“You’ll have to pick up the pace if we’re going to get all these orders delivered,” he said when I got back. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He barked at Hume to pick up the tempo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But we were all so keenly tuned in to picking up her response, and that’s probably why it had such an effect on us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Might as well pick up where we left off.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

On my way in, I picked up the takeout trash and chucked it into the Dumpster. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It picked up sheds and wagons, horses and men. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

That's where she picked up the billiard cue she had carried up the stairs as a weapon. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She picked up the reindeer antlers and taped a paper towel to them, arranging the items to look like a white flag waving for a truce. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But at the time he quivered with joy and excitement before picking up a gun. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sides facing the sidewalk have wide windows where people can place orders and pick up food. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gilly picked up the plate, raised it to the height of her hair, and passed it across to Trotter at that level. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They seemed to pick up some scent, and they searched the ground for a while near the place where you halted. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mom picks up the letter and stares at it for a long moment. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Tendai put his ear to the clay wall to pick up sounds from outside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not so lucky is the woman next to him: she has a different set of HLAs, which are able to pick up and transport only eight of the ten varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to make a statement,” I said when someone finally picked up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I picked up the roses and dismounted my bike, letting it fall to the ground as I walked toward the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Along the way, I picked up the power logger I'd left behind at the halfway point. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up a twig from the dirt under the bush behind me and trace the cracks in the bricks. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Quietly, the old black preacher stopped and picked up the cross. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not picking up, are you, Max? I mean, what does he have to say?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His mother sends someone to pick up pizzas, and they take over the game room on the third floor with paper plates and bottles of Shiner shipped in from Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She waited for a bit, then she bent down to pick up the horseshoes and went on inside. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dorian picked up a cowboy boot from which a heel had been broken and dropped it into a wastebasket, wondering whether that impossible Ignatius J. Reilly was all right. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she turned back to me, she picked up my hand and ran her thumb against my open palm. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s pick up a gin on the way.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And my mom was a soccer mom times ten, always picking up someone from practice, dropping someone else off, fixing a uniform, or cheering someone on from the sidelines. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I picked up one bucket; Chase carried the two others. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shivering in only his underwear, Cole crouched and picked up a rock. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She picks up the volume filled with names. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All while keeping a wiggly Fig on the table, Dr. Spires picked up one syringe, removed the red cap, and turned his attention toward my dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For one thing, we had just picked up another state—our third, Tennessee—which always brings a sense of achievement on the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted the top back onto the bottle and picked up his glass. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My hands were shaking, so I stuffed them into my pockets and let Twig pick up the next egg, which was covered in cotton balls: Cotton Ball Heaven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The trunks right themselves instantly, but Hector picks up the cage to inspect the damage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She picks up one picture, sets down another. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I pick up each grain and chew it slowly, trying to relish the taste, not wanting to swallow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the alley outside, I tightened the backpack straps over my shoulder and picked up the empty duffel bag. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She picked up the shot of her and me on the footbridge and threw it down again. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We keep picking up trash and stuffing it into bulging black bags. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up the pencil from the hall table and uncovered the phone. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up the water bottle, drank deeply from it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the napkin, balled it, and pitched it into the trashcan. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I pick up a stone and toss it into the street, trying to mimic his bionic wrist movement and after three pathetic tries, my whole thinking flips over. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She picked up the clipboard on her desk and started reading the names out loud. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I picked up Helena, turned, and marched away from the house, kicking the front gate shut behind me with a bang. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tappers freshman boys were lined up in the common room, excited, terrified, maybe looking a little too much like they were going to a funeral instead of getting ready to go pick up their dates. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wayne was due to spray for mosquitoes, so he came by to pick up Theresa, Tino, Henry, and me after school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits next to me at the kitchen table and picks up the magazine, flipping through it while we talk. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up my fangs and stood real still. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks through to the back bedroom, makes some notes, and when he passes my bed, he stops and picks up an envelope. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

John picked up his shoes and plopped them into the box the shoe skates came in. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, grinning, she picked up another pink lemonade and drank it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I picked up my winnings this morning—three hundred dollars. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a notebook and pencil from a desk near the door and followed Justin out of my sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then she slung it over her shoulder, picked up her walking stick, and hurried away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up on the first ring, and his avatar appeared in a new window in front of me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She picked up the scene where he had left off: “ ‘Yeah? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Doctor had said once or twice she was real sensible with these things she picked up what she showed him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you couldn’t just pick up and go.to visit New York from Lansing, or Boston, or anywhere else—not without money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take this,” said the witch, picking up a large white fur. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Feeling they had the upper hand and wanting to quit while they were ahead, Du Hai and Yang Fan picked up their schoolbags and swaggered off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a javelin and threw it across the arena. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And she suspected that Miss Adebayo knew this; it was always when she spoke that Miss Adebayo would pick up a journal or pour another drink or get up to go to the toilet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s hands were so swollen, he couldn’t pick up his hoe, so Nhamo carried that as well. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave a start and nearly fell, just as Ji-yong picked up some speed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hi,” said Cedric, picking up a copy of A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration that was now splattered with ink. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Near Tallahassee he was picked up by sheriff’s men, judged vagrant, and put on a road gang. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you say we go and pick up the story from there?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hugo pocketed the key and picked up the papers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He gunned the engine and the J-3 began to jitter and lean forward, and once it started rolling down the runway it quickly picked up speed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After securing us downstairs, she goes out into the Capitol to pick up any helpful information. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She picked up with, “Tell me you got my messages” “Yup.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She picked up children like sacks of grain and carried a large stick wherever she went. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I will not let you do this to me,” Chandresh says, picking up the brandy bottle from the desk and brandishing it in front of him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If a Redcoat sentry stopped him, he would say he was picking up supplies for his tavern. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie froze momentarily, but then kept picking up the pieces of wood and glass like she hadn’t heard the question. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On Friday, I went and picked up Violet at her house for the party. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sashayed in and picked up the newspaper after Father had thrown it down on the floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for a blue-sky pencil, but pick up midnight black instead. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt Raulito was picking up all the tension in the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled away, picking up half of his broken axe. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is a perfect moment to pick up my bookbag and march back to Port Authority and just write the whole endeavor off as an exploration of New York City and nothing more. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bogrod submitted once more to his will, his befuddled expression changing to one of polite indifference, as Ron hurried to pick up the leather bag of metal tools. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When he finished, he picked up his bag and shoes and hurried to Mr. Lott’s classroom down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We stopped at Gina’s cousin’s house and picked up an ice chest full of beer and Cokes. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up motes of sand that stung their cheeks and forced them to shield their eyes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I climbed in the front seat, and we drove down Broadway to Santa Maria High School to pick up Roberto, who was in his sophomore year. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Wednesday morning I drove into San Francisco to pick up the meat from Angelo. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She picked up the plastic container and took Akeer by the hand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, let me dial it for you,” she said, picking up the receiver. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I pick up Hector out of his seat and plop down on the couch with him like all I want to do is hold him and watch TV with Frank. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The wind was picking up, blowing a warm, dry air over me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Turner picked up a hymnbook and thought he might fling it at the next set of peering eyes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pad and look at the drawing I did of him, his broad shoulders, his narrow waist, long legs, the trail of hair on his navel going down, down, down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Grace had seen it once when she’d dared herself to pick up a parenting book, in a bookstore fifteen miles away, where no one would recognize her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She put the handkerchief away and picked up an ivory crochet hook from the marble top of the bureau. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

New York became a frequent destination, and after exploring new aspects of his character, Ridgeway picked up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But she picked up her portion and bit into it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back to the car to radio in and say we were okay, and I couldn’t even pick up the radio, I was shaking so badly.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Madam bit back the hot words in her mouth, picked up her serviette, and cleaned off her chin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When he had finished, he picked up the whip and began hitting himself again. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assurance had returned to her; the litany of her voice picked up pace. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He calls every evening before leaving the office to say he is on his way home, asks if he needs to pick up lettuce or a loaf of bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I head to the table and smile widely at the women as I pick up a couple of green cups. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m here to pick up Great-Uncle Jim’s chicken. Thanks for taking care of her.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was the one who could pick up the phone at any moment and ask that either one of us be taken away. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I crept back to my room and picked up the drape over the birdcage. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, a girl bends to pick up a round greenish-black patty from the ground and puts it in her bag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to hand it to her; Dr. Minerva picked up on my lingo pretty quickly. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had rained recently and the earth was soft underfoot and he kept his eye on the ground and before long he stopped and picked up an arrowhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I picked up an imaginary fork and began to saw at imaginary food. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, as if the treasures could crumble in his small hands, he picked up one piece after another, felt it, and put it back. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m home just before six, eat with the Doorman, and pick up Audrey around seven. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the jaegers arose into the air she picked up the pot and climbed once again to the top of her frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, Cas picked up her bag with one hand and the clarinet case with the other, then headed out of the practice room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once I got used to the routine in school and I picked up some English words, I felt more comfortable in class. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would pick up his magazine and begin to read as if the game had never happened. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next, he put his hands into the gloves, picked up the cylinder and, looking through a window to see what he was doing, peeled the tape off the cylinder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up the trumpet, and when she presses her lips to the brass, her three fingers make a loud parade of blaring notes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone at the bench is picking up their backpacks and textbooks. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Chink.She climbed down from the chair and picked up the keys. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

One to pick up the Cheerios that are always on the floor. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had picked up and dropped off friends and relatives at the station a handful of times over the years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I picked up three train tracks and half a dozen small dinosaurs and quickly tossed them in a toy box nestled under the sofa arm. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Idly, he picks up the phone and looks at the screen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I have to run to ransack the couch cushions for my ringing phone and pick up without checking first to see who it is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I crawled rapidly around the floor, picking up the coins, trying to avoid the coppers and to get greenbacks and the gold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the high- backed wooden chairs, lifted it with both hands, spun in a circle, and flung it hard at the window. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That gave him a chance to pick up the oscilloscope and head for the door like a scared rat. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Huh. It would be cool to just shed something and swim away,” he says, crawling on all fours and then picking up the crab. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Feeling the hilt pressing gently at her ribs, she picked up her boots and took them outside to put them on. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The two men pick up their machetes and raise them to their shoulders like soldiers their guns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I picked up the bottom end of it, attached my jumar* to the slightly frayed line, and began to climb. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up pretty rocks to give to me, even though she shouldn’t have been carrying heavy things, and usually they were just Manhattan schist, anyway. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up a tripod I didn’t notice when I came in and swings it over his shoulder. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The response is nearly instant as I scan the other trainees to see if anyone picks up their phone. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a jolt of excitement as they picked up the pace and crossed over the baseball field. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jonas prepared himself to walk to the stage when the applause ended and the Chief Elder picked up the next folder and looked down to the group to call forward the next new Twelve. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled her up and picked up the bolster from the floor and used it to support her back. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her lipstick as though to finish putting on her makeup. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He and Julia had only spoken in low whispers, and it would not pick up what they had said, but it would pick up the thrush. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When his piece of grass got bent, he dropped it, picked up a little twig, stripped the leaves off it, and used that. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of it before,” he said, picking up his book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He picked up his staff to move it out of the way. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up then, and the dry dirt whipped up from the ground and passed over them in a cloud. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Mami’s voice mixed and became confused with the voices of other mothers telling their children to pick up their things, stay together, to walk quickly toward the door and not to hold up the line. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She goes into the hall closet and picks up the laundry basket. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Finally she turned around and picked up a long wooden spoon and went to poking at the stew kettle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was in particular this one gesture Ruth picked up from the veterans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hung up the phone, picked up my file from his desk, and glanced at it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I picked up a rock and thought how weird it was that people call ’em aliens. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I just tried the office, but no one was picking up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit picked up his shovel and began filling in the dirt around the pipe. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Ms. Morales came to pick up the three Greystone kids at the end of the school day, she was wearing a lot of makeup and hairspray. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up Tedward and rubbed my face against his soft fur. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And the rain has picked up, pounding the ground outside the entrance to the cave. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Something you breathed in or ate, or picked up from the dirty money other people had touched. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the desk, picked up the man’s glasses case, and threw it to him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole picked up the other box from the skiff and followed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I have to pick up my brother,” I tell him. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Technicians could even pick up telephone conversations between US government limousines' car phones and offices in the State Department and the Pentagon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s all over now. We just have to stop at Floramundi’s and pick up your things.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I pick up her hands one by one and brush the dirt off them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I picked up a box that was about the size of a big thick book and slid it under my seat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

He didn’t pick up on styles or trends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost one o’clock, and although Frankie had already been picked up and taken to a friend’s house, I still had to get to Grand Island before the matinee started. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bast gave an embarrassed smile as Chronicler picked up the glasses and moved back to the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been watching the violence of this time go by on the screen long enough to have picked up a few things.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad fell asleep on the couch again, I picked up the phone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It was a test. You chose not to pick up the rifle.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Up in the apartment, as I pick up the phone, I’m already asking myself why I’m dialing the number. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up his wrapper and tied it around his body, knotting it at his waist. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He set down his bowl, shoved off Abbie and Perlie, picked up a round stone, and tossed it in the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dad picked up a six-foot length of angle iron and handed me the end. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Victor picked up his newspaper and watched the children from behind it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States, we see these same faces, and our reflex is to pick up our pace and cross the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then Frank picked up a braided cylinder about the size of a candy bar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The whole weekend she called and called and he never picked up the phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only then did she pick up the pieces of Henrietta’s cervix— forceps in one hand, scalpel in the other—and carefully slice them into one-millimeter squares. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maya picked up her pillow and hugged it to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The chair, the bed, the mirror, picking up glints of moonlight, seem to move, shuddering, trembling with spirits making them jerk, come alive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Following the forelady’s instructions, her left hand picked up a foot length of shiny wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slam the car door and run down the street, my speed picking up as the road slopes down, blocks and blocks, straight to the ocean. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At first when the bodies started appearing, they got picked up within a day. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

With a little exclamation he bent and picked up something from the floor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the glass from which Anthony Marston had been drinking. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up speed, careful not to run, heading away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stares at me, and then leans over to pick up the rifle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But at school the next day, I couldn’t seem to pick up where I had left off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“This is librarian One,” said Dr. Zinchenko, loud enough for the microphones hidden in the ceiling to pick up her voice. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I picked up the beheaded chicken and carried it to a basin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody dropped a dime and the coach picked up the phone. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I know one of your clients,” I say, and pick up the file. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the receiver and dialed 0 for operator. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the canoe stoops and picks up something that looks like a very large pinecone with spiky green shoots coming out of one end. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

This time, I waited until the voice mail picked up. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They didn’t need to talk about it because it was just another part of life, like school or trying to pick up girls at the mall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s this pageant-ish event going on in Odessa tomorrow night and I think we could pick up some pointers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We recovered our balance and listened as the train picked up speed and headed west. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d pick up a new nickname every six months or so. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He emptied the box and picked up a handful of dirt from the middle of the unpaved road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she swallowed the giant balloon in her throat and picked up her indigo-blue brush pen. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Duff picked up a shell, too, and rubbed the sand from it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Such has been America’s attitude toward these boys that if one is picked up and confronted in a police cell with ten white cops, he is intimidated almost to the point of confessing anything. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the basket and stood with it and the bowl of beans over her mother. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They pay their respects in silence, and when the sun has risen, the men pick up the bier and depart; but the women stay behind, for this is the custom. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the new notebook that Starry gave me yesterday. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hopping out, he hurried along the edge of the road, stopped, stooped, picked up one, two, three, four empty Coca-Cola bottles, ran back, and hopped in, happy and grinning. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The donation place can’t pick up the furniture until next week,” he says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ramu has picked up English faster than I have because his parents know English and force him to speak it at home. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Erin says all this while sprinting next to me, and for some reason her words make me pick up the pace until she stops running. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom returns from picking up the food, we settle in on stools at the counter. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Charlie hunches over on his stool, intently watching Gimpy pick up the knife and cut off a slab of dough. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

You picked up little tricks: overturning your boots each morning in case a scorpion or some other critter had crept inside; shaking out your blanket for rattlesnakes before lying down at night. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He stepped to the bureau and picked up a knitting needle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt dropping me off at the Jitney 14 to pick up what else we need for Thanksgiving tomorrow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They walked to the front of the building and to the line of cars waiting to pick up students. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mac bent over to pick up the plane. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I whirled ’round and at the same time picked up a stone ready to chunk whoever it was that had snucked up on me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He continued walking, so I quickly picked up the bananas and followed him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was new, someone they’d picked up in the Paradise Islands, and a bit of a rabble-rouser, but no one contradicted him when he said it again, louder: “It just ain’t right.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He bypassed all the nickels and dimes before finally picking up a quarter and dropping it in the boy’s hand. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lay the sheet face down on one side of the folder and picked up a second page from the other side. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They assure me I can pick up a better crew in Boston than the one we saw handling the ship.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We picked up about fifty more guys in Anchorage, most of them infantry from Fort Lewis. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the carton and carried it to the other side of the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe off my hand and pick up my brush again. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kelli picked up a music stand and swiped a row of clarinets and flutes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d left hours ago, headed downtown to pick up money people owed him for some chickens he had sold. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In theory—that is, as a simple physical possibility—an animal could pick up and go, flaunting all the social conventions and boundaries proper to its species. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a piece of chalk from the ledge. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Any time I bent over—to put on my shoes or pick up my bunny—it felt like I was being stabbed at the base of my spine. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, her friends visited and they would sit in the kitchen talking until they all dashed off to pick up their children. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Miss McDaniels picks up the remote control next to her folder and presses play. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I only hang up twice when I hear somebody pick up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll miss part of it, someone might translate on the fly to give you the gist, you pick up the rest from the context, and you just figure it out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

While he was there, waiting for the dog to go away, a garbage truck from the Department of Sanitation drove up to the curb and two men picked up the can. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Joseph leaned over to pick up one of the broken plates, his uncle said sharply, “Joseph, stop!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was as if whatever happened in the barrio was conveyed in the breeze to be picked up by whomever was alert enough. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The northern sunshine seemed to pick up faint particles of whiteness floating in the air and powdering the sleek blue sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excellent! Who else? We leave at three, we pick up trash for an hour, you’re back here by four-thirty. So you could, technically, go to the Mathletes meeting.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He picked up the rabbit parts from the table, and as always, Matty was amazed at how sure his hands were, how he knew just where things had been left. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It's the life of the mind that matters, I told myself as I picked up The Catcher in the Rye off my bedside stack. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He bent over, picked up the flashlight and flicked it on. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Kerling didn't tell her that he was going to Florida to pick up explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He drank another mouthful of gin, picked up the white knight, and made a tentative move. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was the one that finally picked up that boy that jumped out the window I told you about, James Castle. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

An hour later, in the company truck, he had picked up the first malfunctioning animal for the day. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Zero picked up the cracked lid and licked the sploosh off that as well. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Masten picked up a can of Chef Boyardee Ravioli and pointed at the picture of the chef on the label of the can. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I picked up my hat and slipped it back on my head. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We picked up our microphones again to find out the story of Eric Morse. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl shifted, looking a little surprised, and then she picked up her bag and turned to the door. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Halfway through, he set the one down and picked up the other, then tore off a piece of the challah and passed it to Misha. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth picked up a small bag of bone-shaped dog treats from the table next to the door and handed them to Mr. Jones. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Another just a short distance ahead, picks up on the handful of notes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Father: “I don’t know where you picked up that slacker attitude, but you certainly didn’t learn it at home. Probably from the bad influences up here.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Clarence picked up the blue and red envelopes and marched back toward the entrance hall. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We stood quite still, not speaking, looking down upon the clear white faces of the flowers closest to us, and Maxim stooped, and picked up a fallen petal and gave it to me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The dispatcher picked up at 6:48:45 a.m., according to the official recording. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She picks up the phone on the fourth ring, and I can hear her say good evening, how are you, yes I’m just fine thank you. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I picked up the sandwich and took another bite. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looked back at us all skeptical, then picked up his folder and started riffling through his papers again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

So Death picked up a stone from the river bank and gave it to the second brother, and told him that the stone would have the power to bring back the dead. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She held her breath, fighting the puke factor, and picked up a bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel picked up a large emerald from the path and slipped it in her pocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, her dad kept bringing in these plates of bacon and, for me, French toast strips I could pick up with my hands. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He picked up a straw and leaned against the wall picking his teeth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up something from the floor and put it somewhere. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They made Frodo have another drink, and then begin his song again, while many of them joined in; for the tune was well known, and they were quick at picking up words. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bow and quiver of arrows, stood near the dark trunk of an oak, and looked out across the moon-silvered meadow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“How is Maiduguri treating them? Is their trading picking up?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Robert would have stood there, that wooden expression on his young sheep’s face, brushing the crumbs from the snowy-white cloth, picking up the table, carrying it from the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

More shadows danced beneath the tree, and the whistling picked up again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She leans over, picks up Penny, and holds her out to me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She crouched down by the seats, but the man came in and shooed her out, then picked up a piece of litter that the woman holding the baby had dropped and got out himself. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this day in August, the grocery-store trip went off without confrontation, and she picked up her girls. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Next month after the shucking bee, the farm would host the most important gathering yet, to address the recent debates about picking up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Ask him if there are any unusual details. If not, tell him to go ahead and later I’ll send you by to pick up the paperwork so I can sign it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith picks up the chains that recently held him prisoner. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A wind had picked up, fanning the flames; a huge branch toppled from far above and crashed through the canopy, throwing sparks everywhere until it finally hit the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was just about time for me to go and pick up Jean Parks, to go downtown to see Billie at the Onyx Club. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you so much for picking up the order for us!” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t picked up nobody out that bus station. Remember what I told you? You stay there until you bring me somebody.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the magazine rack and picked up a couple different sports ones and read the headlines. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jorgenson picked up his helmet, brushed it off, and looked back one more time at the white sandbag. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he said that we didn’t have to play another game, but I picked up the two pawns, reset them, then made a first move. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up the receiver and punched in a New York number—his mom’s apartment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stone and threw — one, two, three, four! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ranofer picked up the ingot, which was now cool enough to handle, and carried it to the nearby workbench on which the drawplate stood. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

That morning, they’d had coffee together in a cafe near the harbor after which, like professional spies, they’d picked up their separate suitcases—Desdemona keeping her silkworm box—and had departed in different directions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She leaned toward him, close enough to see some white powder from the rice cakes stuck to the comers of his mouth, and picked up the almanac. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She picked up the little god statue and pressed it into my hand. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I bent down to pick up a grass stalk, narrow like a green needle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sold the farm and picked up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s late now, about four in the morning, and I pick up a young man on my way home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The computer voice recited the number, and Colin pressed 1 to be connected immediately free of charge, and on the third ring, a girl picked up. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She turned and scrambled up the outcroppings, picking up the hatchet that was to have been splitting kindling all this time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday and Sunday, my brother and I drove to Mike Nevel’s house on West Donovan to pick up the keys and the truck. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, “Here, sweetheart. Let me get that.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I picked up the sword, holding it with two hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briana picked up her pace, and the two of them walked more swiftly, resting only at street corners before crossing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jinx picked up a red cylinder behind the rest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up the sports page instead, but I could tell he wasn’t really reading it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Suesetta and Phyllis start talking about a girl I don’t know and I get lost following the gossip, so I pick up the magazine and turn the pages. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old man gripped his grandson’s hand tighter, picked up his suitcase, and walked away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I decided to pick up the microphone again and say one more thing. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aware that everyone was looking at her, Lupita walked woodenly to the table and picked up the money. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And then I heard the machine pick up, and Diego’s voice came on telling people to leave a message. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Marcus picks up Caleb’s revolver and turns it in his hand so the butt of the gun protrudes from his fist. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching the cub, Neel picked up his pace, Rupa at his heels. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurry, scatter and pick up anything and everything you can find before the others take it all. Bring it back here.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning he hid Jenny’s sandwiches inside his coat, and at the barn he picked up a few eggs from the nests up in the loft. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually picked up garbage in Houston, but after the hurricane, his supervisor said they had taken a contract in New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And when people pick up a new word, they say it all the time. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am suddenly glad I didn’t pick up the knife. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We were walking along Little Hobart Street, picking up pieces of coal, when our neighbors the Noes drove by in their station wagon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grin picked up the footstool and moved it around the table. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Still, with two children like Janie and Bill and a husband with such untidy ways, there is no denying the fact that she had to pick up the place rather frequently. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In winter, the company picks up and moves its operation, and many of its employees, south to Yuma, Arizona. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She helped the old couple pick up all their valuables and retie their packages. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She picked up her backpack to leave the band room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the first book and put it down again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I let the canoe drift along and knelt down out of sight until I could pick up my spear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t ask me any questions, she just picks up my bag, says, “Come on, baby.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When it cooled, I picked up the aluminum tube. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I just missed you. They said all you got to do is to come pick up the camera.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had driven him from the city to meet the plane at Hampton where it came to pick up the drilling equipment. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the cards and shuffled them and laid them out again one by one, in accordance with the strategic rules that he himself had taught me, and beat his score by fifty points. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He picked up his sword and forced a smile. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up the oar and jabbed the wide end of it into Pong's chest, hard enough that it knocked him backward into a seat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, he picked up and held the guitar, and tried to remember how Cool Papa used to hold her. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I picked up a few new words, but the overall situation seemed hopeless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Pong picked up the little wooden box and brought it to the monk's bedside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She picked up the girls’ wrists to sound their pulses, which tell everything. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my robe around and pick up her tape. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Monsters jeered and shouted, and the Minotaur picked up another car. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up my pack and fasten the straps, I take my rifle in my hand and stumble down the steps. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up two shiny wads the size of sandwiches. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Joey picked up our conversation where it had left off. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the child picked up the bomb and it detonated, Herbert ran across the street and found himself in a circle of grieving neighbors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally he braced himself and picked up the receiver. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked over to the couch and picked up a plastic soda bottle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As if picking up on Ma’s pain, Geak kisses her cheek softly and caresses her hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily picked up the scissors and leaned across the counter to clip the twine. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sounds of a firefight on the other side of the hill picked up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victoria leaned back in my squeaky chair and picked up one of my pens. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘Stinker picked up that orc-shirt, seemingly, and he isn’t going to add a sword to it. His hands are bad enough when empty. And he isn’t going to mess with my pans!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then we drove to the Economy Lodge Motel to pick up my dad, because it would have been inappropriate for him to stay at our house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We know less about what prompted Lawrence to pick up the journal and page through it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She picked up a glass and I filled it for her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I pick up things like that pretty quickly.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ben bends over to pick up the thin librex, and it slips through his fingers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember the last time I picked up a landline. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson said that we would be picked up in a different zone. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I picked up my backpack, I found a Post-it note attached to the underside of the left shoulder strap. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gold asked if this had something to do with the industrial spies he’d been picking up information from over the past couple of years. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She can do anything she wants,” she says, handing me back my glove, picking up her book and dusting it off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her maroon bag from where she had put it beside the bushels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I found that Father had picked up the letter and smoothed it out on the table as best he could. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...but not music about picking up snakes and stuff. That kind of music isn’t that popular.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

So I took out my phone and I called him—I called the man who’d just shot my mom, and he actually picked up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His son, who he had sent to pick up supplies from the wharf, had not yet returned. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Mom, I’m ready to be picked up.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow. Thanks, I—” Lydia raised a finger and picked up her phone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I start walking, then pick up the pace until I'm almost running. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others said, “Boxer will pick up when the spring grass conies on”; but the spring came and Boxer grew no fatter. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I pick up my pace, and Ziggy and Tank keep up behind us. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Just after our return he had taken to sarcasm, picked it up as one might pick up a stone, and put it snufflike under his lip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I wish I could a called you earlier so you could pick up that phone.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She picked up an enterprising snail that was crawling out of the open basket. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All others are forced to pick up and move when the soldiers say so. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he picked up his pace and left us behind. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my Rent-A-Wreck from a nice fellow—this must be the famous “Minnesota nice”—who volunteers the locations of NPR and classic rock on the radio. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“OK, I’m positive we’re never going to get picked up. I mean, look at us.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I brace myself and reluctantly pick up the phone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Yessir,” the man said as he picked up the hoe and turned back to his work. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I pick up the last photo in the series. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

How he picked up his sickle, whirled around and sickled the smell that fixed the ghost forever. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she bent over to pick up Ben’s stuff, I offered to carry it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I picked up the phone book and slowly dialed Ellis Park and asked to speak to Owen Williams. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the December skies were cloudy, everyone felt a little safer when they flew over the airfield to pick up their escort and found thirty-six Soviet fighter aircraft joining them in the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Marchers were cautioned not to pick up anything they might innocently drop while downtown; the authorities might think they were arming themselves with stones. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the main office, because Mr. Tompkin had sent me down to pick up some mimeographs. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Just kill it next time,” Maggie said, picking up the empty glass. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then he bent and picked up a flat stone, but threw it so carelessly that it did not skip at all. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

With this, the Coast Guard could pick up weak signals that others missed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I picked up a board and they did too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The records showed that someone, presumably Anna, had picked up. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“And if it’s not too much trouble,” he added, “could you stop on your way and pick up a bottle of vodka?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They picked up the gear from the boat. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cole watched the boat disappear into the rain, he picked up a strand of kelp off the shore and gave it a hard fling. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“What?” snapped Hermione, picking up the exam schedule and examining it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Working feverishly, I made it, but since the paint required a few minutes to dry I picked up two finished buckets and started lugging them over to the loading platform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned on my shortwave radio, and with Dad’s help I was able to pick up someone speaking Greek, which was nice. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my sack and say, cool as you please, “Look like they hired ’em ugly before me too.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up the table cloth and looked. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I left the bread and picked up a little black-and-white glass dog no bigger than my thumbnail. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He picked up the frog and carried it to the thicket of high ferns. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

This year’s prize was a large silver mirror Valentine had picked up in Chicago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lias clucked his cheek sideways and flipped the reins till the horses picked up their trot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

To complete the episode, I picked up Charley four days later, completely well. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kill you in your sleep,” he says, which makes Oscar laugh, then Guillermo picks up a white bakery bag and holds it out to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I climb up the ladder to the next landing, as stealthy and nimble as Max was when she picked up the nurse's badge and freed us from the locked unit. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A widely touted theory assigned authorship to Scandinavian emigres, who later picked up stakes, moved to Mexico, and became the Toltecs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I picked up my other case files and made updated plans for how to assist each client to maximize the chance of avoiding an execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered the recipe for lemon blueberry pie that was inside it, so I picked up a container of the blueberries. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A giraffe passed between us—its long neck bobbing gracefully even in panic—and when it was gone I saw that she’d picked up an iron stake. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He doesn't pick up, but I think I know where he thinks I'm going, so I go there. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I also thought over my plans to visit Sister Irma, and wondered if it might not be a good idea to pick up my train reservations later that same evening. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He swallowed me into a bear hug, then settled back in his chair, humming along with the CD still playing in the background, and picked up the laptop to resume his scrolling. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She picked up a chunk of jagged black obsidian and crept to the left. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pick up the envelope, and there is my name: “Ultraviolet Remarkey-able.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson used a first aid patch to pick up something that had erupted from the hellish wound on Jenkins’ chest and fallen on the ground near him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe my eyes with the back of my hand and pick up some rocks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Longridge thanked her warmly, and put the receiver back, picking up the map. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the phone and called the office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You pick up your gear and move on out. Time to go home now.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were picked up and carried down, down many steps, and round a corner. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of picking up on the signal that something exciting is going on, they picked up on the signal that something confusing is going on. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the entrance I picked up a card with a young woman’s picture and followed her story. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I slide my legs off the bed and watch her gather her things and pick up candy litter. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I walk over and pick up the cash they’ve left on the table to cover their tab. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth picked up the metal spider and slipped it into her pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I pick up my bookbag and slot Libby’s emergency manila envelope back in. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid picked up pieces of string, but bright colors and movements distracted her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I mouth into the phone, I love you, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He got out of his seat, picked up the offending aircraft, and waved it at us. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Taking off her falconer’s glove, she picked up Mr. Freeze and climbed into the front passenger seat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He picked up a handful of loose soil and rubbed it between his hands. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He bent over and picked up a straw wrapper. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And he moved from the well, picking up, like a man in a trance, the heavy pails of water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He picked up a golden vessel and held it toward me, not letting me touch it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tucked a braid behind her ear, picked up her bag from the table, and headed for the front door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bus picks up students in groups of four or five. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He laughs and I pick up the sweatshirt—a logo of Hillman College from that old TV show A Different World—and hand it to him. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The soldier picked up my pants and tied them with a shoelace that he had in his pocket. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Maya could feel herself careering down the hill, the wheels starting to come off the cart even as she continued to pick up speed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Servants picking up empty bowls and dishes, while others brought in white creamy kheer with crushed pistachios. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bag of schoolbooks, and he walked home, taking comfort in the shadows. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We pick up speed as we descend the hill. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the cider and drank it down to show his trust. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He has plenty of clothes. I drove out to Garland myself to pick up his things.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Alex picked up the ball just as the redheaded outfielder came running up. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I therefore did not aim my spear at it, but picked up the paddle and waited until he appeared. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep Ngawang from having to exert himself, which would have exacerbated his edema, at several points during the descent, Beidleman picked up the ailing Sherpa and carried him on his back. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I keep one hand clamped over my ear and slide my other hand under my pillow to pick up the screen with my mother’s journal on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But now he picked up the receiver, and experimentally let his fingers dial; and sure enough, he found that they recollected easily what his mind had strained uselessly to remember. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Mary that he and Robert were going to run inside to pick up some papers, but that she should wait in the car. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Turner picked up the ball and threw it to him, Willis caught it and turned his face so that the shadow was not so dark—and he saw that Willis was smiling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dad picked up an application from Zimmerman’s and left it on the table with two others. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Achmad picked up a plastic comb with which to comb out his straight, coarse black hair. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the men and Salvador picked up rocks and waited for the four gringo robbers, who walked toward them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He picks up a stack of children’s books and hands me a couple. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up the man’s knife and topi that had fallen off. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up several, but they didn’t seem to be what I wanted. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still don’t move so I sigh and pick up the book and take it over to her and shine the flashlight on the page. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up the mini soccer ball from the step between us and trace my finger along the blue border of the FC Cincinnati logo. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I picked up and said, “Don’t bother to call again!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word she sat down and picked up her knife and fork. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that way they work like a magnet; and everyone knows that if you pick up a pin with a magnet, any other pin which is touching the first pin will come too. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Outside of school she picks up the Island Explorer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But when I picked up the phone, the screen showed that there was no reception. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The servers are taking dessert orders, and Uncle Pat is walking around, insisting that everyone get what they want, since he’s picking up the tab. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For a moment he stared in a daze at the coins, but before the kid could go after them he squatted down with concentration and picked up the money. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Amari bent down and picked up the small bundle of food. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the ball, then moved even farther away from the rim. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But he picked up his fork again, so I could see the worst was over. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Still he warmed his hands in his armpits; then gently picked up her head. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up her hand and held it to my lips. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, sweetheart. So I’ll just leave a message on the machine, like I always do. You don’t have to pick up. I just want to say good morning and I love you. Okay?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He picks up his fruit and heads off to the hospital. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the basket, tightened the blanket across my shoulders, and stepped over the threshold. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his knife and fork, cut off a piece of the fat, and put it in his mouth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But! We’ll pick up where we left off, okay? I promise. Sahil, I’m ready now. To take things forward between us.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d pick up the mail, too, for themselves and for Ed Turner. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

These sixteen dedicated souls were determined to walk all the way from New York to the nation’s capital, and that is exactly what they did, picking up many other hikers along the way. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They pick up Ford and hug both of us. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Can it still pick up on the scent of the bait I was cutting up and tossing over? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Grandpa swallow his tobacco chew as we picked up speed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up the official card once more. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the nurslings did not work at picking up the potatoes and placing them in the barrels. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she jokes with Nikhil about their having to pick up and move, in a few years, to Iowa, to Kalamazoo. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. Odilia just came over to pick up some money for eggs,” Mamá assured her boss, quickly switching to English. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the heavy leaves and crushed it in his hand to powder and let the powder sift through his fingers. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma said as she picked up the shotgun. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He picked up his Bible and his eyes twitched as they jumped from line to line. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The part I liked best was when I went with Father to pick up the dirty laundry and deliver the clean. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she comes back, she picks up her stuff in a hurry and moves to a different workstation over by the windows. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: “serious, serious depression” and “manifesting as aggression, not uncommon in geriatric patients.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He picked up a long stick and drew a circle in the mud, a line trailing down from it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Morehouse pushes Jason’s chair across the carpet toward me, and Mom picks up her bookmark, leaving Harry still searching in the hallway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up another rock and sailed it across the gorge, and this one, too, hit the opposite wall and fell down and down and down. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear put the lid of the large box down on the shelf and picked up one of the curved containers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing?” he asked, quickly picking up the drawing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The brakes squealed as she pulled over to pick up more kids. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Customers still without a dial picked up their phone’s receiver, and an operator answered. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were told to come pick up the passport in two weeks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the young African women I’d met at the leadership forum, all of them now headed back to their own communities to pick up their work again, persevering through whatever tumult they faced. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He got up, adjusted his clothing, and picked up his pouch. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his little foam basketball and lobbed some hook shots into the net hanging from the back of his door. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Order anything you like,” Enoch said, picking up a telephone that was attached to the arm of a reclining chair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She came up behind me but instead of getting mad, she picked up the silver-plaited hairbrush and started brushing my hair like she used to do when I was little. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dicey asked James to pick up the little children. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, “That you have a death wish.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Malcolm let go of the canoe and quickly picked up Lyra, and Alice, turning to see what was happening, said, “Oh, God, no.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He picked up the jar and looked at it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Chris picked up the hunk of meat and took a big bite right out the middle of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She reached down to pick up one particular shoe and found it was bigger than most of them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later Mom picked up the phone to call the Fire Department again as I peered out the front window. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had my work gloves on,” I said, but the truth is that I had taken my gloves off before I picked up the drill. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A little later, just for something to do, I picked up an old newspaper and read it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I picked up my pace and headed for the school. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dalton wants you to pick up the trunk at the station. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That,” Otis grumbled, picking up his fallen spear, “is the first sensible thing you’ve said all day, brother.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were days at the river when I did not pick up my book but only daydreamed like Chandra. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the toolshed, I picked up a basket to fill with razor clams from the refrigerator. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The story was picked up by the wire services and distributed nationwide. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tab always picked up on more than she let on. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She snapped the top of the case closed and picked up the shackles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Walking alone and picked up off the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

John rushed out before Pa could respond, but I saw him shake his head like he had when I picked up a seed bag from the wrong end and dumped it on the barn floor. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach leaped from her chair at the next table, picked up the square of paper, and set it face down before the trembling youngster. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and those other dorky nerds had so much fun picking up trash along the side of the road, you decided to start your own club.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

But she shouldn’t have picked up the broken records and the music and the book and put them all neatly into a box. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I picked up one foot and then the other and led the way in that direction along the remnants of the old lane where pasture grass now struggled to grow. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“None of your business. Go back to the kitchens,” Joe said, picking up a rock from the dusty ground and throwing it at me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, go get some rest. We’ll send a patrol car to pick up the three bodies.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stone and began jiggling it from hand to hand. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You go down to the drugstore, and you pick up a couple packs of rubbers.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, he picked up the phone and dialed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re picking up her unhappiness. She probably only has colic,” said Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he kept moving the raft with the paddle he should come to where the river narrowed again, and pick up the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, I hear her pick up the phone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I picked up my skirts and ran after him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly picked up the handwritten sheets and put them on her lap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even yell at the twins for lagging behind to pick up interesting-looking rocks for their growing collection. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And then he took a deep breath and looked away, picking up one of my pillows like it might’ve been made of glass. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry stooped, pretending he had not seen, and picked up the broken Horcrux. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The washerwoman gave him one last glance, picked up her basket, and walked away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up a sheaf of papers and began reading. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Now my uncle picked up a porcelain vase. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I’d love to, son, but I can’t. The company I work for has a strict rule against picking up hitchhikers. It could get me canned." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday is a full day working in the city I pick up a lot of people and seem able to weave nicely through the traffic for once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As the girl started on the other leg of the trousers, the boy with the glasses picked up the man’s shoes and waved them to the crowd. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the rest of the laddu and stuff it into my mouth, but it doesn't taste sweet anymore. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Guess I’d better head out to pick up Buddy and Lucy at the airport,” Z said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The robber picked up one of the vases. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

All she’ll hear is that I forgot to pick up the coffee table. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She smoothed the front of her sundress, picked up her towel, and with careful hands rolled it into a ball. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe then I’d pick up a new instrument, guitar or bass, or even drums. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dionysus picked up a playing card, twisted it, and it became a plastic rectangle. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“This one,” he said, picking up my sister’s picture. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to pick up the phone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Genie picked up another clump, questions flying all over the place like those flies on the...poopidity. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Toby flinched when Doreen picked up the bags of groceries in a huff and started slamming cabinet doors until everything was put away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He picked up Anne and held her on his shoulder. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the book and handed it back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And we still need to pick up our tickets.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Then Jazz, who at the time was only six, picked up where Doris left off and started interrogating him, asking him all kinds of crazy stuff. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

For once he envied his ability to pick up the slightest sounds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Anne picked up the table cloth and looked under the table, but Bill had anticipated her and retreated to the other end. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down on one of the made-up twin beds and—it was the fifth or sixth ring—picked up the phone. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I corner Mateo as he picks up one of the “Farewell!” cards offered here. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up my papers, clutch the folded fabric to my chest, and the man opens the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he tiptoed carefully around the little inert figure of Miss Trixie, returned to the filing department, picked up the stack of still unfiled material, and threw it into the wastebasket. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned back to his ginger roots once more, picked up his knife, and started slicing them again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mumtaz picked up a serving bowl and gestured for me to pick up the platter. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alex went back to his bedroom and picked up his notebook. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I have to pick up where explosions interrupted me yesterday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But he was caught in a tight spot, running with a rough crowd, fighting, and getting picked up by the cops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My father picks up one letter, then pauses—and stretches out his hand to me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Momly picked up the last two glasses from the counter, held them up to the light—no spots—then put them up in the cabinet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The only response for that is to pick up my backpack and mumble, “Math class, late,” before exiting the locker room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up every dish and jug and bottle they had, looked into ’em, shook ’em, then tossed ’em into the middle of the floor so’s they shattered. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When he raised her it was like picking up a handful of sticks concealed in a rag bundle, so light she was. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a windblown leaf in her beak. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right,” Alex said, bending down to pick up the paper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Without hurrying, Mr. Taphouse picked up a stout hammer and opened the door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind terrible if I picked up the story? Just so’s the boy can hear it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He picked up a cup of tea and took a loud sip from it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His associate, an over-enthusiastic junior scythe named Bello, had already turned on the DNA detector and picked up traces the moment they stepped out of the car. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Those with an aptitude for Dauntless picked up the knife in the simulation and stabbed the dog when it attacked. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Daoud picked up one of the broken frames and tried to gently lift the flower out. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He put on his light tan corduroy jacket and the baseball cap he picked up in Florida. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pace to cross the town square, staring straight ahead, wiping the fear off my face, fighting the tears that edge into the corners of my eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She picks up the cardboard box, shoves it into my arms. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Rekh picked up the leaf and examined it once more, then put it aside on the bench. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

People were pushing and shoving, trying to grab hold of stair railings to hop on, even as the train began to pick up steam. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poirot picked up the sponge bag and hung it on the handle of the communicating door into the next carriage. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the ball, ignoring the monster spit all over it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her foot and saw just underneath the cracked remnants of her guide to Jack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, he was still hungry- We picked up our pace as we walked in the shadows of the tree- lined sidewalks, now avoiding the center of the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Tell her I said thanks, the next time you stop at home to breast-feed and pick up your allowance.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Armpit picked up the phone and asked the operator for Samantha Stevens. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The wind slowly picks up the leaf bits and carries them away. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I pick up mv handbag and my keys. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her cup of tea and then without taking a sip puts it down again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stopped again as he was picking up the turtle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Two more children picked up rocks and threw them at the couple. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Carl squatted and picked up a handful of dirt, letting it trickle through his fingers, thoughtful as he replied, “Nothing like this ever happened before.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries intently to read his father’s lips but can’t seem to pick up on what he is saying. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She put it on top of her desk and picked up the Scantron attendance sheet for the day. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Otto knelt and picked up the chunk easily, even though it was kind of heavy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up his guitar and began to play. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And no matter how real a story seemed, you still couldn’t eat the food, or pick up the plates, or warm yourself by the fire. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then a tile broke, and the boy standing on it slipped and fell, but the one beside him picked up the broken piece and hurled it at Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the dry branches lying everywhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wished now that he had thought to pick up the Browning automatic. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pace as I round the corner onto the next block. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the wool blanket that has fallen to the floor and tucks it around the lump of Carmine’s body, covering the parts that are exposed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two or three termites in a chamber will begin to pick up pellets and move them from place to place, but nothing comes of it; nothing is built. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it increases its pace, the sea itself seems to resonate with its movement, beginning to revolve in a slow eddy, but quickly picking up speed. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

What about the letter she had picked up that day on Harper Avenue—had that been one of the original three? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a swan, feeling its soft shape give under pressure from my fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I thought I might get messed around with some chick and pick up AIDS, but I wasn’t that worried about it because I knew how it spread around. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The coach picked up a box of powdered doughnuts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I picked up my old journal and thumbed through the pages. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She picked up a shopping bag from beside the sofa and took out a white, rustling, paper bag from inside it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In the corridor, Ugwu picked up a dust-coated bottle; when he raised it to his nose it still smelled of coconuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They scream and scatter except for Anise, and I pick up the biggest rock I can find and aim it right at her head. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’d be amazed at what I can pick up from under a floor. He asked you a lot of questions.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I picked up the tobacco pouch that had my rocks in it and pulled the drawstring open. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I felt as restless as the wind picking up in the trees. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pick up a ball of red yarn and brush it against my cheek. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Alright. Hey, you know some cat named Wick? I picked up some of his files at Columbia today.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mama had suddenly started energetically picking up tiny bits of dust or dirt from the tatami. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The man picked up the purple mittens and pointed in the direction of the register. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We picked up a mortar and banged the door open, but it was too late. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A breeze picked up, the tall grass outside the barn tilting away from it, and I pulled my sleeping bag over my shoulders to stay warm. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pick up my lunch bag and head for another table with this big grin on my face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

In his hand was a letter from the States that he had picked up on his return to Peterhouse for lunch. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I walked into Ms. G’s second period class, I picked up The Color Purple, a novel written by Alice Walker. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stop in front of a group of boxes with brightly colored dyes and pick up a pink one. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella picks up a tiny cup of pretzels. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Uhmma picks up her spoon and takes a sip of her soup. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Young boys began picking up stones and hurling them at the wall. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cradled the blocks in my left arm, picking up one at a time to place it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She picked up her purse from the floor. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He placed the twenty-dollar bill in his pants pocket and picked up the pace to the girl’s house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Moody picked up the somersaulting spider and threw it back into the jar. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a trick name and a trick address, and Joe was “Daddy” picking up mail somewhere else and telling Steam his name was Sage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It picks up the cylinder, brings it over to a large canister, and drops it in. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe I picked up some bug at a house or maybe it’s the disinfectant I squirt on my hands, straight from the bottle, in an attempt at cleanliness. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had come to this country before she had reached puberty in Spanish, so a lot of the key words she would have been picking up in the last year, she had missed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I picked up the vase of roses and followed her into our room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He lay the key on the nightstand, then frowned and picked up the stylized iron wheel and put it back around his neck before snuffing the lamp and crawling into bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While she shopped for the invitations, Grandpa and I went to Wal-Mart to pick up Grandma's prescription, and that is when we saw the red wagon special. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matty picked up the empty mugs, took them to the sink, and rinsed them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone huddled close and the brachy picked up his pace a little. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He stumbled off down the street, stopping every few feet to pick up his sword or rearrange his toga. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Suya cried, and she quickly began to pick up the spilled rice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Under Louis XIV tables, around potted palms, up stairways, around corners, down stairways, into the main lobby, picking up other people as we went. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It has been calculated that a baseball thrown at a hundred miles an hour will pick up 0.000000000002 grams of mass on its way to home plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he picked up the coffee pot and poured the last of the old coffee into the grass, turning away for a long moment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After the prayers the principal tells us of coming events, and he also warns us to pick up our chewing gum wrappers and not to moon around in the halls like old married couples. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She patted an empty chair next to her, then reached over and picked up her glass of wine. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take about ten steps away, bend over, and pick up a perfect scallop shell. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I picked up the white dress I had left on the floor and put it back in the box with the tissue paper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Master picked up the paper and folded it, so that one edge touched the other, leaving a hollow between. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pick up the basket, go through the kitchen door and along the hall towards the grandfather clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plants his elbows on the rough gray wood of the table and picks up his burger. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The chief saw Mrs. Coulter struggling, and picked up Lyra with one hand as if she were a doll and threw her into the sledge, where she lay stunned and dazed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up our cat, Little White, and gave her a big kiss. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad helps me pick up the box and carry it to the register. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

These were the friends who’d held me together, dropping off groceries when I was too busy to shop, picking up the girls for ballet when I was behind on work or just needing a break. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After a moment he turned and picked up the axe again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She dashed back to the steps and picked up the bowl. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But as the moment faded and I picked up my gear, I paused and looked back down the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a breadstick and began nibbling on the end, measuring his expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s a teacher at school who will drive me to Bryce and Aurora’s bus stop, but that doesn’t help me pick up Hector.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He also believed that a crying baby should never be picked up unless it is in pain. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“No matter what,” she said, picking up her satchel, “you got friends here. Friends help each other. You remember that.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She ran along the beach, picked up a random human leg bone, and romped back toward me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He digs inside it for a few seconds, then picks up a small, round disc. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Salaam alaikum, sleepyhead,” she says, and starts picking up my clothes from the floor. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When he saw Travis, he picked up the remote and turned it off. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I was sure Mr. DiAngelo didn’t know about how the wind picked up once you left our creek and hit the open water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He picked up his glass and took a drink. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pefta lay down his pathetic key ring, picked up the phone, and dialed headquarters in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoever picks up the most trash in the next fifteen minutes doesn’t have to do any work for the fifteen minutes after that.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up her brown shift, shook some leaves off of it, and pulled it down over her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Viola don’t say nothing, just picks up her bag, frowning all over the place. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I leave a twenty-dollar bill on the table for Kasim, but he slides it back to me when he comes to pick up the mugs from our second set of hot chocolates. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of the shakily written letters. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bus will swing by Ormaie and pick up 5 more prisoners here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I pick up my screw gun and drive screws with my left hand, but the pressure is uneven, and with my weight gathered on one foot, my balance is poor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could not pick up and leave whenever I wanted; security had to be arranged, as well as speeches prepared for local organi-zations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just picked up half a dozen clean glasses that were ready to be taken back to the bar, and he put them down again and said, “In the priory?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He backed away and picked up his bag, turning toward the door. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I pick up the box and wind my way through the dark house again, up the back stairs and into my room. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us have had our spirits picked up by being around somebody in a good mood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the shirt and held it close to his face. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And don’t forget to pick up Pop’s suits!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to pick up the rhythm but he’s shaking too badly. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I convinced my mom we should stay at the hotel tonight. It’s already paid for, and I told her you picked up my homework from last week.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit picked up the receiver and dialed zero. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” I say, pushing aside some knee-high yellow-green grass to pick up the phone. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Make my coffee light and sweet, shine my shoes, pick up my dry cleaning, all for not a single penny: What else could you want?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He clears his throat and picks up his utensils. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The interview was his shortest, only twelve minutes, but it created an international fury since it was picked up in its entirety online. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Will might have picked up his conservatism right then. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now, catching a better look at Alyssa in the rearview mirror, I sense something I hadn’t picked up on before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He picks up the newspaper lying on the counter, sips his coffee, and reads. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the stack of CDs and read through the names. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I think things are actually starting to pick up a bit. It’s gotta be the billboard. People see that baby elephant and they just have to stop and spend their hard-earned cash.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She picked up a large book, an old photo album, and held it on her lap. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If I tell Amá that I’m bored, she tells me to pick up a mop and start cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nobody stood around in place and gave orders or collected fees; they all simply ran around, picking up pellets at random and dropping them again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war was going badly, but it was bound to pick up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One officer took her shopping bag, the other picked up her purse, and they escorted her off the bus and into a patrol car. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

You lose one friend, you pick up another. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see. If I understand my orders correctly, I need to pick up Haley and then drop her and Semaj at the Jump & Grind and then...You’re sure Grace is taking you home?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Miles bent down to pick up the pieces. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He picked up a paper from the table and flung himself down on the sofa, crossed his legs, and began to turn over the pages. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then Uncle Katsuhisa stepped forward and gently picked up the rose and threw it into the right place. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At sea they picked up Swan broadcasts from a little island south of Cuba as well as Radio Rebelde in Cuba and Radio Rumbos from Venezuela. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam found falcon food in the old refigerator, picked up the eyas box, and went out to the porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She picks up rocks as we go, smooth stones that she dusts the dirt from and then puts in her pockets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up her phone, and there was a prickly silence in the room. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He lived with a hole in his throat, spoke through a computer synthesizer, typed words by batting his eyes as a sensor picked up the movement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the person picked up on the other end, the man just said, “It is a go-ahead,” and hung up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I found myself studying her, trying to pick up her tricks. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She follows me to the dining table, where I pick up the phone and scan the endless string of identical texts. “212-555-0156.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I picked up the backpack, but before I could hand it off, I looked at the license plate CD case and stuffed it into the bag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She had picked up the ashtray and was putting it between them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth shakes her head at me and picks up a plain white sticker. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Ben looked at the fire I’d laid out, then picked up a leaf, mumbled a few words, and watched a small flame flicker into life in the center of the twigs and tinder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pause from picking up my purse and give this Warren a second look. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I just wasn’t watching.... Here ...” Nick stooped over and picked up the pen and held it out to her. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his hat from where it had fallen during the chicken roundup. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He picked up an orange fruit and began to peel it, revealing a light pink interior. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up my sketchbook and I draw a picture of my friends laughing together as they all huddle around their cell phones. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They would spend hours together, walking around picking up plants and insects. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man swore again and made the boy pick up the crumbs from the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tracy figured she could pick up a part-time job in Atlanta to make ends meet. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

John picked up the log, except it...wasn’t a log. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He remembered the old bronze astrolabe he’d picked up in Bologna—the one the dwarfs told him Odysseus had made. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Eunjoo wiped her eyes and picked up their crying baby brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom picked up a spoon even though she had a cone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Your mom and I used to bring you here almost every weekend. By the time you were three, you could dive to the bottom all by yourself and pick up a conch shell. You remember?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Malcolm picked up the glasses again and carried them through, and found his father reading the paper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This would explain why the Dictograph set up by the private detectives working for Mollie Burkhart’s family had never picked up any incriminating statements, and why Rose’s clothes had never been found in the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Loga picked up her foot and played with her flowery clog, and she was like, “I got a size seven, but it feels more like a man’s size seven.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raced to the pavilion and found aunts and uncles laughing as they used chopsticks to pick up dancing shrimp, still squirming in their shells, their tiny legs bristling. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the slippers and held them in my hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was still waiting for Mom to pick up our argument from where we left off, while Charlie and Zooey unpacked groceries like we were some kind of happy family. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“My mother asked me to pick up a loaf of bread,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue and the wind was beginning to pick up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I picked up a pile of art books and a sketch pad and set it on the floor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I picked up Dadi’s jug when she wasn’t looking and shook it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He smiles, picking up his glass to take a sip of whatever has been poured into it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"I went to go pick up the uniforms at the sporting goods store, and guess whose photo was taped to the window?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When Mam picks up Oliver and wraps him in a coat Eugene stands on the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pulling my sister's hand, I make us pick up the pace. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up what looked like a small, heavy chrome drill with a medallion-sized round saw blade at the business end. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“She hasn’t been picking up all night. I bet Q got something to do with that.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of the guys picked up the gun and cleaned off all the fingerprints. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turn the ringer on because I might decide to pick up the phone if the number calls again. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We stopped at a gas station on the way and picked up a six-pack of Moxie at Mr. Patterson’s request. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Guareschi picked up a piece of paper from his desk. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We stopped in the hospital cafeteria to pick up my father. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I picked up my tankard and drank a hot and violent draft. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not your fault that you cannot pick up my housecat, Thor. It is a large cat, and you are a scrawny little fellow at best, compared to any of our giants.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then, much to the scribe’s dismay, he picked up the shirt Chronicler had bought back in Linwood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Belet picked up a battle-ax while our audience, the cats, found suitable spots to watch the action. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With my index finger and thumb, I played a sort of crane game and picked up pairs of underwear, touching them as little as possible. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I don't know who Margaret talked to or what she said, but when she got off the phone, she told me that she would be picking up the tape the following afternoon. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up the booklet with a sticky finger. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He tossed his drakon meat into a hanging pot that seemed to be made from an old monster skull, then picked up a ladle and began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of the plates and examined it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She picked up her book and her bag from the lounge chair where she’d been reading. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” I say and I pick up Mae Mobley, try to hug her to me, but she bawling and her face is red and she fighting me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His day was ending; it was 3:00 P.M., and he planned to pick up a girl from around the way to go to the movies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the screwdriver and put that in his pocket as well. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He picked up the beer and downed it, fast. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ruth crawled under the table to pick up the peas that had rolled there. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother picks up the bag of groceries, and the man opens the screen and stands to the side. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the shelf was dusted, he picked up the tissue in his two front legs and polished the cricket cage so its bars shone. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asclepius picked up the flower and sniffed it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I had to hand it to her the way she picked up my fake name. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She picked up the bunting and owlet, regretting that she had found a provider only to lose him again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up Raymond, who has green finger paint on his shirt, and Leda, who sucks her pink pacifier. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pick up the muffin and break it in half. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a terrible quiet looming everywhere—at the library, at the drugstore where I pick up Mother’s medicine, on High Street where I buy typewriter ink, in our own house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He returned to his bedroom, sat on the edge of the bed, then picked up the phone. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She picked up the ring of keys and took the old black key off the ring. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We sat amid the piles of silks, picking up pearls and putting them in a jar. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

—The SAT scores have arrived and are available to be picked up in the Senior High Counseling Office. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news media picked up the story and before long the wealthy white people who were living in the States and building retirement homes in St. Croix decided to cancel their house jobs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No,” he says, picking up a notebook to occupy his hands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up the fish and held it to the light in the palm of his hand for a thorough examination. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At about eight in the morning, he texted me that he was going for a run with Ainsley and that he was picking up two bottles of Gatorade beforehand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, after the last supply bag went over the side, and just when I was wondering how far a drop it was to the ocean, we began to pick up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear that, Paula? This young man believes all books were written in the distant past by dead people who picked up the stories from heaven knows where. Plucked straight from the air, maybe?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He picked up the holly and phoenix wand and felt a sudden warmth in his fingers, as though wand and hand were rejoicing at their reunion. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The stupid show seemed to pick up right where it left off. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A breeze picked up; burdened leaves poured their watery hearts out to him as he tried to xiang banfa — to think of a way out of his predicament. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take Ray and Leda showering,” I say, picking up Ray’s pajamas, gathering nightgowns for Leda and me. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad picks up the napkin, turns it back and forth, and laughs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the kerosene and went in. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She dumped the coals on kindling, and picking up the bellows, puffed air on the coals—gently at first—then harder. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There an extremely tall man with long black hair was picking up a file drawer that had fallen to the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had picked up, bending the bare trees in her yard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ern started slowly, and then picked up speed, as her fingers jumped instinctively from key to key. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot believe this!” the mother squeals, her fingers picking up Ma’s shirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He helped Ma and Carrie in, while Grandpa picked up Mary and Uncle George picked up Laura and they tossed them over the edge of the sled into the straw. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jump off and pick up the can. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I already looked forward to the day I could pass whatever wisdom I picked up to the next First Lady in line. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He finished this one quicker than the other two and when that was done he immediately picked up the knife and cut the next slice. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a rock to hit him on the flank. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stooped as if to pick up things to throw, and Father whispered to me to sit up straight and not show I was afraid. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss leaned over and picked up his bike. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I waited for my dad to counter, and when he didn’t, I hesitantly picked up my fork and poked it into my rice. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you girls know how to pick up after yourselves? And why are you watching TV in the middle of the afternoon? Don’t your teachers give you homework?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, and on the way to the Watch Commander’s Office, I should stop and pick up an evidence bag from the disciplinary office, in which to place the burner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Abby’s mom came to pick up the twins she said, “Go ahead. It’s worth it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor picked up the phone in the kitchen and the call turned out to be for her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She told Evie Parks, who told Linda Merkin, who told Iris Jamison, who told me that Sandy's brother had been picked up for drunk driving and the whole family is just a bunch of drunks. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I stared at the empty page before me and picked up the pencil, and she corrected my grip, and I stared at the page some more. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up a small ax kept by the woodstove and struck French with its blunt end, catching him off guard and hurling him into and through the front door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Monroe picked up the bowl of milk and moved toward the kitchen. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down and picked up a thin stick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Adria had a soft spot for turtles too, but I was surprised when she ran into the empty street and picked up the flattened thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The second the front door closes, I pick up the coffee cup and hurl it against the wall. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, Dad comes over after picking up Malia, so I see him when I get home from school. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They picked up two shields to complete their disguise and then went on. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Desda leans down and picks up my sandwich and hands it to me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Get a clue, Mother! I have to go pick up my license.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She picked up Dad’s plate and placed it in the sink. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pick up my earmuffs and smash them over my head, hard. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She stands up, gets a guy swagger on, and then picks up a hand for a second, up to her hips, and drops it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up his electric pencil sharpener, examined it as though he did not know what it was, then seemed to remember. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She missed me and sprawled in the soil, then picked up a big handful of the dirt, sprinkled it over her body, and proceeded to lick it up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

With hardly a word Cilia went back to the settle where Isannah was sprawled and picked up her slate. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie picked up Louisiana’s hands and Beverly picked up her feet, and they carried her out of the Very Friendly Animal Center and laid her down under the small defeated tree. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was the nurse from August’s school calling to tell Mom that August had a stomach ache and should be picked up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The policeman picked up the survey stake and examined it. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the book, brush off the thin layer of dust. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled it with water and began picking up the dying fish from the mud puddles, putting them in the can, and dumping them in the creek. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And when Hornet picked up you and Bo," he said to him, “the Thief Lord just fed the two of you as well." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the cloth diaper and drape it over the shoebox to hide it from my eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know how long the girl had been standing there, but, when she picked up a shirt and turned around, she found her standing by the doorway, hands cupped around a glassful of tea. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She hopped off her seat, picked up the stool, and hurled it against the wall, smashing the spider. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Atticus said, “I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it’s not true. You don’t even know how to cuss, Jean Louise. By the way, where did you pick up the ring-tailed variety? ” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

John walked past him to the front and picked up his broom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dancing and swinging her arms to get warm, she picked up the thongs of her sled and walked toward the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I began to pick up the tiny fragments of nonexistent crystal, a voice broke in. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. But they will. Oh, you should’ve heard what they were saying around the playback monitors on the set today. I certainly did. I pretended to be napping, but I picked up everything!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I crept into the living room and picked up the phone. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Added to the two pennies Maybeth and James had picked up earlier, Dicey figured that they were only twenty-one cents out of pocket for food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went over to my hootch, picked up our gear, and then moved through the night down to the wire. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Niran and Parsa picked up their shovels, levered them under the body, and tipped it over the edge of the grave, where it fell with a dull thump. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Captain Cook was now attending to the picking up. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my trash off the ground and place it in the can. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nathan bent over to pick up the backpack by his feet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Chubs let out a surprised croak as we rolled, picking up brush and embers along the way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“So let’s get stinky! But first you are going to pick up every single one of those cards.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Red and his friend came back, picked up their stuff and went deeper into the zoo. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down next to her and picked up the picture, squinting at it so my eyes wouldn’t see it too clearly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I picked up the book and clutched it to my chest. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad called in to me and said that I should pick up the phone. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I was picking up from the back steps, I noticed a clump of stuff: pieces of paper, cloth, thread, dust balls, Kleenex, all wadded up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Surely at any minute, she would pick up the book. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

White unleashed the hounds, and they picked up the killer’s trail, which curiously led right back to the dead man’s house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I patrol the perimeter with my cart, darting in to pick up misplaced and fallen items, making everything look spiffy from the outside. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether it will pick up the saved or cast out the lost is unclear yet to Pupo, who picks up his empty glass and, for comfort, tinkles the ice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of your business,” Conor snapped again and picked up his pace. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Turning my back to the road and the cars, I picked up the bike and held it steady for Georgie. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit nods and pulls a handkerchief from his coat, picking up the ring without touching it and placing it in his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Once I even saw a clerk take a handkerchief from his pocket and use it to pick up her money. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Far down the boulevard, four blocks away, the beetle had slowed, spun about on two wheels, and was now racing back, slanting over on the wrong side of the street, picking up speed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the precious viola and play the etude again, watching him rummage through cabinets and drawers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Herbie picked up a rock, but instead of running away the pig charged, and the volunteer had to run for his life, leaping high into the cottonwood that lay across his splintered outhouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canoe drifted idly on the calm sea while these thoughts went over and over in my mind, but when I saw the water seeping through the crack again, I picked up the paddle. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little by little, the hearse was picking up speed and the old man was losing ground. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She picked up the keys and I followed her out the door to the car. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour, that was all, and then he’d cut behind the school and pick up the road again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he put it down and picked up another. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my phone and texted Ashley for the umpteenth time. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted to do something, stop him somehow, but I crouched back and watched Azar pick up a tear-gas grenade and pull the pin and stand up and throw. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up a frosted-glass mason jar and unscrews the silver metal lid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was not a daily writer, or even a weekly writer: I picked up a pen only when I had the time and energy to sort through my jumbled feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I picked up the pamphlet and flipped through the pages. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She picked up her notebook and her pen and began to write. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But at the last minute the gunman wouldn’t go through with it, and after being picked up on a robbery charge, he told authorities about the plan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She picked up the pencil and put it in my hands again. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up my bag and sidled past him, my eyes flooded with the tears that were lately so close to the surface. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I picked up a pencil and held it over a sheet of white paper, but my feelings stood in the way of my words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up a pair of jeans that are frayed on the bottom and have a few holes in them, and am about to show them to Mama, until I think better of it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I pick up the last bunch of items on the floor, hot pink headbands with bobbly hearts. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She edged over to the wall and picked up the paper, loosening the wad carefully. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

First he went out and picked up Chinese takeout—General Tso’s chicken and shrimp fried rice for everyone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The phone doesn’t even make it through a full ring before she picks up. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Outside, Dr. Tamba told us that we had gotten the visas and that he would pick up the passports and hold on to them until the day of our departure. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Lupin picked up the Invisibility Cloak and tucked it safely into his pocket. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He picked up Mrs. Derby in his arms and carried her back to the house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bent to pick up my work gloves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

With sudden nerve, I stood up, stepped forward, and picked up the biggest of the nestlings. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right away, Sir,” I said, picking up the tray. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’re not the dress-up types,” I said, picking up another sugary petit four and biting into it to stop myself from defending Mamá’s honor to the point of being rude to our hostess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I forgot about Papá. He’s probably dying of thirst. Here, let’s take two for him,” she said, picking up a seventh soft drink. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

None of the children paid attention when she stopped along the way to pick up a blond man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the handset and enters some kind of code. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But perhaps I will pick up a stray and perhaps my big fish is around them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I bent down, picked up the fish and threw it towards him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My song, the hovercraft, were too unfamiliar for this novice to pick up, but it has mastered her handful of notes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the time comes around, I walk to the Grounds with the Doorman, who has picked up on my recent happiness, despite the mess I appear to be. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And while I was still sitting there, right there in Warden Hand’s office, he picked up the telephone—” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have fired the jig, and he could have kept on picking up his packages at the old time, two o’clock. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if no one sees you, the monster said, picking up its pace, too, are you really there at all? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

X sat looking at the door for a long while, then turned his chair around toward the writing table and picked up his portable typewriter from the floor. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Marcus picks up Edward’s gun and trains it on both of us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her camera from on top of the wall. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper was not sure just what had happened when he picked up himself and his chair a moment later. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie picked up a jar and held it up to him. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if what Abby picked up from Tater is correct, he is trapped inside that bathroom. Remember? She mentioned cups wrapped in plastic and one big water bowl.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He only stopped at the comer to pick up his flying T, carry it across the street, and lay it back down on the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wordlessly, the white man sat behind the desk and picked up the paper and looked at it in a long silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt say, rushing into the living room, picking up toys fast as she can. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Only to be picked up by the most unlikely person imaginable: Bilbo from the Shire! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The anguish of separation was scarcely bearable for him, and when at last he picked up his mistress’s scent, it wasn’t a second too soon. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I picked up my new socks from the counter, examining them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She picked up my cap and put it on me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Winnie picked up the toad and held it for a long time, without the least disgust, in the palm of her hand. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his Instagram post earlier, and I don’t need to pick up so he can not-so-casually remind me how well things are going with Samantha. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

With his first paycheck, he offers to pick up $50 of the food bill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began steaming inside with frustration as I looked around and saw all the white children touching and picking up and trying on. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mabel then picked up the stick and with one try sent the ball flying. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of the pieces and stuck it in her mouth, biting to squeeze out some of the juice. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Customers usually come in the evening to pick up their orders, so we have to make sure everything is ready by four o’clock at the latest. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as she’d gone, he took Sir Charles’s card and picked up the phone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, she was afraid that she wouldn’t answer, but she suddenly picked up on the fourth ring. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t, since Habib had stepped away to pick up some canned beans, and he had to save their spot in line. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He picked up a round purple stone and lobbed it into the water. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They both cried, and the baby, who was tied to Masvita’s back, picked up their mood and began to howl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the Time magazine and flip through the pages. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you picked up just a few of the fallen leaves and crushed them in your hands, you could smell their pungent scent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Crane-man bent over and picked up his crutch, then bowed in farewell to her. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He picked up the folder in which he kept his endpapers and leafed absentmindedly through them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

You’re there to sell vegetables, to pick up a job for the day, or maybe just to enjoy the sights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She picked up a handkerchief from the chair beside her and wiped her eyes and patted delicately at her nostrils. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my bedroll and dragged it over to where Annabeth was sitting, keeping watch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bryce picked up Edward and held him so that he was standing straight, like a soldier, at the end of the bed. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

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

Whoever picks up Bernard is always already waiting, so he’s one of the first people to leave. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I had picked up a copy of Ulysses, by James Joyce, and I started that. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the phone rang, I raced to pick up the receiver. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the wallet and then picked up the slip of paper from the table. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He still remembers the order he was sent out to pick up at least once a week. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With the tongs, he picked up the bent iron and examined it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He squatted in the bottom of the canoe, picked up the shell and examined it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park picked up a chunk of melting snow and tossed it halfheartedly in the goose's direction. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At least not without the wrong someone picking up the scent. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crushed some sheets of newspaper lying on the hearth and picked up a few sticks of kindling. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sirius threw aside the bread he had just lifted to his mouth and instead picked up the flask of pumpkin juice and drained it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Go down the street to the beauty supply and pick up some relaxer for me,” says my mother every two months or so. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance picked up a silver serving tray and checked her reflection in it before putting it back with the others. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He has put down the drawing pencil he’d picked up the summer before. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He picked up the phone, but it was dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One night at home, he’d picked up his guitar and leaned back in his living-room chair, thinking and dreaming. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She picks up the fallen blossom and trims the stem, wincing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying back, I pick up the worn panda resting on my pillows and wrap my arms tightly around him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Dicey picked up the grocery bag and followed her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wind picked up and a little rain started coming down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up Daddy’s iPod from the patio table, our DJ for the afternoon that’s hooked up to the sound system. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Fie picks up two of the children and jumps out of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the page and examined it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Romans were picking up their gear and toting it across the hill. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I stopped to pick up some biscuits and a can of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to pick up our pace. Quick—where would I find a book called Hoosier Hospitality written by Eve Healy Aresty?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I picked up the phone with my other hand. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up my other arm and kissed with her breath the whole length of it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In a conversational tone, like somebody picking up a story that had been interrupted in the telling, she told her brother something quite different from what she told the policemen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We entered Wal-Mart together and picked up that thing from infomercials called The Club, which locks a car’s steering wheel into place. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Asclepius picked up the vial and turned it in the light. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She walked back to the steps and picked up her bucket of potatoes and went inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d turn these jeans into shorts and pick up my sprint, en route back to the audition. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can pick up where I left off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, you picked up Horace,” Mrs. Pilsen said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The main purpose of the course, however, is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I take a turn around the floor, just to see if there’s anything worth picking up. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Ugwu left the room, she picked up a pen and signed the letter and then checked through the text for any errors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up two sticks that were lying in the pit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She picked up the edge of the coverlet with her fingers and rubbed it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused and picked up one of the medals on the blue dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We took her offer on the deer and she threw in a couple of venison steaks we could pick up after the butchering. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He squatted on the floor and began to pick up the jigsaw pieces, carefully, one by one. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Garbage had not been picked up and was now overflowing in the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To keep herself from thinking too much, she took a deep breath and picked up playing where she had left off—before Frankie had interrupted. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked around, said a prayer for the souls of the dead, picked up the blood-spattered leather satchels, and finally walked over to the donkey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I bent down to pick up my books, she said, “I guess I’ll see you tonight. Mom said you were coming over.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Duchess and Lady saw Frightful bring food to Drum and set up such a screaming demand that Frightful picked up the rabbit and carried it above the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Sunbird seemed to pick up speed, draw closer to the car ahead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I stopped on the way, though, and picked up Ackley's hand, and gave him a big, phony handshake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ear picked up a scrap of black cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I forget to knock and everyone laughs at me as I go to pick up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I sat down on a chair in front of the table, picked up a comb, and ran it through my hair. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sang this to me in her Jamaican way, then picked up her cigarette again. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the scarves, we pick up the wood, now the size of our bodies, and carry it horizontally on our backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time you pick up a book from a table or a dime from the floor you effortlessly overcome the combined gravitational exertion of an entire planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Well, this would interest you. It wouldn't take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to call your mom?” he asked, and picked up the phone. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Murrow picked up the phone as we all piled out into the hall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up Ford, giving him a big hug. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I bend down to pick up the ruined bracelet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dropping the paper back on the money, he turned, picked up an old turkey-feather duster, and started dusting where there was no dust. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned against my shin for a moment, then extended his arms to be picked up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

With that he picked up his lilies, and then with a beckoning wave of his hand went hopping and dancing along the path eastward, still singing loudly and nonsensically. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Immediately, it began to scrape the surface, eagerly picking up bits of food, which slid down its throat in fast little bumps. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I picked up my suitcase and walked to the street. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pick up a ceramic fortune cookie with a slip of paper sticking out: Your strength is your own belief. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Her hands shook as she picked up the plums. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Conor rushed in to help, picking up a fallen branch and smashing through the windows that hadn’t already been broken. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up a sword from one of her fallen siblings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Just as I picked up my ax and lantern, Little Ann let out a bawl and tore out down the riverbank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his ball and tossed it to me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The catchy phrase You will come to agree with me, the message found inside the packing box after the painting was stolen, had been picked up everywhere. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She puts the stone in her pocket and picks up the model house and crosses the hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She picked up her glass and touched her lips to it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For half an hour, they swept and mopped and picked up trash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, after working at the plant and attending English class, Lefty was the one to pick up the lamb and vegetables, the spices and honey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He picked up what was left of his drink, and raised it to Wednesday in a toast. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And then I picked up the pillow, and I whacked him with it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the instrument case he’d set on the floor and moved on down the line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Atlas did so, and Hercules picked up the apples and went off. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up Urim and Thummim, and, once again, had the strange sensation that the old king was nearby. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had I really picked up this ghost as I was traveling outside my body? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up the ham biscuit and took a bite, and my goodness, it was delicious. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two stretcher-bearers picked up the man under the arms and by the legs and brought him in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pick up my pace, jogging over the dusty ground. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my apple with my left hand, and grab his hand under the table with my right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

With two fingers, I picked up my small white gloves and placed them over the square patent-leather purse that sat on the dining room table. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He picked up a piece and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Clinic, there was comedy in the way Tessie, idly picking up a waiting-room magazine, found herself reading about the juvenile sexual rehearsal play of rhesus monkeys. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Villagers picked up rocks and moved down the hill. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aloud he said, “No need to shout, Commander. These headsets could pick up a spider scratching in Madagascar.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked at the caller ID and picked up. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I would have fallen down if I hadn’t been wearing the roller skates, but Norton just picked up the oscilloscope and beat it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I picked up the life vest near the feet of the mangled girl. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When he was sure that all his precious dreams had been safely loaded on to the jeeps, the BFG said, ‘Now we is driving back to the bellypoppers and picking up the frightsome giants.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a letter addressed to her and “could not conceive who Mrs. C. Darwin could mean.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the tin and cloth and began looking for the dish she’d brought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to run down the marina and pick up some bait for tomorrow. You want to come along, Brady?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After a week of this, I picked up the phone and dialed Morrie’s number. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lose all track of time, although I do eventually pick up the packet of letters. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She came back into the bedroom, picked up the phone, and called my grandmother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the way through the corridors he stopped to pick up the packages he had left at the door of the ward. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dark sky was clear when they started out, but as the flight went on, the wind picked up—and then it began to snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He picks up the book on my bed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Still, I could live quite happily without the labels I picked up because of it. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her phone with one hand, a Yale brochure in the other, and snaps some “applying to college” selfies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thomas widened his eyes in question, felt his heart pick up the pace, even though it had already been pumping hard and steady. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up one of the broken teeth on his worktable and fingered it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then he took off in a sprint, and Twig chased him, stumbling and picking up handfuls of snow as she went. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up the two stones and put them back in his pouch. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the letter to Mr. Morris and crushed it in his hand. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately picked up his napkin and put it on his head. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Obediently Lupita went back over the rows and picked up her clippers. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Wystan Pippin put down his ale, picked up his staff, and blocked the gap with it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I picked up the sack, and with the gun under my arm, I left my camp. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stand carefully and bend down to pick up the envelope. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She picked up her bag and threw it over her shoulder. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She picks up her bag from the floor, opens it, and takes out a plastic bag. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The girl-rat, her alarm apparently subsiding, began picking up her scattered papers. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the letter and turned to face him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sitting at Robbie’s upright piano, I was quick to pick up the scales—that osmosis thing was real—and I threw myself into filling out the sight-reading work sheets she gave me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He stumbled out to the hallway, picked up his suitcase, and leaned for a moment against a tall old clock. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I picked up the phone and punched in Sookie’s number, wrapping the cape over my shoulders again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We had to go and pick up every single piece. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jarzab pulled a Kleenex out of the box and used it to pick up Mom’s like she was picking up something filthy. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna moved closer to Amala, but she was unsure what she wanted to say and so she picked up the tin of glucose, examined it, and placed it back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before we parted to carry out our various evening chores of fetching water and cleaning lamps, we would say “Peace, son” or “I’m out,” phrases we had picked up from the rap lyrics. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The men now did not pick up their tools because they were bent over in laughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The teacher in charge of the club is even giving me a ride home so I can pick up Bryce and Aurora on time.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had the urge to pick up the telephone and give the superintendent a call and straighten this out right away. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we’d take turns lying on our stomachs, watching the ants go back and forth picking up crumbs from sandwiches. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the toothbrush reverently and cried as I held it in my hands. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker picked up four cans and handed two to me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then we’re both laughing and picking up gourds, making sure none of them have cracked. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Grout picks up the tracks on the other side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Julius picked up the gun and put the cartridges back in the cylinder and balanced it in his hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a platter with thick slices of cake on it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Kyle stayed on his direct trajectory to Flora and Ulysses, but within seconds, his hover ladder’s infrared collision sensors picked up the approach of Marjory’s platform. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up my cane and told her that if Transito Soto did not appear in person within ten minutes, I would break all the windows and everything else inside that Pandora’s box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of parents came to the house then to pick up their kids, and a lot of the girls were crying and throwing up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes asked him to pick up a box and a trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well in that case, it’s just something I picked up.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She picks up her napkin, twisting it between her hands. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Usually I was picking up stones to have ready for stray rabbits that crossed our path, but today my thoughts kept my soul in a shroud. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Henry and I pull in to pick up Ronan, it's still dark outside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He picked up the rock I had taken before and handed it to me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He picked up a bag from the floor beside the chair and pulled its drawstring open. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three throws, he seems to come to a decision, and calmly picks up a bright green square. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up another and cracks it in half in his hands. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the Glow-worm didn’t stir, so the Centipede reached out of his hammock and picked up one of his boots from the floor. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The German Security Police came to pick up the four remaining men, none of whom were injured. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She picked up the nearest one and sat down at the table. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stick and began to push it into the fire to see it burn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d always loved being independent, but now Tally felt like the last littlie to be picked up from school, abandoned and alone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Finally the pilot picks up the microphone and says, ‘Madam. Was I married to you in a former life?’ Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He picked up Gwin who was clambering around the backseat, held him so that he couldn't snap, and then lured him into the backpack with a piece of bread. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You live long enough, you pick up a few things,” Styx said, raising a shoulder. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We got our jackets and headed out into the rain, which had picked up. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Alex longed to pick up the priest and throw him across the hallway. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They both turned to each other, picking up a new conversation, blocking Hattie out. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I use Len’s distraction to pick up a rock and throw it into the opening. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what he’s been saying?” he asks, turning away from me to pick up the chair. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy and I walked across the street, to a pecan grove, and picked up nuts from the ground. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Simultaneously her right hand picked up a narrow strip of dark green tissue paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hank ignored my sister and me and picked up my brother and was already running through the hospital doors as Lynn and I stepped down from the truck. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to call and tell her what Attorney Fitzgerald said, but she doesn’t pick up. call me, I text. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girl handed the guy a shopping bag and they both picked up their menus. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Laughing Man was one for keeping an ear to the ground, and in no time at all he had picked up the bandits’ most valuable trade secrets. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph saw him pick up a book from his desk. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ignatius picked up one of his elephantine desert boots and flung it at the pirouetting figure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed, reading the papers I’d picked up at the meeting. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger picked up his juggling balls and put them back in his bag, which was standing open on the grass behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He would merely pick up a ball of clay and stalk off with it toward the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I picked up a chunk of broken brick and squeezed it in my hand until a throbbing ache radiated through my palm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I went with him, and he bent down and picked up a flat stone by a rock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a split log and walked it over to the stacked wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bree takes my traveling cloak, then sweeps my gown with a handheld broom, batting at it for dust, bugs, or any other unwanted occupant I may have picked up on my journey. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

S.Q. picked up his pace, feeling more eager with every step. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrone picked up a stack of napkins and a bunch of silverware. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember how Mom and Dad said we need to pick up after ourselves?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The buses are all gone, and so are all the cars picking up students. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, and Hyperion staggered backward. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up a checker and rolled it in my fingers. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I keep telling myself this while I’m trying to get egg yolk out of my hair, while I’m crawling around on the floor picking up spoons and upturned bowls. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frowning at whatever he saw, Arwyl picked up one of my hands, pressed the tip of my fingernail firmly, and watched intently for a second or two. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sat in the front seat as the officer drove down Broadway to Santa Maria High School to pick up Roberto. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his waist pouch and put the flint stones and the turtle back inside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

After seeing that look in his eye when he picked up the shotgun, I don’t know who’s the looser cannon now, him or Jacqui. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The most messed-up thing she told me was that she remembered coming to this same police station to pick up Jermaine after he had got arrested years ago. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up her words and blew them down the river. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, so swiftly she appears not even to move, she picks up her jacket from the stage and flings it out over the seats where, instead of tumbling down, it swoops up, folding into itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I knew if something wasn’t done quickly the sanitation department would have to pick up a dead dog. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard picked up a little tin watering can with daisies painted on it, which was kind of bizarre, because what he poured out wasn’t water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I picked up my bedroll and my new jacket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a comic book and began to read. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her stuff and walks out the room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each man then wipes his bloody hands on the grass, picks up a handful of dirt, and rubs his palms together to clean off the blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crab picked up his rifle and rested it on his shoulder. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pick up Pi and carry him back to the car. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the TV and moves it onto the floor. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"Here's the best place to find pigeon," Arya told him^as she brushed herself off and picked up her fallen stick sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Just coming back to assess the damage, pick up anything that survived.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Habib hurtled into the living room and picked up the phone. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and picked up one of Todd’s chubby hands. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lupin picked up his old suitcase and the empty grindylow tank. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a rock, so he picked up a colored glass paperweight, hefted it in his hand, wondering if he could throw it hard enough to stop Abanazer Bolger in his tracks. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Brian, typically, started doing an impersonation of Mom carrying on and sobbing, but no one was laughing, so he picked up his books and walked out of the house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

He picks up a silver mask from a basket by the gates and slips it over his face. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He always picked up your personal stuff and looked at it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He folded the map away, and as he straightened from picking up the coat and was slinging it around his shoulders, he saw it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cady bent to pick up the fork that had fallen off Toby’s cake plate. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pecola picked up the laundry bag, heavy with wet clothes, and we stepped hurriedly out the door. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need them anymore,” I say, and pick up the flute again. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“We have to go back to Orocovis tomorrow to pick up produce for the market this coming weekend. You can come with us if you like.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that when you usually pick up tips about shipments?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I picked up the gun, ducked through the door of the shack just pushing the blanket away with my head. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is probably Yvonne again, picking up the tray of untouched food. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Candice picked up the letter, thinking it was an old piece of mail that had been used as a bookmark long ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be sweating when I skin you alive and squish your eyeballs beneath my feet,” she muttered, picking up the rapier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I picked up one of Dad’s white shirts and suddenly flushed with embarrassment and anger. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pencil and began to try to untangle an equation with unknown x’s and unnamed y’s. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to,” Ellie said, picking up her bag and tray. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I did that on purpose,” Fezzik said then, picking up another rock, holding it ready. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I reach under my chair to pick up something for our meeting—I had it down there as a trump card. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She picks up her plate with the white meat and charges through the swinging door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined the man picking up his radio—every detail, from the way he would fumble for it without his glasses to the way his jeans would wrinkle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Simon, a taller version of Trevor but with glasses, came out of the house and picked up the sleeping bag, tucking it under his arm. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their speed had certainly picked up now, and the breeze was flicking white tips off the waves far below. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw me stoop, pick up the stone. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It might have stopped this snowball from picking up speed. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Emma opened her mouth, shut it, and picked up her pencil again. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he finished scraping that foot, he picked up the other front foot. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He has forgotten to bring a book to read and so he picks up a discarded section of the Globe, skimming an article in the “Arts” section about Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They picked up new games, too—cards, tic-tac-toe—and learned the best way to spin a top. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then she would pick up a bottle of oil, press it to her chest and, with her eyes closed, say, “Do I need this?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He thinks I’m picking up my cousin and his new wife.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The more fringe, the more likely you are to pick up two or three. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you told me that she’s in custody. You said that she was picked up after Morris left for work yesterday.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Candles—on the shelf over there,” said Alice, scooping up Lyra and the bottle and looking around for anything that would give them away, but there was too much to pick up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed and pick up Plato’s Republic and skim the Allegory of the Cave as I seethe. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mom said it was one of the bonuses of living at the LBJ Apartments, because we’d be able to pick up a little Spanish without even studying. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hovered nearby waiting for Katie to pick up three of them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a baby goshawk and tucked it into her backpack. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Steve picked up the same bus that Vega had almost let fall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I pick up the photograph of the kiss. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not hungry anymore, so I pick up my tray and toss everything in the trash. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Kat walked over to the table and reached over to pick up the mobile. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had picked up, and the smell of rain ghosted through the air like dinner cooking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the most terrifying, a thin spike attached to a glass cylinder. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On his way back to sit on the verandah, he picked up a stone and played with it throughout the evening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger spat out one last fireball into the air—its size made even the bravest in the audience step back—then put down the torches and picked up his juggling balls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When they busted the press they’d picked up a lot of the women I knew, and I thought they’d most likely have the rest by now. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He searched the room, picked up something, and in a corner found something else. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After picking up materials from Gold, Sam would head for the Soviet consulate, a three-story building in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the instrument like it’s a life preserver. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d just given her a small, taunting smile and picked up his practice sword. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Rashid rolled down his pants, put his shoes back on, and picked up his bag. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Alice had picked up a leaflet that had floated to the pavement, read the words, and shifted her weight at the curb. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run out, picking up the gun along the way When I cross the road, I lock eyes with the gunman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I hover over the accept button, stifling my smile as I wait a few seconds to pick up, my fingers tapping away on the trackpad. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then I picked up my embroidery and tried to make my stitches so tiny that they were invisible. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"He broke it, he broke it," Yoyo moaned as she picked up a handful of pieces. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hanako picked up his hands, noticed his sharpies were getting dull. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Of course the Enemy has other servants, but they will have to journey all the way to the borders of Rivendell before they can pick up our trail. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heron nodded, and he and Tom Warrups left I picked up the beer mugs to clean them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most swing by a store to pick up a twelve-pack at the end of the workday. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She tilted her head forward and picked up her pace, passing in front once more. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

By this time I was sitting in the chair, and she was kneeling on the floor, picking up the pieces of broken glass and egg, gathering them onto the tray. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his sandwich and nibbled at it silently. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad bends to pick up the tennis ball. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up my drawing and looked it over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would just take a couple of practice swings and knock the ball down the middle and pick up his clubs and walk off into the afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed and picked up Mambu, raising him in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I picked up another book and tapped him on the shoulder with it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stack the remaining cans of corn and peas on the shelf in front of me, pick up the empty cardboard box, and stand up slowly, hoping to determine who it is without being seen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But as I look at the spaghetti goo I picked up from the food line, her lunch looks pretty good. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After going through the file Kyril Montana picked up the telephone, and the first calls he placed were to Boston and Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the photograph, pushes it to my chest, and sticks out his cheek. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mothers and grandmothers were floating among the tables with smiles on their faces as they touched and picked up all the fun things on display. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sighed as he picked up his razor, but the soap on his face had dried and he had to wipe it off and begin again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned back to the drainboard and picked up another bottle, full of milk—fresh, I suppose, from Ernie Cowgill’s morning delivery. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his lunch and headed for the dirty-tray window. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Beto picked up the small red book Naomi had given him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, through the smoke and vomit, I pick up the scent of singed hair. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I picked up the scissors when she put them down and cut my own braid off to send with Minerva. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I let go of the twin, picked up a handful of dung, filth, God-knows-what and let fly. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

And to Lazlo Strange, to pick up and dust off, the one thing left over: honor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Where Elizebeth had once picked up useful chatter, there was now near silence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I don’t care that Ms. Rochambeau raises her eyebrows when she picks up my worksheet and it’s blank. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I figure I owe the city big time, and the least I can do is pick up this one piece of trash. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They just sit there, too heavy for me to pick up. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Streets and buildings began to blur as the centaurs picked up speed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tradition went like this: The sophomores and juniors picked up their dates first and went to the dance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The draper sat upon the cobbles of the street, his hair lank, and a daughter of perhaps my age wandered about through the wreckage, picking up silks and attempting to drag them back inside. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She picked up the phone and called the school and got the shock of her life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chase picked up the bucket and took my arm. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I place the nightgown over my arm and start picking up the other clothes from the floor. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At six-thirty I rushed home to get ready and pick up my parents. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It picked up an acorn, held it for a moment in its handlike front paws, as if it were praying. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Biting my lips to keep from crying, I pick up my pine knot and return to the road and the dawn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she picked up her feather and made four more letters. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I was in my room making a CD when Sizwe came over to pick up his inventory. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I pick up a few remembrances: a photo of my parents on their wedding day, a blue hair ribbon for Prim, the family book of medicinal and edible plants. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"I don't know," I said, picking up a sample and hesitating. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming home,” he said, and set it down again and picked up his keys. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kids and old folks get the wonderful job of walking along behind and picking up all of God’s creatures that got burnt to a crisp. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally picked up the tablet and handed it to Shay. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Edwin picked up his raincoat and headed into the pouring rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And the moment I open the door, the man at the register rings me up–cha-ching–Even before I pick up a candy bar, because he knows I never leave without one. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Smooth and easy, Alfred, build up the wind and the legs, smooth and easy, pick up those feet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finny got up from the cot, picking up his cane as an afterthought. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the sorceress’s controls and then climbed down from the hay bales and picked up his crutches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I want to call her, but I'm scared that the police will pick up and track me down. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up the little body, cradling it in his palms, and found his tears flowing fast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My sisters are there with their kids and husbands, and Tommy’s shown up with a stunning girl he’s managed to pick up at university. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I picked up the bird with the shovel and carried it across the street, into Dante’s backyard. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She picks up the crayon drawing of Gran with the goldens. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He bent and picked up the shard from the table. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I picked up the flying shoes and had a sudden bad feeling. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down to the far side of the hill Thor had climbed, and he picked up something that was obviously another mitten. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Were they going to pick up more people? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I put on Alice’s work gloves and pick up the nestling. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Michael is walking over to pick up a ball, Aimee starts to yell, “Brandy! Over here!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Abra calmly picked up her purse and straightened her skirt and brushed it with her hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a sliver of lead that lay in the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salim picks up an old copy of the New York Post from the table. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Facing the prospect that something else had gone wrong—that Blackie Thompson had sprung loose—he picked up the receiver and heard the urgent voice of one of his agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He laughed as he picked up both rat and Frightful in his gloved hand. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He picked up his glass and drained it at a gulp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When it got back to him, we picked up the banana hands and started down the hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stick off the ground and didn’t look at her. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each word felt like it was being engraved at the base of her heart, cutting into her, burning, and she picked up the second photo and turned it over. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He laid the brace down on the counter, picked up a small paper sack, and filled it about half-full of horseshoe nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a tiny hammer and began to reshape a golden wing tip which seemed to the boy already perfect. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Hazel, the girl with the cavalry helmet and the long curly hair, picked up something next to her plate. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So next I picked up the souvenir shot. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday shrugged, and picked up an old copy of the Reader’s Digest from a small pile of yellowing magazines on the windowsill. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She wished someone would pick up those cans and stop that annoying noise. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he takes two steps, picks up his hind leg, and pees on the wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In a single motion he leaned over, picked up the knife, and pushed aside the man grappling with the bull’s horns. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He untied Faro from the door; the dog picked up my track again and started to lead the way toward the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She picked up the book and read aloud as I brushed her hair. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m not done yet, ’’said Tom, quickly picking up his paintbrush, “but I’m almost through. ” each other/one another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face tear-streaked but quite expressionless, almost vacuous, she picked up her handbag from the floor, opened it, and took out the small pea-green clothbound book. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

People picking up their burgers never know that their order traverses two states and bounces back before they can even start driving to the pickup window. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up the wooden easel with one hand, fold up the legs, and bring it over to my closet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He still hadn’t managed to pick up all the pieces after last time, and one or two holes remained in his heart, letting the cold air in. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Maxim picked up a book but I know he did not read. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want my mother to spot her standing behind me and figure out I took a detour on my way to pick up the mail. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We can pick up some food you like tomorrow in Gallup. But for now, you’re going to have to settle,” Nali said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I take the last steps to the main gate and flash the badge and I.D. card I carry in a special wallet that I picked up at the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jupiter picks up the unicorn Beanie Baby from her desk and lobs it at him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And as each one spoke, he fell off to sleep and another picked up the conversation with hardly any interruption. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frigg picked up a stone and whipped it toward her son. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fangburn struggled like a landed fish as the big badger picked up the net and swung it several times against the gatehouse wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

So I picked up the phone and called my wife, Ann, and told her, “I am going to write a book called The World Is Flat.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jittery and nervous, Thomas picked up one page from each pile, making sure they were all from the same day, keeping them in order. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She set down her pen, picked up her teacup, and sipped the hot cinnamon water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should have told me,” he says as soon as he picks up, “what you are.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pen and, revolving it in his fingers, looked out the window at the falling snow, which seemed to be slowing finally. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jomo placed the bag down and picked up his watering can. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up the hatchet and began swinging hard, shaping a bow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He knelt to pick up the pieces of glass on the floor, his voice rising from behind the bar like smoke: “Half an hour.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When she bent down to pick up her litter, she spotted the maroon edge of a book jammed between the can and the wall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Climbing down out of the tree, I picked up my ax and lantern, and trotted down to another riffle and waded across. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we could have ordered, paid for, and picked up the food without opening the car door. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They made their way back to Matthew, stopping a couple of times for James to pick up some produce and other items from the farmers’ market for his mom and grandmother. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But that’s still no reason to say so, Chaplain, is it?” the officer chided tartly, frowning, and picked up still one more typewritten, notarized page from the folder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She picked up her notes on Parker’s letter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Normally I had to pick up Hadley at her bus stop, but today she had a playdate at her friend Tyler’s. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll assume that his face is all lathered and he is ready to pick up his razor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daintily, I pick up the proper fork to use for the salad, and notice that two of the councilmen use their main-course forks by mistake. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have it shielded, so we were picking up the whole thing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the instruction of the elder brother, Olakunde picked up the younger and carried him without. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Chronicler picked up his pen, and Kvothe began to speak before he had the chance to dip it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We drive through the city of Faridpur and decide to pick up lunch at a market. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With just her lunch bag and her pocketbook to take along, Katherine “picked up and went right over” to the gigantic hangar, a short walk from the West Computing office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some stagger into the field, picking up firewood to cook their meals. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father dropped Edward on the bed, and Bryce picked up the rabbit and handed him to Sarah Ruth. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He picked up his slice and took a giant bite of it, staring Will down as he chewed. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only Quell we have. We might pick up something valuable about how they work,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up Garrett in my arms, and although I barely have the strength to hold up my own weight, I bear his as well, as we make our way toward the campsite. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up the handkerchief and smelled it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were people walking their dogs through the graveyard, others visiting their family members, sweeping their areas, picking up trash, replacing dead flowers with live ones. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then I picked up the chicken slices in my fingers one by one, rolled them so the caviar wouldn't ooze off and ate them. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wind blew down the valley, picking up dust and straws, and grew stronger and harsher as it went south. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a flat piece of wood, shaped like a fourth of a pie. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I go home I pick up the phone and dial. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I have to pick up trash for my birthday gift?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Stella watched the teacher read the letter, then pick up one of the papers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You were picked up in a gambling house. I don’t know how you got there, what you were doing there, why you went there.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shout excitedly, and I’m sure everyone picks up on the sarcasm in my voice. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mama picks up her notepad, where she always scribbles down important to-do lists. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Someone had sat down there recently, and picked up my knitting because it had been in the way. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At its fiercest, such a whirlwind could rip a roof off a house and pick up the building’s contents. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I just kept picking up one fry after another and tossing them into my mouth, chewing slowly but not too slowly and staring down at the shiny wooden tabletop. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The cream-at-the-top-of-the-milkpail face of someone who will never work for anything; someone who picks up things lying on other people’s dressers and is not embarrassed when found out. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew her gloves on over her plump hands and picked up her purse. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scurrying past the people waiting in line, I was so terrified that I didn’t even take the time to pick up my precious pennies. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina picked up the cans under the bench, and for a second her breath stopped. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve all picked up on what the kid in the gray sweatshirt said about my goggles. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the other boot and dug inside. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and saw that Frankie had stopped beside Albert, and the two of them were picking up more treasures scattered across the beach. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When she finally picked up the phone she said, “He’s passed out on the bathroom floor, Popsy. He’s screaming for me to run out and buy him some Preparation H.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Business picked up and prices began to rise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the men had finished their looting, they picked up Uncle’s gun. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the chair Deputy Collins had pushed over, brought it next to her, and sat down. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a while, the snow picked up, falling heavier and steadier. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A good tunnel dwarf can pick up the scent of gold through half a mile of granite bedrock. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mike skipped quickly to my side and picked up my books for me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The fact is, nothing you’ve told us is true. You never set foot in Fort Scott. You never picked up any two girls and never took them to any motel—” “We did. No kidding.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my fedora and started to put it on, but then I reconsidered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I cannot believe I am still alive; I have been brought back here to this same table and made to pick up the pencil again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mother picked up her mug, her hand shaking. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to pick up the scattered wool that hadn’t blown away and placed it back inside the basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the pause before someone picks up the thread of conversation, they all listen to the baby's soft breathing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m picking up my mother for a dentist appointment before she goes home for the weekend.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of my hands and pressed it lightly to his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each one took turns picking up Deborah, Theresa or me and dancing around the kitchen floor with us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set down the first bucket and picked up the second. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought all the tears and nausea pooling in me would come up and I’d choke when he picked up the receiver and I had to speak. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Brick changed his mind. If you picked up your phone, you might know that." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Piper! If you don’t pick up your prize sometime soon, they might cancel lunch.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I rise, walk over to my computer, and pick up my glass of water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But Chris puts his hands on his hips and keeps close watch as I pick up a receiver. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She puts the scissors down and picks up a comb to run through my hair. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up the phone and dialed Jones's house. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One guard picked up Gum Baby and Chestnutt by their necks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At first I was happy for the pillow of snow, but when I picked up the egg I saw in the dim light that the shell was cracked. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I pick up a pastel and pretend to work on a portrait of the naked English guy that I finished last night. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bag and said, “You will be in good hands with Miss Lupescu, Bod. I am sure that the two of you will get on.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The woman picked up the basket and shook it, searching for tiny shells hidden among the big ones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was going into town in about a week and I could ride in with him to pick up my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we picked up our food, we rode back to Dad’s place, stopping under the sign that hung over the entrance to his store. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Vries calls, picking up a crumb-filled plate and holding it aloft until I walk over and get it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up a new wire and a strip of paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly picked up the gist of the argument. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the front of the bus, Billie picks up a pair of Chris’s patched, ragged jeans and, closing her eyes, presses them to her face. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I pick up the broom and start beating the dust out of the rug. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pick up a gun and a holster and a belt, copying Will, who is directly in front of me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With a gentle touch, the robot picked up the twig. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He motioned for Chronicler to pick up his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lacking any pressing engagements, I picked up the clay soldier and walked over. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Everybody expected me to pick up where he left off. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bags and stepped out into the mud and stones of a path that led into the town. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blades are rusty, the edges dull, and the pair of sickles I pick up ain’t even weighted properly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Jamison set the papers on the table and picked up a heavy volume bound in green leather. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the store, I picked up some chips and sodas for the road, walked up to the counter, and laid everything down in front of the cashier. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After American school, we picked up our cigar boxes, in which we had arranged books, brushes, and an inkbox neatly, and went to Chinese school, from 5:00 to 7:30 P.M. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will pick up next time, perhaps?” he said, and then he smiled and I went cold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what to say but then, the phone rings a second time and she picks up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the car, Hassan said, “Okay, now all we have to do is go to my house, pick up some clothes, and miraculously convince my parents to let me go on a road trip.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Marcus nodded, went back to his desk, picked up a book, and then walked right past me and out the door. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He picks up the wrong fork too and starts eating. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Harry, sweating, managed to hoist Ginny half off the floor, and bent to pick up his wand again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“And then he’d just pick up his book and move somewhere else,” added Kit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier at the end of the dock picked up his musket and stopped the two men carrying the walnut chest. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the counter nodded as she picked up a phone. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Charlie came home with a large catch, and I made a mental note to pick up a book of recipes for fish while I was in Seattle next week. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like that little book said: Stick out your elbows, pick up your feet, and float along with the crowd! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when my father picked up the telephone on the sixth or seventh ring, his voice, beery and irritated, gave me a hard, dry feeling in my throat and I hung up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bruce steeled himself and stood, picking up his briefcase. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anker muttered something under his breath as he picked up the ladder and he stowed it around the corner in the alleyway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Groves picked up his phone and called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he must have been too busy to pick up the phone, so she left a message. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I picked up the old tobacco bag that I keep my rocks in. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, “It’s on the tip of my tongue.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I pick up a roll of toilet paper, because we’re almost out, and I pay the cashier for that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He bobbed his head like a shy schoolboy and picked up his briefcase. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It hit him right in the middle of his forehead, and as he cried out I picked up another rock. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As she picked up the fork, her eyes filled with tears. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He picked up Priam’s breastplate and helmet from the heap of costumes left by the actors and contemplated them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Naomi picked up the tin of powdered formula the doctor had brought a few days before when he had said that her mother’s body was too weak to produce milk for the babies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Big Jerome was telling Bennie some story about getting picked up by the cops on Marcy Avenue. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He drew lines on the ground and asked her to pick up some stones and tried to teach her to play nchokolo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night, racked by exhaustion and guilt, he picked up his .45 and put the barrel in his mouth. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We’re picking up Lolo’s new medicine before the store closes for Thanksgiving. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Before I started digging I fed the turkeys, made sure War Chief had water, then picked up my shovel. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Justyce picks up his glass and gulps down the rest of his tea. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She picked up a jar of seeds, and a cloud of birds fluttered down from the trees to surround her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So Father went out of the room and picked up my clothes from the bathroom floor and put them on the landing. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After his wife had triplets, he’d needed to pick up an additional part-time job so she could stay home with the kids. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Fridays Daddy picks up some of our food shopping at the market on the corner. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I picked up Joseph’s backpack and handed it to him. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Made you want to pick up a tambourine and join her one night in her church. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Pm here to pick up my daughter, Taylor." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The fortune-teller picks up the deck and shuffles, shifting the cards from one hand to the other. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cockerell picked up a sack that had been lying behind Capricorn’s chair and gave it to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They would pick up South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians, and take them down to Saigon, to safety. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the way we picked up a few pebbles, just in case Mami asked what we were doing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mom picked up the dish towel and we went to work. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, picking up the binoculars and looking out the window again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He picked up the bottle and tapped the mouth of it lightly against my glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I leap across the stream on the rocks, the squirrel runs, and I pick up his ear of corn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blindly grab at my nightstand, picking up the first thing I can get my hands on and throwing it at the wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My hand stops at the shoe rack, where I pick up an exquisite pair of white, red, and green kicks that smell like new leather, the heels decorated with gold studs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Black collects the papers and starts to lecture, I pick up the rock and flip it over. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up one more passenger between Jackson and Montgomery, a young Negro student with a sharp face and the look and feel of impatient fierceness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Sahil rounded up people for me to interview, I walked to the kitchen for a glass of ice; the soda I’d picked up was getting warm. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Early Sunday morning Geyer went to the police station and picked up a new local partner, Detective David Richards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as they got back, Alex picked up the phone to see if by some miracle Mami had left a message. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Three old colored men had already been hired, but not for die road work, just to do the picking up, food bringing and other small errands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a second of standing quietly, he reaches down and picks up the dishwashing soap. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hill tiptoes against the sideline while stretching his head back to pick up the ball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the paper and read the quote I’d written so I wouldn’t forget it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“My brother is in France,” Poppet says, picking up the satchel and following Chandresh inside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He picked up his heavy horse and put it down with a thump. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Back when Sarah Vaughan filled the house with her smoky voice, Vonetta was far away crying to be picked up, and Cecile’s stomach was big with Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not understanding all the talk around me, but just picking up bits and pieces, made me feel—free.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Get dressed and meet me downstairs once you’ve used the privy,” Mama said, picking up a hand mirror and double-checking her own hair, which was as neat and tight as Ophie’s. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing made sense, and I felt more alone than I had the entire year—like I might suddenly burst into tears if the wind picked up again and blew too hard in my face. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom picks up her hot chocolate but doesn’t drink. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I asked Cecile for some money for dinner, and Fern and I went out to pick up chop suey from Ming’s. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we were to go to the multiplex while my mother “picked up a few things at the mall,” which is what she calls shopping. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Simon. I just watched you pick up a random guy in a gay bar. You’re wearing eyeliner. And you’re completely wasted.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I watch as she tidies my room, picks up clothes, straightens the things on my desk. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It got to its knees and picked up a tiny round object. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was about two days later, when I went to pick up the watch, that things fell apart. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Aunt Tess loved to say was: “Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up your pace.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent over and picked up from the tiled floor what appeared to be a long, mysteriously blondish human hair. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He picked up the foot-stool from beside the bed, balanced it in his right hand, and took a last look round the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbi turned and picked up the chalice. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But what I had picked up was an undisciplined hodgepodge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Santa picked up the photograph lying facedown on the mantelpiece and showed it to her two guests. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My prayer book is just a blue notepad I pick up at the Ben Franklin store. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pima’s mother picked up a blade of rusted metal and held it in front of his face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a click, as Czernobog picked up a black piece and jumped it over one of Shadow’s white pieces, placing it on the square on the other side. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

With a grunt he picked up that of Count and Countess Andrenyi and opened it. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master picked up a few books from the table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up another ball and aimed it at Tyson. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her defender picked up the stack of papers on the table before him; Kira had watched him marking these papers meticulously as he listened to the accuser. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione gave a shaky laugh and leaned forward to pick up two more books. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When we picked up Sohrab to go to Persepolis, it was still dark out. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He bent over, picked up the float, and secured it under his right arm. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up a dried piece of manure to throw it at him and drive him into the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I think that I am going to be caught, but the servant is the one to pick up the blade, and his gaze does not waver. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up Sam and strode quickly to the truck. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a regulation bat and demonstrated its weight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I pick up the photo frame and tip it over onto the carpet. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the end of the row, picked up the jug of water we had brought, and began drinking. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eagerly he bent down to pick up some food, but when he put it into his mouth he spat it out quickly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“But, listen, Brit. When they pick up this Erlone fellow, he’s going to tell the cops and the papers’ll have the story anyway. So call ’em now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes her stories are interrupted by calls to prayer or work, but the next day she easily picks up the thread again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But we were pretending this was normal, so I picked up an apple and started peeling. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her father picked up a pencil and tapped it on his desk. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She watched Big Jerome pick up Little Jerome by the scruff of the neck like he was a puppy and toss him into the pool, upsetting the Marco Polo players. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then the doors of the lift would open upon Mrs. Van Hopper and I would cross the lounge to meet her, and he would stroll back again to his corner and pick up a paper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love took off her apron, I picked up the lamp, and we hurried out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Divergent?” one of them finally asks as the man behind the desk picks up the receiver of the building’s communication system. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the white knight and moved it across the board. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t leave anything by the tree, anything you might have touched, or picked up?” she asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon in a few days, after you go to the store and pick up what we need.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As my mother stooped to help the old woman pick up the escaping food, I took off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weston picked up his paper again with a disappointed air. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The chill in the air presses harder against us as we pick up the blanket, provide a new set of footprints. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They swung heavily and slowly at first, but picked up speed, swinging farther with each pass. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We close early and pick up dinner from Reuben’s. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She starts to pick up Daddy’s plate, but he touches her arm. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She put her underwear in one of the little ones, and her shirts and jeans in one of the big ones, and then picked up the photograph from the bottom of the suitcase. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I want to turn the photo over so that I don’t have to look at him, but Auntie Idris crosses the room with a few limps and picks up the photo. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I ask, after fumbling to pick up the receiver. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious,” I said, picking up my two pieces. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Leaning into it, she leads the way along the five straight, short blocks, picking up the pace as she masters the sandals. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before Joseph climbed into the black car, which had already picked up his suitcases from St. Anthony’s, Albert handed him a package. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s being picked up in the morning by animal control.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I push away the newspaper and pick up my award. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had picked up the sliced-off fingers and was holding them like a bouquet of bloody asparagus. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron ran to pick up Hedwig, who was causing such a scene that there was a lot of muttering about cruelty to animals from the surrounding crowd. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Can you take this to Sirius for me?” he said, picking up his letter. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I picked up a french fry, thinking how his hand had touched it and now I was putting it to my lips. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up the glass of water and draw lines in the condensation. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their hats fall off their heads as they are picked up and hurled roughly into the truck bed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I picked up a tatty National Geographic magazine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I go into Papa’s drawer and pick up the box where he kept his treasures. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She picked up with, “Jay Nazzaro, I was just thinking about you’.’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He'd picked up bamboo lengths on the beach and had fitted them together into a short pipe to funnel the rain water into our ten-gallon keg. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the five of hearts and said, “Gin!” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He picked up a milk bottle from the bottom of the stairs and started back up to. his attic flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She picks up the card with the knight from where it sits and places it on top of the crumbling castle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Most of all, we thank you for bringing the family together,” our grandfather picks up, “to mourn and to celebrate those who gave their lives for all of us.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She picks up the booklet and sticks her nose into it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As we sprinted for the cellblocks, the last thing I saw was Tyson picking up a Dippiri Dots stand and throwing it at Kampe. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the wine jug and put it just inside the door. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When she picked up the bundle William Henry had left for her, she just kept walking down through the garden, down to the river. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Solomon picked up the book, brought it to the head of the table, and sat down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Carl scratched beneath his arm, massaged his chest with his thick, heavy fingers, picked up his pipe again and fiddled with it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If there were any Congs there they would get wasted, and all we would be able to do is to chase the Congs off while we picked up the bodies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when a young woman picked up Cool Papa’s porkpie hat and placed it on her head, Clayton couldn’t stop himself. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They put the embers back in the fire pit, they pick up the straw from the beds. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If she were in the room with me, I’d pick up sharp things and throw them at her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He bent down and picked up his pails. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She picked up my plate and glass and walked them to the kitchen sink. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the books and reshelved them, his hands moving through Pet’s body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When we get home, I call Elizabeth’s house, my heart pounding, but Elizabeth picks up the ;phone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As we drove away from the hospital, she picked up the smallest crying child and sat him in her lap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her sandals and thrust them under her arm, put the fragments in the pocket of her skirt and took up the vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What did you get picked up by the police for?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Frankie picked up the tray of beer and walked through the door. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stopped moving, die picked up the coin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cart rolled slowly at first because it was solar powered, but as the sun rose higher and flooded the salt flats, it picked up speed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though banned, Winnie picked up where she left off, and the authorities were dismayed about her popularity with the young radicals of Soweto. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are friends in the way people in an unprovisioned lifeboat are, chance consorts who are sure that they’ll be picked up soon, any day now, but not exactly how or when. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I picked up my plate and glass, which still had an inch of milk in it, and took them back to the table. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going back,” Grace said, picking up her backpack, which felt way too light. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

T gone and Junior locked up, and Ty and me just picking up the pieces. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Someone in the newsroom picked up and took a message. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Food will make him pick up in weight,” Granny said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could think of what to say, Mama picked up florist wire, kitchen shears, and a bucket of pink tea roses and scooted past me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was also impossible to know how many innocent people picked up the bacteria from the prisoners on these stops. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Abel picked up each wrench and examined it in the beam of his flashlight. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before picking up the third box, Cabot tossed the little book on top of the sheets and began his journey downstairs one last time. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’d tripped over an aboveground root bent like an arthritic finger and picked up a limp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He nodded, picked up his package, and led me out of the alley. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nuah puts his books on the table to pick up one of the popular plastic swords. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We were among the last out, so we saw the bartender—the only sober man in the place—pick up a phone and make a call. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some toss out crushed fast-food bags and half-filled drink cups just to give us a little more litter to pick up. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Zau regarded him thoughtfully for a while, then picked up his hammer again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jonathan struggled to his feet, then bent hurriedly to pick up the boy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It dangles in the bowl and picks up bits of porridge and drops of milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It appeared as if he was hurrying to catch the school bus, which had stopped at a corner to pick up more kids. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could Yedsha drop off the dragon and then pick up Papa? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He shifted gears and we picked up speed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Back to me: “I called your father. He’s not picking up, work, cell, home—” “He’s traveling.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She picked up her pile of books, was halfway up the aisle when she turned and came back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed, went over to the window, and picked up the walkie-talkie. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs and picked up a pale blue envelope from the dining room table and scrawled on the back, in large, painstaking letters: I am going for a long walk. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I picked up my plate and folded it in half, corn-dog sticks inside, ketchup squeezing out of the far end. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I reach down to pick up the can, hopping over the puddle, and toss it into the trash bin on my way out into the hall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He had picked up a brochure in the office: Children and Grief: Big Issues for Little Hearts. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The girl he picked up that afternoon had rattled his mobile cage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see the kids, change his shirt, pick up some paperwork. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He picked up the head of the hose, put his thumb over it and sprayed his friend. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z