Ralph pushed both hands through his hair and looked at the little boy in mixed amusement and exasperation. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had two scruples of nahlrout numbing me, and I knew better than to mix anesthetics if I could avoid it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were told not to “mix their blood” by marrying non-Aryans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It tastes like a mix of glue, chalk, and salt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A fish market was coming to life along the avenue, and the shouts of merchants mixed with the caws of seagulls and rumble of steamboats coming in to port. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“All right, then, where exactly are we going to mix up the stuff? Between my elixir and your...contribution, there will be a lot of liquid to be combined.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a success story about a poodle mix that was adopted and lives with a family. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who'd let us in was mixing drinks behind a handsome free-form bar which was large enough to have graced a night club. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This short, tatted guy climbs into the Ring to a mix of cheers and boos. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My warm brown skin is what you get by mixing her pale olive skin with his richer dark brown. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We celebrated all afternoon our heritage, our mixed blood, ourselves. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry I got you mixed up in this too," I whisper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Don’t mix this up with another word from French, cache, which sounds like "cash" and means something like “stash.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got mixed up on verbs like “come” and “came,” as well as on plurals of words like “house” and “mouse.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so light-skinned that people often assumed he was mixed, and he acted younger than he was—hyphy, as they say in Oakland. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Those mixed bloodlines were always lurking, waiting to peek out, and fear of losing their status kept white people in line. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sharp, reverberating hoofbeats that moments ago had mixed into the surging sound of the river were now a crescendo upon me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, early in 1930, our rather mixed threesome moved from New York to Paris, the better for Bobby to ply his new trade. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And mixed with them was a hint of smoke from the She Elephant’s fire. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There does not seem to be a particular section for the circus; bits of it are mixed in with books of theater receipts and lists of box-office returns. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

People who could afford to buy creatures mixed from a genetic cocktail of humanity, tigers, and dogs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And no mixing of drinks either. For each kind of soft drink—another cup.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wondrous aromas of potatoes, onions, smoked meat, and spices mixed to warm our faces and tease our nostrils. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were mixed kids in South Africa nine months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach in Table Bay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With only ten minutes before the gate opens, the men at the juice joint mix up another batch using water from the animal troughs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her hair is like mine—brown and blonde all mixed up like birdseed. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others just cried, their tears mixing with the pouring rain. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the “children” of that crop will be mixed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It’s the other Blackcliff students, pounding on their stone seats and roaring with a mix of pride and envy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I mixed them with mint and lemon balm from the garden. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How could this be so if the mixing occurred a mere 2,400 years ago? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every four hours, we filled the tub with hot water mixed with black pepper and myrrh. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where it stuck on the windshield I could see it mixed with snow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wished I had never come to Greenwood, never gotten mixed up with R.C. or Emmett or any of this mess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

One scoop of Earl Grey mixed with chunks of halwa, a few pistachio pieces, with a sprinkle of coconut and chocolate flakes on top. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Two parents, contemporary pop and contemporary classical, gave birth to a child that was a perfect mix of them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The musings of the tlamatinime occurred in intellectual neighborhoods frequented by philosophers from Brussels to Beijing, but the mix was entirely the Mexicans own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Pressure brings it up. It results from a chemical reaction in the lungs when water mixes with air and mucus.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a day, mixed in with my normal lectures, Ben would present me with a little mental exercise I would have to master before we went on to anything else. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tears now mixed with sweat on the floor under Chavez’s face, which seemed to delight his tormentor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cafes, we saw men and women chatting and mixing in a way that would be unimaginable in Swat. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The swarm at the diner weeks and weeks ago, how Finn had mixed up Derek Rude with Frank. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are Sara Lee cake mixes, and the types of canned goods that sit for years until you need them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They didn’t care if the food was mixed with dust and debris. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also many rabbits—large, gray ones with a mix of reddish fur, smaller fast gray ones that he saw only at dawn. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since 1492, the hemispheres have become more and more alike, as people mix the world’s organisms into a global stew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a couple of Snickers bars, some chocolate-covered peanuts, a bag of trail mix. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I felt everyone gather behind me as I began mixing my substances together in a bowl, but before I could feed my plant, something happened. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone mixes English and Urdu here, and the man nods his understanding. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The mythology within the family is that Tommy is most like his mother in personality—straightforward, rarely diplomatic, occasionally quick to anger—but I found him a mix of both his parents. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Althea stood mixing vials of liquid at a lab table. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I was catching, I made sure to mix up the pitches a lot. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bast mixed the salve and smeared the foul-smelling concoction onto the scribe’s shoulder before wrapping a bandage around it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For me, the most humbling lessons came when I visited military communities and met with soldiers' spouses—groups of mostly women, though sometimes with a few men mixed in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Others were folks from the Deep South with calcified attitudes about racial mixing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she had finished mixing her herbs she let the small bowl simmer on the stove, then she took from her black bag a large lump of fresh, black clay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came down from the doctor’s office she stopped for a moment at Bell’s candy store and bought a two-pound box of mixed chocolates. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pause and rewind to the beginning, turning the iPad to myself The intro blares out again, a mix of drumming and a man’s deep voice saying something in Arabic. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then there are what I call mixed doubles: pairs of words and phrases that are routinely confused, like affect and effect. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have accidentally switched around his samples or gotten something mixed up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin shoved his fists in the air and made little mixing moves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dakota reclined glumly on his couch, mixing sugar into his drink and chugging it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We spent our whole day running out to them, going back to the garage to make more mixes, and going back out to sell. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What was the point in arguing with dream people, who mixed you up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of dirty and clean, mixed up together. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mom poured a box of corn bread mix into a bowl along with eggs and milk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the way, the car was running on gas mixed with ethanol. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The archers from Apollo’s cabin brought out their bows and arrows, ready to slay the menace, but with so many campers mixed in with the birds, it wasn’t safe to shoot. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the fine brown dirt became mixed with thick black smoke. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got it at a discount. I’m sure it’s mixed with electrons.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun darkened Lourdes’s skin to the shade of the villagers on the bleachers, and the mix of her father’s cologne and the warm, acrid smells of the ballpark made her giddy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At bedtime we’d shake a little baking soda into the palm of one hand, mix in a dash of hydrogen peroxide, then use our fingers to clean our teeth with the fizzing paste. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wished that he was not mixed up with these Orgota who had, as it were, adopted me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know how to sort the lentils, grind the spices with his marble mortar and pestle, clarify the butter for ghee, and mix the dough for chapatis. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His immediate response was that unnerving mix of anger and panic he felt so often the past two weeks. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She mixed a can of milk into the condensed soup in the pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And dollar bills that were backed by the gold standard, which were no longer in circulation, had been found mixed in. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He still had a glassful of lemonade left in one pitcher, not to mention another whole pitcher already mixed up and unsold, so he poured himself a full cup. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mami has cooked a big pot of arroz con pollo, the rice yellow and soupy with pieces of chicken mixed in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra must have had mixed feelings about the renewed alliance with Octavian. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Grandpop leaned in close enough for Genie to smell him—a mix of sweet and sweat—and lowered his voice to almost a whisper. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The country of the Zande is savanna mixed with riverine forest, beautiful country, where acacia trees cluster along the banks of seasonal rivers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So all these unlucky people mixed up together is what made this place kind of funky. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I always thought it would mean playing video games in your pajamas all day and eating cereal from a huge mixing bowl. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The fruit was shaped like a lemon, with an outer layer of mixed colors of yellow and red. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I think if you wash the pot after you mix this stuff, it won’t explode.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly mixed the powder Teashop Aunty had given us with the rainwater I’d collected. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of melted mix had dried on the bottom of the pan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The subjects represented different ages, ethnic mixes, and body types, from muscular to obese to gaunt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For this reason, an acre of mixed grasses can actually produce more carbohydrate and protein in a year than an acre of field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The sleeper cab, where the bunks were, was musty and dark as a cave, littered with bags of Doritos and trail mix. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Anderson had been singing in Washington ever since her high school days, appearing first at black churches and small black-operated theaters, and later before larger, racially mixed audiences in the auditoriums of black high schools. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Even though I’d grown to love military school, I still had mixed feelings about being there, and they were eating at me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Saliva mixed with blood was trickling from his lips. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the peak of her arc, the silence seemed to overwhelm everything—her stomach-churning weightlessness, the mix of excitement and fear rushing through her, the wind against her face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘It was so mixed up at the end.’The girl seemed to be trying to explain her error more to herself than to Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being at a movie theater together and feeling obligated to hold hands even after your hands become sweaty and the sweat starts mixing together; and 5. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the guests arrived, Oppenheimer announced it was time to mix a batch of his famous martinis. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you drink a Coke and mix two aspirins in with it, it’s supposed to make you drunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hall outside the gym is crowded with a mix of volunteers and spectators, and when I make it to the doors, I can see that the inside is a mob scene. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Soviets forced Mother to teach school to a mixed class of Altaian and Lithuanian children. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

You probably know that, but I still mix them up sometimes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That morning of October 5, absorbing the impact of the initial headlines, Christine experienced a mix of emotions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was one of those places that custom-creates the ice cream, mixing the base with candy or nuts or fruit. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was mixing some herbs and powders into the heating water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He told me how much flour to pour and I mixed the dough. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He mixed some sulphur and hog fat and greased his body every morning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He separated the crude bacterial debris from the virulent smooth strain, mixed it with the live bacteria of the nonvirulent rough strain, and injected the mix into mice. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rabiya thinks cooked carrots are disgusting and picked them all out, but I love the way the slightly sweet rice mixes with salty ground beef kabobs and chunks of juicy chicken. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what,” he said, “you and I’ll mix up those pancakes and take a plateful right up to her, and she can eat in bed for once, like a lady.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is an underground traffic zone, a biological mixing point where different species of animals and insects cross one another’s paths in an enclosed air space. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was doubt written on it, then wonder and hatred mixed, and then conviction. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They boiled water and mixed it with the precious sugar and salt to feed the weakest people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would rotate their order, mixing and matching so that each day I had on a fresh combination. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The cries and screams of men and women mixed with the terror of the horses burning alive in locked stables. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood a while longer, watching the clouds and scolding myself for mixing in with the affairs of gentlemen and their honor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would press the chalk-white color down into her skin, and it would sour, mixing with stubborn shades of radiant gray. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As the manure/woodchip mix decays it heats up, warming the barn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Huh. That’s sad. End of an era,” I said, scratching a black Lab mix under her chin until her paw started to move uncontrollably. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They served not only as shields, but as cutting boards for fish and as bowls for mixing food. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My guess is that he had taken—if he had taken anything at all—some Saltines or a can of cherry pie mix and that the motive for taking it was hunger. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the many clubs with mixed Jewish and non-Jewish membership were threatened with dissolution if they did not purge their rolls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think he could have mixed up the glasses by mistake? Meaning to get you?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then, in 1953, a geneticist in Texas accidentally mixed the wrong liquid with HeLa and a few other cells, and it turned out to be a fortunate mistake. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And immediately, mixed with a sizzling sound, there came to Shasta a simply delightful smell. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was not the sound they had been expecting to hear—the noise of hoofs and jingling armor, mixed, perhaps, with Calormene battle-cries. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even the term used for these songs was a blend, a sign of the mixing of lives on the islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Benches run along the two sides of the truck bed, and on the benches are squeezed maybe twenty men, their knees all mixed together like fingers praying. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, the scene was a weird mix of drunks, derelicts, and the occasional college students who showed up because the risk of getting a knife pulled on you sounded fun. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You wiped off the thick soot, mixed it with toothpaste and soap, and there was your ink. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low, sad mournful cry tore itself from his throat and mixed into the lapping sound of the waters of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you mix the nutmeg in your water glass and drink it, you get a bit of a blurry high. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent considerable time looking through school records, court records, and other documents with mixed results. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hungry with all his mind and body mixed in, hungry with the whole mix of his life caught in it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, mix me my medicine. The beauty parlor was a zoo today.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea mixed up several names, too eager to get from one Decker to the next. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was the only mixed kid in school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were entering what botanists like to call “the finest mixed mesophytic forest in the world.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer took out a bit of powdered paint and spit on it, mixing it in his palm, before smearing it over the mark. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I could find was a package of orange fruit drink mix, so I made a gallon of that, and drank it all down. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

"He went to the store to buy some lemonade mix." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family, with me being the mixed one in the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the middle of each table there are two china dishes, one with salted nuts, the other with mixed candies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Byrd asks, taking the important story and mixing it with something else. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Heavy rains washed the outside mud plaster off their house, and he was too feeble now to mix up fresh plaster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman carried out their dented metal mixing bowl. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because the oxygen systems we were using delivered a lean mix of compressed gas and ambient air, 29,000 feet with gas felt like approximately 26,000 feet without gas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was just as surprised as he sounded, but my surprise was mixed with happiness and relief. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But most times it is soup and rice in a bowl, all mixed together so you can eat it with one big spoon. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“But you talking about mixing potions and powders and stuff, right?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was hate, but there was grief and shame mixed up in it, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered what law of the universe kept them from being mixed? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Right. Right. I guess she and I got a little mixed up about who was coming to see whom." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And it smelled funny too—kinda like medicine mixed with the stuff that Mama used to clean the floor. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door with its narrow glass panes opened into a musty lobby that smelled of everybody’s life mixed together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has so far mixed together the gases and waters of the primitive Earth and at the end of the experiment had something crawl out of the test tube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed some in a glass and gave it to Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Journalism, to Mrs. Richardson, seemed such a noble calling, one where you could do good from within the system, and in her mind she envisioned a mix of Nellie Bly and Lois Lane. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first we mixed things together, hoping they would explode, but nothing happened, so I decided we should conduct an experiment to see if any of the stuff was flammable. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Engineers from the northern and western states were probably of mixed minds on the issue of race mixing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There in Lansing, I never heard of any trouble about this mixing, from either side. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quoted to him from Rumi; she sang what she knew of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," mixing it up with "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His friends and a huge crowd of students stood behind the assistant principal, their faces a mix of shock and worry. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Travis’s mom dumped the batter from the mixing bowl into a cake pan, bent down, and got another cake pan from under the stove. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I never saw fruit all mix up together like this.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The shame and the sorrow mixed together and he doubled his hands and put them behind him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Had I gotten mixed up about which number? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began a lecture about liberal professors, and Mother mixed batter for pancakes, periodically murmuring in agreement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“My friends and I are all home-schooled, so we’re a mixed bag. Bettina’s mother has us come over and weave ponchos.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cause I don’t need your mama hassling me about mixing you up in my business. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lacking a coach’s launch, he ran up and down the shores of Lake Washington, yelling at his boys through his megaphone, freely mixing baseball slang with rowing terminology and a wide variety of exuberant profanity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This woman’s Maltese poodle had been impregnated by the bull terrier from next door, a strange mix. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But now, glancing down, I saw something else: silver sparkles, bright-needled splinters from the broken mirror, mixed with large, unmistakable shards of a gold-rimmed highball glass, the twin of the one in my own hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

What happens in the holding cell is you’re mixed in with the people who’ve been in prison awaiting trial for weeks and months. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s a mirage, just my thoughts mixing up my eyes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The smells of perfume and after-shave lotion and mustard and beer were mixed together. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine’s brush attacked the canvas as she spoke, quickly mixing burnished colors to catch the harsh afternoon light. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I been hooping. Is that your dog? He’s a pit mix, right?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I mixed the paint thoroughly, then brushed it smoothly on one of the pieces of board, careful that the brush strokes were uniform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was real fear mixed up in his love, and the precipitate from the mixing of these two is cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"A wagonload of gold at the very least. And jewels mixed in." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I had good reasons for crying even if they were too mixed up to put into words. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long enough to mix it up with the shucking bee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The smell of baking bread and sweet spices mixed with the pungent coppery scent of raw animal flesh being chopped by seasoned butchers filled my nostrils. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was like someone had mixed together all the best-smelling things in the world and made Miles bathe in them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She was distracted by her own mixed feelings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of using something that might harm us, I mix a concoction of a surfactant, NaCl, and a chemical derivative of acetic acid—aka Dawn dish soap, salt, and vinegar. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know he mixed human blood with it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When there was milk, we bled a cow, mixed the blood with the milk, and drank it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man from the juice joint, who left the great mixing vat for no more than a few minutes, storms off to Uncle Al, convinced that roustabouts are responsible. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then again, I never hung out with Auggie and my new friends together, because, well, mixing friends can be a weird thing even under the best circumstances. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I mean, it could have been a certain cloud above our house with some weird mix of pollution and chemicals in it from some power plant in Joliet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mix of qualities he cultivated there-—an independence of mind, coupled with a respect for tradition—would serve him well in the very different atmosphere at Ptolemy’s court in Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Once home, I got out measuring spoons, cups, a mixing bowl, and an egg beater from Mom’s cupboard and carried them to the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar Hill itself is something of a mixed neighborhood. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the other kids in Soweto called me “white,” even though I was light brown, I just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn’t learned them properly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then with her hands she tossed and turned it until it was well mixed, and she molded it into balls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

That some of them had looked, as I did, like the color Osh made by mixing his rainbow of paints. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She does a lot more reading while Suesetta and I do the mixing and the placing of cookie dough on the baking trays and into the oven. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I used Jelly-Legs. Looks as though those two shouldn’t be mixed. He seems to have sprouted little tentacles all over his face. Well, let’s not leave them here, they don’t add much to the decor.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

The transformation is not entirely successful, however, and the end result is a great deal of liquefying flesh mixed with virus, a kind of biological accident. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he just laid them all on the table and mixed them up like a child would do before playing Go Fish. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A lie don’t seem a lie anymore when it’s meant to save a dog, and right and wrong’s all mixed up in my head. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pink with a drop of yellow mixed in. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I feel all mixed up, the way soil must feel after the oxen come through, plowing it, turning it inside out, getting it ready for planting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juhuri—a mix of Hebrew and Persian—could be so soft and musical, but not when Babulya spat it out like she was doing at that moment. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

A lot of my friends at school are a mix of all kinds of people. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In slow motion, my skin decomposes until there is nothing left and it mixes with the dirt, becoming Khmer Rouge top- soil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn and Seven had snuck into their school’s potions room five days after their spy mission and were mixing ingredients together for a particularly volatile enchantment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some facts were mixed up but the important stuff was true: Two men had sailed a boat from Morocco to New York with two thousand pounds of hashish. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The question was answered with a mix of halfhearted cheers and more than a few grumbles. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Rather mixed, Madam. She has one good day, and then a bad. She’s not too bad in herself, you know. She will be pleased to see you I’m sure.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If you ask my mother whether she ever considered the ramifications of having a mixed child under apartheid, she will say no. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mom’s humming in the shower mixes with the music still blasting from the streets below. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She watched him put on his socks, with a mixed expression of injury and the ungovernable interest of someone who has been examining laundered socks for holes for a great many years. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I made you a mix,” she says, handing me a CD in a clear plastic case. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Horrible!” she screamed, spitting out the vile mix. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sweat mixed with the mud it was hard to tell. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drivers refused to allow the racially mixed group to board, and after two hours, the bus was canceled. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Former faction members are required to move closer to Erudite headquarters and mix, no more than four members of a particular faction in each dwelling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Bursting into her own apartment in triumph, Shirley found her mother still working on the accounts for the Señora and her father mixing paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But an unexpected fear mixed with it; the stone looked like something enchanted, not meant for human eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not help that he kept mixing up the test and the scholarship and the application deadlines—June? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She smells like she always does, a mix of incense and the special kind of dark tea she drinks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They think I can help out with the family business, prepping pounds of veggies, mixing all the spices, packing hundreds of foil trays before a big party. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They were tart and sweet in a mix. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I searched for a word for what I was feeling, for this mix of relief and exultation and serenity, but I couldn’t think of anything. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They did not mix much with other Negroes, but were respected by them and self- sustaining. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he strode through the second-floor hallway he saw them: two dogs, a black Labrador and a smaller mixed breed, in a cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The loudspeakers are playing a horrible mix of pop songs from when I was in elementary school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were one of the few families that still had daily white rice, but just like everyone else, Doha’s mother mixed it with barley, millet, and beans to make it last longer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They hugged that way for minutes, rocking gently, their tears mixing and falling, before either spoke again. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I went to the kitchen and found half-a-box of raisins and a full can of mixed nuts. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was one I missed, because I mixed up the u and the a. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We was a weak and puny country eighty odd years ago when the great-granddaddy of us young ’uns got mixed up in a rebel’s fight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a list of things we could mix together,” Danielle said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

All he cared about were his goats and sheep with painted red or blue bottoms so he could find them if they got mixed up with other animals. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And mixed with the smell of flowers there was this other smell so that she couldn’t stay in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the last bowl, dark green leaves mixed with cooked onions and the wrinkly purple things and some smallish white things. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Atahuallpa’s capture symbolizes the European conquest of the Americas, because the same mix of proximate factors that caused it was also responsible for European conquests of other Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She mixes lye with her own menstrual blood into a caustic brown paste, then thickly coats Graciela’s head. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if you’re supposed to mix the two, but the drink tastes okay. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The blacks, the Gypsies, anyone of mixed race, the mentally or physically disabled and the homosexuals. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

If we did not know better, we might be tempted to take all the atoms that make us up, mix them together in a big container and stir. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listen to the way his insides quiver at the sound of Byrd’s and Frank’s voices mixing together in the kitchen. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Smelly, too, like sweaty sneakers and boy cologne mixed with tomato sauce. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The wet smell of coming rain mixed with the smoky smell of burning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the far field, beyond the pond, they grow wild; field cress looks about like watercress and, mixed with dandelion greens, it makes good green salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The white parent smuggled them out through Lesotho or Botswana, and they grew up in exile, in England or Germany or Switzerland, because being a mixed family under apartheid was just that unbearable. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first present is going to be a mix tape. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois then said, "God is able to take the different gases from other planets and mix them to make the sky blue. You remember we told you there are other planets?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He smelled like spiced meat and car oil, which already was an unsettling combination before a whiff of cigarette smoke was added to the mix. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It had a graphical interface that looked like two vinyl records side by side, and I could mix and fade between songs, basically everything a DJ can do live. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His face is perfectly symmetrical, a mix of Anglo and Asian, beautiful behind the dirt and smudges. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In late April when the mosquitoes, flies, and gnats come out, Kainta shows me how a layer of bear grease mixed with a powder of red puccoon root keeps the bugs away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Traveling south through the Black Belt, the streetcars passed by quiet streets where the Respectables lived in sturdy brick and stone structures mixed with a healthy sprinkling of frame houses and a few apartment buildings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We watched him mix up the white plaster and lay out strips. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning I seemed to awaken with new experiences and dreams strangely mixed into me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had mixed gin and whiskey and was very drunk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or use all of their huge equipment to mix batter? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Now he watched the purple recede blotchily from Uncle Vernon’s face, making it look like badly mixed black currant ice cream. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That powder was then mixed with milk and boiled again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Two bags of rice, six cans of red beans, two of black beans, four of spinach, two of split pea soup, one of lentil, one of carrots, three of mixed vegetables, and one of sardines. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I think she just doesn’t want me mixing with her friends.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If women were in the mix, he was in the game. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Today I could not find my way around its newly built freeways, its thriving industrial complexes, its racially mixed, upscale suburban sprawl. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had tied rags around her shoulders to keep out the spring chill and was picking through the trash while her dog, a black-and-white terrier mix, played at her feet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Emma must have had mixed feelings about her daughter not being confirmed, but she abhorred hypocrisy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is where three meals a day for thirty-seven thousand animals are designed and mixed by computer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The combination of olive oil, hearty vegetables, and cheese that comes from goat's milk, mixed with decent servings of fish and meat, had been shown in numerous studies to promote longevity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This dog, a boxer mix, I think, sat at Nicole’s side and leaned into her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Being mixed is like that tingling feeling you have in your nose just before you sneeze—you’re waiting for it to happen but it never does. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like clouds and a sense of humor didn’t mix. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only this rain was cold, and mixed with sleet. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it added something new to the mix—a toxic dash of jealousy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sky turned a bizarre mix of purple and yellow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Despite all the positive stuff, I had mixed feelings about getting into the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stumbled on some medical records mixed in with his real estate files and discovered that a corporation was hiding contaminated water that was making people sick. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I spoke with Mr. Vanness today,” she said, and mixed the drink. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evening in Paris is in a midnight blue bottle and smells warm like trees mixed with magnolias. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was like a circus and a carnival mixed together, except with no animals and no rides, though you could definitely buy light-up swords and cotton candy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They climbed up one floor, stopped and listened, climbed the next; and the sound of the man’s voice was now mixed with that of halting, rhythmic footsteps. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still grateful. I should never have got you mixed up in it.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

All the other girls had been on the national team the previous year; I was the only newbie in the mix. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Mama,” ordered Neeley, “don’t mix my condensed milk with the oatmeal. Let it stay on top.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well," she said, sucking away at her stinking cigar, "their favourite ruse is to mix up a powder that will turn a child into some creature or other that all grown-ups hate." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But the smiles around her were friendly, and the place smelled like the living: a musty mix of sweat and smoke and whiskey—so much better than the grim, antiseptic emptiness of the orphanage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Let the bruise show. The audience will think you've mixed it up with another tribute before you've even made it to the arena." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My feet leave impressions in this softer mix. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Janice simply ignored them, directing us instead, figuring in her head the positions of the preachers, the crowd, Kwang, paletting their various skin tones into an ambient mix for the media. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard the audience is supposed to be a mix of art and theater students attending summer camps,” Louis, a quiet, blond boy said. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were mixed somewhat, but still in their separate piles for the most part—red on the left and orange on the right. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Famous people. Smart people. It just means your eyes mix up letters and numbers sometimes, and it would explain why you sometimes have trouble reading.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had treated my forehead with a poultice of dried plant leaves mixed with water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I mix up a pair of strong whiskey cocktails. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The forest was a mix of evergreens and leafless trees. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A sort of dull ache mixed with anger replaced it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the couch, her every exhalation a mix of whimper and scream.“I’m sorry,” she said, heaving. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then at last it began to be mixed with another sound, a vague, disastrous noise which sounded first like the roar of a distant train, and then like the crash of a falling tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined Abuela saying people act like that because their centers are mixed incorrectly—like a sauce that curdles from overheating. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly the proper way to mix the clay, the proper way to form the tiles and smooth the dry ones, so that through wind, sun, rain they will last and last. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed the photos like a little kid mixes playing cards, smearing them together with the flats of his hands. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Florida was still pretty segregated, so the cultural mix was unique and mostly peaceful—blacks, whites, Hispanics, and some Seminoles. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

From inside there was a babble of mixed voices. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We mixed and chopped while Audrey told us all about the Fall Ball committee. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I lit four black-cherry candles that are mixing surprisingly well with the feast my parents are cooking up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But when mixed with water, which is how it courses through the human body, it is only about thirty-five percent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I already asked Mr. Grady, the art teacher, to teach me to mix oils after school and he said yes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Inside was hot, the air a mix of cigarettes and stale soda. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She has diluted it with alcohol—she wore gloves to do the mixing, as it is incredibly caustic. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I mixed up what Quentin and I had calculated to be our best black-powder mix and then added the powdered glue to it along with a little water until I had a thick black paste. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was done at the insistence of many child psychologists, who felt that to mix fantasy and reality would be misleading to children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taught Seth how to mix paint and given him samples of which hue corresponded to each number. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was something new to add to the mix of street noise and people. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In Eden Park I was the only mixed kid in the colored area. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By now the powders were completely mixed together, indistinguishable from each other. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The hallways are cramped, though the light coming through the windows creates the illusion of space; they are one of the only places where the factions mix, at our age. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the Hamiltons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the idea of my wish getting mixed up with hundreds and hundreds of strangers’ hopes made me drop the penny back into my purse. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It all swirls together, cliches mixing with your own emotions, and in the end you can’t tell one from the other. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happened next is a twisted braid of mixed signals, distrust, miscommunication, and conjecture. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, softly, surely, an angel’s voice broke through the tumult, offering a place for that raggedy mix of voices to land. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not a word was spoken as he prepared instant chicken casserole mix for Edwin and Garvey. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand almost all of Karl’s conversation, with its mix of German and English. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Boos are mixed in with the cheers in the crowd. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And mixed in with the music and the beat, she kept hearing, I love you. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The lady Kirke mixed me a golden cup of honeyed wine, adding in mischief her unholy drug. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He presses a key, and I hear a mix of keyboard and drums that’s simple but catchy. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They'll have loads of food at the concession stand, but I don't believe in mixing meat with my movies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was ink to be mixed, paint powder to grind, and copper plates to polish and wipe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were a strange mix to see, ranging from grubby, shoeless urchins like myself, to reasonably well- dressed, well-scrubbed children who probably had parents and homes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The work went faster now, the mixing easier. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miri brought in these red-velvet cupcakes that she said were gourmet but really tasted exactly like the store mix Mom uses when she doesn’t have time to bake. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mother mixed soap in it to create bubbles. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I brew my own Belle-rose elixir and mix it with other medicinal plants. The elixirs Madam Du Barry supplies aren't strong enough to withstand the types of changes I want." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When we got Harry home, Joon and I made up some juk-rice and warm water all mixed together looking like glue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

For a second we just lie there, our heavy breaths mixing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have any money, so I was out of the mix there, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The effort paid off Monday night when a racially mixed group of 200 people gathered in the school auditorium for the first “arena session.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The mix of hurt and confusion and embarrassment weakened him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To this mix must be added the news, if it was the case, that Briony was missing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have to stop at the makeup counter and get powder mixed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“You know as well as I do. He never wanted us to mix with . . . people. He’s very strict.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Earlier, I mean. When you were testifying. You say this foam is only produced when you’ve got water, mucus, and air all mixed together by a person’s breathing?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Ginger would not be listed. She is a mixed breed. Like me." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the customer and saw a mix of smugness and guilt on her face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He poured it into the dough mix and stirred. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mix the chicken up with a little mayo and my secret weapon—blue cheese dressing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As I walked toward the entrance, the crowd bombarded me with a mix of insults, autograph requests, death threats, and tearful declarations of undying love. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fridge seemed to be made out of car parts, while the oven seemed a mix of wrought-iron fencing and safety glass. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I was going to mix up something special to repay her for the denture rinse but I’ll give you some history instead.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I take the candy and roll it around in my hands until it mixes with my tears and runs red over my palms. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He guessed at the amounts and put the beef dinner and peach dessert on to boil, then went back to the lake and brought water to mix with the orange drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because pure gold and silver are too soft to hold their shape, Andean metalworkers mixed them with other metals, usually copper. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clay for glaze was mixed in precise proportions with water and wood ash. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Leveling is perhaps too strong a word, but it is certainly mixing us up a bit. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He smelled like their kitchen and her mother and her siblings and himself all mixed together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“They thought Cloke was mixed up in it, they thought a lot of things. It’s funny. We’re so used to Henry. We don’t realize sometimes how he looks to other people.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But we do know that the mixed aircrews quickly became reliant on each other and worked together loyally. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At which point the revelry mixed with meanness abated and King Walker handed Milkman his Winchester .22. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accessorized with the right mix of confidence and haughtiness, it reduces my audience to a world of leering carpetbaggers and gasping Aunt Pittypats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I never had children of my own, but I've seen enough in that lot to know she was mixed up in something she shouldn't be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep the egg in the fire, ’cause their mothers breathe on ’em, see, an’ when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o’ brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a mix of pain and sweetness, and I take his hand again and hold it near my face. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“So you probably mixed up a little bit, right? You not all white.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smell—dill pickles mixed with tobacco and peppermint—took me right back to Uncle Holt’s store. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A doctor, James Alonzo Gannon, then shoved a hard feeding tube down their throats and poured in a concoction of two raw eggs mixed with a pint of ice-cold milk. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was already convinced I wouldn’t find a place on any of the school sporting teams, and now it looked like choir was out of the mix too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the plane headed home, the crew felt a mix of emotions, including relief that the job was done and hope that the war would now end. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just bet partnering me with Bernard is some devious experiment: what happens if we mix trouble-hating girl with bully boy? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Big Ma pushed me off of her and said, “Go on and wash up so you can help me with this mixing bowl.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The room still smells like him—a mix of soap and cigarettes and the heady, woodsy quality that is distinctly Theodore Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The boycott began on April i and had mixed results. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke out the sifter, the mixing bowl, the mixer, some measuring cups, and the old wooden spoon my mother loved to use. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking about things like this.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The casement was only half full, so I put the pot back on the hot plate to mix up some more. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It sticks in my nose and as I mop myself into the back kitchen, Marie’s cigarette smoke thickens and mixes with it and I feel light-headed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I dream it is Father she’s marrying and I get mixed up and sad. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an island in the middle of the ocean where people speak English and Spanish and sometimes a mix of both. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

One place where the old and the new do mix is charity events. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“We could just keep going,” Bobby Gene said, his voice a mix of pathetic and hopeful. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sit eating my fried Spam, drinking my milk mixed from powder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their own retainers made a busy sight with houseboys mixing bowls of water and wine, or sopping water up in sponges, wiping tables to be placed about in hall, or butchering whole carcasses for roasting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you have me mixed up with someone else,” Minli said to the fish. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

While we washed our hands at the sink, I scanned the room and spotted Liz mixing blue food coloring into a bowl of icing and Corey rolling out some red fondant—this thick, Play-Doh-like icing. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I thought of what true love must be like, I figured it must be a mix like this, and not the stupid eighth-grade infatuation most girls my age felt. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why is the fact that each of us comes from a culture with its own distinctive mix of strengths and weaknesses, tendencies and predispositions, so difficult to acknowledge? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed the natural thing, to bring this voice from the past into a moment so saturated with the past already, even if the voice was mixed with my own. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They mixed with the water and swirled at the bottom of the tub like little green eddies before being rushed down the drain. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“You sure you didn’t mix something up? This is my present?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once everything was all mixed up, I scooped the batter into my cupcake pan and put it in the oven, setting the timer for twenty minutes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So I guess the humiliation of being stuck in the back row mixed with everything else that had happened these past few weeks—it was too much. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were Gram’s things, all mixed in with Gramps’s clothes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

At Holi a special red powder mixed with cow’s dung and urine is thrown at everyone. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In my own case, studying under the auspices of the University of London was a mixed blessing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like "large talk," which is more about theories and concepts, mixed with facts and known quantities. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ginnie Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, I mixed green paint into Elmer’s glue and coated my whole body with it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At first, I figure he must have the floors mixed up. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The painter had poured water from the duck’s bill onto a stone a single drop at a time, mixing ink to exactly the correct consistency for his work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I found Kazi’s favorite big clay bowl he always used for chopped vegetables or mixing dough. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The British didn’t mix in with the arguments. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We mixed together orange juice and grapefruit juice and soda in a big bowl. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the boys switch places in the middle of the game just to mix us up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by the scent of wood smoke mixed with distant honeyed flowers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Things are all mixed up inside me, and I need some time to digest more than my lunch. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In medium bowl, whisk together cement mix, salt, and gravel. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was of a better quality, a special mix. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never seen her more beautiful than she was that night, with her cheeks flaming and her eyes large and black with mixed anger and fear. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbors suggested their own remedies: arnica compresses, packed mud from a holy well, ground elephant tusk from the Niger to mix in her daily broth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture her mixing cement, carrying rocks around in her apron. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, a thin drizzle that traveled horizontally in the wind, soaking through his supposedly waterproof clothing, mixing with his sweat and his dirt, chilling him to the bone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She’s begun to get things mixed up, because of the drugs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It tastes like chocolate chips and gooey oats mixed with peanut butter. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His first day of middle school, in front of everybody, he mixed up the strokes of his own name. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Main Street, in stores, in factories and offices, in every sector, black and white mixed all day as a matter of course. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wrap a tendril around a rod to give her the perfect coil, and mix two skin tones together—seashell white and a dark citrine brown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I was coming to recognize the unmistakably heartland brew of diesel fumes mixed with manure and restaurant exhaust. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He keeps his grog ready mixed in a little tub on the table. Wait a moment, and you’ll hear Clara lift him up to take some. There he goes!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A mix of shapes and colors, and a harsh, angry voice. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A mix of cologne and the cigar he always smoked on the drive home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the seconds it took to really get going, cake flour blew up from the mixing bowl and swirled around the room, recipes flapped off the counter and caught fire on the stovetop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This was something we did together, on Cuttyhunk and the other islands where we sailed sometimes in search of petals we could boil into dyes and mix into paints. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lydia queued up a mix for the drive. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“A loose mix in the casement may not be adequate. What we need to do is somehow pack more of it inside.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In parts of Central America and the Andes, the Native Americans were originally so numerous that, even after epidemics and wars, much of the population today remains Native American or mixed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Evan loaded it into the wagon, then poured in the mix from all thirty-two cans. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In St. Louis, peanuts were bought in paper bags and mixed with jelly beans, which meant that we ate the salt and sugar together and I found them a delicious treat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys died with great quantities of clear mucus and green mucus running from their noses, mixed with blood that would not clot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Activities Building was the site of club meetings and branch get- togethers, an end run around the embarrassment and difficulty of finding a venue in the town that would accommodate a racially mixed group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But as soon as we swung open the steel door, Ben’s face became a mix of excitement and panic, like he’d just been picked out of a crowd by a magician for the get-sawn-in-half trick. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I faced each day with a mix of dread, tears, and disappointment. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had taught me which plants made which colors and how to mix them to make more, and I loved being his assistant in both the kitchen and the field. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“At ten. But I’ve been throwing up all night long. I mixed my cocktails.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I guess the Klan wanted to teach the Crowells a lesson about mixing and socializing with whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, they mix in too much water these days, but this one is very good.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when her children cried with hunger, she scrounged together enough to buy a bit of tortilla dough and mixed it into a big glass of water to fill their bellies. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t find it, but I thought it just got mixed in with the copies or something.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It started to rain while I was in the butcher's shop, fat, slushy drops mixed with ice. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But they aren’t mixed together; there is still an uneasy divide between them, factionless on one side and Dauntless on the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Snape put them all into pairs and set them to mixing up a simple potion to cure boils. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Every time I got to the part where I mixed the crushed pills in their drinks, I would run to the toilet and vomit. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In Russia, people use a samovar—a smaller version of Smaug the Voluminous—to heat a bunch of water, and then mix it with über-strong tea from a smaller pot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her tears mix with long strands of hair, long hair I wish I had. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I mixed a liquid and said the proper prayers and washed my hands. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pours me café au lait—mixing the milk from the pot with coffee in my cup. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Edwards was not a concupiscent man, and besides he never mixed his professional life with his private pleasures. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you better go on and read that book before I lose my temper. Think you can come in here and mix yourself up in grown folks’ business? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The right mix of music could save Dad from his funk. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then I can see my face, mouth half open in a mix of surprise and protest, magnified on every screen as I realize, Me! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’s a bulldog mix, with brown, black, and gray swirled coloring, probably close to 10 years old. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pain becomes an ache, spreads everywhere—all mixed together, guilt and terror and longing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was trembling, snot and tears mixing on his face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mix of horror, anger, and shame, all focused on me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her arm goes vigorously around, mixing, efficient and strong. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten an eighty-five, but I was so excited that she’d come over to me that I got all mixed up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

“You know, I like a mix of both. I used to always like eating candy and chips at the same time.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Each bag had a box of rice, a can of red beans, a can of mixed vegetables, and two cans of tomato soup. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After I hung up, I grabbed Dad’s Walkman and hit play on his mix. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A mighty wave of nos mixed with giggles swept the crowd. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt mixed up, grateful, and sick at heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mixed smells of the forest greeted him as he took his first deep breath, trying to relax. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I sniff the bare skin of his neck—a mix of soap, sweat, and hot dog. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the way I’ve heard people talk about forest fires, or the war: respect and wonderment mixed in with the sense of catastrophe. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, and look at this, four juice boxes—remember those?—and a nice bag of rice.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I bet I could fit inside the mixing bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The clay was shoveled into one of the pits and water mixed in to form a thick viscous mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As cheerful voices and bursts of laughter from my Worlds Party floated in through my window, mixing with the rhythm of “Burn,” I collapsed onto my bedroom floor and started bawling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I mix in the good and the bad and sometimes, I admit, when there’s not much good to report, I make some things up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We didn’t mix, those of us against the war and the guys who came back from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Long-term brainsweeping and retraining results mixed: Helpers manageable but still dispirited. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, for no apparent reason—she might have gotten the accelerator and the brake pedal mixed up—she stood on the brake pedal with all her might. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not cry or wail as some of the other women did, but Afi’s face was covered in tears, which mixed with the blood on her face and lips. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cool ocean air mixed with the exotic smells of Chinatown. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And I keep my applesauce and Pop-Tart totally separate because I don’t like food mixing together or colors running into each other. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom was nervous too, and she managed to mix up some of our birth dates. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I made a mix tape for the occasion. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my phone from my back pocket and see a text from Poe, feeling a mix of sadness and relief as Will and I pull away from each other. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I was able to mix up two of the salad dressings, but I didn’t have time to get to the ranch yet...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ghost ate well that day, and Qhorin insisted that the rangers mix some of the garron's blood with their oats, to give them strength. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were restaurants and nightclubs, a lot of them foreign-owned, that served a mixed clientele, black people who hated the status quo and white people who simply thought it ridiculous. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their singing and all those sad Spanish words and the sweet spicy smells of the food at their hands all mixed together into something that stuck me right there where I was standing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I just want to learn about what you’re doing. I could mix up your chemicals or file your papers or whatever. Anything.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not that it wouldn’t make things interesting, but I have enough problems with math without adding guilt to the mix. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His dates with Joyce devolved into bleak meetings in the cafeteria, where they mixed catsup with hot water and called it tomato soup and rounded out the meal with soda crackers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She mixes her drink with her straw and stares off into the water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The blood forms a pool around her feet, mixing with dishwater as it seeps into the earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not mine. I’m filled with formaldehyde, mixed with glycerin and lanolin.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The stench was awful: a mix of blood and sweat and urine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was groans and rough breathing mixed up with the same noise that the chain on the dog outside had made. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So, generally, it is a better idea to mix iron into the ceramic of the brick before it is fired. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The result is a mix of fun and frustrating. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mark ran toward the double doors of the exit, unable to take his eyes off the scene below, observing it with a strange mix of horror and curiosity. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“What color do you get if you mix all the colors together?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a mix of so many dishes, I don’t know where to start. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The system did away with epicycles and deferents, and it explained why the motion of the Sun was mixed up with the motion of the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Head spinning and mixed up and blood dribbling out my nose and mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My eyes continued to scan as I shook the can, making sure the contents were mixed so that the paint would come out even and clean, creating a crisper result. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Once I read in a magazine that you can make lipstick by mixing Kool-Aid with petroleum jelly. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At long last Mr. Dussel's fury was spent, and he left the room with an expression of triumph mixed with wrath, his coat pockets bulging with food. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Eight floors below, I hear the mix of salsa and rap over the scatter of nighttime voices and the movement of people out causing mischief on Halloween night. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This stench was like that, except a hundred times stronger, and mixed with the smell of chewed eucalyptus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Riley poured on the ground a small amount of white powder from each of two little paper bags she had carried with her and then mixed them with a wooden spoon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He talked nonstop, out of control, in a mix of Igbo and English, like soft meat and thorny bones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would start to ease as they saw that I didn’t try to mix, but stuck close to someone on our team, or kept to myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got close together, and became mixed up with brambles and undergrowth again, some way off. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It all had gotten into the air and mixed together, and the first thing you know after you start breathing that stuff, you say things like what I said to Meryl Lee. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She did not know how it would look, if it could capture the cruel mix of emotions she felt, the desire to cry and slap him and steel herself all at once. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She took many herbs and roots from her black bag and mixed them into the warm oily water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ride in silence apart from the nineties hip-hop mix he’s got playing, and I’m panicking a little—I hate surprises—but the smell of his cologne is definitely helping. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But even then we could not mix those chemicals together and have a human being emerge from the jar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of times the plans about the things that were going to happen to her were mixed up with ice and snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lina was glad to carry this message, though her gladness was mixed a little with sadness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brick stares at me, his expression a flashing mix of things I can't interpret. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes welled with tears that began streaming down her face, mixing with her makeup to make black streaks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Here the invisible world hovered closer to the ground, mixing with the darkness in the groves. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And I was so scared and mixed up about the danger of hydrophobia that it was clear into the next day before I even thought about thanking him for giving us Old Yeller. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough I had to get mixed up with Bodega just so we could have a better place to live, a cheaper place, and save some money, too. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I’m trying to say to you. You never gave your daughters an image. No wonder they’re so mixed up. I tried with them.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Court’s enforcement decree, issued a full year after Brown, seemed conciliatory to segregationists, imposing no deadline for achieving racially mixed schools and calling merely for “good faith implementation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was fresh-cured leather and new material mixed up with fancy powder and soap. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He could smell something intoxicating, like honey mixed with wood smoke and cloves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We stick pretty close together. My father doesn’t like us to mix with outsiders.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Liquid putrefaction like drowned things floating like pale rubber flabbily filled getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

While settling in Cape Town and the surrounding frontier, the white colonists had their way with the Khoisan women, and the first mixed people of South Africa were born. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I’m still working on the Spanish-language formulation. Tweaking the protein mix.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Among mixed bloods, one never made the mistake of calling an octoroon a quadroon or a quadroon a mulatto, although all mixed bloods were loosely called mulattoes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing how they mix together is another thing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brief scattering of applause mixed in with exclamations of disbelief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His call to her mixed abiding love with a sense of desperation: “I never wanted your advice and assistance more in my life,” he pleaded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I let the words mix with the night breeze, Weaves playing off my balcony into the darkness. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When we get to Columbus, a few of them hide near the mixing vat and wait. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The sugar. That’s how I was taught to drink it, too. I remember, you used to just mix it into your tea. Two cubes, then a splash of milk, just like a Brit.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

While standing up, it was possible she did not have on quite enough clothes for mixed company, but upended she did not look to have on any. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, whoosh, a blast of wind exploded out of the mountain, a white-hot mix of ash and gas and shards of rock. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s like a baby. He can’t play Monopoly or checkers or anything... he gets everything all mixed up. I won’t play with him any more.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A mix of feelings churned in Percy’s gut—grief, sadness, gratitude, and guilt thickening into emotional cement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As Z drove down the road away from Ruby Holler, he wished he’d never gotten mixed up with Trepid, and he hoped he could keep Trepid at bay until Tiller and Sairy got back. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds were graced with raised beds of mixed bouquets, and the full perimeter of the property was edged with azaleas, which fit the house like a gilded frame fits a beautiful painting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Still, he continued to feel a peculiar uneasiness, which had fear mixed up in it as well as hostility, whenever she was anywhere near him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

First, the achievement of the revolutionary generation was a collective enterprise that succeeded because of the diversity of personalities and ideologies present in the mix. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how life gets so mixed up,” he began. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I guess we both knew that, given the way people in Welch thought about mixing, it would be too weird for us to try to be close friends. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward he mixed her a draught of dreamwine, with some honey so it might go down easier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I mixed these together in a bowl, then dumped in a generous serving of Fruit Rocks cereal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I hear the clang of a spoon against the bowl as my mom mixes the barbecue sauce, the second-to-last step before the bites go in the oven. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Cocktail time. I suppose,” he said to the doctor, “you will trust me to mix you a cocktail again tonight?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time they had mixed socially with Caucasians since leaving camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, they’re wisdom cookies! I’ve made these from scratch before. The secret is to allow the books to hit room temperature before mixing them. Cold writing doesn’t sit well in the mind.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Listen carefully. I want you to mix a dream which you will blow into the Queen of England’s bedroom when she is asleep. And this is how it will go.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mix a little russet brown in to deepen the color and add several undertones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I like a corn- bread batter to be stirred some so everything is mixed but not too smooth with all the lumps gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooked, seasoned meat fills the air, mixing with the peppery gunpowder from all the fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be mixing it all up while you run to the house for a kettle of boiling water,” Billy said. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But I could soon be mixing it up.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several fellow professors, however, watched this performance with mixed feelings. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“No. I’ve got one mixed up in this bloody war already. I’m not going to let the other one go.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After setting a legitimate Boy Scout state record in friction-fire ignition, he broke his record by soaking his tinder in gasoline and mixing it with match heads, causing a small explosion. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were mixed with the dim sounds of a crowd. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The larger boy didn’t hear her—he was buried in chemistry, mixing sparkling water and food coloring and fizzy candy in six different sports bottles, and his back was to the door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Throwing scoops of com to the chickens and mixing sour dry mash with leftover food and oily dish water for the hogs were among our evening chores. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain, mixed with sleet and snow, came stinging across his back and his left cheek, and he could not see more than a hundred yards ahead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes fixed on the shelf behind his head, the one full of metal spoons and mixing bowls. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Connor and I watched in disgust as a busboy mixed a giant vat of coleslaw with his hands, his arms buried in it all the way to his biceps. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When they were all mixed together, he slowly added a bowl of eggs he’d already cracked. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Quiet, empty, a mix of grand old buildings and new, more of an industrial site than a town really, with development sprawling into its surrounding areas rather than inside the town itself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mixes colors and applies them to my cast as if I were a canvas. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m off to mix the crowd. I’ll keep them from coming at you all at once.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brotherly protectiveness mixed with financial and paternal pain in Milton’s heaving breast. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The odor of the invisible animals accentuated in the heat mixing now with out-of-control mint and something fruity needing to be picked. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Music. Numbers. Equations. They’re not like words. They...they don’t get mixed up.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But then she thought about what he said, and she tried something new: She bought a small amount of chicken—a quarter pound—and mixed it with beans and cabbage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning I found Mother mixing oils in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She always had mixed feelings on her birthdays. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Were going to get caught, probably, and when we do, just let me talk. You just look cute and be that weird mix of innocent and confident, and we’ll be fine.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Life is. How can you have such pain and such...such triumph...all mixed together? It's like...it's like that cheese." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much, just a jumbled mix of images. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up to now I've been focused on whatever mischief Jackson is getting mixed up with, Mr. Redfern's inscrutable glare, and the food everyone has been eating. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Nate stared with a mix of fear and fascination, like the time he found a scorpion in his hammock. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a mix of sad and mad when I see Mama pull up. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

To be sure, people sensed he was an oddball at the time, disconcertingly gifted, outspoken, irreverent - in short, a strange mix of child and sage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He exploded into powder on the lake’s surface like a huge packet of drink mix. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike many towns in the South, Allen’s neighborhood in Selma, Alabama, was racially mixed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I'm thinking these lads have mixed themselves up to flummox us." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The air is thick, too, a mix of alcohol and food. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Velma T. Harkrader was going to enlist the aid of her chemistry class in mixing up some of her “good for what ails you” elixir. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why wasn’t a regular mixing bowl or a spoon or a lightbulb a piece of art? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were no other mixed kids around so that I could say, “Oh, this happens to us.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Or I be mixing something in a bowl for the other chile and I’d talk to it then too. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus and a mixed group, some of whom looked familiar, were sitting around a patio table by the hot tub. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he was excessively trusting of some of his speculator friends; and he only fired his assistant in the Treasury Department, William Duer, after Duer’s mixing of personal and public funds reached criminal proportions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I didn't know exactly what had happened to Mrs. Williams, but I knew that here in Alabama, police dogs and black folks looking for justice had never mixed well. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had always had mixed feelings about this, but he had come to accept it as the price of keeping his country safe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s dragon mixed with several of the skeletons and mermaids from Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A fleeting expression crossed the Special’s impassive face— annoyance mixed with suspicion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the refrains her voice spun, twinning and mixing with my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mostly it was boys on one side, and girls on the other, but it was mixed up a little bit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

What I do remember is the strong mix of emotions that engulfed me at that moment. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the two groups exist in separate realms—the mestizos in theirs and the middle-class indigenas in theirs—and rarely do they mix. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to speak English but mixes Spanish in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He has a goofy look on his face—mixed with annoyance. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He mixed white rice into tomato sauce, tasted it, and then covered it and reduced the heat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nowadays these mixed couples get on TV every other day complaining, “Oh, it’s hard for us.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returned it to the safety of her pocket just as Marina came out, a mixing bowl full of some kind of batter under one arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Could you have gotten your samples mixed up?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she mixed the powder with the water from the pitcher on the dresser, guessing at the proportions. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She mixed kerosene and water and carefully warmed the bowl on the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah. 'And the band played on.' A lot of mixed feelings about you girls, from what I hear." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She offered him a canteen of unicorn draught - powdered horn mixed with sanctified water from the Little Tiber. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s withdrawal from the policy debate also reflected his long- held conviction that science and politics made for an unwieldy mix. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The new boss doesn’t think it’s a good idea to mix business with—you know—charity.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tesla told us that we had to mix chemicals until we succeeded in making something explode. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There were brains, arms, legs, all mixed together. It was like you would imagine hell. Some of them were on fire, some were moaning....” said Scruggs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He would know if there was a place where a mixed couple could live with something approaching safety, and maybe he could tell Wash something about Baja California. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But for a big, husky thing that looked like it was mixed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What if we mixed the flowers? It would stretch them out, and there would still be marigolds on each one.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, you’re never going to believe this, but Luke mixed his junk together and it started smoking. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

‘I is a very mixed up Giant,’ the Giant said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had an old mix tape in her pocket, and she was going to dub over it to make a tape for Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He grabs a big bowl and a box of pancake mix. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The last stop on our tour was Dari’s room, where Indian mixed with American, Bollywood posters bordered baseball posters. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The overlanders were mixed up with pickup trucks and vans jammed with people, and the road reeked of diesel smoke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he had already admitted, Sticky often got mixed up when he was excited, and in this frenzy of mysteries and revelations, he could hardly think straight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then when the morning’s milk had cooled, she mixed it with the skimmed milk and set it all on the stove to heat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him not to mix them up; we didn’t want people growing hair between their toes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you mix paint together, that’s true, but if you’re talking about just the colors, pure in nature, they make white when mixed together. I brought this wheel to prove it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The whole complex, recently painted with a mix of red ochre and buttermilk, stood against the sky like a row of giant beets popped clear of the earth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in chemistry lab, waiting to see what happened when we mixed silver nitrate and salt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Mary admired the two little girls I’d brought, mixed them in with her own children, sent them all upstairs to play games and watch television. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the truck box lives a smell: clay, spilled diesel mixed with something putrid. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In their diversity, the objects symbolized the peaceful mixing of cultures that Kondiaronk hoped lay in the future. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every ounce of strength in me was invested in listening for the code word mixed in among their talk, which might as well have been Glaswegian for all I could make out! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Relationships just don’t last when there’s an idiot in the mix. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He mixed in various plot lines from Austrian, Norwegian and German sagas, and set about moulding them into a coherent dramatic whole. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Daddy said, just as cheery, “Good idea! Isabella, would you check to see if we have pancake mix?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

All I could really figure was my mother had been mixed up with the Catholics somehow, and—I have to say—this secretly thrilled me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Helms didn’t speak openly about race mixing, but instead warned about threats to the Southern way of life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when I’m in the car, I know for sure, cuz I find a piece of paper mixed in with the money we split. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

"Here are my yellow roses," she said, "but they're all mixed up with some lousy iris." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I completely miss one of Cala’s pitches because I mix up the fastball and changeup signals...which gives the Red Devil on third base the perfect opportunity to steal home. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, and South African Christianity is a perfect example of this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s one of the teachers in the yeshiva. My father sends him along to make sure we don’t mix too much with the apikorsim.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even their scent was a perfect mix—combining the crisp freshness of a petunia with a pansy’s delicate richness, creating a cool, clean aroma that was both invigorating and calming at once. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I mix up her summer with my own. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see what happens if you start mixing them together, a little bit at a time.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On his orders, and with the help of 375 pounds of explosives, the buildings of Murphy Homes were brought down in twenty seconds and soon replaced with mixed- income housing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He is a country boy not used to the city temptations, and I do not want him getting mixed up with the wrong people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is a wolf-like, white German shepherd, and the other is a much smaller mixed breed. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He mixed the cement and troweled over the hole. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But something else entered the mix, a thought Paul Tibbets would never forget. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears mix with the food in my mouth; my heart falls to my stomach when all the eight grains are gone and I see that the others are still eating theirs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I measured and poured and pinched and mixed until the batter was done. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My emotions are all mixed up and jumbled inside. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The gathering was large and mixed, as Frodo discovered, when his eyes got used to the light. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were faces mixed in—FDR, Hitler, Stalin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The smells of hot dogs and cotton candy mixed with the ripe scent of the animals. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Karen gets a mix of applause and boos as she returns to her seat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Although Sam knows a little Spanish, he rarely understands Chucha, who has a tendency to mumble and mix in Haitian words with her Spanish. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mix Greek and Roman, and you know what you get? You get BAM!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Disputes here, they had noticed, generally led to fistfights that poured out into B Street, and it wasn’t unheard of for knives and guns to come into the mix. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Again I was overwhelmed with those mixed feelings. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the flames parted and I saw the blood of Narciso flow into the river and mix with the blood of Lupito. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gulliver stopped chirping, a strange sound filled the well—a wail mixed with a gasp and a hiccup. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her blue eyes fill with a mix between Are you crazy? and something very close to care. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“If Fab doesn’t think it’s a good idea, then I’m not getting mixed up with no bad juju.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Howard worked at Clovis for four years, each time staffing the field crews with a mix of sunburned locals in boots and jeans and well-tailored Ivy League college students on vacation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘But I does do my best. And I is not nearly as mixed up as the other giants. I know one who gallops all the way to Wellington for his supper.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought out a bag of trail mix and passed it to Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up front there were two balsam trees, and their scent mixed with the waxy smell of the candles. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He lit the kerosene stove and mixed Baby’s pap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe, or perhaps, he concedes, he just mixed up the different locations, given everything on his mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Anticipation tugged at Jesper, a fizzing mix of fear and excitement that made it hard for him to sit still. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The paint must’ve been mixed with Celestial bronze dust or something, because as soon as it splattered the hellhound, the monster yelped and dissolved into a pink-and-black puddle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The wildest envy was mixed with his rage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of Snow’s roses mixed with the victims’ blood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They got all mixed up in her head, and finally she could not literally believe her eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When at last he reached the point where the path leveled out, he fell hard onto his face, the dirt mixing with his tears. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Other instruments may be a mix of absolute and indefinite ranges. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He heard the man’s heavy breathing mixed with his own, the solid thumps of their feet pounding the steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, his voice echoed and re-echoed and reechoed again, mixing its sound with the buzz of activity all around them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d just mixed the batter that we’d dip the Oreos in, and now I was putting some confectioner’s sugar into a shaker. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If there are no tortillas, they try to fill their children’s bellies with a glass of water with a teaspoon of sugar mixed in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was a faint odor of carbolic acid mixed with Mennen’s talcum powder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, then, that the armies with which a prince defends his state are made up of his own troops, or mercenaries, or auxiliaries, or of mixed troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as she had all the years before: a quivering inside, as though a string under her ribs had been plucked, and a rush of joy and sadness mixed together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it was his comfort with racial mixing in social situations that really fanned the flames. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My mother never referred to my dad as white or to me as mixed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We also mix cow blood with the milk. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was mixing my prayers, but it didn’t matter. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loaded Auk I with the black-powder/postage-stamp-glue slurry mix, inserted a pencil through the nozzle, and then left the rocket to dry under the hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eighty members of the Husky marching band led the procession up Second Avenue and Pike Street as confetti and scraps of paper mixed with a steady, cold rain drifting down from clouds high above. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As they talked, they mixed and tasted the chocolate pudding. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Knitting supplies were mixed with quilting supplies, a scissors display was smack in the middle of a rack of corduroy, and the aisles turned and twisted rather than running in straight lines. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mix much with the Hasidim, but the extent to which they revered Danny was obvious to everyone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One wall is a grocery store, where coffee, canned soups, bread, and pancake mixes are stacked on shelves. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top half foot was filled with a mix of two-thirds sulfur and one-third zinc, tests demonstrating that it produced a slow-burning oily smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were both mixed up with the conservative ethics of Force Majeur against which the King had started his crusade. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We emptied the capsules, ground the tablets, and mixed them together. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The chimp sits on his haunches, eating fistfuls of cereal mixed with fruit and watching us with shiny black eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And the principal foundations of all states, the new as well as the old or the mixed, are good laws and good armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

We mixed them together and fed our plant. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The charcoal from the cedar she would keep to mix with pine pitch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

This mix of letters and pictographs caused some grief for earlier interpreters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘For the moment please listen carefully. Here is the dream I want you to mix. Are you paying attention?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of a bonfire mixes with the caramel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So in a land which nature found suited to grass growing mixed with and under the shelter of sage, it is now proposed to eliminate the sage and create unbroken grassland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A few campers were already making their way toward the hill, satyrs and nymphs and heroes in a weird mix of armor and pajamas. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put her up on the counter and crush up a little pink pill, mix it with some applesauce and feed her the spoonful. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Not one person in the exotic mix of my family gene pool has ever shown any obvious signs of having what August has. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His expression was a mix of What do you think you’re doing? and It’s time for me to eat a peanut. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We don't know how to curse, when we try to put bad words together they sound strange like new babies trying to talk and mixing up their sounds. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She mixed the cocoa powder with a little sugar and poured in the hot milk, making some for herself as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

These stations, with funding from South Korea, the United States, and Japan, mix Asian and world news with sharply critical coverage of North Korea and the Kim dynasty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

No need to mix them up with the present. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Charlie was such a strange sort of attractive, it was hard to explain—I felt a mix of wanting to kill him and wanting to kiss him at the same time. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"You spent all your money on mix for your Lemonade-on-Wheels stand?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

And she mixes up he and she a lot because in her language there is no he or she. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd was much larger than we’d expected, an even mix of Koreans, blacks, Hispanics. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I toss some frozen blueberries into the mix. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The sad mixed with the sweet and set a warm feeling in my stomach. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And at Maryvale, the kids were mixed up and hanging out together. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had plenty left over after buying five cans of frozen lemonade mix with his earnings from yesterday. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when a bunch of tules and reeds and grasses mixed and blew and waved, I was terrified that it was she, that she was carrying them or parting them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I’ve had time to mull it over, I see they’ve got enough problems without adding me into the mix. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Like peanut butter and pickles, they didn’t mix. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She would save old grease and mix it with lye and water to make dishwashing soap. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I turn to look back at the garden and see Suraya, Ayesha, and the others looking at me with a mix of confusion and fear on their faces. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“You must have had mixed feelings, there on the ground.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses on Warren Street were a mix; some were modest, two or three were rather grand, with arches over the windows and fancy boot scrapers by the front door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the ideal mix was found, it was going to be every man for himself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the dialogues he wrote he describes himself as mixing with the elite of English society, but he later claimed this was fiction not fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“One useless six-pack of water,” Alex said, “a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, two cans of tuna, and a box of Wheaties. What else do you have in real food?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m so scared. My thinking gets all mixed up, and I feel like the whole world is falling on me.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There are a few colored folks mixed in with the group, but they mostly look white, scarily nondescript and similar in that way shamblers get when they’ve been not-dead for a while. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"It's more immediate with yours than your sisters', or even Arabella's. Even with only a few drops of their blood mixed with yours, I can see what they do." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Wes was intensely attracted to this short woman with a broad smile who mixed a steel backbone with Caribbean charm. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

James has his hand under my elbow as support, and is jabbering a mix of garbled concern. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I took my ingredients to school and got ready to measure and mix. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I recognized the tune he was playing: the ’88 remix of New Order’s “Blue Monday,” with a lot of Star Wars droid sound samples mixed in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to cover herself more fully and met with mixed success, pulling the sheet up to her neck in exchange for exposing a scandalous amount of long, shapely leg. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

East Texas clay mixes with plaster dust from the school; red sludge sucks at the soles of work boots. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we shouldn’t mix these in the classroom without knowing what’s going to happen,” he said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think she will confess to showing humans the Book. In any case, I mixed a slight amnesiac into her second injection. When she finally wakes up, the last week will be a blur.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The thing was, the races didn’t really mix in Little Rock, not in the bathrooms of department stores, nor in the water of the swimming pools. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swapping of genetic information between paired chromosomes is crucial to the mixing and matching of hereditary information between parents. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“B. cepacia thrives best in saliva or phlegm. A cough can travel six feet. A sneeze can travel up to two hundred miles per hour, so don’t let one fly in mixed company.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The walls are a deep blue, the covers on his bed are a plaid mix of blues. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Make four bundles tie them with yucca spruce mixed with charcoal from burned weeds snakeweed and gramma grass and rock sage. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Americans of mixed ethnicity will become the majority in the near future. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He knew everything about building houses, he knew how to mix mud and straw just right to make strong adobes that would not crumble. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do all this on 100 acres of pasture mixed in with another 450 acres of forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Thick and numbing, like an animal’s den, a mix of blood and scorched hair and excrement and the sweet-sour odor of moldering flesh—the stink of the kill. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo heard her and once again felt that mix of sadness and anger that her mother would always put her husband before her children. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

REELTOK: Free speech applies to everybody, even people who are mixed up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He saw me mixing songs on my computer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I could see a mixed group, girls and boys, taking turns shooting the ball at a big, tall girl in the goal. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the notice had advertised that the first day of the convention was for women only, about forty men were mixed in with the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And she picked her words as one picks flowers in a mixed garden and took her time choosing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room smelled of metal shavings mixed with whatever grease was used in the lathes and other implements that I never learned to use. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Principal Miller says you were mixed up in all this. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was a child’s fingerpainting, blue and black hastily mixed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry! I didn’t invite you to those, either. I’m not good at mixing my friend groups! But I’ll get better next year, I promise.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When bits of shell slip in, the sound is like gravel mixed with porcelain. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It smells like fudge,” she said when she caught a whiff of the mix. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His socks poke out of his flip-flops, and he shoves huge spoonfuls of cereal into his mouth from a mixing bowl. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A mix of neighbors, teachers, and kids that had a study hall or two with him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am back in the bathroom mixing the tooth powder and water in the palm of my hand. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sold a mix of used and new books. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“To make sure my blood wasn’t too mixed. Can't catch a break for being a half-breed, any way you look at it.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a weird mix, everything from white-collar criminals to guys picked up on traffic stops to real, hardcore criminals covered with prison tattoos. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t come here to get mixed up in a fight with a lot of roughs like you! Let’s hear the rest of the story.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students had gathered on the hockey field nearby, burning paper effigies of Gowon around a glowing bonfire; the smoke curled into the night air and mixed with their laughter and chatter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“As for the whole drug thing, there’s no need to waste precious time. Really. Unless cigarettes count. Drugs and me? Not a good mix. Believe me, I’ve tried.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, Trey’s feet get tangled, mixed up, and he falls backward. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the monkeys that were dying in Room H had become essentially a heap of mush and bones in a skin bag, mixed with huge amounts of amplified virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Styx was a mix of disappointed and relieved. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows and eyelashes were near invisible, and her eyes a mix of pewter and blue. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osh, mixing paints inside, glanced up and said, “About time you came home.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The invited people from Vocational were mixed with the neighborhood gang. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was mixed up with religion and witch doctors. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter gave us green beans and this thing with meat and potatoes all mixed together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Minister Fard, he mixed, too. Let me show you what we need.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the spring the tall grass grew along its sides— wild oats and mallow weeds and yellow mustard mixed in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A bag of salt was sent for from the kitchen to be mixed into a solution that would be applied to the prisoners' legs and partially shaved head. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She helped herself to white meat and gravy and grits and a few raisins and mixed them up together on her plate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘It is a little bit like mixing a cake,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times a day, the guerrillas would stop to rest, and dip into a dirty cloth bag holding cooked rice mixed with some kind of fish or meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Yes. You couldn't tell how English would mix with each other, anyway." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As I read his small cramped words explaining why he had disappeared, I felt a crazy mix of relieved and confused. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He gave up on milking and set the mixing bowl aside. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He mixed the margarine for Portia and scrubbed the floor upstairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers around the base of the rocket, studied carefully the soldered washer, sniffed speculatively at the cured black-powder mix. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I feel an odd mix of disgust and sympathy for her as I realize that this is the closest she'll ever come to relating to me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The water was a beautiful turquoise, a color it took Ivy at least thirty minutes to get right, mixing the blues and greens until it was perfect. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first mixed gatherings I had ever attended, and I was far more of an observer than a participant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Reggie lost the next game through a mix of unforced errors and weak backhands. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And so, horrified, my grandmother had resumed an activity at which she had tried her hand once before, with decidedly mixed results. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They mix together into a confusing sludge of familiar and strange faces, something that sounds like Tess's laughter, something else that sounds like June's voice. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Wun Wun was very little like the giants in Old Nan’s tales, those huge savage creatures who mixed blood into their morning porridge and devoured whole bulls, hair and hide and horns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry was mixing up a pitcher of cherry Kool-Aid, the kids’ favorite. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Talk about mixed signals; he’s like a roller coaster that talks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“And in which direction are you going?” asked the doctor, mixing another brew. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In racially mixed open-air drug markets, black dealers were far more likely to be arrested than whites, even though white dealers were present and visible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Much is made of the inability of the wildness of nature to blend into and mix with what man has done to the world. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On other days, just to mix things up, he worked Seabiscuit in the morning under his own name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clay, mixed with enough water to be semiliquid: the potters called it “slip.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

While Oppie was alone mixing martinis in the kitchen, Chevalier walked in on him to communicate an extraordinary offer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some ugly patches mixed in here and there but, overall, it was shaping up to look like a mismatched jumble of better than perfect. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The audience was mixed, their claims broader than race. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting mixed up by the photographer seemed to be the last straw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Scientists knew they had to keep their cultures free from bacterial and viral contamination, and they knew it was possible for cells to contaminate one another if they got mixed up in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, history’s most tragic result of a mixed, therefore diluted and weakened, ethnic identity has been experienced by a white ethnic group—the Jew in Germany. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, there’s barely enough milk for both of us, so I mix some faucet water in the jug when Charlie’s not looking and shake it up real good. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Z tossed a handful of chopped cherries into the mix. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw blood mixed with the baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened my mouth, the sharp smell from the gun firing mixed with the smoke coming from the cabin, and I swallowed it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But I had a massive hard drive stuffed with MP3s, which is why Sizwe was excited when he saw me mixing—he saw a way to corner the market. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When they were soft and transparent, I mixed them with flour to make a poultice and put the whole mess on Perilee’s chest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Vincent had to get out of my way in order for me to reach inside the mixing bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The medical 02 tank mixes pure oxygen with surrounding air, then feeds it to you through a mask. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been mixing speeds and trajectories the whole time Brayden, Ernesto, and I have been out here, but so far, I’ve chased down every ball, and I’m chasing down this one, too. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

We were used to pilfered beers or vodka mixed with whatever juice was in our friends' pantries. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And in the mix of it all, the people of my ’hood are hustling. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Gunshot mixed with its memory in the picnic grove. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘Shucks. You got it mixed up,’ she said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“How could they? You don’t get your brother mixed up when he’s playing with other children.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain did not mix freely and was not comfortable in conversation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It tastes like I mixed in a handful of coins.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The masses were told to make toibee, a fertilizer in which ash is mixed with human excrement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Since the satellite TV was up again, Coach Hedge was in his cabin happily catching up on his mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sharp, sweet smell of rotting apples mixes with the scent of wet earth in my nose. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twin trails of black mascara, mixed with tears, had rolled down his cheeks, smeared the rouge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You two never saw West Side Story? Tony and Maria. The Sharks and the Jets. Two gangs. Can’t mix. Boy from one gang falls in love with girl from other gang.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I move closer and sink onto a plastic chair, a little disappointed there’s no explosion, but mostly amazed that you can mix together simple, innocent kitchen ingredients and come up with a frothing volcano. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Joke’s on you. Maybe she’ll zone out and accidentally mix sodium phosphide with water and kill us all with phosphine gas.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And then for hours after school each day he makes potions, mixing chemicals that stink up the house, causing sparks to fly from shaved bits of iron, puffs of smoke to pop from strange-colored liquids. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

We also added celebrations of dance and other arts to the mix, bringing in emerging artists to showcase new work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were very busy with the animal in the fire, pulling it to pieces now and mixing it with something steaming in a pot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I suggest our mixed assortment of artificial crawling and flying bugs of all types including—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And if they were all drinking from paper cups, she always knew whose was whose even if they got mixed up on the table together. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"It was fashioned of cat's breath and fish-scales and moonlight mixed in with the silver," she told him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were even other Muslim students in the mix, so I didn’t stand out at all. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There Telemakhos and the two herdsmen were already carving roast young pork, and mixing amber wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pungent fumes of kerosene smoke mixed with the aroma of curry and nutmeg from the kitchen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The gelatin sometimes proved tricky, depending on how and when it had been mixed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he glances around, and then you see that his lips are smeared with something slippery and red, mixed with black specks, as if he has been chewing coffee grounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could perhaps mix some sea water with his fresh water, but I had to procure more fresh water to start with. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I ever stopped laughing, and in the mix of my laughter and the music I was sure I heard the whinnies of the horses, joyful to be moving again. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Lady Catherine continued her remarks on Elizabeth’s performance, mixing with them many instructions on execution and taste. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

A bricklayer, his father takes Enrique to work and lets him help mix mortar. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Though tanned from the sun, Jorge wasn’t Indian or mestizo, a mixed blood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was with extremely mixed emotions that she read a letter from Mr. Henri Martin describing the illness of her grandmother, and suggesting she come down right away. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

George noticed that she mixed with quiet efficiency, holding her whisking arm tight to her body. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

If low-key meant pumping music, throngs of people sipping on beer or mixed drinks, and clouds of smoke hanging in the air, then that’s exactly what it was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As her knife moved nimbly over the wood, shavings drifted down the steps, mixing in with Tiller’s wood chips. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It works like the warm-up, except that now I’m going to mix two entirely separate categories together. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

All along the way, Mark Antony took the opportunity to collect gifts, tributes, and revenues and happily mixed business with pleasure. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Pontonoos mixed the honey-hearted wine and went from chair to chair, filling the cups; then each man where he sat poured out his offering to the gods in bliss who own the sweep of heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Barth explained how the exploding "coal" could be mixed in with the real coal, which would unwittingly be tossed into the furnace. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When the maids trod in the puddles on the floor, they made a slashing noise, and from the next room there was whispering mixed with the secret noise of silk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dipped three fingers in the cake mix, and while staring Travis’s mother dead in the eye, sucked them clean and then stuck his fingers back in the bowl for a second helping. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Everything was messed up, a bigger mess than before, and she felt all mixed up with fear and anger. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I climb out of the truck, my dread mixed with curiosity. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,’ said Denethor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The first time I kept falling off the bars, mixing up my skills on the beam, and doing little hops on landing from my tumbling passes on the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dismayed by the play’s mixed reception, left Russia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The special bird mix Violet prepared didn’t help either. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sounded like a great idea, so I started making mix CDs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was mixing me up with someone else who worked at Wal-Mart, she explained, someone who had been in just a few days ago. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy rubbed his eyes with his dirty hands and mixed dust with tears. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Labels got torn off and mixed, and quarrels broke out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon he built a mold, mixed his concrete confidently, and poured his bird bath. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us an hour to get to white church, another forty-five minutes to get to mixed church, and another forty-five minutes to drive out to Soweto for black church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We can no longer afford to eat plain rice but have to mix it with mushrooms, banana stocks, and other leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their every word seemed to be mixed with merriness; their laughter pushed her toward the cheerful yellow patch in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He sat at his desk, eating oatmeal, the instant kind you mix with boiling water and eat out of a cardboard cup. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

God forgive me, but I wish there wasn’t a “we” mixed up in this. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I made a big bowl of this, mixing it with water, and put it in the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly mix a bowl of rice into the spicy tofu soup my mom made and gulp it down. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s blood now,” Abel whispered when the priest raised the chalice with the wine, and his thin voice mixed mysteriously into the ringing altar bell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bully snickered, a short burst of laughter mixed with a phlegm-filled snort. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sosie watched her go, feeling a terrible mix of relief and regret. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered, with a sick feeling, having tried to impress upon Henry how dangerous these were when mixed with liquor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sympathy lamps were mixed with candles, giving the room a natural light without fouling the air with smoke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights before, I had mixed up some Missouri River mud. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The cups and lemonade mix had cost nine dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They wore a bizarre mix of plumed Roman helmets, breastplates, scabbards, blue jeans, purple T-shirts, and white athletic shoes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His face was a strange mix of proud and wistful. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A mix of mumbles and sporadic clapping fills the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They spread ringed hands and mixed the ivory tiles click-clack for the next hemp-bird game. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cool fear, mixed with an intense curiosity, gripped him, and he had to remind himself to breathe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Except now it was mixed with wood and metal and a sort of cloudy scent, like spring had caught a cold. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd sounds were close enough for me to hear individual voices mixed with the noise of horses’ hooves and creaking wooden wheels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were women and men and children, all with the same crazed expression of rage mixed with glee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From the mix of green leaves and stems, a cow can easily pick out a tuft of emerald green clover next to a spray of bluish green fescue. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As she marched back up the path, dragging the squawking Loo behind her, Jinny found herself filled with a mix of feelings. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It had been new to her in summer, and now, with the cold, it was mixed with spits of ice, and who was to guess what might follow! Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They moored her stern by the stout hawser lines, tossed out the bow stones, and waded in beyond the wash of ripples to mix their wine and cook their morning meal. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His expression was a strange mix of frustration and defiance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In his speeches he managed a clever mix of pertinent local issues and grand Maoist rhetoric, which sounded even grander in Malayalam. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As leftover tears from earlier in the day mix with the water I splash on my face, I regret hearing a word of their conversation. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We didn't mix well with the other kids and stuck together mostly by default. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Left ... left ... snap it out... drive in ... mix it up . . . don't let 'im get away, Alfred . . . press Angel kept slipping Alfred's jab. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A real mix, it seemed, of people with loud, noisy kids on vacation, and quiet, well-dressed business types. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not like his friend, Asher, who talked too fast and mixed things up, scrambling words and phrases until they were barely recognizable and often very funny. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The table held more pill bottles than ever—Selestone for his asthma, Ativan to help him sleep, naproxen for pain—along with a powdered milk mix and laxatives. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down and dug into his backpack for the trail mix of nuts, raisins, and chocolate that Nali had packed for him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He married my mother, a white Jewish woman, when she had eight mixed- race black children, me being the youngest at less than a year old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about Beecher not being an inclusion school. That’s a type of school that mixes normal kids with kids with special needs.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I spent that weekend in a slushy mix of anxiety about the country’s instability and delight at watching Otto fill out into a handsome young bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mix of shame for having gone back to the law of the streets mixed with rage—“I could have you arrested!” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had lots of time to cook and try mixing different plants with different meats to make things taste better— and I must say I originated some excellent meals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She considered Ophie for a moment, then said, “Child, what are you mixed up in?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

At its peak, some 20,000 to 30,000 people lived in Palmares, following laws and customs in which beliefs brought over directly from Africa mixed with Native American and European practices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I could hear Momma’s voice getting farther and farther away as I imagined I was in the story until finally her voice and the story all mixed into one. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The storm was loud now, just like her crying, and Ivy thought she heard her name all mixed up with the wind, like it really was making them one. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don’t mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya mixed potions and salves for people all over the village, but she never wanted anyone to know she was the one making them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Why would she ever get mixed up in a major art theft? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They cut my black hair with rusty scissors and mixed the hair with the blood of bats. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange noises filled the night, mixed in with the steady roar of the fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Cloke, how on earth did you get mixed up in something like this?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I could make you a cake. Have to be hotcake mix because that’s what I have. Plenty of syrup and a candle on top.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew or understood the chemical structure of chromatin, but of the two “intimately mixed” components, proteins were vastly more familiar to biologists, vastly more versatile, and vastly more likely to be gene carriers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“That was brick dust mixed with something special: graveyard dirt.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Blood ran from the wound, mixing with dirt and small bits of bark. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I was all mixed up with how I was supposed to feel. No. I did not love him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nana’s forgetfulness was cute at first—she’d call us by the wrong names, mix up our birthdays, send us Christmas cards in the middle of summer—but it isn’t cute anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I wish Martín didn’t wear Mira Bro. It’s nasty, smelling that deodorant mixed with food and dirty plates for five hours.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We slapped our hands together as hard as we could and got our slobs mixed up real good, then waved them in the air so they’d dry. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We watched it once and then we watched it again with the reels mixed up, just to be different. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods only knew who they were conspiring with, or what they had mixed in those potions they gave you. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Marian’s grammar school, like her neighborhood, was racially mixed, with black students and white students, but all the teachers were white. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“One day, I’m tending sheep. The next, I’m mixed up with a madman.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Those powders wouldn’t be so mixed up if they had other powder friends to mix with. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rooms were set aside for bookbinding and herb mixing and broadsword training and hand-to-hand combat practice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Small guy, just wanted to tag along, be in the mix. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney pots into interminable distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I mix in some sarcasm, too, so I get the full value I have coming to me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“All-father. You and I mixed our blood long, long ago, did we not?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bodies swirled around me, and I inhaled the wonderful intoxicating aroma of sweat and perfume all mixed up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dug through the food for a box of cold cereal, retrieved a jug of water, then mixed some powdered milk and began to eat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With mixed emotions the crew watched England’s shores slip away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It’s Muhammad’s snorts and someone else’s hoots mixed with Dad’s big belly laugh. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We sat in the cab of his dad’s dump truck and tore open the bags: beef stew, applesauce, shrink-wrapped crackers, little packets of strawberry jam, iced-tea mix, and hot chocolate. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It's like something dead and rotting mixed with lots of dirty stuff and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I poured some of my milk into it so it wouldn’t be so lumpy and mixed it all together. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a biracial family, the kids exhibited an eclectic mix of physical characteristics and loved comparing which traits they got from what parent. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In less than an hour, the men are heaving their buckets of mixed rocks back into their truck. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He is comforted by the talc smell of her housedresses mixed with the sunbaked smell of her skin, the perfumy smell of her party dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It starts gnawing on his heart, and gets all mixed up in his dreams. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned in closer, picking up on a strange mix of sadness, guilt, and something else that seemed to be seeping through his pores. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Instead she mixed earth and day and welded the crack and heated it slowly and it was as good as new. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

‘And you could mix them all up just as I want you to?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their social adventures had been mixed, but familiar. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lab mix in kennel 8 has been at the shelter the longest, 18 days, but should be adopted between 16 and 20 days. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suffering from a miserable mix of dysentery, headaches, and dizziness, Alvarez quickly slipped from 165 pounds to 135. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Tears ran down over his face and mixed with the blood on his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was almost as boring as watching my mother get her face powder mixed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Naomi sniffed, but all she could smell was the tang of cologne mixed with sweat coming off of the letterman jacket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dill handed over a battered package of off-brand yellow cake mix that he appeared to have snagged from work for free. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“We all mixed. And one of my mother sisters converted to Puerto Rican.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They went as far as they could to the place where no human could go beyond, and his little footprints were mixed in with bear tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Point to my brother to include him in the mix. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back to yesterday’s confession and about the mixed feelings that the revealing of my thoughts had left in me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You think too much, you get mixed up. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed and poured his offering, repeating prayers to Athena, daughter of royal Zeus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowsby Woof was quiet and dejected and did not even notice the smell of rabbit, which anyway was all mixed up with the smell of the fire and the larder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ambled over to the bar and set out three glasses and a silver ice bucket and a big pitcher and began to mix drinks from several different bottles. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I broke some bread into a bowl, poured milk mixed with sagebrush tea over it, and fed her tiny bits. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And I sure didn’t want to get mixed up in this. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jon had enough to contend with just now without adding a drunken giant to the mix. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Say what again? You mean that it sounds all mixed up to me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There are bits of grass mixed in with the mud bricks to hold it together, and the wall is at least half as wide as it is tall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The freshman time trials were improving again as Bolles finally seemed to be zeroing in on the right mix of boys and seating assignments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That impulse that Vincent has had all along to play with forms, to mix media, to be bold—it’s affirmed. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Our food is bad and mixed up with so much substitute stuff that it makes us ill. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the weird squishy sound the macaroni made as we mixed the cheese in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You of all people should know that. I thought it was great. I love what you guys did with it, mixing the old and the new.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what, Dobby — here you go — take these two, and you can mix them up properly. And here’s your sweater.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I am in my own personal happy jet—in a wide seat and with the perfect mix of cool and warm air and the little pillow positioned perfectly in my lumbar region. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And after its initial unanimous decision, the Supreme Court also sent mixed signals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Easily able to stand up to standard-sized chickens in mixed flocks. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

So I listened to his ideas about choreography, the songs he wanted to mix for the music, which beats were best for which power moves. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

First, when Martian soil was mixed with a sterile organic soup from Earth, something in the soil chemically broke down the soup—almost as if there were respiring microbes metabolizing a food package from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along about the Atlantic Ocean, the six pairs of underwear and cake mixes all commenced to be a considerable cross to bear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could this mix of motivation also affect the stories they tell? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They trekked through the inhospitable growth, breathing in gelatin-thick humidity mixed with soot and smoke. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When the meal comes, I realize that an Arnold Palmer is some weird name for lemonade and iced tea mixed together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, and when she returns to the States, she'll find herself suddenly going blank over some word in English or, like her mother, mixing up some common phrase. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The others went in for white bread and gravy mix sandwiches, lukewarm baked beans, pies made from cardboard and glue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not recommend,” he says, “mixing morphine with Beaujolais.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He gradually began to talk, but he was mixed up about where he was and what had happened. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With that she took a great quantity of the smallest of the seeds, wheat and poppy and millet and so on, and mixed them all together in a heap. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you didn’t look special. You looked like a girl trying too hard. And I know there’s a boy mixed up in here somewhere.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Colored people are a hybrid, a complete mix. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow I felt mixed up in their wickedness, mixed up and not knowing how to get out of it Ruthanne took a deep breath, ready to change the subject. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

No wonder his voice had sounded so mixed when he congratulated me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I had mixed feelings about the project at the beginning. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In our hurried, twenty-first-century way of life, we find the idea of musical collage - the mix, the remix, the iPod shuffle and the mash-up - familiar and unthreatening. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The kids who played cricket were a mix. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The boys had left a slimy mess of peanut butter, Doritos, and—yes—sticky puddles of lemonade mix. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

His parents grew angry when he missed questions—which he began to do more and more, as he tended to get mixed up when nervous—and scolded him for not caring about them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s not your friend. A Hillburn usually has better sense than getting mixed up with people like these.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She spent each contented night by the fire, learning from her gran to prepare and mix remedies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nonsense, so much nonsense the memory cooks up, mixing up facts, putting in a little of this and a little of that. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often took constitutionals with his dog, Spiro, an old gray-and- white shepherd mix that limped devotedly behind him on stiff arthritic hips. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They exchange presents: she gives him a small used book of drawings by Goya, and he gives her a pair of blue woolen mittens and a mixed tape of his favorite Beatles songs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because they shouldn’t be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That night there came from the farmhouse the sound of loud singing, in which, to everyone’s surprise, the strains of Beasts of England were mixed up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Mom was in the kitchen when I went downstairs this morning, sifting flour into a mixing bowl. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Inside was a tray filled with a wet gray sludge from the roof mixed with a compost of dead leaves and twigs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

These mixes of codes and ciphers were a headache to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This time, there's a dragging sound mixed in with the crisp march of the soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie bowed his head and answered, “Well, yeah. Besides, Brucie has trouble keeping straight the jacks, queens, and kings. He gets mixed up.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dirty” cars, which hadn’t yet been cleansed of graffiti, were never to be mixed with “clean” cars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mixed up the grape juice at the sink. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Before play began, there were mixed emotions, conflicting speculations, and assorted reactions throughout the chess world concerning the match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looks a mix of surprised and ashamed. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Pair an intrusive, usually ignorant, and often suspicious press corps with an intensely private trainer, and you have a volatile mix. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rumor was she'd mix that tobacco slime with Brutus's food. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Barry had worked for three hours on those flames, mixing orange and red and yellow with a bit of blue until they looked like they would burn your fingers if you touched them. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He already had prepared two big slabs of skillet bread—just flour mixed with water. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt a funny mix of embarrassment and pride as my father paraded through the narrow street, boasting of my faraway friend. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time, adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Modern data encryption uses a mix of the two techniques, allowing us to send messages and do business safely on our phones and computers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we’re from, and being a good pilot and coming from a high-power distance culture is a difficult mix. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Another time, I mix my palette with peachy tones and I’m reminded of the color in her room. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The mattress was thin and clean, and it smelled of sage and cinnamon mixed with Doc’s peach tobacco. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nokomis and Mama mixed up some water with the thin paste of acorn flour left from the night before. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The wind raised up brown clouds of dirt from the perimeter road and mixed them with the black clouds of the muck fire. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For lunch she ate two pieces of toast with chocolate-hazelnut spread and drank protein powder mixed with orange juice. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Aboard Freedom, not only could there be perfect mixing, but gas bubbles could be distributed evenly throughout, making a kind of Swiss cheese, or foam-metal alloy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winds slant sideways, crushing raindrops mixed with sea spray against the glass panes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The noise was coming from the woods to the East, and soon there was a noise of horse-hoofs mixed with it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“My father was very old and often mixed dreams with reality,” the king said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandparents Hiddle were my fathers parents, full up to the tops of their heads with goodness and sweetness, and mixed in with all that goodness and sweetness was a large dash of peculiarity. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Presently he brought them cups of beechwood and an earthenware mixing bowl which held some wine very like vinegar, plentifully diluted with water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But doing this would require millions of neutralization tests, which involved mixing blood serum from newly vaccinated children with live poliovirus and cells in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was filled with a mix of rapt admiration and abject fear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re too smart to get mixed up in anything like that. And I told them, too.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Seeing them, all that easy happiness, made me feel mixed up inside. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I stared at the Sacred Rock, my tears mixing with the rain as they streamed down my cheeks, one smooth, one still hideously scarred. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“She told us she had a mixed flock and some went missing....” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I mixed the moonshine into a zinc-and-sulfur compound and was rewarded with a thick gray composite that could be shaped like modeling clay. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Pure mathematics deals in proofs and demonstrations; mixed in phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Traveling around the world today, I meet other mixed South Africans all the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dimple took a deep breath, acrid smog and wet mist and herby eucalyptus all mixing together in her lungs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She came back with a box of pancake mix, eggs, and a small carton of milk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She thought it was easier to pour hot water over disgusting powder mix. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

At break, as the only mixed kid out of a thousand, I faced the same predicament I had on the playground at H. A. Jack: Where was I supposed to go? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ann marched home, still trembling, but now her outrage was mixed with fear and uncertainty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The metal of the chains was the strongest metal that the gods could find: iron from the earth mixed with iron that had fallen from the sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the mix Mrs. Hidalgo had made for me and put on my headphones, turning the volume up loud, the only way to listen to punk rock. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The next two days were a blur of mixing, cutting, hunting, and a whole lot of guessing as we tried to coax Quinby to eat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I’m hit with a wave of the most awful stench, like bleach mixed with snot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looks mixed, too, with dark skin and dark eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s a Chihuahua mix in the 2nd kennel on top. I think his name is Marty.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The Biafrans are mixing up food and guns in their planes, anyway,” the redhead said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, he and Celia mixed the two languages together, but it didn’t matter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the numbers mixed themselves up in her brain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is a bit mixed up in my brain. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It was like rotten eggs and burning plastic mixed together. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe things got mixed up. Perhaps the governor had them there to keep peace, and they mixed up their orders,” Grandma mused. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he had mixed feelings about the new crab regulations because of what he said the other night when he got that message from Tink Bosley. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The answer came with the sound—an almost quiet moan mixed with a sharp tinkling that he realized was the wind pushing water spray ahead of it in a kind of horizontal frothy rain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were an unusual mix of blue and brown, and together they made a kind of gray. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then it was over, dead, and when he asked me how to get to Centre Street, I regarded him with mixed feelings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often wondered whether she was a person of mixed parentage. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a laugh, with just a little bit of a snort mixed with it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed the girl on her forehead and neck in her restless slumber with two kinds of feeling mixed up in those kisses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like a mix between a brussel sprout and some kind of weird star plant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had opened a can of mixed vegetables for her, and then spoon-fed her, so she wouldn’t have to take out her arms. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This morning I began sorting out an index card file from the office, because it’d fallen over and gotten all mixed up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But when he mixed the dead material from the virulent strain with live bacteria of the nonvirulent strain, the mice died rapidly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Then that’ll be good. He can deal with whatever it is. I don’t want to get mixed up with no walking dolls.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a day of this, I opened it to dispose of the stuff at a roadside garbage can and found the most thoroughly mixed and kneaded garbage I have ever seen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa half dragged her to where his wife was mixing batter for cheesy bread. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The woman who'd let us in was mixing drinks behind a handsome free-form bar which was large enough to have graced a night club. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here in borghese?” the barman asked after he had mixed a second martini. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed in no hurry to go elsewhere or to talk, and as the slow-motion bartender mixed our drinks I puzzled vainly as to why he had brought me here. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Small Islanders eager to say their ancestry is “mixed”? But we must not digress. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He mixed them together with a long spoon until the mixture was no longer the pale amber color of the whiskey and looked like water instead. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then there is a chorus of “Eew” and “Oh, gross” and “Disgusting,” all mixed in with laughter. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the version I tell, she’s a mix, like Mithridates who drank all that poison so it wouldn’t hurt him while he was exiled, and then returned and killed everyone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And here was my mother, his tribal enemy, a Xhosa woman alone with two small children—one of them a mixed child, no less. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’s got a few gray streaks mixed in with her long brown hair, but I never think of her as old. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He passed a battery of Southern artillery, mixed Napoleons and Parrots, served by wagons stamped USA. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd is a mix of tourists who’ve wandered too far from Times Square and actual working New Yorkers wishing the tourists would just go back to Times Square. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed more human, but still somehow wrong, like they’d gotten the souls mixed up and put the wrong one back inside her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then you mix the blood with milk, more milk than blood. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mix a egg salad for Miss Leefolt and Baby Girl’s lunch, put them little pickles on the side to fancy it up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He started reading news reports about HeLa cells and the contamination problem and realized it would make a great story for Rolling Stone—the perfect mix of science and human interest. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The piney scent of a real Christmas tree mixed with the aroma of cinnamon from the gingerbread cookies reminded me of. . . nothing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Garcia’s expression is complicated, all mixed up with sadness, excitement, and dread. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bees buzzed through honeysuckle and jasmine, which filled the afternoon air with a dizzying mix of perfumes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But College Arthur and college parties don’t mix well. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The zinc-sulfur powder mix was too loose, I decided, probably because it had air pockets in it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We could mix the powder with water instead. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most New World fields thus came to be mixed gardens of many crops planted together, rather than monoculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She mixed salt with cold water and gently plastered the gritty mixture onto my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rupa’s next indoor task was to sift through a bag of uncooked rice from the market and pick out the small stones the vendors mixed in to make it weigh more. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It mixed up gladness, grief, and guilt into an intolerable brew. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That is, my father ate the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep mixed with oatmeal and boiled in a sheep stomach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

People on these farms and in the cities received the stories coming up from Georgia with mixed reactions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mist churns over the lake as the cold air from the east mixes with the west’s fading hot breath. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sweet scent of fabric softener mixes with the nostril-searing smell of bleach. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a older dude with black-and-gray hair on top of his head, mixed together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

On the side would be steamed asparagus and a spring mix salad from Earthbound Farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I probably imagined her or maybe I just dreamed of her and my memory is all mixed up, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The men played cards on a towel, undershirt, or blanket, and Nurse Duckett mixed the extra deck of cards, sitting with her back resting against a sand dune. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He’s white, of Irish background, and I’m brown, a mix of my Egyptian mother and Indian father. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Afterward they mixed the garbage into the mound, incorporating the celebration into the construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With the same reluctance to mix, the burden that bent her at all times and set her apart. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She picked at her pad thai with her chopsticks, mixing it up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Then you stir it 'til it disappears. After it's mixed you take this brush and paint out a sample on one of these." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We explode clouds of aerosol, mixed for good luck with deodorants, into our noses, mouths, underarms, privileged crannies—even into the intimate insides of our telephones. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How sweet water tastes even when mixed with soap. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

How could it be that bright fact and cloudy mystery were actually all mixed up, helter-skelter, together? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you don’t need help with mixing red velvet batter, or decorating the cupcakes?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered how in hell I’d got myself mixed up in a project that couldn’t be carried out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, a new batch is mixed up with trough water and set out moments before the rubes descend. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He took some wax, mixed it with iron filings and shaped it into a ball: when he had the mixture right it floated just below the surface of the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Bom in the Transvaal, of mixed parentage, Marks was a charismatic figure with a distinctive sense of humor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the bar of yellow soap was mixed up with the whole thing, she threw that in after the gun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the citrus from his hands and the lavender from Grandma’s walls were mixing together, at least in her head. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he wagged his tail so hard that he knocked some oranges off a display, and they went rolling everywhere, mixing in with the tomatoes and onions and green peppers. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I carve and Mr. Freeman mixes orange and red to get the right shade of sunrise. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took us two days: chopping candied fruit, mixing the cake by hand, and lining cake tins with cut-up brown paper bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Last night on the retreat we had heard that there had been many Germans in Italian uniforms mixing with the retreat in the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the familiar smell of diesel, bread, and kebab mixed with the stench from the nearby stream, where everyone dumped trash. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"There's nothing to get mixed up in. It's all over now." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He mixed flies from two “races” in the same cage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now, after several years in which to observe the effects of spraying, the Canadians find a mixed situation, but one that affords very little comfort to devotees of salmon fishing, provided spraying is continued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I have to get some work done. Can you help me mix concrete?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hernandez dumped a truckload of dirt in the driveway, and now they mixed it with peat moss before spreading it around the yard. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You mean the Amazons are a mix... Greek and Roman?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They stayed devoted to their Sunday night mixed doubles bowling league and were deeply involved in local politics—which were no less grubby than the politics they left behind in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mix with the more bothersome element on the plantation, and she knew that he sometimes went off with Frances, one of the housemaids. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A good orator will hope to have a command of all three—and will be capable where appropriate of mixing them up a bit in a single speech. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sun felt like a flame brought too close, and yet it was drizzling and the lukewarm raindrops mixed with her sweat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boom-bap of early hip- hop, still young and close to its Bronx roots, tumbled out of the apartment buildings, mixed with Spanish music blaring from boom boxes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His father had just lit his pipe, and the sweet tobacco scent of it was curling around the room and mixing with the smell of leather and polished wood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boys did not know what to make of the mixed message. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the tables are all white, and some are all black, but plenty are mixed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were women everywhere, some taking orders over the phone, others mixing oils or straining tinctures. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I give up,” Pork Chop said, after trying to mix in the sugar. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost imagine each new stick and stump it swallowed forcing the denner resin deeper into its gizzard, mixing it around, breaking it up, forcing it to dissolve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s what she calls it every time; her answer about how it feels has to do with the scent of beach roses mixed with roller coasters and fireworks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He had been reared in a family proud of its academic accomplishments and its mixed blood—in fact, they believed the former was based on the latter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured sulfur on the powder and mixed it up with a stick. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was, of course, afraid for Oliver, who was all mixed up in her mind with Charlie. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But she never wanted to mix in or try to take over and boss things. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

For takeoff and climb, it would need advanced jet engines that sucked in air, mixed it with fuel, and burned the mixture. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once I mixed some soil in, it died down to tolerable levels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He follows behind me, and I can smell him, a mix of cologne and sweat. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Even partially blocked by the ship, a mix of sand, water, and wind slaps me across the face. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The subject boiled down to this: Could Seaborg devise a chemical process for separating element 94 from the stew of radioactive fission products in which it was mixed after the bombardment of uranium? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said, stepping away from the mixing bowl and massaging the ache out of my arm. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most human groups are a scattershot mix of HLA profiles, which means that almost always some people in the group will not get sick when exposed to a particular pathogen. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I dropped mix tapes and notes on her palace from the air, like lovesick bombs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By the following morning its natural instincts to mix with a flock and to talk were beginning to return. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, what kind of a black man was he to be allowed to mix with whites, compete against them, even beat them? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truth and fancy were so mixed up in her mind—as they are in the mind of every lonely child—that she didn’t know which was which. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mixes up frothy shakes out of cantaloupe. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I take off, looking for a water dispenser with one of those hot taps for making tea, so I can quickly pour the perfect mix of hot and cold to achieve room temperature. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The can of mixed vegetables is our last one before Pop Pop gets his check. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The mix of the old aristocratic families and the hyper-rich often plays out as a none-too-subtle tug-of-war between class and money. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was the one she and Jabir had first encountered when they’d approached the stable; now he was staring at her with a mix of awe and horror. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Corn from hundreds of different farms was now mixed all together in a great golden river. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s a good question. I guess he’d keep trying in French and Kikongo, but he gets those mixed up pretty bad. People probably never would get it straight what he was doing here exactly.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, we met the right kind of Americans all right, but they didn't exactly mix with us. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mansfield recovered quickly, suddenly turning to me—showing the uneven application of her foundation, which made me think of my mother getting hers specially mixed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I have to admit that it smells amazing, especially mixed with the smell of the breakfast Pop Pop’s got cooking on the stove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For example, on earth, mixing two or more molten metals is difficult because the light ones float to the top while the heavy ones sink to the bottom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one smells like the forest, like wood and earth, with her mixed in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My pulse racing, I mix the flour and salt and oil and water to make the dough, kneading it with my hands like bread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could mix paint, thin paint, remove paint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She had also found a store of kerosene and a sparker in the mix of trash in the galley. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I also learned how to edit, how to make sound tracks, how to mix, and all sorts of other things about filmmaking. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Listen to the way the truth and secrets mix to tell him something isn’t quite right. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d said it over and over when she wept over the wreck of her useless cake mixes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s pretty easy. You open the synthesizer and record a melody. Then you add background chords and harmonies. And then you mix in other instruments.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And I guess my feelings had gotten pretty mixed up the last couple of days. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he got m and n mixed up, but the only one that gave him trouble day in and day out was c. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the letters are blurred in juice and ink mixed from the spill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Pour whatever leftover salsa you have into the eggs and mix it all up with a fork. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was lean in build, with glowing skin that announced his mixed parentage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I remember her standing there watching me walk away, her face a mix of sadness and pride. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I peek inside my parents’ bedroom, and the sour smell nearly knocks me over—a mix of unwashed hair, gas, and sweat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Warehouses and work yards littered with battered and rusting equipment were mixed in with shotgun houses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some mixed words are dominated by one parent while the other is recessive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like grass and sawdust and gasoline all mixed together. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“He did fall from hole in the sky. Time’s weird today. A time traveler in the mix isn’t so far-fetched, is it?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looks like at some point the buttons were ordered by size or color, but now they’re all mixed up—every conceivable hue, shape, and ornamentation. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And she drank that drink down like it was water and mixed another while I just stared at her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can say I’m from six miles away from here, she finishes her question, “Or are you mixed?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Tears mixed with the water streaming down my face. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Penny had met with a more mixed reaction. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I make a sound like a mix of please and no and help. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I hugged him tight, his fur smelling like a mix of dogs and vet chemicals, pungent and sterile. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My dad cracks open the eggs, pours the milk and pancake mix. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As the sound of the fight grew nearer, I could tell there were quite a few dogs mixed up in it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I arose in the darkest hours of the night intending to mix a draught of barley water and poppy seeds to calm my whirling thoughts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In shifts, lots, batches, mixed in with other families, they migrated, in six months and four journeys, to Kentucky, where there were mines and mill-work. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two worlds can mix as long as they don’t talk too much.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Gullah was a language of English mixed with different West African languages. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Poppy mixed some cornstarch and water into a gluey paste. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the powerful humidity the powdered mix got transfigured like Lot’s poor wife who looked back at Gomorrah and got turned to a pillar of salt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a small but intense sound filled the air, something like a puppy growl mixed with a kitten hiss. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down through the trees, mixing its rays in the pale blue smoke of the cooking fires. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She mixed the potion with a big wooden spoon as it bubbled and, horrifyingly, cackled softly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally I rose from my bed to mix a calming draught. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But her surprise was mixed with a pleasure so like the joy that flooded through her when she had put the fruit to his lips that she couldn’t protest, because she was breathless. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It hasn’t rained for a while, and the river mixes with the seawater when the tide is up. It’ll be better when the tide goes out. Or if it rains. That’s what Master Percy said.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Knowing T, he was right there in the mix of it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s why we reserved that dormitory for residents with nervous disorders. It doesn’t make sense for them to mix with the larger population. In number 40, they can get the care they require.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It will ruin us. Every newspaper in the land will have our cause mixed up with abolition...and we shall be utterly denounced.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another clue to its human origin is the broken ceramics with which it is usually mixed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My memories of the Corcorans’ post-funeral get-together are very foggy, due possibly to the handful of mixed painkillers I swallowed on the way there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her compliment surges through me with a mix of excitement and nerves and concern. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Or “See how I can make the ink blacker by mixing soot with the boiled oak galls.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most important, she pulled aside their war-crazed chaperone, Coach Gleeson Hedge, and encouraged him to take the morning off in his cabin and watch reruns of mixed martial arts championships. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was just one of those smart people like Mom was talking about who mixed up their numbers. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know it contained these things, but somehow the mix is different. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joanna pressed her cheek to her baby’s face and her tears mixed with its blood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie was singing in the kitchen, the boys helping her mix the batter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She squealed and looked down at him with a mix of confusion and delight, like I’d given her a pound cake. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, I checked on my goldfish, Ethan, but to my dismay, he was floating on his side in his small mixing bowl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He fished out a wad of paper that contained more black ash, which he began mixing with the other potion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

If I had to guess, I would say they are mixing simulation serum, but I hesitate to confine Erudite’s work to simulations alone. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only a few notes, but mixed with the soft rush of the wind and the smoke upon it, I hear...the strum of a distant guitar, and laughter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The black streaks held the salt that Papa said had got mixed up with the rocks a jillion years ago. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“A Negro’d be asking for the rope to get himself mixed up with white women.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, she come over and helped me mix ’em up from scratch,” I say. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now their numbers overwhelm the Box, so they stay put, mixed in with the general population—except they can’t come out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vegas, for his part, seemed not too anxious to mix it up with him and they spent most of the first round fighting at a distance. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water, though it wasn’t bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He makes me feel like I’m not the only person in Mr. Yukht’s class who gets mixed up when our class talks about Jewish holidays. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The New York Times also disapproved of mixing news and fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The latest hair trends are adding colored highlights, or mixing hair colors like black and red. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Uhmma and Grill Woman spoke in a language of mixed and chopped Korean and Japanese, glued together with pieces of English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we mix herbs with the bad meat to hide the taste. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what’s what and it’s all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she’s a vegetarian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A mix of nerves and excitement washes over me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The scent of lavender mixed with rose drifts through my bedcurtains. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She started eating pretzel mix from a bowl on the bar. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then three baskets of mixed males, five to five and three-quarters. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Never had Tree-ear taken such care over the draining, and Min himself had done the final drainings and mixing of the glaze. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing now. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Most of them were round and smooth, rubbled by wind and water and weather and time, but mixed in with them were black, hardened shards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On dark nights when hope was scarce, she would sing an old Irish tune, mixed with a newer, Italian song that she had learned from a neighbor. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once my nose started clearing up on Day Five, my nausea got even worse, because that odd aroma of old pot roast mixed with mothballs was nobody’s idea of a stomach soother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can hear the police officer's shouts in the mix, but mostly I just hear my own panicked groans. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The eastern private rowing clubs, particularly the Pennsylvania Athletic Club and the New York Athletic Club, would also likely be in the mix at the 1936 trials. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Across the backstretch, other trainers began to mix up homemade liniments, trying to brew what they called Smith’s “magic salves.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She topped the mix with slivered almonds and baked it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

To devise a mix that would bring this about, he tinkered around with God knows what until he stumbled upon a home brew that delivered a ferocious kick. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, tell us what he thinks—we could show him where he’s probably mixed up. 12TH juror: Mmm? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beau and I shared some bananas and jerky and trail mix. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I got up and poured some water in the flour and mixed the dough quickly, forming it into little balls, then flattening them into circles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The last few nights have been a mix of strange feelings stirring in my belly. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I joined the ranks of the Artificery, studying how to blow glass, mix alloys, draw wire, inscribe metal, and sculpt stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My feelings toward your girlfriend are mixed, yes, but for the most part I have a lot of respect for her.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I went back with them to the psych office with mixed feelings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The look on the kid’s face was priceless—outrage mixed with relief. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She would boil water and make coffee and then—then she would just mix up a batch of pancakes! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe like a police siren, and a baby cry, and screeching tires all mixed up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mix socially with the other northerners, preferring the atmosphere and salty company at the Drift. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This notion—blending inheritance—was already familiar to most biologists: it was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of mixing between male and female characters. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finn sniffed a sleeve, and there it was: Mom’s unique odor, a mix of vanilla and Spring Breeze laundry detergent, with maybe some cinnamon and grass stain lurking underneath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His accent was American, like Joseph’s mother’s, but sometimes he pronounced things the English way, so his speech sounded rather mixed up, as though he didn’t come from anywhere. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Odors of meat, vegetables, and something freshly baked mixed with a scent of Fels Naphtha. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If two beads are on the same string, then they are always tied together, no matter how one attempts to mix and match strings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She came out from behind the register and led me to the fabric bolts, stacks of solids mixed with prints, cottons with satins, and linen with corduroys. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She looked about sixteen and I could tell she was cute, even though black lines streamed down her face from all of the tears mixing with her makeup. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The look on her face is a mix of girlish excitement and some sort of pain. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I would never find someone who would understand my peculiar mix of Catholicism and agnosticism, Hispanic and American styles. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mack asked himself and he answered himself, “No I guess it would be better if one went alone. It might get him mixed up if we all went.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women were sitting with babies on their laps, standing with babies on their hips, and their chatter mixed with crying. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You two grew up around me working root—laying tricks, mixing up potions and powders, picking out plants and such. But now you know there’s more to it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although they represented an adequate racial mix to reach some conclusions about race, they were predominantly white. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Honeysuckle and purple wisteria hung heavy from the trees and white magnolias mixed with their scents in the bee-humming air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we mixed up a batch of what Brian called nuclear fuel, pouring different liquids into a can. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My head whirled from the strong scent of the koka and the confusing way the shaman mixed his words. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Scooping the clay crumbs into his palm, he spat on them, softened and mixed them with a careful finger, then pressed them into the crack and smoothed the edges as well as he could. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The only noise in the kitchen is her pen on the page crossing out and adding in, writing and rewriting stanzas, mixed with the slicing of scissors, the tearing of paper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma began pulling on her cotton work gloves and mixing the baking soda we'd got at the store with the vinegar and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He brought them a large plate full of jumokbap, small fist-sized rice balls mixed with barley, seaweed, salt, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds, sitting on a white cloth to prevent sticking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

With Sean searching for Charlie’s chicken, Finn took care of dinner: a box of macaroni mixed with a pound of ground beef and some peas. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Poor Asher, who always talked too fast and mixed up words, even as a toddler. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

More than any other mark, the comma draws our attention to the mixed origins of modern punctuation, and its consequent mingling of two quite distinct functions: 1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I had thought that all his fuss about me being at the trial was because he was worried about me, but now I wasn’t sure why he didn’t want me mixed up in the trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were definitely more than two voices in the mix, and Trevor’s laugh was unmistakable. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I checked the cupboard, actually found two boxes of the mix, and returned to the living room to report. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Next thing I did was take the drill out of my backpack and hide it because I was mixed up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just an awful smell of bleach mixed with sweat and vomit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I love mixing it up with him. I guess it’s a game we play since we both missed out on the joys of marital arguing— keeps my blood flowing.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He meant to say “Look what you’ve done,” but the words had gotten so hopelessly mixed up that no one could make any sense at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The incessant rain tickled his cheeks and mixed with the blood from his mouth, dripping red by the time it hit the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Once it was all mixed up, I started combining the wet ingredients into a separate bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was like somebody had reached inside me and mixed everything up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mama sliced off the rotten parts and made soup with the good vegetable pieces, mixing them with bones she bought at the butcher shop. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Harlem the precise accents of northern-born blacks mixed with the slow drawls of recent southern immigrants and the lilting accents from the islands. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A mix of conquered nations bound together, each of them had the hollow, raging face she’d seen so many times before. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or was there something mixed up in their blood, maybe in their brains too, which made them capable of accomplishing prodigious feats, which seemed beyond the capability of even the best among us? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flopped the tablecloth into the rinse tub and started in on a shift that had gotten mixed in with the table linens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the leaves are sorted, mixed, washed, dried, and packaged. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He mixes them up and you know you’re not going to find the right one. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because it seemed like it should be a good thing, that I didn’t have that long-word-x reading disorder, that my brain didn’t mix up letters and numbers on the page. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s probably a good thing. I mean, who wants to mix with somebody who spends the whole time thinking about drinking you?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's the coldness of the snow, yes, but whatever mix of herbal juices my mother has added numbs, as well. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was followed by some loud sobbing, not Leslie's, thank the Lord, and some sobbing and talking mixed up and—the bell. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cattle and horses could eat it, mixed with grass, and get fat on it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough to buy a whole bagful of his favorite candy mix at CVS. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Once I break the seal on the patch kit, the binary components of the resin mix and I have sixty seconds before it hardens. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young women leap and whirl around the fire, their battle cries now mixing with the music of drums and rattles. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Min had done the mixing of the glaze himself, so the mistake could only have been in the firing—the part of the work over which not even Min had complete control. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Its fur was a mix of light and dark brown, thick and bristly, and it had a bushy tail. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A wave breaks over the barrier, and churns the glassy water for a moment and mixes bubbles into the pool, and then it clears and is tranquil and lovely and murderous again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It needs to be a mix from both our camps. Jason, Piper, Leo, and me. That’s four.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That voice inside that said, Now, yes, this is it, get out! was muffled by mixed messages. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Black and white Lacks is kin,” Gladys said, “but we don’t mix.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I guess that is how I started relating to people, mixing with all those groups. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s some sort of salad, with a cluster of dark leaves like kale mixed in with carrots. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But she was sorry only because of Kimberly, the way she had begun to mix the salad as though to reduce it to a pulp. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is what happens when you let yourself get too mixed up with family. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

‘Mother Gaia ..His voice was impossibly deep, shaking the ruins, making the metal scaffold resonate under Piper’s feet. ‘In ancient times, blood mixed with your soil to create life. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And it was on the same trip that they had the good luck to rescue an old metal mixing bowl from a garbage pail. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are these mixed teams for both boys and girls?” another councilwoman asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He watched anxiously while Mother mixed a dose and took it. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own recently whopped head throbbed in sympathy, but he had never been happier to have a chaperone who liked mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am nervous to have him here, mixing the sad remains of my family life with the sad remains of my Dauntless life. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The packages containing the cake mix were mildewed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The servant would mix a drink—Matt loved the clink of ice—and place it in Felicia’s hand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, I thought that mixed in with the rice you would like it.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I guess one of the hot ones got mixed in with the sweet by accident.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When I finished mixing Mom’s drink I put the Amaretto away and carefully carried the drink to her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but, remember—we changed the mix at the last minute,” he said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And religion got mixed up in it, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became the talk of the school, and teachers pointed to me as “a student who mixed sports and studies well.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I do, he lets out a sound that’s a mix between a sigh and a grunt. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Race mixing was a scary thing—at least people always talked about it like it was polio or something. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that feeling mixes with sadness that he had to ask her to make these words so he could invite me to his party. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she mixed the pot-liquor with it, and set it away in a pan to cool. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounding across the still water at the foot of the old white one, he caught the scent of a stranger, the man-smell well mixed with leather and earth and iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It came in a carton that you shake before you drink to mix the citrusy sediment that settles on the bottom. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Down the road, past the looming cedar trees that looked as if they might once have circled a cemetery, the chicken did a mixed fly-flap-and-skid routine. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those Chinese expressions that means the better half of mixed intentions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was a mix of mild concern and fatherly pride. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A conservative minority saw the mathematical race mixing as the twilight of their civilization. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘Stay there please,’ he said, ‘and no chittering. I is needing to listen only to silence when I is mixing up such a knotty plexicated dream as this.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet from the outset the fascination with private detectives was mixed with aversion. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She probably never drinks the stuff, but we can save some of hers and mix it with yours.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Indoor sandals and outdoor ones were exactly the same, except you must never get them mixed up! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was something else—a strange mix of recognition and hunger—and it unsettled her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My fear is mixed oddly with excitement at the thought that I will get to see Lio if he, too, has been captured. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there confused and mixed up inside. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear him breathing heavily, and the mix of food and really strong deodorant was making me nauseous. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They might be mad at me, mixing it all together and not being proper about it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I got up from my own chair, with mixed feelings of regret and confusion. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

As for me, it’s as if God mixed my parents’ skin tones in a paint bucket to get my medium-brown complexion. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She mixed the contents of one of the packets, a gray-green powder, in water, and then gently shook Timothy awake. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, the side wall gave a better view of Dante’s mother and girlfriend, sitting in the first pew, holding each other face-to-face, their tears mixing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Isabella. I’m so very sorry that the problems between me and your mom get all mixed into your life.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered Papa saying that we got paid three cents a pound, so I mixed dirt clods in with the cotton to make it weigh more. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not like in Port-au-Prince, where everyone on the street is a mix of sweat, gasoline, and baby powder. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the porch when Mom returned from work and I just mixed her a drink and didn’t whisper a word about what happened today. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it like paint: Could it be mixed and diluted? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When Sara comes back, I announce: “This doodh stuff would taste great mixed with ice cream. Like our own version of cookies and cream.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But in those days, if people used fruit, honey, and sugar to sweeten foods, they often mixed salty or even bitter tastes with sweet ones. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Gran hand- collects cowshit, “cow patties,” she calls them, and mixes them in with mulch to make her own fertilizer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled, her cheek grazing against his, and she felt the little beginnings of stubble, smelled sweat mixed with the musky scent he wore. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And Lord knows, she might even like one of these fancy ones with the kiwi and passion fruit and all that mixed up in there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I felt a sense of awe mixed with bewilderment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama picks up some oatmeal and a big bag of pancake mix. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the kolyvo, which was sprinkled with the powdered sugar of the afterlife and mixed with the immortal seeds of pomegranates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After eighteen sentences that mix wistful nostalgia with abstract philosophizing, the reverie is punctured by a stark revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Ms. Muhammad, you sound all proper when you talk,” a boy named Terrance, who actually looked mixed race to me, said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The stones were indeed scattered, and mixed inextricably with those of other workers: but when we had collected what we reckoned to be our pile no one raised any objections. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She calls for more and I mix it with water to stretch it because I can’t be spending my life running around lifting lemonade from pubs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My name is Binu, and you are a very foolish girl. How did you get mixed up with that crowd?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she could practically smell the sweet Italian breezes, a mix of lemons and flowers and the sea. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

She looked at them with a mix of pity and disgust. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The armies of France, therefore, have been mixed, partly mercenaries and partly her own troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just Leviticus—the secondhand clothes I owned were mixed of wool and flax, and if I searched through the verses, I was certain I’d find a dozen other infractions I was guilty of. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I always had a blast at mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It showed his avatar, Anorak, sitting in his castle’s library, mixing potions and poring over dusty spellbooks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And mixed in with the sound of so many men, you know what? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was an odd mix, but there was some sausage, some bread, and some apples. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerry had a good job as a color matcher in a button factory, mixing dyes to any color a retailer wanted to make his dresses distinctive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to get mixed up in nothing. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to clean the mixing bowls before I could make the next two batches. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Long loops and strands of yarn dangled out of the cubbyholes, and the browns and grays and purples were mixed in with the ochres and olive greens and dark blues. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a mix of my grandparents’ old friends and some new members of Grandma’s church group. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a funny mix of cars—some freshly washed and expensive-looking, others dented and battered. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Outraged, Fabyan showered them with his usual mix of threats and false promises. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s creamy raspberry mixed with a familiar taste I can’t put my finger on. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I stared at the mixing bowl as the ingredients transformed into a crumbly mixture. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Things were changing so fast for Francie now, that she got mixed up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to thin it down to only a few notes; otherwise she got too mixed up to go further. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a few generations, instead of a mixed population of strong and weak insects, there results a population consisting entirely of tough, resistant strains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We cut up carrots and celery and made onion dip with sour cream and Lipton soup mix. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Chase handed them to me, and I added the milk slowly to the flour mix, as the recipe said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once I had overheard Bertha tell Mandy that he was only a person on the outside and that his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d missed fall rains, the water dripping along the knobs of his spine and mixing with the sea spray in his hair—things he hadn’t known he’d miss. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Hers grow wide with a mix of curiosity and intrigue. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It tasted like hard-boiled egg yolks mixed with liver. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If the price of dog food and cake mix can be rationalized, why can’t some sort of rough “safety index” be devised which allows us to gauge how safe various activities, procedures, and illnesses are? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The title was rambling, but the message was succinct: if you mixed the effects of three to five variant genes on any trait, you could generate nearly perfect continuity in phenotype. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zeide was born in Russia and he mixes Spanish and Yiddish when he talks. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Just you enjoy it but don’t mix in.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I tried mixing them together a little bit at a time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I started off walking but was soon running down the old grassy lane, up and over the hills at speed, fueled by a strong mix of curiosity, a little fear, and what my legs wanted. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

All the thoughts I couldn’t bring aloud, like how mixed up the world had become and why couldn’t he be there to help me figure it out. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Shawn said a mixed breed wasn’t worth much, but that I could send him to auction like Grandpa’s dog-food horses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No need to mix alcohol into the equation. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We were dark anyway, the typical Woodhull mix, Irish and Italian. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later Mama would mix this lye water with hog fat and boil it in an iron pot when she wanted to make soap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the bed, said cheerily:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dad is grinning as he mixes the zucchini, tomatoes, and yellow squash together. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Because wind frequently blows pollen from one small maize field onto another, varieties are constantly mixing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Breath mixed with spit and fear and pain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were twelve empty cans of frozen lemonade mix. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

And I told him about the boy who makes mix tapes hitting my sister because my sister only told me not to tell mom or dad about it, so I figured I could tell Bill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever it is, we need to be ready for it. Help me mix this up now.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ivanito Everything is mixed up, as if parts of me are turning in different directions at once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kwaito, a South African mix of hip-hop and house music, blared from cars that passed us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In school, where Arcadio had pupils older than himself mixed in with children who were barely beginning to talk, the Liberal fever had caught on. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even with the salt water mixed in there might be some food value left in the flour and sugar. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand outside with everyone else, the crowd mixed, Jews and Hispanics, Asians and blacks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the unknowns of an explosive powder mixed with the toxic solution are too risky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We began our excursion up to Pine Knob the following Saturday, each of us carrying a paper bag full of bottles filled with different mixes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My family poured water mixed with milk—considered a blessing—in my face, and some bubbles settled right on my eyelashes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She had dark circles around her eyes, a mix of runny makeup and no sleep. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bacon provided labels for this distinction: ‘pure mathematics’ and ‘mixed mathematics’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The batter was all mixed up and in the iron skillet when Mama came in, her eyes looking red and tired. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The streets were filled with traders from all over Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique, all their different languages and songs mixing with the smell of sweating bodies, spices, fried fish, and roasted maize. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Persian ice cream is mixed with saffron and pistachios. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This combination of sexual fears and political power was an enormously potent and dangerous mix. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked an egg into a mixing bowl and then measured two and a half cups of flour. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She lets me break the eggs into the mix and we make a nice stack of pancakes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mix it up, especially with a guy Tyler’s size. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After the second song started, I asked him if it was the mix tape I made him for Secret Santa Christmas. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she just mixed up what you said. She’s always doing that. T. Ray will tell her, ‘Iron my two shirts,’ and she’ll iron the blue shirts.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he showed us how to grind the brick pieces, then how much graveyard dirt to mix with it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just use lemonade mix like everyone else?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A palette, the board a painter mixes colors on, is also a range of colors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even under the best of circumstances me and preachers don’t mix so well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The brown swirling waters lapped at my feet, and the monotonous chirping of the grillos as they sang in the trees mixed into a music which I felt in the roots of my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made the fresh juice, brew a pot of tea, and cut pears and apples and mix ’em with red grapes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Completely by coincidence, as we moved back and forth between these churches, I noticed that each one had its own distinct racial makeup: Jubilant church was mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And we can each have a can of soup for supper tomorrow. We have the can of mixed vegetables and a can of carrots and a can of peas. Won’t you get food tomorrow?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d have to be crazy to get mixed up in something like this now that I’m out of combat.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, do we mix copper in the solder?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

If one joins the boxes together and removes the intervening wall, the oxygen and the nitrogen molecules will start to mix. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chop and mix and did my job without talking for the rest of my shift. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Alexandra Secondary School was the only mixed school in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I replace the word gays from her sentence with these other words: blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, women, people of mixed race, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, Russians, Poles, Yugoslavians, Ukrainians, mentally and physically disabled. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And clearly I wasn’t the only one with these mixed emotions: virtually everybody shot daggers at Polly, before turning eagerly to Miss Lucy—which was, I suppose, pretty unfair on poor Polly. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had wet the potassium-nitrate-and-sugar mix and packed it inside a standard casement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see how he and Petunia could get mixed up in anything that might be going on — he yawned and turned over — it couldn’t affect them... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s no question now that there’s something really creepy going on here, and that we’re somehow mixed up in it.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Regular soil is a crazy mix of everything from fine rock fragments to water, air, insects, and even bacteria and fungi. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We made two more pots of graveyard dirt mixed with brick dust and some rock salt; then we poured it in a wide circle all around the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

These motors would burn fuel mixed with oxygen carried in separate tanks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She adds salt, lemon juice, thin slices of green chili pepper, wishing there were mustard oil to pour into the mix. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She liked his eyes, she thought, the unblended mix of orange and green, made even more granular in sunlight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the front of the American eugenics movement advanced from imprisonment to sterilization to outright murder, European eugenicists watched the escalation with a mix of eagerness and envy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I, myself, had mixed emotions, for the concerns of a husband and a leader do not always coincide. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tumult of the last moment, the sad drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong graves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Our choreography was fresh; our moves were tight and perfectly in sync; the music was mixed beautifully. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He watched her with a hatred that was mixed with his old desire, knowing that once more she had the victory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While the sauce was simmering, he mixed some biscuits. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until he hit my sister and stopped crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, boy. You’re talking just to me and my men here. Now, tell me, do you think Jan’s mixed up in this?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We would mix in traditional English Christmas songs with African ones, and include a few protest songs — the authorities did not seem to mind or perhaps know the difference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, several distinct thumps travel into the museum from the gardens or the streets beyond, as if someone is dropping sacks of cement mix out of the clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As it came out of my mouth, I was ashamed that it was mixed with any of Dad’s cells that I might have inhaled when we went to visit Ground Zero. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The blog posts astonished him, they seemed so American and so alien, the irreverent voice with its slanginess, its mix of high and low language, and he could not imagine her writing them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We are mixing that sand into the paint. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I had no conception of what saying yes to politics might mean for us later, once we’d added two children to the mix. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The air smells musty, like the pages of a library book mixed with cleaning solution. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No son of mine is getting mixed up in that.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

With my coffee, cream, and sugar cubes mixed, I return to my table. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"He ought to stay with his own people. He shouldn't mix in that stuff." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But it isn’t easy to predict that if you mix them together, you get green. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the morning, Lourdes tends hurriedly to her customers, mixing up orders and giving the wrong change. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juan poked the simmering egg and yucca mix with a spatula. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He’d been in a group home up there, he explained, and hadn’t been allowed to mix with girls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Give me plastics, periodical tables, t.v. dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I showed both of them what I was doing, how I mixed the propellant, how I stood back when I threw a little of it in the heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the coconut milk was mixed with sweet evaporated milk, sugar, egg yolks, and rum to make coquito. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the boy was full of mixed hate and pity now, and it addled him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom mixed ground beef, spices, and bread crumbs for the meatballs. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a mixing bowl, use a wooden spoon to stir all the ingredients until they form a thick dough.* Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After it was all cut, we mixed it up in a big bowl. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A mix of disappointment and anger shot through me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I guess whatever “wires” are mixed up in my brain are responsible for all sorts of strange things. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Therefore the materials in the upper and lower mantle must at least occasionally mix. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, someone just brought it out. Found a couple boxes of the mix in the back and baked it,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

You can play straight, so that your number has to come up exact, or you can split your bet six ways to cover the mixes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of it was all mixed with the sickening odor that came up with the raw wind from the street. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Right now it’s mostly Negroes, a few drovers mixed in here and there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I took a sip and felt the familiar sting of fizz but with the sweetness of cherries and sunshine all mixed together. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

At dinnertime, Jinjoo’s mom gave everyone small servings of rice mixed with barley and beans and told them to make it last. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Orange juice mixed with the vodka that made him crazy and violent. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Man, that Miss America chick wasn’t really black. She was mixed or something!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I place a wooden stirrer into my coffee and mix it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We slapped each other with the muddy mix of dirt, water, and chicken feed. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

‘But I didn’t know you could mix one dream with another.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, incidentally, my sister asked for her “Autumn Leaves” mix tape back. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I fear for you two hotheads, mixing yourselves up with dangerous business. What if these men catch you spying on them? It would go hard with you.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

By the time of the Pilgrims, fields of mixed maize, beans, and squash lined the New England coast and in many places extended for miles into the interior. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’d mixed colors from the paint box to create new ones. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to worry about mixing up the value of the number—its cardinality—with the order in which it arrives—its ordinality—since they are essentially the same thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It mixed with the burning gasoline from the flamethrowers and napalm bombs, the sharp tang of gunpowder, the overheated metal of machine gun barrels, so hot that they were melting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best we can do, I think, is try to puzzle out the right mix of conscious and unconscious analysis on a case-by-case basis. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A few disturbing noises mixed in as well: distant screams, crying and wailing.The isolation of their dank little storage room doesn’t seem so bad now. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t bad, with a flavor that reminded me a little bit of nuts, lettuce, and artichokes—all mixed together. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted at the whole room in a broken mix of German and Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Styx’s house was mostly brown, a mix of fake-wood siding and peeling paint. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“At rehearsal I kept getting mixed up,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mami’s voice mixed and became confused with the voices of other mothers telling their children to pick up their things, stay together, to walk quickly toward the door and not to hold up the line. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For breakfast my parents often made their ochazuke—green tea mixed with rice—from the crusty old rice at the bottom of the pot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's so much like the ocean, but warmer, like it's mixed with toasted sugar. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Quickly, they would take one sheep and mix equal parts human and sheep brains into the two bowls for the snakes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We were both under banning orders, so we found a place at the edge of the crowd where we could observe without mixing in or being seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A loaf of stale bread was made into pulp with hot water and mixed with a dime’s worth of chopped meat into which an onion had been cleavered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those things Tom said to me in the car, all mixed up with guilt over what happened with Scott the other night: the dream was just my brain picking all that apart. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mix the cowpea flour and palm oil, then you steam-cook for hours. You think you can ever get just the cowpea flour? Or just the palm oil?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting mix just spewed feebly in the hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Florence, the capital of Tuscany, Vincenzio became a court musician, and his family mixed with dukes and princes at the artistic and intellectual heart of reborn Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She put the mixing bowl in the sink and started to wash it with quaking hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We added some seasonings, like salt, pepper, and paprika, and mixed it all together. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was mixed but not colored—colored by complexion but not by culture. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z