table, begins to fade. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

One hotel even has slot machines in the elevators for the people who can’t wait that long. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Asriel,” she called innocently, “may I see how the machine works?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His answering machine continues to record his messages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m no longer concerned about the health risks. And I think it would calm my nerves. There’s a machine in the lobby.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Big cannons and machine gun nests were hidden in caves and tunnels that couldn’t be seen from the air. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen such enterprise before, such great machines, such methodical organization, and such backbreaking work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sewing machines were carried with considerable exertion into Veazy Hall. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I couldn’t do that. I made them. Been working on them since March ninth. My sewing machine died, so I had to stitch them by hand.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The simplest one-celled organism is a far more complex machine than the finest pocket watch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the laundry room and start the machine, and she flops herself on the couch and flips through the channels. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Rumbling and hissing, eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the whirring soda machine, I think of the million times I wanted my mother to stop telling me what to do. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was completely bandaged from head to foot, hooked up to all kinds of machines, with tubes and wires everywhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They work their way to a common area where there is a television, a Coke machine, a shabby sofa, and an assortment of chairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her knapsack disappeared in the dust, and she saw clothing, the sleeping bag, and packets of SpagBol scattering in the machine’s wake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Men were coming in with machine guns held in front of them. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Should we move? Get a condo somewhere? Have electricity and heat and a washing machine and one of those air conditioner things?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

For my family, this not only meant they would have convenient lodging, but they would also have access to a kitchen and laundry machines. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If I wanted ice, there was a machine near the office. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Information can be typed directly into the machine, or it can be downloaded from a computer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And he said, “Why don’t you and I take a stroll to the cashpoint machine, eh?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined them just shutting off like factory machines at the end of a shift: functioning, purposeful, and then just out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He told the people in front of the broken machines to get in line behind the people at the machines that were still working. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fields are brown and crisp with dead cotton stalks, defoliated so the machines can get to the bolls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Walt Disney even had an entry with an animated featured entitled Victory Through Air Power, extolling the virtues of the flying machine as a weapon of war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And far away in the distance, from the heart of the great factory, came a muffled roar of energy as though some monstrous gigantic machine were spinning its wheels at breakneck speed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I say the Company would take your machine up to the hilltop!” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yule May my cousin,” Pascagoula says over the whir of the machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Yet still she lay, still she lay, a mannequin of herself, amid tubes and machines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listed how many people knew anything about machine tools. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t sense anything about the workings of a machine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As I bought her a hospital bed, an oxygen machine, and paid for the nurse who helped her at the very end. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The First and Second Cohorts—pride of Camp Jupiter, a well-oiled, highly disciplined war machine—fell apart under the assault and the sheer novelty of being on the losing side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had machine guns fore and aft, one of the few armed ships in the harbor. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the part about the Linotype machine incident, I expected Frankie to laugh in disbelief. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Until the beginning of adolescence they were two synchronized machines. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He talked like a machine gun and had about as much charm. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were inventions, too— weird metal machines I couldn’t make sense of. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was an early riser but was not allowed out until the sun shot in through the crack near Mami’s sewing machine and swept a glistening stripe of gold across the dirt floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, as the German war machine rolled across Poland, the BDM did not know or did not want to know the fate of the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I left church every day smelling like the popcorn machine. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even with the machine on the highest setting. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

By the time they got to the laundry, the boiler was screaming hot and the machines were ready. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be more difficult to machine and would require hand polishing, but he was willing to tackle it if I agreed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

OUR places of comfort are expectedly different, my friends and I. Elizabeth’s is hunched over her sewing machine trying to make her life look seamless, store-bought. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to ignore the phone, tried to keep going, but when the ringing stopped, a sharp click cracked the air and a weepy voice fluttered from my father’s new answering machine. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were raised on an ethic that extolled the power of the individual to shape his or her life, and then forced into a world where they were treated like cogs in a vast machine. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plastic was soft in her hand, still warm from having been stamped into shape inside the machine a few seconds before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Mecca is a machine, crafted to capture and concentrate the dark energy of all African peoples and inject it directly into the student body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I know what to do! Get away from that machine!” he shouted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It would have the capability to produce neutrons ten times more energetic than those emitted by the twenty-seven-inch machine, an intensity that “would make it possible to carry on actual clinical therapy of human cancer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I give him the shovel before I go to work, and every time the blades of my machine cut the groove of a screw, I wonder what Max is doing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When inventors created new machines that could be used for encryption, William’s gift came into its own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were displays of power looms, rope-making lathes, marine engines, hydraulic presses, steam machines, and other tools, machines, and crafts from around the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel like I went into a time machine. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Allen was put in the weapons platoon as an ammo bearer for the Mho machine gun. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some found in the change slots of the lunchroom vending machines. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of the chatter of schoolkids arriving after a summer vacation, the only thing I could hear was the incessant beeping of those scary machines. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He learned where to place the green-faced lieutenant and the captain, and, high ground being priceless, to set the machine gunner on a book, a children’s dictionary. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But there was, in the barn, an old hand-cranked machine for making cornmeal and hominy. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He studied the small heap of light blue cloth still held in place by the machine’s presser foot. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tally crouched low in the water, sinking to her neck just before the machine appeared. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That machine was developed without advice or assistance from Berkeley but with funding cadged from the Soviet regime very much by the Berkeley method: by stressing its potential contributions to medical research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It finally goes through, but only after I press it against the corner of the machine to flatten it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then the shower stopped suddenly, like a squirt of machine gun fire. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Here the only sound was the whirring of machines, and the halls were mostly empty of people. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When we reached Cuttyhunk, I ran ahead to fetch Cinders so Mr. Sloan wouldn’t have to walk, while Miss Maggie went to the post office where Mr. Johnson kept the telegraph machine. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It buzzed and snarled like a little machine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella and Julia are by the snack machines at break, waiting for me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I watch her from the open door, her small body hooked up to large machines that do the job of breathing for her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was slow work but I liked the machine. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Parents who spent their days designing, building, fixing, and operating machines of transportation signed their sons up and gave free rein to their own tinkering instincts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She typed out her assignments on one of the machines in the instruction room of the Communications Corporation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t have a washing machine, forcing a drive to the Laundromat in town. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He told his assistant and ammo bearer to each bring a spare machine gun for him, and as much ammo as they could possibly carry. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s very film noir. All we need is a fog machine and a dame with a gun and checkered past.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

What if she had been in it when the machine had come? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Tally blinked away water from her eyes and saw that the Rusty machine had landed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the first corner he reached there stood a café, with little green tables on the pavement and a zinc-topped bar and an espresso machine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My two machines are just next to you here. I’m Diana.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The machine would have worked more efficiently if the sickrooms windows had remained closed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was it; the lamp by her sewing machine was on, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want a time machine. Go back and do everything right. Literally everything would’ve been different if I had just gotten your name. I would’ve just followed you on Instagram and taken it from there.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Lubek takes over my machines, and I run like German dogs are snapping at my heels. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For an African, whether you were sent to the Caribbean or South America, you were now part of the sugar machine. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

You could smell the stink of gunpowder and hear the distant burping of the machine guns. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One might hope therefore that as we advance in science and technology, we would eventually manage to build a time machine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended it was somebody at a washing machine not paying attention to what he was doing and getting his whole body pulled through and wrungeded out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then they ran me through a kind of human car wash—a series of machines that soaped, scrubbed, disinfected, rinsed, dried, and deloused me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Previously Hall had invented a machine capable of typing in Braille, the Hall Braille Writer, which he never patented because he felt profit should not sully the cause of serving the blind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He puts the glove on and runs back, his eyes still on his marble machine. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A squadron of flying machines, which had been getting the better of a ragged battle with Lord Asriel’s gyropters, wheeled in the sky and made off to the west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two Marines had just been wounded in their arms and legs by shrapnel when they tried to retrieve a seemingly discarded .35 caliber Japanese machine pistol. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A machine gun fires somewhere, a sound like a chain of beads passing through fingers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bringing Lawrence back to New York, he exploited his personal business contacts to secure tons of copper and iron for the giant machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Why not spend a decade or so exploiting nature’s gifts before building an expensive machine to generate the same energies? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the machine had a rubber strip around its base and every time I bumped into a baseboard, the machine bounced back, giving me a slight jolt in protest. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was less adept in lugging the bulky machines to the repair shop. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the machines keeping him alive at his point,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ear quickly fed a coin into a machine and plunged Arm’s fingers into a steaming cup of coffee. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

From behind, men from the platoon opened fire on the enemy machine gun. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The machine is designed to use the weight of water to lift half a tank of water while the other half balances it by going downwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even Cutie at the far end—the only one on his feet—remained silent, eyes fixed upon the gloomy recesses of the vast machine before him. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He dragged out a table on wheels with a machine on it and rolled it behind the head of the bed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tiara pointed wildly to the vending machine in the corner just as the elevator doors opened. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There are no ticket machines as far as I can see, so I head straight for the booths. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She looked around at the rattling machine, and shouted over the noise, “It’s so Rusty!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t touch or lean against any machine,” Brave Orchid warned her sister. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walked up and sat down in front of the machine, it turned itself on. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Around two o’clock on Saturday, heavy firing began—machine guns, according to the men. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All on top of the long and monotonous years spent learning the basics of the machine that had given birth to the space program. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He strained the pulp from the orange juice by hand when they used to do that sort of thing and then dispensed pre-fab OJ from a machine when the management switched to that. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow I had ended up in this place called Birmingham, in a room full of machines, with only the green teddy bear at my side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As red, white, and blue confetti rained down on us and fog machines swirled clouds of vapor around us, we’d hugged each other, sobbing and laughing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His stomach aches from the now weeks-old diet of junk food and soda pop scavenged from the vending machines scattered throughout the building. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I knew a lady once, Miss Leeds in Springfield, Illinois. She could tell all manner of things about people just by the way they tapped out their messages on a telegraph machine.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they reached Olympia Village, most of the other teams were hanging out in the dining area, scarfing down bacon and playing with the waffle machines. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the women were capable of lightning- fast mental math, rivaling their mechanical calculating machines for speed and accuracy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Huge windows line one wall, revealing the cheesemaking process, massive machines stirring and churning the creamy cheddar. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner of my vision, I saw the scientists and doctors in their white scrubs, setting up machines and computers around me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that Hand Clap’s more likely to build that kind of machine than me. I’ll be happy if I can just stay in the air for a few minutes.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

May was on the other side of the porch running clothes through the rubber rollers on the wringer washing machine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The German military gave special performances, showing off its tanks, machine guns, naval mine throwers, and other artillery weapons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a little older, he would actually make recordings of himself and sometimes of us, the machine being small enough that he could hide it easily. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon I sneaked into the yard and walked among the aisles of damp, cleansmelling clay and came to a barrow full of wet bricks just taken from the machine that shaped them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did, however, come across an old discarded rowing machine of Mr. Little’s, and becoming interested in this, carried it upstairs with some difficulty and spent the rest of the morning rowing. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He could take apart a cipher, piece by piece, as if it were a machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sickened by the war and haunted by the Nazis’ atrocities, Hans had found the courage to speak out and a duplicating machine. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Only that you didn’t want him to give you the solution. It would puncture your ego to have a machine do what you couldn’t. Did you ask him?” she shot at Bogert. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Ever so often, I come to work and find her bawling in her crib, Miss Leefolt busy on the sewing machine rolling her eyes like it’s a stray cat stuck in the screen door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Park paid polite attention to Shin’s instructions on sewing machine maintenance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In its window, between coffee machines and toasters, stood a few toys. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The machine failed to work unless the bullet was close to the skin surface. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The IBM machines used the inputs they received to make calculations based on the orbit determination programs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There weren’t any machines that could do this work, so three women at a time worked together to lift the bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was still on the floor when he went to shut down the machine, and so shocked when he sat back down at the desk that I actually forgot to cry. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His arms were loaded with the parts of the moving-picture machine and the basket of fruit he carried for his friend. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lil’s room was filled with huge machines, and they made the room tiny. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the grass banks above the lawns the gardener started his mowing machine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain stopped, asphalt-baking machines droned over the course, licking flames over the surface to dry the soil. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat and ran his hand around in the works of the gutted machines and in the second one it closed over a cold metal cylinder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And then, peeking around the corner with the washing machine, I see part of a face and a bit of pink hair. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, it survived this as well and was up and running and thought itself home free—when the machine gun opened up from atop the dictionary. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Holly whistled while she plugged in the machine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Dad would’ve left his messages backward, until the machine was empty, and the plane would’ve flown backward away from him, all the way to Boston. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had accused him of caring more for machines than people, but if it came down to saving old spheres or his friends, there was no choice. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The universe is a machine,” Hazel said, “so it’ll be fine.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

IVs dangled next to their beds, respirators breathed for them, tubes fed them, and what little life they had left was kept going by machines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I always paid in cash, so my machine ID was as untraceable as my IP address, which was changing all the time. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Camping in the woods and living off vending machines. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I heard him start the washing machine and I heard the boiler starting up and the water in the water pipes going into the washing machine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence, whose machine and research style gave birth to the new paradigm, hoped to stave off its negative effects as long as he could. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He invents a machine to slice carrots: lift a lever, nineteen blades drop, and the carrot falls apart into twenty neat cylinders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We hear the machine guns in the streets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The guards check our pockets, check our bags, make us walk through X-ray machines. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d play on a swing set, which was more like a tetherball machine, with rings we could swing around on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tiny gas jets allowed compressed air to squirt out under this base, causing it to rise a fraction of an inch off the surface, so that the machine floated on a cushion of air. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is serious, Elizabeth. We weren’t supposed to touch that machine.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad also bought an electric washing machine that we kept out on the patio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day in early December, I came home from basketball practice and Gay said, “Check the answering machine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with filth, and the machines were packed tightly together, churning like train wheels. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were replaced by SS men, who encircled us with machine guns and police dogs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to the machine shop, I expected to see the machinists hard at work on my rockets, but I was disappointed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the Academy lunchroom had a drink machine that was open to everybody. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents, not knowing which thing to look at first. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom fills out the online application for the machine the next day and sends it in. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

These machines were discovered by the police the next day abandoned in a dry arroyo on the western edge of town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a game room, a vending machine that sold glass bottles of pop, and most important to us, a big outdoor swimming pool. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Emily looked up to see Matthew applying a bumper sticker for Flush to the face of the ticket machine. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It felt like my body was a machine, engineered to do nothing but shoot free throws. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Trina is grabbing a few last chip bags and candy bars through the busted cover of a vending machine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

First, those who had offers had to find him, not an easy task because he kept changing his address, gave his telephone number to virtually no one, and didn’t have an answering machine. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Descartes describes something in nature as a machine it is biological entities which he always has in mind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Remembering the promise to his wife, he asked Mary to sit on a couch in a room away from the copy machine. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few days later Dad came home with the most frightening machine I’ve ever seen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds were wounded in pitched battles with machine guns, pistols, and rifles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, the Japanese propaganda machine made him into a martyr. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the machine shop, Mr. Ferro presented us the finished product of our newest design, Auk XIV. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Around the first of July, the work horses were hitched to the mowing machine, and Mr. Zuckerman climbed into the seat and drove into the field. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a curse. The problem with machines is that nobody ever gets the thrill of seeing a message come out.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After none of the machines adequately cooled the room, one of Garfield's doctors contacted Professor Simon Newcomb, a scientist and mathematician who worked for the U. S. Navy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The big Emerge van, the one with the machines and the mobile doctors, is parked farther along the circular drive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie approaches the body scanner and watches the guy in front of him step into the machine and put his hands over his head. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We headed into a lobby with barely enough room for the sole vending machine. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I had to read measuring markings on my machine, and sometimes I simply couldn't; the fine lines on the instruments looked like tiny wiggly worms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

On Jackie’s last day in Colby, she and Bertha sat together at the sewing machine in my room and talked about boys and clothes and movie stars while they worked on a zipper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“He said something about teaching you to work around a machine shop. I said okay, as long as it was on his own time and no company materials.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the mind is just a complicated machine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You listen to your mom’s voice on the machine. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The machine was just a rusty box with wheels, but he painted it with seafaring designs and gave it a fake ship’s smokestack. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several articles for the Monday paper had been left at the machine overnight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One woman, I noticed, was pressing some baby’s clothing and another seemed to be making remarkable progress with the sections of fuchsia satin which she was joining together 011 one of the large sewing machines. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the interne put the machine under his friend’s bed he saw Antonapoulos slyly cut his eyes across the ward to be certain that each person realized that the machine was his. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Milligan, please take my brother with you. We must separate him from his machine. If I fail to disable it, you must do everything in your power to keep him away from it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose that a time machine could have transported an archaeologist back in time, for a world tour at around 11,000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I listened to the sounds around me—the rumble of ice from the drink machine, the ding of a cash register, the murmur of voices, and the occasional burst of laughter from nearby tables. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But of course no one came, and pretty soon only two of six machines were still working. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Through the wide doorway of the restaurant, she can see the blinking rainbow lights of slot machines, and there’s the ringing and clanging of a win. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat bottle-sealing machine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the source of the disastrous line to get into school now made sense: They only had one of the machines running. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The guys came over and started pounding on the machine, but nothing happened for them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These soldiers came with tons of warring equipment, including helicopters, tanks, jeeps with machine guns, and long rifles with bayonets. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Pollux finds a small, warm room humming with machines loaded with levers and dials. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Especially when he is throwing chairs and turning over tables and breaking the cotton-candy machine. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There were so many switches to so many things, like the machines that churned and whined all over the house. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s run it again!” engineers would say to the machine’s operators, just like John Becker had said to Mary Jackson. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the only arm I managed to warm up was on the slot machines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I stop long enough to pull Gale up beside me, and then we take off for the row of machine gun nests on the street side of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Brian and I played hide-and-seek among the clicking slot machines, checking the trays for overlooked quarters, while Dad was winning money at the blackjack table. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There's always a machine beeping, doors clunking shut, carts and stretchers rolling around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was illegal in wartime Britain for private citizens to use radio transmit- ters, so Werner smuggled in transmitter parts by hiding them in her children’s stuffed animals and assembled the machine at home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine has various dials and buttons on it, and a small digital screen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As he and Rondell climbed onto the bus, I went back to the waiting area and bought candy bars and Cokes and chips from the vending machines. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But Herr Braun hasn’t noticed yet, because Lubek has started my machines. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Kluckowski reports that someone used the new ice cream machine without permission.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If this cave is still open, with the machines and lights, the carpets and running water still here, there will be a terrible temptation to give up and move back to the soft life. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

No more individuals, just pieces they can mold to their machine. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The future lay not only with the new philosophies, whether mechanical or Newtonian; it also lay with the new machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend’s cousin works at the Center Theater on Main Street, and he says they have a new popcorn machine and velvet seats.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the complexity that attended the relentless advance of aeronautical research came the need for a new machine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He would take my place packing, I was told, and would learn the ticketing machine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the machine reached the river, it banked into a turn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Outside, New York only seemed to exhale—horns, voices, machines, tires, sirens, helicopters, music, protests, advertisements—all pushing out the air, all selling noise. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As a kindness we remove our friends from the domain of the gravity machine before we dial higher gravities still. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He demonstrated the courage and resourcefulness of the underdog, and the power of a less sophisticated but patriotic army against a tested war machine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is the machine in the attic at work again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The machine roars to life, creaking like a rickety carriage on a cobblestone street. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I wondered, after the hanging fiasco, if I shouldn't just give it up and turn myself over to the doctors, and then I remembered Doctor Gordon and his private shock machine. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She began her sound effects career collaborating with her husband, Arthur Nichols, who invented the first sound machines for radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I said, “No I can’t. And also I need to know where there is a cash machine.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The filtration building is small, just one room with a few huge machines in it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead he thought he could hear the whir of a machine running quietly, and there was a faint vibration in the metal under his feet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I could see out into the corridor, and there were two men standing there, in uniforms, with machine guns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while Festus the figurehead creaked and squeaked through the speakers, reporting the autopilot status in that weird machine language that only Leo could understand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Xerox machine hummed quietly in the corner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We watched boys in their yarmulkes scrubbing the streets beneath the eye of a German machine gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He then took the insights he had gained and built cipher machines for the Army that were even more secure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We’ll do the ceremony first, and as soon as everybody leaves you can crank up the machines— assuming they haven’t been stripped down to the axles by then.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this journey, there were none of Shay’s cryptic dues to puzzle through, no brush fires to escape, and no antique Rusty machines descending to scare her to death. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even at that young age, Luna possessed a mechanical mind, and was able to construct little machines that whirred and ticked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“And,” he says, “I picked up an old gumball machine. The kind that takes pennies. I’ll sell it for ten times what I paid for it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She turned the lever on the side of the printing machine. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he grew a little older he discovered machine guns and tanks and bazookas and, of course, bombs. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You understand? You can use the machines, but you’ve got to buy your own aluminum and steel.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Howard had the feel of a gigantic onrushing machine: You had to either climb on or leap out of the way. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other end of the room boasts the concessions: glass-paneled and red-topped popcorn machines, shelves stacked with boxes of candy, empty plastic cups piled between the cash registers and soda fountains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Mr. Benedict, kneeling beside Constance, “this machine has come close to breaking her will. The brave child, she’s very nearly used it up all at once.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It has never occurred to me that there are kids like me in Germany and China and France who need a machine to help them talk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It bit through neck and deep into chest, and Kino was a terrible machine now. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the presses stood the sleeve machine, looking like twin silver spaceships. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start the coffee machines, then settle on my stool behind the counter to read. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Another long pause—she’s talking to me and doing something else, multitasking, the way busy wives and mothers do, tidying up, loading the washing machine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn called it a death machine and said Dad had lost what little sense he’d ever had. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To do this, he had to run up and down a ladder attached to a huge machine, and push a variety of buttons that made gigantic cranes move like mechanical dinosaurs to lift the bundles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pour the liquid into a nebulizer by my bed, the small machine humming to life as vapors pour from the mouthpiece. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

From dug-in positions, the Marines stopped them with machine gun fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discoveries large and small contributed to the speed, maneuverability, and safety of the machine that symbolized the power and potential of an America that was ascending to a position of unparalleled global dominance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It cost a quarter to look into a machine for one minute. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on close terms with her washing machine and ironing board. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fixing Skee-Ball machines for eight forty an hour and there’s a hundred grand waiting for us.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It pierced the aluminum floor of the cabin; there was a shrill yell, and the machine went rocketing up into the air with all the acceleration that its super-charger could give it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A skilled tool and die maker, my father made replacement parts for broken machines and crafted forms for the glass bottles the company produced. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I only asked for a dollar to buy one from the machine!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She began as a thread cutter, even though in Puerto Rico she had been a machine operator. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It would take me all morning to copy the text into the machine, which would cast typeset blocks from each line. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A door closed on the other side of the room and soon the machine that takes the pictures began to buzz, then slowly it passed over me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the building in this condition might attract attention to them, so Harvey had a washing machine and dryer installed in the warehouse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two and a half years, the tape machines picked up nearly four thousand hours of meetings and phone conversations—including an excellent record of the president’s imminent showdown with Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That weekend, I’m in the laundry room throwing my dirty clothes in one of the washing machines, when Miles walks in, dragging a laundry bag behind him, plus a small container of detergent. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mom kept filling paper cups with coffee from the vending machine and then she’d sit down and drink it, staring at the floor, and stand up and get another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Unless you can build a shambler-destroying machine, it’s just a matter of time before Summerland is overrun. We need to evacuate before another horde comes through.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever his race, each convict is a citizen of a stony village that exists within the prison’s steep, machine- gun-guarded walls—twelve gray acres of cement streets and cell blocks and workshops. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where my mother saw junk, Dad saw the clean lines of the machine age. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do we know Melody doesn’t have answers stored in her machine? Us normal people aren’t allowed to use computers.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She’s shaking my shoulders, just like in my dream, except instead of John Williams’s score playing, there’s sirens in the background, again, and the tick of a coffee machine. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A photograph is a kind of time machine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Some in science, some in sports, some in leadership. And yet, as different as each of your gifts is, together you form one body, an intricate part of one machine." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you put the pennies in the gum machine at the store?” she asked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I got bounced around a lot, but I'm a well-honed machine in times of crisis. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was like a perpetual-motion machine, never stopping, hardly sleeping at all. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

While the British knew a lot about how the machines operated, neither they nor anyone else could tell Elizebeth which of the many billions of Enigma settings the South American spies were using. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“So you thought the best way would be to go after her on a really loud machine?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He flipped the switch on the extractor again, and the machine groaned while it came to a stop. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the Captain stopped all the hand digging and brought in giant machines, called continuous miners, to tear the coal from its seams. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We are always searching for a way to improve our lives with machines,” Hideo says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There is nothing peculiarly present-centered about regarding Cayley as important, unless the present is extended to include the period of the first flying machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s enough to make yourself a nice dress. I checked with the lady at the fabric counter. And Mrs. Wright said you could use her machine,” Henry said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine. Now come over to this machine and put your hand into the tube. Nothing to harm you, I promise. Straighten your fingers. That’s it.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen took a ticket from the machine at the counter and waited in line. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They are over by the defunct cigarette machine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A one-woman publicity machine, she sent out indignant press releases, as well as letters to the government demanding a public accounting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His machine would be capable of producing a half kilogram of plutonium—just over a pound—a day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The rebel with the semiautomatic machine gun, who had been standing against a tree smoking a cigarette, furiously walked toward the old man and pointed his gun between the old man’s legs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I take the small machine from her tray and hold it as she fits each vial into one of three separate compartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A coworker betrayed Shin a few weeks after he dropped the sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If all the Blackwater mercenaries were carrying at least two guns each, that would mean hundreds of 9mm Heckler and Koch sidearms, hundreds of M-16 rifles and M-4 machine guns. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He immediately checked the other earthmoving machines and found the same thing. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An instructor explained the workings of the teletype machine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fitted the sleeves, attached them with the pins, then took the cloth back to the machine. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had hoped to find the machine room deserted, but the place was packed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Near the bridge, in the willow thicket on the river bank, lay the broken-up machine with a black spider of a swastika on its tail unit,” said Nina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“If we do get into anything, make sure you report any body count. One last thing, you stay close to Scotty over there. Scotty’s our machine gunner. You can feed for him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo stared at the sphere, trying to recall where he’d read or heard about a similar ancient machine. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Luxury hotels and ocean liners—among them the Titanic—installed batteries of rowing machines so their clients could stay in shape and emulate their rowing heroes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I type in, “Today is Monday. It is cold,” then push a blue button on the machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When Henry Allen joined the military, it never occurred to him that he would end up serving as a machine gunner in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The SS were back at their posts in the watchtowers, behind their machine guns. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long before America’s aircraft manufacturers placed one of their newly conceived flying machines into production, they sent a working prototype to the Langley laboratory so that the design could be tested and improved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At first, it scared me, but now I realize that half the time, when the alarms go off, it’s the machines that are malfunctioning, not the people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I put a towel over Bertha’s sewing machine and hung my backpack on the hook on the closet door. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, he had fantasized that there might be something strange up there...a time machine or a UFO. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The baking machines had not completely dried the surface. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a one-minute irradiation at low power, the machine was stopped and the cage opened. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My younger brothers adored running the machine and begged to take a turn, but you had to watch them—they were murder on the crank. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So he said, “OK. Look. I’m going to go and put your clothes and the bedsheets into the washing machine and then I’ll come back, OK?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are no people inside the building: the machines run by themselves. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A machine that fell short of the necessary energies, on the other hand, would look like an enormous waste of money. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In a fragile whisper, she said, “They have flying machines,” and watched, desolate, as the understanding changed their three faces, bullying out the last defiant shred of hope, leaving nothing but despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She took a tape from the machine she was near. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She blew through special machines, had a blood sample taken to measure her capacity for absorbing oxygen, and underwent a chest exam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After lunch, the class plodded through a spelling pretest, followed by a science work sheet on simple machines, but all George could think about was trying out for Charlotte. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He bought us Pringles and Peanut M&Ms for dinner from the hospital vending machines, and my sister and I told the police it was an accident. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Off to one side was a room with rows of slot machines that were constantly clinking and ticking and flashing lights. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous glowing vending machine looms where the bed should be, filled not with candy but rows of razor-sharp tactical knives and armor-piercing pistols. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She straightens a long piece of satin through her sewing machine with her foot hovering over the pedal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By sunset the beach was pretty much deserted, and the riot officers who were left behind were firing warning shots at anyone who dared to come close to the ruined machines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We came to a strange-looking machine consisting of a huge set of gears connecting a series of drum-like rollers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a flash, the kitten became a ghostly skeleton, as if it had stepped behind an X-ray machine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was glad even beyond the contents of the vending machine. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Leo’s own mom had died in a machine shop blaze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She told them calmly, “Never mind, girls, this machine mustn’t be trifled with, but certainly is airworthy.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I block the scene so when we kiss, faces around us blur, a filtered lens diffuses the light, and a smoke machine blows gauzy wisps of gray across the floor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“He’d come in, and the machine would be busted on a Sunday morning,” recalled Livingood, “and he’d say, ‘Well, I’m going out to play tennis, and you people have to fix it.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

During his first year in the factory, he proved it to himself and to his coworkers in a confrontation with another sewing machine repairman. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At first, Ferris’s main worry was whether he could acquire enough steel to build his machine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Frank didn’t understand until he swiveled the machine gun around. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I pushed the letter C on my machine and waited for the next question. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, the city’s only public high school taught laboratory employees everything from sewing to dynamic model design, bookkeeping to machine shop theory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the film was over, the end of it whipped noisily around and around the take-up reel until Etienne turned off the machine and the rectangle of light disappeared. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When their temperamental foot-powered sewing machines broke down, Shin fixed them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I tried the house phone and got the machine. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They used to be soda machines when my sister went here, but the school district got on a big antisugar kick since then. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Atoms and corpuscles are not machines, but their interaction is determined by size, shape and hardness, just as the interaction of the parts of a clock are. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It rang five times and then the answering machine picked up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She bellows and screams, throwing her head and backing away, but he’s like a machine. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was Arthur who said it first: “Do you realize what we’ve got here? We could open our own machine shop. With these tools and all these motors, we could make anything we wanted.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

By five the girls had crowded through the main gate, josded their way up the outside staircase on the far end of the mill, cleaned their machines, and stood waiting for the workday to begin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a machine that stretches over thousands of miles. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In early February 1944, more news reached London and Washington: The Germans were beginning to empty the heavy water machines. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to take the wheel to the bicycle shop and get it aligned with the machine they had down there. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They also took turns operating the machines that pumped fresh air into the bunkers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father was pretty mad,” he said over the shriek of a milling machine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The robot wasn’t a toy or pet; it was a machine. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was a huge chamber, the walls—half naked rock, half polished steel—lined with computer equipment, electronic meters, machines that blinked and flickered with a life of their own. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure sits with her fingers going numb in her lap and thinks of the machine in the attic, its cables and switches. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By then, you might guess that you’re typing on a very sophisticated cipher machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His answer: assemble machines much smaller than living cells, materials stronger and lighter than any available today. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Dad bought a machine to manufacture bullets from spent cartridges. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caton headed for the machine shop, but a line of union men, including Mr. Dubonnet, stopped him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many are terrified when they first hear the noise of an electric washing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had an ancient sewing machine that they had bought upon their arrival in America. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Every one of them has been fortified with rebel-manned machine gun nests. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Jaime was led into the boiler room, where other men were lined up against the wall beneath the watchful eye of a pale soldier who kept his machine gun trained on them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just about to start saving up for the down payment on a new washing machine, but...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he passed through the metal detector while his bag went through the X-ray machine. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re sad you couldn’t bring your cupcakes today, but why don’t you get Marcus something from the vending machine?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In days past, the machines themselves had whirled the clothes around, but not one of them worked anymore. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The expected payout on a slot machine is determined in like manner. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie had four machines, so he could milk four cows at the same time. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Just around the corner, in the entryway, the washing machine sits up against the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As Alex leaped headfirst through the nearest door, they brought up their machine guns and fired. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I remember the catalogue from the first show, done on a mimeo machine, smeared and illegible, its poverty a badge of authenticity. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over further minutes the discrepancy would widen until the two machines were tapping out a rhythmic pattern in the difference between their two beats. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Frankie clung to my trail, following me past riveted metal machines, past imposing cannons and naval guns, past armored plates and display cases of mortars and bullets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Easter wasn’t that far off, or maybe it was a gift to thank him for the sewing machine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we don’t have an ice cream machine, so we don’t have a choice,” she replies. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The machine gun opened fire once more from a black rise above the motor pool, and orange tracer bullets skimmed like low-gliding dashes over the tops of the shadowy tents, almost clipping the peaks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The machine is splendid! What a speed! A few times I fell into a spin, but in the end I learned how to turn.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a candy machine in every hall in the school and some kids have money every day for a Coke, a pack of cookies, and either chewy candies or candy bars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Look at that. She’s buying him candy,” said Arm disapprovingly as the boy’s mother fed money into the machine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the large brick building in Tegucigalpa, young women sit in rows behind sewing machines, furiously stitching medical scrubs for export to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

To his surprise there was an elderly dishwashing machine beneath the sink, and he filled it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Changs had run flat life through a fancy new sewing machine, and seen it emerge smocked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter of the café he installed a machine that made hot chocolate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Like it would be like one of those inflatable moonwalk machines, except for always.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was something synthetic that you could throw in the washing machine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to a gas station and bought crackers with peanut butter from a machine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room on his or Thompson’s small machine to haul the dead person out, however, nor was there space on the Anchorage couple s ATV. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Communications Corporation offered to teach girls teletype machine operating and to pay them twelve-fifty a week while they were learning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when she answers I can hear an echo and I know that she's got her head inside one of the machines. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Theo had her clean the popcorn and hot dog machines for an entire week. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, she’d inherited the machine from the greatest inventor of all time, and it was loaded with invention ideas, schematics, and diagrams, most of which Annabeth was still trying to figure out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Just enough power left in those old machines for one final show. Once I had the access code, it was easy.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Seriously. Statistically, it’s more likely I’d get killed by a vending machine or a cow than a shark.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It’s delicate and impossible to harvest with machines—you have to pinch them out of the flower by hand. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And some of them were buying tickets at big black machines on the wall. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it crazy to think the MTA won’t need any station staffers in a few years because machines—maybe even robots—will take over their jobs? It’s sort of happening already if you think about...” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy’s model of planetary motion can be represented by a little machine, like those that, serving a similar purpose, existed in Ptolemy’s time.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We do not like possessing machines, but they are better than tourists. You will not leave here alive.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because of this layered approach, it took Elizebeth and her team many weeks to break the messages and work out the wiring on the new machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hummed so that girls in his apartment building sometimes put their babies up on top of the machines and let the vibrations lull them into sleep. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Lexie and Moody, meanwhile, came home to a message on the answering machine telling them the case was over. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was something familiar about the fumes that filled the air and I had just thought pine, when a high-pitched Negro voice rang out above the machine sounds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was the good-hearted Mr. Ziegler to know that nothing ailed the machine—that this was a ruse devised to rob and kill would-be Samaritans? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the stories after the war, all the resistance heroes were dashing, sinewy types who could construct machine guns from paper clips. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before them was an alcove housing a bank of vending machines and video games. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But just hearing my bro’s voice on the answering machine, man. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But I know nothing of healing, my Lord. I only tinker with machines.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another team worked the pressing machines like cooks at a giant griddle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Can black holes serve as time machines, carrying us to the remote past or the distant future? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I spend my weekends alone, holed up in a room with my Singer sewing machine. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid the movie into the machine and watched the car turn into monsters by myself. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I ever need a new set of knives or the perfect exercise machine, I’ve got that information on hie. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a machine began to hum and I distrusted the man and woman above me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could make out the trestle of the sewing machine, and the straight-backed chair behind it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The machine whined back to life, and she peered upward into the shimmering disk. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To the industrial food chain, cattle are just machines for turning number 2 field corn into cuts of beef. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The new silver dishwashing machine sits in the middle of the room, attached to a hose stretched from the faucet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The machine jolted into gullies, lurched and coughed; Amarante bounced out of his seat, clinging for dear life; fence posts splintered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If only you could see the lovely reading machines we used to have in London!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pleasant voice of the answering machine that never had to feel sorrow or pain answered cheerfully, “You have reached the Washington residence. Please leave your number, and have a nice day!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the man-sized tray that will slide me into the machine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they got him breathing normally again—“normally” meaning with the help of the oxygen machine— the fight left him fatigued the whole next day. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The ground floor is one big open space full of nothing but orb motors! Just gorgeous machines in every direction, as far as the eye can see. It's my favorite place in the whole city." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Could we be so desperate for drinkable water that we’re willing to destroy the very machines that could create it, just to get that first sip? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A long, curvy, ample machine, it sported some chrome — a front grille like a bulldog’s jaw, a back bumper. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at Mr. Kirk’s shuttle as it returned and tried to imagine the power it would take to tear such a machine apart. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wonka led the party over to a gigantic machine that stood in the very center of the Inventing Room. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

A soldier sitting in the open side opened fire with a machine gun, mowing down the crowd. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the director’s wife slips on ice in the Place des Vosges and breaks her wrist in two places, the museum’s gossip machine explodes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He threw a switch, and the machine hummed, and the sample began to move back and forth, the toast crumb sliding across the edge of the diamond knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even her mother could have invented such a machine! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We went to get a drink from the vending machines. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"Handcuffs, machine guns, and so forth. The sirens scream loudly when we ride through Washington. You know what I think of America but now my dream and ours has been destroyed." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

For the first hour or so Lyddie watched, trying mostly to stay out of Diana’s way as she moved among the three machines, two opposite and one adjoining. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?” he asked Isabelle. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

My gaze follows the counter down to the pinball machines at the far end of the diner, then over to their booth. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His strength and his movement and his speed were a machine. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she lost the first coin she banged on the machine with her fists and kept opening the receiver to be sure that nothing had come down. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sewing machine thumps a methodic beat, never ceasing, but only getting stronger and stronger with each stitch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At night, the mechanics cleaned machine guns—or they had to take turns guarding the aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The whole room was like one massive, scary, unreliable machine. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jule waved back and booked it through the lines of slot machines to a bank of elevators. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The world's experts in decrypting Enigma, the British had created banks of powerful electric machines—called bombes—to help with the work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Inexplicably, he sounded put out with the men who brought their adding machines to the Bible convention, and possibly with the Bible itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a Talib with a machine gun just inches from my face. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then he added thoughtfully, “We really ought to have a duplicating machine.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The chopper machine guns raked the wood line. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the proper instruction, his talent for machines translated perfectly to magic tricks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The flying machine thundered closer, and she glimpsed an inhuman face staring at her from the pilot seat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I keep taking showers to cool it down, like the way they pour water on an overheating machine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“My fantasies are more interesting than the real world and machines and tools are more interesting than you guys’ fantasies.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Over the next eighteen months, this indefatigable machine would produce two thousandths of a gram of plutonium, a quantity about the size of a grain of salt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There was a big room full of round tables, each with two or three chairs, and some vending machines. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My brother and I worked through the nights on a machine that made casings for the detonators on bombs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out over and over, for a year, with a gun to your head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That, or he was going to force me onto the cot himself and hold me there until the machine came down and locked over me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The bell rang, and both fighters rushed together, Willie's left arm pumping out like a machine, slamming into Becker's face, rocking him backwards against the red velvet ropes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The superintendent dragged out the asphalt-baking machines and slowly dried the course. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once the Grievers had shut down completely, their instruments sucked back through their blubbery skin, their lights turned off, their inside machines dead quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"No, I won't be needing the machine. Business is taking me away sooner than I expected. I leave late tonight." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At exactly the same instant, a German aircraft swooped over Klavdiya’s head, so low she could see the pilot’s face as he fired his machine guns at her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It all looked so peaceful, a different world from the one that the flying machine had shattered last night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Felix worried she was going to deliver bad news, but she smiled and tapped her empty mug before heading to the coffee machine in the corner. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were huge stacks of wood, and some machines covered with green canvas to protect them from the dust. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I puffed, “You tried to buy the machine, didn’t you?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The pig was not on the old sewing machine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“From what I remember from the old blueprints,” said Miguel, “the vault was right here, in the same spot as this machine.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I got down on my knees and crawled to one of the binocular machines. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were ordered to strip down to the waist and line up facing the wall, waiting our turn at the X-ray machine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gather around, everyone. The ice cream machine is here.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He placed a thick black record on it, hand-cranked the machine, then lowered the arm. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour-long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's even more than the striped red, blue, and yellow dress and red tights—an exact copy of Twiggy's Vogue cover outfit that Ma sewed on a neighbor's borrowed machine. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now I can see that at each ruined desalination machine stands a police officer in riot gear with an automatic rifle, warning people to keep away—as if there’s still something to protect. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I press myself against the vending machine, its tiny vibrations mixing with the nervous energy in my bones. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I listen curiously as the bodyguard says something to what looks like an automated machine attendant. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But nevertheless, I don’t want electricity and all that it will bring—radios, TV, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, washing machines—noise. I want to hear the birds.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hypnotic whirl of the cotton candy machine helped keep my full-on panic about our secret show at bay. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

One of de Caus’s machines, however, has a sophisticated feedback mechanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The researchers realized that the machines people were building—those mechanized tools of productivity, war, and science—were so powerful that they were moving faster than people could keep up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I recognized the beginnings of a crescent-shaped machine in the back corner and the man staring me down from across the card table serving as his desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The laundry room was both one of the wars obscure crannies and a microcosm of the war itself, a sophisticated, efficient machine capable of processing eighteen thousand bundles of laundry each week. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thanks to machines, data was moving much faster than humans could ever transport it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My eyes drifted back over to the machine, wondering how painful it would be for me to have the inside of my head inspected. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Paul Aebersold constructed a removable wooden chamber as a “treatment room” next to the imposing machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This whole part of the attic, she realizes, is some sort of machine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

More arrived at the camp, with more machines. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Reaching over, I removed a bent piece of wire that locked the machine’s spinning wheel in place. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We hoisted Gau into the rear of the helicopter, and the machine labored tentatively into the air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The forests of Mount Elgon were home to two thousand elephants, until the men with machine guns came over from Uganda. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly across from me I see Beetee with about ten different machines hooked up to him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I wondered what happened to it after my run-in with that monster machine.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ancient machines, each as big as a hovercar, stood silent around them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I know you were worried about those machines before, but I’d be terrified of them now.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sarai was reeling with visions of explosions and contraptions and impossibly tall towers—and girls climbing impossibly tall towers—and magnets and saws and bridges and flasks of miraculous chemicals and...and...and flying machines. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A year of rowing had given him prodigious strength in his arms and shoulders, and he worked his way through the pile of cedar bolts like a machine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He clutched a phantom machine gun and sent a burst of deadly rounds into the maize mill. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

All evening at school, my mind was filled with words bouncing around in my head like the popcorn machine someone had set up in the corner of the cafeteria. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And the nearby uranium mine made their radar/sonar machines go nuts, so they couldn’t see that way, either, so they never made it to the bottom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But just outside the truck were Nazis with machine guns. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thoughts were bouncing around my head like the balls in a pinball machine, and I didn’t want to hear any of them. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom got sick I kept wishing I had a time machine so I could go back and fix things. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I gave it to her and sat nervously by the fax machine. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“All you robots do is lie about and drink machine oil. I ought to send you to the dump.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She loved it when her father taught her the tricks like priming the carburetor that would keep the temperamental machine on the road. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the machine in the corridor dispenses only coffee, tepid at best, in paper cups. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Faster than a sewing machine work­ing a piece of cloth, I hooked down the tarpaulin on both sides of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the center was a huge platform with all sorts of machines, cauldrons, forges, and the largest anvil I’d ever seen—a block of iron the size of a house. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In my dream, you are standing in front of the vending machine from the Good Night, Sleep Tight, and you are smiling at me, using all of your teeth. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

More Irish girls came on as spare hands, some of the machines simply stood idle. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Far away in the mountains behind them, the rapid-fire rat-a-tat-tat of machine guns echoed loudly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That day and for several thereafter, the kapo got Jack assigned to a coveted indoor job in the camp machine shop so he would not have to march outside or do heavy labor. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say that he spent most of his day inside the pump house by the river, as if it pleased him to watch and listen to machines doing their work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when the magazine Popular Electronics ran a cover story on an extraordinary machine called the Altair 8800. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Flying slowly above the tiles, which glistened with the recent rain, she edged the machine into a little gully between a steep tiled roof and the sheer wall of the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They jumped the spiked trench and reached the machine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The next weekend, Mr. Bykovski met with me and Sherman and O’Dell at the tipple machine shop to teach us the fundamentals of welding and cutting steel so that we could build our own rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess. But all those romances they feed us are wrong. They make us think it’s just supposed to be hearts and wind machines and boys who slay dragons for you.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They studied mechanics in theory but they had no practical interest in machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A tall man sat in the machine next to him, shouting in his ear and gesturing at the controls. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was incredibly boring, but my survival depends on these machines, so it had to be done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe these mestizos have to secretly cut off their hairs with little machines to keep from turning into hairy monsters. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine brings Ma's third smile of the day—tallied by Starry and me through another silent look. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The delivery boy had had enough of their suspicions; he swept a pointed finger across their range, imitating the sound of a machine gun: "Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a row, the gardener stopped, machine roaring. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I was going to tote this machine gun for a year and I would never have to shoot it,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There’s the sewing machine table that they store in here. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Fannie was scared when she stood onstage to speak to a crowd, but remembering the anxious faces of the hardworking girls at their sewing machines gave her strength and courage. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I would feed the cane into the machine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just stood quietly in front of the machine that the overseer had led her to and pretended she could hear what he was saying to her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We gathered around the copying machine in the main office and watched together as the image was reproduced. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He also invented something called the “gunpowder engine,” which influenced the development of another machine, the steam engine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he bristled at subordinating his personal quest for the truth to the priorities of the group, which included, tediously, the maintenance of the machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And were these weapons, or were they not, AK-47s and machine guns? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The farmer put up quite a stink over having to bring the machine over to our place, but Pa said he could only work on it when he had the time away from farming. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nina saw firsthand the undiluted evil of the Nazi killing machine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The machine and the key both vanished, and in their place, the Second Gate appeared. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Pease and Reynolds were at their machines in the rear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds a machine gun with a horde of zombies behind her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Since the Wright Brothers’ 1915 Flyer, airplanes had evolved from pelican-like awkwardness to sleek machines with the silhouette of a falcon; why wouldn’t a spaceship continue along that same path? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, not exactly. The main reason is that I don’t like to be dependent, particularly on electricity, rails, steam, oil, coal, machines, and all those things that can go wrong.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him around as he showed me all the things his parents regularly bought him: toys, bicycles, go-carts, pinball machines, Ping-Pong tables, electric trains. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two monks were quiet as they cleaned and oiled the machine gun. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Amelia’s mom is vacuuming upstairs, the clunky machine roaring across the carpets. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, he needed a technique for having the valves in the piston open and close by the action of the machine itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was responsible for about fifty machines and the seamstresses who operated them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The captain explains that the cylinder is surrounded by soldiers carrying machine guns and rifles. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I rise and turn slowly in a circle, addressing the machine guns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When we get home, I help Mami clean and then we take the sheets and towels and clothes to wash and dry in the machines in the basement. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The room was a converted utility closet, with just enough space for two machines and their chairs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen set up his machine gun and started firing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I passed the washing machine and furnace and entered the old coal bin which was no longer used. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Apparently the machines were designed to process filtered seawater. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then something made me look over to my left at a figure standing by the cigarette machine. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The SS surrounding us, machine guns aimed at us: the usual ritual. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wore shorts and a tank top as she worked the pedal of a sewing machine with her bare foot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“You need a machine,” he said, imitating turning a steering wheel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You found a way to transfer your animus into a machine?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But he also described machines for pumping water, sawing wood and performing other industrial tasks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a poster next to me with a picture of an Asian lady holding up an old machine. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant I did, a panel slid open in the surface of the Voight-Kampff machine, revealing a keyhole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They all moved towards the third siege machine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She repeatedly asked the referee to verify if the score posted on the machine was correct. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a year I arranged for a priest to come and bless unions, animals, and machines, baptize children, and say a belated prayer for the dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly became accustomed to having their Friday-evening movie dates hijacked by the machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Navy provided the Swift boats, machine guns, and training. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Smithers had also built an audio function into the machine. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It infiltrated Xerox machines and worked its way inside personal computers and inside the cushions of chairs and fingered down into the floor drains until it touched pools of lingering bleach in the water traps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got out an enormous empty glass jar that was the size of a washing machine. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d recommend inserting machine screws around the diameter of your thing to hold it in place. What did you call it?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he recognized a nearby utility shed and a wooden kiosk with a soda machine. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like a lifeless machine moving forward. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This doctor and that doctor took blood samples, put me through X-ray machines and even an MRI scan. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now that he was sure the machine worked, Dad motioned for Luke to take over, and Luke, ever eager to please, stepped forward. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Why would my key fit into your father’s machine? That doesn’t make any sense.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“TV makes lots of people look funny,” I had the machine say. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her sister could do the hand-finishing on the shirts when they came off the machines. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A caterpillar, or butterfly larva, is an eating machine. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I helped Phil pour the eggs, water, and flour into a machine, then hang the strands on a rotating stand he had built. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Another pawned her sewing machine and summoned an exterminator. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Let the answering machine get it,” he says. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“This is Perry, Leon,” he said into the machine. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Beside the huge machine were ladders on wheels that the workers pushed back and forth and climbed up on to reach the high parts. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the group moved as one machine, setting up the main camp, stringing the woods with traps and alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you think something you got out of a gum- ball machine will actually help you find your Talent,” he said. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On my way out of the vending machine alcove, this dude accidentally bumped into me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

To make vacations affordable, at public auction the Warden bought a bus that, oddly enough, had once been a mobile TB clinic, with a turret-like bulge in its roof to accommodate an X-ray machine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When we got home, there was a message on the machine from Rachel. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think she liked being in this kitchen, mothering and praying over this big machine and these blocks of backward letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum couldn’t hear 'cause the washing machine was on berserk cycle and she was hoovering the living room. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The soda machine keeps spitting out my crumpled dollar, disgusted. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I brought out my garbage-can washing machine and rinsed clothes that had been jiggling in detergent for two days. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Ask your machine there what makes a man a traitor.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was exactly the opposite: Compton had drafted the order allowing the Tokyo machine to be restarted for biomedical research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The machines are more ... efficient near freezing. I wear a coat and hardly notice,” said Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian’s a machine, a machine gun, two at a time, three, four, underhand, overhand, both hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For a start, Purple didn’t use rotors, the motorized gears inside most cipher machines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ridiculed their devotion to the machine as “a mania for gadgets or a post-infantile fascination for scientific meccano games.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He smiles quick up at me, then hunches back over an elaborate machine made of rocks, marbles, sticks and rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Warden had tried unsuccessfully to jam Ginny’s washing machine into the already crowded bus. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She doesn't look like she has any idea what I'm talking about, even when I clarify that a Rototiller is a machine with sharp blades that mechanically chop soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I go downstairs for breakfast, she’s loading the washing machine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Feller and his wife going around getting food, clothes, everything out of machines. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"First you need to invent a time machine," I say. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She might not have machines to read Tally’s voice and heartbeat and sweat, but her own perceptions were alert. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby an incongruous sound shook the dark, an air hammer pounding like a machine gun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight horses were hitched to it and made it go, so this was an eight-horsepower machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She just took in a heap of sewing that she has to finish quick. Marla Kay from church has a sewing machine, but she said hers is jammed up bad.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stink of sewage, mixed with boat paint and machine grease, wafted up from the thick water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She slides down until she’s sitting on the floor with her back to the washing machine and my jacket over her like a blanket. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Many of the huge machines were beyond identifying, ooking more melted than rusted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Alex twisted the accelerator and yelled out as the machine rocketed away, almost throwing him backward off the saddle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The convoy was the same as it had been that morning; in front, the open jeep filled with soldiers, a machine gun mounted on its hood, with a similar vehicle behind us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Originally destined for the lab’s finance department, enterprising researchers soon appropriated the machines for their own purposes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I supervised twenty-one Okinawans in a machine shop and rose in rank from private first class to corporal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The very idea, investing $500 on a calculating machine so it could be used by a girl! Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Also flying machines people could fasten on their backs like knapsacks and go zipping all over the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to type the name into the machine, because it’s personal, but in my mind I’m going to call the Medi- Talker “Elvira,” after that song I like. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The clacking of computer keys continues, neither machine nor operator moved by tears. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Figures were jumping from the machine, spraying white foam at the ground as they crashed through the burning flowers and into the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He purposely didn’t look at the milk shake machines lined up so shiny against the back wall. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year later, when I was well enough to work at a tortilla factory, a machine tore two fingertips off my left hand. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The mynah lifted on a rise of warm air as it coasted over the garden wall, over the snapping electric wires and broken glass and machine guns. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Henry Foster had had his machine wheeled out of its lockup and, when Lenina arrived, was already seated in the cockpit, waiting. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after he dropped the sewing machine, Shin was called into the office of the plant superintendent, along with the chief foreman and the floor foreman who had reported the incident. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There’s the factory worker whose hands were flattened like corn tortillas by a machine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t quite pitch-dark, and in the ghostly gray predawn light he could see the old treadle sewing machine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why . . . . Curley . . . . he got his han’ caught in a machine, ma’am. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine shop was unlocked that night, as it was every night, and Sherman was waiting for me when I arrived on my bike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people in the space were men, but interspersed among them a few women consulted their calculating machines or peered intently at slides in film viewers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Grandma turned around from the sewing machine, and froze. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One machine is airborne, another is landing, and still another is being inspected and refuelled,” Sofya said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I help clean the ingenio, with its heavy creaking machine that crush the cane. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little machine obligingly ground the pencil to a fine point. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nineteen eighty-seven was the fax machine Tipping Point. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first question was whether the proposed machine would be powerful enough to produce mesotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Here the master carpenter supervised the cutting of timber for the construction of scaffolding, workshops, and machines. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Yet he never lost the conviction that his role in the machine’s development had been overlooked. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Even if you die, the sewing machine can’t be brought back,” the superintendent added. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some carried ammunition boxes, the length of two cement bricks, between them, and others had semiautomatic machine guns and RPGs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Purple machine was selected as the next gift, and William was instructed to deliver a copy to Britain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Specialist, Fifth Class Judy Duncan looked sharp in her dress uniform as she leaned against the Coke machine. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Paul was hit by machine gun fire and died, he called out to Jimmie Gleason, the other Navajo with him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used some machine oil to grease back his hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Lenny never has time to drive me, and this washing machine isn’t about to start working again.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As she was looking for a place to hide, two German shoulders came running toward her with machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The flashing lights and smoke machine make it hard to see. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even before the deuton affair, some Rad Lab researchers were questioning whether the cult of the machine had not overwhelmed the drive for basic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A girl, whose name I will not repeat, had her first under-the-bra experience at Rosie’s while making out between the pinball machines. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Our Singer sewing machine worked by pushing a pedal. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The two huge machines faced each other, with their tall metal booms stretched out at an angle, like two medieval horsemen with their long swords tipped forward. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Cooksey’s new tank compiled everything the lab had learned about how to build a cyclotron into a rugged, gleaming, machined tank with glass insulators and arrangements for air and water cooling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The machines hooked up to his scalp were showing flatlines in his brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food section has the usual vendors selling samosas and kabob rolls, and a big cotton candy machine. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The next day I do need help, and Lubek brings me more metal stock to feed into the machines, so I don’t lose the time going to get them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She could understand the appeal of the Roman way, too - to blend in, be one of the team, work as a part of a well-oiled machine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On that newfangled but soon-to-be obsolete machine I wrote not so much like a kid from the Midwest as a minister’s daughter from Shropshire. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It rings and stops, rings and stops, but no one leaves a message on the machine. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The deep voice thrillingly vibrated; the gesticulating hand implied all space and the onrush of the irresistible machine. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the change from Grandma and went to the vending machine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Crisscrossed Packs Pedal, pedal Mother’s feet push the sewing machine. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m hooked up to all sorts of machines. That’s why it took me so long to get to the intercom.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Clyde came to work at one of the Ford car factories, on the assembly line where they made parts for the machines the army used in the war. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab budget for 1946 and beyond climbed to more than $2 million a year—not including construction of the new machines. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it’s even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I half expected to see Chubs and Zu outside trying to rig the vending machines into burping up whatever snacks they had left. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Soon all the embassies were ringed with barbed wire and machine guns and it was impossible to continue taking them by storm; but then there were other needs to keep her busy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, all of my clothes, my books, and my sewing machine are here at the Malloys’. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV, and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking left and right, he could see into the barrels of their machine guns. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They ran into the street, shoelaces dangling, as shells fell all over town and machine gunfire flew in from the darkness. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But he kept looking back at the ruined machine, and for some reason he couldn’t leave it there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Once they passed a snow machine in operation, with the Cloud-Men turning the handle and a blizzard of snowflakes blowing out of the great funnel above. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I returned from the deli to find Raizel standing at my workstation, studying the Linotype machine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His enemies, mocking him, put it about that he was working on a flying machine, and indeed he admitted that the thought had crossed his mind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had composed letters, worked on progress reports, looked up information on this machine. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The white-noise machine under the window dulled the beeping of the monitors next to the bed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sure.There’s a snowmachine on the other end of the hall, but it’s not as good as ... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Ellsberg’s platoon started moving forward, a burst of machine gunfire erupted from the tree line. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I hated him, I couldn’t deny it was a beautiful machine. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“They don’t shovel. They haven’t shoveled in twenty years. They use machines.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When only three sheets of paper came through the machine I was concerned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Croker’s dæmon, a green woodpecker, drilled vigorously into a waste piece of pine with a sound like a machine gun. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were lights on the midway, and you could hear the crackle of the gambling machines and the music of the merry-go-round and the voice of the man in the beano booth calling numbers. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a tailor who sets up his foot-pedal sewing machine under the tree and takes their orders, simple as that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would hook up the mule to a long bar that was attached to the crushing machine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in his life he had access to an electric dream-making machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I lean over and grab it on the fourth ring, then wait for the answering machine to stop. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He scrubbed the machine ID when he ran the email through the school server, but I got the address, for what it’s worth.’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

What she lacked in smarts Hasina made up for in mischief and a mouth that, Giti said, ran like a sewing machine. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But, through the strings of the brass cone, the tune sounded even sadder, like a machine with a broken heart - the way Festus might sound if he could sing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Zuckerman heard, and he came out of the machine shed where he was mending a tool. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wet mill is like a giant steel beast, with a maze of pipes and machines inside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Arm saw, with a tightening of his throat muscles, machine guns slide back into the walls. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I was as tall as the washing machine, I stepped out on the back porch one night, and some heavy, ruffling, windy, clawed thing d;ved at me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake opened the first book and, like a high-powered copy machine that drank way too much coffee, flipped through the pages in a flash. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess a Parachute Riggers’ school has to have sewing machines.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged me, and I pounded her bade where I knew it hurt, while the boys danced around pretending they had machine guns. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of standing at a machine all day made my leg throb to the point of hopping, which spooked poor Belle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

While Joe was on the porch, angrily thumbing two dimes into the soft drink machine, Bud Gleason’s Chevy Blazer pulled up in front of the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guts of the light—they were really wires—led from the globe across the table, vanishing into the jumble of machines. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The office manager made the only noise in the office with his typewriter and adding machine, both of which Ignatius found slightly distracting. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sewing machine tumbled down the stairwell, broken beyond repair. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The tube is loose from the machine and jerking around like a mad firehose. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The two women in the laundromat stay so close to the machines they look like they might crawl into them. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A small bellows was built into the side of the machine, and it began to rise and fall, giving the impression that the device was breathing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Monaco looked over at where Johnson was cleaning his machine gun. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Frank and Uncle Bill got behind the wheels of the other two machines. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment the chopper opened up on the first machine gun, we started shooting at the second. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experienced seamstresses could keep their machines in working order, but those who were new, inept, or very ill could not. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

What if they were transferring me to some even more painful machine? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a nutshell, slot machines work on a principal called variable or intermittent reinforcement. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He got his han’ caught in a machine,” he said. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answering machine was blinking but she did not check it because it would be yet another variation of Aunty Uju’s message. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The great philosopher and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood proposed a fairly straightforward technological determinism: new machines encourage new ways of thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In this other room, there are the latest video game machines, like Microsoft’s Kinect video game console, which uses motion-capture technology to allow a person to interact with the action on the screen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the following days, I quit building rockets, quit studying my book, and quit going to the machine shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I explained that Quentin and I believed we had a solution to the erosion in our nozzles, but it would require machine work beyond our capabilities. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when I lock the door behind me, and my back is tired and I have a cut on my hand from one of the screw machines, Max and Siunek are standing in the kitchen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After the machine has run its course, you let the dishes cool enough to handle, unload the rack, and reload the dishwasher—all the while continuing to clear tables and fetch meals for stragglers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This man was dusty and a little crumpled, machine gun limp in his hands. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the plane was safely aloft, the machine that was Billy’s father-in-law asked the quartet to sing his favorite song. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they made their way closer to the machines, Moss got his first glimpse of the cops that had been sent to work what arguably must have been their worst assignment ever. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The machine had gone balky as an old donkey, losing Mr. Curtain’s train of thought and sometimes misunderstanding him altogether. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

At the next station, a bank of machines gave me a complete physical, including a battery of blood tests. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The crops, the machines, the crews, and the fields look the same. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If Lawrence’s attention was still devoted more to perfecting the machine than to exploit its powers, both its performance and its results already were being noticed around the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He put his hands to his face to see if the machine had done anything to raise his eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Weathered lettering indicates that the old machine was once part of the Fairbanks City Transit System: bus 142. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I went downstairs in the morning, I noticed that the answering machine was blinking. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found that there were complications from the anesthetic used in the operation. Tiny lesions in the brain. Barely visible, even with the best machines.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As I walked up and down the rows of machines, I didn’t pass a soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It says here, ‘Cover with the Miracle Straightening Cap, then turn on the machine and wait for the miraculous— “Ten minutes? Fifteen?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Who built all of this, Uncle? This machine?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after he left, my father would discover a half pack of cigarettes, a valuable gift Schindler had "accidentally" left by his machine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Inside there were rows of vending machines that sold everything under the sun. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the Singer sewing machine chugged up and down creating stitches in my blue-and-white elementary school uniform, I wondered why my brothers did not wear uniforms to school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The villagers dragged them out into the courtyard, where they tried them next to the beheading machine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, when he inspected the aircraft up close, he wasn’t impressed with the grease on some of the machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A large part of Pocock’s genius as a boatbuilder was that he managed to excel both as a maker of machines and as an artist. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

You forget how noisy machines are after a year. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when footsteps could be heard moving past that point, Harvey issued a sterner warning: Manning a .50-caliber machine gun himself, he pulled back the bolt, which made a noise that the intruders recognized instantly. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Also,” Mr. Peckleman continued, “you are free to enjoy the brand-new Lemoncello video arcade machines recently installed in the motel’s game room, right off the lobby. There is no charge for any of these games.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye, Hyacinth spotted her mom leave the kitchen, disappear into the laundry room, then reappear lugging a stack of collapsed boxes that had been stored behind the washing machine. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I worked explosives before the company brought in the continuous-mining machines. Powder’s got to be bone-dry.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They moved like one creature, huge strange machine. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine this time moved thirty-eight yards in six plays to score, the touchdown coming on a nine-yard pass from Winchell to Hill. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clicking noise of telegraph machines at the Western Union seemed distant. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I had only put in a quarter, but the machine was whirring and humming. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t put nothing over on me about gettin’ it caught in no machine.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So number 534 was doing a good job as a meat machine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The machine that recorded all of Johnson’s calls was rolling. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With time, of course, the original meaning of Lucretius’s phrase was lost; as machines changed, the meaning of Lucretius’s phrase changed with them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of my dad’s old Beatles tapes had been playing in the machine with the volume turned all the way down. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Wasilla there was a place where good tools could be rented, and I found a kind of machine for drilling four-foot-deep-by-eight-inch-wide holes in the ground. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“If you have to erase, erase completely or the machine will not be able to read your answers.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward Laura and Mary asked questions, and Pa told them that the big machine was called the separator, and the rod was called the tumbling rod, and the little machine was called the horsepower. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pitch black behind the boarded-up door and Victor’s heart nearly stopped when, by the ticket booth, he ran slam-bang into a cardboard cutout of a man pointing a machine gun into his face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On April 20, Colorado National Guard soldiers aimed a machine gun at a union camp during a strike in Southern Colorado. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He’d eaten whatever he could scrounge—vending machine gummi bears, stale bagels, even a Jack in the Crack burrito, which was a new personal low. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of my “head for the hills” bag, waiting in my bed, and of the rifle hidden near the railcar, and began to worry about the bullet-making machine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She lingered over her children as long as she could before a late-night return to her corner of the war machine, the numbers on her data sheets swimming before her tired eyes the next day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This also makes it possible to harvest them with large machines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was full of noises: bursts of drunken laughter, two raucous voices raised in song, the clatter and whine of some badly oiled machine in a basement. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The female mathematicians’ job security wasn’t immediately threatened by the machines, but Dorothy Vaughan perceived that mastering the machine would be the key to long-term career stability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I received a message on my fax machine. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ear folded his ears as a small boy began to throw a temper tantrum by the candy machine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I turn back to the vending machine and decide on the strawberry frosted Pop-Tarts, mostly cuz there’s two in the pack. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The man helped her up and pulled her toward the machine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

So I stood there in the “sewing room” in my socks and underwear doing the on-off routine with my pants while hot Annie pinned and her hot mother worked the sewing machine. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe now we’d break out the machine guns and samurai swords. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Babylonians, like many different cultures, had invented machines that helped them count. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I overreacted about Joe leaving the flyer in the copy machine,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Gloria stood waiting, with carefully concealed impatience, for the machine’s answer when she heard the cry behind her of “There she is,” and recognized that cry as her mother’s. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

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

Who would be stupid enough to rebuild their insane machines? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I laughed and walked up to him and the popcorn machine and grabbed a bottle from the lower shelf. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the floor bosses had started using adding machines, clanking things crowded with stiff brass buttons and spools of paper, but Kaz did the Crow Club tallies in his head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Two, three, five rings, and the answering machine picks up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their machines are big and shiny and they whir and hum, but do they really know more than some Stone Age witch doctor with a rattle and a gourd full of ground-up frog bones? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could still see the faint, blurred likeness of the machine, like a relic from a previous civilization. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There looked to be nothing but junk up there—old Christmas decorations, a sewing machine, and spools of dated cloth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

An old-fashioned crank telephone, a primitive-looking wooden mask and a treadle sewing machine. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned to decode paper patterns and to run a sewing machine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m not talking about cheesy old Pac-Man games or slot machines. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the living room, Richard was sitting on the floor and glaring at the movie machine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sensed, too, that the Southern scheme of oppression was but an appendage of a far vaster and in many respects more ruthless and impersonal commodity-profit machine. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Did I really sit on the floor of Grace’s bedroom, on her braided bedside rug, cutting out pictures of frying pans and washing machines from the Eaton's Catalogue and pasting them into a scrapbook? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so bad. This machine is no good but the others march.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When they were aimed upward, they sent the wind at an angle around and through the rest of the aeroplane so the machine would go up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had wanted his father to fix the machine, and now, because of him, his father was dead. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The flash of the machine gun, the bullets ripping into the car, Ian Rider jerking in the driver’s seat... Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But he had a semiautomatic machine gun and a long belt of bullets wrapped around him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Crouched in her little canopied compartment in the back of the aircraft, Tonya could see in all directions, and there she was responsible for two machine guns that would protect her crewmates from enemy aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She brought me an old-fashioned hand-cranked ice cream machine and said, “There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine guns and tanks begin ripping up the next block, or the block after that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As he stood by his newest machine, a blind girl and her escort approached him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Jeeps, troops, and sewing machines were now drawn up next to the Far Common quadrangle. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was unique in the history of the county: no machines opposed Atticus Finch, no machines supported him, and no one ran against him. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Woman operator in Bangalore trying to help an American woman with a computer problem that she has never heard before: “What is the problem with this machine, ma’am? The monitor is burning?” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top of the counter were machines that went whizz, whizz, and I couldn't help looking at them and wondering what they did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You know what it is, George. It’s Gloria and that terrible machine.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I would never learn to operate those machines as long as those two white men in there stood by them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the stands are surrounded by chain-link fences, and the prizes look like they came from the reject crane machine pile. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the Rad Lab, it seemed, one could get away with a half-finished research project, but shirking one’s nighttime shift operating the machine was a sin. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Teachers are like the machines that take quarters for bouncy balls. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, why didn't he know anything about how machines worked? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She looked over at Pet, and it was walking the way it always did, slow, full strides, an embodied machine of purpose so strong it had been pulled across worlds. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“But Festus is more than a machine. He’s a living creature.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It took a couple of trips, but she ended up bringing out the sewing machine, most of the tools from her first class, a square template, and an iron. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When he saw them from above he always thought the travelers looked like cogs in an intricate, swirling machine. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I grab the handset just before the answering machine kicks in. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swears in Yiddish, kicks the machine, then kneels down and reaches inside to try and grab it, but his arm gets caught. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Turning more pages, they came to a full-size sewing machine sitting atop a wooden cabinet with six drawers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Easy work: I run a machine that fits together and heatbonds pieces of plastic to form little transparent boxes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The waiting area is straight ahead, with vending machines and a peach-colored couch between folding chairs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He pictured Old Chao, endlessly removing the last soda from the soda machine. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A merciless fusillade the machine gun laid down, and the troops regrouped and joined the fire and the roar of war did not cease until the eraser was dead and cut to ribbons. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He describes his eight bombers circling the machines, getting closer and closer, ready to attack. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

At Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he described the machine’s capabilities for Karl Darrow, the lab’s eminent physicist and a writer of popular science articles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Wilkins found an X-ray diffraction machine in the chemistry department and housed it—“in solitary splendor”—in a lead-lined room under the embankment wing, just below the level of the neighboring river Thames. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After all, it didn’t take much education to haul tobacco or push a few buttons on a machine in the textile mills. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first article, the machine had created dozens of slender metal blocks, some scarcely wider than the edge of a silver dollar, arranged into squares. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

How could you start a machine with emotions? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ofglen and I stand outside Soul Scrolls, looking through the shatterproof windows, watching the prayers well out from the machines and disappear again through the slot, back to the realm of the unsaid. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Henry is Henry. Still waters and all that. But I’ve seen him planning. That sewing machine?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there had to be somebody to run these machines, to check the nuts and bolts of executions, to study it like an art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ionians were perfectly able to make machines of some elegance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beefy lance corporal with a sledgehammer was smashing typewriters and mimeograph machines. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I slip off the washing machine, and when his head is stuck in the fridge I dart back across the room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Outside was blowy and wet, like a rain machine was aimed over Black Swan Green. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He pointed at a little machine on the table beside the monitor. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I have the machine sort the figures into two dozen categories. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a familiar voice on the machine. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Jessie had built the water wall along the eastern facade of the brownstone, inspired by a science class during which her teacher showed them different cartoons of Rube Goldberg machines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So I push a couple of buttons, and the machine speaks the words I’ve never been able to say. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her question was answered a moment later when a gout of flame shot from the machine, squirting across the river to ignite another patch of flowers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Langley added state-of-the-art facilities on the West Side like the Seven-by-Ten-Foot High-Speed Tunnel and the Four-by-Four-Foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel, machines that could blast models with winds that approached or exceeded the mysterious speed of sound. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was one who set this machine running, and now cannot control its running. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At Poky, the feed had to be harvested by machine, transported by train, processed in a mill, then trucked to the feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The washers stirred the clothes in the washing machines with long poles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the anklet was on, another machine clamped a small electronic device onto my left ear, piercing it in two locations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She seemed good with people, too, unlike Leo, who was much more comfortable with machines. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just then the telegraph machine began clicking and Mr. DeVore sat to take down the message. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He grabs it and places it in a black machine that looks like it could make espresso. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. I’d love to find another old Coke machine or something in someone’s bam. Buy it cheap and fix it up on my own.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

We’d been so proud of our division of labor, we forgot the most important cleanup task of all: Mrs. Kluck’s brand-new ice cream machine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After he retired, the machine gobbled up the one independent office left. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand men and ten thousand machines worked ceaselessly through the night under powerful arc-lights, and the massive task was completed only just in time. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was needed was not just new machines but also a new language for discussing machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, I reached the last station, where a machine fitted me with a security anklet—a padded metal band that locked around my ankle, just above the joint. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Been working so busy on that sewing machine in her bedroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe, when you saw a picture of the Wrights’ flying machine, that it really could fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother retired at midday with her wind machine, and all our lives got better, especially Father’s, whom she sometimes invited to retire with her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We walked back to the large room with all the machines. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Quit Man sat in a wheelchair, connected to some sort of breathing machine. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My machines are hot, fast, and dangerous if I don’t get my fingers out of the way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You know that hole in the wall over the washing machine,” I start. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s a stainless steel cylinder that resembles a top-loading washing machine with dozens of black rubber fingers projecting from the sides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Starry squeals over a secondhand television, I get a fresh notebook, and Ma looks pleased with a new sewing machine and reams of different kinds of cloth, buttons, zippers, and other supplies. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s the ice machine, clattering outside in the hall. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The giants’ special effects machines had gone into overtime, laying planks across ruined support beams so the arena had a proper floor again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kaila rips the guest check off the pad and hands it back to the barista by the espresso machine. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

This time, Tonya herself managed to destroy an enemy plane with the machine guns in her tail gunner’s turret in the back of their Pe-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As I sat down in front of this modern-looking machine, I realized the enormity of what I was about to do: Asking my best friend to pay for my schooling seemed preposterous. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“In a minute I’m going to have you lie down, and I’ll use that machine to check to make sure your head is all right. But first, you need to tell me your name.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like machine guns that fired hundreds of bullets a minute, and poisonous gas that burned soldiers’ skin and lungs. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I suppose I could stop you with a Bradley tank, armor two inches thick, three mounted machine guns, and a grenade launcher. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Samuel should have been rich from his well rig and his threshing machine and his shop, but he had no gift for business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the machine started winding down, making funny groans and whines, we all three laughed like children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“C’mon,” I tell her, and we walk back over to the vending machine, even though I know we don’t have enough for anything. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The machine was heavy, maybe eighty pounds, and was suspended from the ceiling by a thick rubber cord. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them worked in the big machine shop across from the creek down by the Big Store. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A million machines were sold that year, and by 1989 two million new machines had gone into operation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned against a penny weighing machine wondering what was the matter with her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard about it but I didn’t really know what it was about, so I started skimming through the pages while I was waiting for the xerox machine. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he paused at David's and my machine and struck up a conversation. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

What I see is not the machines, but Ofglen, reflected in the glass of the window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like stepping into a time machine or something. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing Doreen supported in my arms and silent except for a few wet hiccups, the woman strode away down the hall to her cubicle with its ancient Singer sewing machine and white ironing board. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wobbling wheel was making us Ipse speed, even though the horses were responding to my every command, running like a well-oiled machine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather go to a machine which knows me by some code word but on whose operating programs a team of software writers has painstakingly worked for months. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, his calculations were effectively held up for a year while he waited for the university to provide him with a simple adding machine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and ginger Gammas. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not get it out of a gumball machine,” Marigold growled. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Due to my general aversion to machines and a few pronounced episodes of screaming, I was labeled a technophobe, a term that ranks fairly low on my scale of fightin’ words. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was at the sewing machine with Grandma Sweetwine, one of her very first visits. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Before they read Descartes in 1637 the English had called complex machines ‘engines’, not ‘machines’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She sits at a massive machine that boasts three spindle wheels and two looms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

More guards with machine guns balanced themselves, half leaning out of the windows. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Tommy refused to be snubbed and, cupping his ear to the carton, shouted, “What’s that? No kidding! You’re crazy about me. Inside that answer machine all those brainy cells are rooting for me to win.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the two monks finished cleaning the machine gun, Henry Dobbins began reassembling it, wiping off the excess oil, then he handed each of them a can of peaches and a chocolate bar. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just leave the machines, he said while we were getting our things together, filing out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hooked each gambler up to a machine that measured the activity of the sweat glands below the skin in the palms of their hands. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Short of going to the Wrights and letting them teach us on their actual flying machine, it was the only way of learning how to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taped to one of the pinball machines is a hand-scribbled Out of Order sign. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I know, sweetheart. So I’ll just leave a message on the machine, like I always do. You don’t have to pick up. I just want to say good morning and I love you. Okay?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s a wind machine,” he said, “for Mother.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They parked the big rigs on a gravel bar, unloaded the ATVs, and continued toward the bus in the smaller, more maneuverable machines. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1800s the English figured out how to build machines to weave cloth, and how to organize workers so that they could run the machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Obinze secured the washing machines at the back, tightening the straps until they were snug, and then climbed in and studied the map to find the shortest routes to their delivery addresses. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These men, young and old, however, were less offensive than the ones who treated us like machines, as though we had no human existence whatsoever. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machines continued to rumble even as smoke filled the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

With the din from the machines, there was no chance that anyone would hear him, but he was still afraid of being seen. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We could of set up a .50-caliber machine gun and shot the old geezers as they tottered out,” Shorty grinned, touching a match—arrogantly lit on his fly zipper—to the end of his cigar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first burst of energy, the moving in of the machines, the digging of tunnels and rooms—after that was done, a feeling of discontent settled upon us like some creeping disease. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After that, the blocks were taken out by continuous-mining machines, one by one, until each of them was only about fifteen feet square. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever Bob was taking them, she hoped it had clean restrooms and a snack machine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I would like to see the machine that does this. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were round buttons designed by Hyacinth with help from her button machine. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

First, it was well known that working with scale models could often be misleading, because full-size machines often performed quite differently. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was not until a few years later, when they flew their flying machine in another demon land—France, I think—that demons accepted flight as a fact. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would play for an hour, or even two; then I’d make one tiny mistake and I’d have to reboot the machine and start all over. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs to the basement in case he was doing laundry, but the machines were silent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Other machines were connected to huge hamster wheels with hellhounds inside. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The mattress was littered with wires, nails and the guts of several disassembled bronze machines. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The waitress looked a little surprised, since most of the machine was tucked under the table, but she was cool and acted as if she got orders from Medi-Talkers every day. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he became aware that the machines had started again and he could no longer hear the men. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The can turned slowly around in the machine, and when we pulled it out, the top had been cut free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

From his old connections in the rum-running business he rented a slot machine and ordered a week’s supply of beer and whiskey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Doris started to say, “Oh, give me a—” The entire pallet of jewelry exploded with a sound like a thousand slot machines hitting the jackpot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They hate us because, like the Jews of the Sonderkommando, who shove the dead into the ovens, we earn our extra bread by being part of the machine that kills their children. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some women did indeed spend their days in rote service to the day’s task, plotting data with blithe indifference, routing torrents of numbers as nonchalantly as the calculating machines they cradled. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At cafeterias — eating factories, these seemed to him, most advanced and efficient, especially the Automats with their machines lit bright as a stage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area behind the cofferdam swarmed with men and machines, all raising individual clouds of dust. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He smelled of sweat and the musty odor of clothes that had been left too long in the washing machine before going into the dryer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, a thousand airwomen in the Soviet Union continued their battle against the Nazi war machine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Electronic data processing machines brought otherwise unattainable power and efficiency to the research process. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Brockway took a shovel and scooped up a load of brown crystals from a pile on the floor, pitching them skillfully into a receptacle on top of the machine. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intensive care unit is L-shaped and dim, a jumble of bleeping monitors and whirring machines. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The new proposal staggered Weaver, who had been bracing for a grant application for a machine less than half that size. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The boy laughed and slid over to the espresso machine to make my drink. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Big. It’s an old movie about a kid that wishes to be grown-up and gets his wish from some fortune-teller machine. It was pretty good.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I've heard they have some sort of machine in District 1 that can turn graphite into diamonds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Shadow bought a pack of Virginia Slims from the machine. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It requires a staff of trained technicians and the help of complicated computing machines. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She fastens a hose from the cap into a square machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was not yet past the horizon by the time I took my seat at the Linotype machine, and I worked in the glow of the single gas jet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She turned off the machine and pulled open the tray, exposing jammed paper and a thin trickle of smoke. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yelling, waving machine guns, and wearing disguises, the men seemed like something out of a nightmare. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Why did the stupid Romans have to take apart such a beautiful machine? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing her was like looking through a time machine at myself when I was the newbie at camp. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not unlike the German propaganda machine, which is cranking out lies twenty-four hours a day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Knowing only that your people could be strapped into some kind of machine that chews them up and spits out bone mush and sticky sap. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe not older than me, with a machine gun strapped on his back and a pistol at his side. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He posed the question in his book: “What would we build with those atom-stacking machines?” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo wished he could invent a time machine. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She tinned her board to fly away, but the machine lifted up into the air, passing right over her, and suddenly the wind was too great. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I can speak the language of machines,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Elizebeth herself had a commercial Enigma machine in her office so that her team could study it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They fired their machine guns at the planes, but their guns were no match for the bombers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the vending machine as if it were right in front of me. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I notice that Jacqui, however, has given up on her own machine, with a ball still in the chute. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He is fastidious about his clothing; their first argument had been over a sweater she’d shrunk in the washing machine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But just then, Lenny heads for the door right next to where I’m sitting on the washing machine. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Every engineer and mathematician had a story of double-checking the machines’ data only to find errors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the license plate shop where our gang worked, he operated the machine that stamped out the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped up to the Joust machine and dropped both quarters into the left coin slot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He drove a sports car and piloted his own plane, which he once famously flew so low over the house of the school’s president that the machine’s wheels made a racket rolling over the roof. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And finally, today, we have reached a point in work flow that machines are talking to other machines over the Internet using standardized protocols, with no humans involved at all. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of big kids at the machine. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The most intense storm of howitzer and mortar shells, machine gun, and small arms fire any of us had ever experienced was raining down on us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson was off to one side with the .60 caliber machine gun. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been through the room thoroughly only hours before, but he’d forgotten the compartment at the side of the sewing machine, where all the patterns and bobbins were kept. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only quick way to break Enigma messages is to use another Enigma machine with the exact same initial settings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At each machine a white man was bent forward, working intently. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them hit the machine as if it was its fault he had lost his turn. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dad's got an answering machine like James Garner's in The Rockford Files with big reels of tape. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Chase called down, and his machine guns burst to life, peppering the ground with bullet holes and startling the whole group of monsters into scattering. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“That machine gun she has for a mouth is more than enough to handle Spizz.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The man pronounced Bigger’s name over and over again and Bigger felt that he was caught up in a vast but delicate machine whose wheels would whir no matter what was pitted against them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a tangle of iron and wire: some sort of machine, long ago buried and forgotten. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wiped the rollers and laid them on top of the machine. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The single book worked its way down the line like a candy bar on a wrapping machine. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Same guard towers with searchlights where guards watched you with binoculars, their machine guns at the ready. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It still had cookies and candies all pin in it like she be a walking snack machine. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A machine that could talk and play music was, as Grandpa kept saying, a dang marvel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When we returned, I saw that there was a message on the machine. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He finally approached the detector, put his backpack down on the small table, and then passed through the machine uneventfully. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Someone stepped out of the vending machine nook holding a bucket of ice. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The first is that the only machine that he lists that was new in the Renaissance was the printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

First, the network put them through the lower-grade cipher machine, known as a Kryha, that they had used before the Enigma arrived. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Take it easy, kid. Nothing to be scared of. You see this big machine here? Know what I’m going to do with it?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then I heard the machine pick up, and Diego’s voice came on telling people to leave a message. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the mechanic, and smoke is drifting up from the knives in my machine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Max slides the money into the slot, and the machine clinks and hums before it spits out a yellow card. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Typewriter and adding machine safe in black chest in private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Within a minute, the machine automatically turned off. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Written on Nazi Enigma machines, they would be much harder to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She tore at the mesh, helpless, and then hurled her whole weight against the machine as he brought two wires together with a spark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A squeeze machine wrapped in orange foam, the lightning bolt. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Just once, before she left this dump, she’d like to pull a wire inside that machine. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now she had a sewing machine, a very fancy one, and bolts of fabric with which she created fine clothing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The Welsh had a machine for catapulting stones, most of which thudded harmlessly into the courtyard. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“You are ready to hear about our escape? Your recorder machine is turning?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my heart had become the broken washing machine at the laundromat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t consider how angry Mrs. Kluck would be that we used her brand-new machine. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If the flying machine and the control system sound funny, you have to keep in mind that these machines were among the first ever built. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was lucky in a way. It wasn’t long and drawn-out. No months in a hospital hooked up to machines.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We ended up at the Dollar Tree, mostly because the day before, someone had stolen our entire load of laundry from the washing machine at the Laundromat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Dimming gave us multiple-choice questions to answer, I had to think for only a moment, then hit the correct letter on my machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He patted my shoulder and went back to his machine. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A German prisoner,” reported Pash, “confirmed the fact that we had captured the Nazi uranium ‘machine’ as the Germans called it-—actually an atomic pile.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A barge sounds its outcast horn and coal cars trundle to and fro and the regular thudding of the hauling machine reverberates through the gloom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wrote down what happened, making it seem more an intellectual exercise than it was, then tearing the paper out of the machine and throwing it away. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As his beloved Bronchos sputtered and fluttered against the endless siege of that black-shirted machine, all he could do was wait for the debacle to be over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t get the sound of those machine guns out of my head. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Along the rooftops, more of them occupy nests of machine guns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was it possible to repair the machine in New Orleans? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Borelli still saw a role for God in setting up the system in the first place—as the designer of the machine, if you like. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Look at them wish themselves into the car, Alfred thought, phony cats with long-playing records under their arms and no machine to play them on. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights were glowing in the factory, the work was going on; machines were turning, chemicals were combining, people were producing goods and earning their livings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Werner repairs a neighbor’s sewing machine, the Children’s House grandfather clock. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What good can any of us do against the monstrous machine that shoots young girls in the back as they run in fear? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The members decided to fund two machines of different sizes, each optimized to produce different particles; the only question left was which lab would build which machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Messages on his answering machine would go without reply. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a machine would need two kinds of engines. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Given the rise of machine code breaking and the general decline in smuggling, the “usefulness of my section was therefore in my opinion ended,” she stated. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The machine starts up again and spits out another seven pages. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We were back in San Jose again, at the bus station, standing next to the Coke machine talking about what we were gonna do. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the sun was halfway across the sky, the bombs and the artillery shells went quiet, and I heard the machine guns come, faint, then closer, jeeps driving fast past our building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The machine of the world is thus the stable structure of our universe: the heavens, the earth and the four elements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then, with help from Jennings, the men set up their machine in the White House basement. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I hate whoever messed with that stupid ice cream machine,” someone to my left grumbles. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The boy was a machine when it came to food. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our machines and our descendants will then skim the light-years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two adjoining rooms, there are MRI machines. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Squatting quietly in the cool pagoda, they would help Dobbins disassemble and clean his machine gun, carefully brushing the parts with oil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that he was as skilled now as the Rehabilitation Directors themselves, and that he had even developed some machines and methods to hasten rehabilitation. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Totalitarian systems depend on a monopoly of information and force, and too much information started to slip through the Iron Curtain, thanks to the spread of fax machines, telephones, and, eventually, the personal computer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered the game and rolled off his bed fingering a machine gun. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the flying machine, its thundering beat now obvious above the raging fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The advisory committee transmitted its unanimous endorsement of the 184-inch machine to the foundation before leaving the West Coast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We fall silent except for the chugging of the machine, the vest vibrating away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Big black machines worked all day and night pouring little pancakes onto moving round griddles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cowboy leather belt Brother Vu sewed on Mother’s machine and broke her needle. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was putting the new machine to good use and getting a head start on an Easter dress for Cari. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So far in Mrs. Collins’s class, we’ve learned about the different components that make a sewing machine work and how to use it. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had asked his childhood friend to double-check the Rad Lab’s results using the Carnegie’s accelerator, the only machine in the world that could approach the cyclotron’s energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelves, at the sound-track rolls and reading machine bobbins in their numbered pigeon-holes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to being elderly, toothless, and incontinent, it seemed that, for the cost of a few thousand dollars, she could also spend three days a week hooked up to a machine. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For a few endless moments, Tally felt only relief to have escaped the searing wind, the thundering machine, the blistering heat of the firestorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I whaled on Pa like I was some kind of machine. Hittin’ him in the face, left, right, left, poundin’ him as hard as I could. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

However, the laws of thermodynamics state that it is impossible to create such a machine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Lake Worth Casino doesn’t have slot machines or people playing blackjack, the way you’d think from its name. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Including my sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After several people died in skirmishes, nine workers among them, state militia arrived, armed with Winchester rifles and Gatling machine guns. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He ordered a protective shielding of metal canisters filled with water erected around the machine to sap the neutrons of their destructive energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Kwang must have heard the whine of the machine and looked in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer is easy: he would carefully observe his environment to see what materials he could use to make a simple machine, like a pulley or a lever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had taken a chance on Trotter not looking too closely at the machine. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the development of machine production, however, the case was altered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The dark shadows beneath her eyes tell me that she probably didn't sleep much last night with the rattling carts and beeping machines on our hospital floor. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They jumped off the bench, ran to the pinball machine, and pushed each other, trying to pull on the handle. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"The farce of the cold war and the absurd war machine it spawned," he said, "was an ever-growing pathetic joke to me." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves are harvested with a machine that Earthbound designed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My grandfather engaged a special company to come in with polishing machines and clean the house; they washed the windows, painted, and disinfected the place from top to bottom until it was livable again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two hours, I am a driving, knocking, smiling, changemaking machine. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Picturing her sitting there at the kitchen table with both hands around her mug of tea, listening to the answering machine message. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had Fern hunt around the floor for the metal letters and put them up on the table where the printing machine once sat. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big machine made of brass, silver, gold, and dragon bone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The machines were quiet, so she could not pretend deafness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He took out another machine, something like the first one but bigger; after that he pulled out a black, round thing: it was an earphone, with a wire dangling from it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Linotype machine resembled a medieval torture device with its hulking metal form and the wisps of steam curling from the cauldron of molten lead in its core. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

People needed to work faster than the weather and to keep pace with machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

While the machines hummed softly in our hospital and white-soled shoes whispered up and down the halls, a catastrophe was roaring down upon this child of a mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in a machine shop on the Hill, helping to build the super-precise explosive molds needed for the implosion bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, now, we have these incredible calculating machines. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

An hour later, they turned the machines off. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Green,” I sobbed, the words half lost to the machine’s buzzing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Other machines were intact but worn by centuries of neg- ect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So they come to this baby machine and the feller puts money in and out comes a baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles finishes loading his laundry and turns his machine on. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

For Aristotle, living organisms were nothing more than exquisite assemblages of machines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She beat Lyddie to work in the mornings and had two of the machines oiled and gleaming before Lyddie even entered the room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, Sasha’s roommate was a man in a medically-induced coma who was hooked up to a breathing machine that hissed and thumped in a rhythmic pattern. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’s very still, as machines are breathing for him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Savage!” called the first arrivals, as they alighted from their machine. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take great satisfaction and pleasure in this, Rowan,” said Scythe Goddard, “or you’ll be nothing more than a killing machine.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Czernobog sat on a bench in the wall facing the Mikado machine, tapping out the time with his fingers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The machine rumbled, and then Tally felt it lift from the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Allen carried his heavy machine gun and as much ammunition as he could handle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, let’s say you finish your time machine in fifty years. You’d be—” “Sixty-two,” I said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Since those forgotten afternoons when her niece barely had enough interest to turn the crank on the sewing machine, she had reached the conclusion that she was simpleminded. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Wayne Westerberg’s muddy sneakers protrude from the maw of the combine, as if the machine were in the process of swallowing him whole, an overgrown metal reptile digesting its prey. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bueno. Perhaps the motel can use her. This boy can work in here with the dishwashing machine. Have you told him yet what he must pay?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s very low today,” he said, and angled the machine to take another reading. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I worked moving bolts of fabric from the back, I uncovered a dozen old sewing machines hidden by a stack of boxes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I turn up the volume on my machine—very loud. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were real soldiers with rifles and we saw machine guns. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another occasion, as Schindler strolled across the factory floor, he caught me away from my station, watching a complicated machine as it was being redesigned to perform a different task. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“There has to be a gigantic milking machine,” Seth said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And she pushed him hard, so that he fell out of the machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My vision spun like a washing machine at the end of its cycle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sticky gulped and took his place in the machine. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was Pa who had got the other men to stack their wheat together and send for the threshing machine, and it was a wonderful machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the lead and practically fall over, like a machine set to crazy spin mode that’s all of a sudden been switched off with no cooldown. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She reached over and pressed the button on the machine the hospital had given her, which administered painkillers so strong she was never able to stay awake after she took them. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Play with June’s karaoke machine in her bedroom for about three days straight. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mob stormed the machines, attacked the attendants, some of whom had guns and started firing into the crowd. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The wind grew crazed again as the machine reared up, and she held on to her board tightly, waving until the aircraft disappeared into the dark sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the morning it turned out that one of the guards had become convinced of an escape in progress and had alerted the tower machine gunners. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No matter how fast the machines speeded up, Lyddie was somehow able to keep pace. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His brain was crammed with information about tractors and machines and cows and milking. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

They’re probably one of the least likely cultures in American life to commit homicide; their weapons of choice are electronic flames, not machine guns. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a mark in the middle of his forehead from a piece of iron that flew from a machine in a factory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I am to be a clean writer, of the most reasonable eye, and present the subject in question like some sentient machine of transcription. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

True to its name, this building exhibited ice machines and refrigerators, machines I had only read about until now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled at the older monk, who was now cleaning the machine gun’s trigger assembly. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab was not too proud to build these enhancements into its machine, where warranted. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He plugged the wire into the machine and put the earphone up beside his mask, next to his ear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cable news anchors had finally made their way to Iowa and were now singing the praises of this political wunderkind who’d comfortably bested the Clinton machine as well as a former vice presidential nominee. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No machine,” he said, “when it’s been crushed to powder, puts itself together again and ticks, but those dry bones rose up and marched and how they marched. Why?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There are ticket machines and a subway map displayed against the white-tiled walls. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Obinze handed over two hundred pounds, all in twenty-pound notes that he had taken out of the cash machine over two days. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Friedmans also housed some of their own papers in the library, as well as various cipher machines and coding devices. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I could tell what he was doing: using one machine to check against the other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Sweeps. Makes sure the ice machine isn’t clogged. Fills the bird feeders.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The casino was lit up with neon, chandeliers, and the sparkle of the slot machines. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The gardener bent to the handles of the machine and walked slowly along the bank scattering the short-tipped grass and the pin-point daisy heads. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He would see her on the porch working at the sewing machine, which she had learned to operate with admirable skill, and he would not even speak to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Caesar had seen trains in Virginia; Cora had only heard tell of the machines. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stepped back from the machine and sighed with relief. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Frightened almost—as though she were a World Controller and he a Gamma-Minus machine minder. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Renaissance view of nature as a machine...is based on the human experience of designing and constructing machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yep—sitting in front of a sewing machine all day. Best job in the world. That was after he got back from the war. Vietnam.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had spent the last three nights at the copy machine at Sinay’s office, and knew he had weeks of sleepless nights ahead. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with this infernal machine? And now another interruption! Where is that voice coming from?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a mixture of sadness and relief, Severo decided that his brother-in-law and his machine must have fallen into some hidden crevice of the cordillera, where they would never be found. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machines would be a cross between a bicycle and a glider, a winged bicycle with a propeller. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more men drove after it another, smaller machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I ever rode on a motorcycle, Dad displayed a shade of fear I’d never seen before, and said, “Charlie Kahn, that’s my only daughter you have on that machine.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One machine washed the clothes, a second machine dried the clothes, and a third machine washed the dishes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country filled with men in uniform, with war machines, flags, hymns, and parades, because the military understood the need for the people to have their own rituals and symbols. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, the machine was set up right on the ground, as simple as you please. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But these machines were different, designed for different jobs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hum like a washing machine escalates in volume until I think my ears might burst. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Teletype machines clattered against the wall as spools of paper carrying news from around the world piled up on the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of it had gotten all the way over onto August’s adding machine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The printing-press and the windmill, the lever, the pump, and the pulley, the clock and the wheel-barrow, and a host of machines in use among miners and engineers were established features of daily life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And thanks to this message, as well as others sent from Berlin that week, Elizebeth had advance notice that RED was about to start using an Enigma machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And despite the house was shut up tight, I could hear the music machine just a-going. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Raytheon Company, a maker of radio tubes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had applied for a patent on a machine that sounded suspiciously like his spiral accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The group picked up their pace and arrived in the Square to find that a crowd had already gathered, the people gawking up at the flying machine as if it were a mythical beast. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He peered behind the milk shake machine, down the narrow galley. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Their prison hospital X-ray machines were in a decrepit state, and there was a chronic shortage of even first-line antibiotics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You boys look fine, fine,” he said in his full and cordial voice, “better I would say than those doughboys—G.I.’s— I saw marching in. And how about their artillery! Sewing machines!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother comes closer, the thing in hand, and I’m distracted by how thin her wrists look, how frail her arms are carrying the heavy gray machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The vending machines were empty and unplugged, and to our dismay even the rest rooms were locked. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she piled them up in a basket and threw them into the washing machine on Friday evenings, she had come to see this, the heaping of dirty underwear, as normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thanks in part to a young mathematician named Alan Turing, they came up with new ways to tackle Enigma, including much more powerful decoding machines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The robot engineer had also dashed in, tearing his hair, and demanding who of the gathering crowd had tampered with the machine. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I rode my bike down to the shop every day after school to inspect how he was doing and sweep up the tailings at the machines, anything to assist. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But one day Reynolds called me to his machine. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I want to start making my own costumes. My mom just got me a sewing machine so I can learn.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was Velutha who maintained the new canning machine and the automatic pineapple slicer. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their left, somewhere in the distance, Percy heard rumbling and creaking, like a huge machine needed oiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

First, Dad and Doug took down the side gate so the machine could lug the granite to the back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My father took me down into the engine room and the throbbing machines enthralled me for hours. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago might as well be a million miles away from Flint and Miss Hill might as well be a squashed, crunched-up mess in a washing machine when it came down to helping me now. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After about a week, it started to gel and I got my first taste of being a cog in the machine. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A machine that would make strawberry ice cream? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The factory soon came in view and, just beyond it, the river that powered the machines. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Lillian Meecham had been radiant, a dazzling partner who added charm to a family so drilled and weighted down with the responsibility of obedience that they seemed to function and move together like a machine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to our secret room. Got some nice automatic weapons. Grenades. Some beautiful killing machines, really. Here’s my personal favorite.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She perused Aviation Week, trying to connect the dots between the latest industry advance and the torrent of numbers flowing through her calculating machine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

That gas station man was grinning and turned toward the soda pop machine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They are more like perfectly tooled but crazy little machines, and we violate science when we try to read human meanings in their arrangements. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, the invaders had taken over the English countryside using hundred-foot-high fighting machines with spiderlike legs and “long, flexible, glittering tentacles.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It still had the smell of the mimeograph machine that it had been printed on. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I can see brown-tinged water rushing through one pipe, disappearing into the machine, and emerging clean. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I worked out with a ball machine, played scores of tough sets against Wilfred and Scaramouche; I pored over dozens of tennis books dealing with strategy and tactics. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had slumped over, leaning his weight into the machine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine? I’m naked and crouching down in the water, and this Rusty machine is destroying my camp!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We started running at the same place, but you left me behind back by the jetty where it was like you pushed a turbo button or something. You run like a machine. It’s crazy.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“This, Shirley Temple Wong, is an icebox. A machine that cools food and keeps it from spoiling. In America you only have to market once a week, not every day.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In order to put the maximum number of men to work, Hitler had decreed that virtually all the labor was to be done by hand, even that which machines could do more efficiently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In 1944, he became entangled in the cords as the machine went into action and was strangled. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The first machine touched down and a fountain shot up into the air,” said Sofya. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes. Yes,” I make the machine say. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We think of grass as soft and friendly stuff, but once it’s been dried in the sun and shredded by machines, it becomes hay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Practically everybody in Coalwood was in a circle around the machine shop by then,” O’Dell said, his eyes wide with the memory of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear someone operating a candy machine in the subway,” said Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every week the factory assembled a different machine, determined by the volume of orders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Next to one of them was a breathing machine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Geisbert poured some of the milky fluid out of the flask into a test tube and then spun it in a centrifuge machine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, I know it. These machines don't help," says Lev, sweat beading around his eyes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’d run the corrected lines through the hot- wax machine that made the back side sticky, then cut out the lines with an X-Acto knife and fit them over the original lines. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The patriotism of her young flight crews would be an inspiration to women serving the Motherland in a host of less glamorous roles—as snipers, tank drivers, antiaircraft machine gunners, technicians, cooks, or launderers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Those machines can make Chinese money if you want them to," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A woman at a desk, a man on the floor with scissors, a teenage kid at a Xerox machine. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A large machine stands on the other side, with a man- sized tray coming out of it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or the relief I long for from this machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Last night, after I finished practicing trumpet, I put my sweater in the washing machine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sinay gave the men a quick tour, then showed them the large Xerox machine next to the reception area. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The woman who had lived there before us left behind an old- fashioned sewing machine that you operated with a foot treadle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the counter next to the printing machine was a newly inked sheet of paper with the words'printed in the right direction. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The askari sat on a rock nearby, bouncing the machine gun on his knees, looking bored. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we go!” cried Mr. Wonka, and he pressed three different buttons on the side of the machine. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Deft with a sewing machine, Katherine bought fabric from the dry goods store and stayed up nights making school outfits for the girls and dresses for herself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of the machines drowns out the dying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The boise airport boasts several “fresh” French-fried potato vending machines, spaced at intervals throughout the facility, to let visitors know that they are in the proud Home of the Spud. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’m no expert, but that’s a giant magnet here,” she said, and she traced her fingers along the outline of the machine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He shot until the machine gun ran out of bullets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Diana banged a metal lever at the right of the machine and the loom shivered to a halt. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m alone except for Beetee, who still lies in front of me, being sustained by his army of machines. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got a car phone and a fax machine—I guess he thinks he’s got it made. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could technology itself hold the key to helping us remain master over these powerful machines? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The two Voyager interstellar spacecraft, the fastest machines ever launched from Earth, are now traveling at one ten- thousandth the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antonapoulos took off the wrappings, but the machine did not interest him at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was what happened before—before he got into the imaging machine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a sewing- machine on the cart ahead of us in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After two years, a typical laptop would have been out of date, but Annabeth figured Daedalus’s machine was still about fifty years ahead of its time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well enough. These demons don’t seem to understand their own machines.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machine on the right blared loud and clear as a young black girl—some underclass student he’d only seen a couple of times before—went through it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Something flying low was peppering the runway with machine gun tire; even buried mostly underground, even a quarter of a mile away, the shelter’s iron walls shuddered. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then years later there was the time Antonapoulos took the rent money from the vase on the mantelpiece and spent it all on the slot machines. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I went to see a demon, a Mister Alger; who manages apartment houses. I have a job, cleaning and fixing things in those houses. I can heal sick machines on the side, too.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my daddy died three years ago, Momma took to her sewing machine to help her ease the pain. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The best thing Grandpa did for her when they got married was buy her an electric washing machine, but whatever joy it had once given her was long gone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Engine’ and ‘machine’ still have overlapping meanings as a consequence of Descartes’ influence on the English language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lots of our vocabulary words are already in the machine’s memory, but she gives me more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But even with the errors, the machines processed the transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows and trajectory analyses in a way that surpassed the upper limits of human ability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He disappeared, along with his wife, a few months after Shin dropped the sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“We could quantify the machine, but not the human. That’s where cognitive neuroscience really started.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say a word as she throws everything back in the washing machine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the windows of the candy machine had red sold-out flags in them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I sit at my sewing machine and dream about the great transformation I’m going to make someday. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he sometimes watched me speak into the machine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candy repeated sullenly, “Got it caught in a machine.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the threading took skill, it did not take the physical strength demanded in the machine rooms, and the girls sat on high stools as they worked. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a sewing machine like Mama’s. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The desalination machines were smaller than I had expected. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Red Rabbit and us, we’ll carry your flying machine to Heaven and back if we have to. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big agitator twisted back and forth, making the entire machine dance around on the cement patio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My palms were still stained with a dark crud of ink I’d scrubbed from the machines’ crevices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a big machine in the billiards room, but I hardly ever played the tape in there because it was always full of people. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would remember soon enough when they let me out of the machine . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers over the brass body of the machine, feeling the vibrating hum of the gears working, and the indentations of the numbers that will soon fill with light to reveal my levels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He dropped two quarters into the newspaper vending machine and pulled up on the handle, but it wouldn’t open. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a chatter as both machine guns opened fire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He liked to watch her hands as she curled frothy petticoat cloth in the machine that was kept in motion by Remedios the Beauty. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Beyond the kitchen was Nali’s room and an empty area where washing machines would have gone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The command was so unusual that our carefully rehearsed and smooth-running machine was thrown off. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We poured out, expecting our welcome to be mortars and machine guns. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore suits and talked on the phone and typed on machines. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One of Ginny’s joys was to have her first washing machine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what most of those machines do, but among them is a heart monitor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sank down into her chair and pressed her forehead against the cool body of the sewing machine he’d given her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, only by standing on a wooden box could I reach the controls of the machine I was assigned to operate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The third type, machine guns, was used by both. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A moment later I’m climbing back up onto the washing machine, and putting my unblinking octopus eye against the hole. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The child’s privileged position allowed him to see at that moment that the wild mass was starting to get to the corner and the row of machine guns opened fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A piece of iron flew out from a machine and sliced his forehead. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My muscles strained to keep me in place—part boy, part machine, part nature. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Like when you get to make an ice cream machine out of a bicycle?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He showed me each item, handling the strange machines as if he had tamed whatever demons were trapped inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a pole beside the pool was a vending machine that, for a dime, dispensed small packets of fish food for tourists to feed the lunkers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly it was a heartwarmingly plain, sincere machine, promising good fun and few breakdowns; the sort of car that, especially in soft yellow, looked like nothing so much as a bar of soap. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had constructed reinforced concrete pillboxes that housed machine guns, antiaircraft weapons, and light artillery all along the English Channel over to the Atlantic Ocean. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s crazy into aviation. Plus, Daedalus had some notes on flying machines. I just took my best guess on the controls.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The great groaning defense machine and all the nooks and communities it had built in the last four years weren’t about to disappear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was hooked up to four or five different machines and had a very thick tubes going down his throat with more going up his nose. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cables snaked out of the back of the machine, leading to an audiocassette recorder, a small color television, a dot-matrix printer, and a 300-baud modem. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first day, the girl was far from ready to operate her own machine, but Lyddie had run out of patience. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing is, Ma needs money for a sewing machine.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip back behind the corner and climb up onto the washing machine next to my mom’s coat. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I type very carefully and push the button to make the machine speak. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“We owe on the pickup, the washing machine, the TV, and the refrigerator,” Joe announced glumly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Billy came out of the shrubbery, his face wreathed in goofy good will, they menaced him with their machine pistols, as though they were capturing him then. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few months before the accident my dad had finally bought this $350 Hitachi bread machine he’d seen in a catalog and had been wanting and that my mom thought was unnecessary and ridiculous. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The machines got stolen, you know all about that.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, the machine starts moving. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bay Area industry began to perceive the value of a relationship with Lawrence and his increasingly famous machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"The machine will produce the results of a prefrontal lobotomy without the negative effects of the knife," the voice said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she received pictures of the most recent fashions in the mail, they only proved that she had not been wrong about the models that she designed herself and sewed on Amaranta’s primitive pedal machine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They scour the vending machines, emptying over half of the dwindling stock throughout the many break rooms and other common areas. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My job is to operate six machines that make screws. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He still didn’t know how or why, but he knew now that the Stormbreakers had been turned into killing machines. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, the machine beeps and shuts off. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was defended by trenches, heavy machine guns, and artillery. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a soda machine but no electricity, so they set a block of ice inside it and kept the sodas on that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the women were eating breakfast, a group of German aircraft descended on the thirty wood-and-canvas Po-2s, firing their machine guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Nearby is a wooden table piled with small machine parts. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Eh, Syaujye,” she called to me over the loud noise of the machines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a recent trip to Louisiana for her family reunion she watched every nickel and checked her balance at the automated teller machine several times a day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve never complained about it, but for once he turned his tape machine off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paid with the card and got cash from a machine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or that the soda machine near the east wing hadn’t been operating for over a year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A washing machine, because no one here will scrub laundry in exchange for a bowl of rice. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Shuddering into motion, the machine gave a sudden scream like a circular saw, and sent a tattoo of sharp crystals against my face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was typical: There were vending machines against the back walls and small rectangular tables where inmates could meet with family members. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Pe-2’s machine guns often jammed, and their bullets weren’t always strong enough to penetrate the armor of Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The machine plucked it from my hand and spat it out on top. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wormed my way up to the auto-mobile and tugged on Granddaddy’s coat as the owner shouted “Sorry! She’s not for sale!” and climbed out of the machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her coat is there, tossed on the washing machine, but no Mom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was a shared printer and a coffee machine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the kitchen counter the clunky old landline message machine blinked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“As you can see,” Mr. Curtain was saying, “my machine is capable of much more than whispering. It is capable of shouting. And I’m afraid the final effect is—how to put it? Quite deafening.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Making ice cream isn’t as easy as it sounds, even with a sleek, metallic machine like the Breville 3000 Ice Cream Maker. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was like an angry machine, shaking as if he’d just eaten those caffeine pills my mother used to take to stay skinny. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Presumably—since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner—she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“But I’m gonna need a sewing machine. I can get one secondhand down on Duval for twenty-five dollars,” she said, and looked at me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if he was some kind of machine. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided it was an excellent time to go find a Coke machine, even though he only had two dimes in his pocket. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could not stop Mom,” I stab out on my machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hitler's war machine, the blitzkrieg, knows only destruction. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

One structure, rejected at first as a “monstrosity,” became the fair’s emblem, a machine so huge and terrifying that it instantly eclipsed the tower of Alexandre Eiffel that had so wounded America’s pride. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Technology came first, because it is possible to make machines by trial and error without fully understanding the principles on which they operate. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We placed it in one of the experimental chambers and hauled the philosophic machines against the wall so there should be space for dancing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he takes the last empty cart and uses it to transfer his laundry from a washing machine to a dryer. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He edged around the dangerous machine to get to the fridge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She complained about sitting at a machine for hours, or about the short coffee breaks, or about el bosso. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because machine ciphers were so complicated, and because they had fewer mistakes, they were hard to break. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock, the movers had laid out carpets, positioned furniture, hooked up the washing machine and dryer, and filled each room with the stencil-marked boxes that the Meechams would have to unpack. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore I beg a prohibition against using any wheel machines, either for grinding or bruising or any furnaces like mine, without my consent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, what makes slot machines so powerful, at least in part, is that they so often leave the player unsatisfied. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The words of the two children at the slot machine were high and clear against the coarser voices of the men. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went to his job and asked a secretary what kind of machine he should buy. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the roof, except for the soldiers manning the machine guns, begin to make their way inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed—washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of our machine guns started chattering on our right, and Scotty opened up again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the wall the school Xerox machine was droning, droning, droning. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m sort of a god when it comes to claw machines.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I work through my break, and when I glance up, the blond boy is standing on the other side of my machines. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless the dangers inherent in the machine are still there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He’s like a clamming machine, and as he catches them, he stuffs them into the pockets of his new black cargo shorts. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

While the device slightly lowered the room temperature, the machine was too noisy and the air too humid. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An elderly white couple sat inside, surrounded by shelves of groceries and auto supplies, by soft drink machines and cigarette dispensers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was preparing to burst out and fight when Rachel Elizabeth Dare started talking in that rapid-fire machine gun way of hers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The computers were passing underneath a bizarre machine—cantilevers, wires, and hydraulic arms. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We carried with us all the ammunition, guns, and semiautomatic machine guns. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dozing security guards, and surgeons angrily shaking the broken vending machine by the lobby, the same white tile floors and the same dimly lit hallways, but everything seems different with Will next to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All he could do was lamely try to outrun a flying machine, an impossible task. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

If they broke a sewing machine, they were not beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She continued working in the main-house kitchen, kneading dough and sewing on the sewing machine, daily growing more deformed by her maternity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that each machine was like a magical bottle or box, with demons waiting inside to burst out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s sister, Bennie, married a Coalwood miner and they lived down across the creek, near the big machine shops. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later given the code name Purple, the new machine baffled William’s team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he informed Fermi by letter that his machine had produced a millicurie of radioactive sodium, Fermi scoffed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

How was it that he, Ralph, had turned out the sort of person who would find the machine empty? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a potted palm tree there was a slot machine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It regulated the junk food that got sold to children via vending machines on school property while also giving funding to schools to establish gardens and use locally grown produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘Of course it’s not! I will shoot Gaia down with this machine!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Gestapo will come in the middle of the night and pull me away from my machines. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

You need a kind of a machine to ketch it and earphones to listen in.... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t find anything wrong with Eagle, but it sure looked strange, unlike any kind of flying machine I had ever seen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These included a handful of cases where two messages had been sent on the same day with the same machine settings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was assigned to run errands and wash eyeglasses after they had come from the rouge-smeared machines. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says that her husband had insisted on putting her name on the mailbox, her voice on the answering machine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She then pulls out a small plastic object a little wider than a Post-it note, and she snaps it into the machine. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The population of District 12 waits, sweating and silent, in the square with machine guns trained on them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last few months, Leo had learned to interpret this machine language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They found a rowing machine on deck and tried it out, posing on it for news photographers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I used the ice cream machine on Friday after class. I’m really sorry.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell red tie the complete truth about what I would do with a time machine if I had one. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although Dad said the best thing to do was nothing, Mom made him drive her to the machine shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they’re scouring the house for empty gallon jugs to bring to the desalination machines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He got a job at a jewelry store, because he knew the machines. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the field the wounded flying machine bounced haplessly over the unmown grass for thirty yards. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Thirteen machines of thirty-five inches or more had been commissioned or were already operating in the United States by late 1939. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One weekend, the washing machine is occupied because Sonia is in the process of dyeing the vast majority of her clothing black. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d held the post for years, in part because loyal service to the party machine was more or less expected of city employees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back and see Jesus. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since she works in a laundromat with coin-operated machines, she's always giving customers quarters for their dollars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We hope without cracking up the flying machine.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His immediate superior, the foreman who had been patient with Shin as he learned the ropes in the factory, slapped Shin a few times when he saw the ruined machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He asked Curly if it was possible to operate the machines without driver’s seats. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all looked up, turned off our machines. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The machines must have stopped for a moment. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were the potted palms, the shiny machines and swooping desk lamps. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eddie lives in a trailer park with his mother, Rebecca Ball, an unemployed machine operator. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey said that the cotton up North was so tall, if ordinary people tried to pick it they’d have to get up on ladders, so the cotton farmers had their cotton picked by machines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped the screen set into the front of the machine and scrolled through the catalog. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Before encryption machines came along, people had to compose their own ciphers, writing them out letter by letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The machine shop was no more than a dozen yards away, its lights illuminating the gate and the path. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He cut through another green curtain and savagely pulled on the handlebars, trying to bring the machine under control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

To fix a broken machine, which was forged out of cast iron at a foundry inside Camp 14, Shin and other repairmen had to haul it on their backs to a repair shop upstairs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Livingston also was perplexed about his inability to coax the protons to more than seventy-five accelerating steps, a mysterious constraint on the machine’s effectiveness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z