Brian could barely hear him now, heard mostly noise and static. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had slept mostly in the daytime during the preceding two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam’s band, Shooting Star, is on an upward spiral, which is a great thing—mostly. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever organized and practical, he went on to ask her to think about the decisions they would have to make—mostly where they would live. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly empty, the weather still too cold to attract many patrons. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I prefer it here in the mostly unconsidered rooms of the basement, the stone walls rough-hewn, damp, ill lighted like any memory. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly sat in my room and read comics. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, but I’d mostly said it because I wanted to go to Amsterdam. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Papa had carved her a sturdy cane; the blisters and sores had mostly healed, the shortness of breath all but gone. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Medical students were advised to stay away from mathematics and physics and chemistry, and take mostly biology,” John recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This festivities chapter is mostly detailed descriptions of guess what? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So Mom was taken not just with Dad but with the big, mostly intact, relatively normal family he belonged to. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

People, mostly men, leaned over the stone parapets of the raised park that surrounded the library, or walked up and down and bent to drink water from the public drinking-fountains. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But mostly, there was work to be done. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell Audrey the truth, partly because I knew she’d feel obligated to tell my mom, but mostly because she didn’t deserve that kind of burden. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Macy and I mostly goofed off, but it was fun hanging out in the kitchen with Mom and Dad, even when they got silly and danced around to the music. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And me and Brandon had a bunch of other moments, but it was mostly just a lot of yelling—really just me yelling and him laughing, but not no more. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

What I grasped seemed mostly about the days market, and that it was a glorious day. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved his helmet back on his head and leaned into me, his breath mostly alcohol fumes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several trophy cases commemorate the school’s mostly unsuccessful athletic teams, and a big bulletin board lists the colleges that current seniors have been admitted to, along with the dollar amounts of scholarships they were awarded. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boys in their ducktails were mostly wearing plaid shirts underneath their open jackets, still looking like they weren’t scared of anything in the world. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They come by train mostly, but some that live in Manhattan can get a bus up to the Bronx. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had stopped him from wheeling their household over to Mrs. Cobb’s, and so mostly Mrs. Buckminster spent her days sorting and looking things over. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

R.C. didn’t like silence; he wanted to talk, mostly about things I had no interest in. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can mostly take care of myself and my family. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We used the harpies mostly for cleaning the camp, but they did pretty well in midtown traffic too. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rube Goldberg was an aficionado of Cuban cigars, mostly Macanudos. aging. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, these days mostly he talks. It’s cool.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She sat with the girl, blowing bubbles—lovely, lurid, mostly magical things, with pretty colors swirling on their surfaces. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I hate men,” I said, mostly trying to convince myself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I just studied for those two weeks. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On our way out of the cafeteria, mostly to change the subject, I tell Brenda about Germ and ask if she’d like to be a part of it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On chilly afternoons, the park is mostly quiet, except for a few bicyclists and people walking their dogs. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie muttered, “They don’t really hate us. They don’t know us. How can they hate us? They mostly scared.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked while we worked, mostly because we had things to say but also because it calmed the horses. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It rose deftly from a small neighborhood of duplexes, laundromats, and mom-and-pop restaurants, mostly Korean and soul food. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But mostly they stood, waiting on looks that never came. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were mostly in for white-collar crimes, money schemes, fraud and racketeering. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It will last until you see him, if you wish to do that. But I am troubled by this, King Iorek. Troubled by everything, but mostly by this.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one knew how or when the change had come, but they did know they went to the hospital mostly to pay their sad respects. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m mostly self-sufficient,” she says, standing next to me now. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I returned from South Carolina the first time, I lived in the Pace home, which was packed with at least ten children, mostly preschoolers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Right now, Sarah’s dad or mom does all the chaperoning, at their house mostly,” he says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But mostly I try not think about how wrong it is, stealing from Mr. Woodwell, who’s been so good to me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Ice got into the conversation but mostly it was just them talking to each other and Ice talking to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A day in jail is mostly silence punctuated by passing guards shouting profanities at you, doing roll call. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that people mostly hear and remember bad news. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

These were mostly small stucco or clapboard buildings with short steeples. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had even bought some of them, but mostly they were cheap paperbacks that had been thrown away by tourists. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton spoke mostly of the hail that had ruined some of the crops. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had to inch her way through a tight spot where mostly boys sat at tables on either side of her path. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several other travelers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The damage is light, mostly confined to the U-boat pens and refineries, but two errant bombs land in St. Pauli, a neighborhood known for its theaters and cafés and concert halls. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was cool, organized, and efficient, and used to working mostly with men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’d lived mostly in Montana until his mother decided to go to college to become a social worker and sent him to live with his father and stepmother for high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly filled mine with song lyrics, copied in my biggest, sloppiest handwriting. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On my mostly empty stomach, the odor makes me instantly nauseous. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

More than anything, he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her, but the letters were mostly chatty, elusive on the matter of love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, that was just one home. There were others. They’re mostly fine.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s a hard life. It’s mostly the artists who end up in places like this.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Along the way, Moss got a few hugs and fist bumps from familiar faces, but he was mostly on autopilot. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Others–Baade mostly–were left to do the mathematical sweeping up. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t asked Myron if he had a girlfriend or anything, mostly because I didn’t much care. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There were mostly retired warriors listed, occasionally the name of an esteemed master scholar of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The quiet road leads through mostly undamaged farmland. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to will her voice not to quaver, but was mostly unsuccessful. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“So it’s going to be mostly soccer people?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while someone would ask about my race, but I mostly just ignored it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For the eight months he trained under Scythe Goddard, he had made over two thousand kills, mostly the same people over and over again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

These were people who mostly didn’t know one another and would never have occasion to meet, many of whom I’d fallen out of touch with myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Otherwise I'm mostly my mom, with big brown eyes and a little too much forehead. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

With the lay staff gone and only three elderly priests left on the faculty, education at St. Vincent de Paul Academy consisted mostly of theology, Latin, and church history. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Adele was always busy with Luke, so mostly, I had to plod along on my own. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No wonder the docks had been mostly empty. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

You hardly notice they’re even there, mostly because there’s something else going on right in front of your free. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Until recently, Nailer had mostly thought of her just as a rich girl who bought the muscle she needed, but here was something else, this clustered tribe of weaponry and purpose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hana likes me to leave her alone mostly, and interrupting her nighttime routine makes my hands itch, but I have to ignore them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We usually find a place tucked away far from others, though it’s mostly sand and dirt as far as the eye can see. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Father said it ought to be all right to do my shopping anytime from the morning to the early afternoon, because there were mostly harmless shoppers on the streets then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick appears again when I’m picking up fishing tips, but mostly just to introduce me to Mags, the elderly woman who’s also from District 4. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The swimming was still nice, but mostly the visits depressed me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly, I go to be with Moonie. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

While shock among the onlookers was widespread, the range of glee and dismay was split mostly along party lines. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Standing at either end of the long, handsome bronze coffin were two big, dark policemen, mostly looking straight ahead, but moving their lips when some viewer tarried. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mostly remembered the workings of the world—but emptied of specifics, faces, names. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She half expected to encounter Matt and Branch, but the paths were mostly empty and the village was still quiet. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That stung, mostly because I knew it to be the truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the precinct the old man sat on a bench with the others, mostly shoplifters, who composed the late afternoon haul. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s mostly on the canal that there’s the interesting stuff, sir. There’s gyptian boats going up and down, and the horse fair in July—the canal’s full of boats and travelers then.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I eat mostly at the staff club. I suppose I shall have to bring more food home now that you are here.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew about Nigerians, he told her, he was an assistant professor at Yale, and although his interest was mostly in southern Africa, how could he not know about Nigerians when they were everywhere? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He remembered some science lecture about the human body being mostly water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The sails, while torn, had mostly survived and were definitely mendable. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell Maya about all the people she’d talked to on the phone, trying to follow a seventeen-year-old trail of bread crumbs that had mostly blown to the wind and taken Joaquin with them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He could get other people, mostly Mama, into his dreams easier than I could. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had run down the list, checking mostly threes and fours. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I found Abby Grant’s Instagram. It’s mostly art, and her and Stella.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The audience probably thought it was for dramatic effect, but I was mostly trying to steady my breathing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Wimpy’s is the fancy grocery store where mostly Americans and other foreigners shop. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The morning of the rally, everybody met at our house, mostly because Brent Chisholm was expected to show up and no one could resist the chance to get an early, in-person peek at him. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Some people mumble a reply of Good morning—mostly the teachers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So mostly I just vegetate in the basement and pick my navel, to quote Grim, Mr. Belly Button Lint himself. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The movie theater was mostly empty, which only amped up my anxiety. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Okay, these were mostly trivial things, but I got more and more irritated with her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trade was mostly limited to prestige items such as shells, amber and pigments. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know he still has plenty of supporters, but they’re mostly silent, and the scope of the questions keeps growing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t had nothing to eat since midday yesterday, so it was mostly water that come out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I had wandered nearly a mile from the car, mostly downhill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You’ve mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The report was mostly “witness statements” from witnesses who had not witnessed anything. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A kindly, educated old man with a big white Panama hat who worried mostly about his digestion, my grandfather entertained no political ambitions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s even in a different color than the other doodles and text around it—it’s pale blue while the other doodles around it are mostly in black, with some red and purple. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I spent a total of eight days in that glorified hut, but I mostly just slept the first few away.The last five were the problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from a string of repeated questions which remained unanswered, Emily’s letters were mostly about the evacuees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Either way, aside from the few lapses in sanity when I considered revealing my true feelings to Evan, I was mostly desperate to keep my love for him under wraps. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She wore colorful, billowy clothes and served meals at a massive table in the dining room, hosting anyone who turned up, mostly people who belonged to what she called “the movement.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The track was mostly a footpath enclosed by a canopy of trees, and it was always in shadow, as if they were driving through a tunnel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while he did not look at her very closely during the routine questioning, mostly about relatives who might cause trouble, something in Mr. Edwards’ body began to feel her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had dreads that fell in his face, mostly because he was always looking down, and he had high cheekbones and big eyes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was still seventeen and wasn’t allowed to do delivery yet, so I answered phones, mostly, and made pizzas. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were mostly photographs of Lenin and his family. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled from my pocket something I had been carrying all this time: the armband, once blue and white, now mostly black. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On the way home we linked up with another group, mostly girls and women, who had just raided an Indian shop nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I thought about it, mostly, was thinking of what I would say when I got home. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel hadn’t proven anything about how she could manipulate the Mist...mostly because she couldn't manipulate the Mist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The campaign never expanded beyond the initial stage of small batches of mostly urban defiers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm mostly worried about the lifers. They're the ones who will die in here." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And mostly her grandmother had raised her, she told me, since her own mother had never been around. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They ate mostly porridge made from sorghum and milk. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company paid the good Reverend’s salary and was not above suggesting the topic of his sermons, mostly having to do with rendering to Caesar what was Caesar’s. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned around and she was running, too—mostly, it seemed, because Natalie was pulling her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hera and Hephaestus passed me, and while Hephaestus was a little grumpy about my jumping on his throne, he thought I’d done “a pretty bang-up job, mostly.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aaron and I mostly just laugh at him and his nerdy plant guidebook the entire time, but it’s pretty fun. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Doña Rosa didn’t speak enough English to be good at solving the puzzles; mostly, she just liked Vanna White’s gowns and the prizes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“To the ladies, mostly. I told him that there weren’t any ladies in Redding except my mother and my girl. He said they would do, so Mother you’d better put on your best dress.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly in Spanish, and the site had nice pictures on it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Well, there was welfare, and a few inmates had means, but it was mostly a mystery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plays mostly folk songs and the others hum with him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was mostly review from last year,” I said, too loudly. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was a little mad at her, but mostly I wanted her to talk to me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The current would mostly take us down the river, and then we got that little motor in case we get tired or in case we run into trouble somewhere.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I keep trying anyway, mostly for the Life Experience, but also because I highly doubt Lin-Manuel Miranda stayed in his dorm all night watching YouTube and throwing away his shot. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Newman sometimes checks my progress but mostly leaves me alone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He drank, too, but it was mostly weed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was mostly deserted, but a few persistent salesmen waited for customers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like it was mostly just trying to get out of there, and poor Alby was in the way.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Jones constantly crisscrossed the state, attracting thousands of mostly poor whites with his message of white supremacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They do, however, claim that we are not cultivated and refined to the same extent. To remove this impression, the thought and work of this bureau has been mostly bent from the start.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Clothes mostly, but also picture albums and scrapbooks I remember Nana displaying on bookshelves in her old house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the light turned green, people mostly just passed by, their eyes on the road ahead. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Toby had mostly ironed out the last of his nerves when a slender shadow appeared across the top of the bag he was unzipping. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Here’s a version of the rest of the story that is mostly true. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The White House butlers who staffed the residence, mostly African American men who were our age or older, stood poised to help us with anything we needed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, it’s mostly cans but we find a dry loaf of bread, some bruised fruit and a few strips of dried meat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In so doing, they found an even bigger surprise: the mightiest and most extensive mountain range on Earth was–mostly–underwater. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We have lost a good many men, mostly recruits. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of South Carolina seemed to consist mostly of overgrown fields, punctuated by telephone poles and trees covered in kudzu vines. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the late 1800s, when Sparrows Point first opened, Turner Station was mostly swamps, farmland, and a few shanties connected with wooden boards for walkways. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In front of the Western Auto the men started a game of pulling alongside us and yelling things out the window, mostly things we couldn’t make out because our windows were rolled up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I guess that being a soldier probably didn’t have much glory to it, either, that it was mostly just a lot of hard work. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Henry was mostly gone, often working twelve- and sixteen-hour shifts for days in a row until his team hit oil and they moved on to look for a new site. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It mostly said the farm was fine and she surely missed him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids all rushed in, mostly girls and a smattering of Magic: The Gathering boys. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m told that Newark is on the mend and while I see pockets of it, I mostly see the old decay. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This dynamo measured five feet two inches tall, was forty-nine years old, and her misty red hair had mostly turned to gray. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it sounds really cool too, because mostly, when you move away from someplace, you don’t see the people again and you don’t even remember what they sound like. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I mostly felt bad that I'd left Herbert in such a distraught state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many such sites have been discovered, mostly in Spain and in southwestern France. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly just a cappella people sitting on Mikey’s bed and drinking. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Grace,” he grumbled, and picked up his meat by the bone and took a big chomp, then chewed, mostly with his mouth open. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of time in local communities, mostly in the favelas outside Sao Paulo, where I met hundreds of desperately poor people who were intensely interested in talking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All the information was spread through word of mouth, mostly by the Komsomol. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After a week of rest I’m mostly healed up. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Peewee looked out over the trucks, which were mostly packed with crates of rations and supplies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly they just talked about heat and cold, and wind and clouds, and what’s gonna be done, and time passing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly, I keep quiet because I’m trying to erase the memory. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But they were mostly quirks, discrepancies, most of them so minor that it will perhaps show you how little reason I had to imagine that anything was wrong. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are mostly oblivious of the extended Croteau family, and have barely met the Croteau cousins, who are close to their age and live nearby but lead quite different lives. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Emery tries to help, bringing me into random conversations now and then, but she mostly lets me blend in beside her as best as I can. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was too, but mostly I was noticing how the cards had no contact information on them. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I ask, mostly to myself, but the navigator answers from across the room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He thinks she’s wrong about him, mostly—he doesn’t necessarily believe he has to choose between politics and this thing with Henry yet, or that he’s moving too fast in his career. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She shuffled her papers—mostly drawings of buildings and a bunch of handwritten notes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Joplin was nice, mostly wood-frame buildings, but they was clean and covered with paint or whitewash. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He promised to deal with the amazing events at Bree, and so give a bit of interest to a book that appeared likely to treat mostly of the remote and less important affairs ‘away south’. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I tried to save things but it’s mostly all burnt. Just your cott, Kira. Not like when there’s a big sickness. This time it just be your mum.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so here I was at a campaign picnic in Montana, leading a group of mostly strangers in singing “Happy Birthday” to Malia, who sat smiling on the grass with a hamburger on her plate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Christina and I discover a mostly empty table at the side of the room, and I find myself sitting between her and Four. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I tell him I mostly like indie and New Wave, but he doesn’t know what those are, and they’re hard to explain in Spanish. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He mostly ignored adults when they stared, or told them, “Pull your head in.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

For whatever reason, mostly the flutter of nerves in my gut, I let him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were mostly men from Osskil, speaking not the Hardic tongue of the Archipelago but a dialect of their own, and they were dour men, pale-skinned with black drooping mustaches and lank hair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jarveys live mostly below ground, where they pursue gnomes, though they will also eat moles, rats and voles. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still afraid, hungry and thirsty, but mostly he was tired. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The fence-line gossipers mostly agreed that my father had acted stupidly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The couches and chairs were mostly of the sort you would expect to see while visiting a historical site. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But it was an inspired threat, mostly because it gave me the idea of leveling my Colt .32 at the driver’s head and making him get out of the car. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we stayed together, but mostly we went our own ways. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My emails are mostly junk mail, but buried beneath that is one from Lucy’s address. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The people living on North Third Street were mostly Mexicans and Indians who had moved into the neighborhood after the whites left for the suburbs and subdivided the big old houses into apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Robbed? Why are you worried about that? It's mostly my money,” Jamie told her. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Companionship and joy came unexpectedly, mostly in small, exploding moments when I was apart from my husband and children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paid attention to things like late fees and interest rates; she mostly ignored them because she couldn’t pay the bills anyway. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I began to think of all the people already up there, mostly old, and not in particularly good shape either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Lucy’s nightstand, I find more newspaper clippings, but these are mostly of Mom. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After taking his leave of Stuckey on Saturday evening, McCandless spent two days and three nights in the vicinity of Fairbanks, mostly at the university. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently Sirius’s bedroom had been searched too, although its contents seemed to have been judged mostly, if not entirely, worthless. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had transformed the cell into something that resembled a chocolate-chip cookie that was mostly chocolate chips. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly we waited for spring, when there could be gardens. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sula imitated her, or tried to, those long years ago, it always ended up in some acdon noteworthy not for its coolness but mostly for its being bizarre. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d watched it all from the eaves of the forest, mostly from up off the ground, in the branches. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the street, it's mostly men, too, driving vehicles of all kinds. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We're sitting huddled together wrapped in the sleeping bag, yes, but mostly to keep warm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But mostly it is the other way around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a few layups while she worked, but mostly I just glared at her. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down, across and diagonal, I pedal my sore legs through the streets of a suburb mostly sleeping. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The disembarking passengers are mostly businessmen coming home from work, but also young couples and mothers with small children. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I walk into the mostly empty auditorium—curtain time is still more than an hour away—and I'm met by Gary, whose hair is dyed lighter, and chopped short and messy like mine. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In their first few days together, they mostly stayed in—it was snowing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above Maria Isabel’s hut, there are mostly lush green slopes where it is too steep to build even the smallest place. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were girls she knew at school, but they mostly just said hello in the hallways, sometimes talked before class began and the teacher hadn’t yet arrived. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This mostly invigorating, positive trend was not without its drawbacks. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But mostly he felt bad for his family. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The houses had countless windows, mostly with shutters but some with glass, more than I had ever seen before. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and me hanging tight in the left corner; Dad on the top right, mostly out of frame. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There’s a German boarding house at the end, where soldiers stay, mostly the ones who are with the police. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They had learned the hard way that the U-boat, which was about the size of a school bus inside, traveled mostly above water across the Atlantic. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They talked, mostly, about what they had done during recreation time. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the guerrillas were actual North Korean soldiers who crossed over to recruit, mostly kidnap, young South Korean men. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The next load is for all the dark clothes, mostly Daddy’s work uniforms. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We found that mostly they fit into definite types. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, even though he didn’t have much in the way of a technical personality, but mostly I liked that his adventures kept happening. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He shows us pictures on his phone—mostly of the girlfriend. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood was mostly Jewish then and my mother was always saying, “They killed Christ! They pushed in the crown of thorns!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other-Finn wailed, and Chess was surprised to realize that he was still mostly carrying the little boy, still dragging him along. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We shared our tent with six families, mostly women and children. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Within one century of European colonization, 40,000 years of Aboriginal traditions had been mostly swept away. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They never believed that I understood their mostly frightening conversations. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But once me and the cap’n got back to the hotel and he started planning how we was gonna catch the gang of thieves, I mostly forgot ’bout how rude these Yankees was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was a long, mostly grim trip past ugly suburbs, decaying industrial plants, slums, and vast rail and truckyards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a while it becomes clear that the turnout is really mostly people from the track team and their parents. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After Malia started tennis, I mostly watched her matches through the window of a Secret Service vehicle parked discreetly near the courts, not wanting to create a distraction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had been to tennis practice at Perkins twice that week—mostly to give pointers to his dad about the players. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Juan put in little annoying factoids here and there, but mostly Sierra had the floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She had spent the past week mostly on her computer, going back and forth between researching Melissa Taylor and researching teenage birth mom support groups. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was pretty sure theirs mostly came from books, hard work, and old-fashioned studying. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

She’d been mostly normal since our conversation on Christmas, but she always looked a little nervous when the competition came up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Food from Silas mostly came in packets, purchased from the kind of places that sold food late at night and asked no questions. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would talk, but mostly we existed in a kind of companionable silence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His music was, however, mostly enjoyed by audiences in his own lifetime, and perhaps most significantly it exerted a huge influence on the debate over music’s future direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mandela made friends on the Fugees—mostly with the other Liberian boys like Prince and Fornatee—and he made friends at school. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The other bank of cages was mostly quiet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux, occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

Here he’d mostly sat still, like the old people in the restaurant used to. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She seemed mostly concerned that I understand the impor-No, I'm not kidding. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He glances at the pile of coins, mostly nickels. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there are other pieces of toilet paper there already, melting among the bracken and dead leaves, but mostly there are not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I go back to my room and sit on my squeaky bed, stewing and reading but mostly stewing. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was teaching a class on racism and the law at the University of Chicago Law School and working by day at his law firm, mostly on cases involving voting rights and employment discrimination. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now that Americans have mostly deloused themselves, typhus has discovered a new route into us: by infecting eastern North American flying squirrels and then transferring to people whose attics harbor flying squirrels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then, after a mostly sleepless night, I’d have to get up and start looking for a new ride. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly they were angry with the “brass,” and with their own officers for abandoning them in the retreat, and with the French for collapsing without a fight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There is talk of the auction, of babysitters to get home to, but mostly of Celia Foote retching in the middle of it all. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I am relieved that the questions are basic, mostly wanting to know my interests and what I see as my strengths and weaknesses. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Yesterday had left me shaken mostly because it had caught me so unprepared. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She reads all the time—in the halls, in the cafeteria— mostly novels with angsty protagonists: The Virgin Suicides, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By now I know that Beast Riders, mostly they help each other. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kibitzers, always free with mostly unwanted advice, would often have to be chased away by the tournament organizer José Calderon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know people are mostly clapping for Mrs. Peck, but it feels good standing in front of everyone, having them smile and cheer us on, listening to our every word. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I finally crested the staircase mostly blind and nauseated, the muscles in my arms and legs screaming for oxygen. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Our biggest concern was Myers, mostly because we knew he would feel incredible pressure once he was brought back to the county courthouse, and he'd broken under pressure before. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Stephanie blanched, but Erin mostly maintained her composure, aside from her eyes darting side to side. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I refilled them with fresh candles and set them all around on the grass, under the trees, mostly in the little holes of earth where the cabbage weeds had grown. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was disgust and fear, yes, as Sarai passed them by, but mostly what she saw in them was pleading. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our Relocation Rules were mostly a mash-up of lines from her favorite poems, novels, and classic country lyrics. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Something flying low was peppering the runway with machine gun tire; even buried mostly underground, even a quarter of a mile away, the shelter’s iron walls shuddered. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The opponent was the Triumph, a mostly white team from nearby Tucker, Georgia. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She met and married an intense dark man—a man whose fingers were stained with chemicals, mostly silver nitrate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard the word so often—mostly from Maria—he’d thought it was only a swear word, like dumdum or cootie face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old lord kept mostly in his own apartments, coming forth mornings to pace up and down the snowy inner courtyards of the castle-keep like an old sorcerer who has been brewing spells all night. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I decide I mostly like him, despite him pointing a gun at me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Sales were down to 30,0 pairs a year, mostly to backwoods outlets and small-town family stores. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are anxious for brushes and paint tubes, mostly to give them something to do besides tremble against my legs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had streamed across from the south bank—mostly university students, as well as their masters. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve played around on my piano and come up with some original stuff, but mostly simple melodies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He’d added at least sixteen new questions to his notebook since breakfast, mostly about being blind. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Groups of mostly boys, and sometimes females, who hang out together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Posters were up all over the walls, mostly of bands, plus dozens of Polaroids that had been stuck to the wall with bright blue tape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Those visiting the spring were mostly women and young girls like my mother and sisters. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

His speech was mostly about Ginny and how important Coo was to her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Right now it was mostly hubbub, laughter, and the sound of clinking plates and tumbling ice as uniformed servers whisked around the room with their heavy trays and pitchers of water. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

All the complex’s residents were standing outside now, mostly men, some women. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Farther down the street the Harlem Opera House, which had once shown live performances when Harlem was mostly white, showed older films. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In particular, Afroasiatic speakers mostly prove to be people who would be classified as whites or blacks, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo speakers prove to be blacks, Khoisan speakers Khoisan, and Austronesian speakers Indonesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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 belonged to my brother Shawn, who’d quarreled with my father at seventeen and run off to work odd jobs, mostly trucking and welding. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Until the 1980s, Mexican immigration was largely seasonal and mostly limited to agricultural workers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She’s trying to teach me the piano, but mostly I like to listen to her play. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But my family mostly lives on the same block, one house next to the other. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

No, I was mostly ashamed of my, er, physical reaction to the hug. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

How can you believe in thunderstorms when all you see is a mostly clear sky? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The terms favored in this course are mostly those in common use in the U.S., but when more than one system of terms is widely used, the alternatives are mentioned. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I say, "Actually, I will have a beer," mostly because I want something in my hand. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

I used to think people were mostly good, but now I wonder if anyone could be a murderer. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to do; mostly I stayed at the head of the oxen and kept them moving. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part-time work was meant to give me more freedom, but mostly it left me feeling as if I were only half doing everything, that all the lines in my life had been blurred. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I found that the chimps eat mostly fruits but also a good many kinds of leaves, blossoms, seeds, and stems. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That Lucas had been wounded pretty bad, but was mostly okay now. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We had a group family chat going at all times—mostly for fun and sometimes to call meetings. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Standing in four rows in front of us are a group of people, mostly dressed in black and white, spaced two feet apart, guns held up and ready. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So while we made occasional coal-collecting expeditions, we used mostly wood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers are mostly women over a certain age, women who aren’t married. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pelican is standing mostly on one leg. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His final decades were spent mostly storming out of labs and lecture halls all across Europe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All kinds of mostly white hippies with long, hanging hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were parties there, but it was mostly college kids. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I wanted to guess the right gift because it would make Mom very happy to know that she made me happy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That last one was mostly about getting ready for this one,” Dad said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The building seems like it’s mostly vacant, especially the top floors. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It travels all the way to the Texas border, mostly at night, when the dark will make it harder for him to be detected. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But mostly it was a heartwarmingly plain, sincere machine, promising good fun and few breakdowns; the sort of car that, especially in soft yellow, looked like nothing so much as a bar of soap. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is something I really wanna go to ... for networking reasons and just for personal exposure to fellow human beings who would be mostly friendly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s so few horses now—mostly automobiles. It’s hard to get,” argued Neeley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of our friends are talking about it, and mostly they’re pleased. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her words stung like sleet, mostly because Piper had had the same thoughts herself. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are the lightest glacier blue; I use mostly white when I draw them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She would have talked and talked and talked, mostly about people we didn’t know or didn’t like, and would, upon asking you a question, quickly interrupt you and continue on with her own thoughts. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, the cuts and bruises have healed mostly, but she’s like not all here yet. She’s like a shadow instead of a real person.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep him calm, Jonathan sat down at his side, aware mostly of his own great weariness. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That hill is mostly tall dead grass, not jungle, so it would burn up in a flash. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first few pages were mostly sketches and doodles, but those gave way to page after page of math problems. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I read this bad poetry at open mics in local cafes populated mostly by other poets who also felt the insecurity of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And the few things she could talk about to her father and mother were thin and pale and tired and mostly not even true. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I'm not at school, I mostly read. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddy never went to a school with mostly black kids either. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Choral music in which the parts have mostly the same rhythms at the same time is homophonic. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Progressives concerned about racial justice in this period were mostly silent about the War on Drugs, preferring to channel their energy toward defense of affirmative action and other perceived gains of the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was mostly Phoebe's stuff, from school and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Alexandra of my childhood and youth was a shantytown of mostly shacks, a few decent houses, lots of gutters and lots of unpaved, potholed streets with numbers from First to Twenty-third. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls, reproduction Chinese paintings, mostly landscapes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Also, we’re Changing Woman’s grandchildren, but mostly because deep down we believe in the Holy Beings. Your grandma looks like she needs you. I’ll see you around, healer of the water monster.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They chatted some, but mostly they drank, and I drifted out of the conversation and ended up squinting through the dark, looking at the book spines in Alaska’s Life Library. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Those necklaces left green marks around our necks where they rubbed, but our tans mostly covered them up. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I wrote out the checks,” he said, mostly to himself. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There’s barely anyone dancing—people are mostly just hovering around the dance floor—and it’s hard to shake the feeling that everyone’s watching me. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I say, “Oh yeah. Sold plenty there. Pies and apple butter too. And we had PYO. Pick Your Own. And there was the company that came for the cider apples. The Mclntoshes and Empires mostly.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Classical music in the mid-twentieth century was mostly about the brain and the intellect: the conceptual theory behind a composition had become more important than the sensory effect of the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But mostly I miss the fears bf the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One big reason is that dividends and investment gains, which go mostly to the richest, are not subject to the tax. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look through the hanging clothes—mostly dresses—and pick out the ones I think are fancy enough for the service but not too fancy. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They lived mostly on these things made from stale bread, and condensed milk and coffee, onions, potatoes, and always the penny’s worth of something bought at the last minute, added for fillip. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe truly they fear for their jobs, but mostly, I believe, they simply do not like foreigners. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve brought a sketchbook with me and a toolbox of brushes and paints, mostly watercolors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word got round fast enough, but the talk mostly focused on Miss Lucy herself rather than on what she’d been trying to tell us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linds was mostly bare skin in her spaghetti-strap tank, and she yelped as one of the cold pops mashed against the top of her back. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were mostly black-and-white portraits of bands and a few famous paintings. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We didn't mix well with the other kids and stuck together mostly by default. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The same five harvesters were there, and Elvio talked and joked with them all, sometimes in English but mostly in Spanish. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Even when the sentence structure gets more complicated, a reader can handle the tree, because its geometry is mostly right-branching. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

How I hated T. Ray, and the girls at school, but mostly myself for taking away my mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate food if I was hungry; but mostly I wrote in my journal or read a book. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They’d mostly been deployed at Tumon Bay, but when their commanders finally realized we weren’t going near there, they moved them to head us off and keep us boxed in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had some blocks that were cubes, and a few triangles for decoration, but mostly it was this kind. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The tiled floor was mostly shattered and broken through in places down past the joists. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My classmates seem happy about the field trip, mostly because it’s something different and gets us out of school for half a day, but Boy21 doesn’t even crack a smile, which is weird. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother has other people, patients mostly, who she wants to help. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seems as though they’re both desperate to treat the other to dinner, but mostly this is just their way of being polite. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The money usually be mostly gone on one trip and I don’t want to spend all my days shopping anyway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph had seen the box, which was mostly empty except for some old tools and newspapers. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

During the week his father said many things, mostly with his hands. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It looked mostly empty, but clearly there was still something inside. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She thought about her grandmother, who had had a long and mostly cheerful life. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for three days more, stopping at restaurants when we came to them, and camping in shelters, which once again we had mostly to ourselves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My fist catches him around the eye socket area, so my knuckles hit mostly bone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soft peaks and vaporous chasms rose or opened here and there, but mostly it looked like a solid mass of ice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mohamed mostly remembered the lack of school materials in our primary and secondary schools, and how we had to help the teachers grow crops in their farms or gardens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But mostly Papa was saving...saving...for what, Hanako wasn’t sure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I knew Mama had come mostly to be with her daddy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” I say, mostly because he normally doesn’t talk so much and I’m a little mesmerized by it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The whole rest of the day, Salva went around saying, “A, B, C” mostly to himself but sometimes aloud, in a quiet voice. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drive to our favorite coffee shop, get our favorite drinks, and talk about Jamie and college and our parents, but mostly Jamie if I'm being honest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Actually, it had mostly been Mom’s idea, but she thought it would be best if I brought it up so Connor would be more open to it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There is still quite a lot of life out there, but it is mostly very small. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly stay quiet, but by the end of my ham and cheese. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

About 40 percent of their calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, though, I mostly thought she smelled like fish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He stayed in school, mostly to play sports. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Years later, when the tribe created its first court system, which adjudicated mostly minor crimes, he was elected one of the three judges. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There are only about thirty of us in all, mostly Negroes, with a few of the younger roughnecks to round out the ranks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I noticed that an unusual number of blacks were present, mostly tennis players from Soweto and Pretoria. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Anderson has found that babies mostly glance at television because of the bottom-up system—in other words, they are responding to changes in sound and light. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I rely . . . mostly on memory,” the Keeper huffed, his voice finally showing a hint of strain. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Five of the six costumes are mostly fine. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From that, Nailer took him to be saying that mostly people didn’t. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I myself was against taking it, but mostly because the roads were so pocked with bomb holes that I didn’t know how we’d drive the thing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Ophie mostly knew who it was by the words the men were saying: words that were unkind at their heart, the kind of words that bruised and jabbed just by being spoken. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s by his own design, mostly, a barricade of charm and fitful monologues and hard-headed independence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I start going through my flash cards, mostly so I don’t have to sit here and be awkward with Sam’s grandfather, who is definitely listening to every word Sam is saying to her mom. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After cleaning myself up and rewrapping the bandage around my side, I felt mostly human. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bodega rented an apartment on the top floor of the tower facing the East River, mostly for the view—he had enough other places to live in. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were mostly on their own together because Flo was too weak to keep up with the other chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’re all buzzing—mostly about the Patriots’ game yesterday—and it’s like the jar of jelly is moving because soon the swarm is in the back corner right next to my desk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In those days he saw mostly kids with adrenogenital syndrome, the most common form of female hermaphroditism. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We hurry through mostly empty, mostly silent streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You are deluded,” Audrey said, mostly under her breath but loud enough for me to hear. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But Master said it only once; he mostly called her nkem, my own. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the University of Ghana’s Great Hall, I addressed the largest audience that I would in Africa—mostly Africans, but also numerous whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say I was in it for the thrill of learning, but mostly I was in it for the thrill of getting into a worthwhile college. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly in their twenties and back to try it again at school. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four of them stood in a line, two sets of twins, distinct mostly because of their hair color. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Tom’s brother Doc recalled, “We had nothing—not even fingerprints. We had to use mostly witnesses, and they were sometimes hard to come by.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Spanish landfalls in the Americas were at subtropical latitudes highly suitable for food production, based at first mostly on Native American crops but also on Eurasian domestic animals, especially cattle and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I was mostly worried about what the hell I was doing at this school. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll feed it each day. Seeds, mostly, and some of the bugs from the field.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A photograph housed in a pewter frame and sitting on their dresser top, which was cluttered mostly with snapshots of me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even with mostly full batteries, I had set up the solar cells when I stopped. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I ask them eagerly, “What are you reading?” they let me flip through their books, mostly guidebooks with little maps of Otavalo and information about the markets and Quichua culture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t tell his location, of course, but promised me he was miraculously mostly intact, and coming home soon! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that guard they chose mostly archers who knew the ways of Ithilien and would lie hid in the woods and slopes about the meeting of the ways. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I assumed it was mostly posture coaching and junior polo league.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Papa told her about this strange neighborhood: how its families had been Americans for more than a hundred years back; how they were mostly Scotch, English and Welsh extraction. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black hole begins, like all stars, as a big ball of hot gas—mostly hydrogen. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And she was playing basketball almost every lunch now, mostly with Liana and Ainsley, sometimes even with the boys. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a predominantly white sorority, made up of mostly cheerleaders, rich kids, and the occasional Distinguished Scholar. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But mostly, it went for beer and Friday night dinners at the back window of Mother’s Pizza. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the time it reaches the end, the corn is reduced to simple molecules, mostly sugars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Those two weeks were mostly uneventful save for the massive forty-man search party that the police department somehow coaxed into hiking through the woods all around Lily and canoeing down the river. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Part of it was the new, knee-jerk anger, but mostly he was thinking of Lily. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bryant owns eight cars, mostly antiques, and a garage to store them all. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But mostly it contributes to streams and so to rivers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Around the back is a yard, mostly dirt, and a greasy bunch of boards that used to be a garage. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My congenital distraction sometimes fascinated him and sometimes amused him, but mostly it just drove him crazy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She chattered on about what colors to use, mostly lavender and pink, while braiding Gulmina’s patchy honey-colored hair. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

That kind of thinking starts with families, mostly. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Day after day the newspapers increased the tension by printing frightening, exaggerated, and mostly false stories of crimes committed by blacks on whites. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Same as a hunter lost in the woods will walk in circles, if he don’t have a star to guide him, or know that moss mostly grows on the north side of trees. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So Magdalys mostly had to be content with watching the great beasts cavort along outside her window: The lamplighter’s iguanodons would pass first thing in the morning, extinguishing the lanterns as the day broke. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In 1962, when I had attended the mostly white San Francisco State University for two years, I found myself living among an enclave of students where I was the only person of color. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I could only see the ground in front of me, my own feet, and the dog who stayed by my side through the storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This is what I need to do, he thought, and he pedaled faster down 8th, through a Chinatown that was mostly asleep. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We mostly lived out of our suitcases because the dressers were tiny. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Earth itself is a very rich mixture of atoms, mostly silicon,' oxygen, aluminum, magnesium and iron. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the top, they looked down into a small valley that was mostly clear of forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At night and on weekends, there were often lively discussions around her kitchen table, sometimes with friends—mostly Jewish intellectuals. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some college kids, maybe, but it’s mostly adults, and some of them are gnarled and weathered seniors. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mama does let us play with little children and boys, even if they are mostly naked, but not those ones in the red hankies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It showed all the hills and the streams mostly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly just bile and goes down the drain with the sweet-smelling bubbles. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He mostly sits on his stool and stares at a new canvas. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We talked some, mostly about girls, but then O’Dell and Sherman kind of drifted off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is one of the training areas. We try for mostly organic materials, but this wooden set was donated, and it works; sometimes that’s the best we can do,” Dr. Martin says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watch carefully to make out if Kelsey’s lips are actually moving, but it is mostly Joe doing the talking, and I notice his lips speed up just when Colin slows down. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are many such stories, they are mostly far more bitter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they all talk at the same time, all babbling mostly the same thing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Bobby and Jack played thousands of games—mostly speed—analyzed hundreds of positions, and solved dozens of chess problems together. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the consequences of his decampment into the world of fantasy was leaving his meager group of friends—mostly from church—behind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The other competitors remained mostly quiet—save for Cain and Verin—and many of them were pale as snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The scientists were looking for ways to strip the kids’ abilities—“rehabilitate” them—but they had mostly just stripped their will to live. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was standing in the goal at soccer practice taking shots from some of the starting players, mostly eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodies were mostly men in their late and early twenties. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And the beggars were mostly children now, thin and grim-faced, some no older than five or six. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m also invited to take part in several group showings, mostly by women: they’ve heard about the ink throwing, read the snotty reviews, all of which render me legitimate, although from the east. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly her thoughts were about the beautiful black marble bathtub in that bathroom. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we were back on earth, it was moist and smelled like burned chemicals, but mostly it was hot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But womenfolk mostly trust what they feel more than menfolk. It’s called intuition. Think hard now, Jezebel. Did you feel, somewhere deep inside, that it was going to hurt you?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The high wall teetered in some places, but mostly it hid us from view of the road. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We were mostly silent on our journey, craning our necks, keeping watch in every direction. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly the horses are just there, useless, parasitic, grazing in the overgrazed fields, because there have always been horses in Milagro. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on now,” Jake said, disagreeing mostly out of habit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My tuition was a full six talents, which put me in an interesting situation The long road to Imre was mostly deserted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I go fishing by myself, mostly so I’ll have something to put in my letters to him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadows but mostly clothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Up until then, gymnastics had been mostly fun and games for me; I had to start seeing it as work too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But mostly it’s because the Getty desperately wanted the statue to be real. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to have ‘breakfast for dinner,”’ I answered, crossing knife and fork over my mostly full plate. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But apart from my big performance on the front porch, Wednesday is mostly boring. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Looks like Watney finished the balloon addition to the trailer. It mostly uses the design we sent him." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s working he’s like laid back at home and he’s mostly off the bottle. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t return to the East Coast right after the tournament, so Bobby journeyed alone, this time by bus, looking out the window sometimes, but mostly analyzing games on his pocket set. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fear, mostly, but I felt wobbly, and then I had a sinking sensation, ears all plugged up, as if I’d gone deep under water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked that Vern’s walls were covered with artwork, mostly landscapes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The houses they lived in were scattered about the wasteland, and were mostly little thatch-roofed huts with floors and porches decked smooth with cowdung. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were mostly eighteen or nineteen years old. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And mostly, we guard the borderlands. We protect the borders of things.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She’s been kinder to me than anyone else here, mostly keeping me out of trouble, and it’s the least I can do for her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His seat was located near Keith’s in the mostly uniform batch of cubicles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was flat and stiff and mostly black, and Palmer never in a million years would have guessed it had once been a muskrat. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was mostly ceramic, with a metal knob to advance the wick, and it looked ancient. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jody’s line is that art so far has been mostly men admiring one another. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every year that same number of Europeans—Irish and Germans mostly, fleeing famine and political unpleasantness—streamed into the harbors of Boston, New York, Philadelphia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I mostly want to complain about going to Mexico, but Dr. Cooke wants to talk about dating and sex again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The older generation had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the Fifties and Sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been ter-rified into complete intellectual surrender. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Underdown reported this to me, in quick little bursts of translation while she squeezed my hand tightly, since it was mostly all in French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, truth told, it’s mostly how amazing he is. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“No. I could hear a little. That’s how I learned to talk. But then it went away, mostly.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Holder released nine states, mostly in the South, from the requirement that they must seek advance federal approval before making any change in their election laws. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches were mostly bare of leaves now, and the squirrels were in full-fledged autumnal hysteria, frantically seeking nuts and burying them everywhere their tiny one-track minds could think of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But mostly, we spent our time in the Spinney or down by the river, where Gram told me fairy tales while she painted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was all angles, he remembered later, knees, mostly, and elbows. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The benches that had been filled by Walter's supporters the previous day were now mostly occupied by older white people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But look, the art is mostly done for you.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They told of the places they had been, which mostly seemed to be catacombs and plague-pits. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

On the same page there's another group shot, mostly of schoolchild­ren. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had operated a candy store until she got sick, after which she mostly slept or sat by the window, looking frail and weak. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was mostly quiet on the drive, which was good, because I was entirely asleep, the side of my head against the minivan window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d thought I would see the cities, but mostly I saw truck stops and interstate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled his mouth down to hers, wanting only to taste him but mostly tasting the blood on his lips. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the Voting Rights Act passed, court clerks and judges still kept the jury rolls mostly white through various tactics designed to undermine the law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The way was mostly flat, and he held the damp ferns and webs of moss aside for me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Have a seat,” Adrienne said, gesturing at the mostly empty tables. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You don’t scare me,” I said, mostly under my breath. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think that made Erlan happy, because it meant they mostly stayed away from our card game. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I left them out of the story, mostly because I am a coward. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She walked around the living room, picking up the small wooden sculptures that Eric had in many corners of the room, mostly brown Madonnas with caramel babies wrapped in their arms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“You know, this is the hard part. The part before you say it. The part after is just a little easier, mostly because you’re not waiting to do the hardest thing you’ve ever done.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the day-care center, mostly for the children of employees, isn’t what she wants to do permanently. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The sheriff's hat, with its wide brim, is a few feet away and mostly free of blood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The result was that the original hymn style became the purview of the shape note singing schools, mostly in the South, where they flourished for many years. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The 1930s saw some giants of ‘musical comedy’, as it mostly was at that time, straddle the twin worlds of Broadway and Hollywood - among them George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My mom had me wear it to school sometimes, mostly on days when I didn’t have gym class. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The tidings were mostly sad and ominous: of gathering darkness, the wars of Men, and the flight of the Elves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tufts of grass poked out from a few shady spots, but mostly, it was dry and stark. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Forum was okay, but it was mostly ruins overgrown with bushes and trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Blake was not a particularly religious man, though going to church did make him nostalgic for his Protestant upbringing in Holland before World War II. Now, however, his interest in religion was mostly strategic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fence was mostly thrown down, but the fortified gates still stood. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But now I ask the questions mostly because I want to know the answers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bought me a suitcase and some clothes, mostly long-sleeved shirts, dress pants, and traditionally waxed, colorful cotton suits with intricate embroidery on the collars, sleeves, and hems of pants. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“While you were doing all that talking, he’s slipped from sort of to mostly dead.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There were thousands of stories just like this one, and mostly they didn’t end happily.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I like that she likes it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She read constantly and offered, in letters to Etty mostly, her literary criticism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adult lacewing feeds mostly on plant nectars and the honeydew of aphids, and in time she lays her eggs, each on the end of a long stalk which she fastens to a leaf. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I love the poem, I mean I do, but it’s mostly just nice to know that there’s someone as weird as I am in this school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But mostly, she watches, she waits, she loves. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sat in the living room mostly, staring at the television set and wishing everybody would just leave us alone. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had two wives who alternated visits but mostly stayed in the rural areas. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

People can’t get enough of me, but despite the enthusiastic reception, mostly I want to get high and lie around. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke mostly French and some Swahili, not the language of my people, Kinyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was plastic, a soupy bobbing island of it, bags mostly, soda bottles, laundry detergent containers, all the same bleached gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly sat outside on the flat rock with Mohamed and we were both quiet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

DVDs and cases orbited in a ring around it, mostly Farsi-language dubs of Bollywood movies. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Mess is mostly dark except for the lights along the perimeter of the room that let off a faint electronic buzz. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In her mostly dark bedroom, Sierra stood in front of the mirror and frowned. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There're a lot of bikes and toys lying around, mostly bashed up and broken, and the little kids who live there look almost as busted up as the toys. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Well, not really, but it was a lot of stuff—mostly paints and dyes, and solutions to make the colors permanent. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And not only does this mostly cause a lot of pain, but the animals are so often kept in tiny cramped cages. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah simply refused to live without the attentions of a man, and after Rekus’ death had a steady sequence of lovers, mostly the husbands of her friends and neighbors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly they talked to one another about what flowers were growing well this time of year and who was having a baby and who was getting married. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She has a very primitive hairdo and wears mostly the same three shirts and blue jeans or one skirt over and over. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he could find support for his feet, he would use it, but mostly it was the jammed fists that made the climbing possible. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I've never told anyone the story, mostly because I think it sounds weird that my mother came up with name by staring at a calendar. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I got all my papers into a mostly straight pile and sandwiched them between my econ and geometry books. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

By the time Davis texted me at 6:52, I had mostly forgotten about it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were some other people coming out of Mary Lyon now, mostly students, but I wasn't sure if Mrs. Attison was there too. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew only that we were the best students coming out of what was thought to be a middling, mostly black school in a middling, mostly black neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A crowd is gathering, mostly made up of displaced Benzini Brothers roustabouts. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But mostly, folks could stay out of trouble if they had a mind to do that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice is here now, but it is mostly there in my running body. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Their wings came in all varieties, mostly patterned after butterflies, but much more elegantly shaped and radiantly colored. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Half of the soldiers were black, mostly from Chicago, the other half white, mostly from California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I quietly slipped into the club and was thankful that it was mostly empty on this particular weekday evening. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the dim fight, the mostly empty room, the pressing silence ... he felt as if he were staring at the back of a ghost waiting to pronounce their doomed destiny. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But mostly, it was freaky to look back into the eyes of the younger me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was just romancing him, kindly playing to his mostly self-promoting immigrant lore, but later she’d showed Mitt, too, kneeling down beside him to watch the men and women busy in the street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees I’d been near, for instance, were pine trees, tall and straight with branches and needles mostly at the top. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His feelings about her were mostly fear—fear that she would not like him, and fear that she would. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s sophomore lunch, and the halls are mostly empty. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Two days of incessant walking, mostly looking for jobs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed two buckets of stuff from the couch—it looked like mostly shoe heels—and flopped down on the cushions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s my belief that what mostly influenced her was that they had even more diet restrictions than she always had taught and practiced with us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them and my cousin Anna live mostly in Mumbai, in their other luxury home. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It's mostly a lot of blather about what we owe the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the shelf, she grouped the baking powder, a box of salt, the mostly empty sack of flour, and the tin of lard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I was mostly telling him the truth about the packages. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas, now slightly scared of the guy but mostly fed up with his attitude, moved to get up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, he sometimes envied his neighbors whatever it was some of them still possessed—call it cultural integrity—that he had mostly turned his back on by accepting the sheriff s job. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Mamani, she was mostly sedentary and spent the bulk of her time on the couch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The oil comes mostly from the Middle East, the corn comes from Iowa, the beef is slaughtered has to be shipped by truck across the country to a Wal-Mart or McDonald’s near you. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I practice mostly with a gun, but they reserve an hour a day for specialty weapons, which means I get to use my Mockingjay bow, Gale his heavy militarized one. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A music stand in his classroom held sheet music, early Baroque pieces, mostly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We ended up at the Dollar Tree, mostly because the day before, someone had stolen our entire load of laundry from the washing machine at the Laundromat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Our final destination all along. It’s mostly safe and peaceful, with work opportunities and good schools.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And while all of that was going on and the room was getting quiet, Mr. Mwila appeared at our group, looking down mostly at me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly about the quality of your report. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a fair few. ... Keep themselves to themselves mostly, but they’re good enough about turnin’ up if ever I want a word. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was mostly soft, small bones and gristle with only the memory of meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city-made stuff was mostly shabby and worn, repaired again and again, but the handmade things fascinated Tally. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The other people on the bus are mostly workers on their way home. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In spite of the war between France and The Netherlands, Huygens’s life was mostly without incident outside his scientific work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The audience was mostly town people because the farmers had all gone home to do their chores. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

True, she was mostly going to make sure Nehemia didn’t hurt herself or the court. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But mostly I was surprised that she’d wanted me involved in her original plan, too. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Our town of ten thousand people is mostly Jewish,” Grandfather told them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It makes sense, then, that the construction of small and mediumsized hydroelectric plants—capable of serving local industry and built mostly by hand, using basic technology—has been a priority since the 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There are miracles, yes, mostly of a medical nature, a few to satisfy hungry stomachs; at best a storm is tempered, water is briefly walked upon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in Queens the buildings are small, mostly private homes, and those that aren’t are only a few stories high. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Moss appreciated the silence, mostly because his head was full. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Doña Charito's collected works hung on the walls: mostly pitchers and bowls of fruit, and violins or guitars, I couldn't tell the difference, for we hadn't had music lessons yet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We were a little late and the pews were mostly filled, so we sat up close to the front, where we could pretty much look right into the manger. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Several nights passed, and Brooklyn stayed mostly quiet. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck - mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His stories—he's told me pieces, mostly the good parts, as I've told him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For some reason I imagine it to be something like Alison, but mostly I just think of her as the running girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’m upset that the house is gone, but I’m mostly worried that Brandy couldn’t care less. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Summer mornings are mostly sunny and still, though by midaftemoon huge boiling thunderheads start to build over the Everglades, and the weather can get interesting in a hurry. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The name of the vessel was written on the side in tiny white letters that had mostly flaked off. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s happened to some of the kids from my school, mostly gangbangers and girls who are ripe for pregnancy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi smirked and said, “We go mostly to Europe and America, where they are losing priests. So there is really no indigenous culture to pacify, unfortunately.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His father and sisters wanted to fix him up with their cousin Emma Wedgwood, mostly to stop the gossip, but so far nothing had happened there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school has a nice rep as a school for smart kids, mostly smart white kids. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had the magazine open to a center spread of Fabian onstage singing before an audience of mostly girls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But although he speculated that the atom was mostly empty space rather than a homogenous mass speckled with charged nuggets, he had not yet conceived an alternative model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No one paid much attention to her, and if it hadn’t been for the cats she would have probably lived and died in our midst, mostly forgotten by the rest of us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, the three kids—mostly Emma and Finn—had decided that “succotash” was the best word to use. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The weekend goes by fast and is mostly full of homework and volunteer work with Mrs. Malloy. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I knew most of his stories were a bunch of baloney, but it was mostly harmless stuff, so I didn’t sweat it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would bring a sketchbook or something and try to draw, but mostly I just liked to go there. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They were mostly thin, beautiful women in formfitting dresses, and heavyset men in what Luke’s dad and brothers called sissy clothes—shiny shoes and clean, dressy pants and jackets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crowd of people, mostly women and old men, standing in front of the desk officer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

All of our departures from the country were dangerous, abrupt, and mostly illegal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he played pickup basketball at the Y, and then at night he drove around town in his father’s car, mostly alone, or with a six-pack of beer, cruising. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moody and Izzy, of course, had not been invited; they knew Stacie Perry only by reputation, and the invite list had mostly been seniors. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lucas asked, looking down at my mostly naked body lying half in the mud and half in the river. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It had gotten a little wet, but the backpack had kept it mostly safe. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want there to be any more trouble, mostly because my mother already had enough. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Everything. Art, mostly. I love it. I’m really happy.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, Beto watched Henry walk off to talk to some men smoking at the edge of the parked cars, mostly out of sight of the ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was mostly surprised that the house even had a basement—you can’t dig very deep before hitting water in most of Orlando. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Lack of students, mostly. If you’re old enough to go to college, you’re old enough to be drafted. Even if that wasn’t the case, I doubt people can really afford it anymore.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It probably had something to do with the horror show hook-up with Faith and the intensity of Howie’s visit, but mostly it was thanks to Pastor Ted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the water ran mostly clear, I climbed out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There was a pack of matches, mostly used, in one pocket, and a small shuttle of cotton twine stuffed in another. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sam’s mind was occupied mostly with his master, hardly noticing the dark cloud that had fallen on his own heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Alec looked over at him, but his face was mostly hidden in shadow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk, mostly above the Road, nestling on the hillside with windows looking west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We wove in and out of the herd—so many people, mostly strangers, but everyone there for the same reason. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, Violet and Klaus would speak to each other, but mostly they were silent, lost in their own thoughts. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Talk on the church steps afterward was mostly about the football team and its undefeated season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even though he was a bachelor, Eras spent much of his time with women—mostly other mens wives—taking them on errands in his carriage, going to dinners. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muse mostly listened and peppered their conversation with brief comments. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know what color Jem’s hair or eyes actually are because the movie is in black and white which means mostly gray. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was hard to make these look right, mostly because they look so stupid. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But even as he said it, he pulled out his mostly empty fifth of whiskey. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Neville was getting more than a few suspicious glares from the mostly white students. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The gallery was still half full, mostly his banking buddies, 1 imagine, lots of Brooks Brothers suits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I think she liked it, but mostly everyone had given up on my ever returning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you get older you hear mostly about people you knew that died. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small room, taken up mostly with a wide plank desk and three stools. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The river’s waters run freely at this time, mostly empty of the barges and canoes that choke it in the morning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was only an hour and a half from Brisbane, but for a boy whose time away from home had been spent mostly in a hospital, it felt like a whole other world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

During classes, she mostly held her stomach and chewed on her pencils. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s found some neat stuff like old flags and broken furniture that looks like ninja weapons, but mostly he just finds food leftovers, cigarette ashes, and beer bottles. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He did recognize, albeit faintly, that he was too long, and too big, for this bathtub—he looked like a mostly grown person playing at being a kid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Whatever the real reason, The Truth, for taking us to California, I shall always think it lay mostly in an incident in which Bailey had the leading part. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People came up from the village, the women mostly,” the old man said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The lines in front of the buses had mostly disappeared and the drivers were only waiting for the final okay to start their routes. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We sell mostly to other vendors, collecting twelve ounces of rice for five sweet cakes or ten cookies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long hair was mostly gray, but her cheeks were rosy and her eyes as bright as ever. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As far as he was concerned, this was pretty much mostly Grandpop’s fault. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And so Alma Ember began her studies and lived with her grandmother in the mostly peaceful Georgia town, allowing herself to be troubled only by portfolio deadlines and country-club luncheons. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As a result of the raid, more than four hundred other youth groups—mostly political and religious groups—vanished. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And convincing him to invite her to court—mostly by implying what might await him once she was out of her father’s household and without a chaperone—hadn’t been that difficult. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While the demonstration was mostly peaceful, a racially charged atmosphere now gripped the city, with more and more people wondering if Durham would be “the next Birmingham.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The square was mostly empty, except for an enormous gray horse that swished its tail in front of the smithy. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He kept his head down and cast furtive glances from side to side, but by then the streets were mostly empty in the rust-colored light. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was mostly smoked meat, bread, and those sweet potato things. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The others in the line with him are mostly women with babies, little children, old men—and cripples. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the moment it is mostly an arrangement of packed soil and stacks of stone forming tall but rudimentary walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Well, mostly people of European descent. I'm not sure how it will help you navigate life in Flushing, that's for sure." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His presentation fell mostly on deaf ears, until a young Dutchman, who worked for a nonprofit company in Holland called International Dispensary Association, grew frustrated at the impasse. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I'm mostly hidden by a round, green trash can. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rooms of the main castle—which he could see from the windows—were mostly small, because people can’t afford to build for luxury when they are making a fortification. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like they keeping it mostly on the east side, near where he was killed. For now at least.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The land around Trebon was rough, mostly thick forest broken by stretches of rocky ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We can still reach the war room, which is stripped but mostly intact. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard walking and the boys kept mostly to themselves as they walked east. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Essentially, it went where access could be gained, mostly high up on the hills, over lonely ridges and forgotten hollows that no one had ever used or coveted, or sometimes even named. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly stare out the window, watching this part of the country pass. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few dozen angry men chase us for a while, swinging pitchforks and baseball bats, although it’s mostly for the benefit of the tale they’ll get to tell at dinner tonight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The streets are paved, but the sidewalks are mostly dirt. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I think of all the noises in Mr. Fabian’s room, which are mostly manageable sounds. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We unbuckled our belts and waited while mostly men in suits, college students, and a few women with children made their way down the aisle and to the front of the plane. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve practiced martial arts ever since, in those obscure corners of the globe, mostly as a way to keep in shape for basketball. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Once again his time was mostly spent waiting, drilling, and taking care of his equipment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like all other gangs, they fought with their rivals, but as one member recalled, they were mostly “tomato fights, mud fights, and raids.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The yellow cattle cars were mostly empty, as were the cars of the Alley L that ran along Sixty-third Street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We found lots of coins—mostly new money but also some buffalo nickels and a silver dollar from the bicentennial. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Before I could embarrass myself and Baba anymore—but mostly to get away from Assef and his grin—I stepped away. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What consumed him in this period mostly was something new: his first purely commercial venture, built around his first invention totally unconnected with the work of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I turn back to the vending machine and decide on the strawberry frosted Pop-Tarts, mostly cuz there’s two in the pack. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Four or five people Jesse had never seen before were sitting about, whispering some, but mostly not talking at all. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Generations of settlers, mostly farmers, gained experience as “Indian fighters,” although they were not necessarily in the regular military. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She said you could do that sometimes even though mostly she has to see the kids at school. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent my life observing the universe, mostly in my mind's eye. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure he mostly clears up athlete’s foot and plantar warts. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Now, when I say “them,” it’s mostly us that really does the gardening. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that instant, the light was particularly, if rather vividly, flattering to his gray, mostly white, hair. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was mostly his tone that kept me awake, the lingering question of it, the brand of itch that was his voice. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I felt sick and didn’t want to think about what had happened at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Up until he went to Permian, he had been placed mostly in self- contained classes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrolled through the readers’ comments, mostly sympathy for Nicole, anger that the cops weren’t doing enough. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Until the film I had remained mostly silent about my past. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But mostly, she wondered why it was that the family from Virginia hadn’t wanted to return to Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And Amanda Wilkinson, whose face was always pinched up like she was smelling something real bad; and Sweetie Pie Thomas, who was only five years old and still mostly a baby. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just heard some good news!”—referring to a plane crash at Orly Field in Paris in which thirty-odd white Americans, mostly from Atlanta, Georgia, had been killed instantly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one at my high school knew much about Iran and mostly associated my culture with terrorism and magic carpets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But mostly folks are so busy, streets so loud, people miss seeing them. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

If you answer mostly no, then congratulations, you have white privilege. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He mostly knows about ducks, but I guess he could read up on chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure I usually talk to him like my mom does—mostly tired. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Students rush through the corridors, but they're mostly Yearlings, and none of them look twice at us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All of the broadcasting club kids are nice, but they’re also really talkative, so mostly I eat and listen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She is also beautiful, which means it’s what people see first, and sometimes, the only thing they see, and this is power and weakness both, but mostly weakness, at least so far. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They traveled mostly on old abandoned trails, astonishingly plentiful in this virtually uninhabited region; occasionally, they cut straight through the bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a loud but mostly garbled voice floated through the receiver. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Something about before we came to the Maze. Something about us. It’s mostly empty, like I said.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even the moon was mostly covered by clouds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I figured my mom out, mostly,” I said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But mostly I spend my time thinking about getting to Ares 4. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly—mostly—let them have their whiteness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In small groups we followed Mrs. Baker onto a path that went mostly uphill while jutting up as many tree roots as it could to trip us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His tours have been so sporadic in recent years that the lack of performances passes mostly without notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She’d been listening to Tía Rosa’s offhand bigotry her whole life and mostly learned to just tune it out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She wished there was something she could do for other Spares, but mostly she just felt guilt that she’d never cared much about their lives until she became one of them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s mostly hot pinkish purple because that’s the color of the d, but the colors of the other letters add a gold tinge to it. Oh, and it’s also kind of grainy.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people from the community—mostly black and poor—had packed the viewing area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Men hung at a stage-bar, mostly drinking beer, while the women danced in stiletto heels so high they doubled as stilts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’m hurrying along, too—mostly because I just want to go home and curl up in a ball on my bed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Bergamot, mostly—kind of lemony—but there was something else in there too, something I couldn’t place. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But from what I could remember, bandaging the ribs was done mostly to relieve pain. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We could play with some old dolls and broken toys, although we mostly made up our own games and caught dragonflies. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He had bred mice in his room—mostly undercover—to try to produce mice hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I helped Rosaleen some in the kitchen, but mostly I was free to lie around and write in my notebook. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the new laws thrilled the country's religious citizens, but my mostly secular family wasn't having it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The thought made him deliriously happy, mostly because he hadn’t thought it possible for Dimple’s hard edges to be softened at all, let alone that he’d be the one to accomplish it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He thought of Democritus: “Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Berkeley and its remarkable style of scientific inquiry was on the rise, and that was Ernest Lawrence’s doing—mostly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On a mostly separate track, there were also major advances in com-munications technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though police had banned all gatherings of more than three people, including those of families who wanted to bury their loved ones, hundreds attended Mashudu’s funeral, mostly her schoolmates. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed out, and it was probably mostly the heat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were the genuine article, mostly the products of lumber towns, dairy farms, mining camps, fishing boats, and shipyards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The downtown train was crowded, mostly with kids from Roosevelt High. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They mostly give orders. Blue Platoon report for watch. All Cadets to the armory. That sort of thing. Right now they’re ordering a sweep of the eastern tunnels.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was allowed to spend two weeks with him there on the wind-swept plain, mostly waiting in the strange vacancy of a cold apartment, trying to compose cordial things to say to the other wives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think what you mostly need is to get comfortable with it. You’re very tense.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was mostly skinny, which made his enormous beer belly even more alarming. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So we mostly stay in the hood, where we can just walk around on our own and everybody knows us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Catherine said, but she was only four years old and mostly thought she should say “yes” because that’s what everyone else had said first. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I slid my On the way to the house, we gleaned sketchy bits of information from Hugh about what had happened, but mostly we just ran. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There were arguments but only a few, mostly it was just all the hope and excitement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I got to stay in our apartment all day, learning some stuff from Nana and then mostly from my computer. 1,508 days of studying from the comfort of my bedroom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked about dinner, but mostly just to say that my father, an expert code, had made the meal himself. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But mostly he can tell that she sees them as lifelong buds, nothing more. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m ninety-three. What have I got to lose? I can still mostly take care of myself. I’ll need some help for some things, but nothing like what you’re thinking.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Except I mostly just made the joke for Dad. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At harvesttime, the horses were mostly used to pull the wagons. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty artisans, mostly masters, from all over Boston were the center. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was true to his word and from then on remained mostly quiet, humming along to the radio. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now they would have to deal with an angry army that was young, poor, militant, and mostly female. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are few cars, mostly semitrucks carrying new cars, oil, and logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I walked out of the auditorium to the mostly empty hallway. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But already our supplies from home seem to represent a bygone world: they stand out like bright party favors here in our Congolese house, set against a backdrop of mostly all mud-colored things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In cities up the river, it was mostly barges that you see tied up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned mostly to Beat Box but fumbled for something to say. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was mostly Mamas prayer group members who plucked flowers; a woman tucked one behind her ear once—I saw her clearly from my window. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went outside and sat next to her, the cement cold through my pants, the ground mostly clear by then except for a few patches of dirty snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The history of the United States had been offered to me as consisting of the accomplishments of white people, mostly men, and the enslavement of black people. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They'd parked on the far side of the Market, and the lot was mostly empty by the time they got back. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Porter leaned against the doorway, fiddling with his phone but mostly staring at Benji. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I brought some fish, mostly good-sized walleye, back to camp, I was the only one to bring in any fish, but they spun it differently. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also went to the computer lab, where we learned about 3D printing, including that the queen’s costume in the movie Black Panther was mostly 3D printed! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The front atrium entrance was mostly glass and was probably completely demolished. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She begins to chat with my parents, and I mostly tune out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, they've both been roasted already so they mostly need to be heated up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They built a series of apartment complexes—mostly two-story buildings arranged around big parking lots. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought about mentioning the dance to Layla when she met her family at a park near the inn Thursday afternoon, mostly because she had absolutely nothing to wear. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The water cure consisted mostly of applying cold water to the outside of the patients body—with cold showers and baths. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the pigeons he had seen in the city, this one was mostly gray, the color of eraser-smeared blackboard. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

At parks that remained mostly white, blacks were seen as intruders and fights were frequent. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I flexed my fingers and stretched my palms until my hands mostly worked again, then started pulling off my wet clothes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was awkward, mostly her lips on the side of his mouth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of high school in England and took the GED here and now is a freshman at Lost Cove U. studying mostly literature, art history, and photography. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There were about ten people crowded inside, mostly men. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s mostly gross,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The trees and bushes are mostly bare, but I see a few green blades emerging. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There’s practically nothing even in the room; it’s mostly open space, exempting the shelves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Max said that mostly, he helped them die. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since I had grown up speaking mostly Swahili, one of the languages of Congo, I was impatient with this slow-sounding language of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A bunch of hands shoot up, and I take a deep breath and answer a few questions, mostly about Samina Baig. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But mostly he wanted to duel with the best in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had large eyes, but mostly, it seemed, for his beat-up shoes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riders mostly looked away, kept their noses in books and newspapers. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They are generally younger, white, male, mostly talking and laughing and pointing to the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d brought lightweight Polartec jackets with their supplies, so they bundled up against the cold rain and walked for a few blocks through the mostly deserted streets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The room was just about filled, mostly with high schoolers and adults. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nerves mostly had to do with leaving the Bay Area bubble. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Prior to that, our attempts at several “dad” activities had mostly ended in failure, or worse, disaster. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And they say, I have many stories I could tell you, and then they go on and tell these stories to you, but mostly to themselves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve been a working-class black student at a fancy mostly white college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It sort of seemed like you cared mostly about the solos. But also just how the band sounded. Not how I was feeling.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie was mostly disappointed, but perhaps a tiny bit relieved, when Mrs. Bedlow announced that she would take her over to the weaving room after dinner. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly, I learned to just stay in the kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their names are sent to registries, but mostly the photographs wave in the wind, unclaimed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She’d only gotten her stripe a few weeks ago, and the “act of valor” that earned it for her had been mostly an accident. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The mouth of Kitum Cave was mostly invisible from the approach trail, blocked by boulders cloaked in moss. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arguing wouldn’t help; she could tell that his anger was mostly about being embarrassed that she’d managed to slip out of her rooms in the first place. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Its trunk was wide and knobby, and its leaves kept her mostly dry from the rain. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And there were more people sitting around than I first thought too, mostly it was men and big boys, but there were a couple of women every now and then and a kid or two. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

For the next five or six hours we walk mostly in silence. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But mostly the relationships existed on the phone, I gathered. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It's all bad trade-offs these days, unless, like me, you know how to mostly end up on the profitable side of things. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The leprechaun bears live young and lives mostly in forest and woodland areas, though it enjoys attracting Muggle attention and as a consequence features almost as heavily as the fairy in Muggle literature for children. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon’s two hours in Egypt turned out to be mostly a long discussion of the What and How of the Egyptian Oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had mostly stopped, and Turner smelled the salty sea breeze taking up its place behind him—not playful but solemn and steady. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It is a room of mostly young women, she sees. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He could make out some cursing, some praying, but mostly the noise was just the sound of agony. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The school is mostly quiet when Izzi and I emerge from the slaves' quarters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t steal—it’s leftovers from lunch, mostly little bags of potato chips or animal cookies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But mostly, they manipulate us into confronting one another face-to-face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know a little bit about this game, mostly because Jessie loves it, but the level of detail catches me off guard. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They’re all landscapes—of the river and meadows mostly, one of Old Joe’s farm at sunset, and one of a garden with a lily pond. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But mostly there was a kind of reflexive professionalism and an uncommon immersion of the aviators into philosophical speculation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly Joe had quit fishing: there were too many other more important things to tend to, apropos earning a living. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I wonder where Russ and Mr. Gore might have gone and what they are talking about, but mostly I just watch the movie. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was mostly dead weight, and I felt his head bounce softly on my shoulder and his body sag against me like a big damp loaf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was—he is—a mongrel, but mostly setter, and he loved to hunt. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they had something the rest of us could catch, but mostly it was for kids that went completely off their rocker, broken brains broken further by Thurmond. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But mostly I see him looking at me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry about the costume. Well, mostly.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But mostly he tried to move on from HeLa, focusing instead on growing normal and cancerous cells from the same patient, so he could compare them to each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced at it—you can’t help it—but mostly I was keeping an eye on Mrs. DiAngelo, hoping she wouldn’t get too sad or anything. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our conversations are often mostly pictures and gestures. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of Men, ruffians mostly, came with great waggons, some to carry off the goods south-away, and others to stay. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He waved at a file of courtiers, mostly women, that wound from the huge double doors to the prince, a small figure at the far reach of the hall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly he liked to eat the crickets. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After she finished her pilot’s certification in 1933, she became an instructor herself—mostly teaching young men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

What I mostly see are things that drive me mad: the same kinds of people I saw when I first visited. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cedar, and lilac and decay, something unwelcoming that had been mostly blocked when the door was closed but now seeped out into the warm air of the close space. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was thrown into a cargo hold with a group of other children—some older, some younger, mostly girls but a few boys, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He stayed a week, mostly puttering around with the willow whistles. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made some phone calls, sent some faxes, memorized some online maps of neighborhoods and subways—but mostly he browsed on the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His weight, thanks to a glandular disorder and 50-pound tumors, swung from a comparatively petite 400 pounds to 540 pounds, packed mostly in a monstrous quaking belly that won him the nickname “Ten Ton” Irwin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was a partner in an architecture firm that mostly designed museums and concert halls and other “centerpieces for urban living.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They are mostly Ivy League graduates whose regular alumni contributions he hopes to channel into the Christian Union. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They came to a wooded section, mostly pines, and walked at its edge, as far from the traffic as they could get. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I loved sitting among them, hypnotized by this talk of the big world beyond our valley. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But mostly because, as the trees froze and ice sheathed the roads, the chill between Baba and me thawed a little. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only her skin is a little darker than most grandmas, like she’s got mostly Indian in her. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In this way attention remained mostly fixed on the plight of the girl upstairs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because the girls at the lab school are mostly scary. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard that the Communists were targeting mostly police and government officials. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometime that December I had started dropping the “Aunt” out of her name, mostly because I knew that it annoyed her. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The chips are mostly crushed, but the burn and tang of the salt and vinegar sates me as I gulp down the Coke. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Their dads, mostly navy men, loved it too. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I get picked on—mostly when Mike, Eddie, and Snap are bored. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The same old frame houses, mostly white, but a few in blue, pink, or yellow; the same gravel driveways; and even the same rich man’s mansion in the distance. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, she and Taisin sat mostly in silence within the cushioned confines of their carriage, each staring out her window at the countryside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They sought to make themselves conform ever more perfectly to God’s will, whereas outside I had seen mostly men who sought to make God’s will conform to their wretched prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some scythes—mostly the old-guard ones—arrived on foot, choosing a humble walk from their hotels over a more flashy arrival. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Thanks to their mass ticket-buying, the first ten rows of the venue were mostly empty. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They used words mostly when each one in his own way walked through his field or orchard at night and spoke to the growing plants. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Papito was with us, he was mostly silent and stony- faced, communicating through grunts and orders. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean he was mostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Janae and Ainsley are being all cutesy as they walk, mostly talking about nonsense like the best campus frat parties and their white schoolmates who wear shorts and hoodies in the dead of winter. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For me, heaven mostly looked like the pictures in the Landmark book I read about Julius Caesar in ancient Rome. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The world of bug-boy jockeys was populated mostly by teenagers who had run away or been orphaned or whose families had come upon hard times, as Pollard’s had. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he spent many of his nights in PC bangs, the ubiquitous East Asian Internet cafes where young, mostly unmarried, men play computer games and surf the Internet around the clock. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One unusual tip tonight—a mostly full bottle of whiskey given in exchange for a handful of rubbers, from a guy who was as close to falling-down drunk as I’d ever seen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And mostly I am sorry that I hurt your feelings. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that she had been lonely, mostly just that she’d been excited to live with other kids. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The opposing team was the AFC Lightning from Fayetteville, Georgia, a mostly white middle-class suburb south of Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But mostly they learned to stand up for themselves when they were in the right and never to back down. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Animals began to emerge—mostly pigs and dogs, but rats, too. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I have to help, but mostly I watch with detachment as they upend themselves in the mud, digging and weeding, clay stains on the knees of their pants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My own “oeuvres” are mostly comic book art. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then, with the cameras mostly in place, she and all of Berlin waited for the rest of the cast to arrive. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We’re mostly talking about cute boys in our class, and only here and there studying for our exam on the ancient Incan empire. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sprayed directly in front of my nose several times when I sneezed, but mostly she sprayed it out the window when we stopped somewhere that looked particularly unsanitary, which happened often. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I explain my two scenarios; I start to fidget when I get to the part about sitting with the other kids at lunch, mostly so I can hide the fact that my hands are trembling. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All the stores were rifled years ago, the glass mostly gone from the windows. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But mostly there was a rush to form a long line by one of the wooden walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a mostly thawed block of chicken on the countertop that Dad might have cooked had he stayed home that evening. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The high school girls were mostly gone or married. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked mostly at the floor, to her feet, and when she looked up and raised her arms above her head, she closed her eyes, kept her world private and protected. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He gestures for her to move to the center of the stage, unable to take his eyes from her as he announces her to the mostly empty theater. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday’s deliveries went better, mostly because I remembered the routes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But mostly I thought about my mother coming home in the morning. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The last thing to go was the contents of the livestock corral, mostly horses, including Nancy’s horse, big, fat Babe, who was much beyond her prime. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being mostly alone sounded like a great idea. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And then she leads me to Jaimito, who is sleeping peacefully in his crib as she spews out more rules that I mostly ignore. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surviving organs and other instruments from Bach’s time indicate that the average pitch was lower then than it is today, so his music is mostly performed at A = 415 Hz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were mostly red all the time, and the way she blew her nose could be pretty impressive. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They sang, carrying their nets and the animals—mostly porcupines and deer—that had been caught on their shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I managed to pull them up at the end and mostly got B’s, but I’m still worried about getting into the colleges I want. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything—mostly because I’m embarrassed how close I came to starting to think like the rest of them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood was mostly black, but there were still more white people there than I had ever seen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He organized nothing, he didn’t go about the house worrying on other people’s behalf, he rarely told anyone what to do—in fact, he mostly sat in the library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Here was an invitation to undo some of that, to knock down barriers where I could—mostly by encouraging people to get to know one another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They talked sporadically, mostly chatting awkwardly about their engineering classes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boys all laughed and snapped on Ellis and the K, but mostly on the K. Then a PTA volunteer headed up the aisle toward them and the ruckus quieted. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the women too, but mostly he noticed the men, how they hunched their shoulders, how they stood their short collars against the fine lines of rain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as she was going up and down, up and down, she was mostly focusing on not being sick all over the king’s head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mother handled the photos with mostly casual interest, except for the ones that showed my sisters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is somewhat bitter, but mostly sad. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She brought along a Sterno cooking outfit and two suitcases of food, mostly cereals and graham crackers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

This picture was mostly dark, with just a few pale brownish rays of light streaking across. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Kate’s hands were always busy, mostly at drawn work on the sheerest of lawn handkerchiefs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. It was mostly my fault. I should have let you finish. I shouldn’t have hung up. And I missed you, too. I have so many stories for you. One involves two married horses.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Although slavery is mostly associated with the American South, the entire country, as it grew, benefitted from the enslavement of people, primarily Africans and African Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Broken beams of the fading sunlight arrowed across the dirt floor, but it was mostly dark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Other men on either side, mostly out of sight but within easy hearing, moved noisily through the trees, calling out to each other, mostly in Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner went home to a house mostly dark. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They used to call it the New Tenements, but now everybody mostly calls it the New Testaments, which Gram told me has nothing to do with the Bible. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally it stood up like a giant, but mostly it roared in the agony of sleepiness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the books were mostly out, he flipped the bookcase over. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly what they did was run up and down the sidewalks and sometimes into the street, where the town cops yelled at them for creating a safety hazard. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they went below the surface and came up again, but mostly they waited for him in his puny tender. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His bruises had mostly faded by now, and the swelling in his face had largely subsided, so Mormont looked almost human once again... though only vaguely like himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But his hearing had sharpened considerably since power and artificial lights had mostly become a thing of his past. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the ruffians do what he says; and what he says is mostly: hack, burn, and ruin; and now it’s come to killing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The room was mostly dark, just a light on over her bed where she lay. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her wet hair hung from her head and mostly covered her face. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Where once the city’s newspapers would have run an endless series of stories about the aftereffects of the fair, now there was mostly silence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So, mostly, except when Aden had to show off, we played cowboys and Indians if we were playing in the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deliberate way Washington rowed that race had seemed partly a challenge, partly a dare, but mostly it had seemed a warning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You get mostly the tourist trade in the Quarter.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I deal mostly with nurses and other computer nerds and they come from the same kind of world I do, so we know how to talk to each other,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t snoop, but curiosity quickly overrides my conscience as it often does—snoop-control issues—and I’m bending down and randomly perusing some of the papers on the floor: mostly old letters. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I never!” says another, but mostly there is relieved laughter, because if this is the horse with the tail where his head should be, then how bad can the men’s show be? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

‘Our defensive line is mostly solid,’ she said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t say much. He lived in the little house behind me. Kept to himself mostly.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It hurts my eyes to focus on it, so mostly it stays in the drawer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Partly because I usually have something to do after school, but mostly because I don’t know how to be around her when I know she doesn’t think that salesclerk treated me wrong. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was mostly upset that I hadn’t told her, but I still wish she hadn’t found out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The doctor let me look at the stitches in a mirror when he was finished, but I mostly paid attention to how horrible the rest of me looked. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that’s true? I think mostly you can plan. Mostly things don’t just come out of nowhere and bowl you over.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I mostly spent the periods cleaning Mr. Peck’s hermit crab tanks, I liked the time with them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Except that there were no secrets between us then and it was mostly things we already knew. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One Monday night, Blackburn came to Big Stone Gap, in a mostly poor corner of the state not far from Andy Blevins’s town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They were in the Tower,” the woman said, mostly to herself. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We sat there for a long time, sometimes talking quietly, but mostly resting in silence. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I walk light and bouncy, mostly so dust doesn’t settle on my shoes, but also because it’s the least painful way to walk. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pages and pages of observations, recounting his experiences, mostly so he will not forget them but also to capture something of the circus on paper, something he can hold on to. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But mostly I am hoping someone will figure out that I need a slop bucket before I soil my slops. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All kinds of mostly white hippies with long, hanging hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hebridean Black feeds mostly on deer, though it has been known to carry off large dogs and even cattle. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was mostly questions, which I asked while walking in circles around Miss Maggie’s kitchen table as she sat there, writing them down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But when two galaxies collide, the stars pass effortlessly by one another, like bullets through a swarm of bees, because a galaxy is made mostly of nothing and the spaces between the stars are vast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were older teens in mostly black clothes and Afros posted like soldiers guarding the outside. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meyers never told his wife what horses he was playing and she won or lost, mostly lost, and talked all the time. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Gravestones mostly flake away after a couple of centuries. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Visitors came and went, as usual mostly family—Charles’s sister Catherine, Emma’s sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived with boys who were mostly my age or somewhat younger. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was brown-skinned, with a small face that was mostly covered. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the farm money is gone he rolls home singing and crying over Ireland and his dead children, mostly about Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was afraid they would be expensive, but they’re mostly under thirty dollars. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He remained silent throughout the drive, and I saw his eyes often dart to us, mostly to Jaja, in the rearview mirror. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At its inception, the division had a roster of four faculty members, including John, who was appointed an assistant professor of medical physics and mostly paid out of the Physics Department budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But mostly, she was a maid, a skivvy and, in her hours off, a crammer of simple facts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ged had pored over many charts and maps in the Tower of the Master Namer on Roke, but those had been mostly of the Archipelago and the inner seas. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They look that way when you don’t know much about them—all of those tubes and wires and valves—but mostly the combustion engine hasn’t changed that much since it was invented. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Start changing the other chords by the same amount, and in the same direction, and see if you are getting mostly easy-to-play chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He ate almost nothing, he stayed mostly alone, and in this state of grief he fell sick. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be right— the way was mostly clear. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He talks about his classes a little bit, but mostly he talks about the football team. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m mostly panicked about the concept of running, and especially with some jock who believes that running on city concrete is the best idea on the planet. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Even though Bio Gel is self-sufficient, I actually do have a primitive digestive system, mostly for “psychological reasons.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Off to the side is the garden—a bit of an overblown name for it, since it’s mostly large, uneven rocks surrounded by pale-green shrubs, the color of eucalyptus. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he teased back, lashed out, or screamed in rage at his attackers, but mostly he smiled during the morning wars and listened as students who never spoke in another class joined the hunt. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant is it all slaves or is it mostly white?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

After a mile or so he turned onto a gravel road that mostly followed the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

George mostly slept, on a bed of blankets and pillows on the floor of the first class lounge. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

My other work, for Pe Pierre, is mostly twisting arms and toting books. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And mostly it brought shame and humiliation to Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the cave it was much darker, and much more full of sound: mostly the wind in the trees, but below that was another sound, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But mostly I heard about them, and when I did, I quizzed people until I’d got a more or less full account. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weighed down with guns and bullets, the women have their hair scraped back under headscarves or baseball caps; the men are mostly clean-shaven. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...cool,” Dimple said faintly, mostly because she didn't know what else to say. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When he pulled away, her eyes were mostly closed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It’s still hard to think about him, but mostly she just feels sad for him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Mostly freed slaves. Some white folk—mostly Spaniards, espaholes. Lots of Indians from different tribes—Creek, Seminole, Cherokee—all living together. There is nothing like it en todo el mundo—in all the world.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet these former child soldiers, rescued from their armies, had mostly recovered and been widely embraced at American colleges and universities, where many of them had thrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

These people, it turns out, they are mostly mothers. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rural post offices were mostly in farmhouses, my Grandpa Tweedy’s place being one of them. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mother and son drove home from the hospital mostly in silence. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were mostly polite—probably because my father was out somewhere with Ernie Eco and he wasn’t there with a whole lot to say and letting himself say it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I mostly stayed in my room and watched the Sox downstairs at night. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Natalie mostly just seemed excited to have finally solved the mystery. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had thought about it, but mostly in a daydreaming sort of way. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m older and I’ve taken the trouble to get to know her, mostly through my aunts and uncles, I know she was none of those things. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

More often than not, they did not believe in conversation, their dispositions reflecting the rough, atonal quality of the land, which after the droughts consisted mostly of the gnarled limbs of low-lying mesquite bushes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The force field must mostly be energy, too, I guess. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a lot of planes, mostly jets and helicopters, and all ours. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safer’s dog walking is mostly a lunchtime job. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It only proves that you seem to think the job of a detective is jam-packed with all sorts of excitement. The truth is, it’s mostly boring.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was certain to flunk English this term, simply because English was mostly reading and he didn’t have time anymore to spend four or five hours every night reading a lousy book. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji had spent his share of time across the desk from the principal—mostly for interrupting. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone in the house had been talking nonstop, it had mostly been to government agents, not to one another, and their own curiosities had yet to be satisfied. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

News crews aimed their cameras but mostly kept their distance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly dirt now thanks to the cars that people have parked there, like the one Aunt Pooh and her homeboy, Scrap, sit on. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

To help Toño with small costs, mostly food and to make telephone calls to our family. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I am already mostly asleep again, two arms wrapped tight around my mama's hand. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It looks like mostly rope tied into wooden stakes driven into the rock at either end, with tight wooden planks running all the way to the other side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the truth is, I’m mostly crying for myself. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Live concerts in the nineteenth century had typically presented mostly premieres, with some familiar favourites sandwiched in alongside them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My shoulder is still sore from the bullet wound, but it is mostly healed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was the chaplain at Hackett and his Greek, which he had mostly learned at seminary, was crude and inferior even by my standards. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Occasionally they used their weapons to test the bottom, but mostly they just searched with their feet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man followed them, still talking, mostly about money, and greed, and ingratitude. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Leading the way, wearing special bright orange jackets, were the three hundred mostly young marchers who had walked the entire distance from Selma. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We drive on, and I read more signs that are mostly in Spanish. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, the creation of the air regiments meant that the mostly educated young women who volunteered their aviation skills would feel their voices had been heard, even if they weren’t accepted. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Tittering from the class, but mostly awkward silence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And then there was another coffee sleeve with a picture of Art Girl, and then under that, four with mostly just words. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie, of course, was only half listening, mostly doing what she did every day on the trolley: watching ghosts and the people they haunted. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Groups of young men—mostly immigrants, a few blacks—roamed the docks, looking for jobs as cooks and sailors on ships, or work as stevedores loading and unloading goods on the docks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What Killer Man’s life mostly comes down to, I figure, is waiting. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I drew all kinds of animals but mostly birds and butterflies. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” I said, mostly to give her something familiar to focus on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A gentle autumn breeze tousled their mostly fair hair. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Maya didn’t tell her parents much about going to meet Joaquin, mostly because she didn’t want to answer questions about it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The kids who played tennis were mostly white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first order of business was to escort “persons not well known to the group”—mostly whites and reporters from the white media—out of the building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly what we talked about those days was the army and the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the school library that day, I joined a circle of twenty-two Harper students—all African American, mostly juniors and seniors—who were seated in chairs and on couches, dressed in khakis and collared shirts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I have been sent,” Antain continued in a mostly soft voice, “to tell you that the other Elders are ready. And all the populace waits along the route. Everyone is accounted for.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Our pets had mostly escaped by then, or been eaten up, as in the case of Methuselah, but the Congo still offered a wealth of God’s creatures to entertain us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the boys, mostly Ellis, took shots at Danny the K, Frieda rose up from her seat next to Lucy and made a motion to her like, “Be right back.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, we come to the jealousy and mostly benign neglect of her masters in Cairo, to whom Alexandria and her port were, at best, redundant, and at worst, a reminder of Egypt’s foreign-dominated past. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They were mostly slaves, sent by their masters to dig trenches and build walls. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The woman scans my transcript—mostly C's bracketed by a couple of B's and D's. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Rusted, some of ’em, but mostly pretty good.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve mostly got the Pit and the underground covered,” Bud says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The people who come here to eat mostly are white, mostly are rich, and mostly ignore us as if we’re ghosts. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I look at the horizon, look back the way we came, the mist mostly burned off by now and the whole swamp forest covered in sunlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd seemed to be made up mostly of witches around Mrs. Weasleys age. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I looked, there were desks that were so huge and dark, you could barely see the people sitting behind them, and people moving in and out of offices—mostly cops. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a soft word, a reassuring comment, passes between families, but mostly we’re inside our own heads, thinking of what lies ahead. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they said that. But then they laughed at me whenever I tried. Or they spoke for me. And they talked to me in English mostly.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A couple of people wave and call hello, but mostly it’s people shortcutting across the lawns, hurrying to beat the next bell. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The patrons are mostly businessmen from Korea, but there are others, some whites, and then some young Korean-Americans dressed in conservative suits, speaking perfect English, red-faced, drunk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drafted mostly by Szilard with Einstein’s input, the two-page, eight-paragraph document buries the urgency of the situation under dry and conditional prose, its momentousness communicated largely by Einstein’s signature at the bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The lights are mostly turned off, and kids are packed tightly into a long hallway that spills into the kitchen at the back of the house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She kept going mostly by selling milk and eggs to the people around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leticia didn’t talk to me much after that; she mostly talked to the other kids at the table. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be part of a team, win, lose, or draw—but mostly win. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Only a few men of the Regiment here, mostly Morrill’s Company. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are innumerable plant-animal combinations, mostly in the sea, where the green plant cells provide carbohydrate and oxygen for the animal and receive a share of energy in return. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, those are mostly local Reds. The North Korean Army isn’t here yet.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Children mostly outgrow the inability to separate their own knowledge from someone else’s, but not entirely. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Aly, Maddie, and I did go to the beach for a few hours, and that was fun, but mostly we were caught up in a media whirlwind. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing a few pictures of writers in our literature book—mostly boring-looking white guys with beards. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It’s also a waste of effort to grow them from seed, since the offspring even of an outstanding individual tree of those species are highly variable and mostly yield worthless fruit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly just like the company, and I think they do too. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Lucas mostly sat around the kitchen with a blanket over his lap. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever Ms. Byrd worked a double shift at the hospital on a Friday or Saturday night, Clayton and his grandfather snuck out to find the Bluesmen here or there, but mostly at Washington Square Park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I’ve sat through plenty of arguments in my life, mostly in the last two months, but none of them ever scared me like this. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly for fun, but also an effort to improve slumping morale in the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And we’re still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The meal was awkward—mostly silence punctuated by the occasional comment by the scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The process could not be atmospheric, since Io’s atmosphere has mostly escaped to space because of its low gravity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organic matter is mostly sugar mixtures derived from the hydrolysis of cellulose, but, in addition, there are various food factors which must be added. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It mostly reminded me of the cutting sounds that a pack of hounds makes once they commence to ripping a possum to shreds. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Spaniards, exposed in childhood to the virus, were mostly immune. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I found her upstairs lying on our bed, crying the tired, whimpering cry that follows the first wailings—mostly gasps and shudderings. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson was a tall black man with a mostly bald head and a thick mustache. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But mostly, the kids were staring at the blood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, we weren’t best friends or anything, and he was mostly a psycho who I was definitely gonna part ways with the second we got to Mexico, but still. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly in Spanish, but I can tell from the pictures and the title that it has something to do with agricultural tourism in Puerto Rico. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The road has some patches of snow, but mostly it’s just wet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some regular clothes, but mostly the secondhand maternity stuff you bought at Goodwill. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had some more books in my bedroom upstairs, but they were mostly either schoolbooks or children’s books. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

So it was mostly just red dogs with blue eyes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though the ladies were mostly old enough to be my mother, one or two were actually quite attractive. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The roads are mostly empty, because it’s the war, though once in a while there’s a truck loaded with cut tree trunks or fresh lumber, trailing its perfume of sawdust. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t sacrifice anything to him; he mostly got leftovers. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, Daddy filled his notebook from beginning to end with his thoughts about things, but mostly with stories called “The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Emily’s dad put his hands on her mother’s hips and pretended to do an embarrassing conga that was mostly shrugging shoulders and the occasional kick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

None of his bones seemed broken, which was good; but mostly he was worried about his Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Leo taught me forests struggle mostly because of people. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The inside of the sukkah was occupied mostly by a wooden table and chairs. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I should go. I just mostly wanted to come by and give you this.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Here in the Ticino, in the south of Switzerland, the peoples mostly speak Italian. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The halls were mostly empty, but a few students were still straggling out. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She realized there shouldn’t be anything shocking about his being Jewish in a place made up mostly of Arabs and Jews. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And in case you’re wondering how things have been going with Coach Reed, January and February were mostly okay, too. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And some people get nothing but a string of cards that no matter how they’re played will never add up to a winning hand.I guess who I am thinking about mostly is my dad. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I said Yes, all the time but mostly as a way of making other people feel guilty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the best private school in Portland, which means it’s mostly white, which means it’s expensive. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were mostly quiet on the walk back to the waterfront, the jail and Mr. Kendall behind us, receding. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” I say, even though I’m not sure I believe in praying, mostly because Dad, Pop, and I stopped going to church when I was a kid. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We mostly just talked about things like girls and movies and music. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly backless, with excess material that drooped just above my waist. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was full, mostly prosperous looking people reading newspapers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the squirrels can take care of themselves, mostly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The air was full of birds, crows mostly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was vaguely grassy, but mostly tasted like sugar beet juice. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He thought this—and mostly believed it—and felt his spirits boosted by the decision. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all there, still looking mostly new under yellowed plastic. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, it’s a condition that affects mostly white people. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arman—the pinched grandfather I told you about from the picture—her husband, was a bad husband, who was known as “the Governor,” and governed mostly a bunch of affairs with other women. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Despite the mostly white neighborhood Ma moved us to, my best friend is black. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Judge Patterson's only remark during the oral argument came at the end, when he slowly but firmly asked a single question that echoed through the mostly empty courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had stayed exactly where I was in the driver’s seat, mostly because I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to be doing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mama took good care of me, mostly, and so did my tata, when he was alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I rap along with him, and mostly everyone joins in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jobs can be found in the suburbs—mostly service sector jobs—but employment for unskilled men with criminal convictions, while difficult to find anywhere, is especially hard to find close to home. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

During the Depression, the studios, which were mostly run by immigrant Jews, turned out a string of formulaic fantasies about life among the Gentile upper crust. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were over fifteen people, mostly young boys, some girls, and a few adults. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At one edge, the blast had sheared away the front wall of a building but left what was inside mostly intact. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly simple algebra or geometry, but they still distract me from the traffic and from thinking about Windy. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was home to one runway and about five hundred bored American servicemen, mostly marines. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It might look like he isn’t, standing mostly on this one leg on a curved branch that looks pretty rotten. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But Kenyon didn’t like anything, mostly because we wouldn’t let him pick the programs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was mostly facing away from Luke, and she wore jeans and a gray sweatshirt not much different from what the Sports Family brothers always wore. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even mostly of one heart, Djo, except for those crazy little boys. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the door was a blanket and the walls were mostly fabric, I knocked on the wooden frame around the draped doorway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, my father goes with her but mostly, he doesn't. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nico looked better than he had in class, mostly because he was wearing a nice button-down instead of some wrinkly T-shirt. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The other two afternoons I usually spent wandering through art galleries, mostly on Fifty-seventh Street, where I did all but hiss at the American entries. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were tables set up there, and they were covered with various clumps of that rust-colored mud so greasy it’s mostly just clay, and poking from some of those clumps were the fossils. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And he gave some of his treasure away—mostly to orphans. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their next-door neighbors are there, too, mostly because Mark and Linda were afraid that they would call the police because of all the noise, but they seem to be having a great time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Such thoughts as he had when he was awake were mostly about his dreams. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was mostly made of windows, all jagged like the sections of a gigantic jewel, with what looked like steel beams holding it all together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Toby had been avoiding bigger questions about his and Luke’s “plan” for months, mostly because Luke told him not to worry. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Singleton asked their relationship and she explained, “Umm, we kind of dated a little bit, but we were mostly just friends. We hardly talk anymore.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was dimly aware of a protest from the players, but they were boys and mostly shorter than she, so not worthy of notice. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She almost forgot about them out there, those mostly female students of Carnegie Mellon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For the nearly two decades that he had lived in America, Dasch worked mostly as a waiter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem to have affected Alaska, though, who was 1. in our room after dark with the door closed, and 2. smoking a cigarette as she sat on the mostly foam couch. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But mostly because she and I are not really at the beginning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

So instead we flew to him, for what would be a sort of attempt to have it both ways—a family day spent mostly in full view of the public. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The splints were holding, and with Diana’s help, Z had managed to keep her legs mostly steady and elevated on the trip down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A sea of faces spread out in front of me, mostly black, but also a number of white, carrying signs and cheering for Bucky’s release. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“A carnival ain’t a circus, but it’s still something. And it is mostly fun. There’s rides and games.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Is it the way Ben smiles mostly with the right side of his mouth?” asks Lacey. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This act is mostly your idea, Jones. You sure you wanna see her get a chance on the stage?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the room there were more girls now, mostly on the cardio machines, headphones on, pumping away on the treadmills and ellipticals, but some were lifting weights just like I was. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a basketball player, Ben noticed that Philip was mostly form. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind was ingenious in design and interest had already been expressed in the manufacturing rights—mostly by military representatives—but Artemis had resolved to sell the patent to a sporting goods multinational. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I did stop, out of shame mostly, because the hunted wireless girl was being so stoic about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maya left out the part where she was mostly the one who said mean things, and Claire was mostly the one who said the truth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window, although there wasn't much to see—mostly fields of hay and cotton. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She realized the men, mostly draggers and diggers, would all be working, and she felt relieved, remembering how they had grabbed at her the day of the weapons. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had turned to the last page, which was mostly blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair was mostly as black as mine, with an inch of white roots. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us is an illusion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Adoption, I know, is a noble and mostly happy practice. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A TV blaring the Weather Channel in the common room went unwatched; the doors were mostly closed; the few people seated in the common room looked confused or blank or—worst of all—scared. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I stick to indie stuff, mostly. Lots of comics online.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My class was American Literature, a lecture about Frederick Douglass in a mostly empty auditorium, and it was incredibly difficult to stay awake. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baumbach made wedding dresses, which are mostly white, so she bought samples of materials with bright colors and patterns because Rosalie loved colors best. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played violin and read music and composed it, mostly classical and religious music. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once again the doom and gloom was mostly pro forma. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She tried to say his name without gagging and mostly succeeded. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“He was good friends with your mother for a very long time. I think he was genuinely interested in the project, but I think it was mostly a big favor to your mom.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“This one,” he says, and though it is mostly a guess, it feels like the proper choice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me, her face mostly revealed now, and she smiled just the littlest bit. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In California, for example, the loss of some 60,000 game fish, mostly blue- gill and other sunfish, followed an attempt to control the rice- leaf miner with dieldrin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I told him what I knew of you from the few phone conversations I had had with your father, but mostly I did not know how to answer him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Coach spent a lot of time talking to all the moms and dads—mostly moms—especially of the vets. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a week in the late afternoon Bobby went to the movies and saw mostly popular American films. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

An atom, Rutherford realized, was mostly empty space, with a very dense nucleus at the center. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Annabelle is sure her mother drove her father away with her constant barrage of opinions, mostly about him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This side of the park was mostly empty, except for a few kids on the playground. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was getting feathers but mostly it still had white baby hair and was tame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The theater is about half-full, mostly with young women like her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

How come schools with black and brown kids are mostly poor? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The players were mostly the usual guys you expect to see on a ball field, all muscle and shout. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The little foot traffic I had seen was going north, and it looked like the buildings here were mostly warehouses. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am mostly here to watch it happen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She talked a little but mostly listened, while Dad, Erik, and I sat and ignored each other. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if he suddenly owned the world—he and the Frog owned the ocean, owned all of the ocean and the world was mostly ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly spend, though, and honestly, mostly spent here. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We got some replacements, but mostly it was a job of indoctrination. Anyway, the people who make them want to figure out robots that aren’t hit so bad by gamma rays.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The Dikoris were members of the Moro tribe, a mostly Christian group numbering close to one hundred thousand, and among the largest ethnic groups in the Nuba. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I joined Farmer on the Brigham’s radiology floor, in a quiet room where he was discussing various patients with younger doctors, mostly residents, who were his students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the staff was mostly nice, but had rules we broke sometimes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the bear was injured, the tiger would scent the blood and yowl; It was mostly from the bear that Brute received his sense that when animals went up there, terrible things happened. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There were also several times I thought about sassing adults back, mostly teachers and principals at school. And I didn’t trust God on two occasions.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are mostly poor sections with cafes, bars and businesses of all sorts alongside cluttered residences. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sets a stool on the sidewalk and throws a mostly clean towel over Bernd’s shoulders and snips away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I don’t know how to act strong, be strong all the time, when I’m mostly scared and alone and lonely. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Boys say it mostly, to one another; it suggests thumbs and babies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the New England girls had returned to the weaving room, though the room now was mostly Irish. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They have a way of communicating that doesn’t need words: a look, a gesture, a poke—mostly from Safaa to Amin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly, I could taste the sadness in his voice when he told me I couldn’t stay with him for the summer while he worked a railroad job back in Iowa. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He ran through in a clump of runners mostly bigger than him. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They collected everything of value, mostly books and photos, loaded them into the dinghy, which was named the Mini Ginny, and navigated to the nearest marina. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The door to the taproom was mostly closed, but there was a crack where it was hinged onto the wall. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a week, patients who arrived at the doors were turned away, while sixty-seven people were quarantined inside the hospital, mostly medical staff. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was mostly mad at the fact that I could do nothing about it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I loved his movies, but mostly, I thought he was cute, and I’d heard that he’s really a good person. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But mostly those dishes make me feel like this year will be the worst year I’ve had so far. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a long way, mostly uphill, and more daylight’s seeping out of the woods every minute. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The Arctic mostly, so they say. But you remember what the lord chancellor was asking about?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She quickly discovered that these women needed help—mostly in understanding paperwork. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Making mostly As had been getting too easy. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By being mostly quiet and kind of above it all. If we don't say a lot, people will think we’re mature.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the next few months, they were told, they would mostly race against one another and their junior varsity and varsity counterparts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“God, that is beautiful,” I said mostly to myself. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were mostly vermouth bottles, marsala bottles, capri bottles, empty chianti flasks and a few cognac bottles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were only about fifty Web sites at the time and they were mostly just single Web pages. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We hopefuls, we talk a little with each other, but mostly we do not, so eager are we to spot a job-giver and get work. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He caught on very quickly, mostly by memorizing steps and procedures. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As for the Wife, there’s mostly just one thing they get salvaged for. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lelia usually doesn’t like this kind of work, even though it pays well, mostly because there are too many students in a class for her to make much difference. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed sitting around the big pile of glowing charcoal, talking—me and Rondell mostly. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Alby seemed mostly himself, but Thomas still worried about the guy’s mental state. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Behind him is a crowd of men—mostly young—jumping up and down, trying to get on TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He stood mostly in the corner of the room, still shocked and confused by Alma’s quick decision to break off their engagement and ask him to leave. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I expect it was mostly trash talk though there may have been some cheers for me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm slurps the last of his Coke, now mostly melted ice. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was mostly about forcing us to do our homework, and getting help studying. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say a whole lot to anyone—mostly just gazes out the window at the passing landscape—but the handful of times she and Scoob make eye contact, she smiles at him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

A few— mostly Jewish homes—flew only the Olympic banner. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In it, wrapped in a piece of blue silk cloth, are feathers: mostly slenderly, gray or white. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The camp swarms with rateros and killers but mostly with ragged people like me, who have dreams so close that still may not ever be lived. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at the kitchen scene I have made mostly of paper, including a working light over the sink that Travis helped me make. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I decided to wrap the can in a napkin—mostly so that I could slam the napkin drawer when I shut it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, there are two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches packed tight in plastic wrap, an apple, slices of cheese, a few cookies, and a mostly full bottle of Gatorade. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They’re mostly fighting and making trouble. Sometimes when they’re feeling funny they won’t work. They make the mares uneasy and kick hell out of the geldings. Your father wouldn’t let you keep a stallion.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some feeling was slowly returning to them, mostly a stinging, prickly heat that was like a painful mockery of the soothing warmth I had felt a minute ago when I was drifting off to sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But mostly they gets brought back. They got dogs that can smell a person in the woods and folks whose job it is just to catch runaways and bring ’em back.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

People, mostly neighbors from the alley, were standing in neat circles, almost as if they had formed ranks intentionally. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is single-handedly peppering that mostly all-white school with dark faces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For example, if you drop a mostly full bottle of ketchup in the tub, it will not float. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He mostly stays inside the house, drinking, I assume, because when I do see him, he's drunk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m a nurse across the street, and my Polish is...mostly good.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He admitted he needed to take occasional breaks from the intensity of the clinic, but mostly these time-consuming excursions were to set an example for the doctors and nurses who worked beside him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It began by attacking small creatures—chickens and cats mostly. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

You could see him waiting for the worst to happen when he stood up in the synagogue a week later—a synagogue that was full, mostly with Hupfers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But he was mostly the kind of a handsome guy that if your parents saw his picture in your Year Book, they'd right away say, "Who's this boy?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

During the days, after Jerome left for work, I drank vodka—mostly because Jerome couldn’t smell it on my breath when he came home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Burres, as one of the vendors, had set up some folding tables displaying cheap, mostly secondhand goods for sale, and McCandless volunteered to oversee her large inventory of used paperback books. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t happen often; for the most part, except when his mother was looking for tenants, the house mostly ran itself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Right now it’s mostly Negroes, a few drovers mixed in here and there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The video tribute to Coach Washington was a little less than ten minutes long, mostly consisting of interviews with past teachers and students and narration over old photos. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But mostly the guy who got wounded—or killed. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Woodwell is about a million years old now, and mostly retired, but once upon a time about half the working boats in Spinney Cove come out of his shed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much. I miss her,” I say quietly, to myself mostly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His job is mostly collecting school fees from parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and sulfur. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every now and then he pulls sheet music from his case, but mostly he seems to play from memory or by ear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

During the course of the meal, the entire story of the championship hunt was told, some by Papa but mostly by me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old Alamo games, Hester had often been a cougar or a wolf, and once or twice a rattlesnake, but mostly a mockingbird. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For four days, the trio spent mostly all of their time at Kok’s suburban mansion, but it wasn’t all a discussion of the possible match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few little roots smacked Anya as she went, and she scraped her legs and feet on the bottom of the river a few times, but she mostly continued unobstructed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Yes, they have solutions—padding, mostly—and yes, those solutions suck. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His hair and his mustache looked like they used to be light brown, but were mostly gray now. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They’re just words, I then told him firmly, confidently—in the way a father believes he should—but mostly because I didn’t know what else to say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mostly pictures of her and Mark, pictures they’d taken together with his old camera. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes keep flicking at me and the way I'm roped up, but mostly she's looking at him. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly guys stomping, cheering, hooting, thundering through the room, but some of the girls joined in too. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

HARRY: He’s been out twenty-four hours, mostly in order so Madam Pomfrey could reset his arm. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

When he'd kissed that girl last year, with his mouth dry and his eyes mostly open, Park had wondered if maybe there was something wrong with him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The war left 53 million dead, mostly young men in their late teens and early twenties. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The open mine sometimes filled with rainwater, making a small pond, but mostly it was just hills and trees and lots of rocks. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I came out of the cannon mostly intact, the other sailors look at me in awe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They were moving parallel to the Cliffs now, and the trees were behind them, mostly. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the dozen or so photos in Google images, mostly head shots of Sarah with her violin and Rotary award ceremony groupings, she is slim, like Vivian, with an alert, guarded expression. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The jokes mostly focused on the empty fridge and full bathroom. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The school was mostly empty and the second floor would be even emptier, but hell, no. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I gave the test to a relatively random sample of my friends and acquaintances, mostly journalists and professionals in their late twenties and thirties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a lot on my mind—mostly about my children and what’s happening on the streets. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders if this might be what he felt as a small child before the impressions and tones and presences were overlaid by memories, memories which are mostly others' stories about his past. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I feel mostly relieved and a little embarrassed, because I feel like I made it into a bigger deal than it needed to be. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He had had several messes with the police, mostly in gambling raids, and regarded them as the natural hazards of Negro life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fern pushed the straw aside in the center of the run to reveal patches of grass but mostly dirt. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Since the earth is made up mostly of rocks, geology is mostly the study of rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a few times after that: mostly about things like money troubles, exhaustion, and how hard it was to be a family man. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The streets were mostly silent and deserted that morning, but every now and then we’d pass a woman wearing curlers or a group of men in T-shirts with motor-oil decals, loitering in a doorway. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Based on the protests happening around the city, that’s what a whole bunch of people think too—mostly Black people. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Good. It’s time you started keeping a diary so’s you can write down these thoughts and share them with me sometimes, but mostly keep them to yourself and tell God.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it proved to be a good deal more difficult to forget him than I had anticipated, mostly because I had been moved up into Rav Gershenson’s Talmud class where Danny’s presence was always felt. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The memory is mostly shadows now—my father’s pale hands hanging from silver handcuffs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’d mostly looked at academic papers, but maybe there were more encyclopedias behind the medical journals Brother Ifechi had asked him to shelve... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the manger, past the red plaster Joseph and the blue plaster Mary, at the mostly naked child in the hay. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was big and mostly black with some bright red marks, and awesome gross red eyes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In practice, the game seemed to come down to mostly shoving, hitting, and falling into the water, along with a lot of loud arguments about whether or not someone had said "Mayhaps." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The few conversations we had that weren’t related to our journey were mostly about soccer and school before we resumed our silence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I mostly accepted the world as I found it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I was very welcome at Norfolk,” he said, “but I reckon, mostly for my beef.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Apparently, class has started without our knowing, because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Karhides go afoot, mostly; they have no beasts of burden, no flying vehicles, the weather makes slow going for powered traffic most of the year, and they are not a people who hurry. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when you remember that we evolved from apes, you have to admit how limited human intelligence is mostly. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m making this mostly because I know my father loves this dish and I know how to cook it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They directed only a few at me; mostly they were involved in their own little games. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cuts sting, but I mostly feel weak from the sight of my own blood. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Now it had turned wild, mostly tall weeds with just a bit of grain mixed in. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly he said it when my mother was there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I’ve mostly been hanging out at Word Up and writing in my journal. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

By this time survival was mostly a matter of pure luck. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The boys mostly flocked around the punch bowl and tried to show off with each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grandpa read in the paper that in 1906 there were at least a thousand automobiles in Georgia, mostly owned by farmers, doctors, and residents of small towns. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know what color Jem’s hair or eyes actually are because the movie is in black and white which means mostly gray. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Georgia O’Keeffe’s landscapes were of angular skyscrapers and neon thoroughfares, but mostly of the bleached bones, desert shadows, and weathered crosses of rural New Mexico. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were mostly photos, but there were some wax statues, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts were mostly friendly and less likely to see through their disguises than witches since, weary from their alive days, they tended to pay less attention to the living. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Although Officer Delinko liked the town of Coconut Cove, he had become bored with his job, which mostly involved traffic enforcement. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to the birds in the garden, the chink of our trowels, the trickling of water from a nearby hose, and mostly to the voices in my own head. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But then I trail off—mostly because Bryce and Aurora have appeared on the stoop, and Bryce is still holding the lamp. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sky to the west was mostly clear, except for a few wispy clouds and the long foamy contrail from a big military jet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a mostly full moon tonight, but it’s cloudy, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This ride is stressful too, but mostly because Baba is freaking out. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There are others in the rec room with us, but they’re mostly just watching TV. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Francie found that the different feeling in this school came mostly from the janitor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monique took two days off from work, mostly to watch the soaps, but she did open a can of chicken soup each day and give it to Angel. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fought some on the way in, but once it was in the shallows and mostly out of water, it just gave up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes David joined us, but mostly he stayed in the ship’s library, reading books about boys with real families. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dismal demon who was mostly mouth, he was ready at a moment’s notice to offer misinformation on any subject. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

For this formal affair, however, places were set at table, and the buffet was enormous, eighteen or twenty hot and cold dishes, mostly variations on sube-eggs and breadapple. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I sat in the pews, I remembered the times that Mom and I came here together, but I bet Dad mostly thought about her funeral. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t lead to her route, but it lead to a place where she could safely traverse across mostly stable ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They lived mostly in Staddle though there were some in Bree itself, especially on the higher slopes of the hill, above the houses of the Men. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she cries, and sometimes she’s angry, but mostly it just feels good to let Max go, to move forward, to move on. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“But you draw and I draw...er, paint, mostly, so I noticed you.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Birds were zooming in and out of the hedges singing and squawking and probably wondering what we were doing here since the wild world had been mostly theirs for months now. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arctic is mostly water—with ice on top, of course—and that ice is never more than a few feet thick. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At first Harry talked mostly about the equipment in the bakery—the huge ovens and dough mixers and the fleet of delivery trucks that he maintained. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He would get up and go to school with Lydia, their rides mostly quiet, with Lydia trying to get him to talk. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My mind was still numb and mostly asleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re not far from the Italian coast,” Percy said, mostly to break the silence. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sad and angry and a whole host of other feelings, but mostly I’m fighting very hard not to kill Bill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was smoking a cigarette, which he wasn’t supposed to do in the kitchen, but Yang Sze-Fu mostly did what he wanted. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of migrants, mostly men, mill about the large courtyard of the yellow church with orange trim. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

What remained were scraps of bread upon on the floor, and mostly empty tankards on the tables. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all the hooved animals in Germany had been killed and eaten and excreted by human beings, mostly soldiers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me her address book, filled mostly with the names of people at Jackie Robinson Intermediate School where we both taught English as a Second Language to Haitian students. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He talked while he worked, mostly about the dishes he could make from the different parts of the pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And I still carried the spyglass in my pocket, mostly out of habit, partly to be ready in case the wider world decided to show me something new. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were rolled back with mostly the whites showing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, the spelling test would sneak back into my brain, but mostly Calista was right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We mostly write stories about our experiences and memories. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were mostly stunted olives, cypress, and pines. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But she mostly spoke of all the new friendships she had forged. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And they’d be mostly the same everywhere: a roadrunner whose legs spun in the wind, or maybe a chicken or a duck. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes. We mostly study them for shading, pigment work, and for Belle-products." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But my skepticism had mostly worn off, because I figured this was as good a plan as any to protect ourselves. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And the only help my mother had was a succession of untrained maids, mostly girls from the country.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would dutifully pump her legs, leaning forward and back, but mostly what she felt was the Earth’s pull on her body. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I asked you to come here mostly so that I could thank you,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By afternoon on steep slopes the snow was mostly gone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly he looked the opposite of excited. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And they have a point. It was mostly Northerners who were killed.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was eating mostly liquid supplements, with perhaps a bran muffin tossed in until it was mushy and easily digested. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said they were mostly not on the school grounds but “on call as the situation warranted.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when I got into gymnastics, that stubbornness was mostly a good thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was all drawings, like I figured, mostly of people. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At a place called Camp Davis, a holiday complex, forty-six people, mostly women and children, took refuge from the rising flood waters in the camp’s main building. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But he is mostly worried he won't find everything he needs—canvases and paints, especially. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The summit of a hill stood out above the water, crowned with a clump of trees, mostly oaks, whose bare branches looked mournful against the gray sky. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the way out of the kitchen I pass Mango’s food dish and see that it’s still mostly full from this morning. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Cheap-framed sketches, ranging from really good to great, all pencil, mostly people, lots of self-portraits, snippets of her trying to grin her way through the everyday. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the tale of their mostly separate progress through time deserves prominent placement in any history of the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly white ladies, smiling, got they hair already fixed and sprayed for tomorrow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Got any eggs?” asked Rooster Jim, all spruced up in mostly clean clothes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In a burnt apple pie, the char is mostly carbon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next three miles, the walk was mostly along a lofty ridgeline connecting Greylock to Mount Williams. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly men in black leathers, with silver studs and black glossy orbs - helmets - on their head or under their arm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half a century people had been trying to work out the size of the Earth, mostly by making very exacting measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m mostly sure it was a real promise—because even though I still hated the Dr. Doris appointments, part of me knew he was right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But western coaches were paid a fraction of what eastern coaches made, and western crews still rowed mostly against one another. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many people have died, mostly from starvation, some from eating poisonous food, others killed by soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The falling, Bran thought, and the golden man, the queen’s brother, he scares me too, but mostly the falling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She is the last surviving founding member of The "1939" Club, an organization of Holocaust survivors, mostly from Poland, and their descendants. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We looked at a lot of caves, some big, some small, some dry, but mostly damp. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kids in there were mostly fifth graders too. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, it mostly caused undue levels of anxiety. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a good day for a walk in the country, because there were these big occasional Clouds™, but mostly blue. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From outside, the baby hears language and music, mostly low sound waves from bass instruments and loud noises. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the hot, hot bath Akira mostly stood up because the water was so deep for him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess I wrote it down wrong. I mostly want to know about the Marvels, anyway.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When they all turned to look at her, mostly amused, she added, “What? It’s exciting to think of it like that!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went out on a promotional tour to gather a cast of thousands, contacting four hundred friends, mostly movie people, and talking them into coming to the track to cheer his horse on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The excuse works, mostly because everyone knows that Katherine and I don’t really get on well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then they looked toward the living room, where we could hear mostly Mr. Brook’s voice. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They mostly all do now because she can surf harder than any of them, likes to jump off cliffs, and isn’t afraid of anything, not even great white sharks or Dad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But mostly, she was curious about the dreamer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He says that space is mostly empty and that matter is not really solid. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them, arms limp, faces sometimes twisted in anguish, mostly calm, and I was afraid of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a piece here, a piece there, but it was mostly coal dust. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She was mostly obscured by the drapes, and one stockinged leg was supported by the knee of the other, which gave it its curious, slanting and levitated appearance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And these were mostly from middle-class black families in which reading was encouraged at an early age. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: unless there’s a new dog over 8 years, black fur, weighing more than 60 pounds, and is mostly pit bull or shepherd. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

How we hang mostly by ourselves, pulling corroded-looking fish out of the murky levee water and throwing them back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The line at the counter went all the way to the door, and every single table was full—mostly with Beecher Prep kids. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Surveillance missions, mostly. We like to keep an eye on what’s happening in the fringe, in case it threatens what’s happening in here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Jewish community, mostly scholars and tradesmen, lived on the east side. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We walk by another block of similar houses before the neighborhood changes again and we’re surrounded by mostly brick apartment buildings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the look, the myriad of looks, on Tariq: of apprehension, tenderness, apology, embarrassment, but mostly, mostly, of hunger. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us—mostly from the earth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a halter and I hold on to it, but mostly she stays still as I swab out her nostrils and swaddle her throat in flannel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some of them—mostly single men—had no cars in which to load their possessions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He found to his dismay that there were few of these, the line passing mostly through uninhabited regions of lakes and hills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attorney Fitzgerald’s door is at the end of a long, gray, and mostly featureless hallway. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I work mostly with Ron, but sometimes Lydia. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s what we mostly get at the falls,” the bartender said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had considered this meeting mostly a formality. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They seemed a little afraid, maybe, but mostly confused. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

About one hundred spectators, mostly blacks, settled into seats behind a rail on the main floor, and about one hundred more took the stairs to seats in a balcony above. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

While we ate, the Buckeye asked a few get to know you questions, mostly to me, but I was trying harder to talk to Aileen. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of us, behind a long counter, a row of white people, mostly women, stood staring at us as though we were the world’s eighth wonder. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly Franklin worked in France for America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen my father and brothers put down dozens of dogs over the years—strays mostly, that wouldn’t stay out of the chicken coop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Some...features of the world we live in are mirrored in the realm of magic. The beautiful ones, mostly.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The ride to his village was mostly silent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had hair the color of cardboard in splotches over parts of their bodies, but mostly they were just yellow and scabby skinned. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dogs just mostly ate the leftovers from the table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it’s mostly his fault I’m here in the first place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even then, St. Louis was a big city, but before too long the buildings were lower, mostly the back sides of factories and then lots of slumlike apartments. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

David ignores me mostly, except when I almost ruined the $300 microscope by twisting the knob the wrong way. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sunny was at an age where one mostly speaks in a series of unintelligible shrieks. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But mostly the work cycle took over and I kind of missed the bigger picture. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Dutch men mostly avoid them because soldiers prowl our public transportation looking for workers to send to their war-effort factories. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Isobel hesitates, glancing around at the clientele, a mostly bohemian crowd sipping absinthe and arguing about art. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of Liszt’s many gifts to the musical world, arguably his most significant is what he mostly unintentionally taught this man who would eventually become his son-in-law. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Pictures began to appear—mostly calendars showing improbable luscious blondes holding bottles of Coca-Cola. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep. That’s when we head to the set. Starring in a TV show isn’t all glitz and glamour. Okay, it’s mostly glitz and glamour, but you also have to wake up early.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He makes it up mostly from whatever he finds in the kitchen, so it’s always different. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Darius, who doesn’t like school, who is sometimes stupid and mostly a fool, said something wise today, though most days he says nothing. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my journey, the world goes from mostly white to browner to brown to brown and black. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Suesetta’s mom doesn’t have any records that we like, and Mother and Father mostly only listen to Mahalia Jackson. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve mostly been trying to avoid looking at the guards directly, but as I turn to leave, I raise my eyes to meet his. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But they had survived that fight, mostly because of Barack Obama, bonding anew over their shared passion. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that the difference between an unemployed mercenary and a highwayman was mostly one of timing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As to her engagement, she said, her father seemed mostly supportive. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Father hardly ever hit me, but he hit Sam dozens of times, mostly for arguing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya dropped the mostly empty bag behind her feet as Mama shuffled to her, hoping she wouldn’t notice it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can see now that what I mostly lacked at Nationals was maturity—and practice time in the gym. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were mostly African American, with a sprinkling of Hispanic-looking kids, as young as kindergartners and as old as high schoolers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were a few kids riding on it, mostly very little kids, and a few parents were waiting around outside, sitting on the benches and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was a horse whose quality, an admirer would write, “was mostly in his heart, and Tom Smith had been the first to recognize it.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mostly used hand gestures, which he said was the only thing that would be used once we were out there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But mostly excited. It was really nice to get to hear his voice. Thank you for letting me.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing their companions shot in the neck with arrows, they heeled in panic, sometimes turning back to the flames but mostly running straight on, straight toward people and death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

School was maybe the one thing he was mostly okay about. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Second, Third and Fourth avenues were inhabited mostly by Coloureds, the mulatto race which came into being nine months after white settlers arrived in South Africa in 1652—without women. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he had to do was test the map, find some way to ensure that it was mostly right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were covered in snow, but it didn’t seem to matter as she was mostly snow herself now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We took our usual route to the market, not along the streets but through the narrow walkways between the buildings, mostly commercial warehouses and garages, that bordered the square. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m mostly curious about why he came to my house at all. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a bite of her burger and mostly swallowed before saying, “This lawyer guy isn’t going to try to take back the money, is he?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The grass was mostly dead, the dirt had gone from brown to gray, and the one tree that did still stand was bare and leaning like a creature over a small child’s nightmare bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He talked to Rev. Pietri and Mr. Ward, mostly, but he took notes the whole time we were reading, and his photographer snapped a bunch of pictures. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

York, who knew nothing of the high-level politics driving the Super debate, avoided giving a straight answer, but Lawrence’s question was mostly rhetorical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Teresa helped him, and Thomas asked her to sugarcoat the trip as much as she could, even if she had to flat-out lie, which was mostly the case. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

The trees were mostly bare now, save for a few that stubbornly held their leaves. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“No’m. I think Grandpa mostly takes that one drink to prove he’s got a right to.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Its poisoned foot and hand were mostly gone. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When she manages to kill her first squirrel, the poor thing is mostly a charred mess because it took a direct hit to the body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly I wondered about Prince’s mother, and the question I mostly asked myself was always the same: How did she live? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But mostly I sulked because Connor was right—I was disabled and no one would ever see me as anything else. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I traveled, mostly with Mama, to other parts of the city, but nothing matched Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The other stuff too, but mostly it boiled down to Annabeth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I decide to play dumb, mostly because I’m embarrassed. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The fever is mostly gone now and you should not worry. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay with most of the cast being female? Because I think probably a movie made in 1931 had mostly male leads?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These were mostly my mom’s books, but Dad opened them every once in a while to learn about the things he dredged up while scuba diving. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But mostly her bag was filled with ragged newspaper and magazine articles. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even the littlest children—also mostly dressed in orange or blue—cowered against their parents’ shoulders. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom drove our old clunker up to the drop-off curb behind a bunch of other cars—mostly fancy cars like BMWs, Volvos, and Jeeps, all shiny and freshly waxed in a variety of bright colors. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But mostly she wrote diary entries about what was happening: going on with pain . . . we should know what’s going on with her cells from all of them that have her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The front seats are mostly occupied by kids who are squirming so nervously, they must be sixth graders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Music that is mostly homophonic can become temporarily polyphonic if an independent countermelody is added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It didn't have the glamour of Egyptian hieroglyphs—it was made up mostly of dashes—yet it was from these marks that history had officially begun. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This uplifting vision, it turned out, was mostly a mirage. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Of course, they couldn’t come inside the MQF, and we couldn’t go out, so mostly we just waved at each other through the glass. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was spikes, traps, and awkward turns that caused her to dislike herself almost as much as she disliked him, though she did not doubt that he was mostly to blame. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But mostly, it’s to make my mom happy. She really wants me to be a star. I think she’s the one who wants to be a star.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As I walked through the divining parlor, I was hopeful that maybe I’d mostly worked off my debt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in 1957, at age nine, I was stunned to see on television and in the newspapers the hate-filled faces of Arkansas’s white women— mostly mothers—angrily protesting the “Little Rock Nine.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We got to where there were still storefronts, but things, except for the bars, was mostly shuttered down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could run, find his way out of the pocket and not lose yardage, but mostly, he could throw. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was hugely long and tall, mostly circular in shape. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most sergeants were more like support personnel, there to set you straight when you erred, but mostly to help when you needed a hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was obviously a purebred Rottweiler, except of course that he was twice the size of a woolly mammoth, mostly invisible, and had three heads. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He gave an explosive sound, mostly through the nose, of either laughter or the opposite of laughter. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I think about all the people who have taken care of me, mostly it’s Mack I recall, day in and day out, year after year after year. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Rafik liked to say, “Our mother is a DJ,” but the station was mostly news, interviews, and cooking programs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had to fend off my share of goals, which I mostly did, through some combination of luck, coincidence, and latent memories of my pre-medication training. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I think about food, mostly, and occupy my mind by watching children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Roz’s truce, life inside the Nest was mostly harmonious. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, he enrolled at Michigan Agricultural College, mostly because he could get free tuition there. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They didn't invite me to sit down at their table-- mostly because they were too ignorant--but I sat down anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Reciting mostly from memory, his voice would roll down the road for a quarter mile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A man sat on a tiny folding stool before a trifold display of photographs, mostly of the New York skyline. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It hurts but mostly I’m landing on Matthew so that’s okay. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The weak force engages in more miscellaneous tasks, mostly to do with controlling the rates of certain sorts of radioactive decay. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

First I give them all the food in my pack, grain and dried beans mostly, but there’s enough to hold them for a while if they’re careful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took only two nights of casually flipping through the book for Cabot Searcy to read all of Benton Sage’s mostly comical entries. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to eat the pig tails, but like chicken necks, they are mostly bone and little meat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly because Ali was immune to the insults of his assailants; he had found his joy, his antidote, the moment Sanaubar had given birth to Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There may have been pity in his eyes, but what I mostly saw was disgust. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

From what I understood, mostly from the illustrations, Mom and the researchers wanted to take a harpoon fishing boat into a stretch of Cape Cod where fishermen had spotted white sharks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’d had some difficult encounters with officers getting into prisons from time to time, mostly in small county jails or places where I’d never been before, but this was highly unusual. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bridge hadn’t managed to crunch them very well, and they were mostly legible. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

What I know about the engagement has come to me in bits and pieces, mostly from the stories Mother told. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I hate rules. I like to break them mostly.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Without hesitation, I fill the detached drawer with everything I can reach—mostly records. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That stadium was brick that was mostly covered in ivy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d mostly say things that made no sense, or speak so low I couldn’t hear what he was telling me—but sometimes he’d whisper secrets about the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Watching paleontologists pulling things out of the ground—mostly worms—isn’t A-list entertainment. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Home is where everything happens, good or bad, except it’s been mostly bad lately. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Morning prayers were done, so it was mostly empty, except for tourists like us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Oh, I used to argue with him before, but that was mostly to show that I wasn’t going to just agree with everything he said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waterskin was mostly empty but other than that, everything was here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But mostly, she winces when reminded of her past. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Talk English,” he called, mostly to show Naomi he remembered the rules. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge, modern structure, and the lower floor consisted of mostly windows. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My pounding heart, my scrunched-up stomach, all my hope, but mostly just a lot of fear that they wouldn’t want to be part of the band anymore. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m mostly pecans. With just a soupçon of maple sugar.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But in a physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There is some polite applause in the room, mostly from the girls, who will not have to compete for these two parts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead credit has tended to lodge with more celebrated chemists, mostly from the English-speaking world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand schoolchildren visited, mostly walking for miles to get there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

On February 10, Sheriff Clark and his possemen led 165 demonstrators, mostly teenagers and younger children, on a forced march into the countryside. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to end there, mostly because I’m in a hurry to see if she’ll write back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since then, I have been involved mostly in work on other projects, especially on my next book about collapses of societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most popular repertoire they sing is mostly European, written in the 18th and 19th centuries. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Great statues of the gods and heroes of Calormen—who are mostly impressive rather than agreeable to look at—rose on shining pedestals. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

"You mostly sleep in shelters. Tonight, except for Samneric up by the fire, you'll all sleep there. Who built the shelters?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some two weeks after being stuffed into a trunk, Gabriel Witter sat on the edge of a mostly comfortable bed with a brown and orange quilt draped over his shoulders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her books had been few and mostly dull. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My ma died when I was born, and being my old man was a government packer in the mountains, and no cows around most of the time, why he just gave me mostly mare’s milk.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tables were mostly empty, and I chose a seat by one of the windows looking out onto the playground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though he had plenty of reasons to despise Ben, he mostly felt sorry for him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There were toy automobiles and trucks, windmills and merry-go-rounds, airplanes, boats and a lot of others, mostly run on batteries. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Second, that caused America to enter World War II. And third, more than 110,000 Nikkei—mostly American citizens—living on the West Coast had been imprisoned in ten different places, for no good reason. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The men mostly shook his hand and thanked him for doing his duty. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They forged on, mostly speaking Mandarin, saving their English for impersonations of certain professors. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sundae sat mostly melted in my cup, and I plopped the cup down and slid it across the table at him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Until now I’d mostly believed we would stumble upon a window somewhere and climb through it into a brand-new life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was partly braided but mostly loose, and her eyes were so dark, it looked like she hadn’t slept in days. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A librarian recommended some John R. Tunis books, mostly about baseball, which I liked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The mudbean house was mostly empty at this time of day, as adult witches were busy at work and younger witches were still at school. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The conversations were painless—mostly about how I liked school and what colleges I was applying to. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The answer was that they had very little, for they had by now mostly disposed of the stuff acquired the day of the Kansas City check-passing spree—the camera, the cuff links, the television sets. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked warmly to Sissy, mostly about his wife who was a good woman, you understand, but you know, a kind of invalid. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The southwest coastline was mostly uncharted, and they had no idea what kind of coves or natural harbors they could expect. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He holds the handles on either side, his arms stretching wide, and leans forward so his body is mostly outside the car, though his feet stay planted inside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Rose Hill mostly grew tobacco, which Momma and a couple of the bigger field hands would ride into town to trade for cloth and other essentials. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Saying that ancient foragers were probably animists is like saying that premodern agriculturists were mostly theists. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were mostly families in front of us, looking dirty and tired. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There are a few more people on the beach now, mostly older men and women taking an afternoon walk. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though it was a mostly Xhosa institution, there were also students from different tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was sober she hummed mostly or chanted blues songs, of which she knew many. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Word of mouth, mostly. I don’t have much of a marketing budget. I’ll run the occasional ad in the Nashville Scene when I’ve had a good month.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I knew you two were friends. Just happy he had someone to talk to, I guess. Seemed like he was mostly alone. I was worried about him.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

One of the buildings is just abandoned, and the rest are mostly empty. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z