They both object, though, and a few minutes later there’s a knock on my door, the two of them, together, popping their heads in to look at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s only one child, and no one knows if it’s true,” objected a man from across the room. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not an inanimate object,” I argued. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Actually, these Jonah and Mary banks are supposed to encourage the children to save for their offerings at church. Surely the sisters can't object to that?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Galileo, who knew only too well who the other people in the room were, listened carefully to the Pope’s warning and clearly did not object. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am,” I said again, with the same object as before. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And they are all so dripping with good will that it is impossible to object. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give him a kiss and, before he can object any further, I let go and turn to Johanna. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked down quickly to avoid a hard white object that came whizzing through the air. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Difficulties on theory of selectionf he wrote. “It may be objected such perfect organs as eye and ear, could never be formed.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The division would be associated with lunar orbit rendezvous, one of the most ingenious and elegant solutions to the challenge of propelling extraordinarily heavy objects on the several-hundred-thousand-mile journey to the Moon and back. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No one objected as Grace prayed aloud in Swahili and Eldin in Bosnian, first for the health and safety of their teammates, and then, if God saw fit, for a victory. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to find it there, difficult for fingers accustomed to grasping the handle of a broadax to pick up an object as tiny as a needle. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can never cool an object to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We pass one curtain with a sign out front that reads: What happens when an unstoppable force strikes an immovable object? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

What made certain objects land in museums and others in the trash? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she objected to his ranting, he broke off the conversation and didn’t call back for months. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when he was maybe a year old, Jeffrey went through a phase of picking up random objects from the floor and giving them to one of us — usually me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod bent down, took the objects from the altar stone, put them in Jack’s open gloved hand. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The deer and bear are objects They see no life. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Musical ability is indeed found in infants, who at only a few months old can manipulate an object in response to hearing certain songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The truth is, Gram didn’t leave me answers in any of these objects. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But that’s because of the rooms, and he understands why I object. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"But there's a garage right here," objected Jordan. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They can be observed by the very slight change in separation they produce between neighboring freely moving objects. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Declaring war upon someone who objects to being narcotized! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He observed and catalogued details outside his main object. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can send them into others’ work, even enliven some inanimate objects, and once that’s done, the results are brilliant. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It is very unlikely that an object in such a highly elliptical orbit could be rapidly moved into the nearly perfectly circular orbit of present-day Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might have saved ourselves the worry, because it soon became apparent that while Dad didn’t like perfume on his own daughters, he didn’t object to it on other people’s daughters. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy objects, like rocks or people, belonged on the ground; light objects, like air, belonged in the heavens. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I can’t remember enjoying commentary more! What is this, by the way?” he added, holding the onionlike object up to eye level. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The objects in the room seemed to swell and recede with each thump of my heart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He parted with it like an object of love. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these predictions was that the number of galaxies or similar objects in any given volume of space should be the same wherever and whenever we look in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object he had sent tumbling with his foot now glinted under the edge of his own bed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further encouragement for the existence of black holes came in 1967 with the discovery by a research student at Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, of objects in the sky that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are living creatures falling like rain and objects that float by themselves. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke looked ready to object, but Penelope laid a hand on her shoulder. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Joseph Butler, the Klan Youth Corps member, attended the steering committee meeting and objected to holding the charrette at Harris. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’d each been given the opportunity to select one object to aid them in their ascent—rope, spikes, special boots—and sure enough, Cain had gone right for the rope. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tayo nodded; he looked at the medicine pouches hanging from the ceiling and tried to imagine the objects they contained. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The incredible effort of moving the boy to Boston, then watching him die, later struck me as an object lesson in the difficulty of Farmer’s mission, perhaps in its ultimate futility. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only when the packaging is hacked away does the object come into view. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The rounder the object hitting the moon, the faster an object is traveling, the farther away an object is from the moon, the larger the crater it creates.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Elton’s situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and without low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps being named “black” had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named “black” was just someone’s name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to pariah. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This explains the initial reaction of several representatives from South Carolina, who objected to the suggestion that the petitions should be read aloud in the halls of Congress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Two little girls entering the Night Bazaar with enchanted objects bearing the marks of Lord Indra and the Dharma Raja? How curious.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For instance, I would be sitting outside at night, and a shiny object would suddenly streak across the sky and vanish mysteriously. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if Luke wanted to sit there and silently object, Toby would let him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state, because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appetite for oxygen is such that objects heavier than housecats are dragged into the flames. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Whatever had caused this wound—a narrow, flat object about two inches wide—had left its telltale outline behind in the deceased man’s head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the comer of one’s eye. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know anything about her—hell, we don’t know that what she has told us is even true!” he objected. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The spaceship—or for that matter any other object with mass—never quite reaches the speed of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Luthuli objected to the flouting of the ANC’s code of conduct, and Professor Matthews expressed dismay about Walter visiting socialist countries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big sign in the checking room said NO TIPPING, so she knew that Jamie couldn’t object. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the suitcase crammed with indecipherable objects and from among then he took out a little case with many flasks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Matter falling into such a supermassive black hole would provide the only source of power great enough to explain the enormous amounts of energy that these objects are emitting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when you looked at the real world through it, you could see virtual things hovering over real-life objects and places. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But if the impacting object is larger or made primarily of rock, there is an explosion on impact that carves out a hemispherical bowl called an impact crater. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like light, gravitational waves carry energy away from the objects that emit them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t object because I do need to sleep if I’m to be of any use keeping him alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a bowl of food with a tiny bit of meat, he would pretend to go into a trance and find lost objects and catch boys who had stolen things. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not people, not even really girls, just lovely objects to be collected. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Calvin objected to Europe’s dominant religious doctrines of his time. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We pillage the littles’ bedrooms for fun objects. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But he recognized the object pointed at him from books and Dad’s descriptions. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Various unusual objects littered the room—a birdcage, a phonograph, a battle-ax, a hanging scale, a mannequin, a globe the size of a beach ball. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They all rested like that, absolutely quiet, drinking more slowly now that their thirsts had been quenched, eyes vaguely fixed on shadow-casting objects downhill. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he thought, to have the object of your love, worthy or not, despise you, or leave you . Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lowered the flame to the metal lip of the object. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She gave the fragile-looking bag a little shake and it echoed like a cargo hold as a number of heavy objects rolled around inside it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s absurd,” objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The three-dimensional object has not been perfectly represented in its transfiguration into two dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to be visible at such a great distance, the object must be very bright, must, in other words, be emitting a huge amount of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I'm alone in the building, staring at my name written in Hannah's pretty cursive, trying to not let this tiny object undo me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest object we had ever laid claim to. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they went into the hut, their hands were empty; when they set out from the hut, each of the men carried a sack with some small object in it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She watched her mother walk around their flat, collecting all the Catholic objects, the crucifixes hung on walls, the rosaries nested in drawers, the missals propped on shelves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Likely the rest of his family perished, as well as anyone else who objected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An object in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an outside force, the words said in her physics textbook. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Although it has indicated that the mere fact that someone fits a profile does not automatically constitute reasonable suspicion justifying a stop, courts routinely defer to these profiles, and the Court has yet to object. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But to be the object of adult hatred was an initiation into a solemn new world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell how the object got there—it doesn’t seem to make sense. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Aristotle was also the midwife of rhetoric’s place in the liberal arts—making it an object of systematic study and finding a place for it in his system of thought. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I hated being the object of pity in my own home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He turned to his companion, David Herold, and objected to the idea that blacks and former slaves would become voting citizens. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An object his mother used as a paperweight stood beside the inkwell: a small glass sphere, on a black plastic pedestal, containing a snowman wearing a stovepipe hat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The lived body—object and subject in research of music activities with preschool children.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The longer the baseline from which we make our two observations, the greater the parallax and the better we can measure the distance to remote objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving heavy objects allowed me to feel manly in the eyes of other men. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Out of sticks, palm fronds, salvaged shoes, glittery jewelry, two suitcase wheels, and evening gown scraps, Taylor had built a found- object beauty queen sculpture upon which she placed a scrawled sign for a sash. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Look: It can be proved by observing the motion of objects in the universe that wherever you are is the precise center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The blind spot is called functional fixity because people get fixated on ah object’s function and forget its physical makeup. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In everyday life you deal with three-dimensional objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The charm of an object to occupy the many vacancies of Harriet’s mind was not to be talked away. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The most important biological objects had to come in pairs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The radical generalization offered it, i.e., its existence, not as a particular object, but as a member of a general group, was too much for it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I held another above Drew’s plate, waiting for him to object. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Like the landscapes of Cahokia and the Maya heartland, some anthropologists say, the great Amazon forest is also a cultural artifact—that is, an artificial object. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He died in captivity, but the profits of that struggle and others like it are ours, even when the object of our struggle, as is so often true, escapes our grasp. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I sat next to him, and when I buried my head in his fur, he didn’t object. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Baba Joseph was definitely uneasy about pagan magic, but he was too interested in the story to object. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But you are an object,” I point out, and realize it’s the wrong thing to say, unless I want to die. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

While the furrier thumbed through them, Sefia fidgeted impatiently, glancing around at the swirling crowd, reaching behind her every so often to reassure herself that the mysterious angular object remained inside her pack. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As he continued to widen his hole, his hand came across a smooth, round object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The guards had walked him down a gray stone stairway and out into a plaza filled with brightly colored things, with people and with objects. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Tail gunner Tonya Khokhlova, of the 125th Guards, told how on one occasion some Soviet pilots flew low over their airfield and dropped an object out of their plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But he opened with a bang: “The object of the project is to produce a practical military weapon in the form of a bomb in which the energy is released by a fast-neutron chain reaction.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most striking object in the playground was without question the giant snail. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If you dropped an object from a tall tower, it would fall towards the west. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They arrive detached from any context; they are simply there, in isolation, as an object glimpsed on the street is there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water looks odd under the beam, a colorless broth littered with a variety of objects: a bright orange; a man’s fedora with a brim of excrement; bits of paper like torn letters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a time it was the brightest object in the heavens, other than the sun and the moon, brighter even than Venus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I plunged my arm eagerly into the locker and brought up one marvellous object after another. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He therefore withdrew from an inner pocket an odd object with little waving legs and a rubber-bulbed horn for a body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’m ordered to a week of bed rest and I don’t object because I feel so lousy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not far ahead is an object covered in a white sheet. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As little Willy hitched Searchlight to the sled, something down at the end of the street—some moving objects—caught his eye. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whiskers that protected his sensitive nose and warned him of objects nearby, twitched as her breath touched them. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crystal ball revealed the exact location of the object in question: it had rolled beneath a wardrobe. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the last thing Jon Snow would have wanted, but before he could object, the king said, “Where would you have me lead these stalwarts if not against the Dreadfort?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The object of the lesson was to match the holiday with the corresponding picture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As a member of the family, one of the bereaved, he was the object of a great deal of attention. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc Smith pulled a long silver object from her doctor’s bag. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But the Precious holds the promise,’ the voice of Sméagol objected. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Simply put, this means that small children have difficulty believing that any one object can have two different names. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several small, brightly colored objects zoomed out of George’s pocket; he made a grab for them but missed, and they sped right into Mrs. Weasley’s outstretched hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Jefferson objected so strenuously to the debate over the Missouri question because it violated that legacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry yelled, fighting the pain of the hot metal on his skin, as Griphook clambered onto his shoulders again, determined to avoid the swelling mass of red-hot objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Around the room, objects have labels hovering over them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Leo would blast the top of the hill with Greek fire. Maybe, if you guys helped me, I could walk -’ ‘Absolutely not,’ Piper objected. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Below the dirt strata with these objects, though, was a layer of quite different artifacts: bigger, thicker, and not as beautifully made. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why women allow men to brainwash them and use their bodies as objects instead of cherishing them as if they were treasures. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d just started sketching the first line for a treehouse on her paper when June pulled strange objects out of her canvas tote bag for the next photo. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His artistic taste became their own: “We weren’t supposed to like Tchaikovsky, because Oppenheimer never liked Tchaikovsky,” objected one student, Edwin Uehling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now they wear only the most pitiful clothing, and try to exchange little carvings and objects that they have made out of shell fragments and copper driving bands. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squatted down in front of a glass case full of small objects: vases and jars, some partly cracked or broken, crudely made jewelry and tiny statues. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke tried to object, but Coach held up a hand. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a shadow anywhere in front of me, and every object, every angle and curve stood out so sharply it made my eyes hurt. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ron glared at her, then pulled a small silver object from his jeans pocket. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Natural objects have, for an Aristotelian, their own internal formative principles, while artificial objects are made according to a design imposed from outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the figure stood and turned to the light, I saw that it was Nick, and that the object he held was a play book. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Watching carefully upward, she ventured under the canopy again to look at the nearest of the fallen objects. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Between the hole and the object is a pane of glass on to which he can draw the outline of the object. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In Danville they had made him the object of hero worship. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of being a three- dimensional object, the book is now a flat, floppy rectangle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the animist world, objects and living things are not the only animated beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both facts made me an object of curiosity—and ridicule. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Plenty of dogs are painlessly laid to rest each day. I don’t see why you would object to that.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I start to object but he puts a finger to my lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it can be seen that I do have a genuine and almost miserly interest in worthless objects. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found the words, feeling for them like foreign objects in the dark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The oldest surviving art objects are sculptures made from bone, ivory, stone, or antlers. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Something seemed to move out from under me, and out of the corner of my eye I was suddenly aware of objects on the dark side of the hall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a huge table dominating the middle of the room, and on it are maps weighed down on the corners by chunks of glass and metal objects. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Those of you who object? Mentor? You and the others?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But the West Computers’ competence silenced most of the dissent; up close, it was difficult to object to good educations and mild middle-class manners, even if they came wrapped in brown skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t even have the energy to object. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Other objects that the man didn’t even recognize. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When other entrepreneurs created jukeboxes by arranging for a phonograph to play popular music at the drop of a coin, Edison objected to this debasement, which apparently detracted from serious office use of his invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed his hand a little deeper into his pocket and pulled out the other object Natalie had given him: a phone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The commander in Cyrenaica not only refused to see Mark Antony, but also he executed the soldiers sent to arrange the meeting, as well as any of his own men who objected to his tactics. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

When Rob appeared again, he had a long black object tucked under one arm, and he was holding another by its barrel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He says there are no such things as discrete objects which remain unchanged, set apart from the flow of time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a roar that seemed to make the pavement heave; a shower of light objects pattered onto his back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Hippo,” she repeated, and put the comfort object down again. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Iranians respected properly gained wealth, but they objected to the shah's fortune because much of it was stolen from the people. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Objection! Your Honor, I object to this wild unsubstantiated testimony.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the box, a note, written in ink, lay on top of a small object wrapped in tissue paper. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t think his family would object, and I should be very happy, for they are all kind, well-bred, generous people, and they like me. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to shore, three kayaks followed an object that bobbed in the water. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

According to the unsympathetic account of Cabello Balboa, Washkar’s mother, who was apparently willing to marry her dead brother, objected to her son’s plan to marry her daughter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Opening objects in a parked vehicle was so incredibly illegal that I realized he wasn't paying any attention to the rules, so saying something about it would be pointless. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The experimenters predicted that the infants would look longer at the ball if it had been swapped with another object than if it had been there all along. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The trick was to observe everything and every person without becoming the object of anyone's negative attention. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He leaned toward them and said, “In object-oriented programming, discrete software objects interfaced more freely, in a system of corporate service provision that mirrored the emergent structures of late capitalism.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to object to people coming and staying, especially queer old people who talked and talked. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thus he says if you have two heavy objects, the heavier one will fall faster than the lighter one, and if the heavy one is twice as heavy it will fall twice as fast. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like that. The sentence doesn’t have, like, an object. I’m just scared.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had nothing up there except a handful of pictures, all of crocheted objects. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Albert walked to the fireplace and carefully polished a silver object beneath the antique painting of the man with red hair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

From then on no one objected to any of the accused addressing the court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more distant the objects that astronomers look at, the farther back they are looking in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I’m scared of being the object of fear and loathing and suspicion again. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The least I could do was throw this atrocious object away. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Many objects exist to be exchanged and consumed: sacks of grain, for example, are turned into bread. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’d captured the afternoon light streaming into the room, the way the shadows fell on the chair and gave it depth and made it appear as if it was something more than an inanimate object. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Stop throwing objects at law enforcement,” the officer says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We left a lot of things behind—not only physical objects, but our friends and of course our families, pieces of ourselves—all for the chance to see that light in Maribel’s eyes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Obstruction, he noted, appeared to be these private detectives’ “sole object,” adding, “Someone must be paying them to do this.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We see the clumsiness of a small hand manipulating an adult-sized object; the determination to master a challenge we take for granted; the out-of-sync mouth anticipating the sweet, juicy reward. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most objects in the universe don't have a speed that every observer can agree on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Gee, Mama, you take all the fun out of things—like not objecting to my black lace pants last year. Well, throw the cigarettes away.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luna was not there: The thing that was making such a racket was a wooden object covered in magically turning cogs and wheels. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was one of the planes that crossed over from being the love object of flyers and aviation insiders to a broadly known symbol of US technological prowess and bravery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There did not seem to be any way Malfoy could have brought a dangerous or Dark object into the school. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The gryphons’ shrieking stopped abruptly, replaced by the thunk, thunk, thunk of heavy objects hitting the mud. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Pluto may be the last object marked on schoolroom charts, but the system doesn’t end there. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The object of the game is to shoot the enemies crawling up out of the tunnel toward you while dodging their fire and avoiding other obstacles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Just at that very same moment, Europeans—at home and across the Atlantic—decided that they could no longer stand being objects themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The tower room held objects that were very dear and precious to Count Olaf, and they were terrible things. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She felt, though, that she could achieve better results in the long run by objecting to the part of the anatomy selected for punishment, rather than the punishment itself. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some women still objected; they said “a southern minority was terrorizing the northern majority.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The thing had retracted its spikes and arms to enter—when it landed with a squishy thump, a dozen sharp and nasty objects popped back out, looking deadlier than ever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What he saw were three objects—a man, a woman, and a light switch. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His eager ambition along with his great success led him to think “thoughts too great for man,” the thing of all others the gods objected to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the last person I expected to object did so. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Logan Green protested: “We object to the form of the question, Your Honor. There’s been no testimony about immunity to anybody.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes dropped to the objects clutched in Ron and Hermione’s arms: great curved fangs, torn, he now realized, from the skull of a dead basilisk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. His wife—we’ve known her since we were children. But even if he did object, it wouldn’t have made a difference. My father doesn’t take no for an answer.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shay called that “high gravity,” which happened every time a fast-moving object changed direction. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To determine whether astronomical objects emit such short wavelengths of light, an X-ray telescope must be carried aloft. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning to look like this involved learning to isolate mathematical shapes within more complex objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It can’t be pointed at; it is not a physical object. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not object to marrying well,” Clara said simply, and looked at Ash curiously. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a common enough object, but you generally don’t see such a thing lying on the floor. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We both start to object, but Haymitch slams his hand on the table. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he seemed mighty pleased, and didn’t object when she said, “Mr. B., don’t go back to the store wearing that same tobacco-stained shirt, or you won’t fool a soul.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Now forced to accept that the Elder Wand was real, she maintained that it was an evil object, and that the way Voldemort had taken possession of it was repellent, not to be considered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the circle of children, like the object of some arcane ritual, there hovered a bomb, its downward-facing tip seemingly balanced on Adam’s outstretched finger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A couple of people ask if we’re okay, but most just make a beeline around us as if we’re just another object in the obstacle course that is New York City. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The more massive the object that is sitting on the sheet, the more the sheet gets distorted, and the larger the dimple around that object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For this mechanism to work, the unseen object has to be very small, like a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But usually when I'm finding black market objects for people, I begin with a physical description. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He began aggressively to ask the various defendants, who regarded him as a sellout, why they objected to separate development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Latour rightly thinks that books represent a special class of objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Humming cheerily, Hermione strolled through the jumble of objects on display. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Other objects were positioned in unusually impossible ways. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The River Styx’s current swirled with strange objects— broken toys, ripped-up college diplomas, wilted homecoming corsages—all the dreams people had thrown away as they’d passed from life into death. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I think he expects me to object and insist on more swordplay, but I am too tired to even think of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was famous for her coat which held magical objects and changed color like the sky. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Again a whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate—a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

One group, especially busy, was gathered around an odd-shaped object of wood and metal about a foot long. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Both Stanton and Anthony strongly objected to illiterate black men getting the vote before educated white women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mom wouldn’t throw any heavy objects at him if we kids were in the room. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And it doesn’t look as though many people did object. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The normal cells which make up our bodies are tiny objects, five thousand of which would fit on the head of a pin,” he said, his voice a bit too loud and stilted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He so smoothly broke into the cafeteria line, and nobody objected. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she looks back down at the bin and scrutinizes each object for clues, for some bit of information to store away and examine later. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In that minute some dark object sailed over his head and the dog’s snarling changed to an offended yelp. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Was there some other object of beauty in the room? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Otto motioned to the larger objects, the lamppost, and the flipped car. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not a lot, but enough to keep a dreamer from idealizing the object of his long fascination. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They took turns hosting nightly banquets, and the object was to top the effort of the night before. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

While she wasn’t opposed to joining the protest, she said, “I thought all my family and everybody I knew would object.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a solid lump of metal—a beautiful object. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I used a type of cipher called the scytale. You take a vertical strip of paper like this, and you wrap it around a cylinder-shaped object.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My appearance, with my arm bandaged and my coat loose over my shoulders, favoured my object. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are as much the objects around you as you are yourself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I object to that remark very strongly,” said the Bulldog. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The origin of species is an object of inquiry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You look at something, concentrate hard enough to imagine that object moving from point A to point B, and it just...does,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The only thing that made a difference, Payne found, was slowing the experiment down and forcing people to wait a beat before identifying the object on the screen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Disoriented and uncommunicative, he was forced off the bus in Hurtsboro, Alabama, after unnerving some passengers by talking loudly to himself and gesturing wildly at objects he imagined were flying around him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He looked at some object on the other side of the room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall through a rip in the fabric of space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed to think for a moment, his eyes studying the objects on his desk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few other rudimentary hints were offered, such as that white should move first, and the object of the game was to checkmate, but not actually capture, the king. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You inform your parents that it is a homework assignment. I am sure they will not object.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Annabeth started to object that she wasn’t the leader of the quest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was a walking object lesson about how dangerous work in the Fishery could be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frank ran to the giant’s head, picked up the nearest heavy object he could find—a legion shield—and slammed it into the giant’s nose. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like a human woman, Rachael had every class of object conceivable filched and hidden away in her purse; he found himself rooting interminably. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

These spirits inhabited natural objects, like rivers and mountains, including celestial bodies, like the sun and moon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bluff where she had built a fire lay a dark object. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because they hoodwinked a very powerful magical object!” said Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now, you might object that the experimenters stacked the deck by writing a passage about a concrete physical activity in vague and abstract language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The object that he had treated so casually was beautifully meticulous. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you object to my having the headache on your time?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the records of atmospheric shock waves show no hint of an object booming out of the North Atlantic later that day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before anyone else can object, I lock elbows with Voxy and the rest follow suit, until we form a human chain. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before the light was gone, Tree-ear reached into his waist pouch and slowly withdrew a small object. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Nivea wept disconsolately and lit candles to San Antonio, patron of lost objects. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another kind of object in the sky, the wandering or vagabond stars called planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game was called NeuroRacer, a three-dimensional driving game that asked the subjects to drive while simultaneously doing perceptual tasks, like recognizing objects around them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Aru wanted to believe this meant they would find objects like deflated basketballs, mismatched socks, or bobby pins. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was an old-fashioned-looking object made from black leather with lots of silver trimming, identical to the belt he was wearing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Whereupon, he stuck his paw under the chair cushion and brought out with a flourish an assortment of strange white objects. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shapes of people and objects burned themselves into my retinas and stayed there, floating around behind my eyelids like hungry ghosts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed, this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes: how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst all the good news, however, the ANC objected to the fact that Mr. de Klerk had not completely lifted the State of Emergency or ordered the troops out of the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third wall looked like a pharmacist’s shelf, and the fourth wall held more archaic objects. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"What's the matter, Nick? Do you object to shaking hands with me?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And when Gwen snaked her arm into hers and whispered, “Come upstairs and get dressed — you are coming with us tonight,” she did not object. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Science was moving from a world of macrophysics, where objects could be seen and held and measured, to one of microphysics, where events transpire with unimaginable swiftness on scales far below the limits of imagining. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Al doesn’t usually object to anything the Dauntless tell us to do. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I want to object, to tell Captain Smith not to go. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Every object in the tree house was floating as everything plummeted together. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Quite likely her real object had been to listen to him and make sure whether he was shouting loudly enough. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“This habit probably originated in the females carefully licking their puppies—the dearest object of their love—for the sake of cleansing them... .Thus, the habit will have become associated with the emotion of love.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know a great many such minor tricks now, involving objects and gadgets and the rearrangement of space, that I didn’t need to know before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the parachute sits a small metal object that I can’t place. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In short, though there may be life on other planets in our galaxy, the sightings of UFOs are almost certainly just that—sightings of unidentified flying objects. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself onto his hands and knees, ready to face some small, fierce creature, but saw that the object was Ron’s foot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The object, whatever it was, was not on the way to Big Thumb but off to the right. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the clearing Kit recoiled at the objects that stood between her and the Meeting House; a pillory, a whipping post and stocks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that if one moved one of the objects, the force on the other one would change instantaneously. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave you in peace if you’ll only let your hair grow. I’m not aristocratic, but I do object to being seen with a person who looks like a young prize fighter,” observed Jo severely. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

An orange, completely pierced with small star-shaped objects, sat on a bed of pine needles in a ceramic dish. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His lawyers objected, but the judge summarily dismissed their complaints. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was severely criticized for this irrational belief by many people, most notably by Bishop Berkeley, a philosopher who believed that all material objects and space and time are an illusion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With screams of pain Ron, Hermione, and the two goblins were knocked aside into other objects, which also began to replicate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the store, she walked up and down the aisles handling any object her fancy favored. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because Xan was in no condition to object, Luna told Fyrian that he could sleep at the foot of her bed, just like old times. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in some cases, services and experiences have replaced objects as the true symbols of high status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I see the object must be the size and shape of a magic wand. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And now the cup, the ring and two unironed waiter’s aprons at home were the only concrete objects left to connote that a man had once lived. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as no one could consider him an object of desire, he was ostracized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it’s weird to think of him as the object of someone’s romantic interest.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“But what of the Castle in the Air?” the bug objected, not very pleased with the arrangement. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was interesting was how he stooped over and scrutinized each object before extending a slow, deliberate hand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At first many people, including Israel himself, argued that since black holes had to be perfectly spherical, a black hole could only form from the collapse of a perfectly spherical object. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peered through a hole at a single object—like a shoe—and tried to make everything else disappear. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Just as Kepler measured the volumes of barrels with his thin slices, Cavalieri added up an infinite number of these indivisible zeros to figure out the area or the volume of a geometric object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have lunch, but headed for a free classroom, where Harry tried with all his might to make various objects fly across the room toward him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As a medical doctor, Regina knew more about the risks than he did, but Bobby was afraid of a foreign object being implanted in his mother’s body and what it might do to her. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His dad stared hard, like he knew Benji was going to object. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two objects that resembled golden ear trumpets curved out from the sides. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What we actually see, however, is almost exclusively red shifts no matter what distant objects beyond the Local Group we point our telescopes to. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fin went to pick it up and asked, “Do you think Kaihan objected to his marriage?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, one protester stood up and informed Harris that “the Duke Vigil is not a draft resistance vigil. Our main object here is for the employees at Duke.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I threw myself against the man— literally threw my whole body, as if it were only an object, against him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you cannot go to the Square in your work dress,” Gwen objected, turning to look at her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a hundred dollar bill and turned the foreign object over in her hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, she saw curtains, candlesticks, cupboards; and in one, a woman moving among her chosen objects. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote “object to be beloved & played with.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. The objects are real. And a lot of the names are real. Billy was real. But the stories are mine.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even as the darkness became so complete that trees and rocks became not objects but mere shadows, he climbed, until finally he reached the stone outcropping. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I immediately turned round and saw an elongated flaming object flying through the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Piper could object, he disappeared down the stairwell. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Different stars have different spectra, but the relative brightness of the different colors is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler was one of the first people since antiquity to propose that the planets were material objects made of imperfect stuff like the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Note the faint grid lines that would help her copy a master artist’s drawing in order to learn proper placement and proportion of objects on the page. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Since there are more small objects than large ones, there should be more impacts by small objects than by large ones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better yet, the hotter the object is, the faster its molecules move; at the same time, the hotter the object, the more energetic the ripples of light it sends out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They moved carefully, and I could hear them searching, sweeping objects to the floor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, no material object may move faster than light: Thou shalt not travel at or beyond the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Point was, though, this sparrowhawk said she’d been told that the sparrows once stole an object of great value to our Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You cannot stop the superficies of objects from evaporation,” he said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This apparently contradictory object turned Brunelleschi’s drawing, almost magically, into such a good likeness of the three-dimensional Baptistery building that it was indistinguishable from the real thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine anyone objecting to these kindly people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, it was sparsely given, not the dousing given to hostile objects. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not object when I planted it at the end of the yard, away from the maple. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And Briony could not be afraid now of Robbie; better by far to let him become the object of her detestation and disgust. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t bother objecting to her makeover attempts anymore. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I stumbled on some object on the floor and fell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is, they argued, no such thing as a form or essence, there are only particular objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A gang of sea otters was romping through the shallows when one of them noticed the sparkling objects. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Still, nighttime eeriness turned the shadows of ordinary objects into something twice as creepy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He offered to fill a room twenty- two feet by seventeen feet full of gold objects—and two equivalent rooms with silver—in exchange for his freedom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For instance, there is much archaeological evidence for exchanges of people and material objects between Japan and Korea in the period A.D. 300-700. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"No, come on. I mean, if money's no object. You ask for it, it's yours." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine told a reporter that as long as researchers disclosed their financial interests, patients shouldn’t object to the use of their tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We may have found out just what that object was.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He proposed that an object of planetary mass, which he called a comet, was somehow generated in the Jupiter system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used it to turn figures and shapes into equations and. numbers; with Cartesian coordinates every geometric object—squares, triangles, wavy lines—could be represented by an equation, a mathematical relationship. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, that picture has long been an object of legend among members of my family, and a great embarrassment to my father. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Once he was determined, once he had focused on an object, the Prince was relentless. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I should drop you,” she says, “for looking at me like an object.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was a very prominent object in the night sky, clearly visible from the streets of London and Paris, the brightest comet that anyone alive at the time had ever seen. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her mom was insistent that somewhere out there, just waiting to be found, was an ancient object that might help them defeat the Sleeper once and for all. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The store was called A-Z, and its dusty show windows were crammed with a weird clutter of old and exotic-looking objects—huge bronze oriental vases next to some beat-up old pots and pans. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the find was of obvious archaeological importance, the object was so big and heavy that in the intervening eight decades it had never been pulled out of the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It might be a lesser object, such as a comet. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

My mom said it’s an object you treasure. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mitzi told us not to worry about copying objects exactly, that it was the strength of our lines that counted. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash objected, “He was not. You —” “Be quiet,” her stepmother said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, a growing number of suffragists objected to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s judgmental approach to reform. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Popper distinguished between the world of physical objects, the world of mental processes and the third world, the world of ‘problems, conjectures, theories, arguments, journals and books’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What they objected to principally was that the three oldest girls were being turned away from family activities. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes sense—I think about the ways she trips on things and reaches for spots on the floor thinking they’re objects. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There is no object in sending me up now. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were of objects the helmet was designed to keep out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From the other side, Harry heard the soft, musical voice that issued from the eagle door knocker: “Where do Vanished objects go?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We must pray to the Virgin,” my mother said, and although Deborah objected, saying nobody prayed for a grade promotion, my mother gathered us around the Virgin’s altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then we made up a new game in which the object was to keep a stranger talking on the phone as long as possible. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then came a human trunk and a skull, which looked as if it had been beaten with a heavy metal object. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Your preserve, is it? I object to your claims of ownership.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His eyes roved, watching for a moving object to shoot at; but none appeared. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

An incentive is a bullet, a lever, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When he politely asked if he could use his tape recorder, I saw no reason to object. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only objects in the entire room were two upturned wooden boxes to serve as chairs and a third box between them for a table. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they blundered into objects until all that could be heard were Baba Joseph’s exhortations and the groans of men nursing injuries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can see faint stars and other objects by averting your vision slightly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If two objects are moved twice as far away, the gravity now pulling them together is only one-quarter as strong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these rare tales told of a mysterious object called a book, which held the key to the greatest magic Kelanna had ever known. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When you picked up objects, opened doors, or operated vehicles, the haptic gloves made you feel these nonexistent objects and surfaces as if they were really right there in front of you. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I made out the objects inside the shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not waiting for Papa to object, Grandpa turned to me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That points to something wider: while the fusillade of insults moves its object out of the embrace of the community, it seeks to move its speaker closer to the center. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Chess started to object—did he want to warn his brother and sister that maybe he should read the file first; maybe he should protect them from whatever it was going to say? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He is, indeed—but, considering the inducement, my dear Miss Eliza, we cannot wonder at his complaisance; for who would object to such a partner?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It hangs from the finest thread in empty space, a decorative object, as interesting for the way in which it catches the light as for its geometrical form. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a lantern before him, fixed to the seat, which illumination touched the edges of objects obscure in their outlines. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When he heard that she had objected to the drawing of the animal’s claws, he tasted uncertainty, even alarm. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

If the crop is good, we will have more beets than we can eat; but the object is to harvest the seed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I'm going to swing a stick of wood to thwack a round object, I'd rather it be the flatter rectangle of a cricket bat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why, then, did Copley show Revere at a workbench with his engraving tools spread out before him, holding a teapot as the object of his contemplation and offering it to us for our inspection? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell what he was thinking; his face remained quite blank as he put the little cache of stolen objects back into the cardboard box. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He chuckled, then took out the object."So there is, Daniel." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then he bent to take the black object in his teeth once more and dragged it along to where his armor lay. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The object was to see how far we could get before we died. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cosmological theory described a flat earth suspended in air, with the other celestial objects lofted above, like leaves blown on a universal wind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Deeper and deeper into the labyrinth he went, looking for objects he recognized from his one previous trip into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She moved about slowly, touching objects with her fingers as she passed them, using them for support. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most commonly, you’d hear them referred to indirectly, in connection with an object or a chore. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he revised his text Galileo went on to represent objects floating in containers, such as a tank standing on a table top. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He told me that Evelyn gave it to him when he was young, and instructed him to hide it from his father, who wouldn’t approve of a useless-but-beautiful object, Abnegation that he was. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He plucked a small object from behind my ear and held it in front of me—a pea-size blob of soggy white paper. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cable pulled another object from the briefcase, a necklace with a little heart pendant She pressed on its sides, and the heart clicked open. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Like other designed objects, it comes about not by accident but by drafting a blueprint, attending to details, and maintaining a sense of harmony and balance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She saw dreary wigs, pots of rouge, empty flasks, and an unruly collection of impossible objects scattered everywhere. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the statements “UFOs contain extraterrestrial visitors” and “UFOs are unidentified flying objects” are two entirely different assertions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also invented several useful objects, including a drip coffeemaker, thermal underwear, and a type of range still known as the Rumford fireplace. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My girlfriends and I were very sly at keeping the objects of our affections on the down low. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

With helmet down and torch blazing, he practiced to his heart’s content, welding all manner of metal objects—forks, shovels, horseshoes, even the grate off a potbelly stove—right into the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She can follow an object with her eyes. She can squeeze someone's finger. She can gurgle when delighted.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, what I’m really objecting to are the words, not standing or sitting. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my first meal as a free man. You won’t object if I wait until after I’ve eaten to read your page seven?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

According to his notes, big objects could be unfrozen when two people touched them—just like the upside-down levitating car on Main Street. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My gaze was fixed without object upon the encampment, the dim figures who, an arm or a cheek caught in the distinguishing gesture of flame, huddled or moved about the mob of soldiery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And if black holes were as varied as the objects that collapsed to form them, it might be very difficult to make any predictions about black holes in general. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So he never got the chance to find a founder’s object there and hide it in the school!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“But it’s only a big pencil,” the Humbug objected, tapping at it with his cane. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why would a full-grown man place a foreign object into his mouth, especially if it was brown and discovered in a rarely used suitcase? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The only proper object of study for the educated man, he declared, was ethics. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

From some hidingplace sewn in the skirt of the dress she took a small object, and this was held out to Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I saw was a large black object floating in the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One can therefore make detailed models of objects that might contain black holes and compare the predictions of the models with observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t notice you objecting to riding your gelding,” said his father. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

For most of the time of the object’s approach we would exist in a kind of cone of uncertainty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe my wearing the uniform helped; once in uniform, I suspected, a person seemed more standard-issue, less an object of curiosity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean those poor sore objects attached to my legs?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rhetoric was, for Aristotle, dialectic’s wayward cousin: having as its method not “this therefore that” but “probably this so likely that,” and as its object not knowledge but persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Groups of Maori began to walk through Moriori settlements, announcing that the Moriori were now their slaves, and killing those who objected. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The object gave a dull clink and slid off in darkness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible for them to obey a bunch of rules unless they understand how it works,” objected Feynman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even today, artists and architects intuitively know that objects that have this ratio of length to width are the most aesthetically pleasing, and the ratio governs the proportions of many works of art and architecture. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Other objects are tested for purposes very different from the one for which they were manufactured. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The artist looks through a small hole at the object he wants to draw or paint. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The most popular theory is that, about four billion years ago, a huge object collided with the earth, and the moon was formed from the resulting debris. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley jammed the shovel into the bottom edge of his hole, and carefully began to dig a tunnel underneath the metal object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was better to die like a man; to die like a sailor in blue water no man can object. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Later I would learn that chimpanzees use more objects as tools than any creature except for us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They would need to use the drain hole for washing down blood and for rinsing objects with bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both the Fertile Crescent and China, iron objects became common only after about 2,000 years of experience of bronze metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Rickets asked why some of the white children objected to going to school with us, Sammy Dean replied: “Well, it’s racial, marrying each other.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He walked through life self-consciously with downcast eyes and burning cheeks, the object of contempt, envy, suspicion, resentment and malicious innuendo everywhere he went. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Nsia’s breath was labored; I feared she suffered from some asphyxiation, and went to tend to her; all her attention being fixed on the object behind me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The more general version of Newton’s law is F = p, where p is an object’s momentum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If his face was a supernova before, it became an accretion disc—one of the brightest objects in the universe—as soon as he tasted his lettuce. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It is not what you think,” Ash objected, laughing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how once, long ago, sniffing over a farm rubbish heap with Fiver, he had come upon a similar object—large, smooth and flat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They had no way to indicate verbs or adjectives, no way to distinguish subject from object, and only a limited vocabulary. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The path turned to the left, and a little way along, more like a thickening of the mist than a solid object, a wooden jetty stood crazily out over the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he pulled an object from the pouch and handed it to Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

You're not seriously getting sentimental about inanimate objects now too, are you? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It’s an object, like a brooch or a ring, and especially now Ruth has gone, it’s become one of my most precious possessions. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When two objects come together in the real world–billiard balls are most often used for illustration–they don’t actually strike each other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But try as he might, he could think of no shape, form, or object that he could carve to show healing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She objected to the rough feel of the corn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel so useless. You’ve caged me in with hundreds of material objects that don’t satisfy the real me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only sharp words back and forth; no fists or blunt objects. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Raymond wanted to defend himself and my lawyer objected, but they were instructed that they must let the prosecutor finish. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

As your speed increases, you begin to see around the corners of passing objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the group stopped riding the buses for certain named things ... that is correct, isn’t it? ... for certain things that Reverend King said were the things they objected to.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He could barely see her face, but from her tone he knew her eyes were narrowed, as if trying to focus on a distant object. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The art establishment also objects to “the new painting” for what the artists paint: contemporary subjects such as train stations, cafes, bridges. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

John bent over and picked a small object off the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But an invisible object weighing ten times more than the Sun and collapsed into a volume the size of an asteroid can only be a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It stuck to people, animals, and inanimate objects like peanut butter. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, when they mowed the relatively short stretch alongside the south wall of the prison, the regular officer didn’t object if those in the lead went ahead and kept on mowing around the corner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe, which, in turn, meant that the object was a very long distance away. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could the earth not He at the center of the universe, critics asked, if all heavy objects on our planet tend to fall toward its center? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

According to the Renaissance theory of signatures, some natural objects had their significance apparent in their form. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though much smaller and entirely round, the room somewhat resembled the Room of Requirement on the unforgettable occasion that it had transformed itself into a gigantic labyrinth comprised of centuries of hidden objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I give a small yelp of pain as my tailbone objects. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she held up the object and frowned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You will find him dependable, brave, resourceful, and loyal,” continued Azaz, and the Humbug was so overcome by the flattery that be quite forgot to object again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The survivors immediately pounced upon the bodies of their fallen comrades, plundering weapons and objects of clothing that they had coveted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With a sinking heart Kit watched as he drew an object from his pocket. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

People with autism are obsessed with mechanical objects, but this was a movie that followed very much the spare, actor-focused design of the stage. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I studied the bright illustrations and learned the words for the unfamiliar objects of our new life in the United States: A for Apple, B for Bear, C for Cabbage. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to object, but I was tired. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at me and the pig’s head and tells Mam it’s a disgraceful thing to let a boy carry an object like that through the streets of Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Luke opened his mouth to object, but Annie shook her head. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But he could make it to the mysterious object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re both going to pretend that I was invited by the Crown Prince—and right now you are going to make such a fuss about me being late that they won’t object.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The object hits some sides but not all sides. Did you tape it or tie it or something?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She dived into the bushes as a large object swooped down the road. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an object approaches the speed of light, its mass rises ever more quickly, so it takes more and more energy to speed it up further. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally they were fortunate enough to unearth the half-buried remains of an Incan village, and in no time at all the house would fill with all the objects they had stolen from the site. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel and I used to play this game we liked to call What If? where the object was to take turns creating the most absurd “what if?” scenarios. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She ran faster, the hard rectangular object beating painfully against the base of her spine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favoured; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

An electrical shock from some jumper cables had put her into a coma from which she emerged, three weeks later, able to “know” things by handling an object or touching a stranger’s hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He also objected to the fact that I would make my bed in the morning, saying it was his responsibility to do so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found that baby geese, when they hatch from their eggs, learn to follow the first moving object they see. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I object to that remark very strongly,” said the Bulldog. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Raising a baby—magical or not—is not without its challenges: the inconsolable crying, the near-constant runny noses, the obsession with putting very small objects into a drooling mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Aiiiiiii-eeeee!” he cried like a fiend when he found the object of his search. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sugah, you have the personality of a jack hammer. You can make inanimate objects nervous. Please relax.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was really about a quarter of an hour," Mike objected. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When the coils passed over a metal object, the telephone transmitted a sound similar to a musical tone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The chief elder nodded, and the guards set the object down in front of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And then it hit me: I’d been trying to stage a romantic, daring scene and I’d almost passed out and had to be rescued by the object of my affections. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Posing under the trees, on the bench, in the hammock, I balance my camera on various garden objects to get full-length shots of us together. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Irina had gone to war without even telling her mother—she was pretty sure her parents would have objected. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Moore didn’t object to what the football program had, nor did she object to Gaines’s salary. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth’s special position at the center of the universe made it the only world capable of containing life, as Aristotle held that all objects sought out their proper place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“As well as to being known as the Gunners. We also object to the fact that people who do not currently attend the school seem to dominate the conversation regarding the mascot.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The object of a preposition like between must be in the accusative case: we say between us or between them, not between we or between they. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

One of the pale men then brought out objects that she would not have used even on animals. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide my hand down into my pocket and clutch my 1943 steel penny, The object I brought in for sharing today. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

From the observed orbit of the visible star, one can determine the lowest possible mass of the unseen object. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This concept can be taught using an object like a bouncy ball. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As my eyes adjust to the darkness, I can make out the shapes of each object in the room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One morning she returns with objects in her hands, pretty rocks and twigs and big oak leaves, and she sits down silently at the small table in our garage apartment to construct a little house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the work’s only avant-garde touch, a thick wire extended from Miss Baker’s head, at the top of which hovered the object of wonder: a hummingbird. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Basta in particular was the object of enough scorn and derision for ten men, and from his failure to react at all one could only guess at the depths of his despair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As I approached the object in the distance, it became gradually clearer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was Newton who realized that the pull of any two objects is, to quote Feynman again, "proportional to the mass of each and varies inversely as the square of the distance between them." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Petra began to unwind the fabric, turning the object first one way and then the other, yards of deep red falling in folds around her knees. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But that’s a five,” objected Milo, for that was certainly what it was. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked around for something, anything, we could use against him, I spotted a long, moss-covered object half-hidden in the foliage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

All the others, including the kitchen, in which the bathtub was the largest and most conspicuous object, were almost nonexistent. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Your mass stays the same wherever you go, but your weight varies depending on how far you are from the center of some other massive object like a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and recognised, reminded me of days gone by, and were associated with the lighthearted gaiety of boyhood. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kin set the long object down on top of an anvil and crossed his arms as she approached. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko was left alone to ponder the object lying on the linoleum tile—toothy, scaly, and lifelike, except for the $3.95 price sticker glued to its snout. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her foot had banged against a hard object. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no position in reference to matter or objects; not the recognition of surfaces; the senses themselves collapsed and abrogated their wonted distinctions; and the body was left aware but bereft. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Heavier-than-water objects, they assured him, float if they have the right shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She didn’t object as he removed his boots and unbuttoned his jacket. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Also it would advance him in the opinion of men everywhere if the object of his journey was to seek for some news of his father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An instant before his foot hit the object on the floor he knew he would hit such an object. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She examined each object, sighing audibly before affixing a price tag, and scolded her husband for trying to carry things too heavy for him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Galileo had realized that moving objects have a natural tendency to keep on moving, unless they are affected by friction or some other outside force. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Little soft rimmed cups of various sizes and a wheel, most likely, and another object that could turn out to be either a lever or a stick; it was hard to tell. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Users can choose their location, like a restaurant or school, and then click on different objects to see and hear the words in Spanish.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As the dirt chipped and flaked away, the hard object became more pronounced. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The old man inserted a similar object in his own ear and moved his lips. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

As their name suggests, cosmic strings are objects that are like string in that they have length but a tiny cross section. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was inclined to rely on a series of accidents to achieve its object It was patient, and did not think. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband and at Jordan who had begun to balance an invisible but absorbing object on the tip of her chin. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He tried to object when the roaches gave their food to Boots, thinking he would share his own. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Numbers had finally become distinct from geometry; numbers were used to do more than merely measure objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Egyptians also learned how to measure the volumes of objects—like pyramids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The object was to knock your opponent’s piece out of the hollow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just three objects stood on this shelf, three identical celadon wine bowls—inlaid with chrysanthemums. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The spell to pull or tug on something, usually an object, never ever used on a person. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra didn’t care for that and started to object, but then Malcolm pretended to get hiccups and she laughed so much she forgot the lanyard and let go. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And he’d learned that the object of a school fight was not to gain points for style but to force your enemy to give in, which meant hurting him more than he was hurting you. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, take the dance, for instance. If Bobby wants to go to the dance with Kelsey—” I start to object. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Woodhull’s supporters objected, Anthony told them to leave the hall if they didn’t like it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She looked as if she had two objects strapped to her forehead, large as apples, black as olives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before the lady can object, I take two more. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She handed him the flat, round object and waited while he felt it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was not the only object of hate here. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He too holds out a round object: it’s flat like a disc and appears to be made of purple stained glass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not an overly doting father, and yet he never objected to them jumping on him, grabbing him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I objected one day, sitting next to him in the TV room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ranofer nicked his hand twice with a carelessly placed chisel as visions of the wonderful objects he would see in Zau’s shop danced through his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the maddening laughter continued, each whirling object suddenly contorted, enlarged, ballooned, stretched, shrank, into all sorts of grotesque, shifting monsters, all of them attempting to swallow me up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi nodded, her eyes locked on a display of pots and pans as if it were an object of fascination. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s called tunnel vision because, before you black out completely, for a while you seem to be looking down a tunnel and can see only those objects that are directly in front of you. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other familiar objects and furnishings were still in evidence, Lefty’s rebetika records, the brass coffee table, and, of course, the silkworm box, sitting in the middle of the engraved circular top. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the leather, the hard metal corners of the strange object dug into her palm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then she could read the three thin lines of type: This object belongs to Mrs. Lorelei Granger, and she may call it any name she chooses. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Brobeck later judged its chief virtue to be that “no one objected if you drove a nail into it anywhere.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Internally, the important institutional decisions seem to have been made by a process of accommodation and adaptation, with resistible forces always meeting movable objects. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The final project was a still life with all these objects in it as well as a small hunk of plastic ham. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She glanced down at the ragged comfort object and grinned. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort had known about the Deathly Hallows, surely he would have sought them, done anything to possess them: three objects that made the possessor master of Death? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This is a person who could be hurt! Let’s not worry about objects!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A better way would be to place a ruler gently next to the pencil, but in fact, comparing the lengths of the two objects also changes the pencil’s speed a tiny bit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“But there is too much work even for two,” Ash objected. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed the object to Frankie, who turned it in her hand and passed it to Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Through bleary, angry tears, she stared down at the rectangular object in her lap. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was no longer an object of mockery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every object that has mass creates a little depression in the fabric of the cosmos. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They weren’t objects at all, but only apertures in the smooth mesarthium. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Other photographs were images of everyday objects so close up that you could barely tell what they were anymore. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Or was their tenure somewhat less cynical, more a matter of improvisation, motivated by the distant but vague object of forging a lasting harmony between Greek and Egyptian? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As far as cursed objects went, this was by far the most boring. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For Wilbur, nothing in life was so important as this small round object—nothing else mattered. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The officer nods back, and Dr. Cook leads us into a room full of large, shadowed objects. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Because gravity holds planets in orbit and makes falling objects land with a bang, we tend to think of it as a powerful force, but it is not really. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I create art from found objects in nature.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly the object came into focus as the toilet paper became thin and sheer, like I’d adjusted a microscope. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, one by one, Hugo pulled out dozens of objects: screws and nails and bits of metal, gears and crumpled playing cards, tiny pieces of clockworks, cogs, and wheels. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The BFG put an arm into the sack and pulled out a gigantic black and white striped object the size of a man. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the musty living room, full of those old Christ pictures, prayers woven into tapestries, statuettes of the crucifixion, other religious objects on the mantel, shelves, table tops, walls, everywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An obscure object all her own, which in addition to the need for privacy was responsible for bringing her down to the basement bathroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She rescued him with the help of a magical object. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ernest did not object, now that the tube’s capacity to generate research funds appeared to outstrip that of the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he was Sir Will, a brave knight whose job it was to retrieve precious stolen objects from spooky evil wizards. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The electron is a zero-dimensional object, and its very zerolike nature ensures that scientists don’t even know the electron’s mass or charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I noticed these objects cursorily only—in them there was nothing extraordinary. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If you made an object of some insane, unusual size, then it’d still be a thing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

William wrote of attention in 1890: “Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession of the mind in clear and vivid form out of what seem several simultaneous objects or trains of thought.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’s a magic presence co us, an object of envy and desire, we covet her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us rid ourselves,” he said, “of this noisome object.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ultrasonics had promising potential for physics, chemistry, and biology, ranging from the detection of underwater objects to the removal of diseased tissue, but the research required hugely expensive equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The object of this law is to caution the Court to seek to find out why a man killed and to allow that why to be the measure of the mitigation of the punishment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who, for example, would object to the term ‘the digital revolution’ on the grounds that it is not a singular and discrete event, localized in time and space? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An object approaching us at very high velocities is perceived to have the color of its spectral lines blue-shifted. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On October 5, 1957, America awoke to the news that a man-made object launched the previous day from a Soviet space complex was orbiting overhead. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ranofer whirled in a panic to stare behind him and above him, at the same time stumbling back away from the unknown object near the wall. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, as so often happens in love affairs, the two objects of his affection were contradictory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really have time, but he unlocked Groucho’s middle drawer and stared at the two precious objects inside: a bronze astrolabe he’d picked up in Bologna, and a fist-sized chunk of crystal from Ogygia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sigurd had dismounted and was using his sword to whack away the objects that the domovoi threw at him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The central quest of the study of heredity seemed like an object perceived only through its shadows, tantalizingly invisible to science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Since he, too, was an object of hatred, I felt that he might refuse me but would hardly betray me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That distortion—the curvature caused by objects sitting on the sheet—is gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The clock on your dresser, the cup of coffee you drink in the morning, the book you're reading right now—all these are three-dimensional objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That is not my object in embracing his character and his cause. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm . . .” said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it were some strange object. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He craned his neck and snapped at the unseen object, his breath creating a crackling of ice on his shell. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not when I saw the dashboard with the dust on it and the mirror with the warning about how objects are closer than they appear. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Lily,” he asked that evening when his sister took her comfort object, the stuffed elephant, from the shelf, “did you know that once there really were elephants? Live ones?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We objected to this rule, but made little headway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says it’s like having a piece of wood suspended between two chairs, but piled in the middle with too many heavy objects. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lighter objects are wildly jumbled, many of them out on the surface. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a strange object that she eventually recognized as a teapot, and when she lifted the hinged lid, a rich aroma was released. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the survivors made camp and mourned for their lost companions two strange objects entered the Bay. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These objects were the trail that led back to me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As a rule, we objected to having our pictures taken in prison on the grounds that it is generally demeaning to be seen as a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cable pulled a black knapsack from beside her desk and started to pack the various objects into it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For several seconds there was silence as a dozen pairs of eyes frantically darted back and forth trying to pick up the outlines of the three metal objects. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he may not want the reader to think about the content of the subject before she thinks about the contents of the verb and object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At 21,000 feet, dizzy from the heat, I came upon a large object wrapped in blue plastic sheeting beside the trail. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly an activity, a belief, or even an emotion that is not mediated by objects of our own devising. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the sound a heavy metal object, say a refrigerator, might make if it were slowly being pushed across ceramic tile. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Nothing about other ships or objects at sea?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Using some vertically plumb object continued . at Alexandria on the day of the solstice, he measured angle a, and therefore angle P, at 7.2 degrees. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The children’s faces were frozen, staring at the sharp object—a tool for removing waxen seals—that was now touching the soft underside of Gwenforte’s throat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I leapt from my desk and started to shove random objects into their appropriate homes, hoping Mom would appreciate the effort. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He reached into one of the carts and pulled out a small object, which he polished vigorously on his robe. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It will immediately be objected that this will place an intolerable burden on the farmer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On February 1, I heard on the radio that the Russians had launched Luna I, the first man-made object ever to break away from Earth’s gravity. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it that the students object to?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t object when Erin took another fry. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

You don’t object to an aged parent, I hope?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There existed only one object, the Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Even for objects the size of stars, the attractive force of gravity can win over all the other forces and cause the star to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked the first object off the tray. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most other islanders produced a diverse array of fishhooks, adzes, jewelry, and other objects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If a radio telescope were built on Venus, it could detect the Sun, the Earth and other distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief virtue of the old wooden shack, he judged, was that “no one objected if you drove a nail into it anywhere.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Another small object bounced off the back of his neck. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The pouch was now too full of broken and useless objects to take any more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The shelves were full of things made in the Smoke, along with a few objects that had come from the cities. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought about the possibility of Zero grabbing info of me from the object—and the idea sends a shiver through me, even as I warm at Hideo’s obvious concern. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alec was just shaking his head back and forth, in obvious disbelief as he continued studying the object in his hands. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She borrowed nearly every book on magical objects from the library and even brought a few from Director Fokus’s personal collection, but hardly any of them mention the Black Book. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I quickly scan the pile on my side and find maces, swords, bows and arrows, tridents, knives, spears, axes, metallic objects I have no name for...and nothing else. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Institute hired him to operate its electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons to make images of small objects, such as viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any object, such as a human body, is attracted more strongly to a large planet than to a small one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object was to light your opponent’s candle without letting him do the same to yours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is no such prominent object on the moon, and scholars have suggested that Galileo deliberately enlarged a crater to enable the viewer to, as it were, zoom in on a tell-tale feature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The thing is, we never saw him as a person, just as an object of comic relief. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At some radio frequencies the Earth has become by far the brightest object, the most powerful radio source, in the solar system— brighter than Jupiter, brighter than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dismounted and walked over to the tree slowly and picked up the object. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked the man over for any microphones or other strange objects. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But Hickock’s attorney objected: “The sole reason the pictures are being introduced is to prejudice and inflame the minds of the jurors.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mammachi had a separate entrance built for Chacko’s room, which was at the eastern end of the house, so that the objects of his “Needs” wouldn’t have to go traipsing through the house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not outside of you. It’s a part of who you are, not an object you can film and capture in different kinds of light. It’s love. If it wasn’t real, it wouldn’t hurt.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

What would happen, for example, if you drilled a tunnel down through the centre of the Earth and then dropped an object into the tunnel? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Our attorneys had objected to our having to come to court in prison garb and we had won the right to wear our own clothes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was maintain a shellshocked expression and handle a variety of contradictory objects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The object, for example, pretty much has to come after the verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained that her husband objected to her work and “all that is dearest” to her. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She gave her the patchwork quilt, the only beautiful object she had ever owned. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what opiate for his severe sufferings—what object for his strong passions—had he sought there? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Though I am too cagey to say it: he might object to the vocabulary, or think he’s being pinned down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy came into range of the squad car’s headlights, Officer Delinko noticed a flat rectangular object attached to each of his sneakers. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fill my bowl with chocolate cereal and pour milk over it before anybody objects. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Special tactile feedback pads covered both palms, allowing the gloves to create the illusion that I was touching objects and surfaces that didn’t actually exist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jamie did object, however; he pulled his sister aside and asked her how she expected him to change into his pajamas. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the ANC men in our section decided not to object to a visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This assumption challenged everything physicists had assumed about the motion of objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nestor made them heartily welcome, but about the object of their coming he could give them little help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This simple formula relates mass and energy: the mass of an object is equivalent to a certain amount of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But throughout the mad dance of inanimate objects the continuity of Desdemona’s shifting body remains at center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It begins, It is a melancholy object to those who walk . Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All these things seemed like objects I hadn’t seen before. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora wanted to object, but she could read the writing on the wall, or rather she could read the words that hovered above her and her father and the squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“The students who signed the petition object to the soldier’s gun, sir,” Elle said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

From the outside, her house was large and fancy, much bigger than ours, and I was sure it was furnished with many breakable objects. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By comparing the C’4 level in bones and wooden implements to the normal level in living tissues, Libby reasoned, scientists should be able to determine the age of these objects with unheard-of precision. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Nobody left the carriage this way. Possibly the open window was intended to suggest the fact, but, if so, the snow has defeated the murderer’s object.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first law states that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless an external force acts upon it.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Other broken objects rested there as well, including the jagged fragments of the ceramic pot Kendra had noticed earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

By using the compasses set with this separation to step off distances marked on paper, he could estimate the angular separation of the two objects on the sky at that time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She opens her mouth to object, but too late. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The origin of species is an object of experimental investigation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In Jocasta handed the baby to the servant, the phrase the servant is an oblique object, that is, the object of a preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to object—I even think of trying to find Emery. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he was only a salesman, not the inventor, and it was necessary that we make it known that the meaning of his death was greater than the incident or the object that caused it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every object of desire, another will soon come along to trump it, fueling aspirations even more. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Clayton, who was typically cool, was thoroughly drawn to the object. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with one of these powers it was generally at peace with the other. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The real reason, he said, was “jealousy in Chicago, and I had objected to the immorality of the man who professed to be more moral than anybody.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, Harry thought, Tom Riddle would certainly have understood Helena Ravenclaw’s desire to possess fabulous objects to which she had little right. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But if we see an object twelve billion light-years away, we are seeing it as it was twelve billion years ago in time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed through a maze of tables filled with wondrous objects to reach the restroom as fast as I could. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s more than one object to choose from?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The public was demanding a new kind of art that focused on familiar household objects such as flowers, food, or pottery. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Another foreign object in a day full of them. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Batsare obliged to make sounds almost ceaselessly, to sense, by sonar, all the objects in their surroundings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, however, they stopped with me to look at whatever wondrous object had caught my eye. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Far down the shoreline, where the rocks disappeared into the folding mist, a white object had appeared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Some became the object of hate for allegedly acting as informers and providing police with lists of student leaders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently at realms close to zero wavelength, the object gives off an infinite amount of high-energy light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Belet frowned, and I knew she wasn't happy about parting with any object her mom had once treasured. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My weariness was so complete that I fell back into slumber, little heeding the objects around me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A strange and solemn object was that corpse to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Early editions of Archimedes come with illustrations which show objects floating in a vast ocean of water, an ocean which stretches right around the globe, and Galileo drew such sketches in his own text. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No one objects, so we walk east, toward the marsh that was once a lake. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her mailbox filled with letters from suffrage sympathizers who objected to picketing during the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We always have a lovely display of objects used by chimps as tools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Venus could not object to a goddess for her daughter-in-law; the alliance had become eminently suitable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They see no life When they look they see only objects. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, objects far away had always appeared smaller than objects close by. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were curious to inspect and handle these intriguing objects, especially the little pink madonna, but Mother felt we should not show excessive interest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Calder that there could be hidden information here—after all, codes involved repetition, and the same objects appeared again and again in Vermeer’s work. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at me, he squatted and placed this object onto the ground. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

If anyone objected to her presence, no one said so; one admiring reporter proposed giving her a medal for bravery. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the object may end up in front of both the subject and the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astronomers now think there may be billions of these objects. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The secrets of the universe buried themselves in unusual and beautiful objects such as these, and only a select few could pull those secrets out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Virtually no evidence had been preserved from the various crime scenes, but in the case of Anna, the undertaker had secretly kept one object: her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Worse, too-frequent relapse of memory, often in association with trigger object. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

You have to swear you’ll get her under the protection of that object, and then I’ll take you wherever you want to go.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armed with garbage bags we proceeded grimly through the house, emptying shelves and cabinets and crawl spaces, discovering geometries of dust beneath objects unmoved for years. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The older man pressed a small shiny object - like a stone or a piece of glass - into Frank’s hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The rules of English syntax force him to put the subject before the verb, and the verb before the object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo reached in and pulled out a large, heavy object. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

If you’ve got an equation that tells you about the force that is being applied on an object, the differential equation reveals exactly how the object moves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The toddler who ignores the birthday present and plays with the wrapping paper reminds us of how we lose our appreciation of objects as objects and think of them as means to an end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Any alcohol and tobacco had to be checked, and any objects which could possibly be used to attempt to harm Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Berperson says that women are treated like objects and we don’t even know it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And in his hand you saw an object. Is that correct?” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

So she retreated into the thick jungles of Oxscini to sharpen her skills and study the object. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He reached into his waist pouch and drew forth a small object. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Before I could object, my mom pulled me up, and we both swore before the council that we were going to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Tendai knew, as eldest brother, that he ought to object, but he was still in a grim mood about what he had heard in the library. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of people and of objects and of ideas and the question was in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done and a fumbling awkwardness with small objects. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It relates the temperature of an object to the total amount of light energy it radiates. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Now the first thing you’ll need is some bright objects,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he turned away, a flashing object fell through the grating and dropped to the stone floor. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“It is a covetable object, though, don’t you agree?” the scythe said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"That girl hadn't been invited. They simply force their way in and he's too polite to object." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Alice Paul steadfastly held to her party-in-power campaign, even though most other suffragists objected. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In a similar way, writers stop thinking—and thus stop writing— about tangible objects and instead refer to them by the role those objects play in their daily travails. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Some in infancy; others not until they’re quite old. I once heard of a man who didn’t realize he could levitate objects with his mind until he was ninety-two years of age.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Witches crawl into skins of dead animals, but they can do nothing but play around with objects and bodies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although the finished painting will have slightly different objects than the sketch, the colors will be the same. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A gifted French-horn player, as a teen he was a member of the American University Symphony but quit, according to Walt, after objecting to rules imposed by a high school band leader. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not a situation restricted to astronomical objects, but only astronomical objects are so far away that the finite speed of light becomes important. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maxim did not seem to object, did he? I thought he took the suggestion very well.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before Percy could object, Keto led Coach Hedge away through a maze of aquarium glass, leaving Frank and him alone with the crabby sea god. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t know how to say the other thing, and it was the main reason he didn’t want to touch the object in front of him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are standard candles, objects of known brightness, and became a key tool for Hubble. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He stared Father Mulrooney straight in the eye and dared him to object. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And Dumbledore thought he only wanted to come back to try and find something, probably another founder’s object, to make into another Horcrux?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again, “Where do Vanished objects go?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But as a matter of principle, I object to your appearing like this and invading my private moments.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I unknotted the cloth and found an object hidden within: a little wooden horse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I invented personalities for the objects on my dresser and set them up on blind dates. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The object of the hunt was to kill him as quickly as possible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a round white object gradually protruding from the feathers between her legs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

This vortex both held the planets in their orbits and pressed objects down towards the surface of the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if he were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It becomes a social experience, an object of conversation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul had ordered purple, white, and green flags, but some women objected, because those were the colors of the British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I want to touch something. Tell me of an object! Tell me something I could have touched!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Should I keep the kitchen light on?” she asks, shaking an old travel clock, distracting herself with an object like adults always do. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the gyrating objects developed huge mouths and began laughing at me, a roaring, crazy laughter, which split my head in two. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family owned no more than ten objects—two pots, three bowls, a hoe, a cow, some chickens—and a good five of them were regularly lost, thanks to her father. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But with radar equipment, it’s possible to send out radio signals that bounce off another object and return to the sender—revealing where that object is. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We did not object, for church was not where we learned of God or His ways, but where we met our school friends and continued our long, rambling talks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I suggest we rest, no one objects. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now it is beginning to become very clear why you objected so strongly to her.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She knitted most of the objects on her way, clasping her knitting needles around the steering wheel as she drove. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the case of Cygnus X-l, this is about six times the mass of the sun, which, according to Chandrasekhar’s result, is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they also ran a study in which almost every sentence referred to a concrete object or action: A newspaper is better than a magazine. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The room was decorated with a number of unusual objects, of small items of antique statuary and clay pots. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Irregularly shaped objects can be very difficult to measure. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Above my bed, there is a shelf with two objects balanced on it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Aristotle does not really have a concept of space as distinct from the objects which fill it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Friends and safety: two things my dad couldn’t possibly object to. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The first case I passed contained objects with hidden compartments in which inmates had stashed things—a false- bottomed Coke can, a hollow-heeled shoe, and a hollow-handled hairbrush. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first objects that can reliably be called art date from this era, as does the first clear evidence for religion, commerce and social stratification. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One such technique is his use of fragments of melody, or rhythm, or harmony, as calling cards of a character, a place, an idea, an object or a memory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This is a natural notion and can still be encountered, although it does not account for the invisibility of objects in a darkened room. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people were shouting that Caul should be killed, and were busily hunting for sharp objects to do the job with, while the few who’d kept their heads were trying to hold them back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The verbs are the same, but he definitely wins the prize when it comes to nouns and objects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Vikus reached beneath the table and brought out a long object wrapped in very thick silk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You will not object to getting a little wet?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The Bureau uses magical objects, don’t they? So magic can’t be all that bad.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was learning how to match the feeling he had about an object with what was formally understood about its style and background and value. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In addition to the billions of dollars that GSS raked in selling land that didn’t actually exist, they made a killing selling virtual objects and vehicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Clouds that lazed across the sky were objects of great concern to me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Sun passes through a spiral arm it is more likely than it is at present to enter into gaseous nebulae and interstellar dust clouds and to encounter objects of substellar mass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm tellin' it better'n I ever thought I could," he said, fishing in his pocket and removing something that looked like an oilskin tobacco pouch, from which he removed an object wrapped in a handkerchief. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the dropped object ought to land in front of the tower. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He brought out an object wrapped in cloth, about the same size as a pair of glasses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had the bellhop put the bags and the tape-recorder into a waiting taxi, paid my hotel bill, and walked out the revolving door with the object of the search nestling in my jacket pocket. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought mom would object—three whole weeks!—but the closer our trip got, the more excited for us she seemed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Inside were half a dozen shriveled brown objects, looking more like dried-up kidneys than real stones. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He turned away from the window and his gaze fell upon another peculiar object standing upon the cluttered, curved sideboard: a stone bust of a beautiful but austere-looking witch wearing a most bizarre-looking headdress. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to him that this was the first manifestation of a loss of memory, because the object had a difficult name to remember. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the silver object back down on the mantel. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

People stumble into manholes, are hit by falling objects, trip into the paths of speeding vehicles. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The light was growing dimmer and, as I struggled to focus on objects outside our immediate area, I saw the place was empty except for us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Were we two objects in motion, hurtling through space, and then an external force—middle school, volleyball, life?—hit us? The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

His rolling periods impressed his audiences, but if the chief object of rhetoric is to persuade, Churchill’s didn’t—much of the time—do that. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And if there are enough pieces, you can see what the original object was supposed to be. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Galileo also wanted to construct an object which would fully immerse but not sink—an object with the same specific gravity as water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Another guess concerning the hypothetical experiment’s object: the elimination of war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In these theories the basic objects are not particles, which occupy a single point of space, but things that have a length but no other dimension, like an infinitely thin piece of string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was most notable in the transonic range, as the eddies of air surrounding an object approached the speed of sound. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Between her hands, at the level of her heart, she holds a glass object: an oversized cat’s eye marble, with a blue center. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, scientists aren’t exactly sure, but it’s the difference between an object’s mass and the mass calculated by its gravitational effect.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny dark object came sailing out the window and landed at the giant’s feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Chandresh opens his mouth to object and then closes it again, confused. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The arrival of letters was the grand object of every morning’s impatience. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Cardan is a spoiled child. It is well-known in the Court that he squanders his lineage on drink and petty squabbles. No, don’t bother to object.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She liked to look up places on the map, and to arrange objects by color. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling that they are holy objects is already starting to wear off. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You cannot “see” this cube nor feel its edges—but it shares the one property that all physical objects must possess: it generates shadows. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She looks at me like I’m a foreign object, which strikes me as both the same and different from how it used to be. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a standard crumbly home, filled with impractical objects. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked like she might object, but Jason spoke up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My sleepy eyes strained to make out objects in the dark, but the darkness was impregnable, ominous; the more I stared into it, the blacker and blacker it became. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But ...” Polly looked at him with a surprised frown on her face and started to object. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This turn of events had been objected to most vocally by their mother, Ophie’s aunt Helen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They would have left that place, galloping fast, if one of them had not seen a light-colored object fall out of the tree, lightly like a bird. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Surely with the target, which stands alone as an object, unlike the long box at the top, particularly when its hinged door is closed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was about six inches away, he stuck out his paw, closed his eyes and batted at the object tentatively. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in a white home; dim lights burned round him; strange objects challenged him; and he was feeling angry and uncomfortable. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She watched him carefully but did not object. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the dry riverbed, in a thicket of saltbush not far from where they had parked, a large object was concealed beneath a dun-colored tarpaulin. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And our Decoy Detonators are just walking off the shelves, look,” said Fred, pointing at a number of weird-looking black horn-type objects that were indeed attempting to scurry out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But before George could sail away to England, his mother objected. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hooke pointed out the error and suggested that the correct orbit followed by the falling object, assuming it could pass through the solid Earth without resistance, would be a kind of shrinking ellipse. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Levy, who considered each other the only ungratifying objects in the home, sat before their television set watching the colors merge together 011 the screen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of the chiefs objected to the government’s policy and verbally attacked the magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the grammar of our relationship, I am the object. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

No goddess was there, but a marvelous object lay in front of him, a bridle all of gold, such as never had been seen before. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It provides an abstract account of lines in space, travelling from the object, through the picture plane, to the eye, and an account of how these lines appear on the picture plane itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He scraped at the dirt wall, until he exposed one entire side of the box-like object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then she stood and took from the washstand beside the bed a little square-shaped object, a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silly games, whose main object seemed to be shrieking and screaming. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mirror works as a scaling device; it is able to do this because it reflects the cone of rays coming from an object as they pass through a plane. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stooped and set it down behind a low hedge, which continued to prevent her from seeing the object. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It shone upon the rows of armored suits, the edges of the swords and axes, and on spear tips and a thousand other pointy objects designed to spoil your day permanently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth’s center. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s be careful with the sharp objects, okay?” up ” Sorry. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And then before Hollis could further object, he climbed the stairs two at a time, grabbed his supplies, and headed out. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They were in a place the size of a cathedral with the appearance of a city, its towering walls built of objects hidden by thousands of long-gone students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the Burr-Hamilton duel helped turn the tide against the practice of dueling by providing a focal point for its critics and serving as a dramatic object lesson of its self-destructive character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She gets banished to bras, which is terra incognita for us—huge banks of shelves bearing barely distinguishable bi-coned objects—for a three-hour stretch. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what would that be when it was at home?” asked Mrs. Owens, eyeing the yellow and brown object suspiciously. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Put another way, if you double the distance between two objects, the attraction between them becomes four times weaker. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They wore leather utility belts about their waists, and Moss couldn’t recognize a single object attached to them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d be their version of a caveman, of a guy so undeveloped, so confused by fast objects, that I’d probably get killed in my first winter without thermal underwear. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It's slowly dawning on me that I'm not the object of everyone's attention. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some of these carvings suggest that the objects may have originated with the recognition and elaboration of some chance resemblance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first young Aureliano understood only the risk, the immense possibility of danger that his brother’s adventures implied, and he could not understand the fascination of the object. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When a television crew thrust a long, dark, furry object at me, I recoiled slightly, wondering if it were some newfangled weapon developed while I was in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classmates who had elected me president—did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A movement of an object causes a disturbance of the normal motion of the air molecules near the object. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Aristotle says in the Poetics,” said Henry, “that objects such as corpses, painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"How about: object of the game: twin. Maybe the murderer is a twin." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not use any sharp blades, because a blade is a deadly object in a hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the irresistible force of the flood met the immovable object of the manure pile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Amelia and Mrs. Bedlow objected to her returning to work so soon, but they quickly gave up. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my early days, I, too, would have strenuously objected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scrolled legs under the dining table were dust catchers, and so were the kinds of objects—doodads, my mother called them—other people kept on their mantelpieces. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my envy.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Putting it on a disc is a ridiculous idea. Discs just end up breaking or in the wrong person’s hands, like all other physical objects. I suggest you make use of the data network.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The entire fire department joined Catherine O’Leary as an object of scorn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When the Mosses’ attorney asks a question, just wait a second in case I want to object. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The pieces she sees—they are like foreign objects. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I mean, I know they’re inanimate objects—I’m not an idiot—but I imagine them all melancholic, waiting for my sister to come back. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When seventeenth-century European sailors first saw the southern skies they put objects of seventeenth- century interest in the heavens—toucans and peacocks, telescopes and microscopes, compasses and the sterns of ships. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said it would be all right so long as he didn’t know anything about it. If I just went and didn’t tell him anything, he said he wouldn’t object.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because any object that has energy is bouncing around—and radiating light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We laughed at the panhandler on the block, but he wasn’t just an object of ridicule, he was an unsettling omen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you would not object to my coming by another day and seeing if your work is going well?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Landowners and farmers whose property was being seized for this purpose objected. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bemusedly they noted an exceptionally bright object in the right place, which they soon identified as the planet Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he won't agree unless I'm in the bag, too, and I'm shivering so hard that it's pointless to object. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The object itself no longer survives; we last hear of it in 1494, when it is listed among the effects of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Medici ruler of Florence, on his death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As he turned back toward the ashes, another bright object caught his attention. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One is to stretch one rope as far as possible toward the other, anchor it to an object, such as a chair, and then go and get the second rope. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The rat crews that manned the heavy object were changed every hour by Cheesethief, who stayed with the ram the whole time, encouraging the carriers on to greater efforts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The National objected to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and favored educated female suffrage; the American supported female suffrage and did not oppose voting rights for any African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We knew we had no chance of seeing such a tiny object, but we just felt closer to it up on that roof. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before he went any further, I told him that I strongly objected to that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in broad daylight his hand passed through solid objects. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mitochondria are minute, bean-shaped objects, hundreds of which bob about like so much flotsam in the warm, salty envelope of the cell. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cicero, then, offers an object lesson for orators in the importance of watching your mouth. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Moreover, as well as particles, which occupy a single point of space, and strings, which are lines, there were found to be other objects called p-branes, which occupied two- dimensional or higher-dimensional volumes in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If any student objects to background music, you should not use it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Like I say it’s not that I object to so much; maybe she cant help that, it’s because she hasn’t even got enough consideration for her own family to have any discretion. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When your wife says she’s leaving you, whether it’s for a few days or months or forever, you don’t object. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

My phone was the only thing I owned that had survived our disaster at sea, but it was useless here, an alien object. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She saw the shapes of the objects on the table, the things that Matt had brought, bundled, to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They objected because Mark Antony’s soldiers were not given an equal share, and they wanted to generate hostility toward Octavian. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She wanted to edge all the paths, but I objected. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Mayer tackled orbital mechanics, Al Hamer lectured on rocket propulsion, and Alton Mayo handled reentry, the problems faced by an object returning to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He displayed his wound, told him of his flight that day, how he had rowed across the river with the object of wandering into the town, and how the river had laughed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Blanca soon discovered that she was bored making utilitarian objects, and that it was far more amusing to make statues of animals and people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So why should they be lumped into the same foul den as the racists, and made the object of hate and vengeance? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to understand how moving this way or that changes a picture—how objects far away look smaller, objects closer look bigger. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a real microphone, but we used it as our talking object. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When he had cleared enough, he sat back and stared at the now-exposed object. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cousin Eunice wanted to object to having Dicey in with the boys, but she didn’t want her own room to be crowded, so she didn’t say much. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object of the chase was in the middle of the alley: a young boy, eight years old at the most. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These mounds had been flagged as possible ruins for nearly a century but never excavated because they seemed to have no valuable gold or ceramic objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That’s when I began to notice Mother moving around the house, her hand resting lightly on various objects as she muttered to herself, her fingers flexing in a steady rhythm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ancient objects produced by black hands . . . refined by those black hands with results that no human hand today can equal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slides and blood tubes were the only glass objects allowed in a hot zone, because of the danger of glass splinters if something broke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

James’s apartment was layered with objects and smells and noises. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Casey started it with his “nice shorts” comment at the start of practice, and now he had to endure being the object of our serenading. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But only three years after Comte’s death, it was discovered that a spectrum can be used to determine the chemistry of distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a way of turning them swiftly upon an object and holding them there as if lost in some inward maze of contemplation or thought Her eyebrows were a shade darker than her hair. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pull of gravity is just like the tendency of objects to roll into the dimple. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He thought he could see dark objects in the water. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember how the trip began, only that my mom objected. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s anything hidden in the icing,” said Scrimgeour, “but a Snitch would be a very good hiding place for a small object. You know why, I’m sure?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As he stumbled along a high bright object caught his eyes; he looked up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Art, therefore, is also an object, but not just any kind of object. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an object impacts the Moon at high speed, it sets the Moon slightly wobbling. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo of the Count’s to its place in London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Popper had removed all the stranger objects, leaving only the marbles and checkers, so that Captain Cook now had a nice, orderly little rookery. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

As objects speed up, they get shorter and heavier. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Astronomers do not object to the idea of major collisions, only to major recent collisions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was filled with objects over which the aunties fought. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Age and experience had sharpened Clara’s ability to divine the occult and to move objects from afar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty feet up and about thirty feet away flapped the object of this insane race: a golden flag. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As far as they were concerned, clocks were merely delightful but useless luxury objects—rather like musical boxes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And they objected to making discrimination against women part of the Constitution, fearful that it would make it more difficult for women to establish their rights at a later date. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Somehow as it rusted the object was attracting elemental particles from the air. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rarer and more bizarre an object, the more desirable it was. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The kid grew up surrounded by wooden planks and fertilizer—the shiniest object in his life was probably an old pitchfork. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Junha wriggled down to see what it was and began picking up the colorful objects with his brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She opened the fingers of one hand slightly and in the palm of the hand was a single slender object. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumor is that the fiihrer is compiling a wish list of precious objects from all around Europe and Russia. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They rush to the bench in the corner, halting when they see a paper-wrapped object sitting there. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Riddles were buried in the Little Hangleton churchyard, and their graves remained objects of curiosity for a while. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hoping to find favor with Cluny he had put himself at the head of the party, helping them to carry the cumbersome object. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Only a strange object right in the center—two metallic rods, standing tall, with a shimmering wall of gray stretched in between them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But there are many other reasons for natural objects to give off radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel, who viewed it as a punishment for Ash, did not object. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both children were surrounded by statuettes and various ivory objects. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be easier to run than to confront the object of your fear? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, if you know the way an object moves—whether it be a toy ball or a giant planet—the differential equation can tell you what kind of force is being applied. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I step out of the bath and onto a prickly object. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Here, in the Smoke, objects grew old, carrying their histories with them in dings and scratches and tatters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were metal objects: hubcaps, a pair of rusty scissors, a sparkplug. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Harry watched nervously as Draco drew nearer and nearer to his hiding place, examining the objects for sale. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

This states that every object in the universe exerts a tug on every other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I think she’s lying, to me and to herself, about why she owns these objects. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I understand, then, why she holds it like it’s a magical object, something that could disappear in a moment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The object was to hit that mat just as everything in his body really got firing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The object was mostly in shadow, but it appeared to be a large box with several metal clasps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was once a state legislator in Wisconsin who objected to the introduction of daylight saving time despite all the good arguments for it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know that it is tough and thick enough so that when hard objects strike it from the outside they burst into flames. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In California and New York, in the advertising world and in Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Billions of light- years away are still more tumultuous objects, the quasars, which may be the colossal explosions of young galaxies, the mightiest events in the history of the universe since the Big Bang itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object had a lid and gold handles. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Because of its shape: flat objects are unable to penetrate the water and remain on the surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Particle accelerators are the microscopes of the subatomic world, and the more energy you put into those particles—the more powerful the microscope—the smaller the objects you can see. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Roz watched the otters go, but her eyes lingered on the sparkling objects that littered the shore. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You just said showing off was rude,” he objected. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only other object in the cage was a steel bar in the shape of an upside-down U, cemented into the pavement like a bike rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

General relativity holds sway in the realm of the very, very big: the most massive objects in the universe, such as stars, solar systems, and galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thompson had his head turned to look up at the screen, so I couldn’t see his face, but he didn’t object to his photo being on display. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The battlefield roared to life on the television, and Moss laughed as Javier began to jump Tracer around the screen, shooting at every object in the waiting room he was stuck in. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

His head turned and he noticed the other morsel and the new object next to it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nali mentioned that they were going to construct an object on Thursday. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond Freedom, the twenty-first century may see much larger objects in earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier stood off by himself at the center of the field in knee-deep water, reaching down with both hands as if chasing some object just beneath the surface. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birch dropped by, warning me that many sergeants objected to officers playing games with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This map was one of those dangerous magical objects Mr. Weasley had been warning against.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The object of selective spraying is not to produce grass on roadsides and rights-of-way but to eliminate the tall woody plants by direct treatment and to preserve all other vegetation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Quintilian, even as he tips the hat to loci, expresses reservations—wondering whether, being so visual, it was quite so useful for memorizing ideas as it was for objects. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The object would be disinfected on its way through the tank. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his artist’s fingers sprang objects of such wonderful beauty—cups, bowls, boxes, necklaces, daggers, great golden collars, bracelets, exquisite amulets—that Pharaoh himself would be served by no other smith. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The list of objects blurred together—small pieces of furniture and little decorative items—until it was Wes’s turn. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself—sense or feeling.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

His head was wrenched sideways, as if loose at the neck, and the dead young man seemed to be staring at some distant object beyond the bell-shaped flowers along the trail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a small green-metal object no larger than a. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,” objected Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But if objects are particles and waves at the same time, what on earth could they be? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A bulge under the left side of his cloak hinted at some concealed object—a rapier, I guessed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

To try to get witnesses to say that the black community had not objected to segregated bus seating before the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Spread out around him were the many objects that he had brought to trade. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Other regions, which did not happen to pick up a rotation, would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the key facts were clear from De Nova Stella—that the object was fixed among the fixed stars and met every criterion to be regarded as a genuinely new star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I become a doll—an object to be embellished. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As objects recede into the distance in the painting, they get closer and closer to the vanishing point, getting more compressed as they get farther away from the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A small dark object perched at the top of the steps. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Earth was still regarded as the central object in the Universe, but everything else revolved around the equant points, not around the Earth itself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Brooks objected: A cabinet made “a good receptacle for dirt, mice too.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It took a second for his eyes to focus on the moving object on the other side, to look past the grime and dust and see what Newt wanted him to see. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What she objects to is men’s making more money than women for the same work. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Either I tamed him, made him see who was Number One and who was Number Two—or I died the day I wanted to climb aboard the lifeboat during rough weather and he objected. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall secure the school against He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named while you search for this—this object.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

And how did a pickled brain and all those other weird objects get into my locker? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Every part of me wants to object to this—especially when he closes the door—but I am paralyzed with the fear of making Adam uncomfortable. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stella slowly pulled the awkward object from the box. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But in such a case,” objected the doctor, “the person indicated being innocent, would not take steps to conceal her identity.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, who had expected something much more exciting, saw a mess of small, everyday objects: a yo-yo, a silver thimble, and a tarnished mouth organ among them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She felt immensely important and strange, that all her doings should be an object of concern so far away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because there’s no way I could ever achieve escape velocity: the speed an object must reach in order to break away from another object’s gravitational pull. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t get the object to hit the sides of the box. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was annoyance that he had been so mightily inconvenienced, that he had been handled by the maid as cavalierly as an inanimate object—a serving bowl, say, or a teapot. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

When an item is modified by a relative clause, and its role inside the clause is the object of the verb, the reader is faced with a long span between the filler and the gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The reason they could not be seen was that sunlight was flooding the inside of Columbia, which meant that the pupils of our eyes automatically narrowed until only very bright objects could be seen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Leah can object, I pull it open and climb inside. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

‘I know. But it is difficult to do both,’ he objected. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

How had it crept up on him, this advanced stage of fetishizing the love object? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is only powerful in a kind of collective sense, when one massive object like the Sun, holds on to another massive object like the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Are we just going to go?" she objected. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Isaac Newton believed that light was composed of little particles that flowed from every bright object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I object to that remark very strongly,” said the Bulldog. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

After that it was a matter of sleuthing—investigating crevices that would be a convenient place to hide a book-shaped object, observing a pile of freshly dug dirt, or noticing something out of place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Organizers in the temperance movement opposed the excessive consumption of alcohol, and most members objected to drinking any alcohol at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We now know they use different objects for different purposes wherever they have been studied in Africa, so we can talk about chimpanzee cultures. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had sudden outbursts of furious anger which were always fatal to the often innocent objects. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that, like the vault at Gringotts, the room would not yield its hidden objects that easily. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Three or four can travel quickly and aren’t conspicuous: and the Chief Rabbit of this warren would be less likely to object to a few strangers coming with a civil request.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By making careful measurements of how much radiation came off objects at various temperatures, they showed that the Rayleigh-Jeans formula was, indeed, failing to predict the true amount of light that comes from objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I find this game tiring—it’s the weight, the accumulation of all these objects, these possessions that would have to be taken care of, packed, stuffed into cars, unpacked. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the next two years or so Mompesson’s house was haunted by a poltergeist.2 There were drumming noises but also strange levitations of objects and alarming noises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Venus could not be a mere few thousand years old but, rather, it must be as old as all the other objects in the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was staring at the objects in a display case under a banner reading “Welcome to the Wonderful World of Willy Wonka.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Tally’s tired brain struggled to make sense of the objects in the case. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This explained the motion of the planets in the heavens with incredible accuracy; no longer could astronomers object that the heliocentric system was inferior to the geocentric one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Father Cham turned and gave him a surprised look, as if Pong had questioned that objects fall down when you drop them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The object of the walk was a wild vineyard where the muscadine grew. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yishan continued to stare, his mouth and eyes as round as the object in his hand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Around his neck was a necklace of found objects—garbage cans, car doors, moose antlers, camping equipment, even a toilet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

An archaeologist working 100,000 years from now could piece together a reasonable picture of Muslim belief and practice from the myriad objects he unearthed in a ruined mosque. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then a startled hotelkeeper would object to having the birds register there. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

One poll watcher, Sylvester Lewis, said that he objected to the women voting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When she objected, they flattered her—even going so far as to award her the Order of the Red Star in recognition of her service to the motherland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the object that had frightened me half to death, standing right in the middle of the room, was the golden silhouette of a fetterling, poised to attack, with legends coiling around its chain body. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was unwrapping the object now and I watched his old man's hands. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t even come by for his whiskey, I and Papa and Mama must of each thought Miss Love didn’t object to a man’s having a little toddy at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Like is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in crazy like a fox or like a bat out of hell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had all Ferula’s clothing and any objects that might serve as reminders of her removed from the house and resolved that as far as he was concerned his sister was dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol points her out to me, on the bus, the same way she’s pointed out the twin set and the coat tree: as an object to be admired. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her fabrics, her old sewing machine, her pretty, pretty objects. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

To make the problem a bit simpler, let us consider a two-dimensional object rather than a three-dimensional one—a triangle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It glowed with all of its special objects—ballpoint pens, cheese-filled crackers, candy bars, rain bonnets—each one of them giving off its own special light. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In another class, he asks students to bring in an object of some personal meaning and say something about it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since the crow did not object, Taran gently stirred the feathers around its neck and ran a finger under the bird’s sharp and gleaming beak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, everywhere, are beautiful objects collected by Tipper and Granddad. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They were not the only objects of Mr. Collins’s admiration. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Desdemona, filled with embarrassment at her sudden nakedness, looks down at the object of the captain’s fascination: a heavy ship’s rope disappears inside her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Asteroids, as most people know, are rocky objects orbiting in loose formation in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the object of the hunt sits squarely in the middle of the evidentiary trail, so obvious that it is ignored. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was a crash outside as a heavy wooden object hit the deck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

From a dozen nests across the marsh, golden objects shot into the air—jewelry, weapons, coins, gold nuggets, and most importantly, gryphon eggs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The auditory cortex also recognizes the location of different sound sources in space, and can identify and segregate different auditory objects. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Indeed, there were so many objects to look at that if I had had ten eyes I could not have seen them all. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“She can follow an object with her eyes, for example. Or smile when she recognizes her mother.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds—pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need covers,” Matt objected as she began arranging them on the bed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it is not just pieces, it is figures and objects, perfectly carved flowers and planets and tiny books with actual paper pages that turn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

William, who had been choosing their path, even from behind, objected. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For this reason, any normal object is forever confined by relativity to move at speeds slower than the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has black hair and large golden earrings, and is carrying a round object the size of a beach ball, which is in fact an orange. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As for Lola, she didn’t wish to dirty her cashmere by lying on the floor, and instead slumped in a chair, and the director could hardly object to that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The exact chronology of their evolution remains unknown, but could be resolved by the next object that a farmer discovers in a field. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On its surface are arranged, seemingly at random, several bright pink objects not unlike those to be found in abstract paintings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instinct makes me straighten up and search the room for a blunt object. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Matthias brushed himself down, he related the object of his mission. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Minions collected and stored every object he touched, food waste included, to ensure that no lesser persons could profane these objects with their touch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He continued pulling on something in his pocket, and now he began to raise the black object in the direction of the officers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His fingers now held the two objects from the lining of the coat. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to ask Mr. Kasigi about bullfighting anymore. I object to it on moral grounds.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We marched into the intersection of the street, toward a large dark object. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It said, Unknown: Do objects and people repeat because V. pointed at home? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the equivalence of energy and mass, the energy which an object has due to its motion will add to its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the long object in his hands and sighed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I did not object to being called colored, but I knew that there was something my mother was holding back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His object, I soon learned, was not to offer me an education so much as to prepare me to be his assistant. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘No seafaring man ever objected to a little Sabbath-breaking. But mind if you see any deacons or constables.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me!” she replied with a smile of astonishment, “are you imagining me to be Mr. Elton’s object?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

For it was as though I were looking at my own legs for the first time—independent objects that could of their own volition lead me to safety or danger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the vision I had experienced after Mr. Katz had chloroformed me, the object I had seen swaying atop the flooded sunflower field had been a canvas tent. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister’s indolence and complaints than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was the object of a schoolgirl crush. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Most Americans, however, like the British, still objected to the idea of women flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One of the smiths knelt to inspect the object: three immense steel links, twisted together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In other words, on the most basic neurological level, for someone with autism, a face is just another object. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“No, not I,” Mona objected, as if affronted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the vast spaces between the planets there are many objects, some rocky, some metallic, some icy, some composed partly of organic molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, however, the office was full of a number of exceptionally odd objects that Harry supposed Moody had used in the days when he had been an Auror. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows that the farther away an object is, the smaller it seems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose, General Grant, that the object of our present meeting is fully understood,” he says. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to object, because it is a traveler’s first law never to get separated from his passport, but I didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even find the words to object. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If anyone objected, they didn’t say so—or didn’t dare to say so. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of pronouns that distinguished between male and female, Sasha’s language had pronouns that distinguished between animate and inanimate objects. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But those swift feelings of contempt never lasted long enough for her to refuse those drive-in movie sessions where she was the sole object of someone’s hunger and satisfaction. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No! why should I? I was sent to Lowood to get an education; and it would be of no use going away until I have attained that object.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was where the finest paintings in the house were kept, for Esteban Trueba had made this his refuge, his office, his sanctuary, and he liked to have his most cherished objects close beside him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I object to any such remarks addressed to a witness before this committee,” the chairman said, “and I will ask that Mr. Burnham withdraw his remark.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He extracted a dark pointed object which he tossed into a bowl that Cornflower was holding. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Depending on how you look at it - the same object can be or do opposite things at once. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to know,” objected the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It appeared to contain an object roughly the size of the Hope diamond or an irrigation attachment. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Victor Lebrun objected, and his decrees were as immutable as those of Fate. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t he object to your going around with an apikoros like me?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A lot of astronomers believe it isn’t a planet at all, but merely the largest object so far found in a zone of galactic debris known as the Kuiper belt. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the nearest object—a glass paperweight—and hurled it at Rowan, just as Esme had suggested he might. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When Effie comes to tell us to dress, I don’t object. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could pass an object from the hot zone through the tank into the normal world. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I disputed the allegations of the state that the aims and objects of the ANC and the Communist Party were one and the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chinwe walked as if there were a hot object underfoot, raising each leg almost as soon as her other foot touched the floor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He says the object of deliberative rhetoric, for instance, is “happiness”—and he therefore sets out to establish what constitutes the good. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing that would shock Schubert about 'Someone like you’ is the fact that a young woman is the song’s creator, not its object. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between retina and object, between vision and view, his eyes draw back, hesitate, and hover. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy flashed a shiny black object in my face. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the object is to tip the scales in your favor?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was not allowed to sit on his mother’s lap during the drive—not because she wouldn’t have it, but because his father objected to it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly’s fingers closed around the object that had been digging into her ankle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

You don’t have to have a number to express the lack of something, and it didn’t occur to anybody to assign a symbol to the absence of objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But let’s assume we did see the object coming. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were carrying heavy objects into the house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where Aristotle had assumed that each element behaved differently, the new physics assumed that all heavy objects could be thought of as the same. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The expedition's main object, explained in the fund-raising brochure, was “to cross the Antarctic from sea to sea, securing for the British flag the honor of being the first carried across the South Polar Continent.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Holmes called upon an Englewood resident named Cephas Humphrey, who owned his own team and dray and made a living transporting furniture, crates, and other large objects from place to place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"I don't think there's much gas," he objected. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I put my hand down, too eager to relax my arm to object. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Donald is a moderately talented painter of small still lifes of single, everyday objects: an egg, a cup, a comb, suspended against brightly colored backgrounds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep this object carefully,” he tells her and leaves. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She popped it in before I could object. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The dead would always be with me, I knew, even when I was surrounded by life again, even if the Americans gave me back all the objects I had lost. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those outside Oppie’s charmed circle found it all rather bewildering— even Enrico Fermi, who should have recognized the behavior, since he was the object of similar veneration by his own students. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As Riefenstahl’s influence continued to grow, Goebbels increasingly struggled to comprehend how a woman could occupy such a situation, much as he struggled to understand why his wife objected so strenuously to his many affairs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Probes, Harry knew, detected spells of concealment and hidden magical objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I sadly acknowledge that he objects to some of my methods and practices. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, Master. It’s a filthy clone,” the woman objected. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby got older and started doing calisthenics, management objected to that, too. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Greatly intrigued, I asked whether he had seen this illumination and sought its source, saying that this was a worthy object for the inquiries of philosophy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Will couldn’t make out the face of the man banging objects about on the bookshelf, but he knew right away that it was the Owner because of his salt-and-pepper hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I kept the fact about lightning’s love of big metal objects to myself. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mama rifles through it and objects to a couple of T-shirts that are too expensive, or too ugly, and we head to the checkout. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

If the Klansman was still a figure of fear, he was now also the object of ridicule. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is a black hole, an object so paradoxical that some scientists believe that black holes can be used to travel faster than light—and backward in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It got to its knees and picked up a tiny round object. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But a few days later he discovered that he had trouble remembering almost every object in the laboratory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“So I touch this thing in my lap and it’s like—this warm object that feels just like human flesh.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Occasionally these poets would show up drunk, carrying found objects onto which they had scrawled cryptic messages. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I nodded and stared straight ahead as if the phone in the back of the seat in front of me were the most fascinating object I had ever seen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Although it misses its target of the moon, it is the first artificial object to leave Earth’s orbit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

We were drawing cards for the Store and objects of the town’s adoration. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed something between Nico’s feet—a small collection of glistening objects no bigger than baby teeth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Poems of the period were either descriptions of objects, plants, weather conditions, geographical features or emotional states, or they followed a narrative. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We pass rapidly from one object to another, sampling them like dishes in a smorgasbord. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This has the effect of turning girls into mere objects, while boys are seen by girls as whole people—” And then Lara stood up, and in her delicate, innocent accent, cut Dr. William Morse off. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Behind the wagons a team of horses pulled a strange-looking object. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak*—was startlingly different from any other object in sight. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This zero-dimensional object, the vanishing point, is an infinitesimal dot on the canvas that represents a spot infinitely far away from the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of them were carrying objects—flat and rectangular. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I went over to my blankets and held the object up in my hands toward the dim light coming in from the gas lamp in the hall. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Praying that they confined their damage to objects. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

James’s apartment was layered with objects and smells and noises. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

An object that, once looked at, could never be forgotten. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, it was inconsistent with the Newtonian theory of gravity, which said that objects attracted each other with a force that depended on the distance between them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the technosphere of the Andes, Lechtman explained, “people solved basic engineering problems through the manipulation of fibers,” not by creating and joining hard wooden or metal objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Scientists even theorize that if you could take the position, speed, trajectory, and mass of every object in the universe and feed it into a supercomputer, you could predict the future of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dr. Xuma felt threatened by our delegation and strongly objected to a Youth League constitution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian could not disappoint the Romans, anxious to see the object of their hatred and the cause of their suffering brought before them in chains. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

"Dr. Spivak says my unique status as a marvel of genetic aberration makes me an object of intense curiosity," he says in that lofty way of his. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d lost a lot in our moves—things, stuff, objects—but nothing hurt as much as losing people. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Green hedges, dazzling with red wild roses appeared behind my eyes, stretching with a gentle curving to an infinity empty of objects, a limpid blue space. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took it and held it up to the light and stared at it as if it were some foreign object. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He spoke mostly of the world of tools and objects when he had to speak at all. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Penelope used the hour wisely; she made up the children’s beds, tidied the nursery, and cleared it of breakable objects. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Nailer could just see pale objects floating on the surface, starting to sink. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some men who could have avoided the army enlisted, and others objected to the war on moral or religious grounds and took the walk up Golgotha which normally comes with that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Foragers mastered not only the surrounding world of animals, plants and objects, but also the internal world of their own bodies and senses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a sea anemone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Oct. then submitted that the Smith & his Family were respectful & generous & I objected They shall melt down the Silver. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her gaze was again drawn to the objects on the shelves: A rusty iron key. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The leadership of the National American Woman Suffrage Association strongly objected to this political strategy, but Paul remained unyielding. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was bareheaded and his face was dirty, but he was unscathed, standing before her with an object in his hands. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The verb to be never takes an object. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But from afar, a galaxy reminds me more of a collection of lovely found objects—seashells, perhaps, or corals, the productions of Nature laboring for aeons in the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione had lit their wands too, and were now examining the piles of objects surrounding them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Think of something. An object. A significant object that I cannot possibly know about.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was long thought to be a physical limit on the maximum speed of an object moving through the air. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The ground was thick with the furry snow, but he sat slighdy above it on a hard, flat object. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alhazen had shown how light travels in straight lines, so that vision depends on a cone of straight lines extending outward from the eye to the object. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So the evidence of sense is not, as one might think, the testimony of the senses but our confidence that our senses have properly grasped the object. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The resulting ambiguity was resolved by the addition of a silent sign called a determinative, to indicate the category of nouns to which the intended object belonged. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe she did—and I am sure she could not have bestowed her kindness on a more grateful object.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Every object in my room had taken on a flat, grayish aspect. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was vehemence in his voice, and I felt I was its object, as if I had already ridiculed Dr. Pérez. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I step back as some of the objects fly over my head like shooting stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But at first money was no object, as in addition to his other income, Tycho was granted more lands on the mainland. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If the movement of the object is a fast, regular vibration, then the sound waves are also very regular. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He moved on stiff legs with little delicate mincing steps to investigate the newcomer and in the manner of dogs and people did not look directly at the object of his interest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I did not understand just what his object was, but as I watched, it slowly became clear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The object was to reach the peanut butter as fast as possible. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cloudy now, like even the sun is trying to spare you the embarrassment of being seen walking hand in hand with the object of your unrequited affection like some lovesick puppy. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

So if this was a new object it must be located not in the heavens but in the upper atmosphere—it could not be a star at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They could predict the orbits of the planets and the motion of objects with great accuracy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had objected to their coming, but, now that their coming was ordered, she accepted them as companions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man looks like he's about to object to her polite refusal, but then he catches an older woman's eye and moves off to escort a homely girl in a yellow dress instead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The girls are not untouchable, like truly high- temperature objects. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The object of the endeavor is, of course, to make the boat move through the water as quickly as possible. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Seven began tapping drumbeats on the closest object, trying to match the beat of her fluttering heart. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is not books as physical objects that are required to underwrite the fact; it is sources that don’t alter and change from one day to the next, of which books remain the clearest manifestation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He folded her toward him carefully, half expecting her to object. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Roke could see his dismay: the object of his search was the locket on the gold chain around Mrs. Coulter’s neck. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But be warned that some sticklers may object. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we look at the same unmoving celestial object six months apart, we should be able to measure very great distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spacetime is usually explained by asking you to imagine something flat but pliant–a mattress, say, or a sheet of stretched rubber–on which is resting a heavy round object, such as an iron ball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But they did not offer it as a fundamental contribution to the development of transport, rather as an object of recreation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

General relativity predicts that heavy objects that are moving will cause the emission of gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of space that travel at the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is far from simple is the leap of the imagination by which Picasso recognized a bull’s head in these unlikely objects. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance the object on the ground could have been mistaken for a kick- ball, but it was actually... a boy’s head. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the right conditions this energy is able to push objects around; in the early universe it might have pushed objects apart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

What this means, though, is that children are going to have trouble with objects that have two names, or objects that change names. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lida was sixteen, and pretty enough to be the object of the hot boy’s eye. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Luxury goods, consisting of those specialized crafts products or else rare objects obtained by long-distance trade, were reserved for chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had gone beyond Clara’s skill at moving objects without touching them and at predicting the impossible. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor had no idea if it was night or not but he felt tired and didn’t object. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From her pocket she drew three precious objects that had required some ingenuity to gather, a partly used copybook from her trunk, a small bottle of ink, and a quill pen. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

One may object—possibly—that this puts the matter somewhat too simply, but the song is true, and it has been true for as long as white men have ruled the world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Three objects, or Hallows, which, if united, will make the possessor master of Death...Master...Conqueror...Vanquisher...The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, there are objects that lie in both realms. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Harry was just able to make out the indistinct features of an object that looked like a skull, and something like a mountain that was more shadow than substance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The two claims are very different, but Aristotle never distinguishes between them, nor tests his claim that heavy objects fall faster than light ones, for he takes it to be self-evidently true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I expected him to object or tell me to sit on it until we got home. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used a completely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is normally reserved for objects. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I told Pa that day, begging him to put Post-it notes on different objects around the apartment to teach me Spanish so I wouldn’t get bullied again. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Just give me an object. Just say any object. Go on.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a vice he practiced in secret, but at the same time he had felt no compunction about quite openly carrying away objects of greater value which he found unattended. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly he picked out objects he had seen before. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was dark, but in the moonlight he thought he saw a glistening object floating near the monster—maybe the unconscious body of Frank Zhang. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took my altitude-impaired gray matter a minute or two to comprehend that the object was a human body. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I—well, how—that is—they will not object? The men who present the play?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this the object you mean?” he said, and took a velvet cloth from a drawer in the desk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mystery object was bundled in Kleenex—no, toilet paper. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

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

They determined, for instance, that a rusting object doesn’t lose weight as everyone had long assumed, but gains weight–an extraordinary discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And with Mrs. McCracken occupied in the garden, and her husband playing with sharp objects in the garage, I’ll have just the window I need. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For her we make the familiar paper objects, the pumpkins, the Christmas bells, but she has us do other things too. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As soon as I learned to charm objects, it was one of the first things I did.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of answering, Alec leaned down and grabbed one of the objects from the box. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gabriella, fearless because she didn’t receive the alert today, picks up the object. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They don't hypnotize you with bright objects and repeat the same words over and over, handing out little treats when you finally say "potty" or "wawa." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I changed lanes to drive around them, but stopped when I saw a small object lying in the middle of the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then, his bag swinging in one hand, the object his father had pushed into his hand in the other, Tristran Thorn set off up the gentle hill, toward the woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu moved closer because her words had solidified, become suspended objects hovering just above his reach. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

April had followed, watching approvingly, but now she suddenly objected. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whoosh of an object slicing through the air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But then...do you mean...” said Hermione slowly, and Harry could tell that she was trying to keep any trace of skepticism out of her voice, “that you believe these objects—these Hallows—actually exist?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We cannot but wish and hope Sir, that you will have the same grand object...in view in your next session. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed stared at the photo in his hand, saw no reason to object. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The light that came from outside made ordinary objects seem important: a quill pen, a pitcher with milk, an earring, the brass buttons that were part of a straight-backed chair. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would be Heisenberg and his mentor, the soft-spoken but rigorously logical Dane Niels Bohr, who finally divined the solution, in a process Heisenberg likened to watching an object emerge from a thick fog. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To help the audience unlock the puzzle, Blue leaves behind a series of clues, which are objects tattooed with one of her paw prints. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew that he would not go; I saw it in his long silences, in the set of his lips, in his eyes that seemed focused on invisible objects for a long time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In another, more likely version of events, Judge Cady is said to have strongly objected to his daughter’s remarks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, as time went on they accumulated more and more things—objects, not easily transportable, that tied them down. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All these things ... your cross, your prayers. As God is near—and surely He always is—you need no special words or objects to approach Him.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dug into my trunk with the object in his hand. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The object was to devocalize the dogs so that their howls would not disturb the patients in the other parts of the hospital. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural assumption of children, Markman argues, is that if an object or person is given a second label, then that label must refer to some secondary property or attribute of that object. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She traded the object to Cady for the bag of groceries. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You want us to kill him in cold blood ?” Yossarian objected. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him, preparing to dodge the next blunt object hurled his way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When Gale offers to clean the game, I don’t object. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In words, it doesn’t seem particularly special, but figures imbued with this golden ratio seem to be the most beautiful objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing wrong with using the possessive whose for inanimate objects. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this same force that caused objects to fall to the ground. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother and father were both in the hall frantically stuffing clothing and various objects into suitcases. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, but I cannot speak with a woman,” objected Wang Lung mildly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The Bureau isn’t against objects being too magical,” Dr. Khan replies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone did not attend the meeting, and she objected to excluding men from the organization, arguing that her husband had worked as hard as anyone else for women’s suffrage in Kansas. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were two objects in it, a flat piece of marble with dim hieroglyphics on it, and a small head of a glowing milky white. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object was to jump pegs like checkers until you had only one left, which sounded simple at first. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Sir—,” said Bono, “sir, if you don’t have interest in it, would you object if I should wear it? I reckon I could wear it handsomely, if I keep my body held just right.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These same principles led astronomers to take a new interest in measuring distances in order to establish exactly where certain objects—new stars—were in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were wonders for sale, and marvels, and miracles; there were things undreamed-of and objects unimagined. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I finish with the last of my things, I hurry over to the little menagerie of objects by my bed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The words and structures lie waiting in memory, bearing little tags like “here’s a way to delay mentioning a modifier” or “my direct object is the thing being transferred.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In his mind he processed human beings and objects in the same way. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When Joe raised the idea in the NEC the next day there were some who firmly objected, claiming that we were giving de Klerk’s supporters a reward but not our own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, the angle being measured is not between the observer and two distant objects, but rather the stars are being read as if they were the hands of a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her cellphone battery was dying, and she needed to get inside, to somewhere that had electrical outlets and objects moving faster than me and Julia. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Jonathan’s father’s friend objected, shaking his head violently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

According to atomists such as Gassendi, light was caused by a stream of tiny particles emerging from bright objects, like the Sun, and impinging on the eyes of the viewer. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

One object was found in Spassky’s chair that was not in Fischer’s otherwise identical chair! Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then with my fingers, I slowly felt around the object It had a head, I discovered, four feet and a tail Timothy had spent all that time carving a cat a Stew Cat. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have second-generation motion detectors; they only trigger if the moving object is large enough to be a human being—which means someone has hopped our fence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Einstein objected to this very strongly, despite the important role he had played in the development of these ideas. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object of the game was to win, and she wanted to win. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sky showered Beauty with gifts of his loveliest objects—the sun, the moon, the clouds, the stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I remember packing a suitcase and carrying it out to the kitchen, standing very still for a few minutes, looking carefully at the familiar objects all around me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some concert venues objected so much to this signature song being included in Holiday’s set that white staff would deliberately create noise with the cash tills or bottle crates while she was singing it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Loo poked at the unfamiliar object on his plate. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even though it doesn’t agree with the way nature seems to work, Planck’s strange hypothesis—that molecular vibrations were quantized—led to the correct formula for the frequencies of light that come off an object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. If she does not object to it, why should we?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even in that obscure position, Miss Scatcherd continued to make her an object of constant notice: she was continually addressing to her such phrases as the following:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she looked back, for at that moment a black object plummeted from the sky, and she recognized her friend Jeremy the crow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the rest of the lesson trying to attract small objects toward him under the table with his wand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The agents from the Order of the Clean Hand did not object. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“But,” someone will object, “I have used dieldrin sprays on the lawn many times but I have never had convulsions like the World Health Organization spraymen — so it hasn’t harmed me.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These objects meant something to Twinkle, but they meant nothing to him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Bucket!” he repeated, pointing to the wooden object now lying on its side. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd screamed with joy and waved their arms and threw objects into the air. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many years ago, the psychologist Norman R. F. Maier hung two long ropes from the ceiling of a room that was filled with all kinds of different tools, objects, and furniture. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want to know anything,” objected the captain, pouting out his thick lips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the strange object in her arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I have awakened in the night being slightly unwell & felt so much afraid though my reason was laughing & told me there was nothing, & tried to seize hold of objects to be frightened at.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one looks at the sky on a clear, moonless night, the brightest objects one sees are likely to be the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an object twitched close to his face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I mend broken machinery and articles of iron. I lift heavy objects.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One would house a thief, a person in possession of an object worth millions of dollars. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This effect is only really significant for objects moving at speeds close to the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the existence of dark matter is widely accepted because it explains the discrepancies found between the mass of large astronomical objects and their gravitational effect. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lynn could take a simple, everyday object like a box of Kleenex and use it to prove how amazing the world is. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Art has been called a visual dialogue, for though the object itself is mute, it expresses its creator’s intention just as surely as if it were speaking to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The material facts were that the knights of the Round Table set out in a body, soon after Pentecost, with the immediate object of finding the Holy Grail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My search for the appropriate objects led me to a secondhand store. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But by their very definition, black holes are objects that are not supposed to emit anything. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would lie down on her bed, bury my face in her pillow, caress the objects she had left on her night table, and feel completely desolate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as space gets distorted close to a massive object, time does, too. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand the basic outline of this technique, imagine trying to deduce the shape of a minute three-dimensional object—a cube, say. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Contemporary observations are changing our understanding of planetary systems, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect our current understanding. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When the project was complete, I came up against an unexpected obstacle: I was unable to transfer Rosa to the new tomb because the del Valle family objected. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, no matter how much Ranee objected, how many tears she cried, how she begged and invoked her husband's memory, the disaster came. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the surging roll of the words, the pleasure of the sound of his voice coming so clearly out of his mouth, made him stop looking for possible object lessons in the text. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now...it began to feel like an expedient with no object. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He would thus have been familiar with the basic principle that objects appear smaller as they recede into the distance, a principle analysed by Euclid, and familiar in the Middle Ages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His eyes are constantly scanning, never settling on any person or object for more than an instant, moving from an officer to the printout in front of him and back again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slab of stone on the ground, and a low ledge in one corner, with some small objects on it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want objects that breathe out light; a luminous flatness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were far more highly prized than any other objects that were brought out of the tombs, because private collectors and a few foreign museums paid very handsomely for them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever my connections may be,” said Elizabeth, “if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to you.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The universe still had a centre, and the sun and the Earth were still unique objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They will carry objects which can shoot death faster than the eye can see. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dutch companies dispatched merchant ships daily to all corners of the globe, so Amsterdam was flooded with such objects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’d counted that morning, and memorized where they were—tall square cases made of dark wood, with glass sides and fronts and velvet-covered shelves, made for displaying valuable objects of porcelain or ivory or gold. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait until you hear the whole story,” Con objected. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And it’s the reason why objects don’t hurtle themselves off into deep dark space? It’s what keeps us bound together?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It moans and occasionally throws objects around, but is essentially simple-minded and will, at worst, growl alarmingly at anyone who stumbles across it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The object of this game is to be the first to safely reach the volcano crater on the island at the far side of the sea.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He took a small object from his pants pocket and kept it hidden in his fist. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed that each man was holding a long, dark, heavy, sticklike object upon his shoulder. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a Beechcraft. No, I know what you’re thinking,” he said, as both Patrick and his father started to object. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I slipped on the work gloves that had been a gift from Charlie’s mother and reached into an old lard bucket filled with dark objects. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This would be a showcase piece, a curiosity. Your clocks are impressive, but what I am requesting would be something truly outstanding, das Meisterwerk. And money is absolutely no object.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He believed that as we walked, the world of objects unfurled before us like the painted scene for a play, turrets, and moats, and topiary aisles slapping down into place just before we would arrive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be asking about an object.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And something else is rattling beneath Milton’s pillow, a potentially dangerous situation considering what the object is. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Flamsteed was one of the first people to suggest that the phenomenon was really a single object, postulating that it had been repelled from the Sun by some sort of magnetic effect. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was his treasure, he’d say, patting his lap, as if I were a girl in a jumper instead of a woman of twenty-three in the slacks he objected to my wearing in public. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bristle at being referred to as an object, but say nothing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“She bet me I couldn’t aim well enough to hit a small object from one hundred feet,” Uriah explains. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I turned aside and looked at the clutter of household objects which the two men continued to pile on the walk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An object receding from us at very high velocities has its spectral lines red-shifted.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as all they knew for sure about the mysterious object was that it was about two inches long, they didn’t have much chance of guessing what it was without further clues. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

However, the famous explorer didn’t think that Roosevelt’s current plans, to travel down an already well-known river, “could offer anything new to an Expedition whose object was to unravel unknown aspects of our wilds.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The stairwells were huge, open caverns that spiraled upward for several floors, providing ample opportunity to hurl flying objects, dump liquids, or entrap us in dark corners. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw that there was a long, boxlike object under the young soldier’s bed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

These mathematician-artists perfected the technique of perspective and could soon depict arbitrary objects in three dimensions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then she would capture the delivery man, and kill him with the very object he delivered. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The scale is of course more an idea than an object, an arbitrary measure of the Earth’s tremblings based on surface measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She slipped a small silver object from the back pocket of her jeans and held it out to me, the rough pattern of the speaker face up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That kind of admiration between men was either effeminate or disrespectful, and then a little shameful, if the object was a younger man. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at each object and tried to compare it to my earlier flash inventory of my parents’ possessions. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was a physicist, he knew that important biological objects come in pairs. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Later it was explained to me that each eye sees the same object from a slightly different angle, so that each eye has a slightly different picture. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intruders—yes, they had to be—were outside, rattling objects, probing, then vanishing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ralph objected, but they both knew there was no choice; and so she found herself sitting at the front register, on a stool, no lady at all. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he dropped his eyes to the mantelpiece, lifting one by one the objects that adorned it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Inside, in the light of a candle, I could make out a figure crouched over one of the property trunks, lifting some object from it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Strict realists in my family, we always objected: “Why do they always go up?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Squire recognized that readers would want to know about the thing that made Sing Sing increasingly famous as an object of fascination and horror: the Death House. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She curls her trunk inward and rubs the object on it, testing it for texture. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Many of the comfort objects, like Lily’s, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, what girl doesn’t want to be the object of someone’s affections, secretly or otherwise? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had even constructed a model to show how they might work, and Mrs. Coulter had seen the object before it was exorcised and burned. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was skilled enough at his woodworking that the ever-demanding President Washington employed him several times to make objects for his household. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A special type of star, called a Cepheid variable, had a property that allowed Hubble to measure the distance to faraway objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When Anthony arrived, some of the men objected to her attendance and she was asked to leave. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I returned downstairs, I discovered Mr Cardinal moving rather restlessly around the drawing room examining objects he must long ago have become familiar with. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, all of us Navajos were bringing the natives right into our chow lines and no one ever objected. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strange object was like a hut, but the sides were like finely woven cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nods and my right hand closes around a familiar object. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is a dubious object at best, blotchy and treacherous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once while I watched I saw a small object which I took to be the ship, but a stream of water rose from it and I knew that it was a whale spouting. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he continued walking, he became aware of a large object on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about him?” asked Laurie, grateful for the good advice, but objecting to the lecture, and glad to turn the conversation from himself after his unusual outbreak. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did cows object to people who picked their flowers? she wondered. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Often his answers surprise her, convincing her to appreciate an object she would have otherwise dismissed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What is more, it gradually moved, with respect to the distant stars, much faster than any remote object could.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to live with us, he took my room, to which Mama objected strenuously but in vain. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

An object sails into the air, lands in the middle of the street, and explodes in a ball of fire. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They had drawn level with the only shop in Knockturn Alley that Harry had ever visited, Borgin and Burkes, which sold a wide variety of sinister objects. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to think of any of those dark objects being anything more than some garden tools the people found in the ranger station’s shed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And between each object is a ninety-degree angle, so the circuit becomes a perfect square. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the crowd onshore watched Baker dump a weighted object into the river, the ship traveled around a bend to the site of the old jail, on the grounds of the Washington Arsenal. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to make the object his halfway point, and he hoped he hadn't already gone too far. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Adam objected, “and art cumbered with crutches as well. And how wilt thou cross the river? The bridge is well guarded at both ends.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“You have no evidence to support your claims,” Ash's father objected in frustration. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Africa she and I had thought that this large object was a toy, because Mama had written on the photo, “Teddy, playing the piano.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Ned Stark could scarcely object to that, not without impugning the honor of the king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Next to her, attached to the ceiling, Wilbur saw a curious object. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I turn my head to look at Jake, but his eyes are trained on an object in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, I tried to explain that we didn’t object to his travels; we just wanted him to be a little more careful and to keep us better informed of his whereabouts.’’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell that Mother was afraid Daddy would object to hearing the same thing over and over. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The greater likelihood, however, is that we wouldn’t see any object–even a comet–until it was about six months away, which would be much too late. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that in one of the pockets was an object that shouldn’t have been there. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the prosecutor objected vehemently to this question. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The wind, which was also increasing in power, took all of these burning objects and blew them over the heads of the firefighters. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even you can become the object of desire; out here you have a faint resemblance to home; your rooms, full of the smell of stale food, sleep, smoke, and clothes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were objects of fear to us, but of something else as well. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet no such object could exist: Brahe knew his way around the heavens, and it was a fundamental principle of Aristotelian philosophy that there could be no change in them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The people were touching and pointing and shouting, excited by the strange objects from so far away. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He sits facing out—rosy-coloured pot-bellied, crowned and smiling—three hands holding various objects, the fourth held palm out in blessing and in greeting. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Lies and art...it’s an ancient problem. So if we work with art,” she said slowly, “we’ll have to figure out something else first: What makes an object a piece of art?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Many of the men who objected to including women argued that the presence of women would violate God’s will and bring ridicule to the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You just mention ten objects, and I’ll memorize them right off the bat. You give me one, Miss Truman, and then you give me one, Mr.—?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

If people die in a storm, they’re collateral damage, like any other object in the storm’s path—a lamppost, a car, a house. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Worst-case scenarios included my grandfather running naked in the street, wielding a hunting rifle, foaming at the mouth on the front lawn, or lying in wait with a blunt object in hand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Objection, Your Honor. We object to this witness and insist the jury be excused until we can see if this witness is qualified to testify as to facts pertinent to this case.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cora had told Royal about the attic days in North Carolina, but seeing the year on the cover—an object conjured from the future—spurred Cora to her own magic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“So—” Will stopped what he was doing, which was arranging his rucksack so the heaviest objects were in the bottom, and tried to see the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation gave physicists an explanation for the way planets and objects move through the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In addition, the earliest forms of the Semitic letters appear in many cases to have been pictures of those same objects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After four weeks of slow, painful drills in the practice room, Erastis had still only allowed him to manipulate one object at a time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She taught me how to color inside the lines and the proper ways to shade an object. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he’s afraid to; he just knows that objecting is useless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When you get him to bed, go and ask Dilsey if she objects to my having a hot water bottle, Mother said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Radio telescopes can detect very faint, very distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she more than lives beside them,” the pixie objects, looking at me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Too polite to object, Helen found herself listening. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 3, 1908, archaeologists excavating the ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Newton discovered the law of inertia, the tendency of a moving object to continue moving in a straight line unless something influences it and moves it out of its path. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was incompatible with the teaching of Archimedes, who was available in Latin from the twelfth century, and argued that objects float only if they are lighter than the water they displace. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He shook the mildewed object by its pointed end and it dangled, empty and ragged: the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Molly objected to the assignment, not least because preparation for the conference would involve weeks of intensive briefings in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No longer would a proportion be a relationship between two objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“They believe that objects have souls. The more love you put into one, the more beautiful it becomes.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thinking that the small red rubber rings were objects of witchcraft he put them in his pocket so that Pilar Ternera could have a look at them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel much like an object of desire or temptation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a small leather pouch that bulged with silver objects. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he about to see the mysterious broken object it was so important to mend? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In such a lonely void you can begin to understand how even the most significant objects–Pluto’s moon, for example–have escaped attention. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The old man laughed and slid the shiny black object out of his pocket. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Outside in the garden, over the dinner tables, the three objects Scrimgeour had given them were passed from hand to hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The object looked like a silver pen, clipped to her pocket cuff. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She then pulls out a small plastic object a little wider than a Post-it note, and she snaps it into the machine. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But in the end, books—even magic ones—are only objects pieced together from paper and glue and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The experimenters found, though, that the infants did not respond as predicted to the appearance of the ball, but instead did not look significantly longer than they did when the objects were not swapped. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What classic style does is explain them as if they were objects and forces that would be recognizable to anyone standing in a position to see them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Jefferson now became the fixed object against which he strained. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We had no time to go into details, but have formed the decided impression that this is being run now, as in the past, upon the general theory that money is no object.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I used a type of cipher called the scytale. You take a vertical strip of paper like this, and you wrap it around a cylinder-shaped object.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They remained staring at the object on the bar for another silent moment, as if trying to commit it to memory. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It felt grotesque and unnecessary, but she didn't object. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Matt indicated a pile of objects wrapped haphazardly in a dirty woven cloth on the step near him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately Gregor generally saw only the relevant object and the hand which held it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inequalities were so great that if a man chose to put his children up for adoption, his wife was legally defenseless to object. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had no idea what kind of object was lodged inside him, but knew he needed to take it out as soon as possible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow even sadder to Mark than what the guy has just said, the object of his scorn just nods and apologizes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the couch, and presently as he sat there in the silence of the apartment, among the non-stirring objects, the special Mr. Isidore appeared at the door. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My fingers have all but decided to release the arrow when I see the object in the glove. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It not only tells how much radiation an object gives off, but also how hot an object gets when irradiated with a given amount of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We must accept that time is not completely separate from and independent of space, but is combined with it to form an object called space-time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today we combine a laser and a photocell, or a radar transmitter and a radio telescope, and in this way make active contact by light with distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to walk about the room, examining various indefinite objects in the half darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now, as Mia stood across the living room, staring at the strange object, Teddy sat down on a bench and began playing it. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small black object fell near his head in the snow, hissing, shooting forth a white vapor, like a blowing plume, which was carried away from him by the wind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That the expedition would start tonight and that Lexington and Concord were the likely objects, the men sitting about in Warren’s surgery had already guessed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The object was a painting on a wooden panel about twelve inches square. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Pythagoreans were fascinated by the regular solids, symmetrical three-dimensional objects all of whose sides are the same regular polygon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another object followed; this time Ranofer heard the chunk as it hit, and the dog howled and made off across the courtyard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I walked bravely to the object and sniffed it. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could have told her then about the vents—he didn’t see how anyone could object to him looking out there—but something stopped him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Such objects are what we now call black holes, because that is what they are: black voids in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to object, but of course it was not aware of his existence. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sadie came to our house every day after school, and I watched the Snickers incident play out over and over, in different forms, with different objects. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Joseph looked around the room at all the objects placed with such care and precision. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After that it was a matter of sleuthing—investigating crevices that would be a convenient place to hide a book-shaped object, observing a pile of freshly dug dirt, or noticing something out of place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Not so," objected the Lord Steward, Bowen Marsh, a man as round and red as a pomegranate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though for most guys I was little more than an object of ridicule, occasionally I became an object of fascination. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the earth rotates, why are the paths of flying objects, such as arrows, not visibly affected by its movement? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

My parents objected, but I assured them that when the crab season was over, I would go and catch up with the class. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The central problem, however, was simple: How could one look through a powerful telescope at a tiny, distant object and make reliable observations while on a ship bouncing about on the waves? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stalks through the City and it does not object or interfere. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city seemed coldhearted to her—merchants were ruthless in their dealings and masters callous to their servants, and all called her naive when she objected. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At dinner, an old man burst out yelling in his tongue; the object of these expostulations being one of Bono’s friends, Charles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z