| 单词 | banana |
| 例句 | He’s really hoping she doesn’t say love at first sight or something bananas like that. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Slice the bananas and cook them with the oatmeal,” suggested Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The last time that they had helped her calculate her age, during the time of the banana company, she had estimated it as between one hundred fifteen and one hundred twenty-two. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As he greeted some ancient melon vendors who had known their grandfather, Liyana’s eyes fell on a young man, who appeared to be a dwarf, weighing bananas on an old-fashioned hanging scale. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When it got back to him, we picked up the banana hands and started down the hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Alter a while, as soon as I saw her coming in, I’d start making up a banana split. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The black people would laugh at us and toss us bananas or papayas. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll draw a banana, a perfectly lovely banana, and they’ll say, “It’s a yellow airplane!” or “It’s a duck without wings!” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He gives us bits of cheese and ham and bananas but I can’t eat bananas anymore after the way the bird spat blood at Cuchulain. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I make my way along the south wall of the house, past a clump of banana trees, still green with miniature fruit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With my profits I buy lollipops and bananas from Otavalo and spend weekends at soccer and basketball games in nearby communities selling my sandwiches and candy and bananas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While we ate hot oatmeal and sliced bananas, a truck from a local store pulled up and dropped off loaves of bread and crates of orange juice. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She dances well and she eats banana splits. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve had a lot of visits from leopards recently: first the spirit animal by the stream, and then the one in the banana grove.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was broader and flatter, with sunken eyes and tusks the size of bananas protruding from his mouth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The banana leaves stirred up a breeze as Saleem pushed through them. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I had a bag of groceries with me — more milk, more cornflakes, and more bananas, for my inspection of the kitchen earlier in the day had revealed no spare pots, pans, or cooking utensils. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I grabbed a little carton of milk and some fruit that looked familiar—an orange, a banana. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z One morning I watched her peel seven bananas in a row before she found one without a bad place. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes there is an apple or a banana, and when there is, I always think about him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Just when I got worried and started to shout again, the soggy planks in the deck above my head peeled back like a banana, and Brer Fox dropped down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure tortures herself with daydreams of feasts laid out on long tables: platters of sliced pork loin, roasted apples, banana flambe, pineapples with whipped cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I especially enjoy it when someone slips on a banana peel. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z His friends were quiet long enough for Coach Hedge to finish a peanut butter and banana sandwich, along with the ceramic plate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was more impressed by how much the guests didn’t eat, as the servers cleared away banana leaves still piled high with food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z We wrapped the green bananas he had retrieved from the market waste-bins in newspapers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinner would be whatever strange thing we’d been able to buy at the side of the river, but breakfast and lunch were always limp cassava bread and fish wrapped in banana leaf. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She could see the party from the shadows of the banana trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Big scratchy brown bags with manioc and bananas and little cloth bags of something hard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They grated plantains, green bananas, yautías, and yucca, into bowls, seasoned the mixture, spooned mounds of it onto roasted banana leaves, and dropped chunks of savory meat into the centers of the mounds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Fifi looking for the bananas we sometimes hid under our shirts. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I peel off Andy Warhol’s banana sticker and put on the good, thumping, straight-ahead rock and roll. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At one of the large markets, Dicey bought a pie on sale and four bananas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen was at one end and the bathroom at the other, next to a grove of banana trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Rosaleen made banana pudding, banana cream pie, banana Jell-O, and banana slices on lettuce leaf till August told her it was all right, just throw the blooming things away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I hiccupped, finally finding the bananas you’d refused to eat that evening and handing you one. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She had a bundle of wood blocks which she had bought for two cents, a can of condensed milk and three bananas in a bag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They order French fries and milk shakes, banana splits and grilled burgers and sandwiches. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a banana split dish rowing with a spoon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “I can’t stay here anymore,” she said as she feasted on bananas and roasted yams by the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Luma moved the team to the shade, handed out bananas and snack bars, and encouraged them to drink water. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I always had a supply of bananas ready in case the chimps arrived. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Olanna hurried out and stopped when she saw her sister standing near the banana trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely as the Virgin Mary. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We were taken to a nearby banana farm, where we practiced stabbing the banana trees with bayonets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As we all bobbed precariously on the mountain of bananas, I just stared at Mother and Adah, trying to memorize what remained of my family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom had a slice of pumpkin and of banana cream. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa sent her to fetch more bananas from the grove at the edge of the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It ended with Nana storming off from the church picnic, banana pudding in hand. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Then Levi peels an invisible banana and pretends to eat it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Garbage. Restaurant-dumpster quality. Day-old meat mingled with bruised bananas. Quite a heady bouquet.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I just remember Deborah suddenly arriving, and my mom making baby food, mashing together bananas and avocados by hand. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She burst out of the banana trees and ran faster than she dreamed possible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After we had banana pudding for a snack, me and Howard went straight back to the ramshackle garage behind his house. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Instead of oxygen and stress, Claudia thought now of hushed and quiet words: glide, fur, banana, peace. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And the day came when he actually handed Old Man a banana. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the neighbors helped Alice bring out her piano and set it down near the banana trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When he returned he had a sack of catfish heads and some green bananas. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “A new apple? A new banana? A new strawberry?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Or maybe it meant, “Is there a banana?” which sounded a little foolish if you considered it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “No, they’re not. Here, try for yourself. I have two bananas right here.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to be back in Phoenix, sitting under the orange trees behind our adobe house, riding my bike to the library, eating free bananas in a school where the teachers thought I was smart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Wafer” was too secular, wafer was what one of Papa’s factories made —chocolate wafer, banana wafer, what people bought their children to give them a treat better than biscuits. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I bent over and picked up the tip of her nose, which now looked like the tiny end piece of a sliced banana. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “First thing I’m gonna make is some real banana pudding,” Mama says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She felt startled to see her secretly famous banana seller standing off to the right, wearing a bulky blue sweater much too large for him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For all I knew, Rachel had the brains of banana bread. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He didn't like the idea of climbing a mountain with nothing but green bananas in his belly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Outside, Lee Cheun scoops ladles full of cooked rice and puts it on banana leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Watch this, Nick, he says, then dribbles to the center of his backyard and flame throws a banana kick so swift, it basically splits the air, then sizzles right into his doghouse. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Now he quoted Theodore Roosevelt, whom he resembled a lot: “ ‘I could carve a better man out of a banana.’ Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking relieved, Teashop Aunty pressed two large bananas into your hands and a few vadais, hastily wrapped in a banana leaf, into mine. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But we’d go along with her, acting all excited over her lighting the banana. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Around their heads, in the sweetness of a breeze that already smelled of summer, a dozen children blew up their blazing orange bananas and planets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z This performance Nick observed with a jaundiced eye that proclaimed: Asking Bernabe Montoya to investigate this case, or any case, is like asking a pet goldfish to eat a crate of bananas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A yellow banana in the white, white snow. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She saw that he was wearing his one Sunday suit and that underneath his shirt he bore the rash of the banana company. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The trash can was full of banana peels, and the electric percolator bubbled into the tiny glass nozzle on top of it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll give you each a banana and you eat it the way you want.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They had the same faded-loolang labels as every other thing Papa s factories made—the wafers and cream biscuits and bottled juice and banana chips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Bridge stepped out of her damp shoes, got a banana from the kitchen counter, walked to the couch, and dangled it in front of his face. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The girl pulled her arms all the way into the body of her yellow sweater so that the empty sleeves hung like banana peels, and I saw it was true. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In the center, a grocery store sold vegetables and takeaway meals wrapped in banana leaves. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The bright-colored mural was still streaked in blackened mashed banana, but the painted figures stared at us in reproachful stillness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Remedios the Beauty was the only one who was immune to the banana plague. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There were ripe palm nuts on that tree for another five days, and David Greybeard visited three more times and got lots of bananas. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z His bananas were stubby and short themselves, more like exclamation points than parentheses. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She has the bananas look on her face that happens in museums, like she’s going to steal the art. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I take the packet wrapped in banana leaves and head toward the hospital. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you’d be hanging from a tree like a bunch of bananas. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got some bananas, some strawberries. What would the kid like?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One man was in his nightshirt and a lady was trying to carry a bunch of bananas with her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a merchant’s hand, and still not purchase a single banana. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fussing at his mother for buying too many bananas? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She talked the Waldorf-Astoria into letting her house him in a luxury suite, posed for reporters with “Blooey” and a banana on the Waldorf’s plush settee, then carried him home as a pet. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They taste like a very sweet banana, are earthy and a little slippery. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he helped himself to the bananas I had set out for him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z This year, Mother manages only banana tapioca and my favorite black sesame candy. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Thick-skinned banana clumps, pungent sprays of jasmine, black-seeded papayas, and delicate pods of vanilla all astonished her. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I could spot every kind of fruit tree—mango, coconut, banana, jackfruit, and even a short orange tree. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z After he’d chased down the banana with Mountain Dew, he added, “But if you need the rest of the agenda for your report to Mom, I’ve got practice.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He went to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen, cassava, caladium, banana. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The fresh feed included a ton of bananas, and the new cargo, a female Congo chimpanzee, part of Father’s wheeling and dealing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He had eaten three bananas and was now attacking a fourth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Person 1 trades a banana to Person 2 for a piece of shiny metal, because he knows he can trade it to Person 3 for a cookie; we think of it as selling. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As I made my calls, Otto would munch bananas and stare out the window, or go outside to teach the new arrivals jungle-gym techniques. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Most of the girls sat on the couches or in chairs, but one first year stood in front of all of them, holding a banana. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z So T would get the banana, and I would get the apple, and we would split them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Through triangles between quiet banana leaves I saw flame-haloed faces laugh at the promise of death everlasting. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re ripening very quickly,” answered Milo, “and we don’t have a minute to lose. Just think how happy the men back at the squadron will be when they get these bananas.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The island was covered with greenery as far as she could see—not with ordinary forest plants, but with tomatoes, mealies, and bananas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A ton of bananas brisdes with a good three, four pounds of big black spiders. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They grumbled continually as they built and rebuilt with leathery, deliberate hands their pyramids of mottled greenish oranges and mangoes and curved embankments of hard green bananas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna was startled when she first heard the melancholy tones, music so pure and so confidently played that it charged the air and held the swaying banana trees still. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A man comes out of the snack shop, holding a banana and a packet of Protein Graham Crackers, whatever those are. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When he landed on the other side, his banana shoes let out a gassy PPPFFFFFIIP. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She found the remnants of a farm and gorged herself on bananas gone wild. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I ignored her and peeled another banana and stuffed what I could into my already full mouth. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Last year, Daddy made me a huge breakfast in bed: ten pancakes, ten pieces of bacon, ten bananas, and ten little cups of orange juice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Halfway there, Poppy returned to the car to get the basket of bananas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Visualize the banana tree as the enemy, the rebels who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened to you,” the corporal screamed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The lady weighs the bananas on a rusted scale, nodding. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Annoyed, she shoves the bag of bananas in my arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our money was gone, and we weren’t any richer, except for the raincoat and bananas and bag of beads that Teashop Aunty had given us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Monday morning, she showed up carrying a box loaded to the top with two loaves of banana bread, two pies, peanut butter cookies, corn muffins, a dish of macaroni and cheese, and a lasagna. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She brought the banana up to her lips. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z My arms acted like windup toys gone bananas. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Lola carries in a tray of rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves and two glasses of milk. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They then folded the banana leaves into rectangles, tied them with cotton twine, and dropped the pasteles into a huge pot of boiling water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I asked, biting off a chunk of banana. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She and Shriya walked off together, leaving the rest of the bananas behind for someone else to clean up, and I tried to wash the banana off me wherever I could. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I eat three banana peels in a row. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The chemical has also destroyed some important insect predators and so has caused an increase in the tortricids — small, stout-bodied moths whose larvae scar the surface of the bananas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "With nuts and whipped cream, and bananas, and hot fudge." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Beau and I shared some bananas and jerky and trail mix. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There were trays of cookies, strawberries, bananas, and brownies. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z May had to have a banana every morning, and this banana absolutely could not have a bruise on it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s dawning on me that I live among men and women who’ve simply always understood their whole existence is worth less than a banana to most white people. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Bruno was in the bowl finishing that fourth banana. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He walked away and began instructing my traveling companions how to pick up a hand of bananas and carry it on their shoulders instead of their heads. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Mother held on to some bananas and made it to the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Each hand looked as large as a bunch of bananas. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A frozen banana tree, brow'n and stricken, languished against the front of the porch, the tree preparing to collapse as the iron fence had done long ago. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I smiled finally and then went to the kitchen for my favorite snack: a banana dipped in melted chocolate chips. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, you mean after they eat so many bananas they can’t get out of the banana hole?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We hide amongst the banana trees that have sprung up all around his latrine, even while it gives us the creeps knowing all this lush growth is fertilized by such a disgusting man’s night soil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he asked me if he could get a banana pudding, too. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Miraculously, as miraculous as snow on Easter and strangers passing out onto the ground, the small, smiling man pulled a stubby banana from his pants pocket and handed it to her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Look, Jeremie, how that small lizard walks on the top of the banana leaf outside. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It is best explained by example: Freddie was offered an apple and a banana, and he chose the slender yellow fruit. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was fine but she was standing above me and pulling long, rotten strips of flesh off her arms and hands as if peeling a rotten banana. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “We could try peeling him like a banana,” the Old-Green-Grasshopper suggested. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The last stop on our tour was at a small market where Akhi had me buy a package of plain crackers, bottled water, almonds, and two bananas. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the other hand he carries a banana, which he keeps offering to the bird, who just squawks and spits blood at him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This alarm conveniently frightened away a fellow monkey who had just found a banana, leaving the liar all alone to steal the prize for itself. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z New Guineans tamed sugar cane and bananas, while the first West African farmers made African millet, African rice, sorghum and wheat conform to their needs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z People had taken to calling them “banana boats,” because once they were exposed to water both their bows and sterns tended to curve ever so slightly upward. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z While he was gone, I ate a bowl of oatmeal with sliced bananas. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z We push the pram to a dark corner and peel the bananas for the twins.There are five bananas in the bunch and we feast on them in the dark corner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When she stepped off the bananas into the boat, they bobbed up and rolled over. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The banana company's city, which Patricia Brown may have tried to evoke for her grandchildren during the nights of intolerance and dill pickles in Prattville, Alabama, was a plain of wild grass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The sky crumbled into a set of destructive storms and out of the north came hurricanes that scattered roofs about and knocked down walls and uprooted every last plant of the banana groves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Most definitely. Especially a black one, but that’s a whole other bunch of bananas.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Okamoto: “Yes, yes. But it would take a lot of bananas to hold up an orangutan.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As he approached, slowly making his way through the noisy dried banana leaves, the sight of his face awakened my memory. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I couldn’t take my eyes off the apples and bananas and grapes in the picture. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z ‘This one is pineapple, mango, orange and banana, buried under a mound of shaved coconut. I call it the Hercules!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The occasional peach pit or banana peel surfaced as we scooped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Over on the side of the stage, a shoe that looked like a peeled-open banana appeared from behind a curtain. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The steel casement was turned back like a banana peel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He now saw the bananas lying near him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They brought Nebraskan wheat to Tokyo, Brazilian bananas to London, American scrap metal to India. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was surrounded by palm trees and banana trees, and, when the bananas ripened, the students all got free bananas at lunch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You said the orangutan came floating on an island of bananas.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z That means if there are supposed to be three bananas you have only two of the three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The twins slobber and chew and spread banana over their faces, their hair, their clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Frankie ruffled his sisters curly blond hair and snagged a banana from the basket in the center of the table. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If the twins ever spat blood at me when I offered them a banana I think I’d hit them on the head with it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Billy looked in, and there was Montana Wildhack alone on a bed, peeling a banana. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the house they still had guests for lunch and the old routine was never really set up again until the banana company left years later. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was a pear or a peach or something like that, but usually it was an apple or a banana, and you had to choose. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Then she pulled out a long chunk of banana from her sundae and threw it in my lap. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But when Mr. Brown announced his decision a torrential downpour spread over the whole banana region. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But this next part is no lie: When we got back in from recess, Mrs. Bigio and Mrs. Baker were holding two trays filled with fried bananas. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They pounded fufu, made garden egg stew from eggplant and dried fish, and gathered more bananas, mangoes, and papayas. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d come up with their secret-keeping policy in the shade of the banana grove: “Tell only if one of us might be in trouble.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z It would be some version of banana yellow and slightly hair-raising. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mom came in with an empty Coke bottle and a banana peel. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z 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 He’s pinching one of the large banana leaves between his fingers when I walk in. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sissy explained that she had bought a bit of gold paint powder, mixed it with a few drops of banana oil and had gilded each penny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she could say anything, he ran out of the banana grove. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z We imitated the soldiers, pointing our fingers or pointing bananas, spoons, or slippers at one another and making the sounds of shooting. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She takes a small bite of her peanut butter banana. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Even if you get the banana to float in a perfect vacuum in the center of the box, you can’t stop the wiggling entirely, because dancing particles give off light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Imogen ate one or two fries, and then took a banana out of her bag and ate it with a spoon. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Technically, he’s top banana as president of the eighth grade, even though he only ran for office to impress Suzy Kraft, who dumped him anyway, the day after the election. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Through the window he sees palm trees and banana trees, a damp, drab sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He decides which bananas, grapes, onions, and potatoes the company will sell and makes sure that there is always enough. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She’d heard myths like that: a kid with an old lady begs for shelter, and when the rude mortals refuse—boom, they get turned into banana slugs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His skin was blotched as a dying banana. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He did not treat the rich foreign merchant differently from the servant who shaved him and the peddlers, from whom he bought bananas and let himself be robbed of small coins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Top of the bag I see bananas and vanilla wafers. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z May could go through five or more every morning looking for the ideal, flawless banana, the one that hadn’t gotten banged up by the grocery world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them even tasted like baked goods, like blueberry muffins and banana nut bread. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Mostly I watch the world go by and think about naps and bananas and yogurt raisins. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “Would you like some of my fresh banana pudding?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Olanna did not look up from the bowl smeared with mashed bananas because she did not want him to see her face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I fill my paper plate with unappetizing pastries—miniature muffins, a Danish filled with some dark, unidentifiable jam—a banana with too much green along its curved rind, and a firm, cool-skinned orange. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Yep. He loves that truck more than I love banana cream cheesecake!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The box’s atoms are wiggling around, and they will bump the banana’s atoms and set them in motion again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The man was still singing his thanks as Olanna took a banana from the table and left the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But you need money, Italians are not known for giving away bananas especially to the McCourts who owe them money already for groceries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Today, the staple crops of highland agriculture are the recently introduced sweet potato, along with taro, bananas, yams, sugarcane, edible grass stems, and several leafy vegetables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The wheels of cars squashed the scattered oranges and bananas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z See the batey, the dirt road leading through, the shacks made of cornstalks roofed with banana leaves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When he said this, we all got angry and drove our knives in and out of the banana trees until they fell to the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I gave them the fruits I bought at Ninth Mile and apologized because the heat in the boot had blackened the bananas. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They won’t talk about the bad things in front of my sisters, but me I can listen all the livelong day while I’m getting me a banana in the kitchen house and peeling it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A banana flower sheathed in claret bracts hung from a scruffy, torn-leafed tree. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z However, despite the lingering meat fumes, my grandma never fed me anything other than bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast, in consideration of my illness. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up some of the bananas and waited for Gasemu to gather his water jug, machete, and the last bunch. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I take a banana, which is covered in brown spots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys’, but it didn’t help, because when Mrs. Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In fact, the body was nothing but a banana stem wrapped up in leaves, and the tears that Snail wept were not real tears. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She hasn’t eaten anything but toast and polenta and bananas since the deer. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They looked about ten or eleven years old, wore banana leaves on their heads, and held mock guns made from bamboo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Belet flipped a knife and chopped up a banana into neat slivers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Called back among the banana leaves that do not speak in the silent night, I listen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrd swipes a banana from the counter, grabs a handful of other things. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I added the bananas that remained from the bunch that Teashop Aunty had given us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He had a square house with a red tile roof, and his garden was full of heavily laden banana and papaya trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I kinda got a question. Since most bananas are yellow, what if a person doesn’t like green bananas? Does that make him or her a banana racist?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z On the way home from the ice cream place, Jamie, with his chocolate-peanut butter twist, and Bridge, with her banana caramel, walked a few steps behind their parents. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Then, very slowly, he ate the piece of meat roasted with onions, the white rice, and the slices of fried bananas all on the same plate together. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Before we leave the next morning, and when my brothers and sister aren’t looking, I grab some of our cooked rice and wrap it up in banana leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about how to make plastic from banana peels instead of petroleum. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He hands me a glass of water and a banana and sits next to me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z 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 She had told him stories, sung him songs, fed him bananas and corn bread and, on the first cold day of the year, hot nut soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother looked at Bruno who was guzzling away in the bowl of bananas. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z That night the palm and banana trees began that long distance talk with rain. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Usually when she cooked, the food had the house smelling some-kind-of-good, and they’d scheme ways to get an early spoonful of banana pudding or sneak a slice of sweet potato pie. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We can no longer afford to eat plain rice but have to mix it with mushrooms, banana stocks, and other leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I scarf down the bowl of oatmeal she left for me on the kitchen table along with a banana, hoping doing at least one thing my mom asks will soothe my conscience. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Yay, you’re home. Can you grab me a banana? My knees are like little knobs of pain.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Okay. I’m going to tell the fourteen-year-old behind the counter she might want to throw out her banana chocolate swirl,” Celia said, gesturing at the kid in glitter lip gloss texting behind the counter. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Now alongside the empty milk crates at Mr. P’s, brown paper bags with collars neatly rolled boasted plump strawberries, crimson cherries and Chiquita bananas. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The white lunch lady with her hair in a net has a huge gap-toothed smile as she piles sloppy joes and too-cheesy slices of pizza onto plates, along with cartons of milk and browning bananas. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “Your dog just ate my bacon,” she told Elena, who was slicing a banana at the other end of the kitchen, the pieces falling into her cereal bowl. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The bananas didn’t taste good at all, because there was no salt or any other ingredients, but we ate every single bit, just to have something in our stomachs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Pouches of pan-fried shredded coconut Tamarind paste on banana leaf Steamed corn on the cob Rounds of fried dough Wedges of pineapple on a stick And of course cubes of papaya tender and shiny. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I am going to put these in a very tasty stew with fish and green bananas,” she announced. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I always get the banana cream cheesecake for dessert. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I rummaged in my schoolbag, pushing aside books and pencils and half-squished bananas I hadn’t gotten around to eating, and pulled out a sheet of paper. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z And after the same kids saw Lelia and me play with him in the front yard they started in with other things, teaching him words like mutt, mongrel, half-breed, banana, twinkie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Can you put bananas in my pancakes, please? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I am thinking about cold cheese sandwiches and banana chipmunk cheeks. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe I'm allergic to cat dander and I'd like to buy a banana or something. Don't you think that's grounds for a lawsuit?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then he handed us a bunch of bananas. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Black beans and rice, fried bananas, and some stew.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My favorite jeans are still in the dirty-clothes hamper, and all there is for breakfast is banana yogurt. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She would show him a banana and playfully yank it back, and they would get into these banana fights, pushing and pulling the fruit back and forth. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Briony remained in the shade of the portico and thought about the little present she would buy her friend—something delicious to eat, a banana, oranges, Swiss chocolate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I thought bananas and a chimpanzee were more interesting than a loud, filthy mechanical contraption in the dark bowels of a ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t notice the little girl in the aviator’s cap stealing up on a banana bike. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I grabbed another two bananas and slowly spun them around in front of my mouth. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I kissed her on the cheek and crossed the tiny living room to the kitchen to wash my hands and grab a banana. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I ate cornflakes and milk, morning and night, and bought some bananas for variety, slicing them into the bowl with the edge of my spoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “You and Orr have to load the bananas into the plane right away,” he explained. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For her, with no further questions asked, proper people were those who had nothing to do with the banana company. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We had a big African palm tree inside our front gate, and in the backyard, a banana tree and my favorite tree, called a madammé tree. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “He’s so weird,” Kendra said, taking a bite of what now tasted like banana nut bread. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I see she leave me a yellow flower in a glass by my bed, and a pink one from the banana tree outside. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z An old banana peel would work, but I’ve eaten them all. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He showed me pictures of a tomato, a cherry, a round red balloon, and a banana. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I draw the things in my cage, simple items that fill my days: an apple core, a banana peel, a candy wrapper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z That evening there was a banana moon and all kinds of sky-glitter—the name Genie made up for stars. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The creature’s fingers were the size of bananas, but nowhere near as pliant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I chase a banana slice around inside my bowl. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Each had a half a banana for dessert, and a quarter of Sammy’s doughnut. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, lots of fishing captains won’t let you bring a ripe banana on board because they believe it’s bad luck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She did not see the shady, endless banana groves on both sides of the tracks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We could also count on candlestick salad, which meant half a banana standing up in a pineapple slice. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hawkers were at every comer, with glass-enclosed cases of akara and suya and browned chicken drumsticks, with trays of peeled oranges, with coolers the size of bathtubs full of Walls banana ice cream. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I remember I’d brought a banana back to our room to eat after the first day of practice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had been born and raised in Macondo and he was an apprentice mechanic in the banana company garage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Sweet plums and bananas and rough-skinned cherimoyas spilled over the edges of rush mats, ready for the taking. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It makes him want to throw up, like cooked carrots or bananas or figs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My stomach was sick and wasted but it desperately wanted fuel and the banana stayed down. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It shines through the banana leaves of our hut, shines on the dust. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One bad day, and that cat could go bananas and shred the whole place. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Every Saturday morning after I’ve been fed, Mom reads the newspaper while she has her coffee and Penny smashes bananas on her high-chair tray. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I made my eyes wide, then shut them tight as I stuffed as much of the banana into my mouth as I could. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When you went through the line, after you got the hot meal, there would be a pile of fruit, and you could take one apple or one banana. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She kept tons of bananas around the kitchen, stoneware bowls chock-full; next to honey, they were the most plentiful thing in the house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, I draw a small Junie holding a banana instead of a phone, a black cloud raining on her head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Atticus said, “He came in late one afternoon hot from football practice and raided the Kappa Alpha icebox. He also ate a dozen bananas and washed ’em down with a pint of whiskey. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes there is an apple or a banana, and when there is, I always think about him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A bowl with two bunches of bananas sat in the middle of the card table. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “There is a service elevator for bananas and so forth,” said the clerk in a frosty voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After a while, we’re tired out, and he’s sitting in the middle of the floor sucking on banana skins with banana smeared all over his face, like a messy gorilla. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We sang a song that Mai Thi taught us about bananas—though it could have been about elephants and we wouldn’t have known it, since we only knew two words of Vietnamese. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time there was a banana and it grew. It grew until it was large, firm, yellow and fragrant. Then it fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z You can see a stack of ears next to the eggplants, onions, apples, bananas, and potatoes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mama Tataba hangs the whole big family of bananas up in the corner all together, so the tarantula spiders that use it for their house can just move on out when they take a notion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When we all get up later, Momma makes banana pancakes, which is what she always makes for the three of us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Mike took the banana from his tray and smacked me with it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He took out his bayonet and started shouting and stabbing the banana tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Midges whirred around a bunch of small bananas on a blue-rimmed white enamel plate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped into the kitchen house to get a banana, knowing there would likely be nothing more to overhear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The fruits were beautiful inside the windows—bananas, oranges, alligator pears, bright little kumquats, and even a few pineapples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “No one even bothered to tell me! I would have bought more bananas!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had eaten boiled monkey thigh, and he had drunk banana beer fermented with human saliva. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere, the sun burned fiercely, elsewhere there was cool in the forest shade; elsewhere there were pumpkins and bananas. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I take a seat beside the fake banana tree in the lobby to wait for her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In the great green mountain of bananas he fixed a nest just big enough for Mother and one of her children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For Fadi it was his usual, a sliced Twinkie spread with peanut butter and layered with a sliced banana. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z What with the nuts, pears, apples, and bananas that had been thrown in to him, he did fairly well for supper; out it wouldn’t be true to say that he passed an agreeable night. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “It has pictures of fruits on it—bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, pineapples, strawberries, and snozzberries....” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she drinks two more glasses of sugary banana milk and eats three sweet rolls, her chin jiggling as she chews. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Later in the morning a banana peel flies over the hedge from the Divino yard into our yard. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “Give me what that guy’s got and just a banana, okay?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The only sound in the room was made by Bruno as he attacked the bananas in the bowl. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z When the oatmeal was cooked, Katie filled two soup plates full, set them on the table, punched two holes in the can of milk and set a banana by each plate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I push on my banana slices again, too hard this time, and peanut butter squirts out. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z You watched her blindfold Zoe, who sat obediently on your kitchen floor while Vinny quietly cut a slice from a banana, giggling and telling you to shush. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Toby had the twins pinned to the carpet, smiling as he ate a banana, the peel spotted black. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The adults on T & T were always going bananas over something, so I wasn’t surprised when the police, the superintendent, the principal, the bus company owner, and Mrs. Donnelly all took turns screaming at me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z When the workers drew up a list of unanimous petitions, a long time passed before they were able to notify the banana company officially. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The air is steamy, and the space inside the glass includes flower beds full of orchids, banana trees, hibiscus flowers, and bamboo. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They ate the bananas as they approached the circus. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I know the houses and shops, I know the faces of the women who sell oranges and bananas just before you turn into the pot- hole-filled road that leads to the prison yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “And they live toward the coast. There’s a lot of fruit there, mangoes and pineapples and bananas.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hawkers, girls much younger than I, defied the school gate men, edging closer and closer to the cars to offer peeled oranges and bananas and groundnuts, their moth-eaten blouses slipping off their shoulders. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Then Mr. Allen offered Mrs. Chatham some coffee and banana bread, but she said, “No thanks, I really must be going now.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We haggled with a handcart vendor for two big bunches of bananas, one ready to eat, the other still green, so it would ripen in a day or two. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z For instance: a plastic banana, glowing a bright and unreal yellow in the dark. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Another low door led to a backyard, where there were more banana trees, beyond which the river glimmered through the foliage. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He intended to return to the city with a cargo of bananas, and shook his stick fiercely at the Congolese women who tried to clamber onto his massively loaded truck for a ride. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To get rid of all of the energy in the banana, you’ve got to stop its atoms from moving around; you have to put it in a box and cool it down. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Well, they get banana fever. It’s a terrible disease.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The Doctorita picks out bananas, one bunch ripe and one bunch still green. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This fifth-floor apartment is indeed nicer than the second-floor one—the ceilings high and decorated with punched tin and stucco flourishes: fruits, flowers, banana leaves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "Answer me this. I have seven apples, seven oranges and seven bananas. How many pieces of fruit do I have altogether? Hurry up! Get on with it! Give me the answer!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Of course, they were only the tattered-sailed native schooners from Venezuela, Aruba, or Bonaire coming in with bananas, oranges, papayas, melons, and vegetables. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “It—was in the forest behind the banana trees.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some mutant individuals developed fruit without even having to be pollinated, resulting in our seedless bananas, grapes, oranges, and pineapples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I put too much peanut butter in, and my teeth find it difficult to wade through and locate the banana chunks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In Panama, where tests were begun in 1961, this bacterial insecticide may be the answer to one or more of the serious problems confronting banana growers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I ask Grandma to hold off on making my banana shake. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z She fell to her knees by a banana tree and began cramming the ripe fruit into her mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And for a second, I thought she’d found some sort of mashed-up banana in my backpack or something, that was how disgusted her question sounded. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z But then when I was, and I was wiping up the banana mush everywhere around the sink, I realized I didn't want to be alone. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I stuff the rest of the bread in my mouth and gulp down the banana milk shake, which tastes sour and hits my stomach gur- gling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So I pointed to the banana because the best three were round and red, and the banana was not. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I forced myself to swallow as much as I could and I pushed the rest of the banana into the front of my teeth, banana mush dripping onto my chin and shirt. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Pastor Ambrose was praying by the banana trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He made up conspiracy theories by the dozens: a banana vendor who sold fruit outside our house was secretly recording Jagu’s behavior. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We had passed through a village that had banana, orange, and coconut trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They ate half a banana apiece and finished the milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z This Ms. Stanley is like an overripe banana—too sweet and mushy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They looked a long time in Lee’s window coveting the pliers, the hack saws, the engineers’ caps and the bananas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted out an untouched, unpeeled banana and waved it triumphantly in the air. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then she’d fasten a bottled cherry on the tip of the banana with a toothpick. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It did. There was close to a ton. It still makes me sick when I think of all those bananas floating away and going to waste when they were mine for the picking.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In Sierra Leone all that we had ever eaten was rice, pepper, mealie meal, cassava, mango, and banana. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The word friend is turquoise with a glow of glossy red, but the word amigo is yellow with spots of brown, like an old banana. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But, except for the Plymouth and the weathered cross and the mum-mified banana tree, the tiny yard was completely bare. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That prevented the laborers from coming to work, and left vast quantities of mangoes, bananas, pineapple, garlic and ginger rotting slowly on the premises of Paradise Pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The bananas were raw, so we boiled them by adding wood to a fire that was in one of the outdoor kitchens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As soon as they appeared in Macondo, the soldiers put aside their rifles and cut and loaded the bananas and started the trains running. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma brought out a big banana leaf and began fanning Headmaster. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z And on one of those occasions he actually took a banana from my hand. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z A tiny airplane drops him off in a jungle thick with green leaves and palm and banana trees—what I imagine the Ecuadorian rain forest must look like. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We dropped the bananas and began running in order to avoid the open hillside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I did the same with the second banana. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It had almost a quarter of a million miles on the clock, and smelled faintly of bourbon, tobacco, and more strongly of something that reminded Shadow of bananas. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Taste it,” Milo urged, following Yossarian’s writhing face around with the banana insistently. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Large families lived in small, crude lean-tos with dirt floors and roofs made of banana bark thatch, often patched with rags to stop leaks during the rainy season. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She always had some book with her, and poring over it, she would make a thirty-minute job of that daily dish of banana split. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z People said because of this nonsensical bent, the sheriff was driving himself bananas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I mashed a bit of the last blackened, limp banana between my fingers, and you swallowed a few small bites. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Afterward he had climbed down, gone over to my tent, and taken the bananas that had just been put there for my supper. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I watch grateful for the food we have now—syrup waiting in the cabinet, bananas to slice on top. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He jumped straight back into the bowl of bananas and went on with his eating. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The Italian grocery shop is across the street and I see bananas, apples, oranges. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They stayed that way long enough for me to wonder—should Rosaleen and I leave the room?—but finally they unwound themselves, and we all sat with the smell of banana cream pie. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He went on putting brown stripes on a banana and brown curls on Queen Elizabeth’s head. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The man peeped at us from behind a banana leaf. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z From the bacteria in the sink to the fruit fly circling the bowl of bananas. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A couple more apples, some bananas, a few granola bars, and most of a pouch of beef jerky. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We have banana milkshakes at the kitchen counter. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Oranges, apples, bananas, cold sweet bubbly drinks, chocolate drops, fruity gum. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Calvin about loses his banana milkshake out his nose. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The bananas on which she floated were held together by the nylon net with which they had been lowered into the ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He reached into the box, pulled out a banana. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Fried bananas rolled in crushed nuts, dipped in coconut, and topped with caramel sauce. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Had my friends seen the blackened banana lying on my bed, they might have understood my father's story and enjoyed it on its own merit. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z On the cover a teenage girl with hair the color of a banana had the widest smile that I have ever seen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was a Saturday and Olanna was making banana fritters with Ugwu in the kitchen, and when the doorbell rang she knew right away that a message had come from Mama. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One person gives another one a cookie in exchange for a banana; we chunk the two acts of giving together and think of the sequence as trading. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They were set free, however, within three months because of the fact that the government and the banana company could not reach an agreement as to who should feed them in jail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Once, when I checked, it had pulled itself over to the saucer and, with what seemed to be the last bit of strength it had, was licking one of the pieces of banana. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z In my mind’s eye, Aunt Gloria turned into a motorist with driving goggles and a huge consignment of bananas in the back seat. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem right that they thought singing and dancing would change Cecile into someone who cried for her long-lost daughters or fried pork chops and made banana pudding. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It had high-rise handlebars with black rubber grips and its famous banana seat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Bruised mangoes and bananas and pomegranates, all scattered through the galley. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Those dozen blockbusters are the cereals wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum; the pulse soybean; the roots or tubers potato, manioc, and sweet potato; the sugar sources sugarcane and sugar beet; and the fruit banana. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He nearly threw up as he pushed the durian skins, orange rinds, and banana peels up around him, packing them over his head, covering his face. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z And he became as pale as a dried banana skin. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus bananas and coffee, two African crops, become the principal agricultural exports of Central America; maize and manioc, domesticated in Mesoamerica and Amazonia respectively, return the favor by becoming staples in tropical Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Once they’d finished their chores and eaten lunch in their own homes, they’d slip away to talk or play cards together behind the leafy banana trees. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z This lady carries a big basket of bananas on her head like the marchantas in the market calling out their wares. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She sweeps my hair up into a high bun and clips it tight with a banana clip. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A clump of banana trees drooped in the yard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Look at the swill he feeds me: black bananas they can’t sell in the market.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Vernon’s rations turned out to be a bag of chips each and four bananas. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Tell these old squashy banana faces to let us go!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After all, even apes will pick up a stick to knock down a banana or a stone to throw at an enemy. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have condensed milk and I brought bananas to slice on top.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “What are you doing? Give me my food!” she barks at me and unwraps the banana leaves to find rice and salted pork. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the opposite side of the coffee farm was a small banana farm, and there we came across a man cutting down hands of ripe bananas. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “That was a major issue for me. After you’ve fed and watered monkeys for thirty days, they become your friends. I fed ’em bananas. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked as I peeled my second banana. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a banana. A fruit, from the tropics. I believe you peel off the outer covering,” said Silas, “like so.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Neighbor women do still come calling to offer little gifts, a hand of bananas or an orange for the baby to suck on and make us laugh at his puckery face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Me neither. I heard Dad say to Mum that Auntie Glo drives him bananas. And I found two empty bottles of wine on top of the fridge.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat at the table with us, sticking with her cup of coffee and banana in lieu of our heartier fare. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He switched to notebooks, then bananas, then socks and stockings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "I'm coming with you," he said, speaking with his mouth full of banana. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z And she certainly didn’t slip over to the banana grove to meet him. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z To think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal’s neck. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Kamala herself was tired, and while the boy ate a banana, she crouched down on the ground, halfclosed her eyes and rested. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “The banana fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it—and afterwards that person felt better.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Otto didn’t eat more than a piece of banana, but he did gulp down a ton of water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Now I wanted to make peanut butter banana pudding and “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” cookies filled with crushed-up pretzels, chocolate chips, toffee bits, and nuts. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She even had dessert, a store cake with stiff, oversweet chocolate frosting, and a bowl of apples and bananas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I added a bar of soap, a comb, and the pink plastic jar of tooth powder to your bag; from the kitchen, I grabbed a bunch of bananas—your favorite fruit—to add to mine. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then they sneak out an apple or a banana to give to a friend. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The leg was black and soft, like an overripe banana. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then he adds a little boat, which looks a lot like a banana, on the bank of the river. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She dropped the half-eaten banana into the bag, then slung the bag over her arm and marched out of the room and went thumping along the corridor with her walking-stick. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Even the “junk drawer” in Park Slope was stocked with things like banana chips and sugared almonds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Those crops turn out to be ones believed to be of Indonesian origin, such as bananas and Asian yams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “These are really good,” she said, pointing to a close-up of a banana. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "Give me the rest of that banana I was eating." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, we slice peeled bananas the long way and smear peanut butter onto the flat sides like glue. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Our friend said there were long periods when he was given one banana every two days. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that all? He’s lucky they haven’t had him strung up from the nearest tree” “I noticed something strange,” Comrade Pillai said as he peeled his banana. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If so, my eyes must have turned the color of the lizards that lived inside banana leaves every time I passed Jenny’s house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Did he have any bananas in his mouth?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z "I see it. This city is shaped like a banana. The avenues run from top to bottom. The streets are shorter and they go across." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He had egg on his trousers, butter on his cap, gravy on his shirt, orange pulp in his ear, and banana peel wrapped around his waist. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Three untidy banana trees grew in the little front yard that had been fenced off with panels of woven palm leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Serena brings out a plate of carrot cake and banana bread. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She is well-fed on mostaccioli and scaloppine and bananas and oatmeal. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He catches my eye, and his big banana mouth is just beaming. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z There are a few apples, a banana, some pears, and a mango. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Just the thought of my favorite crêpe—strawberry and banana with Nutella, powdered sugar, and whipped cream—makes my mouth water. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Ellison always leaves a little loaf of banana bread or a cinnamon roll, and Dad saves it to eat with his lunch. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Used to be it was just Mrs. Ellison and her banana bread, but found me a ham sandwich today in Nora Klingle’s box and half a baked pie in the Saunders’. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Doctorita downs a glass of banana milk, then pours another. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You boys want to help me carry some bananas to the village?” he asked in that manner that adults usually ask young people, so that we knew he wouldn’t take no for an answer. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z So T would get the banana, and I would get the apple, and we would split them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “When we take bananas, we give the vendor our money. People sell their things for money.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Proto-Malayo-Polynesian contains words for many tropical crops like taro, breadfruit, bananas, yams, and coconuts, for which no word can be reconstructed in Proto-Austronesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You cannot shield the banana from the box or the tweezer or the coil; the shield, too, is wiggling and radiating. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I met David Greybeard out in the forest, he would come up to see if I had a banana hidden in my pocket. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Sickly banana trees leaned around the abandoned huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife, Lili, was squatting in the middle of their one-room home, spreading cornmeal mush on banana leaves for their supper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z A boy about her age was selling bananas in the center of the other village. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He opens the door and I split, quicker and slicker than a banana. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A few people are sipping coffee and eating yellow and white pie—lemon meringue or banana cream—that matches the building. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She shoves down a breakfast of oatmeal and bananas, gets what she needs from the RV, and heads out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Say you are trying to cool a banana to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She burst into warm afternoon sunlight and found that the street hadn’t changed — the crumbling pastel houses, the blue cobblestones, dozens of cats sleeping under cars or in the shade of banana trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He was still in the banana bowl on the table. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Single moms who brought over their kids, plus all the ingredients for banana daiquiris. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She did not see the oxcarts on the dusty roads loaded down with bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The houses we passed were more battered than many of those in Cange—dirt floors and roofs of banana fronds that leaked in the rainy season, turning floors to mud. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Apples and bananas sit in offering at her feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She fed the banana slice to Zoe with a spoon, saying, “Don’t peek! Don’t peek!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I bit at the peel on the first banana and managed to get it off, and I scarfed down the banana in a few big hungry bites. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the middle the pink flower have tiny green bananas. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Poppy left the bananas and the basket both. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘You mean, she drives him bananas the same way I drive you nuts?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Kids take his class because they think they can breeze through, until they find out just how hard it is to make a wooden banana hanger. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I had picked up what I thought was a useless net, but did I think of reaping from this banana manna? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Light is constantly coming off of the box and striking the banana, getting the banana’s molecules to move again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The cow edged away, but you rolled up one of the empty banana leaves and held it out to the cow. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Instead of “We have zero bananas,” the grocer says, “We have no bananas.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All we had for dinner was what he’d been able to scrounge out of the garbage: a tin of some yellow-green slop, two rotting bananas, and some moldy rods. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Jane,” he told me afterward, “now I know how you felt when David Greybeard first took a banana from you!” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z However, the box the banana is in is made of atoms, too. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mattresses were stacked, bunches of green bananas hung from the rafters, the gash where the machete had cut dripped white sticky ooze onto the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “And such a mess he’s made! Why, attend, you little wriggler…” and she picked the lumps of banana from his clothes and his hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I count the trees: thirty-two banana trees, seven guava trees, fourteen mango trees, countless coconut and lychee trees. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The houses that had been built with such haste during the banana fever had been abandoned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Thus: quarto's and/olio's, not to mention logo's, pasta's, ouzo's and banana's. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The Kottayam Bible Society was having a fair and asked Mammachi to make some of her famous banana jam and tender mango pickle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Doctorita starts clanking around in the kitchen, blending together bananas and sugar and milk in a mixer that shrieks like the wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She eats two bananas and a bowl of muesli. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There were bananas but no plantains, potatoes but no batatas, cereal flakes but no oatmeal, bacon but no sausages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Can we nibble on him? It’ll make a nice change from bananas.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z On my third day in the Haight, I was in a cafe, eating a banana split. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “A couple weeks ago, that guy out there suddenly starts coming in every day to get a butter-on-white and a banana, and he always pays with these two- dollar bills.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When Eleanor first heard about Richie, she was leaning against their old couch, reading a Life magazine, and drinking a virgin banana daiquiri. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Lemoncello, his banana shoes burp-squeaking, stepped out of a room filled with dozens of black-and-white television monitors—the kind security guards watch at their workstations. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Whenever he tried to make deals with them to fly their manioc and bananas to Stanleyville, I had personally seen them spit on his shoes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z OPPOSITE: Plate 12 from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, showing a banana flower and young bananas, Maria also includes a saturniid moth with its caterpillar, cocoon, and pupa. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He started to drag his desk away, but then he stopped and looked at Tino, adding sarcastically, “Not that your brother and his new type of banana aren’t fascinating.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I call Tats back while assembling my weekend breakfast: chopped bananas, peanut butter, yogurt, and granola. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z My lips parted at the sight of green bananas, just a few days shy of being ripe. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He finally drank a glass of milk and ate cottage cheese with bananas. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I flinch biting into the banana, the scab on my upper lip painful even against the soft fruit. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When you went through the line, after you got the hot meal, there would be a pile of fruit, and you could take one apple or one banana. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I buy apples and bananas in the cafeteria and eat them furtively in my room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a pity. Now, about—” “Could I have my bananas back, please?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Limp leaves of lettuce and blackened bananas for dinner. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The white farms nearby grow some of the most amazing fruit—mangoes, lychees, the most beautiful bananas you’ve ever seen in your life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z During the first twenty-four hours, having dispatched a dinner of veal, with cassava, yams, and fried bananas, and a case and a half of champagne in addition, Aureliano Segundo was sure of victory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It’s always amusing to catch one of the burly suits speaking in code over their earpieces: “Black Bear has requested extra banana peppers.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I understood full well what this meant: from now on I would have to exist on bananas and have poor nutrition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs Jenkins took one look at the fat little brown mouse who was still chewing a bit of banana and she let out a shriek that rattled the crystals on the chandelier. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He continued walking, so I quickly picked up the bananas and followed him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Dude clipped a chain lock and rode off on some little girl’s banana seat, handlebar tassels all blowin’ in the wind.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Fee mooz?” she asked, which meant something like, “Do you have a banana?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her usual morning meal was coffee, sometimes paired with a banana. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “God. It’s like, you’re the banana and he’s the peel,” Kat says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Now I’m just a guy who makes a mean banana split.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam will want to know why the twins are smothered in bananas, where did you get them? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Despite the late addition of chopped fresh mint to a blend of melted chocolate, egg yolk, coconut milk, rum, gin, crushed banana and icing sugar, the cocktail was not particularly refreshing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Praba’s mother had given us perfectly good bananas and bags of banana chips, but from a nearby stall, I bought a doll with bright black hair you could comb. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Factories making cameras, computers, watches, umbrellas, and T-shirts stand cheek by jowl with densely packed blocks of apartment buildings and fields of banana and mango trees, sugarcane, papaya, and pineapple destined for the export market. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once in a while, they had a banana. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an ebony statue of a female saint in the comer, and a tureen on an altar crowded with apples and bananas and dishes of offerings I can’t identify. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Above the swamp banana farms stretched into the horizon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Rockit was sitting on the passenger side of this monster SUV—bananas—right on the street in front of St. Nick. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Ugwu walked to the banana trees and back and then went to the door and knocked loudly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She put it in a box full of warm towels, and inside the box she placed a little saucer of banana pieces and some dead grubs Ob had dug out of the backyard for it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z But first I turn over in my mind which snack I should mention—peanut butter banana or tomato soup. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She remembered it from the banana grove outside the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong opened the lid and gagged at the rotting smell of old durian mixed with old bananas, old orange peels, and old eggshells. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z There the root borer is a serious pest of the banana, so weakening its roots that the trees are easily toppled by wind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I eat a bowl of cereal and a banana. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was a pear or a peach or something like that, but usually it was an apple or a banana, and you had to choose. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He did manage to find a clutch of hard green bananas growing along the road, but by midday, his hunger hurt so bad he thought he would faint from it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They sat beside each other on steel folding chairs, on the afternoon of the Day that Sophie Mol Came, sipping coffee and crunching banana chips. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It gets to where I’ll start slicing the bananas from the moment I see her through the window. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing led to another and before you knew it my big, hairy banana was whistlin’ Dixie when it struck gold in them thar hills. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He motioned for us to follow him into the banana farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But some of those girls still giggled when I dropped into the seat next to Howard and handed him one of Bertha’s banana muffins. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Some of them were eating lollipops or bananas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor peeled a banana and waited for their demonstration. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I took another bite of my banana and thought about it. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z If he arrived in camp and couldn’t find any bananas, he would walk into my tent and search. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead of cars, we would become manufacturers of hamburger platters and Greek salads, industrialists of spanakopita and grilled cheese sandwiches, technocrats of rice pudding and banana cream pie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The apples are red and shiny, and the banana doesn’t have any bruises. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z She sliced a banana and distributed the pieces. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z |
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