We sometimes copied each other, but one time I thought she had gone too far, when my favorite possession—my only toy, a pink plastic cell phone my father had given me—went missing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It looks like a bunch of little wires with a plastic bulb on the end. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The driver smiles, but his eyes are hidden behind the black plastic glasses, and Salim cannot tell whether there is any humor in that smile or not. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They are taking turns pouring pretend tea into the tiny plastic cups. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He left the plastic to cure overnight and went home for a couple of hours to try to get some sleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rinsed out the towels in plastic buckets of water. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I've kept my little plant in its plastic pot for too long, and this will look so much prettier. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Delia demanded, reaching for the huge plastic sack and yanking it away from them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I learned to jump over the puddles and trash heaps and to avoid rot and mess, to keep my plastic sandals clean. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday was obviously on the verge of tears, an old man made helpless by the implacable plastic march of the modern world. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Mam- machi’s violin and violin stand, the Ooty cupboards, the plastic basket chairs, the Delhi beds, the dressing table from Vienna with cracked ivory knobs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out a small, knotted plastic bag full of two gold chains, three rings, and one key. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They’re hard and shiny—they look almost like plastic Halloween spiders. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She eyes the plastic laundry basket that’s now full to bursting and has a crack in the side, and I think she’s about to say no, but she actually nods. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She set the plastic bag on the seat. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She poured a meager portion of Lucky Charms into a plastic bowl, and then she rummaged in the refrigerator for a gallon of milk. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

With the exception of a few stacked newspapers and tied-off plastic grocery bags tucked under the rear seat, the inside of the minivan was pretty well kept. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Coraline filled a cardboard box with dolls and with several plastic doll’s teacups. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It is covered in plastic, but fingerprints have blackened parts of it anyway. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her father was sitting in the chair beside her bed, swaying a little, holding a plastic grocery bag and whispering, “Hey there, Molly Molasses, you awake?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When it was time, she stood in front of him and held out a shoebox encrusted with plastic gemstones. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the small plastic bucket Mama kept my hair things in: pomades, combs, barrettes, and knockers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She has plastic snowflakes and red- felt-wearing Santas on the brain. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The plastic flags were flapping in the artificial wind while Muzak came out of heaven. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the washers and dryers, a couple of which are running, there are gray concrete walls, a wobbly table, a big metal sink, and a red plastic laundry basket. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was one thing if you were using a handful of plastic pieces to find solutions to a puzzle; it was another if you felt like you’d fallen inside a puzzle and couldn’t get out. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only water that remains is brownish green and full of garbage—plastic bags, bottles, wrappers, and even a solitary shoe. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Inside was a half a piece of bread wrapped in clear plastic. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Three long-stemmed roses, so piercingly red I wondered if they were plastic, were in the vase. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on what looks like an overturned plastic bucket is an old man with a hat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His body shot down a steep decline, slick with an oily goo that smelled awful—like burnt plastic and overused machinery. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I do not believe you can suspend army ants away from the earth, on plastic, for any length of time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to Eugenia, who came into the foyer carrying two large plastic bags. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She turns bright red and pulls open the drawer where Abuela keeps the foil and plastic containers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For instance, 1 remember a little boy with a plastic leg. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank’s voice had too much reverb, like he was speaking through several layers of plastic wrap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She gently pushes my head down so that I am looking at the scarf and drags the brown plastic comb with its micro teeth through my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A plastic jug of water had been shoved in amongst us some hours before, but it was long since dry. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been won to the side of schoolteachers and nurses, and lost all allegiance to plastic explosives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had used plastic cuffs, wrapping them tightly around her wrists. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She waited, peering down the hall anxiously, panting into the hot plastic of her mask. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The best one was when she’d balanced a small plastic bucket of gumdrops over the closet door so that when I opened it all the way, it fell on me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the costume, the mask, and the long-handled plastic scythe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I snip the plastic ties around the wood. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“With a tree-sized hole in the side and wrapped in plastic?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ball and tenpins were made of a light plastic, so as not to dent up the furniture. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he smiled and waved through the plastic and Brian nodded and waved in return. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In case there was any question, across the front of the plastic in big, black letters, it was labeled “Boxer Shorts. Size X-Small.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The plastic water bottle was light and empty in my bag. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laila liked the violet plastic drinking glasses they used and the quarter lemon that always floated in the water pitcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The water that Nya fetched from the pond in the plastic jug could be boiled before they drank it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slab of concrete, three feet wide and ten feet long, with blue plastic chairs stolen long ago from some classroom. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For some reason, Abuela felt that lining the cushions with plastic was the best way to preserve them. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But the night sky looked calm and the concrete beneath me was no different than before, covered with gum wrappers, tinfoil, plastic bags, and other garbage. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In Bible school, which I attended summers at the Church of the Master, I had learned to weave a lanyard out of plastic strips. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Each one of those incisions has to be capped off in plastic. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A maelstrom of sand and copper screws and plastic shards swirled around him, the debris of the ship-breaking business ripping at his skin as he ran barefoot down the beach to Pima’s shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shivering hard, I zipped my body into three layers of fuzzy polypropylene pile underwear and an outer shell of windproof nylon, then pulled my clunky plastic boots on. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dill put the dish in the cracked white plastic drying rack and went to his room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

O’Dell provided me with a small discarded plastic flashlight to use as the body of the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t grab the clear plastic box of pastels right away. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it into my red plastic purse to keep it safe. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had two bangles made of glass beads and some plastic toe rings, nothing more. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cupped my hands over the tan plastic ear muffs and said out loud, “It’s Mom.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The poor-pathetic-Henry look that made me want to gouge out her eyes with a plastic knife. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Obviously we don't have as much room here as we had in the old house. . . She reached into the closet and pulled out a black plastic garbage bag. " Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We had not known of plastic when I was a boy, and though it surely improved life in some ways, its presence in Qunu appeared to me to be a kind of blight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scurry up and down the aisles, piling things into a red plastic basket. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She ate hers in less than a minute, and then fidgeted, swinging back and forth on her chair and plucking at the plastic strips of the woven seat while he finished his. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my empty room, I lean against the bare wall next to the plastic garbage bag filled with my possessions. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the opposite corner, a plastic sculpture of a guy in an old-fashioned diving suit knelt beside a treasure chest, which popped open every few seconds, spewed bubbles, and closed again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I remember being shocked at the feel of him—I was a medic, but still I half expected him to be plastic, not real. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can hear the popping of balloons and air rifles, and I can hear the clink of glass bottles and plastic rings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Here everything was new plastic, a ghost trick to lure immigrants into feeling safe and spilling their secrets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Removing the lava rock and black plastic liner exposed the hard-packed dirt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Processed food like white bread was called “plastic food.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know the pile of clothes bursts into flames and my red dress melts like plastic in the fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some plastic jugs of water in the locker off the galley but all were empty save one. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Almost before I was inside, the boy had sprung to his feet, knocking back a plastic chair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

People who have watched migrants fall off the train from exhaustion bring plastic jugs filled with Coca-Cola or coffee. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He just stared at the green plastic gun in his hand. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Inside, there was a concrete slab with a hole in it and a plastic toilet seat on top; there had been a lid at some point, but it had broken and disappeared long ago. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He handed us each a green plastic credit card. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the central section was a cage of live birds in a little park of plastic trees and shrubs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a bench and one of those plastic dome shelters. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes the dirty, cracked light out of the plastic bag. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bows made of wood and plastic and metal and materials I can't even name. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But it was not only Papa who received visitors; the villagers trooped to every big house with a big gate, and sometimes they took plastic bowls with firm covers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At our house, doing the garbage meant wheeling two big plastic bins out to the curb. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After storing the plastic tubs beneath the counter, the man unscrews the tops to a dozen salt and pepper shakers, paying no attention to me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Harry, three beds away, caught the acrid smell of burnt plastic. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He skirts by the orange plastic barrier, then jumps toward the fence, like he’s going to scale it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Cross-stitched roses in plastic frames hang from the walls, and crocheted doilies are draped over every surface. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s got a pink plastic handle with little white bunnies painted on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lead them toward a covered pile in a corner and lift the plastic. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And he chooses Trouble because he likes the sound the die makes when it pops inside its plastic bubble. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I stomped and stomped on it till it was green plastic splinters. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Jaja soon came back with the boys, the bottles of soft drinks in a black plastic bag. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front rooms were filled with piles of blankets and bedding, a few stacked mattresses, and a number of unidentifiable gray plastic tubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I couldn’t make anything tonight,” his mother said, tearing open the plastic bag that held their Thai takeout that night. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Manny put the chips in a black plastic bag and handed it to me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Before the cashier could say anything, Fadi quickly handed him the plastic card. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She was drinking from a plastic liter bottle of mineral water. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lifeboat, the raft until it was lost, the tarpaulin, the stills, the rain catchers, the plastic bags, the lines, the blankets, the net—all became worn, stretched, slack, cracked, dried, rotted, torn, discoloured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The discovery was a method of magnetizing plastic. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Stanley put a carton of juice and a plastic spoon on his tray. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

To create the drums, the boys stretched thick plastic bags tightly across the tops of the cans, securing the bags with rubber bands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Diego grabbed my sandwich without asking and peeled back the plastic wrap. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Up in the branches of the trees, too, I could see, flapping about, torn plastic sheeting and bits of old carrier bags. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to sit in the plastic green folding chair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For my birthday that year, I got one of those plastic keyboard toys done up in cotton-candy pink, the kind with fat keys that played way out of tune and drove grown-ups crazy. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” Amaka muttered, pouring cold water from a plastic bottle into a glass. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s parents and the old man bought him toys, bought him everything—new diapers, new plastic pants—not homemade diapers, not bread bags. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have anything new except for the coat, and a hand-me-down dress still wrapped in plastic. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Just that fake, plastic, general-store-looking sunflower Pop Pop puts on the windowsill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My feet had been completely swallowed by the mud, and I was shivering in my pajamas, but no one took notice, and no one came up to cut the plastic binding our hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One by one we were taken from our cages, held gently but firmly by Dr. Schultz while Julie fastened around each of our necks a narrow ribbon of yellow plastic bearing a number. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing in the aisle with all the cheap dinnerware, looking bored while her mom turned over a package of plastic silverware. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Beneath thick plastic glasses, his eyes were swollen, bloodshot, and surrounded by deep dark circles. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Aziza’s breath fogs the sheet of plastic in which they have wrapped her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fumbling with the bag, he pulled out three flat jewelry cards—each gray plastic, covered in gray fuzz on one side, with a small charm wired in place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A strand of plastic gold beads shaped like hexagons. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To get water from the stagnant reservoir, somebody had to climb down a steep eight-hundred-foot hillside, gathering their water in gourds or recycled plastic jugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was the only person in the plastic hut who seemed to find my words funny. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the second before I drop the leaking plastic bag next to the Dumpster as Bo Larson crushes me up against the metal door and nothing but his lips touch me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I found things I had never thought of before—plastic bags and cotton balls and toothpicks and straws. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Thick plastic sheets hang from rafters, creating transparent, temporary corridors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Discarded, the plastic mask had recycled itself, turning into pink dust, which the carpet in the elevator was already filtering away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Still, the idea of packing lettuce in plastic boxes and shipping it five days and three thousand miles away didn’t feel very organic to me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I sat down on one of those orange plastic chairs they have in the waiting area off to one side of the lobby. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a sleeveless summer dress, a row of white plastic beads, and spectacles on a chain that hung like a swing against her chest. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dried-up leaves, piles of brush, big pieces of plastic from a kids’ old swimming pool. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She holds a plastic cup of ice cream and sits next to me while bopping her head to the deejay’s latest beat. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But instead the plastic cover squeaked, like it was trying to make sense of me sitting down on it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Papa-Nnukwu was back on the verandah after breakfast, sitting on the stool, with Amaka settled on a plastic mat at his feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed my backpack onto the backseat and then slumped in the passenger seat with the goldfish suspended in their plastic prison between my legs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A plastic door eases open and I slide in the first tape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They describe the conditions on the ship, the lack of plumbing, how some of the passengers died during the 12,000 mile voyage and were wrapped in plastic and cast into the ocean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did as he asked, and found a plastic grocery bag. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The face is a big plastic Hello Kitty, and her mom calls it “a travesty.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m wrapped and trapped in plastic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He whirled his plastic glass in his hand and regarded the rinse of whisky left in it, a gesture often designed to draw emptiness to the attention of a host. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s perfect; they slip out of the plastic containers with ease. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was examining the toilet, running his hand over the black plastic seat, when he heard Master’s voice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I recognized the place immediately, because every other subdivision on the access road was walled in, whereas Quail Hollow was just a plastic sign hammered into the ground. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Following closely behind the woman, and picking up pieces of coal as they fell from the scuttle and placing them in a small plastic bag, was a half-naked, potbellied and thumb-sucking boy of about four. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the supplies, held in crates, burlap sacks, and plastic bins, are piled neatly in a pyramid in what seems a questionable distance from the camp. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a lady with a bunch of plastic flamingos sticking out of a shopping cart. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I handed John a corkscrew while I laid out the crystal—three plastic coffee cups, a jelly glass, a shaving mug, and several wide-mouthed pill bottles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands and feet swelled like plastic gloves full of water, heavy and tight, ready to burst. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And it would have room to store all my words, not just the most common ones that have gotten pasted on my dumb plastic board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She pulled a folded piece of paper from her pocket and slid it across the plastic tablecloth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She gave me another plastic spoonful of crushed ice. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I heard the creak of a cabinet opening and the pop of a plastic lid. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The image of a burly policeman traipsing across the stage with an empty plastic bag, attempting to “capture” the air, was the stuff of Chaplinesque comedy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In play, we use a plethora of toys, from plastic cards to 100,000-seater stadiums. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when I get closer do I see he's got this weird little plastic button stuck in his neck. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He took two paperware bowls from a stack of them wrapped in plastic and set them out on the table. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Chima and Obiora used plastic ones while the rest of us had plain glass plates, bereft of dainty flowers or silver lines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d only find them when winter came, and suddenly the bush would be scattered with tiny plastic people deep within its branches. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Radar said, holding a red plastic cup full of beer in each hand. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another thing I get for Christmas is a red plastic purse, oval in shape, with a gold-colored clasp and a handle at the top end. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came into the bathroom and that old fool played with the plastic bath mat like a puppy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather be anywhere than at home, putting curry in plastic boxes for customers. Mama is cooking up a literal storm this week, much of it Thanksgiving-related.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She had a margarita in a plastic cup with a lid and a straw. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My wrists hurt from the plastic tie cutting into my skin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We strolled along the walkway between the road and the beach, past pushcarts piled high with corn and peanuts and hawkers selling multicolored plastic balls and cricket bats, flimsy kites, toys, dolls, pinwheels. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rufus didn’t even mind being the Nazi dinosaurs most of the time and it was O.K. playing with him because he didn’t cheat and didn’t try to steal my plastic monsters. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nylon shower curtain, scarlet, with a design of canary-yellow sharps, flats, and clefs on it, was bunched up at the foot of the tub, attached with plastic rings to an over-head chromium bar. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was pressing a squawking plastic duck in her hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two Chinese food cartons, one with bits of fried rice stuck to the sides, a white plastic fork sprouting from the top, and the other with some sort of sauce caked around the rim. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Baachan reached into a pocket and pulled out a slender piece of plastic. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d have that and a bottle of Sprite, and for dessert a plastic container of custard with caramel on top. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The bench seats that battened the cabinets were plastic and chipped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zu went to work tearing the box open, tossing aside the foam and plastic stuffing to get the old-fashioned silver toaster inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much else, so he put a handful of cereal into a plastic bag and set it on the table just as his mom hurried into the room. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like all those hard plastic desks are my kingdom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Edna sits up and yanks the plastic bags from her body. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I take Baby Girl out to the backyard and fill up the green plastic pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was standing there with his mouth open, holding a black plastic bag in one hand and his phone in the other. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

First thing I did was pull the plastic box out from my closet and noisily paw through all the LEGOs, picking out the red and black Aquanauts with the little oxygen tanks on their backs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stood up and shuffled over to one of the molded plastic chairs against the wall, tucking my tank beneath the chair. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The little plastic tackle case had a small variety of silver spoons and some feathered lures, and he tried them all. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clothes would get stuffed into duffels and plastic garbage bags. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I join the crowd waiting to fill their plastic bottles and buckets with water to drink and wash with for the day. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His father hustled to the kitchen and dropped it on the plastic tiles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Pieces of melted plastic fell to the floor, giving off dark smoke that smelled like burnt rubber. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to the red plastic seat still thirsty. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I open my bookbag and untwist the plastic bag, with my hometown clothes now bunched into a wet fist, then pull out my navy polo. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He returned to his pile of leaves and began to deposit them by handfuls into a plastic garbage bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

August 17 American Chicken Most food our cowboy brings is wrapped in plastic or pushed into cans, while chicken and beef are chopped and frozen. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He carried the diamond knife and the plug of plastic containing the toast crumb of cells into the cutting room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it out of my tattered plastic bag, holding my free hand high to show I was unarmed, and slowly approached. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of odds and ends he thought would come in handy for an adventure—rubber bands, a compass, granola bars, coins, a squirt gun, a magnifying glass, plastic handcuffs, string, a whistle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Taylor was trying to straighten the legs of a small plastic robot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The barrel of the pistol pointed at the squinting plastic statue of Jesus that was centered on the dashboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were displayed on sand in a huge square bin, walled by plastic sides high enough to prevent them from crawling over and out into Manhattan. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a red plastic cup from a nearby table, pour myself some cranberry juice, and start dancing alone like the girl near the fireplace. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A waitress named Susie put three plastic cups of soda on the counter and then pulled three straws out of her apron pouch without looking down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Adrienne stops your hand as you reach for the plastic wrap for the umpteenth muffin. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

People in plastic suits sprint back and forth with fire extinguishers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then I sat down on a fold-up chair with the plastic torn off the seat part, so the yellow foam stuffing was out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He paused, removing a small pair of plastic binoculars from his cereal box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Das listened attentively, stroking her hair with a small plastic brush that resembled an oval bed of nails, asking more questions, for yet another example. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nguyen carried the water back in a plastic pail and let the mud settle out so she could boil it and wash her sister’s eyelids. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I pour some into a plastic cup, screw' the top back on and slip the bottle into my handbag. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a plastic toolbox, but it was full of boxing stuff—tape, gauze, Vaseline, scissors. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I gently put Belet on the bed, and Daoud washed her wound with water from one of the big plastic containers lined up on the floor along the wall. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He plowed his fingers through the heap of plastic soldiers in the battered cookie tin—identical except for their poses: standing, kneeling, and prone, all with rifles pressed hard to their olive-green cheeks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they walked in, Amanda’s mother was busy with her usual tools: a yellow plastic bucket and a sponge. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Jimmy came out from the back room holding a stack of dripping plastic trays. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

At the top of the block were the words Tear here to open and a black arrow pointing to the edge of the plastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found the painted Masonite board and a box of plastic pieces in the lounge; we balanced the board carefully on the cell’s food slot, near the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished eating, Liam set both of our bowls in one of the many plastic tubs floating by. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All of them were in a festive mood—giving each other high fives, tying plastic bibs around their necks, breaking out the knives and forks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Dimming hurries in carrying a stack of papers sealed in plastic, he scans the room to see who’s here. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The boy was sitting in front of the shack on an old plastic bucket turned upside down, straining his eyes to find the words on the page. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And to her amazement, the camera was tucked inside, carefully wrapped in the plastic bag. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

We covered the field with huge sheets of white plastic and sealed the edges with dirt. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he noticed the plastic tarp had blown off his wood stack, so he walked over and tucked it back around the pile. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Some of them were made of cloth and rubber, and many of them had a funny strip of plastic bristles to fasten them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She bought preroasted chickens from the supermarket and served them with potato salad prepared who knew when, sold in little plastic containers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The gusts are strong enough that a few of the plastic chairs around me keep toppling. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We took two plastic cups and savored the sweet, pulpy orange-colored drink. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The girl I took Wood Shop with walks around with a plastic tub, gathering mugs and plates from empty tables. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Kaira scooped the ice cream into two plastic bowls and gave them each one. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only the underwire and the plastic clasps were keeping the fabric from tearing apart altogether. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woman has already bagged up four plastic bags of groceries. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat at his desk looking at the clear plastic pen I had loaned him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father is digging into the chow mein, which still sits in an oversize aluminum pan surrounded by little plastic packets of soy sauce. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over at her and waited, but she’d already gone back to rolling her hair on the big plastic rollers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There, inside a plastic sleeve, was a sheet of paper with a drawing of the house where I’d sliced my arm, and a blueprint-style sketch of its layout below it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They even threatened to stop talking to me if I got plastic surgery. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now I’m awake while I’m supposed to be asleep, staring at the plastic glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling and wishing I had listened to him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She picks up a black box made of plastic, small enough for her to wrap her fingers around it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She held up her plastic cup as if in toast. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Think of the diesel fuel needed to truck all that salad to supermarkets across the country or to manufacture the plastic containers it’s packed in. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We each get a Rome or a Cortland or a McIntosh and a plastic knife. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Papá pointed toward the woman’s daughters, who were still holding the huge plastic sack between them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He ordered a cheese and meatball pizza, then he ran a bath, pouring all the motel’s little plastic bottles of shampoo into the water, making it foam. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Now, in addition, she wears a plastic bracelet with a typed label identifying her as a patient of the hospital. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wore clothes made out of plastics, mismatched socks, Day-Glo, and braces. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

June frowned at Ivy and handed her a plastic bag full of ice. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We saw officials stuffing people’s limbs into long white plastic body bags, just picking up different people’s limbs and throwing them into the bags. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We put his personal effects in a plastic bag and tied the bag to his arm. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scooped something shiny from the dashboard into a plastic bag as Erik closed the door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they dropped their gear and clumsily pitched their tent, dug holes, and buried the plastic bags, carefully indicating each spot with a little pile of stones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might wander freely through the house drinking pancake batter from a plastic bucket, but the moment one of my sisters overspilled her bikini, my father was right there to mix his metaphors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I get the plastic wrap and put it over one of the stuff tomatoes and wrap it ’round the plate tight. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I take another sip, and another; the can’s already half empty, but it’s OK, I have three more in the plastic bag at my feet. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Payne tilted his plastic mug and drank the last of his coffee. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jack hesitated still, and Hazel wanted to say something comforting, give him some bright plastic flowers of words, but Jack would see them for what they were. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I packed my supplies away, retied the plastic bag onto my belt loop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

To everyone’s surprise, a tightly wound plastic bag fell halfway out of his sock. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And then, Chino, a blue plastic chute dropped down the side of the buildin’. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Its plastic wheels scrape the concrete, and the sound makes me giddy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sapo took out a plastic spoon and began to eat his flan, which floated inside a white carton filled with sugary syrup. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In some spots there were nothing but holes in the ground, the bottom lined with plastic sheets, a few logs lashed together to cover it when the rains came. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I grab a slice of orange cheese wrapped in plastic. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So during the summer before her senior year of high school, my parents sent my sister off to Los Angeles—otherwise known as the plastic surgery mecca of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My plastic sandals slip and slide over loose pebbles and water bottles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not listening to the guitar cover songs or the video game explosions or the plastic bounce of Ping-Pong balls leaping from the table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rat Kiley went through the kid’s pockets, placed his personal effects in a plastic bag, taped the bag to Kiowa’s wrist, then used the radio to call in a dustoff. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason poked his head out from behind his improvised bomb shelter of a plastic horse. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Debris swirled in the dark waters—a deflated birthday balloon, a child’s pacifier, a little plastic bride and groom from the top. of a cake—all the remnants of human lives cut short. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But I guess Aluminum Man isn’t appropriate either, since he’s also made of titanium, steel, plastic, various polymers, and silicon computer chips.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It’s too dark to see the spindles behind the plastic window, pulling the tape from one side to the other, but I need to focus on something, so I try. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Something red flashed in front of me and the plastic cover of a Precious Red Book was in my hand. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stylish new clothes, pink plastic sandals, and almost-emerald earrings in her newly pierced ears. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came off the bottle and flew across the desk, clattering to the floor like a plastic coin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I pulled a busted one from the trash and splinted the broken spoke with a rolled magazine and a plastic bag ripped into strips. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I went to the closet and took Harry’s tuxedo out of the dry cleaner’s plastic. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He had plastic surgery done on his face, he changed his name, and was posing as a Spanish Hawaiian when the FBI caught up with him. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The springiness of the earth was caused by thousands and thousands of plastic bags. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he ran forward down the road, very clumsy in his plastic suit, waving his arms. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And, of course, Callie is using my dress as a beach towel so that her precious skin doesn’t touch the hot plastic seat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The guidance counselor is late today, so I sit invisible in the red plastic chair while the secretary brings a PTA volunteer up to warp speed on the Petrakis thing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Candice dropped everything in her hands—everything except a lone plastic toy soda bottle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I pull the light cord, I see a stack of Mom’s nursing uniforms on a shelf, perfectly folded into neat Dad-squares, with one of her plastic name-tag pins resting on top. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You pressed the bag so hard, its plastic crinkled. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The more the feeling increased, the more I couldn’t get out of my mind a tall plastic tumbler full of club soda, ice tinkling inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had toast and oatmeal, scrambled eggs with chorizo sausage, a plastic mug of orange juice, a strip of cold bacon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We fished out a pink plastic, octagonal container that was part of a pet shop play set, and we placed the two blue eggs inside. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon I'm dragging a few plastic sacks down Peach Street. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I eat half the rabbit as I go, then wrap up the leftovers in my plastic for later. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

How crazy it was that this little plastic disc with images of a girl in big glasses and shiny braces was illegal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pull more ice from the back of the truck, but find, even in a thick plastic bag, it’s hard to grip now that it’s starting to melt. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was also given white sneakers, an orange cap, and a canteen made of heavy plastic, which unfortunately was empty. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

All the plastic bags had been removed, and the fire pit had been buried. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is that?” inquired Matt, looking down at the tangle of plastic strips. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 2, George Kistiakowsky x-rayed his custom-made plastic explosives, just to make sure they were perfect. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they settled on was a specially engineered thin elastic mesh stretched tight over the plastic frame. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Alex led the way through the front gate, carrying a plastic food container under his arm. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

If food isn’t wrapped in plastic or cardboard, they won’t touch it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The black plastic arms of his glasses were so tight they’d etched deep grooves into his head, but he couldn’t afford new ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s either holding a bottle, a can, or a red plastic cup. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Alby walked up a moment later with a big plastic cup full of water and handed it to Minho, who gulped down the whole thing without stopping once for breath. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I was given a new gray jumpsuit and another pair of plastic slippers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mattresses and pillows have plastic on them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Scott shook the black plastic box he held in his hand, and the DVD inside rattled. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The placard had been there on that day too. brad bolitar, it read, in plain black ink on a white index card in a weather-protected plastic case. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wheeler came out and sat on a plastic lawn chair. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go to family parties not to bask in each other's presence but to whisper among ourselves about tacky dresses, botched plastic surgery, and disastrous haircuts and highlights. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There are hearts and clouds and smiley faces drawn on the plastic bag. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Kobe hugs her and then reaches for the plastic grocery bag in my hand. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Cars waxed and gleaming, plastic pennant flags criss-crossed over the lots. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Carefully I squeezed the plastic container until every gooey purple drop landed in the toilet hole. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We had one of its ugly plastic orange seats between us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Two days later, driving to his apartment, I stopped at the garden and unloaded a large plastic trash barrel and a shovel. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all put gloves on, long, tough plastic ones that came to their elbows. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, when the British ruled Zimbabwe. This is exciting! It must be worth a lot—and look! Here’s a plastic duck.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She has in her arms a dry-cleaned white lab coat in a protective plastic film. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Jimmy says to use the plastic bags for our stuff.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the holograms of a real Illinois license, all the same colors, the same thick, laminated plastic, the same organ donor info. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The police car smelled of hot plastic and aftershave and take-away chips. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s finally time to eat, everyone gets a ladleful of bright yellow rice and potatoes in a plastic bowl. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Two Sherpas took turns at the pump while an exhausted Hunt monitored Ngawang’s condition through a plastic window at the head of the bag. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a real relief to throw the plastic ring away. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s plastic! I’ve had it since the eighties! Ha! I love it!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

My mom finally exploded and cried when she realized we didn’t even have a plastic bag and couldn’t afford to throw away the pants. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the bowl was covered with tiny pink rocks, and a fake plastic log sat wedged in the rocks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We put the white buttercream frosting into a plastic bag and cut the tip. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Prettier than a TV star,” he says, touching the plastic pearls. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two day’s time they were walking the beach as far as the headland and back, trudging along in their plastic bootees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And a plastic box to serve as a toilet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, only a few steps from my feet lays a threefoot square of plastic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

From behind her desk, she pulled out a plastic tub full of index cards and started to flip through them while the officers watched. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And there were the stacked plastic chairs, four of them this time. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Red, mangled, sagging, it looked like a plastic drama mask that had been held too close to a candle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The guide tempted it with fish guts he had in a plastic milk jug. The eel swam out from the rocks. It must have been eight feet long. Bright green.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sat there on the orange plastic chair and I thought and thought and thought. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons that made no sense whatsoever, a sizable pool had been constructed in the center of the arena, made by laying a great sheet of plastic over a square foundation of hay bales. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As he blew gently, several bubbles streamed from the plastic circle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The plastic pellet bounces off the center of the target and rolls along the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I dunno, saw it in a movie. We don’t need to buy real sleds, dummy. All we need is pieces of plastic to slide on.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He shuffled the sections together and put them back in the plastic bag and sat staring into the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They came upon the tarp almost at once and he knelt and dropped the bindle and groped about for the rocks he’d weighed the plastic with and pushed them beneath it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Everything in the airport appeared the same, every corner, every window, every set of plastic seats, every gate. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Rats dig inside pails, eat through plastic bags. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

A pair of plastic red binoculars with a lens missing, an old Scrabble set, and a Magic 8 Ball. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

After lunch it was on to creative writing, where Boobie spent a few minutes playing with a purple plastic gargoyle-looking monster. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prints of watercolor tulip fields are sheathed in plastic. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ron’s dressed in all black like Zorro with a plastic sword tied to his hip. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She got the recliner secondhand, so it wasn’t covered in plastic, which meant it had conformed to her shape. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A plastic card ejected from a slot in the side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If you left an Ebola monkey inside a plastic bag for a day, you’d end up with a bag of soup. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of lip glosses or eyeshadows, it was full of plastic worms. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She’d changed into a ratty Museum of Modern Art T-shirt and her regular marker-colored jeans, her blue plastic hairbrush sticking out of her pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe the furniture was new, and Tess’s parents just hadn’t had the time to take the plastic off yet? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And now here she was again, like an apparition, drinking red wine from a plastic cup and calling me by name. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A small girl who looks like a gothed-out chipmunk hands me a red plastic cup full of beer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The Boss pulled the duffel bag away from her and handed her the plastic container. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When she came back with a plastic tray—her turkey sandwich and his veggie wrap lying beside two bags of baked unsalted chips—his head was bent to his phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We sent return communication in a similar way, wrapping notes in the same plastic and placing them at the bottom of the mounds of dirty dishes that were routed back to the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my plastic bag and followed him to another house that was behind the one with my uncle’s bedroom. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No sounds except people chewing, and forks tapping against plastic plates, and parents shushing their babies, who didn’t know any better. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When he came back with the beers and plastic cups, he poured hers with a flourish that, to her, was thick with romance. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a plain wooden santo with no name, and, contrary to the other carved or plastic saints, it was grotesque. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s rations in the bottom drawer of the cabinet, and the jug of water on my desk is iodine-treated. Those plastic glasses are clean. Ish. Help yourself.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He bought Harry a hamburger and they sat down on plastic seats to eat them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was made of yellow plastic, and we kept it on the floor in the kitchen, and that was what we used whenever we had to go to the bathroom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, George followed Kelly into the main room of the apartment and over to the fridge, where Kelly poured juice into two plastic cups that had come from a local barbecue shack. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A black top hat, white gloves, and a bouquet of colorful plastic flowers sat on the counter at his elbow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

All foreign lands are inaccessible except to servicemen; they are vague, distant, and sealed off as though behind a curtain of plastic. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laika’s tub of horror was a plastic toddler’s wading pool, blue, and decorated with a frieze of press-formed dolphins, starfish, and bubbles dancing around its outer wall. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I dig into my lunch bag and pull out a plastic container that I don’t remember packing. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my grilled cheese on my black plastic tray. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When I open the plastic lid, I grin, because I know something has shifted in my stomach—not the big Shift, but something concrete—and I am going to eat this. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Who’s got a match?” he demands and the boy with the square forehead offers him a flame from a red plastic lighter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns off the light on the nightstand and crosses the room in the dim glow of the plastic galaxy glued overhead. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They were too busy carrying a huge plastic sack between them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a plastic bag full of fruit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He searched the floor until he found a plastic bar straw, and then he played with piles of cigarette butts he had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a plastic bucket sits upside-down on a footstool. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Absently, his hands fiddled with a plastic card on his key ring. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Umm, Dad, I just had to sneak out of a girl’s house,” he says to himself as he walks down the sidewalk and past a house with plastic lawn ornaments of geese and deer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted so much to buy you them big plastic houses with those little round-headed people sitting inside. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when I look around me—really look around me, I can see that the jewels are all attached to little plastic settings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

All downed birds are retrieved by so-called wringer boys, who break the necks of the wounded and place all bodies in plastic bags. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

For an uncertain moment, neither of them knew what to do with the plastic flowers: Olanna held them half extended while Professor Achara touched but did not grasp them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Easy work: I run a machine that fits together and heatbonds pieces of plastic to form little transparent boxes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten plenty of looks, with my plastic slippers and hair whose kinkiness I hadn’t decided whether to embrace or fight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He moved through the markers until he got to a grave covered with a sheet of grimy plastic or glass, its edges slimed with filth. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were not headless body parts on Styrofoam plates wrapped neatly in anonymous plastic in a refrigerated grocery compartment. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And just as I switched the plastic shopping bag to my other hand, I saw them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Some plastic they could use for a tarp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mother placed my first trophy next to a new plastic chess set that the neighborhood Tao society had given to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my cousins would gather in the courtyard between my house and Geoffrey’s house to kick the soccer ball—made from plastic shopping bags we called jumbos, which we then bound in twine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They didn't just hand them over in a plastic bag—no, they were always packed in a beautiful box and tied up with a ribbon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They shook water from their shaggy fur, snarfled people’s picnic lunches, chewed Fris- bees into hunks of unusable plastic. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Abuela and Ford bring up some plastic bags from her backseat. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A doctor dabs some orange stuff onto the side of my chest and then rams a small plastic tube in me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were knives and plastic utensils and silverware and kitchen tools in a plastic box. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing about four face masks and two pairs of gloves, her fingers wrapping tightly around the plastic handrail on the wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She leans down, handing her baby with Down syndrome chunky plastic blocks from the toy basket. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then pulls out a small plastic object a little wider than a Post-it note, and she snaps it into the machine. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

You may have seen some of it in plastic boxes in your supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He pulled it over them and turned and lay holding the child, watching the blue flames through the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And a black plastic case about the size of a book. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It all tasted like chicken, mashed potatoes, and peas, if chicken, mashed potatoes, and peas were made of plastic, and were melted. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The woman pulled a plastic cup off a stack and held it up. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

And the plastic chairs were scraping against his outside leg. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She pulled her arms from behind her back, producing two small plastic French flags and waving them enthusiastically. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

First he pulled out his rifle, then, after digging around for a second, he hauled something else out and held it up triumphantly—a plastic bag full of aluminum cans and glass beer bottles. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I found a large plastic bottle and stuck it in the ground, to collect rainwater for us to drink. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He reached into his jeans pocket and withdrew an old plastic soldier, the fox’s favorite toy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If you looked closely through the mesh, you could see the levers and mechanisms and hard plastic appendages in plain sight below the seat pan. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The windows to the living room, the foyer, and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I also have a white plastic sunglasses case with colored shells and sequins and a green plastic starfish sewed onto it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But I want to tell them everything as we sit there by our plastic Christmas tree while the Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer video plays. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I drew Riptide and cut through the driver’s side window like it was made of plastic wrap. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I dug into my denim bag and found the plastic bottle of aspirin—a big bottle nearly full. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now he stood in the doorway in faded jeans, a flannel shirt, and blue plastic flip-flops, even though it was January. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I retrieved the tincture, and my mother packed it in a plastic grocery bag with the dried herbs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Papá’s face was as white as the plastic. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I knelt down and poured my hands through the mountain of plastic pieces on our floor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was like rotten eggs and burning plastic mixed together. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She'd barely been allowed to pluck her eyebrows, but they didn't think seventeen was too young for major plastic surgery? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Also a red plastic purse, which I remember getting for Christmas once. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is quite possible in fact that the ‘stones’ are made of soft plastic, causing no authentic wounds.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse’s foot. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’s wanted to go to college since kindergarten, when he used to drag around his plastic doctor kit. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Bridge didn’t say what she was thinking: what about all the plastic bags the Human Rights Club was using to carry the candy wrappers around? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach gasped as Otis Amber unzipped his plastic jacket, pulled a revolver from his shoulder holster, and handed it to the judge, who locked the gun in her desk drawer. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had built up the strength in one of his little hands so that they attached a plastic arm over it and he could control almost real-feeling soft plastic fingers on the end. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in one of the plastic chairs, ready to stay for days if he had to. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walls and floor were a mishmash of plastic bags, dirt, grass roots and stones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those cheap plastic ones that can deflate like balloons. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The next day when we came back from the Center, we found a radio in our room, the cord wrapped around its plastic body. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a flowered dress and pink plastic shoes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he turned east on Valley View Drive, he made his regular stop at the Sinclair gas station for his one-liter plastic bottle of Pepsi. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two or three old leaves lay inside, and a plastic glass with a straw sticking out of its cover. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I left the bodega, I had a plastic bag stuffed full of ice cream—mint chip and chocolate and cherry vanilla and caramel swirl and Heath bar crunch. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She presses a plastic bag of food into my hand. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

We can see a big plastic jug with ice packed around it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She stabbed a fry into the little plastic ketchup pot on her plate. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was all plastic too—the table linen, the butter dish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were about like mine, blue not like the sky but like plastic Easter eggs. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And lots of those plastic coffee drink domes smeared with whipped cream and smudges of caramel sauce glop. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She led us to a room and directed us to sit on a couch covered in plastic. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like Grandma was going to be able to ignore the plastic button that was slightly larger and slightly thinner than the original wheel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Emma could have sworn she felt the crooked heart against her palm, even though it was just a Sharpie drawing on plastic and perfectly flat. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One of the plastic snaps stuck in his ear and he rolled the jacket to make it more comfortable. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mom hands Ben the plastic bag with Javier’s clothes and favorite book, Dad picks Javier up and grips him into a hug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The women sit on the ground, with a large wicker basket full of peeled and sliced cactus in little plastic bags. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I sat in a plastic chair, staring at a row of identical seats across from me, each with at least one rusty leg. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I took a plastic laundry tub—part of the gear we had carried up to the cave—and left it under the waterfall for a moment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent hours on the riverbank with her little plastic transistor shaped like a tangerine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the crinkle of plastic and know she's taken the bag from her daughter's hands. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The wood didn’t even get wet. Besides, it’s wrapped up in several layers of cloth and plastic and—” She bit her lip in frustration. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On my way out, I stepped on a plastic animal figurine that had fallen off the top of my bureau days before. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

On one website, we find a list of supplies every dog walker should own: a spare leash, lots of baggies, and a reusable water bottle and plastic bowl to keep the dogs hydrated. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It contained a couple of plastic tubes with screw tops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then grown-up birds confuse those plastic scraps with food and feed them to their chicks, and the babies die of starvation even though their parents are feeding them just like they should. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her parents passed out plastic cups of juice, but Emily was too shocked to accept one. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pack my notebooks that have been hidden underneath the refrigerator for two years, along with all my clothes into a big plastic garbage bag. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His overturned plastic bucket is gone, and the streetlight shines on only the empty lot and me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His face was long and handsome, with a pointed nose, black plastic bifocals, and a Charlie Chaplin mustache. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a flashlight and a square, thin piece of plastic. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman was carefully topping up two plastic cups from a three-quarters empty bottle of Wild Turkey. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If it was all okay they were to start production in plastics factories all over the country. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“With daily doses of this trigger chemical, the plastic will gradually melt away and be absorbed into the body. Your face goes back to where it started. More or less.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She took the cookies and tried to place them in a plastic bag on the floor in the hallway. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I reached up and fingered the thick plastic frames. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hard plastic chair made Ann’s legs and back ache and was as filthy as the floor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a smiling Bart Simpson doll, with a hard plastic head and soft arms and legs. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Heading to the kitchen, I poke my head into my bedroom and spy Keav shoving clothes into a brown plastic bag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took out a plastic bag full of grapes, something wrapped in foil, and a folded-up piece of paper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Packages of salted peanuts, buttermilk cookies, two pimiento-cheese sandwiches in plastic, sour balls, and a can of Red Rose snuff. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

YouJill the plastic bags with your belongings, one at a time. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And I keep a little plastic bottle of this in my special food box. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Boss unzipped the bag and pulled out a plastic container big enough for a sandwich. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I stripped to the skin and put the clothing into a plastic garbage bag—a so- called hot bag—along with a splash or two of Jik, and then put that bag into another bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one hand she’d clutched a plastic bag with something inside it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It isn’t easy to sleep on a pile of plastic barrettes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I watched the guy line up a dozen plastic bottles on a card table outside Mr. Georgiou's wrecked pizzeria. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She stares at us, sipping from a red plastic cup. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His voice was softer than usual and he kept his eyes on the plastic case in my hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were used to imperfections we could fix with plastic surgery or painful hair removal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

With my knee against his back, I pull his wrists together and squeeze them into a plastic loop. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A big plastic tray full of glistening dough sat uncovered. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was wearing nothing but a plastic diaper and there were long ugly scratches on its arms and legs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mamá said, looking all around at the brightly painted kitchen, the colorful floor, and the cupboard with plastic flowers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He scooped a plastic spoonful of baked beans from his can and dumped it onto her shoe. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I recognize the charms: three pieces of ruby red sea glass, two four-leaf clovers in plastic, and a handful of sand-dollar birds, all strung together with black ratty leather. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But I finished the whole plastic row, four neat towers next to the sugar and the milk. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Got the heavy line coiled in the plastic tub. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She shoots me a strange look, grabs a plastic bag holding an aluminum tray, and reaches the back door just as her mother cracks it open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I push the plastic cover up and hold the dress out by its hem, studying the sheen of the fabric. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin reaches inside the crate, pulls a plastic bin from the inside, and the air stops being overrun with Lark’s words and fills with the little cries of the eaglet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You had to take those pieces of paper with you when you went shopping, though by the time I was nine or ten most people used plastic cards. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At snack time, while the other children bought little plastic bags of popcorn, I cuddled with Cheetah. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gathers up the sheet of blue plastic, careful to trap the berries inside, and goes to toss them into the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dragons—bigger than the last time I saw them—strain against the plastic, whining pitifully. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Natural, synthetic, liquid, solid, electrical, chemical, wood, metal, plastic, paper—on and on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the sink, I saw a green plastic bucket filled with water. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A line of elderly men were praying afternoon namaz on a plastic sheet spread on the ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I held my head in my hands, rocking back and forth, making the plastic seat creak. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kisty quickly realized that he would need to mold his own plastic explosives. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wear plastic gloves and plastic hairnets that seem a bit too thin for my germaphobe liking. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s filled up with old furniture and dust and things in wooden boxes and under plastic tarps. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was lying on the floor, not even covered by its blue plastic bag. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a plastic container full of soup with me, too, some for me and some for you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It matches the one in our apartment: a white plastic square with what looks like a tiny little television screen set into it, and three buttons underneath, labeled VIEW, TALK, and DOOR. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I clawed at the hardened plastic so hard, I broke one of my chipped orange fingernails. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I even turned the cover inside out so you’d only see Judy and her cigarette if you opened up the plastic case. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday the marchers, drenched by torrential downpours, trudged along in their plastic ponchos, singing in the rain. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seen from a distance, clustered densely around the white plastic box containing the long serpentine lines of army ants, turning to each other and murmuring repetitively, they seem an absolute marvel. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mist dispersed, however, later that afternoon in our living room, he was once again a short, shy man, in black, polyester-blend clothes and a plastic collar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After the game, the Fugees gathered on their bench in silence, drinking water from plastic cups until Luma called to them from across the field to get on the bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Taylor’s on the floor, too, in a butterfly yoga pose, and Morgan’s planted stiffly in a plastic blue chair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And he doesn’t do much but sit there and drool and then every now and again he jumps up and pulls the plastic fire alarm. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boggs wears a flesh-colored plastic mask from his upper lip to his brow — I was right about the broken nose—so his expression’s hard to read. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I told myself that I didn't have to follow the plastic surgery trend that had taken my family by storm. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Something dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy’s feet: a loaf of sandwich bread in a white plastic wrapper with red and yellow dots. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And she almost throws up on me and all over the back seat, so Carries plastic bag comes in handy. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then Finn turned the phone to the side and Emma caught a glimpse of the case: hard plastic with a crookedly drawn heart and the words “We love you, Mommy.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On one side of the bendy part was a woman with a crate on wheels packed tightly with plastic grocery bags, and on the other was a man painted head-to-toe in silver, reading a newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he tossed another plastic container between the two rocks. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Inside, they opened the suitcase they’d delivered earlier and took out tools: camera and film, spotlights, rope, and a roll of black plastic. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I watch as she stands and grabs a plastic tumbler from the cabinet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Carefully, without disturbing the pileup of plastic baskets, we climbed up and over the nearest register’s conveyer belt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We carried various containers with us—my mother a small drum; Florah, George and I, small plastic containers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is picking up the napkins and plastic forks people have dropped just outside her vehicle and putting them into a plastic bag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’d made some cranberry-orange muffins that morning, so I brought a paper plate with six of them covered in plastic wrap. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I peer more closely at the plastic bag and realize something is wrong—there are only dragons in the bag! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He looks about like what you’d expect for a guy named Muqtada: big; straight gray beard; wide, wrinkled dark face; glasses with white plastic rims. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin covers the plastic bin while the eaglet calls for more food. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the afternoon burned into evening and the crowds dissipated, the teenager was one of the few who remained at the plastic tables. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lidia gives Penny the plastic butterfly and collects clothes from the floor. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the dishes in the cabinets were made of plastic. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Later, when she saw the plastic flowers in a kitchen cupboard, she was not surprised. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The remains of the portrait are still in a plastic bag under my bed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ware hands me a long, very thin plastic tube. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Charlie had set the plastic bag next to him, and I watched the water pool underneath it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

They mounted their scooters and took plastic swords and jousted on the driveway. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I took my Zoloft in my little plastic cup and drew some brain maps by the window in the corner of the hall next to Jimmy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He scooped the leftovers into a plastic bin and opened the refrigerator to stow them inside. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled a clear plastic crate filled with dozens of candles out from underneath her bed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Hold this,” he said, handing me a faded plastic tray. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You must have some of your clothes that you want washed, too,” she says as she secures the tape around the plastic supports. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She was in her uniform, holding up a plastic bag. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I drop some cash into a plastic donations container and wait for Rufus to pay his way in. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He takes an orange plastic seat and sits down right outside from me, between Room 22 and Room 21, another open-style, closet-sized space. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Out came a worker dragging two hugely swollen black plastic bags. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He unpinned his cutlass and began to strike the young man’s calves with the plastic weapon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Professor Kylmer had already started working on a variation of the plastic—a thin, slightly porous membrane that you could filter water through. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She balanced the immense rectangular can of oil on her head while she chatted with me, and looked so comfortable at it that I tried placing my plastic demijohn on my own head. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter returned to the Globe offices with seventeen hundred pages in a plastic bag. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother cooked the chicken’s body with tarragon leaves that had traveled in a plastic bag all the way from St. Louis. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I plan to build him a three-dimensional maze out of scrap plastic that I can pick up cheaply downtown. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the plastic scavenge door aside so that he could see down the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was torn and greasy and caked with mud, but it was still plastic. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was bigger than the rest, wearing a lion’s cape like a Roman standard bearer and a plastic bib with a lobster on it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A plastic container of some sort of meal that he did not recognize. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She ladles lemonade into a plastic bottle, spilling some in her haste. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Inside lay what appeared to be a wax sculpture of Travis in a cheap blue suit—plastic and unreal somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Moss watched them empty their pockets and place the contents of them into small, round plastic containers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Amaka put the yam slices in a plastic bowl, I offered to help peel them and she silently handed me a knife. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We put up flyers asking people to donate their “gently worn” coats by dropping them off in plastic bags in a giant bin we left in front of our brownstone. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She told Shadow he had already been checked in by his friend, and gave him his rectangular plastic room key. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s voice was muffled in cardboard and plastic wrapping. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the cornflakes packet there was a plastic model of a submarine. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I sit on the plastic chair and watch everyone else laughing and dancing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the lid of the black can and notice Uhmma’s tight knot at the top of the white plastic trash bag. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The cracked bus seats, squealing brakes, ladies with huge plastic bags of fresh bread, the bus driver’s bald head, were shining, shining. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The door’s half open and I can see a tiny room with a toilet, a pull-string flusher at the top, a bulb with a yellowing plastic shade. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We divided it into two smaller segments and one larger one, wrapped each in plastic, and placed them inside empty cocoa containers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled a jug of water, a small bag of patching cement, a trowel, and a plastic tray from the tar pail. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She raised the plastic bin filled with clothes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They wrap them in plastic and tuck them into a shoe or slip them under a waistband. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His rosary beads hung from a corner of the shelf, and in between a pile of sweaters and a stack of spineless books was a framed plastic ID card. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He watched Grizzly Bear take Cool Papa’s hat off Train Ear’s head and drop it in the plastic bag along with the mess of dollar bills and coins he removed from Train Ear’s pockets. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The inside of my hab-unit was an eggshell white injection-molded plastic coffin, a meter high, a meter wide, and two meters long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Not one drop was left in the two plastic pitchers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They show up here in their electric cars with their kale salad and complain about how our town is too backward to ban plastic bags. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She hands Annabelle a pan of cinnamon rolls covered with plastic wrap. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was still wearing my disposable plastic indent slippers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I cupped my hands, gulped down some water, and then refilled our plastic bottle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The big boy was twisting plastic strips into sandals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Open the empty ice bucket and remove its thin plastic bag. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rani finally agrees on a price, and the man fills a plastic bag with something flaky and yellow. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Arturo walked out, holding a plastic bag in one hand and shaking his head. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A peek through a window revealed a Remington rifle, a plastic box of shells, eight or nine paperback books, some tom jeans, cooking utensils, and an expensive backpack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the receiver, feel the cool plastic. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted one of them, bent over a plastic tub of supplies, wearing a pair of orange waders like the ones Sookie and Lester wore on the boat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Carefully he detached the small charm from its plastic card, unwinding the wire ties and placing the bird on her bedside table. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the sink was a mountain of empty plastic Kool-Aid pitchers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My word!” a woman said, startled by the sight before her: a pack of small, dark-skinned faces and white eyes peering out from behind black plastic sheeting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She lets us each choose a plastic ball out of the wire bin, and she buys them for us. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a faded plastic bank in the shape of a cartoon character. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Going, the big plastic container held only air. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took fake champagne and plastic cups, and toasted to a clean slate, a second chance. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gave me the spitty plastic end of the hookah hose. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When he gets back to the Residence, she’s sitting on her bed, eating pasta out of a plastic container, with Parks & Recreation playing on her tablet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in a worn coat and a knitted hat like a tea cosy, sitting on a curb, with two plastic bags filled with her only possessions, muttering to herself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tumbled across the amphitheater floor with Frank, some large marbles, and a clump of plastic seaweed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She reached into the basket and pulled out a chain with pink plastic all around it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jillson the Executive entered with a plastic jug and paper cups. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Must have been made of plastic,” Rose said, laughing. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

All she had to do was swipe her plastic card, and the dress would be mine. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman stared uneasily at the blackness beneath the plastic seat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor by Chess’s feet, Finn and Emma bent protectively over Joe, hiding whatever he was assembling out of tiny bits of plastic and wire. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I want ladies’ wear sealed off in a plastic bubble and trucked away to some place of safety, some museum of retail history. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could my mom tell me I was pretty when she'd looked just like me and had gone through plastic surgery to change her face? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I searched cupboards for the stack of red plastic cups I knew we’d bought. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They crept inside, stepping over frayed curtain ropes, a lute with no strings, a plastic pitcher, and an old broom. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She opened it up and took the big black camera out of its plastic bag. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She bit open the plastic wrapper of her icey and sucked the cool blue slush out of it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever my father takes us out on the boat, he always stops to scoop up trash that other people have tossed overboard—Styrofoam cups, bottles, chum boxes, plastic bags, whatever. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then—the moment of truth—he lifted out the plastic change tray. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

A bookshelf packed with hardcover books, with an entire shelf of comics in plastic sleeves. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Matt solved the problem by transferring the bag of plastic strips to the little boy’s lap. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mum'd left it in black plastic bags in the garage 'cause she needs all the suitcases. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sugar and crackers were wrapped in cellophane, the jelly in a small plastic coffin sealed with cellophane. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d even wrapped it in a plastic bag, in case it rained. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Deb reaches into a pot in the kitchen and pulls out a fistful of plastic bracelets, which she hands out to everyone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I leave it in the microwave until the plastic wrapper swells and pops open. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I sort of enjoyed the project—the whiz of slicing plastic, the scream of duct tape coming off the roll, the big speckled rectangles I fit snugly over the door and window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There in the alley the crazy hot dog vendor was trying to stab a fairy with a plastic knife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would never hurt anyone. Not even in fencing. I always keep the plastic tip on.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A week after the accident, when the nurse at the hospital desk gave me the plastic bag of his clothes, I found the coin in the back flap pocket of his shorts. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those large red plastic cups that vendors use at professional baseball games. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Still we hug their hard plastic close and imagine they're calling us Mama imagine they need us near. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It tore away the plastic tablecloth we’d used as a door and sent it flapping like a bat across the dark graveyard. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I dug into my messenger bag for the plastic sack Mom had sent for Javaneh’s mom. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother was seventy- one, but she still walked briskly along, her small body straight and purposeful, carrying a colorful flowery plastic bag. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that was found of her was a tiny hand with a henna pattern on the palm and a few plastic bangles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Their little plastic heads can barely believe my amazing skills.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The plastic bag of supplies was a mound against my back, but I couldn’t muster the energy to untie it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Isaac Newton established the three laws of motion,” my grandfather says, and points to the plastic fork on his tray. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“How can that be? It’s drooping. You must get plastic surgery and correct it.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning at the gate, he always added: “An Astroturflawn! And plastic flowers! That proves I’m right!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia had used a hammer and a handful of roofing nails, driving each one through the thick white plastic like arrows, then prying it out again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Myelin is often likened to the plastic coating around electrical wires—it insulates the neural circuits, making them about a hundred times faster than unmyelinated circuits. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Actually, his third if you counted the twenty minutes it took to coax him out from under my bed and lock him up in his plastic carrier. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You came! You ready for your little plastic foosball men to get destroyed?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mama never used plastic cutlery, no matter how big the group was. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stripped off his dirty clothes and wrapped his bandages in plastic. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are a few syringes sealed in sterile plastic on a table near Beetee’s bed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the plastic, on the right side of the beat up wallet, was a picture of the man with his family. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The plastic surgeon loosed the tape from her check and peered under the gauze. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was trimmed in a goldlike metal and had a pink plastic lid. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of those cheap plastic white fans sat on the sill, spinning, circulating hot air from outside, inside, and from inside back out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The tower was steady and unmoving under the weight of twisted steel and plastic. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My name and the date are written right on it in black marker, and along the back are two screws holding the plastic together. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was in his subbasement lab holding up a small plastic bag with one speckled purple jelly bean sealed inside. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Among them was an empty plastic bottle of booze. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A medic bounds in next to me, still pumping the little plastic bulb that is apparently breathing for me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peered down at him through bifocal glasses and handed him a hard plastic debit card. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I picture the people in their seats with their plastic cups of soda or orange juice or Scotch, and I love them. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I refilled our water bottle, and Teashop Aunty pressed a plastic bag with bananas and vadais into my hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Long tables with blue plastic chairs lining the sides. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She disappeared, coming back and pressing a plastic grocery bag of food into Luke’s hands. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You mean, you scored against a team of little plastic men who were frozen in place with no one to spin their handles,” I say. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Cole walked to an old plastic cooler and pulled out raw hot dogs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Carefully, she lifted the plastic page and removed the photograph of Amanda sitting in her little baby seat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

All I could think of now was the almost bitter taste of the bubbles popping against my tongue, the crunch and numb swallow of ice cubes, condensation accumulating on textured plastic until it dripped. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their plastic grocery sacks were bursting at the seams. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I took out my green plastic change purse and pulled out a crumpled five and passed it over slowly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was a mound of soiled clothes, surrounded by knotted plastic bags, bundled newspapers, and a falling-apart suitcase, stuffed with who knows what. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Jason called down another lightning strike, but Ephialtes caught it on his spear and deflected the blast, melting a life-size plastic cow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the money was, luckily, still where I had kept it, which was in a tiny plastic bag under the foot of the bed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They visit plastic surgeons and dermatologists for costly and frequent cosmetic procedures. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Over it, she fastens a clear plastic bag with six evenly spaced hairpins, and waits. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s so dangerous, why not seal the wood in something that won’t burn, like plastic or steel? Why not put it in a safe deposit box?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jammed up in the forward peak, where the water and wave action had taken it, was a plastic bucket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she unlocked a white cabinet and removed a small brown bottle and plastic spoon. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The important thing is that in two hours all of the rock is gone, and so is the ripped black plastic sheeting underneath. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Nawaz leads me between two rows of beds separated by white plastic curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The building was a fine one; the lobby was chrome and glass, with ashtray stands and plastic couches arranged in semicircles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added a plastic accordion door to each space and created a little common play area in front where we could keep our toys and books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The girl pushes her chair back, and one of the black plastic wheels rides right onto the big toe on my left foot. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd brought a pear as well and had wrapped it in a plastic bag so that its pus wouldn't stain the clothing he had packed a day earlier but bought long before he was married. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were all either plastic or porcelain or glass, easily broken. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Torn plastic bags snag on poles and awnings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

By dark the rain had ceased and they opened the hatch and began to carry boxes and parcels and plastic bags across the wet yard to the shed and to pack the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“This has some plastic baggies to clean up after him. There’re also some treats, and I threw in a couple of water bottles.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the science report, laser-printed in four colors, with a clear plastic binder. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they rolled plastic silverware in napkins for the dinner takeout orders, Bebe had told Mia quite a lot about her life. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dirt on the faces of the plastic people, plastic action figures with missing eyes, hands, a missing leg. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He tipped out the plastic jar of hardware and sorted out a bolt to thread into the fitting of the junction and then tightened it down. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lidia comes out of the bathroom with a toothbrush hanging from her mouth as she puts batteries into a plastic toy butterfly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In my domain, I have a tire swing, a baseball, a tiny plastic pool filled with dirty water, and even an old TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

On the workbench where he keeps his paints, glues, knives, and pliers, there’s a hand and arm, done in plastic resin, arteries worming from the cut end, straps to strap it on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the stove, she scoops a bowl of stew into a plastic bag. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We screw the sledge along amongst great lumps and chunks of ice, immense debris pushed up by the straining of the great plastic sheet of ice against and among the Fire-Hills. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom reads, the receptionist types at her computer, Mrs. Frost looks at a magazine, and the baby sleeps on Carol’s lap, his little fingers still clutching a pink plastic block. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the steakhouse is a shooting gallery, where the fake guns have such poor aim that no one can hit the little bull’s-eyes attached to plastic cactuses, wild-eyed cowboy cutouts, and stuffed, patchy-haired bobcats. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I peeled the tape off the tops of the little plastic bags. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I saw fat bags of marshmallows and cans of SpaghettiOs and a little plastic bear full of honey. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left the monkey house, he and the other veterinarian placed the dead monkeys in clear plastic bags and carried some of them across the hall to a chest freezer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behind the film of frost etching the glass I saw two brashly painted plaster images of Mary and Jesus surrounded by dream books, love powders, God-Is-Love signs, money-drawing oil and plastic dice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been patched—that is, new plastic had been welded over them so that they were airtight—but from the inside you could see that they were bullet holes, round and quite large. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their toilet is one black plastic bag, and they struggle over who will take it out each afternoon, because that person gets to see sunlight for a brief time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But his “displays” are only ever pyramids of canned pears, and the plastic sheets make the inside of his shop feel like a photograph from Victorian times. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I open the fridge to find bottles of soda and ketchup and hot sauce and mayonnaise and bread and eggs and too many plastic containers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He retrieved a ceramic bowl with plastic wrap over it and tossed several white cassava chunks onto the frying pan. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There was also an arcade in which you could play games, have your picture taken, or even make a cheap plastic record of your voice. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She tapped our plastic face shields, tugged at our coats, inspected our gloves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her secondhand raincoat was slick and smelled like cheap plastic. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But looking through it, I see it's all metal or nonflammable plastic. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoving a plastic cup under my nose, the mother launched her tirade. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She raised the plastic bin filled with clothes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They even carry around the plastic Barnes & Noble bags to show off their new books. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were small plastic animals from the library that the staff use to make people tell stories. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back in his San Francisco office, Dr. Gazzaley pulls out a white plastic model of a brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, she removed a plastic model of an F-8 Crusader, paused to fix a misplaced decal with a small application of spit, then set it down in a window ledge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s only a piece of plastic that can’t hold me afloat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The ground is littered with torn food packages, babies’ diapers, empty water bottles and spent cigarettes, dirty tissues, plastic bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she came to the door wearing the nappy pink robe and carrying a plastic razor, we could tell that she was in better shape than the day before. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The layers of plastic, constantly bending, heated the resin from pure friction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re just plastic toys, sweetie. Real dinosaurs had brains, very small ones, but they did have them.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut two thin slices and then, from a plastic container, she took some margarine and spread it on the bread. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped and checked his feet and retied the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On some nights, when he couldn’t get enough air to swallow, Morrie attached the long plastic tubing to his nose, clamping on his nostrils like a leech. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next hour or so we took turns getting each other beers, until she came back the last time with a plastic cup full of tequila. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An empty plastic bucket was near the toilet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen plastic bowls and cups in museums, but the raw material lay all around them here. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The house across the street has a half-sunken roof covered in a blue plastic thing. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

My right hand clutches the plastic in my pocket. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She held a blue plastic hairbrush that she tapped nervously against her thigh like a good luck talisman. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sniffed the plastic shells and immediately Pondicherry came to life in my mind, a marvellous relief from the disappointment of calling for help and not being heard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her yellow- rimmed red plastic sunglasses made the world look red. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Makalu Gau appeared, having been dragged down the glacier on a piece of plastic by a half-dozen Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thatha's lips wobble again, but Patti says yes, and she gives me a shiny new plastic comb and a toothbrush with a bright green handle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Valley took out a small plastic pod filled with water in the shape of an egg and put both the fish in there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We arrived around noon and found a handful of people taking cover under a large rectangular plastic sheet mounted on six poles spiked to the ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would spread out her books and papers on the bookshelf to her right, and she would tack her plastic pencil case on the bulletin board to her left. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth, who was very clever and artistic with her hands, started the costume idea by making herself a Nefertiti headdress out of a plastic bleach bottle with the top cut off. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila woke up, out of breath, with a taste of soil in her mouth, when the first granular lumps of dirt hit the plastic. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom returned with a plastic bag filled with several pieces of ice. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The mound of green plastic bags grows taller than the wringmaster’s neon pink cap. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Special pulled Tally’s hands together behind her back, and she felt plastic bite into her wrists again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The man across the wall shuffled through a bunch of photographs in a plastic sachet, with an air of contrived interest. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With minor variations, it always went like this: I’m crouched in the corner of my grandfather’s bedroom, amber dusk-light retreating from the windows, pointing a pink plastic BB rifle at the door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Rob tried to offer me a plastic water bottle from the front seat, his mouth stretched in a thin line. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I finished eating, I placed my plate and mug in the plastic bin for dirty dishes and walked to the wall decorated with album covers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We passed one grave, a child’s, from which grinned a faded plastic jack-o’-lantern. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he takes this red and white plastic cooler out of the supply closet, puts it on his desk, and opens it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We won’t let you pass unless you show us your boobies,” one of them yelled, a tubby one with a plastic pirate patch over one eye. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

With one slippery hand and his teeth, Nailer managed to open the plastic bottle and drink while he clung to the wall. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Hub is marked by an American flag fluttering fifty feet up in the air, and large black plastic letters above the door: MOBIUS. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The two men laughed and started eating more rice from the tray, plowing through it with their plastic spoons. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One by one, Clayton and the Beat Boys filed out of the police van and were led into the station, their hands behind their backs, bound by plastic strip handcuffs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I shove the plastic bag of snacks into Layla’s hand and grab both their arms to cross the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Inside is a small, plastic container with two round compartments. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Others in the group had gourds too, or plastic bottles. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a rain catcher, a fifty-litre plastic bag, a blanket and the survival manual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On that final day of my “mental cast,” I wait in my room with all my things packed in sturdy yellow plastic bags provided by the hospital. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She felt her wrists pulled back and bound, hard plastic cuffs cutting into her flesh. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No, of course not,” he said, putting the sandwiches he had made into a plastic bag. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Scattered around it were faded wreathes and crushed bouquets of plastic flowers, which made the place seem even sadder. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had a sudden image of herself as a sorceress, waving her hand over the field and transforming the boys below into pea-sized plastic dolls. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was secret, but it had something to do with plastic and polymers, which were also the professor’s specialty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pond water was piped into what looked like a giant plastic bag—a bag big enough to fill the entire bed of the truck. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was particularly proud of a dropdown inner stowage pouch, bulging with little plastic bottles of vitamins and medicines, with a transparent window built into it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had dumped all the plastic packets of soy sauce and duck sauce and hot-and-spicy mustard from the table into her purse. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a blank, beige kind of conference room, filled with banquet tables, coffee thermoses, fruit baskets, plastic towers of cereal, tiered plate stands, and stainless steel food warmers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I flicked the plastic star in the air and watched it spin across the room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The plastic bottles were little, though, holding only an ounce. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a little Oriental girl, with a trowel and a plastic bag of lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got cold and climbed into a black plastic garbage bag. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in rags and seaweed, with a chain-mail coat made of bottle caps and old plastic six-pack holders. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The cabinet also contains an ancient cracked plate commemorating the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and a plastic cup bearing the nose and ears of a mouse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How come those cups up on the sink in the bathroom are wrapped in plastic?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And the theatrical skull sings, “Storm fronts that linger upon the horizon; white plastic places where every thought dies in; swabbies and cocktails and parrots' bright wings; these are a few of his least-favorite things.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He trimmed his beard with the scissors while a pan of water heated and then he shaved himself with a plastic safety razor. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then she hands me a plastic daisy pen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the models simply outlined walls, fences, and doors with loose stones, but some were elaborate constructions complete with plastic model cars, toy animals, and thatch roofs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was still wearing his plastic suit, though without the helmet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She took hold of the plastic container in which we put the open rations of biscuits. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once I’d wolfed it down, I retrieved an old plastic Star Trek lunch box I kept hidden under the van’s crushed dashboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ben closes it like it’s an important thing and he wraps it inside a plastic bag to protect it and puts it in the rucksack. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheeting on the roof rose here and there, tugged by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Who thought it was a good idea to mold plastic Nativity scenes that light up at night? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Gilda crackers are on the counter in a plastic bag. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I pulled and peeled, until finally the stupid foil snapped away from the plastic and cranberry juice spilled all over the place. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They gave me a disposable slate-gray jumpsuit to put on, with matching plastic shoes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He bent down and picked up a plastic fan from a doorstep. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My feet shuffle for a moment, confused at the direction my brain wants to take and then I lunge forward, scoop up the sheet of plastic and a loaf of bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We carefully place the bag of liquid ice cream into the plastic jug. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, my hand closes around the thin plastic rectangle that I’m looking for and I pull it out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

After I replenished our strategically located sample thermoses with fresh tea, I refilled the plastic cups at each station. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks—especially when they were younger—they’d come on a Sunday morning and find empty plastic bottles of vodka, crushed cigarette butts. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was not uncomfortable; it had a floor of some kind of plastic, medium soft and warm to the touch; with wire walls and ceiling, it was airy enough. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her shack of plastic tarps and old boards and scavenged palms was the safest place he knew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, I curl in the curve of the tube tunnel, on cold plastic, eyes closed, cocooned and forgotten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Arize walked from aisle to aisle, cooing, touching the plastic wrappings, picking out baby clothes, a pink pram, a plastic doll with blue eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In first period, this one guy has cereal glued all over his clothes, and a plastic knife stabbed through a Froot Loops box on his head. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Since these materials are not very durable, they are usually cast in a more lasting medium: anything that can be poured, including molten metal, cement, even plastic. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Litter bobbed on the surface: empty plastic bottles, sodden burger containers, soda cans, and pieces of Styrofoam. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

For instance: a plastic banana, glowing a bright and unreal yellow in the dark. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her hands dropped from where they were hovering over the plastic hanger’s shoulders, and it took me a moment to recognize what was happening. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Did I swallow them, so now plastic nails were poking the inside of my neck? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The plastic cup slipped from her fingers, hitting the table. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The broken tables had been replaced, even if they were just wooden pallets resting on the tops of plastic barrels. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The plastic shopping bags were cutting into her palms. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I turned off the plastic radio and stared at the crinkle-stiff paper, how the words were faded from being outside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to live in a plastic gingerbread house the rest of my life, fighting my giant goldfish friend and waiting for feeding time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At one point, my head cracked back against the plastic side paneling and drink holder, but no one was paying attention to the strange noises in the backseat when someone was firing a gun. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He tugged at a clear plastic tubing on my left side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under the trees, on pounded dirt and among mud puddles from fresh rains, people set up stands for selling umbrellas and plastic wrist watches. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet rustled through shreds of plastic in the grass. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago he let himself dream of Berlin and its great scientists: Fritz Haber, inventor of fertilizer; Hermann Staudinger, inventor of plastics. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He is unshaven, and he wears a thick, dust-colored sweater, and black plastic sunglasses. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It stood to one side of the front door, a Disco-Matic made of chrome, plastic, and colored glass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His guardian returned in the small hours of the morning; he had a large plastic bag with him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We take turns sitting on plastic milk crates and aiming flashlight beams up at the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

From a metal rig hung a plastic bag of ginger-colored fluid, the intravenous tube disconnected and dangling to the floor. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When ordered to do so by teachers, I untied the plastic cup I kept tied to my belt and waited for my turn. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

John Jaax had been having difficulties with his partner in the plastic business, a man named John Weaver, and Kansas City Homicide looked at the partner as a suspect. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She follows my gaze to the lump of shattered plastic and metal on the floor beneath the window. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rather than be searched by hand, I chose to walk through the metal detector without my cart or my tank or even the plastic nubbins in my nose. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This time my belongings were stuffed into a plastic sack. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the middle is a plastic container with the buttons, separated into four even partitions. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Right now, they leave me alone because I’m classified as mentally disoriented—it says so right on my plastic medical bracelet—and everyone has to tolerate my ramblings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There’s a toothbrush and toothpaste, along with a large plastic cup from Subway. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tess’s mom popped each plastic glove at the wrist, then folded her arms across her chest. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Next she places a plastic cap on my head and sits me under her portable hair dryer. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He reached into the plastic bag he’d been carrying and flung me and Vega each a wrapped gift. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Her skin stuck to the blue plastic seat covers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take out my plastic cash bag and pay him one dollar and four quarters. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

All her clothes wait patiently on hangers, organized by type—skirts together, pants hanging by their cuffs, her sweaters stacked in plastic bags on shelves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The guys returned from the sewer grate with something in a plastic bag. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

I left one hand on him to keep him still and opened a plastic menu with the other. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She pulls out three plastic jars—one yellow, one blue, one red. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Two guys are on the floor in front of her, playing a video game, and she’s surrounded by white girls who all have red plastic cups in their hands. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Haukelid pulled the bomb out from under his long coat—nineteen pounds of plastic explosive molded into a long sausage shape. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Turks carry large plastic sacks and thick sticks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was rectangular in shape and made of thick, soft, yellow plastic, with calibration marks on one side. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A plastic ring that came inside a plastic egg for their mom, and she would wear it all day. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A young soldier came by with a plastic bag full of some kind of tablets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The plant is in a plastic pot, not a ceramic one, and only medium-sized, not so heavy that it will actually kill Nino Carlitos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like the plastic vomit playgrounds the poor kids have to play on these days. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The plastic keepsake attached to it was a painting of half of a yellow sun on a black background. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One litde snake was hanging out of a hole in the plastic. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my nose close to the plastic case and studied the jelly donut and the twist with chocolate frosting. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I swept it up from the kitchen floor and wrapped it in a plastic bag and hid it beneath the floorboards of my room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was weird, seeing real-life Iranians walking down the sidewalks, popping in and out of the stores, carrying plastic bags of groceries or whatever. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

On our first day, Jimmy spent about five entire minutes pointing to a plastic bank shaped like Fred Flintstone that he had up on a shelf in the back room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They lowered the TV into the hole by each clutching one end of the plastic sheet in which it was wrapped. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She gently shook the canteen, letting the water swish inside the plastic container. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The pumice rock minefield was dotted with stubborn weeds armed with sharp thistles, which poked up through the cheap layer of thin black plastic under the brick- colored lava bits. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon it had begun to snow and they went on with the tarp over them and the wet snow hissing on the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a big plastic number nine over one platform and a big plastic number ten over the one next to it, and in the middle, nothing at all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

At most, if it is exceptionally hot, he ties a nylon string on an empty plastic bottle, wraps it around his arm, and fills the bottle with water when he can. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He unzipped it, producing an orange blanket, a pint of orange juice, and some sandwiches wrapped in plastic wrap with the crusts cut off. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a jagged line burned in the plastic on the back and even without opening the case and seeing the inside he knew the radio was blown. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Takes all my strength to reach down and pick up the plastic bag with my bloody fingers and hold it up so I can see it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was there too, in a big weird sunhat and those dark plastic inserts you wear behind your glasses if you’re a certain kind of old lady and want to block the sun. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a plastic shoe holder hanging from the back of the door. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the other kids had to wear cheap plastic mittens that would start to crack up after two or three snowball fights or one real cold day. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m out of time,” he said with a mouthful of plastic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I unpacked a transparent plastic tube of powdered cream of chicken soup, and filled it up with water. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as my fingers clutch around the plastic, his eyes open and his hand closes around my wrist. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Matt saw things glowing under the plastic covers, so the machines were on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in a plastic chair by the gate, and held his bag so tight he hurt his hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I see a box of Earl Grey tea stuffed between her notebooks and binders, plus a plastic Tupperware box. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They were barred with ornate wrought iron fences and gates, and inside, women in flowered shifts dusted plastic covered furniture or sat on shaded balconies looking out over the commotion below. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But I think it was chiefly the plastic, which seems to me the most unearthly of all man’s creations so far. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was immaculate; everything was done in plastics—the floors, the curtain, table tops of stainless burn- less plastic, lamp shades of plastic. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached my tiny plastic coffin, I crawled inside and collapsed on the mattress, facedown, in the same exact position as the night before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I put a few knickknacks on the table to keep the plastic out of the iridium bowl. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say sarcastically as I scoop my red-and-white tablets out of a small plastic cup next to my tray. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We started for the wedgies place just as this guy comes up with a shopping bag full of plastic statues. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the roof is the saddest looking plastic cow I’ve ever seen. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mai and Willow Chance both fixated on the jail-like front panel of the beige plastic crate, where they saw an extremely large orange cat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mom is inside, surrounded by boxes and big plastic bins. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they ever sync up as we pass by two giant metal racks on wheels—inside are pale yellow trays wrapped in plastic. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, Deborah never even had a casket: Her remains were scooped up and thrown in a plastic bag. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Not the tiddlers you get in plastic bags from the Goose Fair. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What’s so important about this?” the Special asked, shaking the container and trying to peer through its translucent plastic. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She twists the pieces into a braid and then wraps them up first in a towel and then a plastic bag over that. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then she filled some plastic bags with some ice and hobbled back to the apartment. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A police officer brought a sheet of yellow plastic from the squad car—the kind usually used for covering corpses. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This time I really did expect Mr. Ferris to be waiting for Luke and me after school with our belongings in plastic bags. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Maraima held up a pack of the attachments in a see-through plastic wrapping. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Painted wooden saints with severe mouths stand alongside plastic plug-in Virgins with sixty-watt bulbs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newcharlie was sitting on the stoop, holding a plastic bag filled with ice over his eye. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He got the boy out of his wet coat and pulled the blankets over them, the rain pelting them through the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A constant regurgitation of the top-twenty pop songs bursts from the open door, and a giant, inflatable unicorn is resting its plastic horn against the living room window. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Students stood under the last line of lanterns, their fingers curling through the plastic- coated wire of the fence, peering into the vast blackness, straining for a glimpse, a scrap of sound. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

My feet quickly went numb, because I also wasn’t wearing socks under my plastic indent slippers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The dollhouse also came with two plastic bags. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I stuff pencils, a notebook into a plastic grocery bag. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just inside that is insulation, which is covered by hard plastic. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t plastic, and the light didn’t reflect off it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should ask who it is. You never know when it’s going to be el Cucuy coming to take you away in a big plastic garbage bag.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We closed the doors, and then I drove through the serpentine streets of Jefferson Park’s endlessness, the houses all still new-looking and plastic, like a toy village housing tens of thousands of real people. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But still, they were just toys, and usually some of the plastic keys would give out in a few months. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as my eyes adjusted to the dimmer light of the room, I made out the plastic statuettes and holy pictures of saints which cluttered the bureau top. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria clamored with the sounds of plastic trays against wooden tables and forks scraping plates, but any conversations were muted. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside were a wallet of dark brown leather, two tampons wrapped in plastic, a pack of gum, and a lipstick. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At lunch I grabbed an orange plastic tray and stared at the chafing dishes full of food, unsure what to take. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Pack the egg in a plastic bag, surrounded with cereal. That’s what I did when I was your age.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fadi rolled the foil off his steaming chicken and, without much interest, removed the plastic silverware from its protective plastic bag. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was red and yellow plastic, decorated with pictures of tiny smiling mice. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The thing is small, made of cheap plastic that has been painted to look like metal. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He’d haphazardly swept the remnants of the contraptions into the plastic bag, and yolk dripped from a hole at the bottom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I also had a pink plastic Caboodles box that looked like a small suitcase, which I had covered in stickers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The wind had pushed the boat away from most of the plastic. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lowry, an eighth-grade math teacher, filled up more clear plastic cups. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or groundsheet or makeshift tent. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice, a commodity unavailable at the motel, is for iced tea, which I brew by letting tea bags soak in a plastic cup of water overnight. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a black-and-white photo—in a plastic sleeve—of a white man leaning against a super-old-school car with his arms crossed. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She held up a strange-looking plastic thing with a hose sticking out of it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Red Cross brought plastic tarps and blankets from its headquarters in Saigon, as well as a little water, rice, and meat, but not nearly enough. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I unwrap the cord and slip the yellow plastic headphones over my head, pushing the tiny speaker nubs into my ears. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She clutches her white plastic ring under her arms, eyes fixed on the flaking blue paint on the far wall. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The plastic molded chairs were stacked along the walls, and the carpet smelled like shampoo. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We spent some of our skimpy earnings on thick plastic sheets to keep our home dry, because Arul said the rainy season was approaching. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They rush in and out of the house, leaving packed boxes or bulging plastic garbage bags on the porch for the movers to load onto the truck. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ames stored these in plastic bags, which he put inside his briefcase. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fine furniture was draped with leopard and tiger skins, and real plastic bowls glittered with jewels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt on my hands turns to mud as condensation appears almost instantly on the plastic. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When it rains in New York, rich people’s dogs wear miniature raincoats and plastic slippers that pinch their paws, and kids giggle and shriek and splash in the puddles. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Small chance his father would come across him—he was at work at the plastic shop. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mustafa pours an assortment of sodas and water into plastic cups and sets them out on the counter. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Percy concentrated until his ears popped, but the best he could do was blow the lid off the plastic treasure chest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By off the plastic he meant that the dead cells had detached from the surface of the flask and had floated away in the broth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there a difference between a plastic rake and a metal one? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I affixed the black plastic cutlass to the side of my white vendor’s smock with a safety pin. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I emptied my root beer can into a plastic cup and watched the foam threaten to spill over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He just chewed sunflower seeds that he kept in a plastic cup between his legs and flicked the shells out through the window, which he left rolled down. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I search in the plastic marker bin, grab a couple, then take the long way back to my seat, dropping my note in the outer pouch of Michael’s bag. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I sat on a large barrel of blue plastic, watching them, wondering when we could go home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Military food that comes in slick, brown plastic bags. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

This time she smells acetone Enrique’s Journey and hears the rustle of plastic. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I flicked the leaves onto his tray with my plastic spork. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I'm walking down the street toward the car when I see a black plastic bag on the sidewalk, fluttering in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I stepped forward, took a deep breath, and poked her on the shoulder with my plastic scythe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We tossed a little plastic ball back and forth for a while, and I tried to think of a good way to ask Stick what I should do about Maxie. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A child’s plastic wristwatch with the time painted on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get my plastic tray and hold it out. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a blanket and a towel, plus a zip-up plastic bag with soap, comb, razor, toothbrush and washcloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He slams a plastic T. rex into his favorite fire truck-toy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The white vans were pulling up, and these fat plastic bags were flying out the windows, bursting like water balloons in the homes of the football fans of Lake Windsor High School. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You got in with a plastic key, the kind big hotels use. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Gogol sees his mother sitting in an angled bed, a plastic bracelet around her wrist, her stomach no longer as hard and round. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I start gooping her up, following the line of her cheekbones and her chin, all the way to where the plastic bag touches her neck. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was an organic chemist, doing research on plastics and polymers. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The doll was naked, with horrible words scratched into its plastic skin. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he had parked his truck on the roof of the Van Ness Pet Hospital, he quickly carried the plastic cage containing the inert false cat downstairs to Hannibal Sloat’s office. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She is putting clothes into a plastic grocery bag. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A ribbon of bright pink plastic was tied to one end of the stick. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds up a plastic piece to prove it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Rosey returned to the bed, her hands filled with rolls of gauze and a brown plastic bottle. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I pay an extra two dollars to have Cheddar seared into the bendable plastic. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I use the lipsticks now and then, and last week I cut the plastic starfish off the sunglasses case for the baby to play with. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once she had the jacket around her shoulders, the strap and zippers seemed to wind around her like snakes until the plastic was snug around her waist and thighs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he looked at the sky instead; the sun had set and it was getting dark, so he came back to his wagon and opened its plastic cover. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was about fifteen feet tall, and it was growing in an enormous plastic tub full of black dirt that was almost as wide as the trailer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve o’clock has a box of clear plastic bags and twist ties. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

On one side of the bendy part was a woman with a crate on wheels packed tightly with plastic grocery bags, and on the other was a man painted head-to-toe in silver, reading a newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My fingers closed around the plastic prescription pill bottle. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There's no money inside, but there is a plastic ID card, and on the plastic card is a lady's name. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheet before me was peeled back a foot or so and weak light filled the space beyond. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him lay a water bottle, a green plastic thing, knocked over and spilled; beside that lay a jar of pills, large white ones, with the top off, also knocked over and partly spilled out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They hold red plastic cups in one hand while the other hand is shoved into a pocket of jeans that hang too low below their waist. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I grab the plastic bag of snacks and make my way out of the store, hoping that Darius is behind me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The hole was connected by a rubber tube to a catchment pouch made of thick, transparent plastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put another bite of cereal in his mouth, definitely not looking at the rubbish bin, where he had stuffed the plastic bag full of leaves he’d swept up this morning first thing. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The floor was littered with blankets and pillows and shoes and board games and plastic bowls with popcorn kernels and pretzel crumbs in the bottom. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Trying to stretch the plastic band they’d tightened around them did nothing but force it to cut deeper into the soft skin there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He heard the sounds of the soldier pulling plastic gloves onto his hands. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nuah puts his books on the table to pick up one of the popular plastic swords. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The plastic forks scratched against the Styrofoam plates, the fold-up chairs squeaked and honked as people scooched up to the tables. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every morning, Allen made sure the small Bible he’d been given in basic training was in his left-hand pocket, carefully wrapped in plastic to stay dry. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mouth was full, so I stretched out my arm to show Dad my da-dui-zhang badge, a plastic tag with three red stripes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perspiration poured off her body, streaming into her eyes, making her long for the water she carried with her in a plastic bottle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We emptied our plastic glasses, chased with coffee, and I refilled. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the briefcase he had notebooks, each one in a plastic bag, and he took one out now with a pencil and began to write carefully. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kids flying by on bicycles steer clear of this barefoot old woman in her plastic babushka, but I can tell you she is not deranged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way out, they threw away the plastic that had kept the pages safe for years. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

While he’s walking, Ayesha opens a small plastic bag and hands each of us a sandwich. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I go back inside for my gun, slip the leftover food from the saucer into a little plastic sack, and set off up the hill, the sounds of my sisters’ shouts and giggles behind me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath before picking up the package, he took a bound plastic bag out of the brown paper wrapping. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He wore cheap, printed Terylene bush shirts over his white mundus and the ugliest plastic sandals that were available in the market. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simulated wood grain on the Atari’s plastic casing perfectly matched the simulated wood grain on the television cabinet and on the living room walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Last week’s Thanksgiving was artificially sweetened, enriched with tense preservatives, and wrapped in plastic. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He opens the door under the sink and pulls out a new box of cereal from behind the bag that stores all the other plastic bags. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had tied a clear plastic scarf around her hair. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I set out two plastic mugs and two glasses, poured coffee, and set a bottle of whisky within easy reach. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital waiting room was far from comforting, and our coffee cups sat forgotten on the small plastic side tables. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The heat from the explosion melted through the shield as if it were a plastic spoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is a pressurized, heavy- duty plastic space suit that meets government specifications for work with airborne hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around their yard and pointed to a pile of blue plastic near the oak tree that must have blown out of the old barn. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a look of concern, from a plastic bottle she pours precious water into a small empty can. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was made of heavy wire with a tough plastic coating, and though he kept gnawing for half an hour, it was too much for his teeth. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Farmer asked a fellow freshman, who was unpacking his dry-cleaned clothes, “How come you put your shirts in plastic?” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The dining table was covered with a bright flowered plastic tablecloth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw my hands up and backed away from the assortment of plastic flowers. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I think that green plastic stuff—the suit, the tent, the wagon cover—is something that stops radiation. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cut a hole in the top of the plastic and duct-taped the hose in place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped her straighten up, noticing all the bottles of pills, lined up on the table, a small army of brown plastic soldiers with white caps. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, we are lined up and brought to the main butterfly garden, which is a clear plastic tent set up inside a bigger room. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Next I filled all the plastic vomit bags, sealing them by twisting them shut and making a knot. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We step outside, and Henry opens the plastic box. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I remember round tables with flimsy tops, plastic chairs with shiny metal legs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to the small plastic compass clipped onto the zipper of my backpack I was now heading northeast. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I pulled a little black plastic film canister out of the bag. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a good bit of creaking, but it seems fairly solid beneath the peeling plastic stuff in the kitchen. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Her father marveled at the industrial carpeting in the hallway of her apartment building; her mother hoarded faux-leather handbags at Kmart, paper napkins from the mall food court, even plastic shopping bags. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He ran back up to the shelter and found the radio in its plastic case and folded the note and put it in the case so that it stuck out slightly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was all over the sidewalk, swerving and yanking every which way, the plastic bag handles flapping in the wind like white flags. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Almost all the kids in the neighborhood with working parents had their keys around their necks on either strings or plastic key chains made in Bible school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Below the window are a blue plastic chair and a small desk that drops down from the wall like an airplane tray table. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

All the girls made friendship bracelets from plastic strings and colorful yarn, so I learned many ways of creating my own jewelry. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s window faces the front of the house, so I see Bad Leg to the far left, still sitting on the overturned plastic bucket with a streetlight shining over him like a limelight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She tossed aside the plastic bouquet of flowers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He goes on to check the socket from all angles, making small marks on the plastic as we go over the pressure points. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He galloped around the table like he was riding an invisible bronco, waving his plastic debit card over his head and making whooping sounds. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a girl, I’d passed whole days playing “mommy” to my dolls, pretending that I knew how to dress and feed them, brushing their hair, and tenderly putting Band-Aids on their plastic knees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I heard a thud, the cracking of plastic, and opened my eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Not-Charlie picks it up just as his friend looks at the mattress and the clear plastic cover marked with my footprints. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I guessed it was from dragging these two huge plastic bags up the seven flights to our place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There are snapshots of us having a picnic in the park, posing in new outfits, and floating in a plastic kiddie pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She headed back toward the living room, wobbling slightly on her wedge heels, and through the sliding-glass door Pearl watched Trip poke a redheaded girl between the shoulder blades with his plastic pitchfork. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She noted that Angela had a plastic surgery wish list on perfectbeauty.com. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Long after Dad had forgotten about the revelation in Isaiah, and Mother was again hefting plastic jugs of “Western Family 2%” into the fridge, I would remember the Weavers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And how your face was plastic and your eyes were two different sizes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was why every Christmas she sent a dozen pairs, glittering with yellow and pink plastic beads, sequins, and turquoise blue flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple gallons of water, a thermos, and a large plastic cup filled with plastic forks and knives. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It’s squashed flat; the red plastic is split at the sides, where the sewing is. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jobs turned out to be sorting the plastic forks, spoons, straws, and napkins for the cafeteria. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Olanna picked up a plastic duck and threw it back into the tub, and Baby squealed and submerged it in the water. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, last time I went with Mama, he showed me a signed Satchel Paige baseball card—super old-school, and so original, he had it in a thick plastic sleeve. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Its plastic arms were burned and blackened, its metal bones bolted and welded into place. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mom hands her a plastic container with two eggs snug inside so they don’t break. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He saw, then, that next to where the antenna came out of the case, there was a small discolored spot on the plastic. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He points downtown at a building just past the cheap pizza place: Montego’s Discount Warehouse, advertising its tremendous deals with a waving plastic banner. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I put all of our supplies in it—baggies, dog treats, water bottles, and a plastic bowl in case the dogs get thirsty while we’re out. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And there are other, better, memories: making fried eggs with her dad, turning them over with a large black plastic spatula. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It scares me that the waste man’s so interested in where we live,” I told Arul that evening as we spread plastic on the ground beneath our straw mats and pillows. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I woke up after surgery, there was a plastic ring around my neck, my right hip hurt, and I had trouble swallowing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek at the long cardboard box he just came out of and see a couple of plastic bags tied closed and a frayed green comforter. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And she had stainless steel lifelines all around and a small cabin in the middle with two plastic portholes on each side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enormous ingenuity is apparent with some of the loners in placing the water supply higher than the unit and connecting it with plastic pipe so that a gravity flow is insured. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something hidden there that looks as though it’s wrapped in layers of that plastic wrap stuff my mom uses to cover leftover food in the fridge. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Be careful you don’t get fat. There’s also five gallons of water in a plastic jug.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was very shabby, with my plastic garbage bag over my shoulder, and everyone was staring. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the boat, a plastic bag and two empty Coke cans floated in several inches of scummy water. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on Chantal’s bed as Donna tries to put that hairy thing on me and make my face look plastic again. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When we arrived, Mom bought us coffee lattes and a huge, gooey Cinnabon, which we shared with two plastic forks while we waited on a wooden bench. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I ate it myself for lunch, right in its microwaveable plastic bowl. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even a hard exhale could move the dry-cleaner plastic and give you away. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I reached into the bottom drawer of the side table, which was also a dresser, and pulled out the plastic bag stuffed into it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I drop the plastic bag I'm holding and spin around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Under the left couch bunk he found a deflated rubber dinghy and a plastic paddle, but there was no other survival gear, no flares or signaling devices, on the boat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her tear the slip across the serrated plastic and drop it into a wastebasket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

An upside-down plastic water bottle is attached to what looks like a coat hanger and is hanging above the cake. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out a plastic bowl and pour water into it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his fascination with plastic, something I discovered when the shower curtain was riddled with tiny bite marks, my bedroom now had the honor of housing his litter box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Many carry small Bibles, wrapped in plastic bags to keep them dry when they ford rivers or when it rains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I put my purple pen back inside the plastic case. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten a plastic stock car with my Happy Meal, and it sat overturned on the table. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

With relief he peels back the foil covering his breakfast, extracts the silverware from its sealed plastic packaging, asks the British Airways stewardess for a glass of orange juice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Zipping it open, Tally saw that the magazines were still there, each one lovingly wrapped in its own plastic cover. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He walked quickly to the trash and stuffed the plastic bag he was carrying down near the bottom, covering it up with other rubbish so it wouldn’t be obvious. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then we sat in silence watching Lenny and Cotton filling a plastic bucket with rocks and dragging it to the side of the yard where they were building some kind of wall. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I think Fm going to like it here, I said to myself, and started dragging my plastic bags down the hallway to my new bedroom. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But when he opened the plastic and took the thing out and turned it over he could see that it wasn’t a receiver at all. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a block down, a set of double glass doors opened and an old lady hobbled out, carrying plastic shopping bags. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had a little plastic bride and groom. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Twig stepped in, pulling a wad of paper towels and a plastic bag from the backpack and handing them to him. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She crouched down beside the litter pan, the scoop in one hand, a plastic grocery store bag in the other. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The taxi driver opens his eyes and reaches for, and replaces, the black plastic sunglasses, but it is too late. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But now the village was unswept, the water polluted, and the countryside littered with plastic bags and wrappers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the table with paper plates, folded paper towels, plastic cups, and metal utensils. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At the top they put what they always do, a small plastic bird covered with turquoise velvet, with brown wire claws. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dolls, stuffed animals, and plastic cars and trucks were strewn across the living room, and the kids didn’t seem interested in any of them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He had to wear his silly bellhop’s cap tilted sideways, its tight plastic strap sunk into his sagging dewlap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins are already in their play clothes, barefoot, and trying to catch lizards in a plastic jar. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I watched her pop the trunk and start loading in the plastic bags. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the fourth evening he gave me the hand lotion, in an unlabeled plastic bottle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated her at music time for the wheezes that came out of her plastic flute. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hand him the oversized plastic calculator Claire keeps on the desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the faint scurry raised by fingers against a plastic computer keyboard, the smack and clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’d had to dig out the plastic drop sheets, spotted with glossy white dots of kitchen paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted a go on Air Hockey, where a plastic disk floats on a cushion of air. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, I sit in a plastic beach chair and count the words in a book while everyone else rides the waterslides again. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, the prison was using the building as a shop to manufacture plastic garbage bags, but as late as 1943, it still housed inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred carefully put the letter and the photograph in a plastic bag. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was lined with car pet, and he didn’t see any sharp edges anywhere that might puncture a plastic bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim had brought a big clear plastic sheet, of the sort decorators use to cover floors, and was trying to rig it across the open front of the shelter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The mortuary delivered Chris’s ashes to their hotel in a plastic box. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelf of the rolltop desk, like a mantel under the grandparents’ photos, there were bowls of plastic tangerines and oranges, crepe-paper flowers, plastic vases, porcelain vases filled with sand and incense sticks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And there are evenly spaced orange plastic crowd-control barriers—you know, the kind you sometimes see along parade routes or at outdoor concerts—between the fence and us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, Ginny bought two soft drinks, which came in plastic souvenir cups, and a bucket of popcorn for them to share. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The chamber was empty but there were eight rounds of flares fitted in a plastic container, short and squat and newlooking. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

One time I went out back with my favorite toy, a plastic Tinkerbell figurine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Into the hollows of one of the cinder blocks, the one centered just above the front door, Arturo placed a print of San Martín Caballero encased in a plastic bag, to bring us luck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In the morning, as my mom showers, I stack the frozen plastic containers inside an insulated lunch pack, which I place in the bottom of my backpack. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He could still see the impression of the plastic strips that dug into his skin. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I take a clear plastic box and lid out of the cupboard and hand it across the island to her. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her parents passed out plastic cups of juice, but Emily was too shocked to accept one. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At one end was a hasp with a padlock taped up in a plastic bag. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The leaves are blown into plastic trays and the trays are loaded by hand into refrigerator trucks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented, X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he tossed the blanket, it knocked over a plastic cup that was in the cup holder, which I noticed had a toothbrush in it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed about the pack of coffee sleeves by the door was that the plastic was already open. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past the Perfect Living Room, where no one ever sat because all the seat cushions were covered in stiff, clear plastic. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

John Jaax was a prominent businessman and a banker, and he was a partner in a manufacturing company that made plastic for credit cards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scoot my square of plastic under him so I can wash down the rest of him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The rain stopped, exactly as predicted, and ushers ran outside and pulled plastic covers off four hundred chairs on the lawn. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was trying to seal off the front of his cell by hanging plastic bags and blankets all over the bars—the smoke was that dense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a meatball, dumped it into a plastic bag, and ran down the street. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The front yard was decorated with what looked like a DIY glow-in-the-dark bowling set made from plastic water bottles with glow sticks inside them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I turn to see the plastic bat flying through the air. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car was packed nearly solid with stuff—suitcases, boxes, assorted black plastic bags, hangerloads of clothes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All of them are encased in plastic and paper and have white labels. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the living room the plastic on the couch screeches. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He crashed onto his back and slid down through the floor and into a black plastic tunnel, which corkscrewed beneath him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We even took our fathers’ razor blades and cut designs into the plastic to give each vehicle its own signature treading. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She presses a button on the front to open it and takes out what looks like a white plastic cloth and a little metal scalpel. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then Mitchell Sanders laughed and looked over at the green plastic poncho. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the day of my repatriation finally came, I packed my few belongings in a plastic bag. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The first thing she did after he left was to throw away the red and white plastic flowers on the center table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting on my sleeping bag is a small plastic pot attached to a silver parachute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I look down, there are a whole bunch of plastic jugs down there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That night when I placed the plastic egg filled with cinnamon hearts in the box beside my bed, I did not feel the ceremonious satisfaction I normally did. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He got a cloth from the cart and a plastic jar and came back and wrapped the cloth over the mouth of the jar and sank it in the water and watched it fill. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They left the cart overturned in a field of sedge and he took the coats and the blankets wrapped in the plastic tarp and they set out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Next to the desk is a tiny round metal sink; in the corner is a closet full of shelves with a clear plastic curtain serving as a door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I did not think I could stand a Christmas at my parents’ house, with a plastic tree and no snow and the TV going constantly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sleeping pills that had been for the plane were still in their plastic cylinder, and also in the duffel I had a liter of pond water and a handful of foraged nuts. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the plastic lunch tray and go through the line. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We had just awakened from a short sleep and were sucking lukewarm coffee out of plastic tubes and munching on bacon which had been squeezed into little cubes, like lumps of sugar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we park, a sixth grader wheels by on a bicycle, a clear plastic trash bag of links over his shoulder. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You found a plastic bucket to sit on under the shade of a thorny acacia tree, about as far from the rubbish range as you could go while staying within sight. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From one of the plastic bags we carry our remaining belongings in, Keav takes out a bedsheet and spreads it on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gets some plastic cups and pours us all a small drink. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I walked into his living room he was standing on a plastic folding chair in a bright turquoise shirt, changing a lightbulb. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I decided the next day I’d go to G. C. Murphy and buy a pink plastic piggy bank I’d seen there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in the truck, breathing in smells of sunshine on plastic and the pungent sweat pouring from my armpits. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the truck the man produced a white paper sack and a pair of plastic gloves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I put a plastic Inca Kola bottle in a pan and shape the dough around it, just like in the picture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, most of it is plastic and leather and metal, but I knew it would stay damp all day, even if somebody wiped it off real good when I got to school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Actually, there were a bunch of plastic bags. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took a torch and moved into the plastic city and with the flame touched the walls here or there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lupescu put the tops back on the containers and replaced them in the plastic shopping bag. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Solid and plastic, it was thinner than I would have liked but otherwise encouraging. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself as a dentist, removing that gold tooth, pocketing it, and refitting Mr. Trepid with something else, maybe something red, maybe plastic, shaped like a fang. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at it for a few seconds before ripping open the plastic. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta has placed the broth pot under the worst one and repositioned the plastic to deflect most of it from me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Muthu gestured at a vendor who was dozing in the shade of a pushcart piled high with the ugliest plastic dolls I’d ever seen. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miig was holding a plastic lunch pail with a broken hinge. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He sends the solar system, in the form of a plastic mobile, and stars you can stick on the ceiling that light up at night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the plastic elf from Jamie’s bookcase and rubbed his yellow hair protectively. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mac devised a method of wrapping notes in plastic and then taping them inside the rim of the toilet bowl. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a big blue plastic hairbrush from her pocket and started brushing the gold out of her hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fred recognized a lot of the people from the show, all of them holding plastic cups filled with something bubbly and nibbling small human treats off party platters. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Thinking of Peris, Tally stuck on a big plastic nose. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A neighbor knocked on the door and came in with a plastic container of aku, anara leaves, and red peppers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were plastic cups, magazine pictures of women in bikinis, and newspapers from 1983. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She belched out a stainless steel canister—an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so blue and miserable I wanted to crawl into a plastic cover and die. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sits in the dark, runs his hands over the brown plastic casing. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He held up a small piece of blue plastic and split it open. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And so, while Eddie V. went off on the chemical taste of soda in plastic bottles, Dell checked out a website that sold bobble-head baseball player dolls at very affordable prices. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Instead I feel something cold and round and plastic, and when I look, it’s a fishbowl with sand in it and a hermit crab, scurrying around with a shell on its back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kasim holds out a plastic cup as I try to get Donna to sit up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was very much like the main town: shabby little huts, repaired a dozen times, patched with scraps of plastic or corrugated iron, leaning crazily against each other over muddy alleyways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked away, swallowed, couldn’t maintain the plastic smile. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A matter of hardware, the plastic explosives and land mines one needs to do the job. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the food on the other side of the plastic divider. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The plastic windows were all scratched up, and it was dark, but I could still sort of see what was inside. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was one small icebox that held milk, butter, eggs and cold cuts in plastic packaging. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solution is to wrap them: their shoes are wrapped in plastic booties, their bodies in white nylon lint-free jump suits, their hair in nylon caps, and their hands in gloves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open one of the doors and take an orange soda, the first plastic bottle I touch. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They had returned with a crew of ten more men and two trucks—one hauling the giraffe-drill along with other mysterious equipment, and the other loaded with plastic pipe. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried ration water for traveling in a plastic tube in back of my saddle cantle and watered her in my hat. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He takes the plastic bags I’m not looking at and heads inside to throw them away. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After finally getting the milk jug down into the bag, he tied the bright yellow plastic strings and quietly opened the back door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bennie yelled at the phantoms, stepping out into the center of the room with a plastic sheet wound up like a whip. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt helped the cop lower another injured victim onto a plastic chair. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He gave us all a wobbly smile and opened the metal door of the plastic pet carrier. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Rain drips through several holes in the ceiling, but Peeta has built a sort of canopy over my head an upper body by wedging the square of plastic into the rock above me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He reached under the desk again and this time pulled up a three-foot-tall hourglass, a giant version of the red plastic timers that came as standard equipment in a lot of his games. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He works in a factory in Queens sealing video games in plastic. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Turk sits at a table covered with a red plastic tablecloth, a teapot in front of him. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s another solution: We watched as the surgeon miraculously operated with a plastic spoon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two new indents already sat in the back, strapped into plastic seats, both wearing visors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her left leg is in a soft cast and there’s a plastic neck brace holding her chin in a very rigid position. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s standing on the median that’s perpendicular to ours, and he’s holding a plastic shopping bag from Walgreens with what looks like bags of Halloween candy inside. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“We met a blue monkey and were slaves in a plastic mine. Tendai and I were accused of witchcraft. Oh! And we had chicken pox.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet here Matt saw, on grave after grave, statues of skeletons playing guitars or dancing or driving around in little plastic hovercars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What harm would it do if I jumped on the plastic surgery bandwagon? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I lifted the green plastic covering and looked inside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But then she didn’t smile in that plastic way the mistresses did. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

While Dell spent years piling up plastic plates, Pattie was stacking money. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One black plastic bag after another came out until Madison Avenue in front of 3 Guys was piled high with trash. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were in the kitchen of the condo, in the soft flare of morning light, and Aunty Uju, dressed for work, was standing by the sink and eating yogurt, scooping from a plastic cup. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The “ink” was made by burning plastic—a pen or a toothbrush— under a metal surface, like the bottom of a bunk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my straw up and down through the plastic cap and it make a squawky sound. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The plastic submarine remained, untouched between them, on the table. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He hands me a plastic card attached to a lanyard ring. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He sat the boy on the footlocker under the gaslamp and with a plastic comb and a pair of scissors he set about cutting his hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Jill tapped the empty plastic Coke bottle against the table nervously. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some groups have fashioned shelters with rugs and sheets of plastic draped over sticks poked in the ground. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cover the potatoes with plastic wrap and heat them in the microwave. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“They were there—all three of them! I put them in a sandwich bag, but the fire-breathing one melted the plastic, so I thought they’d be safer in that side pocket....” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She drops her half-eaten carrot into her plastic bag and seals the zipper. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She smothers me in a cloud of chemicals that makes me cough, and the next time I touch my hair it's so stiff it feels like plastic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been observed singing “White Christmas” and dragging a plastic disposable cup top around his cell with a string, calling it his “car.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now I carried a plastic bag with the few clothes I had in it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grazed her fingertips across the center console, her nails scraping the hard plastic. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Soon the table is filled with his father’s hand-held vacuum, the rice cooker, the tape player, the television, the curtains still attached to their collapsible plastic rods. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a fireman is zipping Mom up into a plastic bag. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they find a dozen villagers seated in plastic chairs behind a long table. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She stopped by a CVS and bought costumes—matching ninja outfits that were more or less black plastic sheets with hoods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I quickly make my way through the dark, stepping on battlebots and other little plastic toy parts as I go. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I heard him cry out and felt him scramble against the plastic and squirm his way out from under me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My wrists sting from the plastic tie the guard squeezed around them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The shoe box was filled with stacks of cassette tapes, each in its own clear plastic case. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the daytime their crisp, incinerated corpses littered the floor and windowsills, and until Kochu Maria swept them away in her plastic dustpan, the air smelled of Something Burning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, I strolled around the neighborhood with a plastic bag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Lastly—and most horribly—they had to wash each slimy strip of plastic in a bucket of hot, soapy water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid a piece of red plastic over the flashlight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slots of Bobby’s pocket set had become so enlarged from thousands of hours of analysis that the half-inch plastic pieces seemed to jump into place kinesthetically, at his will. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of her blue plastic fingernails is missing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not the heat that glued her skin to the plastic chair, not an outing to the beach, not even a movie followed by a beef pot pie at the Automat. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watched a flying plastic bag land on the road and immediately begin to melt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From where I’m ironing, I can see Miss Celia in the backyard in a pair of hoochie pink satin pants and black plastic gloves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A very small move, little but a slight shift of fingers along the white plastic arm of the beach chair. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mother wore a bright blue dress and pink plastic sandals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colored pencils were taken away by the staff when I wasn’t looking one day, leaving just plastic markers and soft pastels—things that don’t need to be sharpened. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My guest was satisfied, and he warmed his hands against the plastic cup. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for a plastic tray of cosmetics, the compacts clicking and bumping against each other as she dug for the right color. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He took samples of liver and spleen, using scissors, and dropped the samples into plastic bottles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was coughing again and the boy was shivering, the two of them side by side under the sheet of plastic, pushing the grocery cart through the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He tears the plastic from one of the towers and hands me a red cup. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he puts on the black plastic sunglasses he found in the pockets, and leaves the hotel room to go and look for his cab. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

O’Dell had assembled protective shields for us—baseball caps with squares of clear plastic, rescued out of some garbage can, taped to the bills so they hung down in front of our faces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m like the post office,” Dad replies, scraping the snow off the car with one of Teddy’s plastic dinosaurs that are scattered on the lawn. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the fermented starch is used to make plastic. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Them green plastic balls get all tangly when her hair get wet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And then there is a building, its front laced with scaffolding made of bamboo poles held together with plastic strips. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to tattoo it on my butt for him to read,” said Chacho, going back to the tangle of plastic strips on his table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the MoonPie from its plastic, his huge fingers crushing most of it trying to slide it out perfectly. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She hands me the milk in a plastic bag along with some coins. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tess’s house wasn’t much different from their house back in Brooklyn, except for the furniture—the couches and chairs were covered in thick plastic. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

An electric cat: it lay in the plastic dust-proof carrying cage in the rear of the truck and panted erratically. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is plastic, swollen up tight in the sun. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also takes out a small plastic bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Now, he was playing idly with a small, plastic puzzle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was categorically opposed to plastic sample cups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter, a man in a white apron sorts silverware into two plastic tubs. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She handed me a plastic mug of water. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he was holding the kitchen timer, which is a big plastic tomato sliced through the middle, and he twisted it and it started ticking. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, there are two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches packed tight in plastic wrap, an apple, slices of cheese, a few cookies, and a mostly full bottle of Gatorade. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sugar content in our samples was high enough to mask the taste of the plastic cups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Next, to my astonishment, he took off the plastic suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Siobhan has long blond hair and wears glasses which are made of green plastic. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the hovercraft was filled with bales of plastic sandals piled so high, the boys couldn’t see out the windows. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a table full of plastic champagne glasses and bottles of apple cider all around the room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She draped a blanket over his shoulders, then left and came back with a plastic bag full of ice cubes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He spit into his portable plastic spittoon and looked across at me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I had that soft plastic arm out of Fern’s mouth, those Cassius Clay-fighting clouds threw our 727 another jab. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, in a green plastic box on the floor on his side of the closet, I found a big, black permanent marker. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind, there is a plastic bowl, large enough to hold this spinach, in the cabinet next to the fridge. Careful, oh dear, be careful,” she cautioned as he approached. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Open your mouth," said Dr. Corey one day, shoving in a white plastic mouthpiece. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s worth nothing in terms of money—cheap nickel and copper, the necklace part made of plastic. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A plastic, doesn’t-smell-like-anything Christmas tree without a single decoration on it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Propped up on his arms and staring up at me, his hands heeled in plastic shoes, he shook his head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the rod with the plastic hangers, my dresses hanging on them, the red woollen cape for cold weather, the shawl. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the bear heads on her waist was now wearing a pair of crooked plastic Alcatraz sunglasses. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Leave me alone,” I hiss under my breath, peeling off the plastic suit, ripping off the face mask and goggles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A rotisserie chicken, a couple of plastic tubs of things covered in mayonnaise, a watermelon wedge, a couple of bottles of Polar Seltzer, and a bakery bag of cookies. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She put the tests into a plastic bag and handed it to Lexie. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was relieved that it was not a windy day, for everything was still in its place, every water-filled plastic cup weighed down the paper tablecloth as it was meant to. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Next to me, neatly folded in a plastic bag, are my jacket, my pants, my shirt, my tie, my plaid boxers, and my ironic Lil’ Kim T-shirt. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As an act of good faith, Daryl opens the plastic wrapper of my pie and hands it back to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Workmen had patched up the house in a temporary way, covering the windows with plywood and draping the leaky roof with sheets of heavy blue plastic. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He dabs a bit of glue into a plastic bag and stuffs it into a pocket. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He unsnapped the plastic cover from one end of the trunk and pulled it open. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She removed the four dead monkeys from their cages, holding them by the backs of the arms, and loaded them into plastic biohazard bags. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled a red plastic cup with lemonade and then plopped in one Lemonhead candy for an added punch of lemony goodness. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

June wrapped both her hands around the empty cup so hard that the plastic crinkled loudly. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and watch the dragons as they flick their forked pink tongues over the few peda crumbs left in the plastic bag. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Barefoot atop the peach- colored mound, their faces smeared with dirt, they quickly scoop the sawdust into rusty tin cans and dump it into big white plastic bags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Inside, there are two plastic cup containers of miniature Oreos and a box of plastic spoons. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

I carried a map inside a plastic waterproof bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am unsure of the meaning, but I do think it has something to do with all that plastic— that, and the distance from the earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped a page out of a magazine, then squeezed my fingers inside the blue plastic holes of an old pair of school scissors. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Ashes and papers were blown around and some plastic flowers had fallen off the birdbath—but there was no sign of Security anywhere. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s some kind of aircraft plastic,” she said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve already “planted” miniature plastic palm trees in the grass, and now I’m strategically placing miniature plastic people holding miniature plastic shopping bags to give it the “vigor of life,” as Mr. Waterman would say. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then we each took a plastic grid and started weaving. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When she sees the second set of plastic flowers and the poster, weather-beaten and faded, Always in our Hearts, Annabelle stops right there. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed for a quite unimportant reason—because my hand was hard from working and his were soft, from wearing those plastic gloves so long, I suppose. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A plastic cup of water on a window ledge, just out of the woman’s reach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No, because you’re being very defensive. If you’ve got nothing to hide ...” Armpit marched off to the bathroom, where he got a plastic cup out from under the sink. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But I kept a plastic bag full of tiny pieces of cheese and bacon and stuff to lure him along, and after a while, he was trotting right beside me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Newcharlie moved the plastic bag away from his eye so he could get a better look. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Those superhero costumes were plastic kid stuff,” Em said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The monkey was not going to let himself be caught by some fool of a human wearing a plastic bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What if you were to symbolize man's inhumanity to man by heating up a skillet of plastic soldiers?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She found a box of latex rubber surgical gloves and a plastic shaker full of baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peralta sat on a small plastic stool in the doorway, listening. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I started to walk past to another table, smiling my stupid plastic smile—makes me feel like a zombie this week—but she beckoned abruptly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As they go, Hideo pulls out a bag of plastic red eggs from his backpack. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheeting was gone, and Charlie stood in the doorway, grinning. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One key has a blue plastic dog attached to it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Brandishing the plastic cutlass at Clyde, I cried, “Walk the plank, Admiral!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neil and Buzz began by putting on special underwear, into which thin plastic tubes had been woven. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up one of the empties and saw that the plastic had cracked and the water leaked out and he guessed they had frozen somewhere on the ship’s aimless voyagings. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We sit on plastic chairs, and another man brings us drinks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Grips the phone so hard, the plastic handset creaks. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The toothbrush was shiny and plastic and green. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d wrapped their feet in sailcloth and bound them up in blue plastic pampooties cut from a tarp and they left strange tracks in their comings and going. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The room was small arid shabby, containing only a rectangular table and three chairs with blue plastic seats. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even though white plastic circles my wrists, pulling my hands behind my back, tight, I keep my head high. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The woman handed him a tiny plastic spoon with three licks' worth of pink ice cream on it. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He tears open a plastic pack of clothing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It poured thickly, with some chunks plopping into the bowl, and I carried it outside to the little plastic table where we kids usually ate our meals. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A piece of black plastic that is close to the dryer vent appears to be waving at me like a black flag. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It looks like it’s made outta nice plastic, too, don’t break.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She devoted herself to the kitchen after that, preparing meals that she spooned into plastic containers and the tins usually reserved for Christmas cookies. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She was undressing her doll, prising the skirt off the plastic body. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

I glanced at the black plastic trash can and then at my brother. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police—plastic swords versus batons. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Frankie led me through the crowded room to a couple of empty plastic chairs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hear the ticking of a plastic clock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I lugged the jumbo plastic carrier meant for a twenty-pound dog to an empty corner and set it on the tiled floor. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

From my pocket I tear my weapon—a plastic bag of stale bread I thought to bring at the last minute—and hurl pieces at the dogs like hand grenades. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of hard plastic seats, and it smelled of sweat and mold. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mama and Papa had each filled a cart with food, they stood in a line and gave a woman their small plastic card. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conformable to the Orgota law that each “unit” must have employment, I work from Eighth Hour to noon in a plastics factory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was compressed but stable dynamite cleverly camouflaged with plastic and painted black so it looked like a lump of coal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There’s a yellowy-orange velour couch that has a plastic cover on it and a matching orange recliner. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The teams shook hands and the Fugees quickly ran to the bench for water and oranges, which awaited them in two white plastic grocery bags. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There was even a smokehouse for the curing of fresh bacon, ham, sausage, and all sorts of meat-based delicacies that would nowadays be purchased in a supermarket, uninterestingly wrapped in plastic. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The cop took out the silver blues harp, looked at it, looked at Clayton, then dropped it into a larger plastic bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Concealed beneath a mat of vines he found three plastic garbage bags, each tied at the neck. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From afar, the many green, black, and blue plastic tents jut into the sky like thousands of anthills with blackhaired people frittering in every direction. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clear plastic tarp flapped and ballooned in the breeze. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in kindergarten and first grade, Bennie would slide a plastic milk crate under the counter for me to stand on so I could see the candy better. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Camera operators rush toward the fence, scooting around the orange plastic barriers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The harder you stomped on the plastic bottle, the more thrust you generated, and the farther the foam-tipped rocket flew. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Plants grew everywhere in large plastic pots, as if there wasn’t enough greenery outside. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma nodded as Dr. Maris slipped her hands in plastic gloves. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a pair of flip-flops from one of the plastic sleeves and adds them to her suitcase. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I kicked aside a few empty boxes and trash, and saw, mixed in with the litter of plastic bags, a small red glove. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mom helps me carry the plastic deck furniture up from the basement and I scrub it with bleach. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A water bottle, a Walkman, and a plastic change purse, unfortunately not quite tightly closed. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Without the layers of plastic protecting him, the shrapnel would have severed his spine. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

That same crackling line whipped down over the plastic, causing it to smoke and warp under its heat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I know, I saw it before and recognize the music and wish I could go sit on the plastic couch with Ernie and the baby, but now my fortune begins. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before my sentencing I wrapped my remaining hash, about two pounds, in plastic bags. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There is more room for my little dog inside her plastic crate than there was inside Sputnik 2 for the original Laika. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The girl pushed back the plastic tab on her coffee lid and took a sip. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is given his own office, with his name etched onto a strip of black plastic by the door. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she frees them from the plastic bag, they disappear in the folds of her shimmering dress. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Molly is saying that during her hip-hop dance class, she wraps her legs and stomach in plastic wrap. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Enough,” he said, handing me the heavy plastic bag. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man and woman next to me are each holding passes in plastic covers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll Find something valuable. I’ve always admired the plastic dishes people had in their living rooms. I never knew where they came from.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Mom had been there, she would have whacked him on the head with a plastic tray. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nation was laughing with them and dribbling the ball, which one of his friends had made out of plastic bags and string. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We get Canadian wine in gallon jugs, Styrofoam cups to serve it in, pretzels and potato chips, hunks of cheddar cheese wrapped in plastic film, Ritz crackers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our team tested the sleep habits of five wild three-toed sloths by placing on their heads, in the early evening after they had fallen asleep, bright red plastic dishes filled with water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of grimy dudes with plastic grocery bags for hats checked me out as I came close. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Audrey sat on one of the faded plastic patio chairs, and I sat across from her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I wanted one of those plastic cards for myself. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the throw-pillows on the sofa hadn’t been thrown at all, but were regularly spaced on the clear plastic covers that protected the upholstery. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the plastic star that was still stuck on her thumb and then, without saying anything else, leaned down and stuck it on my forehead. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The way her old lady talks you’d think Lorraine needed internal plastic surgery and seventeen body braces, but if you ask me, all she needs is a little confidence. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

We sit there for a few minutes watching the shadows created by the blowing tree limbs outside of his plastic blinds. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Or possibly not in it, but just outside it, in a small plastic tent he put up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was still holding the Spaghetto container, which had nothing left in it but streaks of red sauce and a plastic fork. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When he arrived with Mom, he was carrying a large plastic garbage bag and had a small brown paper bag tucked under his arm. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We apply potent antibiotics to minor scratches and seal them with plastic. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carries a huge plastic paramedic pack and a giant gunlike thing that we always pretended was some kind of vaccine syringe. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night in bed Mia and I tried to think of ways to make our own plastic cards. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call me naive, but I seem to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheet didn’t quite reach, but we found that with one of our groundcloths lashed alongside it we could cover the entire front. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Might be an old boot or a tire or a plastic milk crate or a clump of seaweed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beach towels are strewn across the lumpy seashore, striped umbrellas and plastic pails anchored beside them. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A slight plastic card, but it weighed down his pocket. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Correct: Miraculously, the surgeon operated with a plastic spoon as we watched. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes a seat on the couch, the sound of the plastic covering echoing through the hallway. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So a magnetic plastic could be used to make a radiation-proof suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sunflowers decorated the curtains, and a plastic sunflower was stuck into the front lawn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had brought in plastic totes, coolers, and big buckets, and deposited them in the smaller rocks just beyond the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The plastic swords bent under her, but they provided some extra bulk to the knots in the cord, so at least she could keep a better grip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ben hands my mom a plastic bag and pulls out a changing partition. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A very small move, little but a slight shift of fingers along the white plastic arm of the beach chair. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Three men drive wooden poles into the ground to hang sheets of plastic on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flat packet wrapped in clear plastic and stuck with Sellotape. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feverishly, the scavengers reach up into the sliding ooze to pluck out bits of plastic, wood, and tin. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Old plastic suitcases curled shapeless in the heat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s still plastic on the sofa and recliner. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The floors were beveled concrete, the shower stalls wood planks and plastic curtains crawling with black mold. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One small thing that brightened my life: Joyeuse bought me a festive little plastic bottle with cartoon characters all over it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He popped up with a dozen miniature plastic swords in his hair, grabbed the soda gun and served himself a drink. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He carefully threaded the blade between flesh and plastic, working it back and forth to saw the cuffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We’re going to wrap Edna into a human burrito using plastic bags, then plaster her with two coats of paper strips. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the plastic in one of the windows shattered, and the muffled cacophony from outside rushed in to batter her ears. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I leaned over to watch as he tapped the gauge’s foggy plastic cover with his forefinger. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And if it hadn’t been for all that plastic he might have succeeded. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had gone, and the viewing screen was shrouded in plastic. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything that can be captured and held down is sealed in clear plastic. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning she measured exactly one half cup of Cheerios, the serving size indicated on the box, using the flowered plastic measuring cup she’d gotten from Higbee’s as a new bride. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the tank, snuggled in a forest of fake kelp, was a life-sized plastic gingerbread cottage with bubbles coming out of the chimney. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You’re not supposed to see the limbs of your friends and relatives crammed into plastic bags, all tangled up together because no one knows who the limbs belong to. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There is Justin’s bike, also known as Blue Thunder, with a plastic pretzel jar attached to the handlebars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She leaped off the chariot platform and dashed toward the plastic container. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled a small lunch cooler out of his backpack and became completely engrossed in pouring out individual portions of raw almonds and golden raisins into cereal bowls he’d wrapped in plastic. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above that is a plastic sack full of clear liquid with a tube hanging from the bottom. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He’s holding his plastic utensils in two tight fists. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Their prize possessions are scraps of paper, wrapped in plastic, often tucked into a shoe. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I had to press the plastic flat and lean my forehead against the glass to even recognize Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was shiny purple and had a white banana seat, wire baskets on the side, chrome handlebars that swept out like steer horns, and white plastic handles with purple-and-silver tassels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached over to the drawer that held his cutlery and pulled out a knife, brought the blade to the corner of the plastic bag. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Each evening, without fail, he summons his courage and goes to the Nuevo Laredo city hall with a large plastic paint bucket and two rags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He's got a blue plastic cast on his left arm from his elbow to his knuckles. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have just finished pulling together the proposal, poking the holes on the left-hand side of the pages, and binding the paper with a black plastic spiral. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“She sent some with me,” I said, holding out the plastic container I’d brought. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took out a translucent blue plastic body bag, laid it next to the dead woman on the bed, and unzipped it open. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even now, as he sits there fiddling with some kind of plastic box, he's easily ignored in the presence of his large and domineering companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It probably started with that first pop of air against metallic plastic, no louder than a champagne cork. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He has opened the boot, and I am about to bring out the plastic bag of fruits and the cloth bag with the food and plates. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They need to be glued, Lisa,” I said just as the plastic star fell down on her head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She scraped the chopped onion bits into a bowl, which she covered with plastic wrap and placed in the refrigerator. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I also thought about how showing up with a plastic bodega bag didn’t exactly match my whole look, so I trashed it and just carried the cookies in a Ziploc. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every few miles, I see a bright desert flower or white crosses with plastic roses on the side of the road. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Since the plastic was made of polymers, they called it “polapoly.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s all there, still looking mostly new under yellowed plastic. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tied the plastic to the neck of the bottle with nylon string, knotting it tightly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon all the trash was cleaned up and in a plastic bag he’d found. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a man pushing a shopping cart full of old plastic bags. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I am amused by everything she says—McDonald’s food is really plastic, downtown Detroit will be all white in ten years, the government watches us through our cell phones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead they look on ordinary roads where plastic wading pools and baseball bats are left out on the lawns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the refrigerator, opened the freezer compartment, and indicated the plastic containers. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Once the money was handled, they took seats in the hard plastic chairs that made up the waiting room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

While the bin filled, I helped Luke balance on one foot and lower his burned leg, now wrapped in black plastic, into the garbage can. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Livening up the action of the Lonesome Highway: two roadside memorials, with plastic flowers and photos of a dead woman and a dead man, killed in automobile crashes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was fun then, but now everything was made out of cheap plastic, and you could tell the stuff would break in a minute. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the Marthas are wearing matching outfits: navy corduroy miniskirts, striped tops, and clear plastic purses. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw two plastic vials, the kind I had seen a hundred times in the gutter, in the park, in the bathrooms in school, everywhere in my life. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After Los Tigres score their first goal, a dark guy in a cowboy hat comes toward us with bottles of Coke and plastic bags of pork skins slathered in red salsa. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As Chuck fumbled about with dishes and things from the fridge, Thomas pulled out a wooden chair from a small plastic table and sat down. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fitzgerald folded her hands on top of the plastic bag. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I set our bags down beneath a shelf on which I saw a plastic image of Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, seated on a pink lotus. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Calvin holds up a piece of plastic pipe like they use for plumbing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Put them in little plastic bags and threw them in a cooler with some blue ice and a couple of apples and bananas. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Peering out from under the blue gloom beneath the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We dashed back through the rows of boats, crouched behind a giant crate of life vests and buoys, and wedged ourselves between the crate and a giant plastic barge. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After he quickly washed up, Nathan immediately noticed that Nali had put four large plastic trash bags in the middle seat of the front of the truck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A second later, I heard the clap of plastic against a hard surface, as if the woman had put the phone down. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon we have rows of plastic bowls of ice cream spread out on the table. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A bead of condensation drips down the side of my milkshake, settling at the base of the plastic cup. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

What was left of my hair was tucked into a plastic shower cap, though not tucked in enough to keep it from drip, drip, dripping. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She tapped the thick plastic case to make sure he knew which scratch-offs she wanted. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The little plastic bag in her hand was loaded with orange pill bottles. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pax fetched the plastic soldier he’d cached and dropped it as an offering, then warned him away again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I think Angie’s family may be the last on earth to have plastic covers on their sofas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The cheerleaders had on these little see-through plastic raincoats with hoods. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

A patch of the dress is visible through a plastic window in the garment bag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room suddenly feels much bigger, the “creative team” way on the other side, behind a large plastic fold-up table. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Another one is sitting on a white boy’s lap in the corner of the room, and the two others are taking turns swigging from a plastic vodka bottle and giggling. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Parents fumbling with bags and plastic storage bins. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was slightly larger than normal, black plastic. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When they returned, the shop owner approached Henry and nodded very slightly, in the barest bow, and offered him another watch, this one boxed in clear plastic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drink all the water in my plastic bottle, but I'm still thirsty. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I move closer and sink onto a plastic chair, a little disappointed there’s no explosion, but mostly amazed that you can mix together simple, innocent kitchen ingredients and come up with a frothing volcano. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rinse the bloody pair in the sink, place them in a plastic bag, and put the bag at the very bottom of my hamper. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It's a plastic bird, light as a feather. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two spindles in the tape deck, hidden behind a smoky plastic window, pull the tape from one side to the other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There were some knives for slicing, and a bunch of pins with colorful plastic heads. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s got plastic pellets in it. The worst it’ll do is sting her face, maybe give her a welt. What do you think we are, stupid?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My face must split into two smiling moons, because Garret Charles stands, skittering the plastic folding table out from underneath the team, and whispers: “Wipe that smile away, Anthony.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I step deeper into the room so that Pattie can close the door, and I find myself next to an outdoor umbrella still encased in cloudy plastic. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The nurse grabs him and she's got this plastic thing she shoves into his mouth and his eyes are closed up tight and one of his legs is kicking. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cardboard boxes were stacked on top of wooden crates sitting on plastic bins stuffed with papers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The plastic cover makes a deep, hollow sound; the glass tube sounds high, sharp. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Would rather have a rubber nose or a plastic nose? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carpet was a garish pattern of green and brown swirls, and the molded plastic chairs were a faded orange color. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She put a plastic doll’s cup every foot or so, at the edge of the well, and she weighed each cup down with water from the jug. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The hanging plastic drapes swayed and dragged against the dirty floor, sending up gravelly whispers. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She rushes back to the kitchen and comes back with a plastic bag and hands it to me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I lay my sheet of plastic over my upper body and position my backpack to block the wind. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” I say, clicking through my camera, looking at some awful pictures of hookahs and plastic swords, thinking, What’s wrong with being weak? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His brother, face scrunched up with concentration, swinging a golden plastic sword. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He’s got Mom’s robe and some of those yogurts she likes in a plastic bag. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s about nine hundred degrees out, and my giant poofy brown gown is sticking to my arms like plastic wrap. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fake gold earrings and fat plastic beads loop around her neck, framing a face that might have once been pretty but is now deeply lined with exhaustion. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the plastic can down and ran over to him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me to play soccer with his friends, using makeshift balls made from wadded-up plastic bags and rubber bands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I gave Bob a little plastic tube of soap bubbles because it just seemed to fit his personality. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In her bathroom, she carefully smeared the protective gel around her hairline before she began to slather the creamy relaxer on her hair, section by section, her fingers in plastic gloves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was heavy plastic, with runners high enough that he wouldn’t have to worry about Bri getting wet from the snow. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Muokelu exclaimed, fingering the plastic half of a yellow sun that she wore on a string around her neck. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I spit a sunflower seed into the plastic cup stuck in the fence. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Pudgy grim smoking men played this horse-racing game where you bet real money on plastic horses that move round a track. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My father began to climb down a plastic ladder hanging from the bottom of the helicopter. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Arturo lifted the blue plastic shopping basket off the floor and turned it over to show that it was empty. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The floor is dark brown tile, and each shower stall has wooden walls and a plastic curtain separating it from the central aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was littered with empty plastic bags and coffee cups. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My pink index card was an accurate replica of my dad’s shiny blue plastic card. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The room is lit by a series of old-fashioned fluorescent tubes with plastic covers—they must be ancient. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He grabbed one of the little plastic cups and downed one. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She’s holding a drink—something pink in a clear plastic cup. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And he eats string and rubber bands and tissues and writing paper and paints and plastic forks. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My years there created for me an expendable past, disposable as a plastic cup. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I surrender ” “No,” she snorted, tapping the plastic dome where Algernon had found his way into the goal-box. “/ surrender is too much of a clichd. How about: Life is just a box of mazes?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Abuela’s couch, which was covered in plastic. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She hands me a plastic cup, retrieves the pill from the floor, and goes into my bathroom. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Momentarily the crowd stood dazed, thinking that the bullets were plastic and had been fired into the air. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the dead land outside, he would turn and come back; he could not go farther without his plastic suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The box came down, and Zeitoun leapt out of the way before it knocked the tent flat and sent plastic bottles bouncing everywhere. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

No one had ever brought him food in a plastic container with a lid before. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was clutching the plastic bag containing the book to her chest, her arms firmly wrapped around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A tall boy poured lemonade out of a carton into tiny plastic glasses on a tray. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fished some liver out of the jug, clipped a few bits off it, and fixed the bits in plastic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the plastic sheet, covered with fish, I enter Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat woman with a Phillies baseball cap and a plastic bag on her lap sat in a chair against the wall. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then Jack whispered: “Are you always going to look this way, August? I mean, can’t you get plastic surgery or something?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As if that cast couldn’t make his foot any hotter in August, I had to wrap it in plastic. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I retied the plastic bag to a back belt loop, rolled my sleeves up, took a steadying breath, and started. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a robotic arm with two shoulder straps that controlled the motion of the plastic fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He moved from the hard plastic chair by my side to the turquoise faux-leather recliner at the foot of my bed, leaning it all the way back, and closing his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stirred through the vomit with a plastic fork. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacquel opened the Kelvinator’s door, put the plastic jars with their slivers of spleen, of kidney, of liver, of heart, inside. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But the only thing in the living room is debris: price tags from all the gifts they’ve packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

An empty bag of Goldfish crackers on the desk, next to a nonfunctioning Curious George alarm clock, my laptop, and a plastic robotic arm. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The figure was a crude plastic rendering of her avatar, with the same face, hair, and outfit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sookie helped the biologists carry the plastic tubs and coolers back to their trucks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

You find the small empty space you remember, behind your mom’s long dresses hanging in their filmy dry-cleaner plastic. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m all dressed up in a new hand-me-down outfit—a rosebud-embroidered skirt and a cream blouse with little plastic pearl buttons. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A yellow one with a skinny plastic headset that I’m sure he’ll let me borrow. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be enjoying themselves with the toys I had given them: empty cans and bottles, and three plastic bags full of pebbles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The backs of my legs were already sweaty from sitting on the plastic covering the couch. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The older two ignored the sofa and chairs to settle on the floor while Chima curled up on the sofa, balancing his plastic plate on his lap. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Jesus’s feet, people had thrown piles of change, wilted daisies, and two roses —one fresh with thorns, the other cloth with plastic dewdrops. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Next to him, her mother was drinking from one of those horrible plastic souvenir cups with her picture on it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He constantly pesters students and teachers to properly dispose of their plastic water bottles. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then I opened a plastic box full of water and put a couple of electrodes in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who had no food brought plastic bottles of tap water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Trash is heaped near the main entrance steps—plastic cups, fast-food wrappers, broken beer bottles—all partially hidden underneath a thin dusting of snow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Felicia pulls a rusted nail file and a small plastic bottle of hand cream from her knapsack, and gets to work. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We settle at one of the plastic tables with our bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As well as taking up half the tent, the long-time family has extended outside their area with a makeshift shelter of plastic sheeting and bamboo. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was truly the room of a second grader, complete with teddy bears scattered all over the floor and plastic teacups and teapots toppled here and there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My dad turned the suitcase over again and poured out a bunch of brick-shaped things, wrapped in red plastic bags. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed the plastic chairs with one hand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Indian Health Service also funded eyeglass purchases only once a year and offered one style: those ugly, thick, black plastic ones. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, I like places like that: a large store with lots of aisles displaying bright plastic toys, greeting cards, loads of cosmetics, maybe even a photo booth. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I sit on the chair at the foot of his bed, looking at his white face through the tangle of gleaming plastic tubes and IV lines, I am dry-eyed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, they finally cut the plastic binding that tied our hands, and divided us again, sending half down to the right end of the freezing hallway and half to the left. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The customer was too busy stuffing his items into a plastic bag to notice. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There is Jennifer, packing store-bought cookies in a plastic tub for her daughter’s class. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The ghost/prophet/inspector/angel was gnawing some kind of plastic strip off her wrist. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They took the little stove with them and a couple of pans and he heated water and poured it into the tub and poured in water from the plastic jugs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Police officers stand in a line separating the protestors from the orange plastic barriers that sprang up outside overnight in front of the electrified fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Magic Marker ink seeped down into Miss Patty Cake’s soft plastic skin. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Wesley dug into a paper bag sitting next to him on the seat and pulled out a sandwich wrapped in plastic wrap. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the service bay he dragged out the steel trash drum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oil bottles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The purple cooler was in the middle of the garage and two plastic chairs were stacked on top of it. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was asking Dad how many fans it took to make something move from being side- stream to mainstream when Kat reappeared brandishing a plastic bottle of blue liquid. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve got to earn money now more than ever, so each day, when Shiloh takes his long nap, I set out with my plastic garbage bag hanging out one jeans’ pocket. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surrounded by starched backpacks and stiff denim and kids who smelled like fresh plastic. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others bag it in plastic and tuck it into intimate places. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He just claimed the fleabag and even took the plastic cat carrier that the old lady offered. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Families throw sweaters, tortillas, bread, and plastic bottles filled with lemonade. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I find the leather pouch that belonged to the boy from District 1 and fill it with a few handfuls of berries from the plastic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the counter near the muffins is a small plastic figurine, a boy with a pointy hat, purple pants, and a big swoop of yellow hair. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Below, she saw a mosaic floor decorated with deer and fauns—maybe a room from an Ancient Roman villa, just stashed away under this modern basement along with the crates of string and plastic swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Spin to win!” she shouts over the thumpety-thump of the spinning plastic men as I collect the ball from her goal. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The album was flipped through and, finally, the customer was satisfied and seated, frayed plastic hoisted around her neck, her chair height adjusted, and Mariama all the time smiling a smile full of things restrained. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z