He said it must have given her some peace to hear President Kennedy’s speech earlier this summer, on the radio. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The people who come from outside bring us a lot of news that later proves to be untrue; however, up to now our radio has never lied. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The radio produces a vivid, full sound: Werner has never heard another like it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the elections were canceled, “because of violence,” the radio said. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s never faced anything as long as I’ve known him. He thinks anything peculiar or unpleasant will just go away if he turns on the radio and some little schnook starts singing.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

From our rooms we could hear the glasses clink and the radio turned up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very likely mutual contact would already have been made by radio or other remote means. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded unreal, deep and velvet, something that should live only in a radio because it didn’t make sense outside in normal air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A burp of static on the radio made it hard to hear the boy’s last name. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The truth is,” she said, “we were listening to the radio, heard a news report about your father, and then Holmesy here told me she had a crush on you when you were kids.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But maybe they last long enough. end I pick up the radio and we stand for a little while longer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing happening was a lot of radioing between mission control and the astronauts. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Some night owls in Ilium heard Billy on the radio, and one of them called Billy’s daughter Barbara. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard it together on the transistor radio, Heather and me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I just thought something fell out the window, a radio or a desk or something, not a boy or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The mosquitoes were thirsty and flies flew around Genie’s face, buzzing so loud he felt like he had stuck his head into Grandpop’s radio. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Father was first to hear it on the radio. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as I open the door, the outside will rush into my ears: taxi horns, loud radios, barking dogs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She sent a radio message back home to Moscow to let them know that all was well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The first few notes of a song begin on Grammy’s radio. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Mrs. Bloodgood,” I yelled into the little speaker on the radio. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You have made the radio a medium of deception which if allowed to continue could make the radio a menace.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The car radio was tuned to dance music when a newsflash interrupted. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He smiled and lowered the volume on the radio. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They were searching the cosmic radio background—that is, radio sources far beyond our solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I listened as the radio program laid it out for me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A voice on the cop’s radio cut through the static. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Patsy Cline can’t even be heard on the radio anymore, for all the rocks banging the side of the car. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I get the button box from where my mom has hidden it inside the radio cabinet. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bends over his duffel bag and takes out a brown radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the panicky radio reports from the Maddox kept coming. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We would sneak away while he kept listening to the radio as if nothing had happened. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he now laments, however, “It didn’t even occur to me to grab his radio, too.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He lives in Capitol Oaks,” I said, and Officer Mora pulled the radio off the belt of his pants. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Trembling, I turn up the radio, and drown him out with the sound of the song, and the sound of me driving away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why radio announcers have tiny hands?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the radio room now—with its already subtly antiquated equipment, untouched for the ten years previous to their arrival. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He puts the radio on the sidewalk and turns up the music. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A little radio was up on a shelf blaring out some song in Spanish, but their voices drowned it out as they sang along. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So cool and crisp, such authority—suddenly she really was a radio operator, a German radio operator, she was so good at faking it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Last night Raj Uncle brought a radio with him and we listened to it while we ate dinner. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He saw her point his car out to a crowd of faces he half recognized, then he heard her high-pitched giggle and the laughter of her companions; he turned the radio up louder. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their laughter drowned out the loud groan from another table where Turtle sat alone, a transistor radio plugged in her ear. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I departed in the late morning for Cape Town, with only my radio for company. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The van wasn’t on and running, and the road wasn’t passing underneath me, but the keys had been left in the ignition and the radio was on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We listened as she took to the airwaves to tell the radio audience she knew a heck of a bargain when she saw one. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just unscrews what Scoob assumed was an antenna to reveal a clear spout...which she then puts to her mouth before turning the “radio” upside down. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

In my room I lay across the bed and listened to the radio. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His voice crackled over the radio waves to an estimated forty million listeners, including President Roosevelt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, they were sitting in the living room listening to the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And his money and radio were not the only reasons. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

These partisans may have been involved in some dark forest magic, but they should not have been tinkering with the higher magic of radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Especially because we, new to radio astronomy, must be comparatively backward, and the transmitting civilization advanced, it makes more sense for us to listen than to send. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the radio, a gray portable made by Zenith—no doubt about it, the radio was gone. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raytheon Company, a maker of radio tubes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had applied for a patent on a machine that sounded suspiciously like his spiral accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I cut off the radio as if to stop it from giving evidence against me, and scuttled to the door. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They made a formal recommendation that we organize an international cooperative program, with new and immense radio telescopes, to probe the reaches of deep space for electromagnetic signals making sense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, on August 15, Emperor Hirohito spoke over the radio to the Japanese people, telling them that Japan was surrendering. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the veranda listening to the radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

James Goodale, the New York Times lawyer, carried a portable radio down to the lake near his family’s Connecticut home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I watched them and listened to the radio. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Benevolent encounters have not been the rule in human history, where transcultural contacts have been direct and physical, quite different from the receipt of a radio signal, a contact as light as a kiss. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back. I’m going to pick up my toolbox. Did you know about that little radio out there?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turning on the radio and just sitting there was my version of praying. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He reached over and flicked on the radio. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d come down the strait plotting soundings as she went, but the pilot would not put his faith in this, and at 0126 hours that morning, in heavy fog, had radioed the lighthouse for assistance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"New York," she said dreamily and began to sing the refrain from the popular New York merengue that was on the radio night and day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying the UN station,” Patrice said, fiddling with the radio dial. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo was lying on the bed in the living room, listening to the radio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Before very long, radio and television people began asking me to defend our Nation of Islam in panel discussions and debates. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherm became aware of the sound of the radio in the kitchen and the smell of his grandmother’s coffee, and beneath that, he felt his grandmother’s satisfied presence, which never changed. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He turned the radio up a tick and let the music be the only sound in the car until they pulled into the school parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The first hint of the true situation came not from spectroscopic studies in the visible or near-infrared parts of the spectrum, but rather from the radio region. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Seattle a news flash from Oakland interrupted regular radio programming, and people who had been sitting dejectedly by the radio stood up and slapped each other on the back and shook hands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She can hear him unplug a radio, then tangle himself in its cords. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But with the dress and the radio, she didn’t want to risk angering him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Senator Trueba never heard it, because he did not allow radios in his house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually any planetary atmosphere, no matter what its composition, should be partially transparent to radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I remembered of the last three days was an enormous radio tower in the distance, growing larger and larger as we marched. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for smoke and flames, but instead of a fire, I see a grinning fireman descending from the truck carrying a big wrench and an even bigger radio. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anyone who has ever heard me on radio or television programs knows that my technique is non-stop, until what I want to get said is said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some places on the surface will absorb them or, if they are very rough, will scatter them sideways and so will appear dark to radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio, at the end of the war, they said the enemy was using nerve gas, bacteria, and “other antipersonnel weapons.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For my entire life the dial on that car’s radio stayed on one station. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The radio hiccupped into a jingle for Forever Young Jeans’. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But the job was so dull that I was almost dozing off and could hardly respond when the radio of a nearby officer loudly blared out the emergency tone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a psychologist on a radio talk show once describe the four stages of grief. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school, all day, there was nothing but the radio. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Special Julius brought a bottle of whisky, and the guests sang and shouted drunkenly about the might of Biafra, the stupidity of the Nigerians, the foolishness of those newscasters on BBC radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like all CIA operatives, Marti strapped to her body an SRR-100, a special radio receiver that allowed her to pick up the radio transmissions of KGB surveillance teams that might be tailing her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My dad turns on the radio as he drives me to school, and it’s the same thing playing in between each and every single song: Charles “Sandy” Sanders has gone missing. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She says her mother sings on a radio program, under a different name, and we do overhear her mother practicing scales in the living room, in a loud quavery voice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I still heard music even though the radio was silent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The way I know is one of my visitors, Mateo Nuflez, had just begun listening to the Sacred Rosary on his little radio when he heard the terrible crash. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was sputtering and then we could hear the announcer explain about a man named Jackie Robinson—one of our folk playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I spend a couple hours tuning AM radio to the weird bounces of night. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Thompson come on the radio, say how sorry he is for the Evers family. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, a radio played a Hindi song I thought I remembered from an old movie, maybe Pakeeza. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sandbags, lamps, and portable radios are rationed out too. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They had believed radio news more than newspapers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The radio serials were like an extension of the comics, and Mama liked to listen to them with me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Good, thought Powell; they might lack radio control but at least they were fitted for radio reception. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The radio had started squawking the moment they’d entered London airspace and had only stopped when Mr. Grin turned it off. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He leaned toward the radio, and Z caught his arm and jerked him back. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bobby sent Shepherd notes, attended live performances that the radio host gave at a Greenwich Village coffeehouse called the Limelight, and visited him at his studio at 1440 Broadway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants of Earth had finally stumbled upon radio communication. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he was invited to appear on a radio program, which was the beginning of a giddy popularity he had never expected. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio tuned to a droning hum, I go back to Mirjam's belongings in my lap. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The National Association of Broadcasters shared CBS’s concerns about government control of radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

To cope, they took on an experienced radio and theatre actor, Paul Stewart, as an associate producer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

At nine o'clock, he turned off his radio and went to bed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

On this late night, not only was my radio working but the station was also hosting a retrospective on the music of Sly and the Family Stone. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He reduced the volume of the radio and rearranged the sheets of writing paper before he opened the door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The night officer hands me the radio and some other keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Park was inclined to believe the radio broadcasts from Seoul, which he had heard while living in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I put my clothes into a neat pile, light the candle, and tune the radio to a classical station. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Alternatively, it could mean that the sources were more numerous in the past, at the time that the radio waves left on their journey to us, than they are now. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio, a woman’s voice was saying that Taraki, the leader of the Khalq branch of the PDPA, the Afghan communist party, was in the streets giving rousing speeches to demonstrators. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Mercury broadcast simulated news bulletins, which radio listeners trusted. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m heading up to the coast guard station. Maybe I’ll get them to put a call through for me if your radio isn’t handy.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She signaled for Papa to turn down the radio. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They tried to reach Kinshasa by radio, to tell Karl Johnson and the others that the epidemic had already peaked. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love Christmas—the tree with its ornaments, visiting relatives with their houses decorated for the holiday, and carols on the radio, which Mom sings along to as long as Dad’s not in the car. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The radio and television networks went off the air. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sh!” commanded Mr. Popper, laying his ear close to the radio. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur is still sitting at the radio listening to Amos ’n’ Andy, not even paying attention to Sonny and Henry, who are tearing apart Jimmie’s dolly. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Our uncle has satellite radio,” Alyssa points out, and switches to the satellite stations. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

No phone calls, no televisions, no radios, no visits. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Afterward they might go back to someone’s “pad” and “pull some tones” off a record or the radio. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor knelt down in front of the radio again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The farmer flicked on the radio and the Supremes blared through the truck cab with “Baby, baby, where did our love go?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop was still sitting exactly where they had left him, in his Seat, his hands resting in his lap, listening to the radio. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One with a transistor radio on—except it was the stupid Mets and not the Yankees. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The radio DJ announced the next song; it was like Liam had won the lottery. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s the base thrum of a trucker’s radio. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The combatants are streaming in from the east, thousands a day. They’ve looted everything. There are bodies in the street. At least, this is what the radio trottoir says.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her shining legitimate Third Reich radio credentials, the Ormaie Gestapo are reluctant to respond, but von Linden believes he can use me to make a good impression. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Nor was the radio or his ration kit. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All day the radio has been predicting a white Thanksgiving. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There may be countless worlds on which the inhabitants are accomplished linguists or superb poets but indifferent radio astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes later, the doctors were still working on Makalu when David Breashears’s voice barked over the radio: “We’re on our way down with Beck. We’ll have him to Camp Two by dark.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was being interviewed on public radio for a story about foraging. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I thought of fishermen standing on the concrete freighter docks with their bait buckets and tallboys, the baseball game on the radio. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Kennedy turned to the most powerful mass medium of his day: radio. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Werner rewinds the resistance track and splices the wires and plugs in the radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It looked just like a regular radio antenna. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone came on the radio and announced himself as the new president of Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The local “ground crew” set up our radio by attaching it to the poor Rosalie’s battery and sticking the antenna up a tree that conveniently hid the car from the air, as well. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And maybe Carole Lombard or Arturo Toscanini who played on the radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It helps me to concentrate,” Mrs. Sen said, and turned the radio on again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One of them took apart a radio and dropped the pieces into a stream, ate a butterfly, and cut the throat of a cat, because she was deranged. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cotter—who by now had walked over from his own camp beneath Pumori to the Everest Base Camp—scolded over the radio, “Rob, get moving down the ridge.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We got a call from Lieutenant Gearhart on the ham radio network. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faces of Kevin and Kyle leaning close to what looked like a clock radio, in the middle of a trashed electronics store; the numbers on the clock’s face were climbing, but not counting time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He bought himself two nice transistor radios, died gently in the bathtub at age eighty-two, and left her plenty of money. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure I quite believed that, but I didn’t have long to wait to find out, because now the voice on the radio was counting backward from ten. 7-6-5-4-3-2-1! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sewing machine hummed and the radio droned on. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They liked it when she mimicked popular songs from the radio in the schoolyard. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Expecting candy and having none, the boys took turns unplugging the radio. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even at the speed of light it would take two centuries for a radio message to get from there to here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s been radio silence since our fight. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She must have noticed my slight head nod to the beat, because she quickly killed the radio. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The radio was still crackling, but Tad heard nothing other than Rashid’s words and the pain behind them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not every German family could afford a radio, but those who could gathered around, eager to hear what the new chancellor would say. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton pulls up in her fancy blue car with the radio blasting. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

To get on the radio, there had to be hard evidence that the public liked him—and the evidence just wasn’t there. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio was youthful, eager, confident. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I heard his voice in speeches and sermons broadcast all over the country on the Catholic radio station, it seemed that it was as much our voice, our thoughts, as Titid’s. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derek was reaching for the radio and briefcase and the lightning hit the tree next to the shelter and came down the tree and across the air and into Derek and he fell.... The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached, we heard radio music and looked to see where it came from. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman on the radio was interviewing someone who recited the names of the trapped students and the information they’d been able to get about each of them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Later that night, another patrolman wistfully told a colleague over his police radio, “You should have been here, ol’ buddy; got a couple of ’em tonight.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wheels, doors, seats, steering wheel, speakers, and radio are all missing and probably on their way to some drug dealer’s house so he can sell them. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He pleaded on the radio, and I knew something terrible was happening there. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

College radio stations began playing New Sacred Cow, and it started to climb the college charts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock Monday night, July n, 1938, the Mercury Theatre broadcast its first radio drama. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The image is read by the Voyager computers, radioed back across the immense intervening distance of half a billion kilometers to a radio telescope, a ground station on the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly, we came within radio range of a ground station, and we told them what had happened. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wraps a towel around the radio and lies under the bed listening to illegal stations. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe Mondragon, off on a wood run, drove like a maniac over the mesa’s potholed dirt roads, a beer in one hand, the radio blasting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns down the radio, cool jazz, and looks me over, hands on her hips, eyes sad and friendly. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And then, without any warning, Billy went to New York City, and got on an all-night radio program devoted to talk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We brought out a battery radio for reports, since the power would go off if Donna struck. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tied the radio back up under the overhang with its carrying strap so that anybody coming into the shelter would be certain to see it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the biggest game changers, however, was a new technology that seemed relatively harmless: radio. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nana turns on the radio, and Christmas music fills the car. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When forced to hand over our radio to the Nazis, we silently repeated the words; whenever a German was near, we whispered to ourselves, "If this is the worst..." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Over the radio, the RRG blares reports that the parade to celebrate Hitler's victory is under way. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was a voice Sophie had heard many times on radio and television, especially on Christmas Day. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The antique radio worked, a plus that I hadn’t expected. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This was during the war, when you couldn’t turn on the radio and not hear about Guadalcanal or North Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no further radio transmission from Herrod after his 5:15 call from the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Driving away from the school, she turned the radio on again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I knew what this radio mullah was saying wasn’t true. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A radio expert with the Coast Guard, Jones had been trained by William in the early 1930s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The radio programme switched back to the news. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Faith joined me inside, I told her we had to get Fang before I cranked up the radio. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he turns on his short-wave radio, displaying before me a minute or two of Radio Free America, to show me he can. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them were sure I had been singed to nothing from what they’d heard on the radio about the bombing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where is the workbench, where is the radio, what are these weights on top of him? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The radio just went off the atomic beam. Every other world station’s gone. They dwindled down to a couple in the last few years. Now the air’s completely silent. It’ll probably remain silent.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was always so busy with my radio equipment that firing a weapon was the last thing I could do. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must be. The radio was his idea, and he’s the only one who’s come here.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally turned the radio down and looked at him through the rearview mirror. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko whipped out his portable radio and said, “I’m calling for backup.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of the old console radio there were two fifths of Early Times and a six-bottle carton of Seven-Up. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maintain radio silence, except in emergencies,” ordered Kelp. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t even have a radio, or a rearview mirror. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Next he places her hands on a big cabinet radio, then on a third no bigger than a toaster. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Armpit was just getting out of bed when he heard her voice on the radio. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was rummaging around in an abandoned police car—maybe looking for the emergency radio—and her bade was turned. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I push on the radio to fill the quiet, to hush my own spinning thoughts. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mamá ironed while she listened to the Spanish radio station. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Ernest spent the hours pacing by the radio, silent and withdrawn among friends and colleagues from the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The radio crackles and squawks, interrupted now and then by a soothing French voice, then a wisp of violin and a quiet French horn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to broadcast it on the radio later on. . . .” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave the radio on. I know you don’t want to miss anything,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The overwhelming majority of listeners recognized the broadcast as a radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Trying again, more slowly this time, he activated his radio. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slips from bed, finds Mutti sitting in the dark, listening to the radio, her hand over her mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

All day Saturday, the radio announcements continued about the Russian Sputnik. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival I learned the meeting would be recorded by the National Broadcasting Company for future use on a network radio show. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina was able to speak to her daughter, Tanya, on the telephone from the Far East, the call was broadcast by radio throughout the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Their triumphs were constantly announced on the radio, in newspapers, and even on big screens they set up to play newsreels with scenes of their victories. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Behind me the radio plays square dance music from the Maritimes, Don Messer and His Islanders, in preparation for the six o’clock news. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, the radio at the other end of the ward was turned off. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The radio was always talking about people of consequence traveling around the world by steamer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had a surprisingly compelling speaking voice for so small a man, an instrument that he wielded like a rapier when he addressed large crowds in person or spoke on the radio. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The radio broadcasters huddling under the shelter hesitated, then beamed the news out to the nation: “California Wins.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Rashid clicked on the radio before heading over to help Tad. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Congress did not pass Senator Herring’s bill or any others that would censor radio programs. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As the Earth rotates, our more powerful radio transmitters slowly sweep the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean my ear up against the radio, and I know perfectly well that it’s baseball I’m listening to, but for a while I could swear I’m hearing about Joe Louis. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. I found out when I radioed in the serial number.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sent staff members into Studio One to confiscate all scripts of the radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

For someone who knew the system and had the right code books, it wasn’t too hard to work backward and decode the radio message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’m a little cranky because my radio won’t get the football games. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He carries the radio gingerly to the kitchen table. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But radio is powerful, cheap, fast and simple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dig out that old thing in the attic. You used to know more about radios than anyone in town. Anyone in Brittany, perhaps.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead she had grabbed the radio and frantically worked to adjust it so we could hear what was going on. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The three-minute convention persists thanks in no small part to attention spans and radio playlist imperatives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On the radio, the idealized world of One Man’s Family and the just and reassuring tales of The Lone Ranger were runaway hits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is this,” she said, “a radio station? I never heard of WWJD.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

However, anyone, including the Japanese, could listen to our radio messages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on Shreddie number three, and the radio weather forecast was saying it was set fair but with a risk of showers in the southeast. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his radio on and heard the professor discussing Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The problem is not that the clock radio feels underdressed, the problem is that I cannot bear to watch the numbers advance in the heartless way common to this particular model. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Each morning the radio comes on at seven o'clock. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, the radio played and the sound of footsteps crossing the room and then retracing their path echoed up the stairwell. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If I could get Opportunity's radio working, I'd be in touch with humanity again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is this where they arrest boys whose sisters listen to foreign radio stations? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m covering the peace rally for the radio program.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Needing distraction from the news on the radio—it was getting worse every hour—she stopped periodically at whatever stores or restaurants were open. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the evening—through phone calls, the radio, and the evening news—we pieced together what had happened that morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the front of the auditorium, a fifth-grade teacher turns on the large radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was with my father when we heard the news over the radio in his bedroom. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But Burl played the radio so loud none of my flitting thoughts had a chance to settle down in one place. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It is the finest radio he has ever laid hands on: an inclined control panel, magnetic tuning, big as an icebox. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He must see to his mother, first of all; he must use Tom Torgerson’s ham radio set and put in a call to Anacortes about printing the paper there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As she listened to Hitler’s radio speech, she felt hope for her future. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of permitting us to receive newspapers or listen to radio, they started their own radio news service, which consisted of a daily canned summary of the news read over the prison’s intercom system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arecibo Observatory could communicate with an identical radio telescope on a planet 15,000 light-years away, halfway to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, if we knew precisely where to point it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy on my clock radio called it a Thanksgiving freeze. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed down, slammed the door behind him, dove into his sleeping bag on the floor, and pulled the radio close. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Teddy was the one who first spoke the words in our code, radioing back to General Smith at his command post on the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five marks was cheap for a Rola radio—even cheaper than the People's Radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who works for a travel agent in town, clicks off the radio and pours herself a second cup of coffee. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she hadn’t been such a cracking radio operator and been promoted so quickly, it’s not likely we’d have become friends even in wartime, because British officers don’t mingle with the Lower Ranks. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then one of the officers received a message on the radio and got real excited. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess they aren't taking any chances, what with my habit of being nearby when radios break. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’ve all agreed and are about to say goodbye, I say, ‘And maybe you can show me what radio station you’ve got there.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Times received hundreds of calls during and immediately after the radio program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

"I can make that work," Beck said over the radio. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I made Beck as comfortable as possible, I got on the radio to Dr. Mackenzie at Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A foreign voice was now speaking over the radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In desperate straits she can make us laugh, with her main talent being radio commercials oozed out in a fabulous fashion-model voice: “Medically tested Odo-ro-no, stops underarm odor and moisture at the source!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women crowded into Hampton Institute classrooms offering instruction in everything from radio science to chemistry. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s really not that bad here, since we can do our own cooking and can listen to the radio in Daddy’s office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Inmates could have their own radios, too, but the big steel cellblock made reception very difficult. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, she heard the radio and the loud voices of the drinkers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The radio said that colored boy’s mama up in Chicago is blaming everyone in Mississippi for what’s happened, said she said, ‘The entire state of Mississippi is going to pay for this.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Very faintly, on a downstairs radio, a sprightly female voice sang a song about yogurt, backed by a chorus of mooing cows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The table held a lamp, a transistor radio, a leather change purse with a silver clasp, and a telephone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All the security men were equipped with radio microphones, and in the front row, Mrs. Jones had control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The car radio somehow still is attached to a battery and so Beethoven is broadcasting into the once- again tranquil February morning. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clapped one of the other radio operators on the shoulder. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She hands me the radio, which I attach to my belt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we made it across the plank bridge over Salt Creek, Ray reached down and turned the radio to WGN. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his door and reached for the radio. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At Kansas University, fraternity brothers gathered around the radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Killian, a coal miner who moonlights as an emergency medical technician for the Healy Volunteer Fire Department, had a two- way radio on the Argo. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finnish music blared from the radio, a sign that they had passed the border, out of the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She asked me to make her herb tea and to turn on the radio real soft. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the bench, listening to the radio. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But the radio has a place to plug them in, so they’ve got to be somewhere.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I am sitting in my room listening to the radio. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every time James Brown comes on the radio, I see Robert dancing. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Colorado Arts Organization was very impressed by the care and substance you poured into the film, and we wondered if you’d be interested in coming on our radio station to talk to our viewers. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each and every fan, those who have willingly traveled the 530 miles, those listening at home over the radio, can feeVit in his soul. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked me, “Have you heard the radio or seen the newspapers?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio would have been his only means of calling for help. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diana walked closer to the window while a commercial for insurance played on the radio. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That he was gonna cook up a fancy supper for Mama with candles on the table and Willie Nelson on the radio and maybe she’d wear that red dress he loved so much. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I turn the volume on the radio up all the way in the hope that it might drown out everything rattling inside of me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Perched on the steps, an old-fashioned radio played conjunto music, and on the shaded porch, sitting in a rocking chair, a skinny old man gazed at the horizon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some folks are unloading gallons of water from their cars; others, zombielike, instead of waving or saying hello when we pass by, keep staring at baby TVs or listening to boom box radios. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Loud, snazzy pop music plays on the radio. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through his illegal radio broadcasts, he encouraged parents to refuse polio vaccinations for their children. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I switched on the radio, but Ema reached for the knob and turned it off. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio said it many times. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio answered in static and loud hisses, like a radiator coming to life on the first cold day of fall. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

How could pilots navigate these powerful planes—traveling at hundreds of miles an hour—while looking at the cockpit gauges, listening to the radio, evading antiaircraft fire, and dogfighting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Next come the patriotic ads on the radio, talking about how all Americans must fight for good old Uncle Sam. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol fidgets with the radio, switching from the AM news station to NPR. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A former college radio DJ turned public school kindergarten teacher, he has a gentle, thoughtful manner punctuated by a dry wit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the horizon below, a radio tower rose into the indigo sky, its red lights blinking lazily. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now I wished there was a radio station to tune in, or that the phonograph would work. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Monique was laughing and dancing to a new song on the radio with Angel. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is, the man on the radio, toward the end, sounded crazy. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You can listen to the radio,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rob Hall, Mike Groom, and Yasuko Namba reached the summit around this time, too, and Hall radioed Helen Wilton at Base Camp to give her the good news. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We ate our supper listening to the radio—something we had never done before; my father never liked to have the radio on during a meal. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the story finished, we turned the radio back on and found someone speaking French. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head to speak into his radio. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Finally I discovered where everyone was: huddled around a shortwave radio in my mother’s office. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were windows open in the upstairs apartment that faced the back; I heard people talking, listening to the radio, moving around. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were so many of them now published in the newspapers, and they echoed the radio and television, even the chatter of some of the men in the warehouse. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Music was playing on the radio, an old Artie Shaw tune, why not, and Milton watched the red light on the Penobscot Building blinking on and off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On the car ride down, we sang along to the radio. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In a nod to the Martian broadcast, the main character played by Welles, Charles Foster Kane, says early in the movie, “Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Later the same day, Truman announced in a nationwide radio address that he had instructed the AEC to “continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I got the feeling from listening to them talk on the radio for a week that they would always appreciate the earth more because of their flight so far away from it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Joey, you have to listen to me carefully,” she said in a calm radio voice. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some thing, some blueness of heat and light and raw power seemed to jump from the tree to the briefcase and radio and enter Derek’s hand. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The editorial was mentioned on the government radio station in Haiti, and the junta promptly declared that Farmer had slandered the Haitian government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pete would say in a deep spooky voice like they do on the radio. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On August 31, 1939, the SS dressed in Polish uniforms and launched a fake attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia, in southwest Poland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then in 1941, the SS sent Sargo a young German radio expert, who built powerful transmitters and radio networks that could reliably reach Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Because telephones, radios, and televisions did not exist, people in the distant portions of Chicago did not know very much about the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

His radio clattered to the asphalt, and I kicked it out of his reach. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Establishing counterrevolutionary ties and listening to foreign radio? It must be Fan Wen-chong who told them,” Grandma said slowly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the game was over he would shut off the radio and fix his spectacles carefully in place by curling their stems behind his ears. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Mercury’s radio dramas weren’t as popular as the programs featuring comedian Jack Benny, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy, or Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour performers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was no radio in the trailer, and the only reading material was a construction industry journal with boring articles about hurricane-resistant roof sheathing and antitermite treatments for plywood. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, on February 1, Hitler addressed the German people for the first time over the radio. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve just passed the word,” announced a fellow reporter, his ear to a radio. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There had been no radios to listen to when he was digging holes at Camp Green Lake. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of her favorite days came right after the blackboard trial was over, when she was invited to appear on NBC radio. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was holding a small radio, one of the old ones with a CD player and a handle. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She will make up an operator and a destination for every single one of those phony radios, and the frequencies and code sets to go with it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In case of attack by an inmate—or any violent situation we could not control—we were to pull the pin out of the top of our radio by tugging on the lanyard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the master spy Sargo remained elusive, his networks were quickly destroyed, and so were his radio stations and power bases. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was usually the one on the radio set. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio is on, and we are singing along as loud as we can. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All these consequences of radiation have been duplicated in laboratory studies by a large group of chemicals known as radio- mimetic or radiation-imitating. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Ideally I’m talking to the medic on the ground, or I’m talking to the communications guy over the radio.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They kept the radio on all afternoon and late into the evening, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first I thought the radio’s vacuum tube had blown, but then a man’s voice came on the radio. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some nights I took the two-way radio into bed with me and rested it on the side of the pillow that Buckminster wasn’t on so I could hear what was going on in her bedroom. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He shuts off the radio, drives in silence through the cold, bleak afternoon, through the flat, charmless town he will never visit again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the old radio days, when you were all little and all, you all used to be so—smart and happy and—just lovely. Morning, noon, and night.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He sits in that kitchen every night, and no matter what the voices on the radio say, the words are always the same. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Wickersham, instead of speaking to Robinson directly, had radioed down to the Officer in Charge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was up loud, but it wasn't no music coming out of the speakers. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I try to be polite, act pleasant Henrietta turn the radio up loud in the back room. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the radio made it sound a lot like a game of chess where any move was one play from checkmate. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, listening to radio broadcasts ranked as Americans’ favorite recreation—more popular than movies, books, or sports events. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I can’t properly think and listen to the radio at the same time, so it was quiet in the car, except for the thumping rumble of Harold’s mechanical heart. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Victor turned his back and crouched down next to the dismantled radio again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the inside of the rear cockpit, loaded with the ashy remains of “onze radios”—eleven “wireless sets.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The following day, the radio stations begin disappearing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In his deep, expressive voice, Welles introduces the radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My mom humming along to pop music on the radio even when she doesn't know the lyrics. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The radio announcer said Gandhi spent his birthday fasting and spinning yarn on his wheel. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The radio is all static—like the sound of the crunching metal of a car, the faint, blurry voice on the airwaves her own, trapped inside a wreck, calling for help. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You heard me on the radio?” she asked incredulously. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Why does not one of the Commensals force the issue and speak of him in a public speech or on the radio? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By Monday morning, almost every word on the radio was about Sputnik. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ride down to the zoo took nearly two hours, with Uncle Bill singing loudly and off-key to disco songson the radio. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And she continued to use her newspaper column, along with her lectures, radio talks, and press conferences, to publicize her views on social justice. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But it's uncomfortable now, because I've waited too long and because Elouise is turning up the music on the radio and tuning me out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead I feel like I’m back in my group foster home, listening to the radio, hearing about his earthshaking invention for the first time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were all there when I arrived at the twins’ for dinner that night, gathered around the radio and listening to the weather forecast as if to some wartime bulletin from the front. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The lightning came, took the tree, then Derek, the radio, him—and they were all knocked down and out. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I heard more about it on the car radio on the way home that evening. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The exasperated driver radioed police, who were waiting at the next stop to arrest them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And now, coincidentally, it was playing on my radio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He went upstairs where Al Gaines was listening to the radio. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our session, on the drive home, Dad turned down the radio to ask, “How did your talk with Dr. Doris go?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A big old radio filled a dark corner, and on top of it was a cheap suitcase phonograph. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Today, a girl was playing a pop song I recognized from the radio on her violin. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ollie Mae couldn’t really keep me from knowing what was going on, not with Arthur listening to the radio every morning before he left for work. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I would like a new bike, some Barbie dolls, a radio, and—whoops.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As the news of the repeal was broadcast over the radio, stores like New York’s Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s immediately opened their liquor departments. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s a bed, a clock radio, a rocking chair, a bookcase, some books. That’s not nothing.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

One night, as I was practising my oration, Uncle Piet came by and gave me a small transistor radio as a present for doing well in school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s distracted, tuning to election news on the radio. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Milo purchased spot radio announcements on Axis Sally’s and Lord Haw Haw’s daily propaganda broadcasts from Berlin to keep things moving. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They sit in the dark, the small flat lit only by the dim amber light of the radio, and listen to the British voices pulsing across the crackling airwaves. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the infrared is the vast spectral region of the radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents bought it for her eighteenth birthday and had it equipped with GPS, satellite radio, and a little video screen that shows when you’re about to hit something in reverse. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even known to bring up a fresh radio battery with him from the OIC’s office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found weapons, snowshoes, Norwegian currency, radio transmitters, and a map with Vemork circled in blue ink. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crosby perched on the roof with Oscar Otis, who would call the race for a national radio broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With every step, I felt my heart falling apart, like that torture I heard about on the radio where a man was slowly cut up alive. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Lolo sang along to the radio as he drove. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Soon after his death was announced by radio, enraged Hutus took their revenge by killing scores of Tutsis. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On September 1, Helmuth bursts into his grandparents' flat and snaps on the radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turns on his radio and grabs a Holy Cross letter jacket from the cab of his truck. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the time I close my eyes, the clock radio says 3:16 A.M. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music blared from a radio perched atop a phone booth down the block, where a group of men leaned against cars parked in front of the barbershop. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My gaze shifted from the radio to the homework pages lying on my blankets. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have a radio, and if any trouble develops we can have a plane there in three or four hours. Please don’t worry.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A radio was playing loudly from the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a rumor that the Germans are going to demand we hand in our radios, too. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Drawn up next to his White House radio, F.D.R. was so absorbed in the broadcast that he kept a roomful of advisors waiting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerhard sets the radio on the middle shelf in the closet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we go,” she said, setting the radio on a church music station. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, Seattleites awoke to alarming headlines and radio news bulletins. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The largest semi-steerable radio/radar observatory on the planet Earth is the Arecibo facility, which Cornell University operates for the National Science Foundation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout his long career in the United States and Europe, Welles worked in stage, radio, film, and television. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Chain of Fools” played on the radio, and I crawled around the side of the car to crank it up. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The clock radio flashed 4:04 p.m. in green digital numbers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I shut off the radio, and I take my dishes from the TV room back to the kitchen, and I scoop myself a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma tunes the radio to a news station. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I put new batteries in the two-way radios, and I thought it would be a fun way for me and Grandma to talk. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He made a sound between a sigh and a groan, dropped his legs from the table, and turned off the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘Tm really sorry about forgetting to radio ahead for hotel rooms for you two. Game along to my office and I’ll speak to my deputy mayor about it right now.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I ignored him and focused instead on the shouting coming from the kitchen radio. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

On the radio, announcers repeated the news that big American ships were waiting offshore and more were coming. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The radio purrs and the woman laughs and Herr Siedler looks almost nothing, Werner decides, like his neighbors, their guarded, anxious faces—faces of people accustomed to watching loved ones disappear every morning into pits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The most respected men, in accordance with the ethos that had evolved on San Piedro, pursued no one and cultivated radio silence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Today, Orson Welles and the talented Mercury team are given credit for producing an exceptional radio program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The more places I represented Mr. Muhammad on television and radio, and at colleges and elsewhere, the more letters came from people who had heard me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks earlier, before the inauguration, the conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh baldly announced, “I hope Obama fails.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That Jupiter is a source of radio emission was discovered accidentally in the 1950’s, the early days of radio astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our hearts felt full as we studied the code, took apart and repaired radios in the field, and learned how to fight with our weapons. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t know which knob is for the volume and the radio blares for a minute. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his front seat with the door wide open, radio up to his mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I turned off the radio and lay back on my pillow. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a “Guns don’t kill people—abortion clinics do” bumper sticker on her car. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the mariachi song with the sad trumpets that was playing on the radio, I don’t know. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I tried to mimic the voices I had heard on the radio and television: high-pitched and nasal-y. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But he just turned off the radio and asked if he could get me anything before he went to bed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Me, in the back seat, usually in the center so I could lean forward with my seat belt on to control the radio and turn up the volume anytime a good song came on. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

American radio — she kept her Philco in the corner of the living room nearest the bedroom, so she could listen nonstop. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The post was owned and manned by a husband, a wife, and one small boy, but they had a good radio and could call for help. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, even when he was wearing fatigues, the radio alone made him an obvious target. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some she heard over radios, and some was in her mind already without her ever having heard it anywhere. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For that movie, he used actors who had played roles in the War of the Worlds broadcast and other Mercury radio and theatre productions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Traffic is controlled, each vehicle or caravan being required to keep in constant radio touch with checkpoints along the way. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped off the glass in the front of the alarm clock and the radio too until he could see his own reflection. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could turn on the radio and listen to the news. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t miss your radio watch over it,” Powell said. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one was willing to ask for the radio just yet. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hesitated for a moment and then continued, “I heard on the radio that Kennedy will help poor people.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The radio was on loud and brassy, so I knocked— softly at first, and then louder. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He switched on the digital clock radio and tuned it to a jazz station. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a swing band on the radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our Navajo net on board the Bunker Hill was set up in the radio room just above the flag bridge at the very top of the ship. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could still ask her a few questions and enjoy watering the plants or listening to the radio with her. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Through the aluminium wall he heard a radio voice saying, “War has been declared.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And this was his flask,” she continues, holding up the radio. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

They contained a lot of the same things he’d been hearing over his cockpit radio. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now I could see the cops eyeing us and looking at the coffin and one of them was talking on his radio. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No reading. So I brought you the radio. Very important things are happening, Reuven, and a radio is a blessing.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

From far away they could hear the voice of a radio announcer singing the praises of Dr. Ross’s pills, tiny but effective against constipation, insomnia, and bad breath. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now can we have the radio?” someone called plaintively. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, he was even asked to decipher radio signals thought to come from Mars. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Robin was talking to the spotter pilot over the radio, and Ray was listening on the headphones to see if he could pick up the shark’s ping. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She went home and changed into casual clothes, put on her SRR-100 radio receiver and earpiece, and slipped a small chunk of asphalt into her purse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A radio announcer’s voice returns, explaining that he’s on the Broadcasting Building roof in New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When radio broadcasts of recorded music began from 1920 onwards, public interest in having one’s own record collection accelerated; what had been a trickle turned into a flood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Pressing his cheek against the radio set, grimacing in anger at the static that always intercepted the words, Father cursed, saying that we were living in the middle of a daily war. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere deep in that crowd was a South African mercenary pilot who owned a radio. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, he had erected a powerful radio transmitter, which he had used to send information to the Japanese government. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Professors could only envy the millions pocketed by radio entrepreneurs from the discoveries of those pioneers of electromagnetism Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, who had claimed no patents and earned nothing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you talking about a radio station at your school? Do they have that?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Soon,” she assures me, and with the radio tucked back under my arm, I begin the walk home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He tuned to Radio Biafra, to the ending of an announcement about the enemy’s being wedged in Oba, before he turned the radio off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Papi put his battery-operated radio on a shelf and kept it tuned the whole time the hurricane blew, even though all we heard was static. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Listen to the radio and play what it does,” said Harry. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were committees for the press, radio, film, transportation, public art, and the budget, each charged with separate responsibilities for extracting the maximum propaganda value from the games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, they heard about the destruction on the car radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the balmy evenings in our little cafe, we would play popular music on the radio, and Alex and I would dance for the customers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This approach had been used on a few other radio dramas, and Welles thought it would increase the excitement and tension. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, Kainene was in high spirits and they would sit outside and talk and listen to the radio and to the bats flying around the cashew trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ran from the bed to the other room and found my parents already there, listening intently to the radio. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One way would be to listen with large radio telescopes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All winter the Opel roves occupied territories, cities that Jutta recorded in their radio log coming to life—Prague, Minsk, Ljubljana. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over the radio, he asked for five men. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The neighbors’ radios were all silent, and his mother hadn’t yet risen to fix his father’s breakfast. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He liked to listen to the radio, loud and with the windows down. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted “no one but no one in the world of the press or radio...to get so far as even an interview with me.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She cranks up the radio when it conies on.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of October n, as we were preparing to go to court, we heard an announcement on the radio that the prosecutor, Oswald Pirow, had died suddenly from a stroke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can get myself down,” Hall reported over the radio, gasping audibly for breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Montag stood trying to make himself feel the shock of the quiet statement from the radio, but nothing would happen. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in his parents' sitting room, and we were listening to the family's new radio while I quizzed him for a geometry exam neither of us thought was important. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why he had hidden a case of them and the radio in the old temple. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“No. My mother is Evangelical. She doesn’t like the radio, unless it’s preachers.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she picks up the remote control for the shelf radio, punches it, and the room fills up with graceful music, Mozart or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Manuelito was my partner in the radio room that day. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure of him becomes visible in the kitchen, but this time he comes out the front door with the radio in one hand and a bottle in the other. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I flick on the radio, desperate for noise to fill my ears. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother heard the report of D day on our ancient radio and walked up to the crab house to tell me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I have interviews with radio and TV stations, and newspapers and podcasts are interested too. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For billions of years they would have heard only weak and intermittent radio static caused by lightning and the trapped electrons and protons whistling within the Earth’s magnetic field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Refers to how human minds have to be living conduits to the Holy Spirit, akin to radio antennas. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They went in their houses and took everything they wanted to, the food and the radio batteries and all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelley began to dread the radio calls that came in requesting a Dust Off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could listen to the big radio, but I wasn’t allowed to do anything strenuous, including going outside to play, until I had been cleared by the doctor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she walked out in the rich parts of town every house had a radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Billy insisted mildly that everything he had said on the radio was true. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Continuing, he described the cabin in which he claimed that the Answer 221 foursome had stayed the night: twin beds, an old Coca-Cola calendar, a radio that wouldn’t play unless the customer deposited a quarter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But radio was actually the spies’ weak spot, because it allowed Elizebeth to find out what they were up to. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tomás is also eyeing the mobile radio system on the dashboard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Speaking above the deadly whirr of shrapnel, the snap of Japanese rifles, and the ping of bullets bouncing off our radio equipment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not sure what a clock radio was. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern radio telescopes are exquisitely sensitive; a distant quasar is so faint that its detected radiation amounts perhaps to a quadrillionth of a watt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her voice bright, but Beto knew she was thinking about the first time the radio had played. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marx still had her radio show in New York and took the opportunity to tape an interview with Neil Sheehan, a New York Times reporter who had been in Vietnam for three years. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he had got into the plane, he had intended to use the radio to call the police or anyone else who might be listening. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

“There’s no radio here,” he says, and shuts the door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The spotter plane was going to keep an eye out for the sharks and radio to the boat to help the captain get the right position.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The worst thing, though, was that he had turned the radio on and was listening to country and western music! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba spent many hours with him, first in front of the crystal set, and then, with the battery-operated radio, awaiting the miracle of the distant, anonymous voice that gave them contact with civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two police officers were strolling toward them, a man and a woman on the beat, in their white summer shirtsleeves, with their radios and their batons and their suspicious eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after Daddy died, she would cry to almost every song that came on, and I wished she would just keep the radio off. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Atop Queen Anne Hill, ruby-red lights on radio towers winked on and off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They merely want him to fix this radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Another program came on the radio and she put her fingers in her ears. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"All you need is love," the radio wailed, as if it were hungry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The lamp on Dr. Roland’s desk cast a warm, buttery circle of light and, after turning the radio on low to the classical station in Boston, I settled on the couch with my French grammar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since it was Sunday I did not want to work; it was too rainy to fish or to take a walk as I sometimes did, and by then the radio stations had all gone off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There, with the radio off so its static would not disturb his concentration, he gazed out the open window at the town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio informed us the two American boxers would be paid five million American dollars each, from our treasury, for coming here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody at Base Camp stayed close by their radios throughout the day, anxiously awaiting word of his progress. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Heavens, no. I’m going to sing jazz on the radio and make heaps of money. Then, when I’m thirty, I shall retire and live on a ranch in Ohio.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I know they » are. “Could you turn the radio up?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew, Buzz was talking on the radio, and I realized that it was “morning”—or, at least, eight hours had passed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, why don’t you get on that radio and call in one of your trigger-happy goons so’s 1 can find out what’s supposed to happen to me.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, but there was no radio, no sweeping, no call from my mother. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I listen today to the radio, and watch television, and read the headlines about the collective white man’s fear and tension concerning China. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes by the small clock built into die dashboard he tried to radio with a simple message: “I need help. Is there anybody listening to me?” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electric lights lit the windows, and inside we could sometimes see a family sitting down to listen to the radio together, or washing dishes in the kitchen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the radio comes back even louder than you remember it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But our sentence of confinement was suddenly forgotten when the tiny people I thought lived inside the radio set announced a list of names approved for return to Ramallah. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sitting by the radio at Harry Rantz’s unfinished home on Lake Washington, Joyce and the kids cheered too. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Koch had to adjust to writing radio scripts, just as Houseman had. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Driving back to the mobile home, Nali was humming, actually humming, along with the radio. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wind howled around the house the way it did on the radio for a ghost story, and Marly shivered in bed and covered herself clear to the eyes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He also understood that the radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of ordinary people, making them feel close and connected to him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His little sister, Jutta, with a quilt around her shoulders and a radio earpiece trailing from her left ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But the world of radio is not as savvy as the world of food or the furniture makers at Herman Miller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her laugh, when she’s with them, is refined and low, like a woman’s laugh on the radio, except when she forgets herself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once we get in the car, I’m sure Momma will keep on lecturing me, but instead she has the news radio on. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He shined his flashlight toward the camera as he clicked his radio. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There is no other sound, not of traffic or airplanes or trains or radios or the specter of Frau Schwartzenberger rattling the cage of the elevator. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Driving away from the school, Kathy caught the news on the radio. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Inside I found this radio wrapped in shredded newspapers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls her age could speak and write English and they knew the names of presidents, astronauts, and radio and movie personalities, who lived below the top of the world. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio, a man with a soft deep voice is singing telling us to have ourselves a merry little . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leibowitz sits in an armchair reading the paper, listening to the radio. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They stir his blood, call him to duty, make his legs long to leap away from the table, away from the radio, and run down to the inner city to join the marchers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

These inexpensive radios could only be tuned to radio stations approved by the Nazi Party. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he wondered if she returned all of his presents for cash, the way she had with a radio she’d been given at a school picnic. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a radio—maybe even television—so they knew what was happening. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hunter called his assistants on the radio. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his functioning ear, in the radio, in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t hear back—the freezing and reheating was more than the radio could take, and they weren’t able to use it again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The f-holes are spindles of his pipe smoke on Sunday evenings by the radio. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The town I live in isn’t small, and there are radio, TV, and newspaper people, all of whom will be presenting stories and writing articles for the next day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I told him how much I missed Jackie, who knew all the words to nearly every song on the radio and would french braid my hair and share her nail polish with me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That reminds me—she keeps the station on her car radio set to one of those oldies stations. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early radio system used by aviators to find their way when they couldn’t see the ground was called “radio direction finding.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I wondered what was happening, there was so much noise and shouting going on and a radio was blaring. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But hiding on the staircase, Luke suddenly felt like the radio was as loud as an entire orchestra, like the smell of baking bread could fill three counties. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Each of us knew only too well that listening to the foreign radio and spreading the news was punishable by death,” said Henry Metelmann. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a while after he left, I sat in the living room reading the newspaper and listening to the radio. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He jerked his chin toward a pale man with watery blue eyes who crouched over a radio microphone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they waited to be sent out, word came over the radio that King had just been killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Part of my job involved poring over scripts for our clients’ TV and radio ads, making sure they didn't violate Federal Communications Commission standards. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They had been hearing isolated reports from the radio and others who had stayed in the city, and they were all relieved they had eschewed shelter there; they had known it would turn out poorly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of driving that car: The AM/FM radio on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was listening, and jotting in my notebook, as press, radio, and television people called, all of them wanting the Muslim reaction to the quoted attacks of these black “leaders.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the future we may have telescopes in the Earth’s orbit, around toward the other side of the Sun, in effect a radio telescope as large as the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course,” he said, reaching for his radio. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the radio, Sly and the Family Stone are singing "Family Affair," the song turned up because it's my mother's favorite, the one she plays again and again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barchwic on the second floor, singing along with the radio. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers, radio broadcasts, and conversations everywhere were full of stories about Germany and Adolf Hitler, Germany's leader, or Führer. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A Tupac song on the radio makes up for our silence. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I had been listening to music on the radio—Mom had finally figured out I liked the country- western station—and I was in a good mood. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“He only wanted me to fix a radio.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The music was suddenly interrupted by an anniversary radio broadcast from Adolf Hitler. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the radio, hearts were pounding. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was only then that Diana realized there was one person not huddled around the radio or looking for something to help them get out of the building: Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I kept telling her, “You’ll be ready as a radio, ready as a radio.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The 301 stands for January 30, the day Hitler became our leader. Thanks to the Führer, every German can afford a new radio. All of Germany can tune in the Führer." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The music on the car radio switched from Sabbath to AC/DC to Zeppelin. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as operators learned the truth, they reassured callers that the crisis was just part of a radio show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘Ten dollars a week would buy about fifteen fried chickens. Or five pairs of shoes or five dresses. Or installments on a radio.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They listened in on the radio as some ten thousand people poured into the streets and marched up and down Kabul’s government district. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

—Yeah, but I still like what I hear on the radio better than what they put in this poetry book. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was playing the “Blue Danube” waltz. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the whole time Dallas kept right on singing with the song on the radio. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Olanna nodded to the High Life music from the car radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the way, we listen to the radio for a few minutes before Dad punches it off. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got in my car, and to my delight the radio came on as soon as I turned the ignition. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But that radio announcement interested those guys, too. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third were told that while they listened to the taped radio editorial they should nod their heads vigorously up and down. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly tuned the radio to a country station, and we worked. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then the weeks went by and the radio stations went off, one by one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could follow from what other people said or from the radio or TV later on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the radio commentator's horrified voice as he watches the passenger airship explode into flames. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The half-moon-shaped radio with brass knobs sat on a round mahogany table. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t have a television up there, they don’t have a radio. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun could see the activity outside—soldiers talking urgently to each other and on radios. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The technicians set up a makeshift radio studio around his bed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man on the radio was laughing about something, then said, “It’s just unbelievable,” and even though the announcer was talking about news, it seemed like he was talking about Grandpop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo brought the bottle and they sat in the living room, the radio turned low and the aroma of Ugwu’s soup in the air. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few inmates were still out but, much more ominous, Wickersham was now at Robinson’s end gate, talking into his radio. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief radio officer gave the wireless operator a command. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"I heard the commissioner on the radio," the man leans back to tell us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Soon they were sending hundreds of radio messages every day, tapping them out in the dots and dashes of Morse code. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The man and the woman and the books and the rain recede until there is only the radio and its tangle of wires. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the radio, the newscaster talked about submarines, torpedoes, and a place called Korea, where Puerto Rican men went to die. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The radio hums to life; its dim amber light casts an eerie glow in the darkness. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Any society still more backward would not have radio astronomy at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listen to Karin and Ilse’s radio, getting the Polish broadcasts on the news of the war, which is still going on in other places but not for us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just turn off the radio,” he ordered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nightfall they were depending almost entirely on radio navigation, counting on people far away to relay their location to them in radio messages. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

From a distant radio I heard the desolating music of a dance orchestra. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what if his radio’s broken and he’s out there starving to death?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The radio man come into tune, hollering, “—almost ten years serving as the Field Secretary for the N-double-A-C-P. Still no word from the hospital but wounds are said to be—” “Who?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Turn the rover's radio on and leave it on. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had little commerce with local people, but being avid radio listeners they could report news and politics from all parts of the nation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister had gotten into a fight with Ray in the car over the radio, so she was standing much farther off. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“They’ll radio down reinforcements for sure. I don’t want to be trapped into fighting on that river.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the radio, with the pauses and the strains of the crowd noise, it was hard to tell exactly what was happening. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We was in lockdown at the time, and it came on the radio at about five o’clock in the morning. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We keep the radio in case there’s trouble—serious trouble. Then at least we can call for help.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Sherpa pulled his radio from inside his down jacket, made contact with Ingrid Hunt at Base Camp, then handed the walkie-talkie to Fischer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Just when you think you can't lose any more freedoms, the Nazis find another to take away. Now it's against the law to listen to foreign radio." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

These young people showed an indifference toward the war, disrupted youth service obligations, and listened illegally to foreign radio broadcasts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to think that it was really helpful to lie in bed, listening to the radio and calling out weather reports. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We’d have to get the use of the radio transmitter somehow; then hide out for at least eight days, with the Sarf alerted...Not much chance.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He had a small transistor radio that he listened to in the morning while he was in the shower. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was with them, but they had me carrying a rifle, not a radio. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left arm dangled out, slapping the door in time to music blaring from the car radio. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t agree with the radio announcers who described Little Rock as a nice, clean Southern town, a place where my people and whites got along peacefully. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the radio and in the newspapers agreed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember coming home that night and finding Hassan in the kitchen, listening to the radio. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Though what G’ma could need an old radio for, he’s not sure. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

A slim woman with dark hair, Marx was the host of “Patricia Marx Interviews,” a weekly radio show in New York City. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Foreign radio! How could we listen to foreign radio? We haven’t had a short-wave radio for thirty years, since the Japanese invaded. Fan’s lying!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s been a coup,” Master said, and gestured to the radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave the radio on. I know you don’t want to miss anything,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A little at a time, she told him about the night after Beto fixed the radio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Attempts to make radio contact with Hall later that night and the next day went unanswered. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A full symphony orchestra was swelling out of the radio; their eldest sister Gwen was slicing onions and singing; their mother was bent broad-beamed and red-faced over an oven. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he left the plane running, holding altitude, and kept trying the radio. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached across me to get to the wireless black radio sitting on the other side of his desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually Mom stopped chatting and switched on some boring talk radio station for the rest of the hour drive home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was class treasurer, an assistant librarian, a member of the radio club, and he appeared on the honor roll every year that he attended the school. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He put his tiny radio to his ear again. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio and the lights in the house were turned off. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” I say, the hairs on my arms so keen, I could pick up radio signals with them. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It could be like a good luck charm,” Grandma agreed, the church music playing low on the radio. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of the country’s thirty million homes had a radio, about double those with a telephone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I heard about it on a radio play once, at Chen’s noodle shack. You get bounty for helping someone out.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He just turns up his portable radio, and starts singing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

While the other children play hopscotch in the alley or swim in the canal, Werner sits alone in his upstairs dormer, experimenting with the radio receiver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sandy Sanders is mentioned at least three times, but yesterday it was all the radio show host would talk about. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When I move closer I discover he’s listening to the radio. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He would sit at the round table in the kitchen, humming along with the radio, shining the brass until it shone. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every day since then on the radio we heard about the need to end the evil and pernicious influences of the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure we’re all talking about the same aircraft?” the radio officer asked dubiously. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Rumor was that the mysterious painter struck in the dark of night, like the mysterious Shadow on the radio show. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to use this time to make my own notes on the radio interview yesterday—as a kind of backstop in case the actual broadcast doesn’t match up with what v.L. remembers of it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He leans back in his seat with a sigh, fiddling with the radio’s dial. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

And Chester was news on radio and television. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her interests broadened and she listened intently to the radio, captivated by the political and financial stories, which failed to engage me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I turned off the plastic radio and stared at the crinkle-stiff paper, how the words were faded from being outside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing is they all got radios now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio hummed with the faint warble of the gospel hour program. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our old radio with the green eye has vanished, and a new, blond one has appeared, in a smooth unomamented cabinet that holds a long-playing record player as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t stop until a cab driver, who had been listening to the radio broadcast, told them it was just a play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Besides the oldies playing low on the radio, there was a buzzing coming from the door every few seconds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There’s a footstep, a pause, then a crackling like the kind of static on the radio that my brother says comes from outer space, then another pulse, a gasp of air sucked in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She put her ear closer to the radio. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Bobby would read and listen to music and the news on BBC radio. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sidewalk radio was the popular phrase for the word on the street. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"The rover currently parses the signal into bytes, then identifies the specific sequence the Hab sends. That way, natural radio waves won't throw off the homing. If the bytes aren't right, the rover ignores them." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all of them together he had bought a radio and put it on the table by the window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I'm thinking of making a little jacket for my clock radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But even without our expurgated radio broadcast, we had learned what the authorities did not want us to know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope another group of young people can do the radio show. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He also had a radio for communicating with the state team back in Milagro or down at Dona Luz, and with the helicopter once it was up and flying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer had forty pounds of TBX radio to hide behind and I needed to get to cover as fast as I could. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there’s a lull in the conversation and Ben reaches for the radio knob, I say, “Metaphysical I Spy!” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a radio was blaring Bangladesh’s national anthem. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

From a caretaker who had a radio, we also learned that news reporters from the outside world had begun to take notice of the Lost Boys. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote about the announcers on radio stations, with their accents so fake and so funny. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the towels lay people in bathing suits, surrounded by picnic baskets, paper bags, canvas totes, blaring radios and coolers full of ice and drinks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio, the voice had become firmer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he picks up Werner’s radio and sets it back down without commenting, Werner feels the ceiling slip lower, the walls constrict. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sat in the front seat but didn’t dare touch the radio. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He curses his leg, he curses the world, but he curses in a lovely English accent which he got from the radio, the BBC. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The reception had little static, as if the radio waves understood the importance of the speech. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I pulled up outside of my house, Augustus clicked the radio off. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A man and his daughter enjoy a radio program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled a radio from his belt and chattered into it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His mind shapes itself around the problem, disorder becomes order, the obstacle reveals itself, and before long the radio is fixed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She diligently listened to the radio from the time she was old enough to turn it on and mimicked what she heard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then I’d listen to them in simulcast on the radio, and they would all have black American accents. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now all he had to do was rewire the radio, send a message, and wait for his contact to arrive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Under the beats from the radio he could hear Tony’s white Air Jordans pounding down the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Someone must have a radio—the fire brigade, if one remains, or the resistance, or the Americans hurling missiles at the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jangbu, upon learning over the radio that Chen was in a bad way, hurried down from the South Col to assist with his evacuation down the fixed ropes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She laid it atop the radio, pulled up a chair, and started to listen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They asked how I had got out of Pulefen Farm and into Karhide, and they asked the destination and intent of the code message I had sent on their radio. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His job was to listen to American radio newscasts and translate them from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We had no way to advertise we were in trouble, no radio to call the Coast Guard, no flares. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why you not go to the Dominican Republic and speak on radio? Dominican radio reach here in Haiti.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn on the radio, sing at the top of my lungs, turn it off again. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“We are in contact with one of your towns across the dead sea. Have you listened on your radio?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, lucky for you she’s not on the radio too much anymore.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Up and down the street transistor radios clicked on and hummed into the sour air. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking turns, they carried the big PRC-77 scrambler radio, which weighed 30 pounds with its battery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio told us we were in the eye of Donna, the still and frightening calm in the middle of the revolving storm. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As inventor of more than one thousand radio effects, Nichols had created space-travel and alien sounds for the Buck Rogers radio show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She tries to imagine him hunched somewhere, his fingers twisting the dials of a phantom radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My parents were sitting at the kitchen table huddled around a radio, oblivious to the fact that the sun had set and that most of the house was now dark and full of shadows. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When we got up, Uncle Stanley was leaning against the refrigerator and staring intently at the radio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I made us a late breakfast, and we spent the rest of the day napping, playing cards, or listening to the radio in the living room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I listen to the radio, scour the Tribune, wait anxiously for the mail drop, and devour Dutchy’s letters when they come, scanning quickly for news—is he okay? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But the Coast Guard’s radio network was still up and running, and it continued to intercept encrypted messages on the airwaves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As I heard the news, I remembered instantly the day the war had begun, Caroline and I standing hand in hand before the radio. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dark blue on the outside, cream and brown on the inside, and has my sleeping bag and pillows and a radio I’d listen to as I went to sleep at night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Our radio communicators went dead almost immediately. Probably an electromagnetic pulse device. But I’ll get us back to camp. Give me the Holo.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I have a TV that needs time to warm up, a phone that almost never rings, and a fridge that buzzes like a radio. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The first few rows are reserved for friends and radio stations. It’s a rip-off, but what can you do?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lawes wrote five nonfiction books in all; he also did radio broadcasts and contributed articles to magazines. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The platoon leader called in artillery, whispering the map coordinates over his radio. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She stopped, held the radio like a microphone, and began to sing the words at the top of her lungs, moving around as if she was on a stage. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Luke snapped off the radio and bolted for the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whole way to school my mom flips between the oldies and the Christian radio station. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The radio has just announced that Algiers has fallen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even after the men grew bored and returned to listen to the truck’s radio, Ruby stayed by the field, thinking about that damp earth, those fragile beansprouts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In radar astronomy, radio waves are transmitted by a telescope on Earth, strike, say, that hemisphere of Venus that happens to be facing the Earth, and bounce back. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be wonderful to do this with a radio. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light veers behind him and illuminates the capsized workbench, the crushed case of their radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He immediately reported this to Pim, who went to the private office, tuned the radio to a German station and locked the door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Soviet aircraft began to be fitted with radar equipment in 1942, but pilots and radio engineers weren’t fully capable of using it until 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had supplied them with hand-held short-wave radios that operated on a military band. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth twists the dial, tunes in a Nazi-approved station, then snaps off the radio and stows it back in the closet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother shouted as she raced to the radio, turning the volume up. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The counter, faces, the booths and tables, the radio in the corner, whirring fans on the ceiling—all seemed to become very faint and still. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kathy glanced at her now, sitting in the passenger seat playing with the radio. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We fastened our radio to a big palm tree and I cranked it up while Bill put on the headphones and picked up the microphone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spooky funeral music keeps playing on the radio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Carl knew all this stuff because he listens to the police radio, plus a lot of those police and firemen hung out together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Marie’s in the office finishing the part-time drivers’ cashout receipts, smoking a long menthol cigarette, and listening to a hard rock radio station. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Shin was bewildered by much of the reporting about North Korea on the radio. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a flare gun! I haven’t got a radio. The flare lets them know we’re here, if they don’t hear us buzzing them and put the lights on for us.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The radio station is tuned to the news, which is unexpected. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We listened to the news on radio and heard about peace talks in Paris. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job was to work in Mission Control and to talk on the radio with the crew, relaying necessary information to them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began her sound effects career collaborating with her husband, Arthur Nichols, who invented the first sound machines for radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They take off into the darkness, and Ananda and I sit in silence, listening to the radio. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We need a radio dictator, just as the movies, baseball have.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The crowd set fire to the radio station, destroying it and the newspaper offices housed in the same building. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were both sitting in a room where we’d read together, listened to the radio, where he’d played with me when I was a little boy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The madrina radios ahead to report how many mi grants are aboard and where they are hidden so agents will know which cars to target when they stop the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The first refugees had come with carpets and armchairs, radios, Victrolas, lampstands, dressers, spreading them out before the harbor, under the open sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I rushed home from school every day to sit by the radio for hours listening to the romantic tales of women with names like Mariana and Sofía, and men such as Armando and Ricardo. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My daddy is not home much, but when he does come home everything is one wonderful bamboche: fine nights full of guitar and radio, the smell of fry food, the fire swallow of clairin. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would fix himself a TV dinner, open a Coke, and sit on his cot listening to the radio. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of plates clanking in the kitchen downstairs, the radio playing, meant evening. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

No sound could be heard except now and again a dim, far crackle from the radio set. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had long been intrigued by the piano, and I could hear a song on the radio and pick the notes out on the piano keys. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He put the radio on the night table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He sees Jutta’s crestfallen face, bent over the pieces of their broken radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Jabati was on the radio, and at some point he threw it against the wall and walked into his room. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One final manifestation: Before the advent of radio, TV, and film, musicians, athletes, etc., could develop loyal local audiences since they were the best that most of these people would ever see. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Doyle was yelling into the radio that the choppers were late. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout, her conversation with Kat about The Taker plays in her head like a radio turned down low. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Of the millions of stars that may mark the location of advanced civilizations, we have so far examined by radio no more than thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits there for nearly an hour, and the radio seems to fade out more than anything else. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They studied each other’s eyes, you know, like they had antennas and were sending radio signals to each other. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next came the driver’s radio call, and within minutes, a policeman entered the bus and arrested her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Elegant mahogany furniture, a linoleum floor covered with throw rugs, a radio, a fancy lamp, everything first class. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Aimee looked at the clock radio glowing next to her bed: 5:31 in the morning. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As winter settled in, the German radio blared out urgent appeals for Winter Help, a program to aid the soldiers and German families living in German-occupied territories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The builder made a Hang on a mo gesture and switched off the radio. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And none of us watches television or listens to the radio,” said Kate, “because of our minds’ unusually powerful love of truth, right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke to local and national TV channels, radio, and newspapers—I spoke out to anyone who would listen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sirens went off every day, screamed like hell, and people went down into cellars and listened to radios there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked at the radio, tested it, fiddled some more. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The radio said that traffic conditions were impossible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This harsh reverie was interrupted by the happy music of Radio Bantu on my car radio. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced through the glass to see the man seated in a chair, his ear close to his small radio. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the news that Biafra had captured the midwest and Biafran troops were marching to Lagos came over the radio, he felt a strange mix of relief and disappointment. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to teach them a lesson about trusting everything on the radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In every radio or television appearance, in every newspaper interview, I always made it crystal clear that I was Mr. Muhammad’s representative. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older girls like musical competitions, radio gymnastics, a regular spot called Seasonal Tips for Those in Love that makes the younger children squeal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

With this setup, she was able to communicate by radio with her KGB bosses in Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

You start on one side of the mountain, and it’s dark, and the radio is loud. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shin struggled, though, to make sense of most of what he heard on the radio. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” he said, looking back down at the radio, then back up at me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“C’mon down and listen to Hope on the radio, hey,” Clay said, keeping his distance but trying to be friendly over it. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

By the way I heard a radio interview by the new Commissioner of Parks in New York City. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t introduce himself nor turn on the radio nor talk on his phone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In the back of the aircraft there was a separate compartment for the tail gunner, whose other job was to operate the radio. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That’s when the blood came from the two holes, and the driver called for help on the bus radio. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon Papers showdown was now the lead story on the radio and television news. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Despite Houseman’s skill in writing short stories and theatre scripts, he had no experience with radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The radio said a boy had been killed, on a skateboard, then I got a call and...and...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Thank God for the Big APE radio in Jacksonville that sang to Ben with the same dispassion it sang to every other car in the Shack. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confirming the radio listeners’ worst fears, a downcast voice lamented, “They wrecked the greatest country in the world.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had read some of his speeches, and had heard fragments of others on the radio and on television, so I associated him with ferocity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Orbital flights—which sent the astronaut on one or more ninety-minute circuits around the globe, passing out of visual and radio contact with Mission Control, flying over unfriendly territory—upped the ante by a factor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She comes all the time now that I have a radio for them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Is there a law? Show me the law, and I'll turn off my radio." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was a magical place where I daydreamed for hours as I listened to music or radio shows. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were on vacation, we had a little more family time, a little more time to read newspapers, play chess or monopoly, and listen to the radio. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stretches the alcoholic radio out and he takes it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The news plays on the radio, but after the third loop, I don’t think any of us are listening. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I would attend Town Meeting, which I had heard over the radio. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was cooking ... when they made the announcement on the radio,” recalled Georgia Gilmore. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And the Coast Guard had the most advanced radio interception network in the Americas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, my finger hit the on switch for the radio. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted the radio announcers to be silent too, but they were not. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the patients near the radio at the other end of the ward let out a shout. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Wilmuth, would you please tell the radio audience as much as you remember?” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But I also remembered Momma’s voice floating out of the radio. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When word of Major Duluth’s death was radioed back to the field, Captain Black responded with a surge of joy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That little attic bursting with magenta and aquamarine and gold for five minutes, and then the radio switches off, and the gray rushes back in, and her uncle stumps back down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At lulls in the game he would stretch his legs out, twine his hands across his lap, and stare at the radio as it spoke to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After Luna, his radio expert, was captured, Sargo’s reach was even further diminished. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the first hint that radio time isn’t moving at the same speed as reality, the announcer says that the Chicago observation occurred at 7:40 p.m., Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When he was three, he would listen to the radio on Sundays as the announcer read the comics aloud, and he would follow along on his own until he had taught himself to read. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It radios all the scientific information it acquires back to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he returned the radio he had borrowed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the radio segment ended I knew I had found my guide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The radio beacon had been functioning all day, and they had received confirmation signals from the ship. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Late at night, he’d crank up the radio in his hotel room, lie down on his bed and nurse a glass of Jack Daniel’s, and sleep fitfully until dawn. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If we should receive a radio message from an extraterrestrial civilization, how could it possibly be understood? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get in touch with my mom,” I said as the radio whizzed through varieties of static. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The village men were forced to carry supplies: guns and mortars, shells, radio equipment. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night wind in my hair, their indistinct talk, the songs on the radio all mingled and blurred in my dreams. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of songs on the radio about hippie girls with flowers in their hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to details of their fights—the punching, the kicking, and the cursing—-the way my father listened to radio broadcasts of boxing matches of the American heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, his biggest hero. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

AM news fills his ears as soon as he turns on the ignition, startling him; his father had always been particular about turning off the radio at the end of a drive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would take off from Terminal Island, help each other find the schools of sardine, share nets and radio equipment— competing and cooperating at the same time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, she complained about how loud the teenagers play their radios and, oh, yes, she invited us to Christmas dinner.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall that I was sitting on the edge of a chair in our still-unpacked kitchen, holding my huge body together with both hands as we listened to the radio. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put on sweatpants and a sweat shirt and went downstairs to the kitchen and flipped on the radio and tuned it to a rock-and-roll station and popped a Diet Coke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the radio loudly as he passed exit after exit, casually noting the number on each glowing sign as he sang along and snapped his fingers wildly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I leaned over and turned up the volume of the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I would tell my hosts in those rural Hearths and villages who I was; most of them had heard a little about me over the radio and had a vague idea what I was. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Master took the radio and tuned it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no one down there, since they were all listening to the radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We exit through the gift shop, where I catch Mateo singing along with the song on the radio. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So, before they commit millions of dollars to signing an artist, record companies will spend a few thousand dollars to test his or her music first, using the same techniques as the radio stations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, Bobby made a habit of listening to the radio all day, flipping up the dial and back. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My alarm went off at seven exactly, switching over to the radio, just as Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” was starting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, have you heard the new song? It’s been getting some radio time. It’s a duet with BrentChisholm. I sing it with him during the shows.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She reached out, in a sudden jerky move, and pushed the radio off the table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was sheltered, and quite big enough, and the radio could provide nice background music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I closed my eyes, I could hear the laughter and radio drifting up to me, taste the spice of chili and wood smoke on the air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The feeling I had happened when Sam told Patrick to find a station on the radio. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her old life seemed as distant as the radio programs she listened to, or President Roosevelt talking about the war. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I baked a cake, which was lopsided but tasty, and Silly and I spent the whole day calling ourselves the Shirondas and singing and dancing wildly to the radio. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Chinks of late afternoon light stole into the room through the curtains and fell on Ammu’s tangerine-shaped transistor radio that she always took with her to the river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the radio in the attic. I did not mention it. Does Madame Manec know about it?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He remembers lamplit hours in Monsieur Hebrard’s bookshop listening to the first radio he ever heard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At home, or driving my car, I practiced until I could interrupt a radio or television host and introduce myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They surfed the radio dial trying to lock on to the artificial moon’s beeping, its sound like an otherworldly cricket. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the Odyssey, she heard President Bush’s weekly radio address. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m sending a radio message through to look up your medical records. In the meantime I’ll just let you stay with the squad. You’ll be okay.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They radioed Gene Johnson to tell him that the last monkey was dead. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s too quiet, so I reach for the radio at the same time he does, and our hands touch. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The police patiently informed them all that any rumors were due to a radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I have to admit, you were the first one with musical genius. But we can always turn on the radio if we want that.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Go home now? We haven’t even got our clothes. And your radio is in the violin case. We’d have to go home absolutely empty handed.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the aviator Charles Lindbergh, perhaps the most famous man in America, would claim in a speech that Jews had too much influence over “our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If Martians attacked and carried out that much destruction, she reasoned, they’d create “so much static that a radio program could not even be heard.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s radio silence until the next morning, when Ethan texts a selfie to—surprise, surprise—the group chain. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Day 207 Boom problem solved, but failure of main radio transmitter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in a hammock under the shade of the mango, guava, and orange trees and tuned his radio to the BBC news. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The battle was reported over the radio throughout the nation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and radio stations all over the region were flooded with calls demanding information. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed his jacket in the backseat, and drove with the top down and the radio blaring. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But she’d already learned Morse code and a bit about radio transmission as part of her training for her pilot’s “A” license. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

One time, we heard on the radio that Mr. Mackie from the garage got arrested for stealing, and she said the police had the wrong man. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The pilot’s voice came over the boat’s radio in a fog of static. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

See, when you’re close to someone you get a feeling, and by me and my son being real tight, when I heard it over the radio I just had this premonition. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cate waited until the Rolling Stones had finished out their song before turning down the radio. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If he’d been listening to the radio more regularly, he would have realized Friday was a national holiday and prepared for the possibility of no food line. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One morning three years after I’d moved to New York, I was getting ready for class and listening to the radio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we were to receive a radio message we would know that there would be at the very least one thing we could talk about: radio astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are Muslim newspapers, magazines, radio stations, publishers, websites, apps, and YouTube channels. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Houseman later admitted, “That was the only naughty thing we did that night. Everything else was just good radio.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He called German radio and newspaper reporters to a meeting and told them that he wanted a free press. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the right music on the radio, I could just see myself singing in front of a huge audience. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And radio stations will play only a small number of songs that have been proven by market research to appeal—immediately and overwhelmingly—to their audience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He drummed lightly on the top of the radio with his wand, muttering random words under his breath. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Advanced civilizations may have graduated far beyond radio for their own communications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all stayed and shared the radio for a while. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim turned the radio down in the car, and Black popped his head out from under the hood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get you inside. Somebody’s radio, that’s all it is. Move it now.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electric light glows from the radio behind the curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After we had our asopao with plantain dumplings, we curled against one another on the mattresses and slept, lulled by the crackling radio inside and the steady gusts of the hurricane outside. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You can have the radio for a few more minutes,” Naomi said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other people agreed that the trustworthiness of radio had been damaged. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We listened to the radio while the cops asked Dad why the van wasn’t insured, and why he’d removed the seats and seatbelts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The man on the radio station, fighting to survive, saw people that were desperate and selfish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Any technology able to detect radiation of any wavelength would fairly soon stumble on the radio part of the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, her and my dad got in a huge fight. I mean huge. She threw a clock radio at his head, so he beaned her with a mango.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramsey Lewis was on the radio and I really got into it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conclusion was even more blunt this time: “Kenna, as an artist, and his songs lack a core audience and have limited potential to gain significant radio airplay.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When you don’t have a newspaper or radio to give you weather bulletins, watch the birds and animals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, a neighbor who lived a few doors down from my uncle s house was listening to a pirate radio station that accused the new government of committing crimes against civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And all the sterile wonders of movies and television and radio will fail to wipe it out—a living man in communication with a living audience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as the first radio goes on in the morning, Salty, the pit bull Akbar keeps in his shop, wakes up and starts howling. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did nothing, except reach his left hand around to turn on the radio without even looking at it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jairo understood as he drove that he needed to stop listening to crazy guys yell at each other on sports radio and start thinking about something that had consequences that were real and important. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Now what the hell did she do to my radio?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I lie down on the cot, the paper pillowcase crackling in my ears like radio static. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The two of us in the car, laughing, the radio on, the sudden jar of the crash, the snap of the head, the blood, the sirens. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kabuo stood at the wheel in his cabin with a cup of green tea on the table behind him and flipped once more through the radio channels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’ll turn on the radio and listen to a talk program from Boston or New York. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell whispered tensely, “I’ve been trying to get him by radio but he doesn’t answer. The radio circuit is probably out.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Late each night, he opens the hall closet and takes out the Rola radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the man with the transistor radio and broom left Room 5, Ralph squeezed under the door and ran into the next classroom. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to believe the poverty the radio commentators keep talking about. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As William hunkered by the radio, Norway fell to the Nazis, and the British Army struggled to regroup after its defeat at Dunkirk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Is that why your test asked whether we liked television and radio?” asked Reynie. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he jumped to his radio that had crackled into life as the shores of Iwo Jima burst into flame. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the tropical-fish tank, which was mounted on top of the 1927 Freshman radio, he abruptly stooped, taking his cigar out of his mouth. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the days that the radio played Ammu’s songs, everyone was a little wary of her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oblivious to the chatter on the trucker’s two-way radio, Enrique falls asleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My little brother, Teddy, lets out a war whoop when Mom’s AM radio announces the closures. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the drive was completely silent except for the soldiers’ radios and the kids that were crying toward the back of the bus. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Herr Siedler stands in front of the radio and seems about to pat him on the head. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Oshiro was assigned responsibility for the radio and told he could hand it off to one of the Vietnamese they were training, as long as he kept an eye on it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I told him about the radio station, and that I had read the play over and over again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Television and radio networks throughout the Soviet Union interrupted regular broadcasts to announce the result. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They all staring at the big radio in the middle a the table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As he did he saw the briefcase and radio. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

What astonished me even more—a telegram had been sent to every New York City newspaper and radio and television station. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another country music song came on the radio. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I stayed in the car, listening to the radio and watching like two investigators. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Kathy had the minivan’s radio on and heard Mayor Nagin repeat his instructions for residents to leave the city, but she noted that he had stopped short of a mandatory evacuation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But I hadn't seen them taking any real steps—like making some tapes and calling up a radio station to ask for a few minutes on the air. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

My dad reached out and turned off the radio, which was very unusual for him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hurries over to the radio and adjusts the dial. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ernie and Merle became steadily more enthralled with electronics, especially the emerging technology of radio transmission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They had heard on the radio that we were taking an alternate route. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would eat and then listen to some church program—there seemed always to be one on the radio—until it was time to go to bed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Beto stood a step from his father and ran his finger over the front panel of the radio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now he took off the radio’s back cover, revealing a tangle of tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He soon tired of chasing radio waves with his wire and ordered a short-wave radio with two enormous batteries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photographer turns up the radio and starts bossing the girls around. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa Hoffman, one of the seventh graders, starts roaming around and comes across a radio, right by the entrance doors. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After changing my clothes into warm, dry sweats, she switched the radio to an easy-listening station and turned the volume down low. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The VLA is able to resolve or discriminate fine detail in the radio regions of the spectrum comparable to what the largest ground-based telescopes can do in the optical region of the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her about Mom’s funeral, and how the colors all melted together like on summer days, and the radio on Abuela’s doorstep addressed to me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I was going to steal a car, it wouldn’t be an El Camino,” Toby said, reaching in and turning down the radio. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the radio inside the police car began to crackle and sputter, as if it had read his mind. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had two bunks, a toilet, a galley, no radio, plenty of books, a deck of cards, a chess set, and two thousand pounds of hash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They passed a law called Extraordinary Radio Measures, making it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fie thinks of the Frenchman’s radio program, of Heinrich Hertz’s Principles of Mechanics—doesn’t he recognize the thrill in Frederick’s voice? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On one sunny afternoon when she had just returned from her church-ladies meeting, she rushed in to listen to our old broken radio. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was off becoming a comedian, touring the country, playing shows in England, hosting radio shows, hosting television shows. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He always knew when to say the right thing—the news on the radio was getting pretty boring. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You play the radio beautifully,” she teased, and sure enough, they gave one another puzzled looks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonya put in a radio call to soldiers on the ground and told them that their Pe-2 was in trouble. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then, like usual, he turned the radio up and headed toward my school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sunday evening everyone, except Pim and me, was clustered around the radio, listening to the “Immortal Music of the German Masters.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My bewildered face is plastered all over the front pages, and even a guy from a radio show shows up and tapes a conversation with me in my lounge room. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

With that, Cabot Searcy turned onto the interstate and made his way to Little Rock, his radio turned up, his fingers snapping, his lips moving. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Somebody switched off the radio, and Saleem climbed back on his cycle seat. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I saw that the house lights were on, and as I approached the house I heard a radio blaring. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even tried to get on various radio and television quiz shows herself, hoping to bring home some money for being a successful contestant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No one noticed; they worked for a public radio station, in the fund-raising department, and were surrounded by people who spent all day on the phone, soliciting pledges. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There are two or possibly three other men up in the cockpit, negotiating with the control tower over the radio. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In our living room, the music was dying down as the radio station announced two a.m. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Heard about you on the radio on my rounds this morning,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Olanna sat down; she liked the honesty, the firm vowels, and the quiet assuredness of the voice on the radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had heard on the radio that Korean churches in China sometimes helped defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When we get back, I tromp up the stairs to our apartment wondering if Theresa’s family has a radio that works. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the earth reappeared, I could once more talk on my radio, and I found out from Houston that all was going well with Neil and Buzz. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the radio project, Houseman added writer and editor to his duties. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He adds that he has to turn off his car radio in order to concentrate in traffic. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Beside the bar what looked like a radio dial would, upon being turned, make the lighting throughout the house as mellow or as bright as the mood demanded. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday during the winter, when the opera was broadcast, they would sit clustered around the radio in the newsstand, straining to hear the music above the din of the subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listened to more radio applause as we finished the mango. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

CBS proudly advertised Orson Welles's radio program as “the brightest sensation of the drama season.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

No artifact of human technology, not even our radio transmissions, has had time, even traveling at the speed of light, to go 200 light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having no way to get word directly to anyone in Karhide, as mail would be read and telephone or radio listened to, I went for the first time to the Royal Embassy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Television and radio were flooded with the news. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I also heard, for the first time, the poet Dylan Thomas on the radio. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There's a flare of military music, and then Adolf Hitler's voice comes over the radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The radio went from news, to jazz, to rap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They fly without radio or navigation aids into weather that the bombers and fighters call “unflyable.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were told they could walk in the garden, play volleyball on the lawn, listen to the radio, eat and drink as much as they wanted. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his life his schoolmasters, his radio, his leaders talked to him about the future. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Underdowns’ house has soft red Persian rugs, chairs with matching ottomans, even a radio. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ask him about my radio and my vacuum cleaner!” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The radio is of dark varnished wood with a single green eye that moves along the dial as you turn the knob. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The radio crackled, and the woman’s voice said something about firefighters pulling another person out from the first floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The kitchen radio was playing an old classic on one of the Haitian stations. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Though I did make her give me control of the radio. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the day finally came, he drove us to the airport, the radio tuned to the American radio station, where Brenda Lee sang her regrets. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The street was quiet except for a radio that blared from behind a window with its shade pulled down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t yard officers on his shift have more than one radio among them? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we danced about four numbers, and then I turned off the radio. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The keys are in it. Any chance I can use your radio?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every word of dialogue is recreated. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left side I have a remote for the radio. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The population is barely one thousand, and the most remarkable thing about it seems to be that it’s known for its large number of TV and radio transmitter towers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I turn the radio off and the light back on, fish my prayer book out my purse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She has changed the radio station, and a Wagner opera now fills the flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"See you in a few, Commander," Watney radioed back. . . four . . . three . . . two . The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps and I listened to classical music and farm reports on the radio when we could pick up a station. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio crackled and popped as a weak signal struggled to get through. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It's a small luxury to have a radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

On July 16 a record sixty thousand people pressed into Hollywood Park to see Seabiscuit try for the Gold Cup, while millions more crowded around radio sets to hear NBC’s national broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

De la O stuck close to the commander, who fired off messages for de la O to relay on the radio. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he came in a few seconds later, to pick up the radio and check in with his best waterman friend, Kenny O’Leary. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an’ spoke in the radio, an’ it wouldn’ta cost me a cent because I was in the pitcher. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we never even used your radio. How can we face them at home? Without the radio and all. With nothing.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year I had chosen to give up the radio, and another, candy bars. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the sizzle of waffles on a griddle competed with the chirp of a radio. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The police radio was quiet as well; not much happened in Coconut Cove before dawn. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio blared, filling the back of the car with the sound of soft jazz. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

While waiting for the next course, she again took out of her bag a blue pencil and a magazine that listed the radio programs for the week. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They listened for ten minutes without moving, their heads down, their ears turned toward the radio. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They used her name as the call sign and Derek had shown Brian how to use the radio, the correct procedure in case of an emergency. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the big chair by the radio. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pupo, the head of the army, just wasn’t there to announce the liberation over the radio, and instead, Trujillo Junior has taken over, and it’s a bloodbath out there. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

On this day, she stood in front of the dining room cabinet and put the radio on the highest shelf she could reach, moving it around as she held a wire connected to it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Christmas carols were in the air; they issued from the radio of the four women and mixed strangely with Miami’s sunshine and the cries of the querulous, never thoroughly silent seagulls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the very young ones, those who had radios and listened to the news, those who sometimes went to town and talked with the union men, were able to follow his train of thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we were eating our breakfast, we were talking on the radio with our friends in Mission Control in Houston, Texas. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While driving to Kent, the news came on the radio—the guardsmen had opened fire at Kent State. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Alba heard the screams, the long moans, and the radio playing full blast. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie listened as the wireless operator made her first radio call, in German, as cool and crisp as if she’d been giving radio instructions to Luftwaffe bombers all her life. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Alba liked to sit with the cook at siesta time, listening to popular singing on the radio, especially the songs of the man she had met in the Japanese Gardens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy didn’t get onto television in New York that night, but he did get onto a radio talk show. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dark, he gathered his radio equipment, snuck out of town on a bicycle, and searched for a remote electrical pole. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would Welles be interested in having his own weekly radio program? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s been nothing on the radio or the TV news. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I used to talk to them on a two-way radio almost every day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The top was down and the volunteer’s heart was buoyed up; he sang along with the rock ’n’ roll on the radio. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when Hall arrived at Camp Two and learned of this, he immediately made some radio calls to find out why the plan had broken down. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have called up reporters and radio and television newscasters long-distance and asked them never to use that phrasing again, explaining to them: “All Muslims are number two—after Mr. Muhammad.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The public,” he said, “does not want a ‘spineless’ radio.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We sit in silence for a moment as the local radio station plays over the speakers and our feet brush up against each other. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There were a vintage subway turnstile and an antique telephone, the shell of a Bluebird radio, even the nose fin of a locomotive. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian, astounded, hauled her up into the plane and held her motionless on the floor in a double armlock while Hungry Joe radioed the control tower for permission to return to Rome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Once the fall radio season began in September, the pressure intensified. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But if you wanted to watch them in English, the original American audio would be simulcast on the radio. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To confirm the story, some phoned their local newspapers, radio stations, or the police. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

No sooner had we shut off the radio, untied it from the tree, and moved, than a Japanese mortar round landed behind us—right where we had been sending and receiving. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had brought his little radio to the sugarhouse to keep him awake in the night and to keep him company. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

I slept under there, and when I woke up the sun was shining, the 'Hallelujah Chorus’ was playing on the radio, and people were still dancing.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his street clothes as Al tried to find a better station on the little radio he had been bringing to the gym since Billy knew him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our illegal radio, turned too low to be intelligible, was broadcasting the news. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly went over to the old console radio and poured herself a glass of Early Times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stash the radio and candle under the sink behind the rolls of toilet paper. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the crew was setting up its floodlights on tripods, a Dayton, Ohio, radio station called, wishing to interview Mali colm X by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, someone has radioed for Shaan, because he’s standing there at the door to Henry’s apartments in an impeccable gray peacoat, dry and unmoved under a black umbrella. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Arise! Go forth! Walk!” shouted Titid on the radio, quoting Scripture again. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did an unschooled fanatic turn himself into a kind of radio god? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I heard that announcement on the radio, I could hardly speak. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I adjusted the strap of my radio over my shoulder and shook my head as I peered up at the mountain. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d never spend the money or listen to the radio, and the electric train would never trundle down its tracks in my room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They drove home and listened to the radio again, the five Imada girls and their parents. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed less likely that anyone would listen to these radios. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guys here at Norfolk get to listen to the radio. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

All 3 billion of us are being connected by telephones, radios, television sets, airplanes, satellites, harangues on public-address systems, newspapers, magazines, leaflets dropped from great heights, words got in edgewise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We left the radio on in case you woke up, so you’d know that we didn’t leave you.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That night David Alexander and a host of radio technicians arrived at Pollard’s hospital room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every night on his radio show, Fazlullah kept up his attacks, saying that girls who went to school were not good Muslims—that we would go to hell. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I immediately turn the radio to AM and set it for no station at all. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Still, he had told his mother not to worry and if he insisted on not using the radio, absolutely not using it... The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was tinny on the radio, but the strength came through. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at his watch, synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time by constantly updated radio signals. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He’d felt the ferocity of that storm, heard the desperate radio calls for help, seen Beck Weathers crippled with horrible frostbite. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

On his way to work on November 5, Shyam heard on the radio that someone had been set on fire on the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On Halloween morning, while Welles and Houseman were worrying about their futures in radio, Howard Koch got his first hint about the previous night’s chaos. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jordan turned the radio up loud and closed her door. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she thought it was the clock radio by her bed. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

L. N. Channing of the Agate Point radio transmitter station, addressed the defense commission meeting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no time to hide anything, but she reached over to the radio and clicked it off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was back outside, thirty floors up on a flat roof with a radio mast and a tall metal fence running around the perimeter. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But each rumor proved to be false and did nothing but add to the already intolerable anxiety and suspense my father and I were feeling as we read the papers and listened to the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t believe it was even him when he poked his head between the bucket seats and in a real authoritative tone told Faith to “turn off the radio.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was vain of his voice, had been a radio announcer for many years before getting into his present line of business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On the radio, the announcer reads public service classifieds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t expect the radio to work afterward. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Oxford-accented voice was surprisingly soft; it did not have the timbre that it did over the radio and it was a little theatrical, a little too measured. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’re listening to “The Jack Benny Show” on the radio, which is punctuated by singing commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She performed as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras and became immensely popular with radio audiences, appearing regularly on The Bell Telephone Hour, a classical program broadcast weekly over the NBC network. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was when I normally switch on my radio to listen to the shipping forecast. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every single time your father turns on the radio, I honestly think he expects to tune in on ‘It’s a Wise Child’ and hear all you children, one by one, answering questions again.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He looked at the ceiling, the red trim on the closet door, the bullhorn that hung over his bed, the radio station sticker on his door. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She told me things about the world that didn’t seem possible, not until we were able to pick up a radio station and a solemn voice bled through the speakers to confirm it all. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They write books and articles deploring it, fire off letters to the editor, and call in to radio talk shows with their criticisms and complaints. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Every radio and television interview the band had ever done. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Everyone’s had their radios on. My mother can’t move away from ours. She sits there and listens to everything and talks on the phone to people.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I decided to start with the annoyance closest at hand: an inmate’s illegal radio antenna. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. We’re curious, of course. We had no radio contact so far out in space. We’ll want to see Earth, no matter what.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the less desirable bedroom, because it is close to the kitchen and the living room, where people are awake and talking, and sometimes there is music on the radio. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

During a radio interview in Fort Lauderdale, one caller told him, referring to the boats of Haitian refugees fleeing the violence and poverty, “We can’t have Haitians coming into our country.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Immediately after George and his family of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, dialed the radio to The Mercury Theatre, a newsflash came on. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Deliberate listening to foreign radio stations...Willfully distributing newscasts of foreign radio stations...Conspiracy to commit high treason. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had left the radio behind back up in the campsite, thinking it would be in the way. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Others found out—from a friend, family member, police officer, or newspaper office—that they were tuned to a radio drama. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s chalked up on the assignment board in the radio room,” First Officer Lyons said. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We sat waiting for him at Camp Four with the radio on,” O’Dowd explained in an interview published in the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was playing something about going to San Francisco with flowers in your hair. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was our lifeline up in the mountains, and we listened to it constantly. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Even with the radio. My sisters are listening.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A slumped figure near the radio, which happened to be playing loud at the moment, finally roused himself to say, “What’s the charge?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the car, approaching their school, Nademah turned up the volume on the radio. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Liam reached over and switched on the radio, letting me choose the station. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But this session had been like hearing himself through a staticky radio. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs eventually turned the radio on, filling the quiet space with a report about America’s gas crisis and the drilling that was happening in Alaska as a result. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After poison gas killed the announcer, she switched the radio off. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

"And then we will take out the radio. In the meantime, we obey the law." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A sailor with a transistor radio blaring from his back hip pocket passed near Ben and Mary Anne. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were talking on a phone they made twice the number of errors as when they were listening to the radio. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I turned back to my work, made a check mark on my paper, and at full voice, began singing a tango that my mama switched off every time it came on the radio. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now that was so much bunk I am sure, because nobody in our village has a radio. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched her go, then turned her attentions back to the radio and the strange, beautiful mystery of wires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

George Kirk, another code talker who had seen combat on the Canal, had given me that advice about our bulky hand-cranked TBX radios. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a TV or radio, so perhaps he never learned how it ended himself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The platoon leader picked up the radio and called headquarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was serving Baby’s porridge when the deputy president spoke briefly on the radio, the voice understated, as if he were exhausted from the effort of saying, “The government is handing over to the military.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The radio isn’t working,” Briana said, trying to turn it on. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But the summer I am ten, funk is in every single song that comes on the cool black radio stations. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Guys who’d been sitting in cars listening to rock on the radio switched them off and slammed the doors behind them. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio in the living room crackled with bad news. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I later heard he was on the radio out there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Police can tell how fast a car is going by testing how light—in the form of radio waves—reflected off the speeding vehicle gets shifted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Our school was closed for the funeral, and my father and I sat in the kitchen all that day and listened to the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could hear music coming from the truck radio, Sam Cooke singing “Another Saturday Night,” then May calling across the yard to Rosaleen, something about getting the sheets off the clothesline. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tuned the radio to a station that played symphonies. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Across the ocean, at a German listening post, an erfasser, or a radio monitor, listened to the news and translated it from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Anyone speak German?” shouted the officer in charge of the radio room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We'd listen to Christmas music on the radio and hang ornaments, then sit on the sofa and lean back with our mugs and crumb-covered plates to admire our work. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Recordings of Mr. Muhammad’s speeches were now regularly being broadcast across America over small radio stations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recordings have made music accessible everywhere: TV, radio, CDs, Internet, video games, personal music players, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In my mind, all these people came to the rally because our summer camp helped to spread the word The idea of radio announcements, the Black Panther newspaper, and word- of-mouth hadn’t entered my mind. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the war, weather was classified information, but on Rass we didn’t need a city man on a radio to warn us of bad weather. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s quiet, except for the little radio on the counter, playing the gospel station. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

“They’re coming in!” one of the MPs shouted into his radio. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great ton-load of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the third time I asked, “Dad, why did you buy this record player? Don’t they have radio stations in Alabama?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said you can use a section of wire fence to pick up radio signals, so maybe the silver in a tooth can too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Right now, it’s all about exposure. Getting your name out there. Getting your songs on the radio. You’ll make more money in CD sales than you’ll ever make on the tour.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Henry candy bar when he suddenly stopped munching and listened to the tune the radio was playing. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The battery inside the radio is nearly dead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jennifer took off the back cover of the radio and examined the tangled inner workings. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sitting in Paris and watching my American movies, I think of the man with the transistor radio and feel the exact opposite of homesick. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father was at a meeting on Saturday evening, November 29, when the vote was finally held, and I listened to it over the kitchen radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Claudio sat down heavily, hunched over, head hanging, staring at the ground, listening to the horses nosing apart the hay, listening also to the quiet country and western strains from Marvin LaBlue’s radio. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart thumped the name “Armando,” whispered hoarsely as in the radio soap operas, and I willed him to look up and fall in love with me at first sight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He nudged Rick over to his parked, plainly marked police car; there, by police radio, he put in a call for someone to come pick up Polokov. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Bravo,” Claudio growled, standing there staring at the pack, the radio, the rifle, the hat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the things we found were the old two-way radios from when I was a baby. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The German army had taken everything—cars, petrol, radios, animals, food. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ken Scates huddled by the radio at his home in Odessa, trying to keep calm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to turn on the radio?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wash and Beto sat on the back steps with the radio between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground staff was by now equipped with radar, and the deputy chief navigator, Nina Slovokhotova, was able to update Tamara and Raya by radio to tell them where to find the German attack planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I tell Calvin, “Funny thing, I can sometimes hear her radio coming up out of the chute.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But soon he was back in the thirties and was searching the radio, listening for speeches from FDR. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It will not get hot enough to emit X rays, but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groom heard the conversation between Harris and Hall on his radio as he was descending the Southeast Ridge with Yasuko Namba, just above the Balcony. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Voice of America was reporting it, as was French radio, which Olanna translated: Tanzania was the first country to recognize the existence of the independent nation of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

From gamma rays to radio waves, all are equally respectable bands of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father touched the radio gently and turned the volume up until Nasser’s voice filled the world. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her mother hurriedly wrapped gold-rimmed goblets with newspaper and packed them into a scuffed leather suitcase, all the while listening to the warnings on the radio. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team inside the building maintained radio contact with Gene Johnson outside the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I listened to a news station on the car radio as I drove to work. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy turned the radio off; she didn’t want the kids to worry. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Most shine mainly in visible and infrared light; others are also brilliant sources of X-rays or radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It receives radio waves from the depths of space, focusing them onto the feed arm antenna high above the dish, which is in turn electronically connected to the control room, where the signal is analyzed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the whole point of this trip is to get a radio. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fixed the radio. Hey, you guys! I got a signal!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I asked, “Have you listened to the radio today?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I missed seeing Papá’s eyes water when he listened to Mexican music on the radio and hearing him repeat stories about Mexico when he was young. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And he told the dispatcher, “See if you can get Bruno on the radio. Where’s his car at anyhow?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunday after we went skating, Arturo asked to borrow the Toros' radio and we took it home with us after eating lunch at their apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

You can hear only what is piped in over the radio; you can breathe only 100 percent oxygen, and it is usually odorless; you can’t feel much through the gloves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radios warned against carrying a white handkerchief. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the beam of his field light, he shows Werner that he is holding two bent screwdrivers and a box of electrical fuses.“The radio,” he says into Werner’s good ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I know I ain’t all that bright. I don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology, but Chino, I know my radio, you know. Ask me, ask me anythin’, anythin’ ’bout my music.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dean and his wife of Highland, Wisconsin, were listening to dance music on their radio when it was interrupted by the newsflash about a Mars disturbance. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He saluted us with his radio, smiled and walked off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after Elizebeth did her first radio interview, the Navy started complaining to the Coast Guard about “undesirable publicity.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Was it always so, or did they multiply vastly, along with telephones and new shoes and transistor radios and cellophane-wrapped tomatoes, in our absence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In 1932, the bureau began working with the radio program The Lucky Strike Hour to dramatize its cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The bells of the ice-cream truck jangled across the street, and a sudden roar burst from a dozen transistor radios. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d turn on the radio or turn up the dial on the oven so that your dinner would be burned and he’d pinch your arm if you weren’t paying him enough attention. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The voices from the radio blur and reach out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In a radio broadcast last night Mayor Ditz warned of possible mob violence and exhorted the public to maintain order. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know what they will draw: skipping ropes, jolly snowmen, listening to the radio, playing with a dog. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It has to be AM,” Chubs said, taking the radio in his hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a very remote thing, when the luggage-store proprietor heard the news on the night radio, received all the way from Earth on a light-sound beam. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was maintaining a marathon schedule of press, radio, television, and public-speaking commitments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night falls, autumn in 1936, and Werner carries the radio downstairs and sets it on the sideboard, and the other children fidget in anticipation. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet many listeners believed that their favorite radio personalities had been killed and the Buffalo area taken over by extraterrestrials. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

If I had developed a good point, though, I’d bait a hook to get it said when I went on radio or television. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried the radio and got only static. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Less than half an hour passed in radio listeners’ living rooms. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

What’s a clandestine radio when there are already clandestine Jews and clandestine money? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Glenn Seaborg, the discoverer of element 94, was relaxing in his room at the Faculty Club, listening to a football game on the radio. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then he heard something that made him reach for the radio in a panic. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men cursed, and shook their fingers at the television and pounded the radio, until Aunt Zo unplugged them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The windows around the garden were open and you could hear ten different TV's and radios. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn on the radio to block the noise. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At noon on Christmas Day, a quartet of women lay under and around it, a transistor radio serenading them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that instant she saw great cities, bridges, radios, school books. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been telling how in 1963, I was trying to cope with the white newspaper, radio, and television reporters who were determined to defeat Mr. Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio they played martial music, and on television they showed only landscapes from around the country and cartoons. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of quiet in the radio room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The day the secession was announced, he stood with Kainene on the veranda and listened to Ojukwu’s voice on the radio and afterward took her in his arms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had her sitting on this porch all day, swatting flies, with her radio going full-blast from morning till night. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I thought about Joe Louis and the sound of the crowd on the radio, the thump of gloves and the grunts and the cheers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Transistor radios and Dansette record players opened a bustling new market for record companies and they began producing music specifically aimed at teenagers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But when they heard the first radio announcement he simply said, “Excellent, excellent,” and later he watched the dancing neighbors with a blank expression. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a nerve-racking job: the VC always tried to kill the radio operator to break off communications. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s the cost of a radio had been prohibitive—$120 or more—and all that bought was a box of unassembled parts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the radio, His Excellency announced that he was going abroad to search for peace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Helmuth tries to keep the impatience out of his voice, to sound regular and even, under control like Gerhard, as if the radio doesn't matter. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

What with the excitement of having the great Admiral Drake speak to him over the radio, and his curiosity about the Admiral’s message to him, Mr. Popper did not sleep very well that night. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The television was never on, the radio never played. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the radio in our company car the classic rock station notes the season by playing “Maggie May” several times a day—It’s late September and I really should be back at school. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house had felt so quiet, and it was odd for both Mama and Papa to choose to hear news reports on the radio instead of watching TV with us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The transistor radio played on as he dressed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He once built a radio using crystals instead of electricity to pick up broadcasts from Warsaw and Białystok and even Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The Little Drummer Boy” played on the radio. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Surely Carl had listened to his radio, the lighthouse radioman dispensing advice, the freighter’s navigator calling in positions, taking readings off Lanheedron Island, then suddenly deciding on a bisecting dogleg right through Ship Channel Bank. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What matters is that people must be listening, that ordinary citizens must have radios, that they seem to need to hear from each other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a radio cabinet, but someone yanked the workings out. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth turns up the volume on the radio, and the sounds of the parade fill the flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

What she heard on her radio was definitely not the Charles Dickens story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s a guy shorthands all the radio transmissions,” Levant explained to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hutchison had radioed this news to Base Camp, and from there it was passed along via satellite phone to the woman with whom Harris shared his life in New Zealand, Fiona McPherson. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He would hang up, scratch his head, then return to his seat by the radio. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The government radio report made it sound as if the violence was caused by us, the people voting. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother never speaks to me, but sometimes I sidestep along the beach until I pick up radio stations in Key West. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Find a radio. Just this morning. They bombed Hawaii.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For days, department stores, electrical appliance stores, the Sherman Clay piano store, even the jewelry store Weisfield & Goldberg had been doing a land-office business selling new Philco 61F Olympic Special cabinet radios. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The room is quiet except for the radio playing softly, Preacher Green again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Obviously, it was her absence from the radio that had made all the difference. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He woke up, entered the kitchen, and listened to the radio. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

From a passing car radio, the news blared out and echoed between the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I reached up and slapped Black Betty’s radio button on, turning it up as loud as it would go. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Holed up with the technicians, the children got an inside view of radio. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It makes me feel sick. I can’t shake it. I can’t. Those kids they were talking about on the radio—I’m sure they were from Caledonia. I just...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was poking at the scrambled eggs on his plate and listening to the radio buzzing with old-school music. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not the singers in matching suits, spinning and snapping fingers into one loud pop from the radio. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

By morning the radio is quiet, and there lie Gerhard and Hans, fast asleep, anchored on either side of him. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks about the Rola radio, locked in the closet for safekeeping. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No more radio interviews, all right?” he says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The radio operator wrote down the coded messages and handed them to Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stepped out the door, I thought I heard Momma’s warbled voice float up out of Holly’s old radio. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Brew came in and put his radio on. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran back up to the shelter and found the radio in its plastic case and folded the note and put it in the case so that it stuck out slightly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Particularly, she was not to mention the missing radio or the watch found in Nancy’s shoe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sashayed out of the kitchen, and a moment later, I heard her in her bedroom, humming “One Fine Day” by the Chiffons along with the radio and sweeping the floor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The newspapers and radio were full of the campaign to “Destroy the Four Olds.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kathy, call your friends at the newspapers and TV and radio stations and tip them off about the crooked betting ring in this town.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There must be something good on the radio,” he called. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On Baba’s radio, they were saying that word, “republic,” over and over again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They managed to warm up the radio enough to try to make one last transmission of their location to Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Letters called for the FCC to remove Welles and CBS from the air, fine them, or assume control of all radio broadcasts because the networks had shown themselves to be irresponsible. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He heard the voice of the President speaking to the nation on the radio. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked long and hard, and somehow loading those trucks made me feel intimately bound up with the news bulletins that I kept hearing on the radio and seeing in the papers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She cranked up the radio and peeled out of the parking lot, headed for home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They turn the radio up full blast to hear the operas, which do not seem to hurt their ears. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Harpy’s light above us cuts out and we let the radio do the talking. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At lunch, Dad forgot to turn the radio on, and Luke had to remind him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did not say that we never played it, that we never even thought to, that all we listened to was the news on Papa’s radio during family time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the car ride to the library, Mr. Doyle begins to sing along to a song on the radio. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Forty years of radio and twenty years of television must have this impact. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d only just begun when a call came in over the short-band radio: Martin’s body had been fished out of the ocean. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The little boys are clustered around the new radio: a half-hour program called Kids’ Club. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was talking on his radio when he saw me, and he motioned for his deputy to get out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He called himself Shelley the Playboy, and speaking in code on the radio, he kept us abreast of the plans to march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk the rest of the way home from school we take turns reading them out loud, dramatizing the parts like radio plays, pausing to shriek with laughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His partner was waiting on the sidewalk, opposite their patrol car, double-parked with its radio going. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can watch and listen to the music. Everyone talks about the dances at the Vets. They even announce them on the radio.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We all crowded around a car with its radio on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the visitors could get in their cars and turn on their radios and all and then go someplace nice for dinner--everybody except Allie. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Without Theresa and Ralph knowing, she spent large parts of her afternoons listening to the radio, or reading the magazines she kept under her mattress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We skidded into the living room and tumbled onto the rug in front of the radio. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that spring, Marx flew to California to interview Governor Ronald Reagan for her radio show. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Every American radio operator on Guadalcanal heard our message,” Bill said. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio’s up there, too, next to him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They had been at Marathon and were sailing back to Cape Coral when they’d lost radio contact. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They would close the windows, draw all the curtains and cover them with black cloth, dim the lights, and silence the radio. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then I started thinking about the radio, about the people talking about people who talk about animals like they people, and I just...I just...lost my appetite. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The road's too far away to hear car radios no matter how loud they are. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A week later, they were still trying to make radio contact, but they could not get through. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mail, telephones, radios, newspapers, and televisions are all banned, so the only news we get comes from the chief. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The member of the Judenrat came out of our kitchen with his sack stuffed with more than just our radio and went into the bedrooms, looking for anything more of value. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Derek came back ashore with the radio—a small unit with a weatherproof seal and fresh nicad batteries. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We fight over what station to listen to on the radio. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Me and Smoltz started in September 16 as dogwatch radio team.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So Lm sitting on the sofa here with this letter and the radio on and I’m going to try and explain. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after nine o’clock, Esther of Providence, Rhode Island, switched off her radio and rolled a sheet of paper into her typewriter. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were also seat cushions from the plane, a blanket, a kerosene lantern, and an old ham radio. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Across the room his stereo amplifier was on, die radio needle jumping. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This is an exact report of the hideous puppet show aired on the radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I got out my radio and began sending. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns the radio dial to a classic-rock station and starts to sing along. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Hutchison and I were in our tent monitoring a radio call from Rob Hall on the South Summit when Burleson came rushing over. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All over the country people are trying to get hold of an old radio that they can hand over instead of their “morale booster.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Brunner had the radio, and the rest of the squad were to one side or the other. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If trouble developed, they could call me on the radio and wake me up. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have examined our Sun, the nearest star, in various wavelengths from radio waves to ordinary visible light to X-rays, all of which arise only from its outermost layers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere else, probably in the kitchen, there was music on a radio. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They’re the eyes of something that isn’t known but exists anyway; like the green eye of the radio; like the eyes of aliens from a distant planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t read then, but we had the radio and I followed as best I could. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the sounds on the street—car tires through slush, buses braking and hissing as they lower and open doors, boots striking cement, voices talking on cell phones, radio music from a fast truck. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The men who’d heard the Corona’s radio transmissions had gone somewhere else the next day. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Others caught the program’s introduction or saw The War of the Worlds listed in their newspapers’ radio schedules. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty in the evening, when the entire family was listening to the radio in the private office, he took his treasure and stole off to the loft again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They listened to the radio and the fast-moving rumors, and just hoped Huynh would find a way to get them out of Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He might turn on the radio and dance cheek to cheek with my mother. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the background, the radio preacher screamed “Hallelujah!” over and over as Cootie spoke. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For a moment the only sound reaching the NBC radio audience was a brief swish! as the radio technicians lunged for their controls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A radio telescope works more like a light meter than a camera. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liquid air, television, vibro-vacuum massage, radio, boiling caffeine solution, hot contraceptives, and eight different kinds of scent were laid on in every bedroom. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing six metres away, in the same clothes he’d worn on the day at the London Eye, minus the jacket, talking into a two-way radio. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a woman preacher, Miss Anna Tuell, on the radio. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But as he later said, "We had done our best and, after all, it was just another radio show." Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And almost every day, there would be baseball games on the radio, games to listen to all summer long. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were tons of my people singing on the radio who got their songs high on Your Hit Parade. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We didn’t get a TV until the bus boycott, but our radio ran off a battery that gave us about an hour at a time of a white station, WSFA. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The Corona locked onto the lighthouse radio signal and made headway for Seattle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It runs through my head every day, like a radio on in the background. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure has to badger her father three times before he’ll read the notice aloud: Members of the population must relinquish all radio receivers now in their possession. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A radio astronomer on a planet of another star would be able to calculate the length of the day on Earth from the times of appearance and disappearance of our signals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, radio represents a large fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie and Rose volunteer to monitor Evelyn’s movements in the hours before the escape, and to report any unusual behavior to the Amity compound by two-way radio. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a country music song playing on the radio. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

This mufti was clearly under the influence of a maulana who had been running an illegal radio broadcast through which he gave sermons and railed against people whom he deemed “un-Islamic.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When British radio technicians on the ground spotted incoming swarms of German aircraft, they were able to tell their pilots where to find the enemy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Before long, people are stopping by Children’s House every week to ask for the radio repairman. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The quiet hum of the radio has been overtaken by a rhythmic sawing sound. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a bed and a chair and a radio and a chest of drawers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“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

No one at the table spoke, and Uncle Hermilio paid attention only to a little radio he had brought with him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Something had happened on the highway, that’s what they were saying on the radio. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

She doesn't look at me when she speaks—she just says everything she is prepared to and blends into the background noise of the radio. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My sister’s transistor radio announced that all the schools would be open, this despite more snow overnight than we had seen the last three winters combined. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dad’s never heard it, so naturally he thinks it’s my imagination or maybe a car’s radio as it goes past the farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

His album didn’t take off because he couldn’t get his first single played on Top 40 radio. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And unless Harry’s ears were deceiving him, the old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was “Witching Hour, with the popular singing sorceress, Celestina Warbeck.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"Actually," said Morris, "he's got a radio, but he doesn't have a dish." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you hear the word “Nuus” on the radio, for example, why, any fool can figure out that means “News.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of songs on the radio about hippie girls with flowers in their hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother was still at the English radio station where she worked three days a week now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been tuned in to The Guiding Light for twenty-six years, since I was ten years old and listening to it on Mama’s radio. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the radio, the breathless British voice said it was quite extraordinary that a second coup had occurred only six months after the first. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I started whistling a song I liked from the radio as I went back to work. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A gifted artist and violin player, he was a radio expert and one of the Army’s best code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I grab my portable radio, and Mango follows me to the bathroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Last night the four of us went down to the private office and listened to England on the radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

What will I do if it comes on the radio? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Despite Beidleman’s growing anxiety about the advancing clock, he didn’t have a radio, so there was no way to discuss the situation with Fischer. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of rock and roll, what I heard on the radio was a steady beep-beep-beep sound. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A man said that he was operating a swan boat with a radio pressed to his ear; a woman had been baking rolls for her grandchildren. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed in the antenna on his radio and also stored that in the pack. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had used a CB radio in his uncle’s pickup once. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They also think America and Belgium should give them a lot of money, I happen to know. Enough for everybody to have a radio or a car or something. Nelson told me that.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid saw the tears that glistened in her eyes as she asked, “Can we turn the radio back on? Maybe they’ll tell us help is finally coming.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On this slow Monday evening at the gas station, C.P. was inside working on a car hoisted up on the lift while country music played softly from a radio on the workbench. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Flying high over Brunswick, Georgia, and closing fast on Savannah, Bull contacted Atlanta radio. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listening to Springbok radio is an excellent way of learning how to speak English,” he said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a child of AM radio’s Top Forty heyday. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We keep intercepting British accents on their radio messages too.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The radio was cutting in and out while the announcer gave the weather report and said they would be talking to an FBI spokesman in a few minutes. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, the batteries to our radio died, cutting us off from the rest of the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp sound of their radios echoed in the parking lot and in the darkened stairwells of the apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Joseph had never even seen his mother listen to the radio. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After an adjustment, Beto carried the radio into the house to see if it would turn on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But just before he reached me, Rob’s voice barked over the radio Mike carried inside his jacket, and he stopped climbing to answer the call. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So saying, he stretched out on his back on the carpet again, his slight torso fitting in rather tightly between the 1932 Stromberg-Carlson table radio and an overfilled maple magazine stand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She keeps walking between the two—listening to radio sounds, watching the local news. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The truth is I used to dream of being on The Voice, and I’ve imagined what it would be like to hear a song of my own on the radio. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Maddie was not actually put to work at a Radar screen in one of the direction finding stations, though Maidsend did have one; she was still in the radio room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Some of them are old clippings, and show Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, in Girl Guide uniforms, making radio and other speeches during the Blitz. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was considering the wisdom of trying to ask aid from your world, as mine seems unhelpful. There’s a radio beacon in Turuf.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not much later the tired radio announcer confirmed it, his voice rocking itself into a deep Sunday snooze. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, when the noise of the radio softens and Emmett’s and George’s voices strain, Axel can’t help but dip in and out of their words instead of his own good thoughts. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once again he reached for his radio in anticipation of calling headquarters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody is getting excited about the American radio woman’s visit. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I did my best to camouflage my anxiety by singing along to the stupid songs on the radio. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In my mind, all these people came to the rally because our summer camp helped to spread the word The idea of radio announcements, the Black Panther newspaper, and word- of-mouth hadn’t entered my mind. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, June 28, the news of the Nazi saboteurs and their capture was broadcast on American radio. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Best of all, the radio format gave her a chance to speak for herself. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I waited alone in the car with the radio on low. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to give the plot enough spark to grab a radio audience, he’d have to make so many changes to Wells’s story that he’d be starting from scratch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

That Sunday evening began with people gathered around the family radio, relaxing as the weekend drew to a close. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You can use some of the room in my case. Also use your book bag. Take your transistor radio.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know the radio bothered you so much. You never told me.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When she brought him his plate, the national anthem was playing on the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of them are old clippings, and show Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, in Girl Guide uniforms, making radio and other speeches during the Blitz. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was an Irish jig on the radio. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pastor Tom said that listening to the radio can interfere with Bible reading,” Cari said primly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Shhh,” warned the radio officer, leaning over Maddie’s shoulder and taking hold of the telephone receiver for her so her right hand was treed up for taking notes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He starts back for a third pass, his finger on his radio. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the regiments would need armorers to load bombs and machine guns, and the fighter and dive-bomber regiments would also need radio technicians and parachute packers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Try to cover your face as much as possible,” she muttered before flicking on the radio. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I arrived back at our own camp to find Rob, Dr. Caroline Mackenzie, and Scott Fischer’s doctor, Ingrid Hunt, engaged in a tense radio conversation with someone higher on the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a double bed with a clock- radio on a table beside it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to be successful, an artist has to get played on the radio. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Godwin was a bishop and a crackpot; he seems to have believed that he had invented the radio. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

While in China, Park listened daily to radio broadcasts from South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We just sat there in my family’s flat, listening to the radio and watching the sky over Kraków turn black as the Germans came to kill us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vietnamese music plays continuously on the radio as women snip and clip at their customers’ hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio grew more urgent as the announcer described the ranks of Arkansas National Guardsmen who ringed Central High School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my other ear I could still hear the radio playing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was illegal in wartime Britain for private citizens to use radio transmit- ters, so Werner smuggled in transmitter parts by hiding them in her children’s stuffed animals and assembled the machine at home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew the storyline, and it had promise as a radio drama. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But there was no time left for worrying about such things, for now the voice on the radio was counting down to lift-off. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young flight instructor was dozing in the sun after a swim in the river when she heard a radio announcement coming from a nearby stadium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But I know Mother would never let me out that late, so I just turn the radio up and enjoy his singing from the airwaves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps our remote descendants will call it the constellation of the radio telescope— although I suspect a million years from now the radio telescope will have become more obsolete than the stone spear is now. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tried to listen to the Qawali music playing on the transistor radio at the next table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The radio station and local newspapers advertised the fictional program during the previous week. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dad had brought an atomic radio along, strapped to his wrist. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you can get in touch with the—with the big ship by ordinary radio, Mr. Ai?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gearhart was on the radio as soon as we got back to the base. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many parents restrict media viewing, for families with access, limiting the number of films they see as well as the hours spent watching television, listening to radio, and playing video games. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was easier for me to run now because all us code talkers had the new lighter portable radio units. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, down at Camp Two, David Breashears’s radio crackled to life: it was Jangbu, reporting in a panicked voice that Chen had stopped breathing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He led us all into the hall outside the main office to listen to the radio. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was then a young lieutenant new to combat, and his first thought was always to get on the radio and ask the troops in the field what was happening. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The President of the United States began talking on the radio! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took me into the living room, put the radio on, and sat with me while I lay across the couch. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Soon he nodded off, and the next thing he heard was the radio crackle of the dispatcher’s voice, routinely asking for his location. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved to hear Gladys's high, sweet voice imitating her favorite singers on the radio. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not even Dad’s light jazz radio station could calm me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He turns over the dented radio case, peers into it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because I’m not the cool, carefree, fun person who plays beer pong and dances to all the songs on the radio. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Clustered around the radio, they all listen raptly to the BBC. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

You hear the news on the radios of people who got a reason to get up early and you hear mamas yelling for their kids who go to school to wake up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a receiver, so they could not send news of their predicament, and even under the best conditions the radio was barely capable of picking up the monthly signal from the Falkland Islands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When Chambers made the same allegations over the radio, Alger Hiss sued him for slander. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the calls to CBS and the police were from radio listeners trying to confirm what they’d heard, not reacting in panic. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

De la O, with the radio on his back, stuck close to his commander. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Baba and Rahim Khan were drinking tea and listening to the news crackling on the radio. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ingeborg was doing the dishes in northern New Jersey when she switched on the radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They appeared to receive an order via their radio earpieces, then used a key card to open the door of a tiny one-room apartment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s got the radio on and is humming along with a country music song: Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with radar equipment, it’s possible to send out radio signals that bounce off another object and return to the sender—revealing where that object is. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without a warning, die engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Santa Anita Handicap, with its giant purse and world-class athletes, competing in what was rapidly becoming the nation’s most heavily attended sport, became one of the premier radio events of the year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had seen the dress back when Beto fixed the radio, but the rest was new. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lay back and fell silent, listening to radio caller Clem McCarthy tell his audience about the crash of Fair Knightess. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welles’s exceptional voice also won him roles on radio dramas—work that paid much better than those in the theatre. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I have asked for this radio and television time,” he began, “for the purpose of announcing that we have today concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The room was very still except for a boys’ choir singing “Hark the Herald Angels” very softly on the radio. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 4:30 p.m., and again at 4:41, Hall got on the radio to say that he and Hansen were in trouble high on the summit ridge and urgently needed oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All radio and television programs were interrupted with announcements that the population must go down into their cellars immediately. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, de la O had recovered and was assigned to carry the radio for his commander. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

From down the street a tinny- sounding radio oozed out a slow blues. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Telephone circuits are jammed up. Everybody’s doing their best. Lists of the dead and the living and the missing are going out on the radio. Give your messages to him.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rural families typically made the radio their second electric purchase, after the clothes iron. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting radio time was a big deal, one she hadn’t even bothered to tell me about. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

An Adele song comes on the radio, and as I imagine myself in a video hitting every note as well as her, I drift to sleep. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Was it a radio I heard—a phonograph? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the afternoon in his house when we listened to the radio. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every day on the radio, I’d hear angry white callers shouting that the Communists had invaded the black churches and people had to act now. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I followed the music on the radio to the open bathroom door. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Bright lights w'ere burning in the kitchen, and he could hear his mother’s cheap radio through the closed window. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Live 105 regularly played on the radio as we made the fifteen-minute drive to school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had gotten up before dawn and made coffee and turned the radio on, just to make sure it was working. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Our beautiful radio was taken away last week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

To me, my losing was only another manifestation of that queer, material way of American living that computed everything in terms of the concrete: weight, color, race, fur coats, radios, electric refrigerators, cars, money ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a theater in Chicago I once sat beside a man who watched the movie while listening to a Cubs game on his transistor radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They carried portable radios to follow the latest returns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would probably need the radio; that made another good reason for choosing Jamie. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listen to the radio for twenty minutes, and then we drive back to his house and find his parents in separate rooms pretending as if nothing happened. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A shrill sound pierced the air, and at first Olanna thought it had come from the radio before she realized it was the air raid alarm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Except for the squeak of the windshield wipers and the squawking police radios, all you could hear was the rain hitting the car roof. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The war filters in over the radio, remote and crackly, the voices from London fading through the static. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until now he has seen radios only in glimpses: a big cabinet wireless through the lace curtains of an official’s house; a portable unit in a miners’ dormitory; another in the church refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Over and out,’ he said, into the radio. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

McAdams cranked up his set and radioed back: WE ARE AMERICANS! Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can hear the families talking upstairs and downstairs and down the hall and Bing Crosby is singing on the radio, Brother, can you spare a dime? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie had turned the radio up to its last notch so that youngsters on the porch wouldn’t miss a word. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Kushal checked the cub carefully from head to tail, one of the rangers radioed a message while the other sat in front of the computer. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few empty boxes of graham crackers and Hostess cupcakes were piled on top of a cooler, and on top of that was a small wireless radio and lantern flashlight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I decided to turn off the radio and get some sleep. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

On Christmas, I received a pink Barbie radio and a Precious Moments sleeping bag. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On the radio, they were reporting that another ten thousand National Guardsmen were being sent to the region, about one-third of them directed to maintain order. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Music from a radio drifted out of Mr. Odom’s shop in the garage. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

According to a German prisoner, the radio broadcasts to the German troops at the front warned, “Attention, attention, the ladies are in the air, stay at your shelter.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She seemed content with whatever clothes she found at the front of the closet, with whatever magazine was lying around, with whatever song was on the radio — content yet curious. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He touched the small radio to Michael’s blond head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounded like a favorite song from the radio they no longer play, so when you hear it, you remember how things were. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was very clear what was at stake, but they wouldn’t give up their radio.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes, it seems, preferred more contemporary music and turned up their transistor radios loudly and defiantly whenever Myma began one of her lugubrious dirges. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll only listen to the radio at night in my room.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there a song they’re singing now about boots? I heard it on the radio the other day.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It must have seeped into my memory somehow—maybe from a radio or TV program. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

How he wishes he had eyes to see the ultraviolet, eyes to see the infrared, eyes to see radio waves crowding the darkening sky, flashing through the walls of the house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Welles responded that this method didn’t originate with The Mercury Theatre and was, in fact, used by other radio programs. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had turned the radio to an oldies station, and he sang along with a song I’d never heard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Today there is a vast international radio, television and radar communications traffic. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of the younger nurses, the ones who probably listen to pop radio or watch MTV and have heard of Bikini, look up, their faces excited question marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a nice, loud radio and a cage with a parrot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slap her hand on the table, rattling the wood radio. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We’d grab the old transistor radio her parents had given her, go outside at night, raise the antenna, and point it at the stars. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

On charts and lists, he recorded their names, their owners, their bearings, and their radio signals. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

From the radio, the Biafran national anthem burst out and filled the silence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the radio program went on, I learned that Hideo, born in London and raised in Tokyo, had taught himself how to code when he was eleven. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I switch on my reading lamp and listen to the shipping forecasts on the radio on low volume. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man from New Jersey wrote that fake news undermines “the prestige of the radio as a dispenser of news.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There’s radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries out, “Flameout on engine number four!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My Uncle Fan would not listen to foreign radio broadcasts or worry about psychological pressure. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An extraterrestrial civilization monitoring the radio emission from Earth and receiving such signals could not fail to conclude that something interesting had been happening here lately. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that Muff had a radio and better cooking gear; the house had the warmth of a place where people were happy together and would go on being happy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing louder than the White Noise, than the radio, than Chubs’s screams, was the sound of Liam’s heart racing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

You might want to ask why so long with this news, well its been out for years in and out of video’s papers, books, magazines, radio, tv, all over the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Is that Preacher Green’s sermon you’re playing on the radio?” she ask. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They were drinking sweet tea and listening to the radio, Grandpop’s box of money—the rainy day stash—in Dad’s lap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In Seattle and in Sequim, people huddled around radios in their kitchens and parlors stood and cheered when they heard the final salvo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That radio silence was full of imagined monsters, like a broad empty space on a map. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Bilingual education, two ways to understand...,’ television and radio commercials glibly announce. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Chip Martin,” he announced in a deep voice, the voice of a radio deejay. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the vicinity of White Sand Bay he picked up the lighthouse’s radio beacon and, gaining confidence by the moment, made the big swing to the south. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lily fiddled with the radio until she found a good station that wasn't in the middle of a long run of commercials. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo jerked her thumb at her husband, who was hunched over the radio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was true to his word and from then on remained mostly quiet, humming along to the radio. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Brown, who boarded with them, had a radio in her room, and all last winter she would sit on the steps every Sunday afternoon and listen in on the programs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The radio bleeps and buzzes and squawks and crackles so much that it's impossible to hear a word. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

De la O dropped his radio and pulled off his first aid pack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At many wavelengths the clouds and atmosphere of Venus are entirely transparent to radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several weeks of this, however, he realized that the people he was calling on the radio had no more idea than he did about what the gunfire meant. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

From his years performing on radio dramas, Welles understood that the actors’ voices and their words must be spellbinding. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When there were still no arrests several months later, the whispers became louder, and public criticisms of the police, sheriff, and local prosecutor were aired in the local newspaper and on local radio stations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I turned back around in my seat and listened to the orderlies talking, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” playing on the radio, and the steady thrum of the car’s engine. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When we pulled up to the Fabric Barn, he turned off the radio. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Jadzia loved music and listened to Italian opera on the radio while she did her homework,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The radio swung into an old song that dated back to the time when he and Alice were engaged. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But then, having created that sneakandle and her own radio from spare parts, I’d have thought she was a mastermind inventor already. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The officer was talking into his radio, and though I couldn't see his eyes behind his sunglasses, it felt like he was staring a hole into the back of Nathan's head. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When he played, my ear was glued to the radio, and no game ended without my nefiguring his average up through his last turn at bat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned the radio on but changed the station from gospel to hip-hop, which on any other day would’ve been totally cool. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dauntless stalked her with Captain Candless making small talk over the ship radios and making friendly observations on the state of the weather during hurricane season. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Harrison came up to the flame tree carrying the radio turned up high to Radio Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I suppose now you want me to take the door off its hinges to let in a little more air. Or do you want me to make a radio set out of your icebox?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The journey would be long, the rover obedient to radio commands from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was drinking it when I heard the radio broadcast that the Dutch had surrendered. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z