Stephen’s packets of airplane trading cards, held together with rotting elastic bands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were kind people with specific features, like a man with a blond beard, or a woman with a band of freckles across her nose and different-colored eyes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the table between them, Lord Mormont laid a large sword in a black metal scabbard banded with silver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bleachers were full with spectators, along with the bands from other schools. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ferrets had cornered a band of shrews and were threatening to massacre them when a column of otters sprang to the rescue. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I am working for it! I just spent an hour googling some random dude who likes paninis and didn’t go to band camp.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Later this afternoon, I know that the band will do a sound check. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore his new oversize Flush sweatshirt and hat, and he held a rolled-up poster signed by all the band members. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was metal and slippery but was braced with steel bands. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On stage, male musicians may co-opt female gendered attributes as part of a performance, such as Heavy or Hair Metal band members wearing long hair and make-up. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And nobody noticed, not the band, not the audience, when this time she really did sing: “Save me, Armpit! A damsel in distress. ” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Janine is sweating now, her hair is escaping in wisps from the elastic band, bits of it stick to her forehead and neck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I’d been starting a band right that very minute and needed to give it a true-to-life name, it would be All Hell Raining Down on Kevin. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer they joined together in bands of twenty-five to thirty—cactus leaves, a local favorite, were plentiful enough in that season to support larger groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The stranger drew back his left fist to punch Mr. Flux, and a silver band on his ring finger gleamed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He sang for friends’ bands, and he was a roadie for my uncle’s band. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He finished the shirts with a blue band around each. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad found a website that had like a hundred country western bands for hire listed on it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The first band started late on Saturday morning, and when they finished, panic set in with the organizers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some time ago she made Bubber a little play mandolin out of a cigar box with rubber bands, and that put the idea into her head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They range over a broad band of frequencies, down to well below the lowest sound the human ear can detect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to get out of there and meet the band for practice. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The new national flag flutters there as well, two red bands and a red maple leaf rampant on white, looking like a trademark for margarine of the cheaper variety, or an owl kill in snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Put your hat on,’ my mother said, handing me a stiff wide-brimmed straw-hat with a blue and black band around it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the last performer, Jimi Hendrix, took the stage Monday morning with his band. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay, my merry band of bards,” he says, “who is ready to share their brilliance with the class?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“I know that song. We played it in band. It’s ‘Tarantelle.’” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And in the front, where the band had stuck directly to the bare skin, there remained a whole lot of small patches of brown leathery stuff that no amount of washing would get off. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Taran and the bard drew their swords, Gurgi nocked an arrow into his bowstring, and the weary band made ready to defend themselves as best they could. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Briefly, she considered undoing her hair, but she didn’t want to lose her rubber band. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The truth is, we don’t know much about him nowadays. Not where he’s living, where his band is performing, or why he hasn’t called or come home in almost a year.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The museum is a famous attraction, full of Bollywood actors, members of the royal family, and the dimpled stars of boy bands, all sculpted in wax. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Terrible trials awaited the little band of adventurers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and Radar dropped me off at my house—even though they’d skipped school, they couldn’t afford to skip band practice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In all probability, an entire forager band was massacred at Ofnet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching Algernon squirm under those tiny bands this afternoon, I felt them around my own arms and legs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They came down, and here and there a shock and a scream, but the masses of men lay in rows in the grass, and in the distance a band was playing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Osage banded together and basically helped feed the family.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Arturo set it on the kitchen table and tuned it to a station playing nothing but the Beatles, which had been his favorite band since he was a boy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Everybody got to screaming behind that and the band started playing our school song, which sounded like everybody else’s school song. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

If we happened to somehow distinguish ourselves, we quickly snapped back into place, like rubber bands. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Shucks, I’d rather sit with the band than with Herman E. Calloway, it would be hard to have a good time eating if you looked up and saw him every time you took a bite. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mama had on a jacket and skirt with colors that were the reverse of mine: black silk with yellow bands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Rubber bands now hooked my upper and lower palates together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

People from all seven Dakota bands were there. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His upturned hornlike tusks were bound with bands of gold and dripped with blood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The place was packed because a popular konpa band had a ten o’clock show scheduled at the reception hall next door and some older couples in sequined dresses and tuxedos stopped in for dinner first. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The band shell was deserted, and the woman in pedal pushers quietly reeled in her line, and Dr. Mason’s sprinkler went round and round. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You? You who broke the strongest, biggest chains there ever were? You are scared by this band?” said Thor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A small stage is under construction for bands, and the quilting contest winner will be announced at 6 p.m. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The band screeched to a halt for a second time, and this time stayed silent. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It had occurred to me while I was watching the band rehearse. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Monday, May 27,1935 As the day of Nat’s interview approaches, my mother behaves as if her nerves have rotted and fallen apart like old rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was simply another campaign stop, another orchestrated moment; the only difference, as one correspondent wearily put it, was that this particular rally had two high school bands instead of one playing at full throttle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I told her all the stuff that had gone on in the band room, Ms. Fender’s hand flew to her mouth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the ferry pulled away from the dock, the band switched over to jazz tunes and some of the students poured out onto an upper deck and began to dance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At first I simply used a rubber band. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The band might next have corralled the herd into a narrow gorge in order to better control and defend it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have heard stories of bands of young men who will look for them to beat up or murder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A band of moonlight lit up his eyes like fluorescent bulbs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m ready to announce this year’s seventh grade band leaders.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The band had turned the lights off in the gallery, and had gone down to have eggs and bacon too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My fingertips brushed along her bra and I reached around to fumble with the hook until I gave up and lifted the whole band up over her breasts. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Three red rubber bands in varying sizes and widths. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I remembered not to call the band “sir.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the band was only partway through the set, had just charged into “Can’t Stop,” when I was slammed from my sweet spot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The band sounded great — it wasn’t what it would have been with you there, but we all got by. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pounding heart, my scrunched-up stomach, all my hope, but mostly just a lot of fear that they wouldn’t want to be part of the band anymore. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They didn’t treat us like we were equal members of the band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

This evening will be the music contest as well as the visual arts contest, so a lot of kids have guitars and the people in bands are all horsing around, psyching themselves up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A blast of music greeted her as the band started a new tune. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Next to it, in parentheses, I wrote the word band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Later, after my last class, I translated Ovid while sitting up against the cinder-block wall outside the band room, trying to ignore the groaning cacophony coming from inside. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But even if he was just a young kid he had made up all these beautiful pieces for the piano and for the violin and for a band or orchestra too. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

John would go ballistic when none of them showed up at band practice tomorrow. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t have to do with getting you out of the requirement It has to do with getting the requirement into the band. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Limerick City erupts with whistles, horns, sirens, brass bands, people calling and singing, Happy New Year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Taking the elastic bands off, he opens the box to show us all what’s inside. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

However, the term “egalitarian” should not be taken to mean that all band members are equal in prestige and contribute equally to decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath, adjust the band, and step into the classroom. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

One day I felt the snap like a rubber band that drew my right leg up under me as my left arm moved forward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she was the front woman of a punk band and I was a pubescent alien. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as enough unconscious men had been collected in the ambulances, the medical officer signaled the bandmaster to strike up the band and end the parade. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s another thing I hate about North Carolina—terrible radio stations. How many times can I hear the same twenty-year-old grunge band?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The average person lived many months without seeing or hearing a human from outside of her own band, and she encountered throughout her life no more than a few hundred humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the jumble of banded coils Matthias thought he could catch a glimpse of the tapering tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The people in the world who could be selfish in the summer of 1942 were a small band, and I'm glad we took advantage of it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case he would never see it again and soon Gebu would be wearing a fine new arm band and swaggering when he walked. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In one warren, the Owsla may be the band of a warlord: in another, it may consist largely of clever patrollers or garden-raiders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to find that I really did like the band after all, once I got past the blaring noise. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If this library is to be a true public institution,” said Charles’s mother, “then it requires public oversight. It should be governed by a board of community trustees, not by a one-man band.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He took to wearing a leather jacket and a porkpie hat like legendary tenor man Lester Young, joined a neighborhood R&B band, and Ma had increasing difficulty in getting him to go to school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually once the band was done, they were done. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She notices the stitching on his sweat-stained uniform, the gold band on his finger that matches hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I reached the last station, where a machine fitted me with a security anklet—a padded metal band that locked around my ankle, just above the joint. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Flags snapped in the bitterly cold wind, and military bands marched and played. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But when I walked over and stuck my head in the band room door, I couldn’t really process what I was seeing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for permission, Emery pulls the band out of my hair and scratches her fingers through all the hair spray, shaking my hair like she’s trying to bring it back to life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The need to evade their enemies probably caused the Aché to adopt an exceptionally harsh attitude towards anyone who might become a liability to the band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How was band practice? Is Elijah being any nicer these days?” she asked. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If we were going to be a real band, we had to start writing our own music. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Imagine a Sapiens band reaching a Balkan valley where Neanderthals had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other Marines, lifting their glasses, thundered, “The Corps!” and the band struck up the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls in the Big Creek band outnumbered the boys four to one. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing in my pockets but lint and some rubber bands that we were using during science. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, Australian Aborigines were nomadic or semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, organized into bands, living in temporary shelters or huts, and still dependent on stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The background was hazy, a sea of dim faces none of whom I knew, and there was the slow drone of the band harping out a waltz that never finished, that went on and on. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A small band of young men, the only stationary ones in the room, stood before the phonograph as if it were an altar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a band of penguins, like an audience of formally dressed opera-goers, observed the proceedings. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was dark except for a fast-moving band of light gray that would be overhead in a few minutes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Or the school musical. Or band. You should probably avoid band, too.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The choir fills in the stands and the band starts an upbeat song. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I read her this poem I wrote called “Dream” about doing hip-hop with my own band, and she started crying. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s thirteen and standing at the front of his father’s church with the rest of the praise band. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They had boyfriends who played guitar and sang in bands with names like Liquid Courage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We walk right in, and the place is crowded and smoky, and the band is loud. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The band plays soft numbers down in the band area. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The athletes, the brainiacs, the hipsters, the band kids, the skaters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On deck the ship’s band was playing “California, Here I Come,” and people were dancing and singing and laughing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though there had been rubber bands around the claws, I would have never picked it up. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He gave Joe a look that said he didn’t appreciate him poking fun at the kid Maríachi band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Stories about ancestral spirits and tribal totems were strong enough to enable 500 people to trade seashells, celebrate the odd festival, and join forces to wipe out a Neanderthal band, but no more than that. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I think their band name is a reference to, like, this physicist guy," I say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

No chanting no singing no silk banners no bands no trumpets no mother no father no slick-fingered commandant dragging a finger across his back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Roving bands of white toughs trailed the protesters, throwing eggs at them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That would be a good band name, I think. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"See? I remembered. I saw you last night at the concert, in the new camp band, didn't I?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was cutting a tiny black square to sew into the intricate band at the top when the door opened and Daniel came in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only is status not inherited; no member of a traditional tribe or band can become disproportionately wealthy by his or her own efforts, because each individual has debts and obligations to many others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, everyone will be so entranced by the lead singer, they won’t even notice if the band is good or not.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Why did Arnold single me out for his rubber- band torture? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, no. But you probably wouldn’t know any of the bands I like.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Reliable information about who could be trusted meant that small bands could expand into larger bands, and Sapiens could develop tighter and more sophisticated types of cooperation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicks his rubber band, nods once, and lets it go. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Close up she could see there was a band of paler skin around his forehead, which his cap must have kept shaded from the sun. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance replied grumpily, sliding her tiny wrists free of the metal bands and slipping her head out of the helmet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that showed up, however, was a little band of javelina hogs, and I knew better than to shoot them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dark band of metal against my fist and dropped it upon the anonymous letter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duke Ellington’s band is onstage when we get to the Roseland. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel was easily fifty, if not older, and a more regular part of the Deuce than the cheap beer and watered-down metal bands that toured through. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Thus, we possess much more information about past states and their formation than about past chiefdoms, tribes, and bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, every chance I get, I go to the band room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

More screams flowed back through the crowd when they realized it was the actual Grammy-winning artists and not a cover band. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until then that Marly remembered about the band and the school. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stretch of grass in a place where the palms left a wide band of turf between the forest and the snore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The marching band, the Seagirls, and the rest of the football team, the guys who weren’t seniors, were sitting there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was turned halfway between a church sermon and a swing band. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He strides across the lot like the leader of a marching band, ample belly thrust forward and issuing orders in a booming voice. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Still—the closer she got to “Sarsaparilla” the more her heart carried on like the entire percussion section of a marching band doing “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When the second bell rang, the students with musical instruments went to band class and the rest of us were on our way to chorus. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay, then, counselors, grab your bands. Let’s do this thing.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He used to be a pet on a ship and have a metal band round his stomach, like in a story about pirates. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He flicks his rubber band as his eyes scan my body, mentally critiquing my lack of physical fortitude. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wait to stop caring about what happens to the band. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And she only listened to bands like the Smiths and the Cure. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wore his favorite Flush T-shirt, the one with the band’s name printed above a toilet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The hot black mastic sucking at their shoes and stretching in thin bands as they stepped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was a modest beginning: he opened for another band and played for thirty-five minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Nomadic peoples rarely have one language they all speak. I’m sure a lot of the Pecheneg bands nearer to the Kievan border speak Russian. Why?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Evidently — and I couldn’t believe this — my father wanted to address the band. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, bands wandered outside their turf and explored new lands, whether due to natural calamities, violent conflicts, demographic pressures or the initiative of a charismatic leader. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band was always getting letters from Japanese teenagers begging them to come play, and offering up their homes as crash pads. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are boy bands with more original material. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Kaira said with a laugh amid the thunder of applause, and then she and the band left the stage for good. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Tonight one of the bands from the men’s dormitory was playing in the gazebo for the social. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All Marines in the room rose as one and lifting their glasses they said in unison, “The President,” as the band played the national anthem. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors are open, and the sound of the band spills out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A brass band exploded in the sunlight, flinging off a gay tune from upraised tubas and trumpets. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed nervous as he shook hands with my dad and told him that he had his band’s old CDs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left hand with a gold band around his ring finger. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She changed its shirt and band three times during the day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I drink plenty rhum dose tree days of carnival’* I could picture him in his donkey skin, wheeling around to the music of the steel bands. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times, the little band nearly stopped, and nearly everybody left the floor, watching with their eyes like saucers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cooper had to cough so he could pretend not to be laughing, and he winked at Johnny in spite of the dignity of his black clericals, white bands, and great woolly wig. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, and I’ll show you around,” he said, smiling to beat the band. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is made of tarnished, dull metal, an Abnegation wedding band. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When a foraging band was hard-pressed by a stronger rival, it could usually move on. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven, she began playing the trombone, and when she was grown, she played jazz in bands that had never allowed a woman trombonist to perform with them before. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The bands were scattered around the fairgrounds, well back from the front entrance, and whatever they were trying for sounded like tuneless noise and echoing feedback by the time it reached us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had his alto sax idol, Johnny Hodges, with Duke Ellington’s band, but he said he thought too many young musicians were only carbon-copying the big-band names on the same instrument. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the instrument that men played in military marching bands. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

You know, with band, and jazz band, and All-City High School Jazz Band. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls a gold band from his own hand and puts it on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy said, “Gentlemen, the floor’s open for names for the newest member of the band, Bud-not- Buddy.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Beatles borrowed sounds and techniques from both past musical traditions and cutting-edge advances - from ancient folk modes to electronic experiments - to become the most famous band in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“And that is only Tormund’s band. Add the Weeper’s men and those at Hardhome, and they will have the strength to end the Night’s Watch in a single night.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A tiny band of sweat formed instantly across her forehead. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When the bell finally rang for the end of English, I raced downstairs and was almost out the door when I realized we couldn’t leave until Ben and Radar finished band practice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

After lunch, she removed her diamond engagement ring and her wedding band and locked them in her desk drawer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her arm in a salute, and every teary eye was riveted to the red band she wore. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band were changed, and in the gallery already. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the best thing was being there when people crowded in to watch a band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was a dark band diving down into his curly chest hair. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

How can we account for the empirical observation that band or tribal organization just does not work for societies of hundreds of thousands of people, and that all existing large societies have complex centralized organization? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two queen’s men brought forth the Horn of Joramun, black and banded with old gold, eight feet long from end to end. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Out a window the school band practices a triumphal march. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most were apparently satisfied with tying a black band around their arm, but others, and not just the ones that had hit the truck for supplies, were in head-to-toe black. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The troops around him were eager, bright-faced; the bands were playing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred was that kid who always got picked to play the solos in the school band concerts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He lets the rubber band snap against his wrist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across the road there were still many fires in the field but no more bands, no more singing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other three guys in the band were Ennio, who plays the drums and is considered to be this prodigy drummer, Harry on lead guitar, and Elijah on bass guitar. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The prom’s music came from this really bad cover band called The Gypsies of the Allegheny, but the drummer was good, so everyone had a nice time dancing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the waist up, he was more or less human—a thin, bare-chested dude with a dagger in his belt and a band of seashells strapped across his chest like a bandolier. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Matthew went into the sixth grade and his classmate wanted to start a band, so her brother took up the guitar. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And so they went, the bells in their hair ringing softly, while Dany settled down with her small band of survivors in the place they named Vaes Tolono, the city of banes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rubber band was small but thick and had a good, tight fit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the formidable band, fifty-strong, who had assembled at the side of the bandstand. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A massive orchestra—the Berlin Philharmonic merged with the national orchestra and supplemented by half a dozen military bands-—launched into Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch, the March of Homage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Rowan had one, too—bright green bands bearing the curved blade of a farmer’s scythe above an unblinking eye—the double symbol of the scythehood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He starts to speak — I can’t hear the words over the shouts, the clapping, and the roar of the band, but I’m a good lip-reader. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A band struck up a martial tune, the lines were cast off, and the Manhattan began to back slowly out into the Hudson. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Our closest animal relatives, the gorillas and chimpanzees and bonobos of Africa, also live in bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the bread, the neat gray hands, a broad gold band on the left forefinger, knuckled there by a blue knuckle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had just joined the band and she was from North Dakota and had been singing with a group in Chicago when Mrs. Benny Goodman discovered her, we had heard some customers say. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On deck, men were assembling to raise flags as a band played the national anthem, a Sunday morning tradition. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the top of the steps, just outside of the band room, my mom was having what looked like an intense discussion with Mr. Stoll — maybe even a “discussion.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band obliged with musical chairs, but after two of the dining room chairs were broken, they left off playing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Good. The band will drown out the noise.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You know what? I don’t even know if I want to be in the band anymore.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The band did not step out on the stage but rose from some hidden basement. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jalil kept twirling his wedding band, with a bruised, helpless look on his face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’d lost her ponytail rubber band on the trampoline, and her hair had puffed out again like so much dandelion fuzz. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had a big round face and a shiny black band. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The band was still clanging away, and Lorraine was motioning like she was going to drop from fright. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The band played, and even though there were more fifes, clarinets, and flutes than booms and brass, Fern held on to Pa tighter. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Koster averts her eyes, staring down at the new wedding band on her finger, and I have a new, ugly suspicion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now he was giving her X-comics five at a time, and he could tell that she liked them because she wrote the characters' names on her books, in between band names and song lyrics. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Both couples divorced in the eighties and the end of their marriages marked the breakup of the band. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"You should go with us to the Storage Room on Friday. Nick and I are going to see this band, the uh—the Maybe Dead Cats. Intellectual pop punk. Dead Milkmen-ey, but less funny ha-ha." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Pod handed him up his shield, a massive slab of heavy ironwood banded with steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Melissa felt the wide band of elastic around her waist that held up her white boys’ briefs. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Henry was furious with Dad for unilaterally quitting the band, especially since Mom had said he could still play shows. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs vary from jazz standards to boy band covers, but all the performers have one thing in common: they sort of suck. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking—what if Nick was in our band?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“And even if I wanted to move to New York, there’s no way the rest of the band would.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is so the band members can hear themselves and each other,” he explained. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Geoff Graham invited him to play guitar when his band, Shred, appeared at Café Hombre on Wednesday nights when no one was there. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t seen the hug in the band room, and he hadn’t been on the bus yesterday either. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the enmity between the colleges was forgotten in a moment when the town children attacked a colleger: then all the collegers banded together and went into battle against the townies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they went they split into bands, and each of these bands plundered where it chose. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because it wasn’t as if I’d done anything I should be ashamed about, if you didn’t count stupidly agreeing to a hug, which really, I’d needed to do to escape the band room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Felix felt like the world’s strongest rubber band was squeezing his head. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear them singing now, and then the band played again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once you join the residents in forgetting about the functioning humans they once were, you can think of them as a band of wizened toddlers at a tea party. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at a college party full of gorgeous people, and I think I’ve just been invited to try out for a band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, do you want to be in a band?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I realized I didn’t know much about Ellie outside of the band and her school interests. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As if the class and Leon were banded together in a secret conspiracy. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, yeah, I like music. That doesn’t mean I want to be in a band,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The wolf squinted at the silken band that they held between them, glimmering like a snail’s trail or the moonlight on the waves, and he turned away, uninterested. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The band was on the field, all fourteen of them. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This band would attack the horse- and mule-drawn wagons that came out of the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then they’d all eat, the men first, then the women and children, the men still drinking, getting louder and braver, talking about what they were going to do to the bands on the other hills. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the houses had radios with a short-wave band and a high aerial on the roof so that wives could make contact with the fishing boats during these long cruises. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama made me wait till she pinned the black mourning band for Granny on my shirt sleeve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Just naked treetops and peaked roofs and a band of darkening sky wrapping around the car, pressing against the window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He arrived on Friday, a day ahead of his band, and checked into a motel full of other musicians. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The band leader, watching from his post, signals furiously for a drum roll. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

You want to put an end to the Strong Arm, by having a band of knights who believe in justice rather than strength. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then would you and your band dare approach the carcass, look cautiously left and right—and dig into the edible tissue that remained. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are bands of bagpipers in kilts, and things like big cakes, with people on them waving, that slide past on wheels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take my hair out of its ponytail, smooth it back, and wrap the band around again. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding to beat the band when I saw that it was Sister Redempta. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her silver lieutenant’s band glittered in the dark braids of her hair. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

After all, she was just the head of the English department, a job that in the scheme of natural selection at Permian ranked well behind football coach and band director, among others. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half a minute, a band of pain wraps around her stomach, radiating toward her back and shooting down her legs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She spat out the rubber band and bound up the bottom of Pita’s braid. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up—sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick bands of muscle that wrapped his arms and torso were somehow even more menacing now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In some exceptional cases, when food sources were particularly rich, bands settled down in seasonal and even permanent camps. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we entered, I almost had a heart attack: Every single member of the band was wearing a matching red baseball cap. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles, the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band plays and the cheerleaders do leaps and pyramids and try to get everyone to stand up. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Artemis twirled the locator’s band around his index finger. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

She tells us about comics she likes and bands she’s into. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to call, my dad knocked on the band room door. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Fender was standing in the hallway outside the band room, chatting with Mr. Broadwater, the orchestra teacher. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later recoveries of banded birds showed that these Florida-born eagles range northward along the coast into Canada as far as Prince Edward Island, although they had previously been considered nonmigratory. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He played drums in a band when he was my age, and had big-time plans of hitting the road like Ringo Starr and the Beatles, and doing shows across the country. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finny had regretfully given up the plan of inviting the school band to supply music, since it would have spread news of our carnival to every corner of the campus. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the rubber band from my hair and shake it from its knot before I walk through the front doors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And when the low gear band is worn too thin to pull up a steep hill, why you can turn around and back up it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had traveled to Austin in a caravan of buses along with the band. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his overgrown curls and faded jeans, Dr. Morales looked more like a singer in a rock band than a person who worked in a laboratory. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then a tall, thickset man in blue presses his palm against my chest and he’s pushing me back out through the doors, his wedding band cold on my skin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The band members liked to sing quietly on those dark nights, the bus warm with radiating bodies. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were also in Olympus two bands of lovely sisters, the Muses and the Graces. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mom left, I pulled out my notebook and tried to think of some songs to bring to our first band meeting. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Angles, colors, the riot of snowflakes, the din of Sid’s band—everything was soft and kind and infinitely forgiving. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every cell of your body is a kind of commune, with once free-living parts all banded together for the common good. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the two of hearts on the mantel, there sits a silver band engraved in Latin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Mr. Allen says, then smiles and looks me in the eye from under his old-style hat—the kind with a feather sticking out of the red band ringing the 360-degree short brim. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great vat was overturned, and our little band of music stood upon it as upon a stage, our instruments accompanied by the unison tread of the company assembled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She bought him a cornet and made him take lessons, figuring he’d be put in an army band and play at parades and reviews only and be kept away from the front. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I joined Big Creek’s marching band as a drummer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My white T-shirt glowed in the twilight, banded in modern art speckles of fungal reds, yellows, and blues. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Exulting the defenders saw it fall and annihilate a great band who were forcing the palace doors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Permian band came in and began to make its traditional march around the stadium. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered reaching out a hand to steady myself and finding the strong iron bands on a wagon’s wheel rusted away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around the band hall, sure that Rachel was going to make a bunch of bloodthirsty nasties pop out of the walls; but we were still alone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A wedding band shone conspicuously on one pink hand; he had a conspicuous smell of after-shave. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” Sierra said, “Sweaty Wack Disaster was their first band name.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m putting together a band for the talent show,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silver band on her finger is engraved with what Marco had thought was an intricate filigree, but is the same phrase in a looping script. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was one-eyebrowed Chuck to see, and Ben to tell the story to, and classes and the band room and Duke and the future. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sapiens, on the other hand, developed techniques that relied on cooperation between many dozens of individuals, and perhaps even between different bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys in the band loved having us out there in front of them all the time, bending back and stepping high, in our snug satin outfits and short skirts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that the temple, wearing its own black band, grieved for the burned-down mansion, that it yearned for a grand and invisible presence, bestowed a faintly religious ambience. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed that he was roaming the streets of Brooklyn as a one-man band and living on the pennies he collected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said the move was necessary because of a concern that noise from the Permian band would distract the Carter coaches when they tried to talk to their players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Carter band moved into the stands and members of the crowd started swaying dreamily back and forth as if they were dancing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, there’s the bride sitting at that long table by the band.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Americas was organized only at the tribal or band level. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guy Greco tilted his head to listen, but the baton did not stop and neither did the band. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The automobile had a black canvas roof, slotted rubber tires, and a brass horn, and was shimmying and shaking and backfiring to beat the band. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He orders the regimental band to play, hoping to strike fear into the enemy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Francie was but one of a crowd as many children followed the band Pied Piper fashion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul Blofis came over, but that was okay because Chiron had manipulated the Mist to convince everyone at Goode High School that I had nothing to do with the band room explosion. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wandering bands of storytelling Sapiens were the most important and most destructive force the animal kingdom had ever produced. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One father wraps his eight-year-old daughter’s favorite hair band around his wrist. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He could play any song that the band teacher gave him and it sounded good. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hearing the band sing together always made me want to giggle, so I did. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then Matthew went into the sixth grade and his classmate wanted to start a band, so her brother took up the guitar. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The melody instruments in a dixieland band are also generally playing independent parts, giving this genre its "busy" sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It seems safe to say that the vast majority of people lived in small bands numbering several dozen or at most several hundred individuals, and that all these individuals were humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots laughed and a man in a gray straw hat with a white band said, “Aw, let the boy stay, Feather.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet his lips looked like a giant rubber band before they snapped away from that glass! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the other party withdrew, he and his band took the vacated seats. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun was down beyond the Methodist church now, and the pigeons were flying back and forth around the steeple, and when the band stopped I could hear them cooing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside Calaca, the smell of coffee filled the air, and a band I recognized from our first practice played over the speakers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The round little man looked splendid in his new robes, with their broad bands of dun and butternut and narrow stripes of red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then I realize: I have waited outside in the cold gray-lit car-exhausted frigidity and caused the possible broken bones in Gary's hand to hear a band that is, manifestly, not Neutral Milk Hotel. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Now there were more people and they were much more friendly and the band behind struck up “Yankee Doodle.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top was in sort of a bun and tied tight with red rubber bands. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him play earlier, I realized, as part of the Gypsy children’s band. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was mounted on a shaggy grey stallion, his shield hung from the horse's side; wood banded with iron, white and grey, and on it the snarling face of a direwolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I brought a couple of plain white T-shirts, and Cap showed me how to scrunch, twist, and tie them up, securing them with rubber bands. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the competition started, we were kicked out of the scorer’s table by the guy announcing the bands. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The woman reached down and held on to her ankle where the iron band was. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A man at the front door was letting in members of Benny Goodman’s band. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had four different- colored bands—black, brown, blue, and white—so you could change your watchband to match your outfit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A group of boys sat next to the band kids. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes criminals—robbers, brigands, freebooters, highwaymen, hooligans, thugs, bandits, pirates, gangsters, outlaws—organize or join together in gangs or bands or mafias. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It had stretched very far, so far that she was afraid that when the plane touched down, the rubber band would break, and a part of her life would be over. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A thin band of gold encircled the girl’s head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For this show, the Mercury team would copy a familiar type of radio broadcast—a dance band performing in a ballroom. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The quarterback, fresh off a make-out session with a band geek. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Raskin played in his high school band—clarinet, trombone, and drums “with equal ineptitude,” he wrote. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It comes out looking less like a city and more like a necklace with a central band and tons of bunched-up jewels hanging off. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Certainly not Evan Parker, who only listened to respectable classic rock bands. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And after the hug business in the band room, maybe I just didn’t want to risk another weird conversation. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor pulled my hair back, twisting it up into a messy bun that she secured with a rubber band. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I felt such a surge of pride when I thought about how my people had banded together to force a change. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her own band was a little tight, but Rasheed had no trouble forcing it over her knuckles. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a line. I don’t even sing anymore. I left the band. I’m home for good,” Papá finally answered, tightening his hold on Pita as if to mark his words. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Among Africa’s five groups of people—blacks, whites, Pygmies, Khoisan, and Indonesians—only the Pygmies lack any distinct languages: each band of Pygmies speaks the same language as the neighboring group of black farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So they were married amidst a festival of fireworks and a brass band that went on for three days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s held together with a fat red rubber band. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“In my top ten favorite bands, maybe even top five.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The vice president said a few short words, the band played the school song, and then Mr. Gunthrie began announcing names. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But a few minutes later they indicated it wasn’t noise from the band they were worried about at all, but the ramifications of putting white supporters of Permian next to black supporters of Carter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most habitats, Sapiens bands fed themselves in an elastic and opportunistic fashion. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up feeling the wet bands of the lounge chair against my cheek. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I better get back to work. Next time you’re in, I’ll play some of these bands for you. Would you like that?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It says nothing about what drove the progression from bands to tribes to chiefdoms during all the millennia before the prospect of large-scale irrigation loomed up on the horizon. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, they ransacked the apartment, taking whatever the first band had left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Planning out the smallest details, from organizing Chandresh’s books for a new accountant to packing the suits in his flat, even down to the wedding bands on their fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well." Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sheer amount of time the band was forced to play. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Behind the bands came a big cotton wagon draped with Confederate bunting and pulled by a double team of mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was a slow procession and the band played sad, romantic, military marches. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can obtain their remaining necessities by trading with neighboring bands during intervals between band warfare. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached over the carousel to retrieve his bag, Margaret noticed a band of sunburn across the back of his neck. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers had previously noted the temporal coincidence between the paleo-Indians’ arrival and the mass extinction, but they didn’t believe that small bands of hunters could wreak such ecological havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No sooner had this been accomplished than the band started to play the national anthem. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds present diffuse bands of tender grays and blues, and below them the ocean does the same. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Members of a local secondary school marching band, wearing rented tuxedoes and vintage top hats, practised a piece of the Mozart requiem, and children were given bouquets of flowers to carry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were charter members of the “band of brothers” who had shared the agonies and ecstasies of 1776 as colleagues. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His men pushed open the great oaken doors, twenty feet tall and banded with bronze. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The huge crowd was intimidating, and besides, he was used to playing electric music with his band. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Around that date Sapiens bands left Africa for a second time. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This girl gave me an apartment and a parking pass and possibly a new band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some went south, and some who were bold and angry and cared nothing for what they did joined the robber bands that flourished everywhere in the countryside. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph threw his leg over his motorcycle, adjusted the rubber band that held his crash helmet in place, and grasped his tail so that it would not become tangled in his spokes. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a whole lot of wiggling, we're able to take the security bands off. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The destruction of Dresden was represented by a vertical band of orange cross-hatching, and all the lines that were still alive passed through it, came out the other side. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the ring of trees around the pond, the birds were celebrating, giving the new day a brass band’s worth of greeting. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all, he donned his crown, a band of cold iron slim as a finger, set with heavy chunks of black diamond and nuggets of gold. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were several pads of lined paper and a bundle of sharpened pencils held together with a rubber band. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t fuss at all, and didn’t seem to notice she wasn’t wearing the gold wedding band, which was still on the piano. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But who got time to use those little rubber bands? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

From then on the gentleman had a band of musicians play beside the window of Remedios the Beauty, sometimes until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes relations with neighbouring bands were tight enough that together they constituted a single tribe, sharing a common language, common myths, and common norms and values. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we leave the band room, everyone’s made their way outside. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I stacked my deck of cards, put a rubber band around them, dropped them in my backpack, and said, “Way to go, man,” and wished I hadn’t. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I have seven words, I bind the cards together with a rubber band she also swiped from work. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, Caroline became the drum majorette for the school’s marching band, went parking down by the Canoe Club with the boy who would become her husband a few years later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Obviously, crowd diseases could not sustain themselves in small bands of hunter-gatherers and slash-and-burn farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not a member of a band of immortals from Mount Olympus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I meant what I said, you know. You’re good. Is that why you decided not to be part of marching band? Too talented for the hacks?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So Crazy Horse and his band were alone against the whites. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I said the name of the band, he smiled crookedly, a peculiar expression in his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the gym, Bull paid the director of the pep club band five dollars to play the Marine Corps hymn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have not examined it yet,” I answered, and then and there proceeded to loose the band. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Moments later, as a band played, Nixon and his daughter, both beaming, walked arm-in-arm down the White House steps and into the Rose Garden. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I look down and notice that there’s something on the floor, a hair band, purple, stretched, well used. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flags waved and film cameras rolled, and a military band played as the pilots stepped out of the plane and began walking down a stairway onto a red carpet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just behind the Coalwood float, the Big Creek band marched, with me proudly playing the snare drum, one of five drummers in a line. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One woman recalled that her first baby girl was killed because the men in the band did not want another girl. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to join up with your little band of factionless. I want to get out of here as quickly as possible.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not quite sure how to describe this band's music, except to say that it sounds like a hundred thousand weasels being dropped into a boiling ocean. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that Shooting Star was something special, more than just a college-town band. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little distracted because I still had to go up to Emmanuel’s place to borrow a black tie and an arm band. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Last week a band of antelopes came up to inspect our skivvies flapping in the breeze!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The marching band sets out just ahead of us, complete with trumpets and trombones and drums and cymbals. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what did that mean for the after-school rock band? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to believe I could, but as I walked into the band room, I wondered. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A marching band, followed closely by floats of Christopher Columbus’s ships, circled the square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I braid my hair and tie it with the rubber band around my wrist. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Here and there they came upon roving bands of Orcs; but they fled ere the Riders could take or slay them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They wore feathered caps banded with wildcat fur and smoked long pipes as they dozed in the heat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, make sure you let me know if I need to get out of the way,” Marlena says dubiously, turning back to the band. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

To the man who piloted the men across the river, the strangers were unremarkable, just another band of bedraggled rebels heading home after losing the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A band of orange and yellow ignited the sky, glorious and unexpected, as spectacular as fireworks, but changing at a stately, barely perceptible pace. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Fine, then let’s go to the band room together. Band starts in thirteen minutes; we can practice for the concert.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One band might have been belligerent and the other peaceful. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Members of a band knew each other very intimately, and were surrounded throughout their lives by friends and relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently the people have banded together and are not readily going to be intimidated,” Nelson Bookman said thoughtfully. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone seems to know him, but instead of joining the band onstage, he grabs my hand and we dance. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When the group grew too large, its social order destabilised and the band split. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she’d never realized that a few kilometers upstream from the dam, the stately band of silver became a snarling monster. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He slips around my wrist a tag, purple, on an elastic band, like the tags for airport luggage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Falconer did not set upon him in the fierce and ruthless manner he had used to dispatch the band of outlaws. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I expect you to come to band fully prepared,”Ms. Fender scolded. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A twisted thing it was, six feet long from end to end, gleaming black and banded with red gold and dark Valyrian steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Mexican and Mexican American bands and singers we love. We put them right up there to honor them.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

What wouldn’t that crowd have given, I wondered, to be standing where Glenn Miller’s band was actually going to play? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was to have gone to Europe with the marching band that spring, and she'd apparently loved her visit to Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Slow Club is playing, a band I like, all plucky and bittersweet and kind of offbeat. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The edge of a high-pressure band pushed the clouds away in a perfectly straight line. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rarely goes to mass, but she’s got the required crucifix over the kitchen doorway, the rosary in the dresser drawer, and the stack of dead relatives’ funeral cards, held together with a rubber band. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We plodded down the narrow band, the trees soldiering up around us, dark and tall. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The zodiac is a band of twelve constellations seemingly wrapped around the sky in the apparent annual path of the Sun through the heavens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when Santa gave me an electric guitar for Christmas, I figured I was ready to join the after-school rock band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I tucked my thumb and Papa’s wedding band into my palm. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With the first burst of the band, Amy’s color rose, her eyes began to sparkle, and her feet to tap the floor impatiently, for she danced well and wanted Laurie to know it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I... I do play in a band,” Adina said, unable to keep her cool. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He said he felt as though his head was “bound with a band of iron.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was dislodging a curl of rubber band from inside her cheek, or was she really smiling? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's for the Animal Rescue League. My mom gave them some money, so they gave us this and a bumper sticker. I've got twenty-two band bracelets." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Was taken, by a Guardian, one of those with the red arm bands who are in charge of such things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the Depeche Mode cover band starts playing “Enjoy the Silence,” one of my favorite songs ever. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” I say, “but awesome bands have songs.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our adversaries...attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday we fairly captured it....I now request the band to favor me with its performance.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t dig joining some big band, one-nighting all over just to say I played with Count or Duke or somebody.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The old men of the band were wont to gather about the campfires in a reminiscent mood and there recount the tales of prowess on the war-path and in the chase.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He said as soon as he hit a number, he would use the winnings to organize his band. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves rustled again more lengthily while you could count a hundred, and then Maid Marian, who had done the rabbit’s thump, was surrounded by her band of twenty plus two. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I opened my grail diary and accessed the subfolder devoted to the legendary Canadian rock band Rush. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then came a band of six royal guards, dull and bland as porridge. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Above the coconuts was the band’s name written over an eighties-looking checkered pattern. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“And I’m sorry I didn’t fight to keep our band together.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Between the city and the sea was a wide gray band that looked to be neither land nor sea. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kelly came over to George’s for dinner, she loved to rattle off the singers and bands to George’s mom, who recognized a few. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem so big before, when he was a part of the band. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

There followed a comedians wheedling monologue, broken at last by applause, and a jolly band striking up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He broadcasts them on five different bands, gives instructions for the next transmission, and plays a bit of an old record. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So that whole morning, while I basically sleepwalked though science, math, ELA, and Spanish, I couldn’t stop replaying the scene in the band room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"What's that one?" she asked, pointing to a band bracelet with tiger stripes. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The brake pedal did touch the floor so there was no brake, but the reverse pedal had lots of band left. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our marching band’s halftime show’s pretty awesome, though. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought rubber bands and wrapped each hundred and thousand. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There will be a knock on the door, like the one last night, a band of Peacekeepers to haul me away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fierce bands of love tightened around his chest until he could barely breathe. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had invited me to probably ten of his gigs to watch him play and had once let me sit in on drums at a big band concert for a thousand people. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It even had a rubber band to keep it on my face! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she show up by the band room before school to hang out? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Loud marching band music blared through the room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Juan looked up from his guitar with that smug smile and nodded at Gordo, and the band whirled into another number. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When a valued band member died, the Aché customarily killed a little girl and buried the two together. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled up the poster slowly, securing it with one of the elastic bands she always wore around her wrist for tying back her thick, unruly hair, streaked here and there with henna. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the address books, bought twenty- eight years ago at a stationery store in Harvard Square, has a pebbly black cover and blue pages, bound together by a rubber band. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bandmaster signals the band into a fast number, and Rosie moves the ball a dozen feet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Odd Fellows’ Brass Band played a short selection, the Moose Band played at length, and the International Woodmen of the World, the band with the fewest members, went on forever. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His tie was solid black, and on the sleeve of his gray coat there was the mourning band that he had sewn there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They even applaud after the Eugene Field band plays its annual concert, and that’s really saying something. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I had just started a band with Ollie and his brother. I didn’t want to leave and start over somewhere new again. I even ran away, I was so mad.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That shelf would have the tea glass and the tray with paper clips and rubber bands, because literature has not been the focus of this dynasty. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I feel an elastic band inside my throat, stretched as tight as nature will allow, no farther. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a band of criminals leading good Negroes astray.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. Her band broke up and she’s trying out the domestic thing,” Toby said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“When your dad told me about the band and about how you’ve been feeling, it made me stop to think about how I’ve acted,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Where wheat became particularly abundant, and game and other food sources were also plentiful, human bands could gradually give up their nomadic lifestyle and settle down in seasonal and even permanent camps. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I recognize the broad band on the tip of his tail.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Those are the reasons why large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the club downstairs, the band was tuning their instruments. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kaira shouted, “Thank you very much! I love you!” and she and the band left the stage. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was like being a member of a band of starlings, or of roosting rooks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In tenth grade, I once drank a bottle of pink “wine” at a band party. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by a band of shrews that had started quarreling over the best route to the quarry, Matthias marched stolidly forward. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The third hit one of Charybdis s retaining bands and shot back at us, snapping the Ares flag off its pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was small, but super sparkly; a circle of smaller diamonds surrounded the big one in the middle and trickled down the silver band. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After the last girl gives her speech, a band comes onstage, an indigena band, playing the panpipe music MacGyver played on his cassette years ago. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never heard of most of the bands, and I was surprised to learn that vinyl records were even being produced for the newer ones. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

“The other arm band was creditable, as was the cup. Aye, quite creditable.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But the band of men clearly made her uneasy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He plays guitar in five or six different bands, and last year he cut a record. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She winds her way through to me as the band pipes up with a fresh jiving number. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time he took in what that small band of redcoats, so close to the salt marsh, was about. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to move his hands and found that they were shackled by strong bands of cold steel to white wrists of policemen sitting to either side of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hot band of fire encircled his throat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mob was coming over the dunes, Narcissus in the lead, holding his bow like a band major’s baton. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She catches a flicker of the band on his finger. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Leroy’s band broke into a reggae number and we started bopping on out the park. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Gael became a marine, which surprised no one, and Juan’s salsa-thrasher band Culebra got a record deal, which shocked everyone, and both disappeared suddenly and completely from Sierra’s daily life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Spying the Navy Yard brass band taking shelter under the White House eaves, he calls out a request: “I always thought that ‘Dixie’ was one of the best tunes I ever heard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis knew what appealed to kids—uniforms, flags, bands, badges, weapons, and stories about heroes—and they offered plenty. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The band onstage announced the next song and began to play it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The band was playing loudly when the Marines entered the restaurant and headed as decorously as their condition permitted for seats at the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her black T-shirt crept up as she danced, leaving only a band of tight white undershirt ringing her belly, which lay smooth and flat and chocolaty brown above her faded, low-slung jeans. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I took that money, put it in an envelope, wrapped it tight with a rubber band, and stuffed it away at the bottom of my bag. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember how you would write psalms and sing them with the praise band? Remember that?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The low-high pedal didn’t quite touch the floor so he knew there was a little band left. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m hyped about this band. We can practice in my basement. My mom has stuff in there from her band days we can probably use.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Somebody came up with the idea of hiring a gospel band with a keyboard player, who wears shades and plays too loud, but no one’s complaining. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the band was silent the drum corps beat the time on drums with muffled heads. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother allowed us to go to the big band dances in the crowded city auditorium. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whistles blew and a band played both the Brazilian and American national anthems. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

On the second day a band of visitors arrived in a carriage, august souls from Atlanta and Savannah. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Because modern-day hunter-gatherers in Africa live in egalitarian bands that constantly move from place to place, archaeologists assumed that Native American hunter-gatherers must also have done so. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Adam invited me to see his band play. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My vocal cords feel like dried, crackled rubber bands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They told her if she placed in Miss New Hampshire, they’d buy her a bass for her all-girl punk band, Drink My Sweat. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At this, the two little boys drew nearer to the dog and the rest of the band gathered around. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came to the house we found that the band had arrived, and were standing about in the hall rather pink in the face and self-conscious, while Frith, more important than ever, offered refreshments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

That was why An Yi was not allowed to wear mourning bands or even cry aloud for her grandmother. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Le Goose is one of my favorite bands,” the Witchlings said in unison, and then began to laugh. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s unanimous, then—congratulations, Boom Chachalacas. You can start making your band posters this afternoon.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the buffalo shed; other times the band shell benches or the pavilion. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never judge someone for not knowing a band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Men replaced their hats as the band launched into their next number. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Mom had Teddy, Dad was still playing drums in the same band he’d been in since college. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his other hand he ventured beneath her well-starched dress, running his fingers up her child’s legs until he found the lace of her batiste petticoats and her woolen drawers with their elastic bands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the brass band played a mournful dirge. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the band of brothers reunited, that’s what they all shouted with their hands held high. Five!” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I saw them pick up their cat's-paw invitations and walk over to the band where I was standing beside my red wagon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t intend to be insulted by a coarse vendor,” a spokeswoman for the band of large hats said haughtily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Shorty’s got this band now, trying out for paying gigs it seems like every other day. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brass bands on the quayside and women waving and a hundred thousand yachts and honkers and arcs of water from the fireships. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The band may be just something you’re doing for fun,” Benny said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I know a few people from classes, but most of them play in the band. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mother watches as he stretches out my legs and both arms, then has me use weights and resistance bands. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I walked to where the rest of the band waited by the drum kit. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His mouth slackened like a wet, boingy rubber band, and before he could do anything about it, his head teetered, tottered. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was almost like the audience was part of the band. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, thank you,” he said, stretching the elastic band to raise his kid-sized hat and tipping it toward the crowd. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Taryn froze in front of the mirror over her dresser, in the middle of pulling her hair halfway up, an elastic band twisted around her fingers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For accessories, we got a black leather band for one wrist and about two dozen silver bangles for the other. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get changed for track practice, I look at my pile of folded clothes in my gym locker, rub my bands on my thighs, and decide to leave my armband on. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the band play and practice a thousand times and still had to just about sit on my hands when they were finished so I wouldn’t bust out clapping. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What does your band’s name mean?” he asked Max. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moon of cold silver shone on the river in a brilliantly luminous band. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not believe that there had been music stands in the minstrels' gallery, and a band playing there, a man with a fiddle, a man with a drum. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It seems comical, looking back; we were a band of Charlie Chaplins marooned in the California desert. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her finest clothing—a new, silky blue blouse and a blue pleated skirt decorated with bands of gold ribbons. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some plundered their own country's rustic folk dances, some opportunistically arranged the folk music of other countries, while others dipped into the non-specific well of travelling gypsy band music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A different band gets to DJ every morning. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She sat down and put a ring on the table—a band of silver etched with a sword-and-torch design, like Reyna’s tattoo. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“So what I’m proposing en’t easy. And I need your agreement I’m proposing that we send a band of fighters up north to rescue them kids and bring ’em back alive. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Why does he always keep one white guy in the band?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a wire band with a circular disc at either end. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Justice straightened the bands at his throat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to see what kind of cool bands would play. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My chest feels as tight as my earmuffs’ band. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I just hoped they would still want to be part of the band too. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

While Irene pretended to study the label of an Idaho Spud candy bar, taking her time, I grabbed two packs of the Bubblicious and tucked them just inside the band of my shorts. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

All ten of us climbed under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men in the band applauded. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band has yet to perform outside of the garage, but Bongo loves to sit on the roof and sway to their music. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Shug want two more pair just like the first Then everybody in her band want some. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's this elastic band inside, and he goes, "Observe and be amazed, earthling," and then he lets it go, and you know what? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I move up behind her, take the rubber band from her hand, and tie back her hair for her. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Winter tightened our heads with a band of cold and melted our eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the farther the line spun into the night, the louder the band had to play. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they could start their rock band up again and win a Grammy Award. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I could hold my own now when Adam took me to the House of Rock, the rambling house near the college where the rest of the band all lived. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone booth was decorated with faded stickers for bands I’d never heard of and brands that sounded only vaguely familiar—relics of rebel kids long since assimilated into adulthood. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was especially predisposed to forgive or ignore political differences when the other person had been one of the “band of brothers” in 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Gypsies talked and laughed, and when a band of children with battered horns and fiddles struck up a song, they danced. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

From up here, the water shone like a pale band of silver in the moonlight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sam included some “underground” news on some bands. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I will wait here for my band. We’ll force march most of the way, don’t worry. The Guerrilla Shrews won’t be far behind you. We’ll make good time in this cool night air.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But you quit the band! Gave up dressing punk!” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since their school didn’t offer band or lessons on musical instruments, Ms. Treadwell let Clayton accompany the class on his blues harp a few times—something he’d never told his mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

That seemed like a promising sign, but I began to worry that instead of pushing my front teeth in, the rubber band might be pulling my back teeth forward. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has a flying saucer thing that can keep a salad chilled and a set of stretchy bands that give you rock-hard abs. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She was still in bed when he came home late in the afternoon, when he showed her his new haircut, his new used suit, blue with cream pinstripes, and the wedding band he’d bought her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So after a while I heard the band start up, and then they begun to clear out. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Odd Fellows’ band wheezed away, pumping out a steady supply of festive waltzes and marches that could be heard all over the grounds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I started bringing something to eat from home and spending lunch in the library again to avoid the band—ex-band—in the cafeteria. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the band was being a storm, she was the sun busting through thick, gray clouds. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Lee and Midland High bands both broke into “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We banded together and in our union found strength. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday morning, the band of three hundred reached the point where the highway widened back to four lanes, ending the court’s limitation on the number of marchers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the mourning bands had been sewn around the arms of two gray suits, and now he was on the last. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A band of Homo sapiens gathering mushrooms and nuts and hunting deer and rabbit did not all of a sudden settle in a permanent village, ploughing fields, sowing wheat and carrying water from the river. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more cheers and the band got louder than I knew it could get. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Where population densities are moderate, as in regions occupied by food-producing tribes, no large vacant areas remain to which survivors of a defeated band can flee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The band was by no means big, but they had a following in the Northwest and in various college towns between here and Chicago. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I hate to say it, but it's probably a waste of your time to try to figure out who I am by looking at the bands on people's T-shirts. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The crowd sang “God Bless America” and the military band played. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he signals to the rest of his band, and they begin to slip back into the tunnels. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s a book! The first-aid book. It says to tie a band between the bite and his chest. So the poison can’t get to his heart.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They say that the tendon didn’t detach again, that it didn’t sever or snap like a rubber band pulled too far. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some of them even wore sunglasses, an act that on the Permian band would have been considered as blasphemous as taking out an American flag during the halftime show and burning it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like last week in homeroom when Mr. Bontaff made this whole big deal about how Matt had done such an amazing job for his trumpet solo in the jazz band concert. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some of the band lay back from the fires, smoking and watching idly, talking softly among themselves; while others still ate, ladling the fragrant contents of a black iron pot onto tin plates. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant she wasn’t inside the band room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Although before the suspension the football boys might have had the hearts of the girls, we boys in the band had more ready access to them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this band of the invading horde there were about a hundred men, which is not many; but in the village were only eighteen men and boys. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sea retreats to the horizon, underlining the sky in a dark band of blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I mentioned in Chapter 3, they enabled Cortes and Pizarro, leading only small bands of adventurers, to overthrow the Aztec and Inca Empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most images were of my favorite bands, stuff I’d torn out of magazines or printed from the Internet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Rhythm Section — The rhythm section of a band is the group of instruments that usually provide the background rhythm and chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

None of the band members seemed to know. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There had been confetti and balloons and a band and everything! Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The band closed with spirited renditions of two colored songs Cora recognized, which proved the most popular of the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The outer gates were banded with copper, the middle with iron,- the innermost were studded with golden eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fred played the guitar for her, and sang, his voice husky, and told her how his dream was to be a lead singer in a folksy band. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In jazz, the shift in emphasis meant bigger bands comprising more structured families of instruments playing well-honed, written-out arrangements, with occasional well-defined solos emerging from the texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Also, Ms. Fender had them stand up in front of the band and apologize for “unbandlike behavior.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Carter contingent said it would only consider playing there if the Permian band, Pepettes, and student section were moved from their normal location on the visitor’s side to the home side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran home and grabbed Vincent’s chess set, which was bound in a cardboard box with rubber bands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably it was taking them a long time to get all those pink rubber bands out of Coach Hedge’s hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The leader of the Dalton Gang, an infamous nineteenth-century band of outlaws, once served as the main lawman on the Osage reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like one day he stripped off the tight black jeans and band tees in exchange for suits. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I hand the phone back to the woman in the bathrobe, I notice that she has a hospital band on her wrist. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

An inlaid band around its rim was of priceless silver, and so was its delicate stem. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that you can hold a crocodile’s jaws closed with a rubber band?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t see the winning band and I don’t remember them. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re super determined. You convinced me, someone who couldn’t even play an instrument, to join the band. I’m pretty sure you can do anything.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Annabelle has never met them, but she’s heard the stories about Adrian’s band and how he and Lucy find gross stuff in the chickens sometimes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I slipped off this woven band she wore round her wrist and slipped it over mine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He’s been going around with New York City girls in ballet flats, taking them to Chinese food and out to see bands. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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

I swear she’s more manageable when were rehearsing with the band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The glitter of silver and the glow of turquoise shone out from that crowd in the shape of necklaces and bracelets and earrings on the women, belt buckles and hat bands on the men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she handed out a new piece of music, she’d ask him to stand up and play it, not just for the trumpet section, but for the whole band. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just found this new band Piggy's Death Rattle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In 1960, while they were still just a struggling high school rock band, they were invited to play in Hamburg, Germany. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After I dropped off Señora Oralia in the auditorium, I went back outside to wait for the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A four-piece band was playing a swingy number for couples dancing on the wooden deck. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I gazed up through this maroon or oxblood space and saw what I could of her, the dark band of her swimsuit top, her clavicles set forward. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s likely that different bands had different structures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Blue Danube” that the band played was sad as well as bad. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred had played trumpet in the school jazz band since sixth grade, but he didn’t listen to jazz at home. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I went racing out of the room and noticed the band had stopped playing. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The freezers were fitted with padlocks and alarms and were plastered with biohazard flowers and sealed with bands of sticky tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the wavering band of blacktop, the outline of our neighbors house ran against the sky like watery paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

All the other dancers would form a big “U” with the band at the open end. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a single black rubber band around his wrist and he pulls at it a few times before continuing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

BAM, BAM, BAM and another drum roll, and the bands struck up “Dixie.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Across from us, against the far wall, the blue uniforms of the band members filled two sections from top to bottom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her bedchamber was the only place that Arya liked in all of King's Landing, and the thing she liked best about it was the door, a massive slab of dark oak with black iron bands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Vonetta fiddled with her hair band or twirled her longest braid around her finger. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those blinking lights were the exact same shade as the blood-red band the PSFs wore around the upper part of their right arm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She waited for several minutes, thinking that if the band finished practice and came back in—if someone said hello—she’d change her mind. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And what if the animals somehow knew and all banded together and launched some kind of attack? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Los Osos, once a group of neighborhood children who played along the river, became a band of forty men who move drugs and people across the Rio Grande. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And she was perpetually irritated by Joe and his teenaged friends and their makeshift bands, out on the wide front porch, making a racket day and night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"It's not that big a deal," said Jessie again, her voice stretched tight like a rubber band. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

What if the band was a big failure? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talk about our plans for college, books, and our favorite bands. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We need to find a band now,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So,Jeffrey, we hereby proclaim you to be an honorary member of the band. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, if robbery were the explanation, why hadn’t the robber removed the jewelry that Mrs. Clutter was wearing—a gold wedding band and a diamond ring? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and I had become our own little group inside this rock band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I entered the immaculate little shop, redolent of freshly sawn pine and oak, and found him working at a shrieking band saw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline looked down at her finger, admiring her wedding band. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then he took ship at the head of a band of fighting men, and set sail for the kingdom of the Geats. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Eurasia provides the world’s widest band of land at the same latitude, and hence the most dramatic example of rapid spread of domesticates, there are other examples as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until we were all in the car, several blocks away from home, that I realized the random shirt I had put on was last year’s middle school band concert shirt. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scholars deduced that the Sungir mammoth-hunters lived in a hierarchical society, and that the dead man was perhaps the leader of a band or of an entire tribe comprising several bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On every block, there are stores displaying wristwatches with flowered bands, black radios blasting Vietnamese songs, televisions projecting hand puppets talking to happy young children, and red traditional dresses on headless mannequins. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in the country club band stepped up to the mike and started shaking those seedpod rattles that mean South American music. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t moved at all, just kept my eyes pinned to the light/dark band of roadway that eventually became named San Francisquito Canyon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There are eight pawns that, when you band them together, can be strong. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I first moved in, this would have been called “disordered behavior” and Jennifer’s voice would pitch up high and Dad would twist his wedding band around and around his finger. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She adjusted the headlamp around her forehead, the thick elastic band pulling at her hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All of the large gunter clans immediately banded together to launch a full-scale assault on the Sixers’ force field, trying everything they could think of to bring it down or circumvent it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t say they were thrilled when John and I first joined the band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Carter band came in led by a drum major, the music sweet and jazzy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That bands would perform and young people would be dressed up on national TV showing off their booms and ticks. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The energy of the band and the crowd made me feel like there were hyper butterflies trapped inside me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When I spotted Ms. Wardak circling back to my hallway, I made a quick decision: I’d go to the band room, but only if Ms. Fender was there. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As always, the crowd clapped and shouted in time with the blasting band. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, as officers dined, the band began playing on the ship’s deck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And neither will the rest of the band,” Dante said from behind me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had been carefully banded at the top and bottom so that it wouldn’t come undone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they rode ladies waved handkerchiefs, a band played the “Star-Spangled Banner.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you happen to know whose band's at the Taft or the New Yorker, by any chance?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The school band struck up a march and all classes filed in as had been rehearsed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of eleven the parade stepped off with the high-school bands of the three nearest towns with high schools. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No two ways about it,” Dessie said, and she popped the rubber band off the deck of cards to settle them down for a nice long game of bid whist. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The death of one of their band had roused the enemy to even greater violence and frenzy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the band rode out of sight along the road a few fists were shaken, and some small boys hurled clumps of mud after the last horses’ hoofs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When the band played the final note of the song, I took off my Maríachi hat and, like Selena with her candy necklace, tossed it into the crowd. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

For example, as we have seen, the other stars in our galaxy form a distinct band of light across the night sky, called the Milky Way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I obediently slid the rubber band out of my hair and shook it out around me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s important,” I started, noticing the deep-set lines on her ring finger where her wedding band used to sit. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Let us consider the distinctive features of chiefdoms, very different from modern European and American states and, at the same time, from bands and simple tribal societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The band stopped playing and marched off the field. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When I got to the band room, Leo was in my seat, talking to Callum and Dante. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beside it was a door, banded in iron and bolted shut. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Great golden bands caught his sleeves in the dip between biceps and deltoids, and his neck was dark with obscure tattoos. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Union leaders marched to the mouth of the Colliers mine with a brass band. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I grabbed one of the million apples we’d brought back from our farmers’ market trip and stomped off to my room to call Dad before going to Calaca to meet up with the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He would be a living, breathing bull’s-eye for spitballs, rubber bands, apple cores, and flying soup. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She took me to see a punk rock band, helped me pick out Doc Martens and she and her friend, Daragh, made a video for my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Amar runs a hand over his black hair, tying it back with a rubber band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Next, bands of monkeys go fleeing hand over hand through the canopy above, chattering and screaming in terror. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Those were the Pixies I was playing last week. They’re an old punk band. Did you like them?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Then one more question, Thlayli. That patrol was on the track of a band of rabbits—strangers. What do you know about them?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much more extensive long-term information about band and tribal societies reveals that murder is a leading cause of death. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On towers all around the courtyard, bands of musicians played a vast, slow tune on quacking horns, blaring trumpets, and thundering drums, while below, the spiral moved to their beat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Eliot stood by the lobsters, which stirred one on top of another in their murky tank, their claws bound by yellow rubber bands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I realized it was the garage band Bongo liked. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sandy finds a harmonica under the couch, and he begins to play a whole mess of noise while I bang on the pan, and we’ve got our own band going. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should’ve joined band and played piano, gotten some recognition before working my way up to singing in the chorus, then maybe a duet with someone cool, and then maybe braving a solo. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A band took its place onstage, the sounds of their warming up gathering the scattered park goers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“My old friend Thutra took me one morning to a cupboard, and showed me a cup with a handle, and two arm bands. One of them was overambitious.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Just then Ms. Fender poked her head into the band room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I woke with a headache and the noise of the bands going by in the street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She’d say, “The entire band on the inside was black and I’m sure it was crawling with ringworm, lice and tetters!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He fires a marble with a rubber band. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s dance or chorus or band. There’s leadership.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The cowboy hat lay on the ground, white with a brown band. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then as a one-man band he competed with others at a movie house on amateur night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, a band is an extended family or several related extended families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had looked at the little cups and arm bands Ranofer had hammered out, and he had said to Thutra, “Your son shows skill. Perhaps, when he is older...” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Their throwing arms were made from the trunks of old oaks, and banded with iron to keep them from splitting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They strolled around the lake, bought tea at a stall, and rented deck chairs to listen to elderly men of the Salvation Army playing Elgar adapted for brass band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For example, some evolutionary psychologists argue that ancient foraging bands were not composed of nuclear families centred on monogamous couples. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who owned the club, Mr. Eugene Miller, used to be in one of Mr. C.’s bands. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She alone knew of the tarnished silver band that Azareen put on her finger every night and took off first thing every morning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The dance was in the lounge between the two dorms, and so, when I heard the band start up, I wandered down the stairs to a landing where I could watch, unobserved, the partiers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His expression was as gruff as ever, but he still had one pink rubber band stuck in his hair from the prankster dwarfs in Bologna. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She lobs something toward me, and I grab what turns out to be a bundle of brand-new markers in rainbow colors, held together with a fat rubber band. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

His father was leading the whole band, striding ahead, grinning, showing his tangled yellow teeth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We talked about music—about bands I’d never heard of and about how he wanted to be a musician and travel the world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She brushed away a band of sweat that formed on her brow. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

So when I got to school, I went straight to the band room, hoping to find an extra copy of the sheet music. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys sound terrific!” said John’s mother, who had just come in the band room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were swollen and her wedding band looked uncomfortably tight. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The valley was desert, withered and yellow-gray except for the crooked band of green that marked the course of the Fortaleza River. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had an entire floor dedicated to music, an award-winning band, and a choir. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But dancing on a basketball court to the blaring of the school band wasn’t particularly romantic, wasn’t really much better than dancing in the close, sweaty confines of the Chicken Coop back in Sequim. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But I had band practice then, so I couldn’t go. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And had that, in fact, not occurred during and after the American Revolution, with the “band of brothers” he and Adams had come to symbolize being the obvious beneficiaries of the republican selection process? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I resisted the temptation to put the blue-and-white band back on my arm. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The priest and a brave band of villagers armed with rakes and pitchforks and sticks tied into crosses hurried to the barn. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe saw her coming, and before she could say a word about the school or the band or anything, he was shouting news of his own. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant paused, thumbing one of the metal bands she wore on her upper arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The school band was gone, and so were the alive teachers. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I sang them silently in my head during lunch while the band goofed around. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the band stopped when they felt the land grow rough underfoot, but others pressed right on, seeking the phantom village, following dim wavering shapes that fled just out of reach before them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the Midland High band, dressed in its purple and gold costumes, played the national anthem. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A marching band, followed closely by floats of Christopher Columbus’s ships, circled the square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Cornflower and her band of helpers were on top of the walls. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The band was playing a cha-cha-cha, and Pilar moved jerkily, off the beat, sloppy and distracted. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time passed, the bands spread far and wide, pursuing mammoths, mastodons, rhinoceroses and reindeer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a short time, Doli led the little band into the valley, where they found concealment in the wooded groves. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The band, sitting in an upper corner of the stadium to escape the rain, played its familiar marches, but the music seemed muffled and miles away. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seeing the success of their unified fellows here, perverts around the world will also band together to capture the military in their respective countries. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band launches into the first few notes of our fight song and falls silent. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Having reviewed the stages in this transformation from bands to states, we now ask what impelled societies thus to transform themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I hung out in front of the band room door, tying my sneaker laces. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it didn’t stick very well, and then Rocket started playing with it—you know how he’s always carrying ponytail rubber bands away when Mom or I drop them on the floor?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Midland High band played “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” then “Come a Little Bit Closer” to the accompaniment of hundreds of little American flags bobbing up and down. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band is the political, economic, and social organization that we inherited from our millions of years of evolutionary history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was at work one night, doing the sound for a Portland band called Clod, when he just keeled over on the soundboard. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if the band room is empty, we’ll practice our kicks.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A band of thirty adolescent girls crossed Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We really missed you in jazz band this week. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: I felt annoyed when Dante sat too close in band, and on the bus. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most music for large instrumental groups such as bands or orchestras is contrapuntal at least some of the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As they passed the Iron Duke, the British military service band started into a waltz. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Beside each ship at the wharf they would find a band of men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band launches into victory music and the crowd goes wild. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Multiply by two and you stretch the number line by a factor of two; divide by two and you relax the rubber band by a factor of two, undoing the multiplication. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Can someone please explain to me what happened onstage? The rudeness to a fellow band member? Sacrificing all of our hard work, in front of all the parents and the entire grade?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a light-tan suede suit, shoes to match and a mannish hat with a feather in the band, and she patted my face with gloved hands. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no performers save the band, as it is difficult to hire entertainment to impress a gathering that is comprised predominantly of circus members. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

An aluminum Fish and Wildlife Service band ringed his leg. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I could see now why this band got to have six exclamation points behind their name! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As she always did before going into Level 4, she took off her engagement ring and her wedding band, and locked them away in her desk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jordie, Pouncey, and I spread lard across the Fourth of July parade route, we were just trying to wipe out the marching band. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

By now the band was blasting like nobody’s business, and the usual confusing things happened. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was practicing with Annie and her dad at the gym one afternoon, and the school band was rehearsing in there, too. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the spur, the lure of the violin proved irresistible, and predominantly German piffari wind bands were soon surpassed by predominantly Italian violin consorts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It is,” he says, then tugs on my earmuff band. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I didn't tell my parents when she'd cut school to go to the beach, or that she once missed an entire Aerosmith concert because she passed out from drinking before the band took the stage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That night there was a great display of fireworks, and then the town’s band played while nearly a thousand voices joined in singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to cherish their husbands and wives, protect their children, repair their homes and in general band together against the devil in their midst. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most bands today don’t perform twelve hundred times in their entire careers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even the music of a flamenco band did not overpower or even cancel out the clamor and tumult that spilled out of the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias played trombone in band, but he was the only basketball boy who hadn’t been in the band room this morning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to roll away from the direction of the light, but hands wrapped round my limbs like mummy bands, and I couldn't move. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I prefer band T-shirts, jeans, and dark dresses. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the Capitol Hilton hotel, a rock band turned up the volume on their amplifiers, making the walls and tables vibrate. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was almost like that in the band room, except for chairs squeaking. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She weighed ninety-eight pounds; rings—a wedding band and one set with a diamond modest to the point of meekness—wobbled on one of her bony hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spanish rock. My favorite band is El Tri,” he says, unzipping his jacket and showing me his T-shirt. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The big gunter clans had once again banded together to launch a coordinated attack on the Sixers’ forces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I dumped in socks, five pairs of shorts, tops, a nightgown, shampoo, brush, toothpaste, toothbrush, rubber bands for my hair, all the time watching the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled, filling in the fleshy bulges at the sides of the bands, and adding fins and teeth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The elastic bands that connected her perspiration shields to her slip he unsnapped and snapped again, teasing her and himself with the sound of the snaps and the thrill of his fingertips on her shoulders. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To attract women, speakeasies began featuring jazz bands, torch singers, and other forms of entertainment along with their booze and food. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Plus, punk bands aren’t the kind of thing señoritas are into.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He was shy in high school, but then he started playing drums and freshman year of college joined a punk band, and boom, girlfriends. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

About Taylor’s new obsession with Nick joining the band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was way too big for my finger, but I could wrap yarn around the band the way high school girls did when they wore their boyfriend’s rings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Morrissey was the singer of The Smiths, one of Dad’s favorite bands, and I knew they were from England. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

What the band needed was drums, not trumpet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At the stop before Bruce’s house, they would stop playing, wrap a rubber band around each pile, hold the stack under each other’s chin and spit on each other’s deck saying, “Thou shalt not shuffle.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have you know that Mr. Ice, as he referred to himself, sampled that track from the greatest band in the history of bipedal man.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Everything has more than one use in this world,” she always says about even the smallest fastener or elastic band. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If the band is facing her, she’ll simply finish the obituary, go home, get a good night’s rest, and figure out next steps tomorrow. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Modeled on the fraternities then springing up on college campuses, the group took its name from the Greek word kuklos, meaning band. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sparrow, the band needs you. I’m sorry. I know you don’t like it, but there’s nothing else to do,” Tanasia says. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the Agricultural Revolution didn’t need every band in a given region to join up. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, there are flyers all around, advertising deejay nights and college theater and a band called Motel/Hotel, scheduled to play this weekend. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Was Ms. Fender expecting us to have a band practice now? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He led an army so great that it seemed impossible for the little band of heroes either to conquer it or to escape, but Medea saved them again, this time by a horrible deed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because of the limitations of our eyes, we have a prejudice, a bias, toward that tiny rainbow band we call the spectrum of visible light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No character costumes, no electrical parade, no jazz band in New Orleans Square. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The small bands joined us, but sometimes armies of equal or larger strength would fight us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I forgive you for lying,” Lily said, her poodly curls shoved painfully back into a band. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

People who lived in Murphy Homes felt like prisoners, kept in check by roving bands of gun-strapped kids and a nightmare army of drug fiends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He had supplied them with hand-held short-wave radios that operated on a military band. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think we’re going to hold off the guards with wires and rubber bands and bits of string?” he asked incredulously. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The transport van carries him back to Fuhlsbüttel, where the guard clamps his hands and feet in metal bands, cuffs the bands to the bed. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Built of stout timber, banded with iron, beset with florin spikes, the door did not appear to be locked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Word spread quickly around the stage: none of the bands was getting through the traffic, now at a dead stop as people abandoned their cars and walked the last few miles to the festival. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see only a band of light around the edges of his eyes and only a muffled roar of sound came to his ears through his father’s hands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, um, do you know why my band didn’t get picked for the show?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The rope near the mouth bound the shark like a rubber band around a fat wrist, separating the head from the rest of the body. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The most fundamental such distinction is that states are organized on political and territorial lines, not on the kinship lines that defined bands, tribes, and simple chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I always hung around school for the extra hour during band practice, because to leave before Ben and Radar meant enduring the unbearable humiliation of being the lone senior on the bus. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The band of water lay blue and sparkling, out and away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mila felt annoyed when Dante sat too close in band, and on the bus. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The brave bands of Texans did indeed wrest their liberty from Mexico, and freedom, liberty, are holy words. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Runes were carved into the golden bands, die writing of the First Men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about the band room. I hope they didn’t kick you out or anything.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The band staggers through a song and the cheerleaders bounce. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the fact that I’m being watched by a bunch of actual musicians in an actual college band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The boys had felt disgruntled at first, at being put in a woman’s band. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also says I can’t wear jeans or any of my band T-shirts she hates so much. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Daisy and I were scanning stations in search of a song by a particular brilliant and underappreciated boy band when we landed upon a news story. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But in 1845, Doppler had loaded a train with a band of trumpet players and asked them to hold a note as the train sped forward. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a band playing down at Klein’s hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every rabbit would need to feel that he was close to the General; and if he felt himself one of a picked band as well, that would be all to the good. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few songs, she looks over at me and says the name of the band: “The White Stripes.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon the road became crowded with bands of party- goers until Guapo could hardly move at all. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy bands are so over. What was I thinking?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’s right in the middle, elbows on knees, stretching and releasing his rubber band. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you could hear the band playing in the Lavender Room, and so I went in there. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to wriggle free, but his arms circled her waist and tightened like an iron band around her rib cage. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting among piles of T-shirts and markers and fabric pens, knowing other bands are already putting the final touches on their outfits. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Elijah’s also the lead singer, and he’s kind of the leader of the band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He drank too much champagne at dinner and, when the band began playing, sought out the next best thing to the bride: the bridesmaid, Zoe Stephanides. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The one Laika found was dried and flat, an old rattler that had become an S-shaped band of snake jerky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A lance corporal with a pistol on his belt and a swastika band on his left arm steps in from the rain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I almost never wear band T-shirts, even though I kind of wish I did. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Except what happened was, when I got to the band room, she wasn’t there. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Carver band played “The Star-Spangled Banner” and everybody stood up, then they broke into “Lift Every Voice,” and I saw that everybody from Trinity stayed standing along with the black kids from Carver. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

During one Sunday visit Olmsted and the boys found four bands playing, refreshment stands open, and a few thousand people roaming the paths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Aside from lunch, when I could be with my friends, my best time at school was definitely band. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like when I let him plan my birthday and he took me to a concert of his favorite band. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Yes, he could see it all, Chickenhound at the head of a band of robber foxes, plundering and thieving wherever the whim took him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The street is empty but for a band of urchins crouching over some small treasure, and they scatter at our approach. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I’m trying to be. That’s what I want, to perform in a jazz band. It’s why I came here.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Withers, the orchestra director, immediately stops the show’s music and instructs the band to play “Hail to the Chief.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The band must be having their dinner too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Here are the accounts. Every year has a rubber band around it. I’ve been over it. It’s complete.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al pops his head back inside the big top, raising his hand for the band leader. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tribes also share with bands an “egalitarian” social system, without ranked lineages or classes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would turn on the space heater, visit the band shell lavatory, then heat up some water, get breakfast ready, and finally wake the boy with a gentle shake of the shoulder. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put away the work basket and fitted the coat with the mourning band very carefully on his shoulders. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The whole street is stacked with buildings that have signs advertising famous singers and jazz bands like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The band room was empty when I got there. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The second step might have been to actively defend the herd against predators, driving away lions, wolves and rival human bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the band from down the street. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly tore off the rubber band and turned to page one. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He knew it wouldn’t work, the band was worn too thin. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They banded together to create the “Wise We Boys,” a network of reporters and dockers operating in concert to catch Seabiscuit training. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so there in the band room, the sound of his trumpet just taking over. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One band finished their set, and another came in to take its place. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When an old Aché woman became a burden to the rest of the band, one of the younger men would sneak behind her and kill her with an axe-blow to the head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, I told this kid I know named Benny to meet us at my usual table. If you’re serious about this band thing, you’re going to want to know him too.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Storm Troopers, SS men, and Hitler Youth banded together, attacking Jews and destroying their businesses, synagogues, and homes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the way he said the word, I knew that at that moment he had crossed some invisible border into a different land, and he would not be returning to our childish band again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And I tried not to think too much about how John would react tomorrow when I told him I was joining the other band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

One from a painting of a dead goddess, the other from a dream: both blue, with red-brown hair and a band of black paint across their eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dionysus was led in before him by a band of his soldiers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gray hair that he kept in a ponytail, and had been a member of a famous folk-rock band in the ’80s that my dad, for one, had never heard of. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I was trying to get your opinion on Nirvana, possibly the most overrated band of all time?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

An investigation uncovered evidence that the boxer had not acted alone but had been part of a conspiracy orchestrated by a band of local citizens. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Not only were things over with the band, but since our last conversation, I felt like talking and texting with Dad was awkward. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Letters, tokens, and true promises,” I said, bringing my bands to my heart in the hope that my evident joy would move him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy being the youngest guy in the band, by the way. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she says, “I’ve always got those old show photos,” kind of kicking the coffee table, and she takes her hair out of a rubber band and repositions it. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The burbs ended suddenly, a last band of parks fading into the transport ring, where underground factories stuck their heads aboveground and cargo trucks drove concrete roads all day and night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the boy arrived back at Yuma High, the whole school mobbed him in the parking lot: banners, cheerleaders, band music, confetti, streamers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They had bands from all across the country in the ballrooms and the Apollo and Lafayette theaters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It just sounds funny. I didn’t know there were even Mexican punk bands, I guess.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The first khalasar they met would swallow up her ragged band, slaying the warriors and slaving the rest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So band was the one time of the day when you could let it out. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither boy was faster than Mr. Flux, who moved like snakes, and living taffy, and malignant rubber bands, slender and stretched. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The wagons came to a halt as the klezmer band came around a bend in the forest path. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To control the practice of their trade, craftsmen banded together to form societies called guilds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn't walk into that room with the smoky fire from the damp branches I had scavenged at the edge of the woods after the coal had run out, my bands empty of any hope. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On second thought he took out the wing and tail feathers, which were stiff and long and pretty—banded and speckled in browns and grays and light reds. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her sleeves pulled up I saw the new bands in her arms as she chopped and minced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise. They will destroy us, if they can. It is time for us to band together. It is time for us to act.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Five songs pass, and the band moves off the stage as the judges file onto it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trumpets blare and bands march in uniform steps, and Miss America herself, Vanessa Williams, stands on top of a beautifully decorated float and for me, is the highlight of the whole parade. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Different bands sang different songs: a melody of wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The case is the cover art for an album called Nevermind by the band Nirvana. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Modern foragers occasionally abandon and even kill old or disabled people who cannot keep up with the band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard strange music as they drew near the shack, like somebody playing a rubber band while clacking castanets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“She took off her wedding band as she got on the bus.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

More than seventy men there were, with two trumpeters and a band of grenadiers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“If you would consent, uncle, to go away for the night, we should get together an armed band and capture Lancelot in the Queen’s room. You would have to be away or he wouldn’t go.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it started to get dark, most people left to catch the fireworks display at the university or to see a band called Oswald Five-0 play in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One missal held together with a rubber band. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no bands, drums, or trumpets, just the beat of the hooves and the footsteps of the officers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to pluck a couple of pieces out of her braces, which had new purple and pink bands on them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the iron band was placed around her neck, Amari felt as if she would choke. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I counted thirty in the band that flew up near the house last night.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duke Ellington, grandson of a former slave, began with his band a four-year residency at New York's Hollywood Club in 1923. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It crinkles as I pull off the rubber band and roll the paper open like a giant map. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the applause begun than Mr. 13-04, the music- master, bounded out beside the band, held out his hands for silence, and begged the ladies and gentlemen that they should be still. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Strange sorcerous writings had been cut into the bands that girded it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was yellowish green with black bands and it moved very slowly, without making any sound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t seem right that it’s a beautiful summer day, with the sun shining to beat the band. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stupidly, I’d forgotten to pack my music folder in my backpack this morning, which meant that today I’d be coming to band unprepared, already endangering my position as second chair. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then Moss’s heart dropped—a thick band of students clogged up just feet from the entrance that contained the metal detectors. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Baba paid for the chi­ld s, our matching wedding bands, and for the diamond ring I picked out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Researchers have documented prolonged warfare between groups, and even one case of ‘genocidal’ activity in which one troop systematically slaughtered most members of a neighbouring band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Don’t tell your grandfather, but I don’t mind a few hells and damns. Besides, that egg man snored to beat the band.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing the band anyway. And I know canned food drives aren’t exactly punk.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then one day his neighbor showed him his bedroom, and on the walls were pictures of bands Kenna had never heard of. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s short for coconuts. But it’s also like the Go-Go’s. You know, that band from the eighties?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daffodils clustered like bugle bands in front yards as the Beans Boys left school behind on a sunny, cloudless day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance from the other side of town the last of the high-school bands blared “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With her hand, when the float was level again, she wiped away a flat, wet band of hair from her eyes, and reported, “I just saw one.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Her anxiety is a quiet hum and not the heavy-metal band you’d expect, given her current plan, and given the future that awaits her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the first of what will be many firefights on this day, small bands of Union soldiers begin shooting at the Confederate rear guard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, I felt relieved that she didn’t seem to suspect anything about the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I made sure the records were alphabetized in their correct bins, and I decorated the white plastic separators between bands. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He welcomed our friends and family and then held up our wedding bands for all to see. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was quiet, but the soft jazz number sounded like the band was in the room with us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You made this mess?” she said, like she couldn’t quite believe it, like what she’d expected me to say was that a roving band of house wreckers had come through during the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s band played at spots around Boston three or four nights a week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened a drawer full of rubber bands, old batteries, rusted spoons, and what I hoped was a dried-up raisin. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Zuri,” is all I say, pretending to be uninterested because she really looks like Darius and I remember her name from when we were talking about that band at Maria Hernandez Park. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So, I know you and I can't really buy each other gifts in real life, but just know that if I could, I would order you all kinds of band T-shirts online. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

All that was left of Troy was a band of helpless captive women, whose husbands were dead, whose children had been taken from them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence that people traded staple goods like fruits and meat, or that the existence of one band depended on the importing of goods from another. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while the silence feels too weird, so I say, "Do you know this band, the uh, Maybe Dead Cats?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

When Ferris blew the whistle, the Iowa State band launched into “America,” and the wheel again began to turn. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They saw that the little band contained children as well, some riding in the carts, some walking beside them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their right, the lighting trusses are going up quickly over the stage where Bea will be playing an £8,000-a-ticket concert with a live band and celebrity guests tonight, her first solo fund-raiser. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Our band will come with you to the castle. You will only have to do the going-in part at the end.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for once I didn’t have to sit outside the band room—the seventh-period bell rang and I raced out to his car. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The band started up again, playing “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Carver’s band was at mid-court so we sat down from them so we could hear ourselves. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forwardmost position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was secretly happy to have another girl in the band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He reached under the kitchen table and pulled out one of those funny-looking suitcases that the band kept all their instruments in. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I saw you and your little band of peacekeepers, getting in everyone’s way,” says Tori. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s one for a band that needs a guitarist.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I will make it so easy for you to find me. Neon signs. Marching bands.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, with a shake of his powerful head, he launched into a gallop and led his four-legged band in the opposite direction. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eighty members of the Husky marching band led the procession up Second Avenue and Pike Street as confetti and scraps of paper mixed with a steady, cold rain drifting down from clouds high above. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had a simple thin band and an oval-shaped piece of dark turquoise held in place by snaking silver strands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the bakery is hung with flags and streamers and a Dixieland band is playing “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the supernatural beliefs of bands and tribes did not serve to justify central authority, justify transfer of wealth, or maintain peace between unrelated individuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Normally she would have noticed that a few unruly locks of Emma’s hair were already slipping out of her ponytail rubber band and Emma had started absent-mindedly twirling one of them around her finger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A great cheer went up as they fell into line and began to march toward the train station, black business leaders at the fore, followed by a shiny brass band blaring “Stars and Stripes Forever.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution made precisely these points, but they were outmaneuvered, outargued, and ultimately outvoted by a dedicated band of national advocates in nine of the state ratifying conventions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Blue pants, a blue hat with a raspberry band above the brim. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Also, everyone in the band has a cool nickname. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be one of a select band, of the cleverest, strongest, bravest creatures ever,” bragged the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Everyone, out of the band room. Mila, may I please speak to you in private?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pencils and papers and rubber bands went flying. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance bravely stood her ground on the parapet, as did her small band of picked fighters. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The bands are nomadic, because they must move when they have cut the mature sago trees in an area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wore them,” said I, “when I played the violin with a band of music in Boston.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He felt that some day there would be a black man who would whip the black people into a tight band and together they would act and end fear and shame. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were banded together at one end by an iron chain as thick as my leg, or as thick as my leg was before I got onto the boat two weeks earlier. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of the band is stamped with the letters EJR. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The black priest pointed to one golden band. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I curled the two ends outward, so when the coat hanger was around my head, the ends angled away from my face and formed hooks to hold the rubber band in place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think she’d like that I’m spending my time on a band instead of doing something more productive.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Principal Rivera handpicked the kids that fit her picture of what this thirtieth anniversary celebration should look like. Us? Our loud punk band? Not part of that picture.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting moment, he’s standing once more at the front of the praise band. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Fannie heard seamstresses in Chicago and New York City had banded together and demanded higher pay and safer working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

All those modern bands are or were nomadic hunter-gatherers rather than settled food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fayge’s voice rose and fell as she told how young Israel led a small band of children against a werewolf whose heart was Satan’s. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, you have.You never do your work anymore, you space out all day unless you’re in band, and you yell at me half the time when I try to talk to you. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you ask him what my favorite band or food is, he couldn’t tell you. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Bran came up with this: “Rich girl escapes while poor artist drowns when mega-ship sees only the tip of the iceberg and sinks as the crew rearranges the deck chairs while the band plays on.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dodged every rubber band, coconut custard pie, mud clod, and wadded-up sock ball they flung his way. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘There’s a big band about four miles away,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It astonished me that Shorty didn’t care to go and hear the big bands play. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his head is a white fedora with a navy-and-gray feather sticking out of the band. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A band struck up, oh Lord, “Bonny Blue Flag,” again. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably all humans lived in bands until at least 40,000 years ago, and most still did as recently as 11,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But no: while our band of twelve-year-olds sat watching, each of us in camp T-shirt and Indian headband, we saw what Rebecca Urbanus didn’t. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We could see — at some half mile’s Distance — other Patriot bands similarly headed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I checked my phone: twenty-one minutes until band. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She scooped Emma’s hair back and wrapped the rubber band around it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tribal and band societies in Eurasia were largely confined to the Arctic reindeer herders, the Siberian hunter-gatherers, and the hunter-gatherer enclaves in the Indian subcontinent and tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls the rubber band from his hair and tosses it to the table. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That lonely drummer practicing his roll long after the rest of the band has gone to bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since leaving the warren of the snares they had become warier, shrewder, a tenacious band who understood each other and worked together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Kay and Mama and Peaches, in tight skirts singing in a band. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Just like band camp,” she joked, though my summer conservatory program is nothing like American Pie. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around his forehead he wore a narrow band of gold, set with a single blue jewel. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Below, a number of Huntsmen had separated from the band, and with great strides held to the track of the fleeing companions. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery” He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If there’s a stream gurgling under a bridge on the road, birds singing and cows mooing and lambs baaing, that’s better than any band in a film. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At current rates of change, within the next decade the few remaining bands of hunter-gatherers will abandon their ways, disintegrate, or die out, thereby ending our millions of years of commitment to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took off the soft black hat and held it in his hand and the gray hair glistened wetly, and the band of white skin at the forehead shone in the light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t you in the Crack House Quartet?” a guy in a Hillary Clinton mask asked me, referring to some hard-core band that Adam loved and I hated. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every radio and television interview the band had ever done. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“What’s Adrian’s band called again?” she asks The Taker one night when he phones. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We listened to a band and an orchestra. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She was wearing pink pajamas, and her hair was pulled back with an elastic band. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The back kitchen door opened and I thought Herman E. Calloway was coming back in to ruin everybody’s fun, but it was the rest of the band. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Because it is said, “He had founded his band upon the earth.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The enormous phalanx of the Permian band, led by the ma-jorettes in their black velvet costumes, unfolded like the Russian army in a Victory Day parade in Moscow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where all the bands would come to play? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of April 11, a torchlight parade of a few thousand people, with bands and banners, assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this end she recruited Italian dancers, choreographers and a band of violinists, playing on the very instruments she had ordered for her son from Cremona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like the band’s going to last forever.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Just so I would know I hadn’t been lying completely, I did go to the bathroom on my way to the band room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he has this old saxophone from high school that he keeps all clean and shiny, like he’s going to join a band at any moment. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black waiters were cautiously optimistic that by banding together with white waiters, they might bring their employers to the bargaining table. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I try and sit up, but some sort of wide restraining band around my waist keeps me from rising more than a few inches. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were a few candy beads hanging from the sad-looking elastic band. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Sound of troops at route step, shuffle in the dust, dull clink of mess kits, a band in the distance, tinny, forlorn, raw call of a cow in the sunlight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the big top, the band launches into the music for the Spec. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sure Arthur is changing his tune about the universe after that marching band broke us apart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So she was home by herself one afternoon when she saw a band of Seminoles passing by. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was through her that Moss had discovered bands like Bad Brains and Death, and she never made him feel inferior for listening to other kinds of music. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know whether it would be better to be a band when she grew up or an organ grinder lady. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black band returned like a slash, and her eyes blazed all the brighter for the contrast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A Heuer with a brown face and gold numbers, on a black leather band. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even if the Superintendent had allowed it, he could not have brought himself to stay at the band shell. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they kicked up more dust than proper notes, the Circle town band was warmly welcomed by the crowd. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The band begins an upbeat song, and the choir marches down the aisles, swaying their arms and clapping to the beat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

With this information, the members of her band can put their heads together and discuss whether they should approach the river, chase away the lion and hunt the bison. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band of the Eighth Maine met the regiment at the entrance to Beaufort and escorted them all the way. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures of the band, in their bow ties and jackets, appeared in the high school yearbook for 1943-1944, along with pictures of just about everything else in camp that year. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stacked the cards and fastened them together with a rubber band and put them in my backpack. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hears the brass bands, too, and the living room gleams bright with the showy flutes and trumpets and trombones. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were snipers and small groups of rebels everywhere, disorganized bands of covert fighters and half the time you couldn’t tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys and neither could they. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gathered our instruments, minus the drum set we’d borrowed from the band room, and left the auditorium. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a pitiful little band of mourners, so bumbling without Mr. Birdsong or anybody else to tell us what to do. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By the time his favorite band came back to that venue, the Cranes would probably be long gone, living in Ohio or Mississippi or wherever their parents’ whims took them next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Today at lunch Aaron was trying to, as usual, convert me to listening to his alternative heavy metal bands. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He noticed at last a struggling band: “Bonny Blue Flag.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless you counted the possibility of my band plan completely falling apart. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The band, the spectators and the dancers would be making the Roseland Ballroom feel like a big, rocking ship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been taken when the ruffians smoked out a band of rebels that he led from their hidings up in the Brockenbores by the hills of Scary. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most of Roseland’s dances were for whites only, and they had white bands only. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A band of angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bar was next to the heart and by midnight when the band broke out again with "Happy Birthday, Poppy," everyone had had too much to eat and drink. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone cheered: the spectators, the cheerleaders, the band, the players, the officials, the parents running the hot dog stand, the policeman, me. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

If you looked closely, you could see that the leather twine was actually a finely written list of the festival bands, interspersed with the concert date—April 27, 2003. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Ha, what a blow it would be to that feller Cluny and his filthy band of robbers.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Right now, with her head bopping and her limbs flailing, she almost looks like one of those one-man bands, but without instruments. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then his family moved to Binghamton, away from all his band mates, and eventually, his dream faded away. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wearing a shredded rubakha, dingy and rusty and matted to the thing’s body with some kind of metallic bands like frail armor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wind and rain that had pelted the island all week strengthened that night into a vicious band of storms that closed blackly over the sky and whipped the sea into foam. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There was a wide band of sunlight coming through the window. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He read the instructions that were attached to it by a rubber band. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need a million roses and a marching band. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky, but are particularly concentrated in one band, which we call the Milky Way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I passed up on a chance to play with band kids because you needed people for the Co-Co’s.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He heard shouting and laughing on the shore, a band playing music, and a woman's voice singing, “Take my hand, oh, my darling, take my hand and dance with me...” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly her senses were on high alert, as if somebody had snapped a rubber band against the base of her neck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I told her that Shorty was doing fine and one day was going to be a great leader of his own band. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, happy to see the rubber band did the trick. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Unabridged biographies on each band member, along with copies of their side projects and solo work. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And after that weirdness today at lunch, I needed band. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not the electric guitar he played in his band. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you twang a rubber band it will make one pitch, if you stretch it so that it is longer and tighter, the pitch of the note will have changed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At lunch, it hadn’t seemed right to hang out in the library without James, so she went to the cafeteria, which was about as loud as a marching band practicing in a bathroom. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the three most distinguished—partly, perhaps, because the tallest figures of the band—were the Dowager Lady Ingram and her daughters, Blanche and Mary. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was thicker than any school program I had ever seen, with a beautiful, glossy cover shot of the band onstage. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes we'd met them all and soon knew the whole band of regulars. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said her old green coat would do with a black band around the arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the rubber bands still popped off in the middle of the night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The band leader stands up but then sits back down when he realizes it’s not El Jefe. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

June nodded her head like she was at a concert of her favorite band. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even though we were talking about our favorite bands between rides, I don’t think she knew. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thunderous applause explodes from the big top, and the band slides seamlessly into the Gounod waltz. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The demons, monsters, and giants were furious at his presumption and banded together to drive him out. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

With heavy hearts, the little band made their way down the slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her fingers are long and tapered; her wedding and engagement rings have been welded together into one thick band. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A line of river willows and sycamores banded it in the mid- dle, and the western hills were yellow-brown with feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Increasingly wide bands of yellow light were poking through the blue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My shine rag popped with the rhythm of those great bands rocking the ballroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chip adjusted the rubber band holding his hair in place. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But the man recuperated, and, walking briskly, he managed to rejoin the band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band members strode down the line of villagers. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We held off the war band,” Fflewddur said, “until we were sure you were well away. Some of them should have occasion to think unkindly of us for a while to come.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The bishop himself, accompanied by two incense bearers, appeared to bless the bird without having been asked, and the police band played happy, unpretentious music that pleased everyone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had our little band with us, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing "Just One of Those Things" and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Here is John Lennon, in an interview after the Beatles disbanded, talking about the band’s performances at a Hamburg strip club called the Indra: We got better and got more confidence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Swift as a deer he outraced them, Quiet as a fox he ran, He thumbed his nose as they blundered, He laughed to beat the band. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of their voices would echo to the ceiling, and then the band would play from the gallery where I was leaning now, the man with the violin smiling, swaying to the music. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I see that you have a band of music with you....I have always thought ‘Dixie’ one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city middle school band had gotten to play at Carnegie Hall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The warm-up band, Queens of the Stone Age, already had the crowd jumping by the time Fang and I shoved our way to the periphery of the mosh pit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The band’s land is used jointly by the whole group, instead of being partitioned among subgroups or individuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some bands even welcomed people to sing along into the microphone. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Are you sad that you aren’t in a band any- more? “ If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A band plays on a raised platform, and the dance floor is jammed with couples. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the first onset of this new band of warriors the Trojans wavered; they thought Achilles led them on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you one thing,” Hilly says, “I won’t be hiring that rock-and-roll band again, playing all that fast dance music...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at the amber band of sunlight, smiling. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Wes watched as, across the street, a young man no older than sixteen pulled out a wad of cash, held together by a rubber band, and began showing it off to a friend. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He would overcome them: his band had grown large, and for the treasures Hrothgar could afford now to give them in sign of his thanks, his warriors became hornets. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Leroy’s band would play some jazz and the whole thing was going to turn into a party that would end up in Big Joe’s place. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of March, the entire club was assembled in the main gym for the band competition. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Lana Lee started snapping a rubber band around the pile of bills and making little piles of nickels that she was taking out of the cash register. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned onto my side and ripped the rubber band out, quickly combing through the plaits with my fingers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy tapped me on the head three times with my recorder and said, “Arise and welcome to the band, Mr. Sleepy LaBone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Has- san had pulled the wide elastic band all the way back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A formidable army, Latins and Rutulians together, were now opposed to the little band of Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could even participate in the band’s punk-rock pot-luck parties when everyone invited had to bring something from their fridge that was on the verge of spoiling. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The melting pot that is America has yielded brand new genres such as big band, jazz, blues, rock and roll, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

You could stand so close to a band, it was like you were part of them. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Lancelot came back out of a rainstorm, wet and smalL He was leading an old band of a white mare, without a trot left in her. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife were the band’s main sponsors, giving scholarships to needy musicians. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing old jeans, which had once been tight but now sagged in weird places, and a yellow T-shirt advertising a band I didn’t even like anymore. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When a Sapiens band first entered a valley inhabited by Neanderthals, the following years might have witnessed a breathtaking historical drama. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are members of the crew reclining in velvet chairs, sipping neon-bright martinis with faraway eyes, and listening to a live band that plays smooth jazz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He surveyed his ragged band of brigands: near three hundred Stone Crows, Moon Brothers, Black Ears, and Burned Men, and those just the seed of the army he hoped to grow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom glanced at the clock on the stove, then she put down the phone and pulled the ponytail rubber band out of her own hair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She plays tenor sax in the jazz band. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when his visitor’s band lifted the tent flap, the silent drops coursed down his nose and fell on the parchment with regular ticks, like an ancient clock. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was cold and the band stunk. I saw your friend, what’s-his-name. The Colonel.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He is wearing his typical band uniform of a T-shirt, skinny pegged pants, and Converse, with Gramps’s plaid scarf draped over his shoulders. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better than the jook and the pool-room unless some special band was playing for a dance. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Homosexuals, the pamphlet said, were nothing more than a “minuscule band of sexual perverts.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trust me. Speaking of surprises, have you told your mom about the band?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Cool in that he played in a band with people who went to the college in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Salt Lake airport, there had been back pats and “good lucks” from other travelers who recognized the band of suit-clad missionaries. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I watch the whole thing in motion—everybody busy; hundreds of kids banding together, working side by side to accomplish a single, worthwhile goal. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Billy pulled up his sleeves and snapped his arm bands. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marina was momentarily quiet except for the merry chime of steel drums from the Coral Queen’s calypso band. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yet the fact remains that ordinary Germans banded together to protest a Nazi policy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a massive pile of silver and gold paper; ribbons streaked the pile with bands of deep color. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey insisted on coming with me into the band room, which was his right, since the concert was for him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought this the most moving sight she had ever beheld: a regiment of black, newly freed South Carolinians wearing the uniform of the Union forces, escorted by the band of a white regiment. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racks of weights, stability balls, and resistance bands are stocked along the edges of the room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Oops, I forgot I wasn’t supposed to call the band men sir. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The mask stays on your face with a little rubber band that goes around the back of your neck. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such sentiments are unthinkable in bands and tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Take another little piece of my heart now, baby ...” The band tried to improvise a big finish, but in the end, the song just fizzled out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He looked fourteen, maybe fifteen, and had long, glossy black hair pulled back with a rubber band at the nape of his neck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were similar to the iron bands on her wrists, except these fit around their necks! Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some of the small towns, people thinking I was with the band even mobbed me for autographs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the usual band of close relatives, and then some new ones, because folks had gotten married. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he’d finally had his fill, he took Joyce’s hand and pulled her back out onto the deck where the band was again playing loud, brassy dance tunes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Adam played me snippets of bands he liked, a Swedish pop trio that sounded monotonous but then some Icelandic art band that was quite beautiful. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if he does,” he said shortly, “then I shall have to fight the band. But the situation is imaginary.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were closing it up anyway, and the band had quit a long time ago. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We were brothers: strangers in a strange land who had banded together for mutual help and protection. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band screeches to a halt again and this time stays silent. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Have you got your band on?” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was still clearheaded enough to hiss down to Joe: “Did you say you had string and rubber bands and Lego? And smoke bombs? I really want those smoke bombs! I’ve got a plan!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She gave the whole band a stern look over her music stand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa Dumas was there too because she goes steady with Gary Friman, and she always sings two songs with the band. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Like you probably have a few gold watches in your pockets, and I have some wedding bands and rolls of cash." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Biff bit the thread and smoothed the black band on the sleeve of his coat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Despite all of these differences between bands and tribes, many similarities remain. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that one out in Fremont, right? That first band was terrible.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lots of kids at Welch High wanted customized posters to hang on their bedroom walls—of their boyfriend’s or girlfriend’s name, of their car or their astrological sign or their favorite band. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t know how persuasive Jeanine was—” Something inside me snaps like a brittle rubber band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She wears it in a ponytail with small white cloth lilies of the valley wired around the elastic band. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The band was playing again, a loud fast tune, like they were breaking up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthropologists formerly idealized band and tribal societies as gentle and nonviolent, because visiting anthropologists observed no murder in a band of 25 people in the course of a three-year study. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because you could die so quickly, each man carried at least one large compress bandage, usually in the helmet band for easy access. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took two buses to carry the eighty band members and our equipment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Except they had blue bands at the top, so Mom could tell mine apart from Bobby Gene’s. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They seemed to trace the lines of her face and the band of black she’d painted across it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We drank ginger ales and ordered jalapeno poppers and we all danced to a country and western band while Susan’s face beamed on the late news from the TV above the bar. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We observe the multicolored belts and bands of Jupiter close up. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do they have a band?” she asked eagerly. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You fix everything else, how come you don’t fix the band on that watch?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes her shoulders, keeping gelatinous time with the small band of musicians to her right. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A band came by, playing an incoherent song, fifes and bugles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with the band concert coming up so soon, she needed to keep Callum focused. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The world around us is alive with color, albeit even those of us who are not colorblind see only a relatively narrow band of the actual light spectrum. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, not to change the subject, but María Luisa is forming a band for the Fall Fiesta talent show, and I told her you might be interested.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The older couple wore matching gold bands on their rough and callused ring fingers, and the man’s nails, like Sparrow’s, bore dark crescents from working with soil. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The band was still there, busy with their instruments. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then gathering up the pile of grain in their arms they would bind it tightly around with the band they had made, and tie the band, and tuck in its ends. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had asked if she thought she was too good to be a part of marching band. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A man stood at the board and cut the bands on the bundles and crowded the bundles one at a time into a hole at the end of the separator. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did away with her good plates, her napkins, all her jewelry— save for her wedding band—and most of her old clothes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A molten pink band flowed across the horizon, where the sun had been. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She yelled, “Stop that running like a band of gypsies!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Jesper could see the stacks of bills in palest Kerch purple, emblazoned with the three flying fish, row after row of them, bound in paper bands sealed with wax. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He took the rubber band from a packet of brown envelopes, opened one, and pulled out a photograph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once one band settled down and started tilling, whether in the Middle East or Central America, agriculture was irresistible. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“They even had a song. Something like Broken Wings by that band, Mr. Mister. I don’t even know, but I hope it was Broken Wings because it would make the story perfect.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Coolly distant, when she was watching the band and jiggling that foot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

What happens in the band room stays in the band room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hanging out with Samira in the band room made me feel a whole lot better. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In little more than a day, the companions had been scattered like leaves, and there remained only this pitifully small band, itself lost and driven. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’ll find out soon enough,” he says, acknowledging the band director giving the signal for the band to fade out. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her arm was out of the sling and she had a band of sticking plaster round her wrist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The Brat was a Los Angeles band in the early eighties.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The band was dressed as Apache dancers and three of the female teachers came modestly attired in cancan outfits. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and Radar both had a marathon band practice to make sure they would rock “Pomp and Circumstance” at graduation. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Patrol bands marauded through the slave villages and ransacked the homes of freemen, stealing and committing assaults. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They hadn't been bothering me lately: not like they’d forgotten about me—every once in a while, I caught Callum peeking at me in band—but more like they were taking a time-out. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to hurt like crazy trying to tear the rubber band out, but at least it was staying for now. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Their progress was straggling and broken, slower than that which Holly had made with his picked band of three. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned from Paul and sprinted for the broken band room window. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then the band played, and Tea Cake rode like a Pharaoh to his tomb. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I’m aware of the tension in my body, a rubber band stretched to its limit. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The band consisted of a fiddle, drum and cornet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then directs the band to “favor us with a performance.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had seen Tin-Tan in Tender Little Pumpkins, and been to the country club to hear Alberti and his band. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fireworks, a lobster buffet, and calypso music from the steel-drum band. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After dinner, I climbed into my bunk bed, where no one could see me, and tried on the watch with each of the bands, gesturing the way I figured rich people did. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was referring to the service band on the Iron Duke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One band, Country Joe and the Fish, had been invited at the last minute to fill an empty spot on the Sunday program. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Marly was so eager to tell Joe about the school and the band that she ran all the way home. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A marching band played an out- of-tune fight song that sounded like somebody hitting a bag of cats with a metal baseball bat. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson played in a band every Sunday night of the summer, in the gazebo at the end of our street with the rest of the old American Legion guys. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was a beautiful olive-green, with rather scratchy plate-armour all over him, and dark bands down his sides. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they had it free and the nurse clipped through the belly band and removed the heavy node. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven rings, three plain gold bands, one gold with a small diamond stone, one gold with an opal and four pearls, one man’s ring with garnet and eagle insignia, one silver initial ring. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the stage, a brass band struck up an oompah-pah waltz. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Joe’s mom got to the basement, we officially started band practice. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Every Sapiens band continued to run its life independently and to provide for most of its own needs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They continue the increase in size from bands to tribes to chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He points to the metallic band around his forearm. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Armand crossed his arms; he had hairy forearms and wore a gold wedding band. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. And the ring the one on a chain around your neck. Is that your wedding band?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives a slight nod and flicks one hand at the band leader, who slides into a Gounod waltz. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Like a trained hunting-bird it clung there, but it wore no broken leash, no band or bell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The chorus and band performed a song called “Try to Remember.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both bands were playing “Dixie,” but not in the same style. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

With the band music and all, it was like a festival. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The bands are the same ones I would pick and I wonder if it was Tanasia who wrote down the Smiths. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Giti was a tightly wound, bony little girl who wore her hair in twin ponytails held by elastic bands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, part of it’s just knowing that Morgan quit the band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The white bands are thought to be high clouds, probably ammonia crystals; the brownish-colored belts, deeper and hotter places where the atmosphere is sinking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was passed from ragtime to early ‘Dixieland’ jazz bands, though, syncopation became more sophisticated: now, instead of the right hand cheating the left, one instrumentalist was playing against another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was an All-City jazz band rehearsal day, and when I got to the high school, I found out that Brian was at home sick. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few Cheerios poured out of the box into the sink, and then a bundle of bills banded with a strip of paper. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We made catapults out of Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and a plastic spoon. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mom pulled the minivan into a cul-de-sac outside the band room and kissed me on the cheek. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I let “Rebel Girl” distract me from my general hatred of cafeterias and my particular dread about sitting with the band. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a band of sweat around his wrist where the handcuff had been. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The boys climbed out of the shell and stood at attention while a German band played “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Later, it would be said, they turned into the band of swords- women who were a mercenary army. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And fighting for control of the grove itself were a score or more Specters, being held back by a ragged band of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And there’s the morning announcements over the loud speaker about all the activities the good kids do like drama and jazz band, but that still leaves us eight and a half minutes of awkwardness. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was Ring Day, where Big Sisters initiated Little Sisters into maturity by giving them flowers and gold bands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The band that connected the two, the Lobot part, was bent down the middle. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He put on his boater with its wide black band before a mirror, to keep the angle shy of jaunty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, it hadn’t seemed right to hang out in the library without James, so she went to the cafeteria, which was about as loud as a marching band practicing in a bathroom. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Behind her followed nine bands, four mounted brigades, more than twenty floats, and more than five thousand marchers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The marching band plays a weirdly awesome medley of Beyonce songs and does this stiff little dance in the stands. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Good shot, Jimmy!” the coach yelled as Jimmy started backing down the court on D. Behind us our band started playing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three other band members and all three backup singers had missed the bus. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He switches it on, waits for the tubes to warm, then runs the dial carefully down the band, right to left. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Washington marching band now took up a position in the observation room, switched on the microphones, and began to play dance music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The only sounds came from the band, not spirited or militaristic, but an almost mournful wail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the water level fell, visitors to the fair would be treated to an offensive band of bare earth at the waterline. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Between songs one of the boys from the band snuck around back of our cage with a bottle in his hands. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"I know you like stories about robbers. See that ruined castle? A notorious robber band once lived there. I must ask Elinor about them. She knows everything about this lake." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sago eaters persisting in lowland swamps exemplify the nomadic hunter-gatherer band organization that must formerly have characterized all New Guineans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If two or three of the heavier boys could band together at one end, they could make precarious sitting for the unlucky female at the other end. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As they clambered down from the train and formed columns with their teammates, another brass band struck up another Sousa march. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cassie said to me, “This party is so great, isn’t it?” and I said, “Yeah,” and she said, “This is like the opposite of band parties, huh?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some album sleeves opened up like a book and included more artwork and liner notes inside, along with lyrics and information about the band. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just about being in a band. And I don’t want to talk about it anymore, okay? I’ll tell her soon. Can we just get to work?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Hey, guess the name of the band we got to play for the festival,” I said, hoping he’d snap out of whatever funk he was in. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I set up a bunch of toy soldiers on a table and pick them off with a rubber band one by one. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A large crowd had gathered around the stage at the far end of the fairgrounds to hear what the band had in store for them this year. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone in this room would survive him, even the silly men in the band who seemed like boys—imagine making a living out of playing birthday songs! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There’s band practice, which is the thing he looks forward to the most in the day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As the mists moved and parted in great drifts and smoky wisps, the villagers saw a band of warriors coming up the mountain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped Charley’s tail in red Kleenex and fastened it with rubber bands. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer brought up the rear of their little band. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Michael’s wardrobe consists mostly of T-shirts for heavy metal bands. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My jacket belongs to the restaurant and was offered as a loan by the maître d’, who apparently thought I would feel more comfortable dressed to lead a high-school marching band. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout the month of June, the union wooed workers, setting up a band on a flatbed outside the Great Gate of the Union Stock Yard, greeting workers with lively tunes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The red T-shirt had the band’s name and four coconuts wearing Maríachi hats printed in black just like Joe had drawn in his sketch pad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When the band took a break, Bull slipped the opened can of mushroom soup into his uniform shirt pocket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone laughs—Micah, Maddy, and the band kids who take up the other half of our table. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Like bands, tribes lack a bureaucracy, police force, and taxes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Holly is standing to the side, talking to the high school band teacher. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sun cast harsh bands of black shadow and bright light over Rita’s face. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a plain Timex on an old, really worn yellow-and-blue-striped fabric band, but it had been his dad’s watch. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Kenny and Allen had gotten back to my house about a half hour earlier, after a long night of band blasting. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was eighteen, Dutchy moved to Minneapolis, where he took any work he could find playing piano in bands and bars. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most of his time had been spent with a ragtag band of dirty-faced boys who carried out whatever schemes they could to survive. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

For example, among bands and tribes, the big-men of some are inevitably more charismatic, powerful, and skilled in reaching decisions than the big-men of others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The band of reporters reassembled at the front gate, and I watched the attractive newscasters flipping their hair and fastening microphones to their collars, using the backdrop of the Dakota for their on-air reports. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The rest—they barely outnumbered the band—sat there with What is this? on their faces. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But one band, holding together in a black wedge, drove forward resolutely in the direction of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Things are starting to happen for the band.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band was whipping through its repertoire at the usual earsplitting volume. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She dressed Aurelia in her most beautiful dress, the finest imported silk in bright, eye-catching colors banded with gold thread, and draped a contrasting palla around her shoulders. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

After plannings and more plannings by El Alacrán and the rest, dodging bands of police and border patrols, I Manuel Flores, shivering with fear and cold, have touched the earth of the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bit about them basically says that local band Shooting Star is opening for Bikini on the Portland leg of Bikini’s national tour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brass band of skeletons played jazz music, while a giant black spider descended from the North Portico. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She wanted me to wear the T-shirts of Christian rock bands and to go to the summer camps, the rallies, to talk the talk and walk the walk. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sweat ran between my breasts and sopped my underwear band. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually wore some band T-shirt or a shirt that he’d found at a thrift store or something. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And then they want to gush about the rest of the band and Abby, so we sort of converge into one big group. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The bandleader had told him if he learned to blow right away he could march in the band the very next Saturday. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been living with Miss Thomas and the band for about seven days and this was already my third trip on the road. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our eyes lock for a long minute, and it’s as if everything around us—that band, those voices, that warm summer breeze, sirens, and honking cars in the distance—all come to a full stop. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For a second, I wonder if the rest of the band will go on without Adam. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the pickup just sort of steered itself back to the band shell, and there he was, lugging the kid into the baseball-equipment room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auditoriums or gymnasiums all lighted up, the band’s chartered bus outside, the dressed-up, excited, local dancers pouring in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can pick out the band and chorus members spread out around the lawn in their various forms of black pants and white shirts. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When she started talking, the band was really wailing, and she sort of had to yell and I sort of had to lean a bit closer—mint and music—so I wouldn’t miss anything. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But wars, even between mere bands, have been a constant fact of human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She must have felt alone,” I say, “being the first one to play in a band with all men.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Hold up, though. Didn’t you tell me you wanted to play guitar in this ‘band,’ but Hailey said you should play drums?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Dad remained silent at the table, but I noticed he and Jim exchanged a look of what I took to be agreement about the shame of me being in the band. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All that cash except for one ten, which I stuck in the inside band of a sweat-stained Miles City Mavericks cap I’d had forever. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to bring my music folder. And I wanted to look at ‘Pirate Medley’ before band today.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday and Saturday nights, to pay his tuition and help with the home finances, he played saxophone and clarinet in a swing band, the Blue Lyres, he had started in high school. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shorty still had a little band, and he was doing fairly well. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped to their knees and cleared away more stones to discover four one-foot-wide rough-hewn beams clamped together with thick metal bands along the edges. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She sewed Velcro to the flippers so they could be fastened higher up my legs and strapped with an elastic band around my waist. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a record by a band I recognized and studied the singer’s face on the cover. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When he had finished that, he tore the Blue Horse bands from the stacks of new lined paper and placed them in the folder. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that: how Fariba Bahrami, who had lived in Iran her entire life, was in love with a band from Sweden. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fayu bands and modern states represent opposite extremes along the spectrum of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The TV musical The Cheetah Girls, about four girls in a band at a performing arts high school in New York City, had just come out. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I got to ride with the band while Mr. Jimmy and Herman E. Calloway and the instruments were riding in the Packard. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It is unlikely that a few dozen members of a single band could have produced so many grave goods by themselves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mural, An Aztec warrior Is standing on a mountain With a machete And a band of feathers On his noble head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

John wasn’t so great at the social stuff that goes on inside a rock band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in my body is strained, like a rubber band stretched a millimeter too far. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the same instant, the shackle on my right ankle clicked open and fell off, revealing a band of abraded red skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Violet was reminded of True Belle, who entered the single room of their cabin and laughed to beat the band. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier wore a black MP band around his arm, “MP” for military police. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Similar limitations on the resources accessible to existing human technology prevail in the regions of the world recently occupied by other bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Which meant I didn’t want to go inside the band room either. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was in his top dresser drawer, next to his empty wallet and a magazine about bands and musicians that I’d never heard of but knew that Gabriel would have been an expert on. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Well, the band members were all confused and excited, so they played a song, sure, but each member of the band played a different song. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one else said anything either, and the quiet stretched like a rubber band, long and quivering. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When all Jungvolk and Jungmädel had recited the oath, the trumpets blared a fanfare, and a military band burst out in National Socialist songs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, to wear such a great coat with large buttons and a velvet collar and a squashed-down high hat with a ribbon cockade in the band! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bare-headed and his fair hair was encircled with a very thin band of gold, hardly thicker than a wire. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I saw the figures dancing luridly, the lights flashing, the band going. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There are no formal institutions, such as laws, police, and treaties, to resolve conflicts within and between bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun was only a band of burning red seen through the trees, Dicey took out the ponchos and spread them on the ground, rolling on them to crush the undergrowth beneath. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enthusiasts proposed a dozen groups as the ancestral stock: Phoenicians, Basques, Chinese, Scythians, Romans, Africans, “Hindoos,” ancient Greeks, ancient Assyrians, ancient Egyptians, the inhabitants of Atlantis, even straying bands of Welsh. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Ah. 'And the band played on.' A lot of mixed feelings about you girls, from what I hear." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

During the early years of his banding, Mr. Broley used to find 125 active nests a year on the stretch of coast he had chosen for his work. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Completely mental, right? Okay. Now”—she stood straight and reached for a hair band—“I just stick this whole mess into a big high pony.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Herrmann’s orchestra imitates a swing band’s jazzy rhythms and brassy sound. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was arena-style seating and a rock band jamming out with the latest Christian contemporary pop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wide silver bands that mark me as a slave adorn each wrist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I have seen the little forest elephants that move in quiet bands, nudging the trees with their small, pinkish tusks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pocock later remembered the moment: “Coming from Al,” he mused, “that was the equivalent of fireworks and a brass band.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Across his chest was a gleaming black warhom, banded with silver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“For the next few weeks,” she says, “you’ll learn stitching techniques. How to hem, how to sew a band, and how to make pockets,” she tells us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They performed in local parades, and they were looking for some baton twirlers to march in front of the band. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Oeneus called for help upon the bravest men of Greece, and a splendid band of young heroes assembled, many of whom sailed later on the Argo. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother imagined all kinds of wild goings-on with a rock ’n’ roll band, but all they were doing was playing cards. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

That was his instinctive feeling, and the manager of a band like U2 is a man who knows music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s hard to believe, but we aren’t friends. My friends are the band. We’re all pretty different, but they don’t make fun of me.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There may be bands of turncoats secretly plotting to overthrow their former government, but I certainly haven’t run across them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sky above them was striped with grey and white bands of cloud, through which patches of blue could be seen. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we went shopping for bulk foods or kicked sand at the beach, we were always thinking about the invisible viewers who hovered around us like a band of watchful angels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore his favorite Flush T-shirt, the one with the band’s name printed above a toilet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She has an empty circle tattooed on one of her fingers like a wedding band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“What about Elijah and those guys in the band? I’m sure they’ve all taken that class.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon we sat around a table at Calaca, I and I told the band my idea. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, except for a narrow band sprayed in 1956, the whole upper watershed of this branch was excluded from the spraying program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m not that faithful. I volunteered for the praise band because I was scared of the snakes.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“That dont begin it. How about the dime or fifteen cents you’ll spend for a dam two cent box of candy or something. How about the time you’re wasting right now, listening to that band.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t play—he was a drum major—but the band is just as important as the football team at HBCUs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s been keeping his nose clean, what with all the paying gigs he’s scoring now with his band. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mordred was slipping behind his back, with a band on his own dagger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How glorious it was, to be so wanted, and by this man with the rakish metal band around his wrist and the cleft-chinned handsomeness of models in department store catalogues. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, bands and tribes always, and chiefdoms usually, consist of a single ethnic and linguistic group. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood watching as the band moved off. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then it went back to sounding like fourth-grade band practice. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The muffs are as purple as eggplant, and the white band is clean again. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The night of the party, the family ate an early dinner before the band and the guests arrived. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Sam added that nowadays a band or someone would compare themselves to the Beatles after the second album, and their own personal voice would be less from that moment on. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Brown hair funneled into a ponytail by a plain rubber band. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The band must have caught an early train. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Anthropologists who interviewed the Aché recorded a case in which a band abandoned a middle-aged man who fell sick and was unable to keep up with the others. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. W. told us to go back up to the band room to get drinks, hit the restrooms, and relax for a little while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was practicing to be a one-man band. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a band, where everyone is closely related to everyone else, people related simultaneously to both quarreling parties step in to mediate quarrels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-two grasshoppers before Maid Marian’s band was ready far its last stalk through the silence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the band would be having the traditional post-concert pizza delivered to the rehearsal room, but honestly — was I supposed to survive on nothing but bacteria-laden milk solids for the next several hours? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the whole thought of ordering some band's shirt online makes me feel weirdly embarrassed. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

By the time his favorite band came back to that venue, the Cranes would probably be long gone, living in Ohio or Mississippi or wherever their parents’ whims took them next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And Shorty did his band’s date, then borrowed his piano man’s car, and burned up the miles to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the station, as they had in previous years, the marching band played fight songs, cheerleaders danced, the coaches made brief speeches, flashbulbs popped, and newsreel cameras whirred as the boys climbed onto the train. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the enemy soldiers now wore white bands around their heads, the same kind of headbands worn by Japanese warriors for hundreds of years. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of my circle, I made a tight spiral pattern that spread into a wide band to join the circle’s edge. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The strong band together to hunt down the weak then, when the tension becomes too great, begin to turn on one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He wore his new oversize Flush sweatshirt and hat, and he held a rolled-up poster signed by all the band members. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I first started playing the cello, Dad was still playing drums in his band, though that all started to taper off a couple years later when Teddy arrived. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even said he played oboe, and was switching from orchestra to band. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the gazebo at the end of our street where the American Legion band played every Saturday night of the summer and we crossed Beach Street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It was easy. You just have to be careful how you tie the rubber bands.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He let them feel the red saddle, and showed them the brass chain throat-latch on the bridle and the big brass buttons at each temple where the headstall and brow band crossed. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One inmate had wanted to cut off his ring finger, he said, because it was too swollen for the inmate to remove his wedding band, but another inmate had talked him out of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy writes from Dublin to say he’s fed up and doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life blowing a trumpet in the army band. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mobile bands of hunter-gatherers are relatively egalitarian, and their political sphere is confined to the band’s own territory and to shifting alliances with neighboring bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles quick up at me, then hunches back over an elaborate machine made of rocks, marbles, sticks and rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d tell you that she met the lead singer from your favorite band and dropped acid with them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at Katie as he took the rubber band off the money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know Benny, but I really wanted this band to happen. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I could see that there were a lot of sailors standing around, and a brass band playing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reported that a band of robbers had slain him together with his attendants, all except one, who brought the news home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he drew from his small sack a long, thick band of indigo ribbon for Angeline. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I say it because he listened to bands no one ever heard of. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He penetrated past the elastic band of her panties and groaned. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radar and I followed him, talking as we went past the band room, where freshmen and sophomores were sitting and chatting amid a slew of instrument cases. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

From there, after purchasing by check a diamond engagement ring and a diamond wedding band, they drove to a pawnshop to dispose of these items. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know the band playing down at the Quarry. We could head over there, get warm, listen to music, forget about everything. I also know a place with a pretty awesome view of the town.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The band starts up again, this time playing “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

See, the All-City band needed a human service project, and a couple of the students came up with an amazing plan for one. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was kind of old-fashioned, with Roman numerals and a leather band, and I hadn’t been sure Sal would like it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Where the raiding parties had once streamed along the highways with fluttering pennoncels, now there were merry bands of pilgrims telling each other dirty storks on the way to Canterbury. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enemies’ horses would thunder up into the clearing, leaping the pig-fences, sending the cows and the pigs away mooing and squealing, and the two bands of men would charge. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found everyone unusually quiet outside the band room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The officer in charge gave a sign and the doors to the mess hall were thrown open, as a band marched into the cleaned out center of the hall playing the “Foreign Legion March.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The cutting of the bands on your wrists, that was smart work!’ said Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was a wonderful drummer in the school band and in bands around town. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Nowhere are there larger bands or more marching organizations, with corps of costumed girls whirling glittering batons. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe be a publicist or a person who finds new bands. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And while she continued, I thought John was working her there, inching lower, inside the band of her skirt, where maybe the blouse was riding up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, Deganawidah prophesied, the Five Nations, each weak on its own, would fall into darkness unless they all banded together. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The idea first got started when I was looking in my suitcase at one of the flyers showing Herman E. Calloway and his band. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I could see they were willing to help the band and indirectly me, because I was dying to go to Europe, so I was grateful to them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late 1864 and early 1865, Booth organized his own little band of conspirators, loyal to him and not the Confederacy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled slowly and Lourdes saw a stained band along his front teeth, like the watermarks on a pier. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This here's Sister Harris, Rever'n. She come to join our little band." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colorful rubber bands woven over metal braces covered her teeth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nine chairs, at the far end of the band room, near the windows. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pens and colored pencils held together with a rubber band. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were no football games in the fall of 1958, but the band still took trips around the district on holidays to march through the various towns that invited us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbouring bands probably competed for resources and even fought one another, but they also had friendly contacts. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cover art showed a yellow robot-like character playing a keyboard with his band behind him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

So they found a friendly civilian technician and he twisted a rubber band around their arms, and they watched while he filled some tubes with their blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When the band kids are out of sight, Sara lets me have it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I would be faithless, if the cup and the arm band had been poor. I am interested in goldsmiths, not orphans.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Harry picked it up and stared at it, his heart twanging like a giant elastic band. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lincoln—whose hat was still circled by a black mourning band in honor of his dead son—spoke for a couple of minutes, and delivered 250-odd words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning Mrs. Rimas slipped Mother’s wedding band off her finger. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A band began playing “That Bonny Blue Flag,” in Lee’s honor. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an entire band goes to the platform and begins to jam on some of that religious salsa. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Counselors are going from table to table dropping off a box of pizza for each band. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. What this school is all about is doing stuff. Everybody’s in a band, or in a club,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The band made its traditional circle around the stadium, not even remotely rattled by the tireless efforts of the Nimitz fans to drown it out with their continued rosaries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, Eurasia’s west-east axis allowed Fertile Crescent crops quickly to launch agriculture over the band of temperate latitudes from Ireland to the Indus Valley, and to enrich the agriculture that arose independently in eastern Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course she didn’t say so, but she was afraid Joe’s blowings might spoil the whole band. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a swing band on the radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the evening there would be band concerts under the trees across from the Café Marinas. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sierra smiled down at the old fellow as he wrapped his little arms around her waist and the band glided smoothly into another song. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My sister Lillian was in high school and singing with a hillbilly band called The Sierra Stars—jeans, cowboy hats, two guitars, and a tub bass. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Log-a-Log ripped the cloth band from his brow and flung it down. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They saw neither Huntsmen nor gwythaints, and they made little attempt at concealment; for, as the bard had said, the forces of Arawn sought the Crochan and not a pitiful band of stragglers. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not a slingshot, the forked stick with an elastic band attached to it, but the powerful sling with which David killed Goliath. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Me neither. Come on. You’ll be great. I don’t know anything about band books. Did John Philip Sousa write one?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The watch part might have been waterproof, but the plain brown leather band didn’t care for soap and hot water. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after the concert, my parents and Jeffrey came to the band room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band always went all the way around the stadium—that was a Permian trademark—but a decision had been made not to go over to the Carter side, presumably because of fears of trouble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small bands of weary and often wounded men came first with little order; some were running wildly as if pursued. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I sat down outside the band room and took a personal pizza wrapped in napkins from my backpack, where I’d had it since lunch. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sound of the band came from Lighthouse Avenue, the drums echoing back from the buildings. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I half expected to see the shark’s white belly stretched out at the bottom of the harbor, as though its weight had split the bands and the shark had just sunk to the seafloor. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The paramedics tie them around your arm when they need to take blood, but Digger used it like a rubber band and took aim at J.T. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had no helm, and about his head was a linen band stained with blood; but his voice was loud and strong. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was a pedal rider too and the bands had to be changed often. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dig into the tool drawer again and find a rubber band. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fand gives me a gold band and tells me where to stand. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This would have been the moment to tell her about the band and the talent show. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Dill had a peculiar genius, honed over his years of friendship with Lydia, at turning any band into a Christian band on the spot. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The monster’s front talons were wrapped around his arms like steel bands. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rice explained that he had merely tested the wheel’s braking system, which consisted of a band of steel wrapped around the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She put her old clothes back on, long Chinese gowns and skirts now with white mourning bands sewn at the bottoms. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band was offered a record deal with a medium-size label based in Seattle and now were busy in the studio recording. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band didn’t arrive until much after eight because they had trouble with their amplifiers in the snow. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood, these shells got to the continental interior through long-distance trade between different Sapiens bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band is normally happy to let him chauffeur while they nap. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then snap a rubber band around its snout,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was delegating the red rubber bands to Laney when his mom called to him from the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sierra had just been standing there staring at the band. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Heavy bands of bronze circled their waists, and from these belts hung the black thongs of whips. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The big top still stands, glowing like a ghostly coliseum and pulsing with the sound of the band. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Large societies of food producers have not only more members but also higher population densities than do small bands of hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They drove a few more blocks, and then Dad pulled up in front of Lightning’s, the club where he and his band played most Thursday nights. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, big bands from New York, out touring the one-night stands in the sticks, would play for big dances in Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children who seemed to have escaped evacuation ran about on the grass shouting and laughing, the band struggled with music beyond its capabilities, and deck chairs still cost twopence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This hallway is mainly 8th grade, but it also has the music rooms. We have band, orchestra, and chorus. Would you like to see the music rooms?” the secretary asks, sounding bored. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some bands were driven north by wars, demographic pressures or natural disasters. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The double band drank, the Shaper sang, and then they drank again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through it I made out a band of ogres, kicking up the dust as they chased us. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I played that hard middle section, just me in the band room, playing a solo, Ms. Fender would hear it and reconsider sending me to the back row. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Losing his nights to cheap beer and the nameless heavy metal band setting up in the corner. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There are grinning skulls; a ghoulish, blue-skinned woman with glowing yellow eyes; a caricature of a great, horned animal; illegible graffiti signatures; advertisements for local bands and theater productions. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, multiplying by one-half is like relaxing the rubber band a bit: the tick mark at two is now at one, and the tick mark at three winds up at one and a half. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

He regretted that his deteriorating health prevented him from attending the ceremonies in person and joining “the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies who joined with us on that day.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thanks for the offer to join your band. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

However, there were two men in that little band who scorned to weigh the chances of success or failure, to whom the extreme peril of the attempt was a reason for making it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

How were we ever going to play as a band? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At last only two of that roistering, impudent band were left, the priest of the suitors and their bard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim, moonlit night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in settled villages and were organized politically into tribes rather than bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It sort of seemed like you cared mostly about the solos. But also just how the band sounded. Not how I was feeling.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But being passed over for the band still sucks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He looked up with a provocative grin, “Hi pal, where’s the brass band?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the band, he was the most excited. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Down the street lives an aspiring rock band composed of four middle schoolers. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She grabs her backpack, which has been inked all over with band names and quotes, and fishes out her wallet. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The next day, when Abby Tedesky emerged—fresh from a shower and dressed to beat the band—to start her day, there was no air in the rented car’s tires. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prosperous merchants and busy tradesmen had disappeared, and in their place were coarse women and menacing men, bands of noisy, grimy children and scores of beggars. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is an after-school rock band. Not just your band! You can’t just do that!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When news got out that a federal armory with 100,000 rifles and a great deal of ammunition was in the hands of a small band of lunatics, the president, James Buchanan, dispatched Lt. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nomadic bands that stalked wild sheep gradually altered the constitutions of the herds on which they preyed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thick bands of iron hugged ’round her ankles connecting up to some locks and chains that were keeping her where she was at. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was at a hall in town, a place that usually showcased local bands, so the acoustics were terrible for unamplified classical. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met Froggy, who was coming from band practice, and told him the good news. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had just started a band with Ollie and his brother. I didn’t want to leave and start over somewhere new again. I even ran away, I was so mad.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I backed into the band room as flames engulfed the doorway. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z