| 单词 | random |
| 例句 | Studies have been done, in fact, in which experts in a given field have analyzed such random phenomena and come up with cogent “explanations” for the patterns. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a random name to call me that it cracked me up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I opened my desk drawer, took out my sixth-grade math notebook, and hid the envelope between two random pages. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if the current whips all around and sends my tentacles off in some random direction, my eyes are always right side up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He acknowledged that the random violence and careening course of the French Revolution were lamentable developments, but he insisted they were merely a passing chapter in the larger story of triumphant global revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He’s a little man who always greets you with a smile, a piece of candy, and some random quote from one of his books on Buddhism. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Maybe if I had gone to each of their houses, whacking random family members with a nail-studded two-by-four, they would have begun to have some basic comprehension. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They almost sound professional, except the vocals are strange and random, like the lower part of a harmony. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Thomas was so surprised by the random statement that he turned away from the Grievers, looked at the boy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “But it was totally random that the plane was there?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z No one wants to believe that life is random. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Soon, numbers and letters appear in random places around the dome, highlighting the areas where the code is generating bits of virtual reality over the actual scene. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With a dramatic gesture, Father Time whipped open the Yearbook to a seemingly random page. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s just random noise, not words, because how can two people communicate if they’re actually existing in completely different worlds? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I leapt from my desk and started to shove random objects into their appropriate homes, hoping Mom would appreciate the effort. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It’s just a random couple selfie—not even a new one, because it’s clearly taken at play rehearsal. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z How you ended up at that table is completely random: Maybe there wasn’t enough room at the table with the girls you really wanted to sit with. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The journal turned into a random thing with random thoughts and nothing more. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He has Post-its all over the place with random quotes on them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z As in the chapters on coincidence and pseudoscience, we see that the desire to filter and emphasize information is at odds with the desire to obtain a random sample. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had started to feel better at Camp Jupiter, remembering random names and faces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Farmer, the anthropologist, designed his own study centered on a random group of about two hundred women in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After parking on a random street, he tosses me a pillowcase. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He found himself whirling through eons of time, destroying at random, screaming with rage and pain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If a random black guy commits a crime today, Barack Obama could be stopped and questioned for fitting the profile. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Of course which of these she is at any particular moment would not be random or capricious — it would depend on who she is with, when, how, and much, much more. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t exactly say which one. I thumb over to Welch every Saturday to the county library. I tend to pick out random shelves and just read every book on it until I’m done.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They asked a random passerby for the direction to Seoul and were pointed toward the main highway. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z My back to them, I picked a book at random—a ridiculous sociological text, as it happened—and pretended to study the index. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then I gave the test to a relatively random sample of my friends and acquaintances, mostly journalists and professionals in their late twenties and thirties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Klan responded with random bombings for almost two decades. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Half of the group were chosen, at random, to be guards, and were given uniforms and dark glasses and told that their responsibility was to keep order in the prison. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Flaca opened a random door, peeped the vacant room and pulled me in. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z More surprising still was the finding that Hubble published in 1929: even the size of a galaxy’s red shift is not random, but is directly proportional to the galaxy’s distance from us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And on those days when no one offends, well, there is always random violence, isn’t there?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway,” she went on, “there are people who look alike all over the world. Like, literally identical. But when they were DNA-tested, they found out they weren’t related at all. Just totally random.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The tree opened up, and they gathered some supplies from inside: backpacks, blankets, an assortment of random items they’d be able to trade for food or board if they needed it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Not Mike, not a burst of random luck—I would get us out, and seeing Clancy’s face slack with my influence would be well worth the effort it would take to break into his mind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She had her own thoughts about the random and confusing nature of the universe. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Ever transcribed 141 random bytes, one-half of a byte at a time? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had started when Harper and other officers were doing random pat-frisks of inmates headed out the yard door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I see the dejection in her eyes growing over my rousing review, so I throw in a random fact I heard on the Travel Channel. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Aw, come on! I don’t want to stand up and recite Arabic in front of a bunch of random people. I’m not that good at it, and it’s just...awkward.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Why did this random chance have to dictate so much of my destiny? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Better to think life was random than to think the world was out to get you. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “This is random, but I was just thinking. Do you guys want to go to Waffle House tomorrow, after school? I could quiz you on your lines.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I needed another one of those random interruptions. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Hands waved in the air, followed by random shouts of “Amen” and “Praise Jesus.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Just because he’s Hudson Robinson, random panini boy, doesn’t mean he’s Hudson from the address label. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We watch some random shows on Bravo with Bieber stretched between us on the couch. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z At first I can’t make out what the shapes are—they seem jumbled, littered in random patterns under his busy hand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Harry opened the book at random and saw a full-page photograph of two teenage boys, both laughing immoderately with their arms around each other’s shoulders. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Today she stewed the fish with potatoes, onions, and leeks, plus a handful of random herbs from Babulya’s collection. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Our clothes lay in random bundles about the floor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At random across the page were drawn little round, seated cats with long curved lines for tails. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It's the Saturday after Christmas, and Waffle House is packed with old people and kids and random guys sitting at the counter reading actual printed newspapers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I pull out one of the copies on the shelf and turn to a random page. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Simon. I just watched you pick up a random guy in a gay bar. You’re wearing eyeliner. And you’re completely wasted.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Reggie Shaw by lottery, a random assignment of cases to one of the four judges in the district. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They are scribbles and suggestions, random, and yet not. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I felt a little silly, not because I was at a random funeral, but because my arms looked like tentacles in Mr. Ray’s huge suit jacket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Using a computer to generate a random ordering to the cards is the best though perhaps an impractical way to get random decks. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Each file had a number assigned to it and seemed to have been saved in random order. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Back and forth across the road she darted in a random zigzag. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And so enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s possible that Connectors learn about new information by an entirely random process, that because they know so many people they get access to new things wherever they pop up. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the truth is that improv isn’t random and chaotic at all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was speaking at random, wanting to scare Riddle, wishing rather than believing it to be true — Riddle opened his mouth, but froze. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Tariq was the one who told her, for instance, that militiamen stationed in the mountains sharpened their marksmanship—and settled wagers over said marksmanship—by shooting civilians down below, men, women, children, chosen at random. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z We’d been meeting for two weeks now, and she knew all sorts of random facts about me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The new people moving into our neighborhood probably think that our part of Bushwick can't get any louder than on a random Saturday night in July. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The windows on the ground level were boarded up, but a few random lights blinked on and off in its uppermost floors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Your block? That’s so random. I didn’t realize you even knew about that.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And the group itself relaxed: they had things to do, they weren’t roaming at random. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At dinner Minho had told him an old story—one of the bizarre and random things he remembered from before—about a woman trapped in a maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Her eyes had read meaning into what was random body posture captured in a single moment of time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I stood up, and since I did wish to speak, I said, almost at random, in fact, that I never intended to kill the Arab. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z But afterward I had small random motions in my stomach, almost like hiccups. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I had chosen the books at random, but even a quick glance at them made it apparent that they were all structured along similar lines. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One morning as I sat at my desk daydreaming out the window, I saw dots in the air like the ones Sister Zoe had drawn—random at first, then lots and lots. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And there are few incentives more powerful than the fear of random violence—which, in essence, is why terrorism is so effective. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I asked, picking a northern town at random. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Variation has been maintained by occasional contact between different islands of speakers, and perhaps also by random mutations. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Beatles, for the most random of reasons, got invited to go to Hamburg. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After all the people left, she walked over to Needles, who was still shouting random stuff. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Since the numbers are chosen at random, what’s done when a business phone is reached? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She has developed a random allergy to certain words. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z What is terrifying about improv is the fact that it appears utterly random and chaotic. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The videotape of Bill and Sue’s discussion seems, at least at first, to be a random sample of a very ordinary kind of conversation that couples have all the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I dial the first random numbers that come to my mind. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My mother, who accuses me of random offenses as I dash out of the house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He bounced up and down trying to make the bus shake, rapped a snippet of the song “Started from the Bottom” by Drake, screeched random words like “Chinchilla!” and “Obituary!” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And it’s true that Miss Brown did not attack me at random. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I looked down and opened my blank notebook to a random page, hoping the action would inspire an end to the conversation. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As far as we know, they are as random as lightning. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, tell me then, Bernie. Do you think there’s any possibility an apparently random action like this could have serious consequences?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or is life so filled with random action that the very notion of caution is futile? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “So,” said Citra, “you pulled us out of our lives for some random art lesson? Isn’t that a waste of your valuable time?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was weird, too, because as I walked, random boys kept looking at me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She started putting random things into her courier bag: a flashlight, batteries, some rope. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But Olly’s like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s too random. Mr. Lemoncello would have no idea which ten cards we might pick.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It is in the abrupt, unaccountable aggregation of random notions, intuitions, known in science as good ideas, that the high points are made. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She tied her blond hair back haphazardly, so random strands hung loose from the ponytail. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Being idle or waiting for random work assignments only invited trouble. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z You choose one at random, trailing a few feathers with you. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then she heard a crackling of underbrush—or was it just the random movement of the fallen leaves? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I always thought I hated having random people in control of my life.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z In the days Before, I would have written something—a short story or a blog post or just random thoughts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I pretended to work on sketching stuff while I asked her seemingly random questions, like: Hey, Mom, have you ever been to Los Angeles? I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Every few seconds, seemingly at random, one of the three pits shot a column of fire into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I start pushing random buttons on my phone, thinking it might make Safer’s phone beep and catch his attention. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The children tried desperately to read it, but there were no letters, no words, no sentences, just random, disconnected markings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Sporadically, Bobby would select a letter at random and reply with a personal note. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is the musical equivalent of dropping a random blob of ink on a piece of paper: by folding the paper and creating a symmetrical double, a pleasing shape is suddenly formed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Dozens of people, chosen at random from a large Midwestern city, send out letters independently. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure. He’s in a picture with my granddad and some cats from around the way, but like...he’s just a random young white dude. Just seems kinda odd.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Like most people, I had no clue of her random connection to Hannah Baker. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They were raised up from the surface of his skin at random, some like splashes and some bigger and attached to other big ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We can be almost certain, then, given these assumptions, that two people chosen at random will be linked, as were the strangers on the business trip, by a chain of at most two intermediates. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some random older kid came running up to the street, she stopped and got off, and he climbed on and rode away. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Nobody stood around in place and gave orders or collected fees; they all simply ran around, picking up pellets at random and dropping them again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t go into the water today. The pond is pretty clean, but there’s still random stuff floating around in there, and those bandages aren’t waterproof.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Diego couldn’t figure out which cup of coffee was his and so just took one at random. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I’d bet a month’s pay that an eighth-grade boy had been chosen at absolute random and dropped into the top academy for differentiated instruction in the state. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The fact that his parents had neither asked him about honey badgers, or even knew why he cared about them in the first place, never stopped him from offering up random info at random times. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They were covered in scratches, but they were too neat and regular to be random. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Washington was the core of gravity that prevented the American Revolution from flying off into random orbits, the stable center around which the revolutionary energies formed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I hadn’t even noticed them, but now I think about the random passerby on the sidewalk, the gardener working on the hedge. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He spent his days muttering dyspeptically to himself and singing naughty sea chanteys, with the occasional random earsplitting screech thrown in just to make you jump. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He did the same thing with about three other candy bars until he finally just grabbed a random one from the shelf, walked up, and set it on the counter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Then he surprised me at my apartment and told me he thought we were broken up, so he kissed some random guy at a party. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Some of the Kinshasa police were for real and some were random guys in stolen uniforms, looking for bribes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He went back to sorting through his pack, which seemed to hold a bottomless supply of cooking utensils, survivalist gear and random sports equipment. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Those shocks and bursts of euphoria weren’t punishments and rewards, nor were they random. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was a long, seemingly random list—everything from book titles to quotes. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Rather than simply producing nice but random tunes with accompaniment, they framed them according to an underlying logic: every piece they composed was constructed with the help of what amounted to musical maps. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They gave her parachute training too—an equally random and apparently useless skill. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I flip open the book to a random spot. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Music echoes from the backyard along with random shouts and laughter. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It’s like reading a seemingly random collection of words before the sentence becomes clear. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he’d staple them together and drop them off at random places throughout school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I turned to my dresser, and Edward was already there, silently yanking out armfuls of random clothes, which he proceeded to throw to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Peacekeepers shoot into the crowd, killing at random. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the memorial plinth itself was constructed in more recent times to satisfy Mozart’s Grave tourists and is placed in what amounts to a random spot in the garden. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a king’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only alive because so many people had helped me, even a random mortal girl like that. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was a random, bristly beard, and some of the bristles were white, even though Billy was only twenty-one years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Shouldn’t she hit one just by random chance? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Of course they are. This test material is specially designed—” “It’s just a bunch of dumb, random facts,” Annabeth insisted. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Let us say we wanted to walk in the streets of Mexico City but not at random. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry deigns to give him a perfunctory nod, as if he’s any other random guest, not the person he beat to a Vogue editorial debut in their teens. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The beams of light from the creature shone all over the place, completely random, never settling in one spot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I choose one at random and put it in the stereo on her nightstand. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was as if every once in a while, in a fit of frustration, the Warden would just pick a spot at random, and say, "What the hell, dig here." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Whenever he came to school with a black eye, Rowdy made sure to give black eyes to two lads picked at random. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, that random white dude that used to roll with your granddad? I didn’t see a lot of him, but I remember meeting him once or twice.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Actually, they generally poll a larger number than is theoretically necessary to compensate for problems associated with getting a random sample. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A Nick Eisner is a cookie with a random glop of peanut butter on top, because when we were five, Nick thought that’s what people meant by peanut butter cookies. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z She ran along the beach, picked up a random human leg bone, and romped back toward me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The random painted wood dresser against the wall, overflowing with catalogs and junk mail. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I popped it open to a random page in the middle, ready to accept whatever fate had in store. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z They waited till most of the grownups were looking the other way, and then Lyra scooped up some snow and rammed it into a loose powdery snowball, and hurled it at random into the crowd. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Princesse walked down to the beach and watched the stars line up in random battalions in the evening sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They were simply scraps of paper torn from a notebook, with random words scribbled in pencil and crossed out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Stitches dropped themselves and later reappeared at random so that the long striped scarf I was knitting bulged in the middle like a python after dining on a rabbit. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Or maybe it was just some random baddie, heading for the Doors of Death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even though our receptors are not sensitive enough to hear it, there is comfort in knowing that the sound is there overhead, like the random noise of rain on the roof at night. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And at one point, this random girl comes up to me and tells me my girlfriend is waiting in front of the gym. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But that had been spontaneous, forced upon us by bad weather and strange circumstances, just some random act of God, the type of thing you can’t get insurance for. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z This was the first in a series of apparently random mergings. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew questions at random from each of the three sets. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She could’ve just as easily been killed by some random shambler in a swamp down south in the Lost States, for all we really know. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But she started thinking about how at camp, random kids were often joining in with other groups of kids without being invited. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She grabbed one at random and turned around. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z This proves that the first incident three weeks ago was far from a random occurrence. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It’s still strange to imagine Alice sharing a dorm room with a random girl from Minneapolis. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an “alien” could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a “drug criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There wasn't anything random at all, the jerk. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It’s possible, but unlikely that you’ll get your shot. Remember, in the original timeline, he took his own picture accidentally. How can you duplicate such a random event? He sure won’t pose for you willingly.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Natural light comes through a tall window and shows a dusty room full of random junk: boxes, discarded furniture, metal folding chairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z If they were going to miss his rants and all his knowledge about random animals and insects, and if Shelly would be able to spot a bedbug like he had taught her. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z For the next few hours, he and Minho scoured the ground, felt along the walls, climbed up the ivy in random spots. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Once Southside moved to our neighborhood, I’d pass whole afternoons at his house, pulling albums from the shelf at random and putting them on his stereo, each one its own immersing adventure. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was holding two pieces of pottery: one a plain, boring blue-gray bowl, and the other an amazing blue-gray bowl with random cracks that were filled with shimmering gold. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “For when it's gone too far. Like, just a random word and then we'll know to back off.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z We could hear the random shots, the dogs, the screams. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They require the use of long, random, nonrepeating keys that only the sender and receiver know. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was ready with my pad for jotting down random thoughts I could use later in my writing, just in case the tar pits turned out to be super boring. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I lived in a climate of relative security—if you don’t consider the Klan’s random bombings in my area—until more visible signs of unrest and change came to Birmingham in the early sixties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t need a random crazy goddess reinforcing the idea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z These were ideas I got from random conversations with the coaches at the foundation, but I didn’t really understand how it all was supposed to work, and no one stepped up to lead the way. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he was beginning to suspect that this wasn’t the random work of juvenile pranksters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, it is only a random pattern of lights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Had Revere been given a list of 250 surnames drawn at random from the Boston census of 1775, there is no question he would have scored well over 100. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to be shooting at random into the courtyard below. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Then why do you think we’re having this big assembly? Just to hear about some random accident a thousand miles from here?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The random stops, questioning, and harassment dramatically increase the risk of arrest for petty crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Roamer has taken over the kitchen with random other baseball players and football players. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I’m aware that Rosa is in seventh heaven; that random strangers are talking to her and treating her like a friend. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Other times, random people would approach and give me a hug. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I been in mad fights before—with Diego and random kids in school or at the park—but I’d never seen somebody smile right in the middle of one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Hazel and Piper zipped around the monster’s head, Hazel slicing with her sword, Piper shouting random commands like, “Dive! Turn left! Look behind you!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some were just pictures of all these random places with that tag, just like Spoony showed me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Garden plots were planted in random spots between the buildings, twenty or so one-story structures made from long planks of wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” I finally say, and my stomach starts to ache, possibly from the random assortment of things I’ve eaten in the last hour. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “He was a random college guy,” I remind her. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And there’s this pair of random dudes in front of the double helixes who look a little familiar. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Emery tries to help, bringing me into random conversations now and then, but she mostly lets me blend in beside her as best as I can. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z For the well-to-do Viennese of the late-eighteenth century onwards, however, including composers like Haydn and Mozart, using the terms ‘gypsy’, ‘Hungarian’ or ‘Turkish’ was like saying ‘random foreign music by poor people’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On her behalf, a random squall peppered the panes of the cockpit with fat raindrops for about ten seconds. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I wasn’t thinking random things this time either, I was just thinking about what we were doing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Since the key was too long and random to memorize, it could not be extracted from them, even under torture. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Finally, he flipped the Bible open and laid a finger down at random. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I am working for it! I just spent an hour googling some random dude who likes paninis and didn’t go to band camp.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Whoever they send to talk to Jack Kang isn’t going to be some random Erudite kid; it’s going to be someone important,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Susan Smith's effort to blame random black men for the death of her children in South Carolina before later admitting to murdering them fascinated crime-obsessed Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z While he tapped, Ron continued to try to hit on the correct password, muttering strings of random words under his breath. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I’m used to seeing a random one every now and again, but tonight it feels crowded. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Officials released the children, even the tiny ones, at random, on their own—and often in the middle of the night. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was all random stuff too: a particular kind of shampoo, or a face cream, or even Tylenol PM, which apparently you couldn’t buy in Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The heat goes off, comes on again, goes off, at random. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Most people I talked to just think it’s another thing we’ll have to accept. Like the random locker searches.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Are we really slow dancing to this random techno song?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z This is the critical lesson of improv, too, and it is also a key to understanding the puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn’t random. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Instead of using clip art, we made our own versions out of random things we found around town. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I was so accustomed to the rules and protocol on campus that it took me a second to realize I might be responding to the orders of some random drunk kids from town. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That didn't mean she wanted us to throw ourselves at random men, but she hoped we'd test-drive a few before settling down. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Along its quiet length white people in bright clumps moved churchward, under the windy bells, walking now and then in the random and tentative sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers attacks a random village, raids the houses, kills a few people, and then ducks back into the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s important to remember that once your adjustment-of-status application is pending, you will not be subjected to random deportation unless you commit a crime. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Maybe things aren’t actually as random as everyone seemed ready to accept. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Just a random letter-sized envelope, the perfect size for a letter from the dean retracting my scholarship and reversing my acceptance. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Finally, after I was daydreaming for like an hour, I turned to Rondell and told him how he should try not to do that anymore, fight random people for barely no reason. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The various segments seemed to sparkle into existence in random order, but they eventually formed letters, and words. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He pointed at one of the students at random. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now she was roosting comfortably in the stern, nibbling bits of jerky and reciting random lines from Charles Dickens and 50 Tricks to Teach Your Dog. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He walked over to it and sat down, opened the paper at random, and pretended to read. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A random night that none of you can take back. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z No longer am I watching random movements of guards. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z For example, a cryptogram that looked like a random string of letters might turn out to have more “V”s in it than anything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the other side was a small dirt lot full of random objects. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The voice said at last, “Since you express no preference, I shall select a poem at random.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z However, to get the melodic kind of sounds more often associated with music, the sound waves must themselves be organized and regular, not random mixtures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I should be able to obtain the Jade Key at any one of them, so I selected one of the copies at random on the map. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She and Sosie pushed buttons in random sequences, hoping for a detonation- stopping bingo. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z His hatred for the King was not a reality like Mordred’s—indeed, he had little personal feeling against anybody except Lancelot His attitude was more of malice at random. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were five for a dollar, so I paid for a random assortment. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The possibility of not being able to eat my favorite fast food, dealing with random crazies who come in and talk trash, and mopping up throw-up really, really sucks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Cops seemed to arrest black folks at random most of the time, just scooping people up and carting them off for the most nonsensical offenses. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Sounds fun,” I say slowly, and then I press my lips together, because it’s not like I’m about to sit here begging for an invite to a random party on my own birthday. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Lauren points to us at random and assigns us each a fear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “The security guards have the right to conduct random searches. I can assure you that Brianna was not ‘targeted.’” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I know this story probably seems very random, Edie. But believe me, it’s loosely related to EdithGraham. To everything that happened between her and your mother. And their tribal nation, their sovereignty. It’s all connected.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All around her, filtered sunlight pushed through the trees, casting touches of gold on random spots. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She brought out a bunch of seemingly random supplies: toothbrushes, combs, little deodorant sticks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Like there’s nothing the least bit odd about two random teenagers hanging out near the door of his clothing bank. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z This invasion and displacement were not random occurrences. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I was about four years old at the time, so I retain only random details with which to remember the evening. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And there’s this throb of music and random bursts of laughter and people holding cans that aren’t Coke. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Either way, inside our tight city grid, fire was almost a fact of life, a random but persistent snatcher of homes and hearts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But a real school was so messy and random that solutions sometimes fell into place by sheer luck. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z An arm stretched around the Berg door above, holding the tube- weapon out to take random shots. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Thus, to take an example at random, Leonardo Pisano, known as Fibonacci, is the supposed discoverer of the Fibonacci number series. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It is not fair,” said Emma, in a whisper; “mine was a random guess. Do not distress her.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z If only the Colonel didn’t ball up his every belonging and stuff it into random dresser drawers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z So while Mackenzie runs herself ragged in game temples, I wander through my neighborhood making random turns, maybe in search of my own boss key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z What looked ordered before now seems chaotic and random. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z But Kaede only glanced down at random, and the verses made little sense out of context. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There was a group of girls who would ask me random questions so they could make fun of the way I spoke when I replied. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was a totally random distribution, like she’d blindfolded herself and thrown darts at the map. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “Or just—guys being random. But then when David Marcel...” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Because without that, she kept thinking, This isn't random. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And when I finish there's a lull and she says, "Can I ask you something random?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With its random patches, the jacket would probably look silly on anyone else. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At first, Magdalys had just sent him along a random series of turns in case Riker or any of his Kidnapping Club tried to follow them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His wet hair stuck out in random directions, he was limping slightly from his wounded foot, and he wheezed through obstructed nostrils. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 Bright blue rocks are layered over the bottom of the tank, with fake plants sprouting through them, coral reef ornaments scattered at random. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My new roommate has joined the group, along with a random new girl. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He’d been turning the pages at random until he came to an article that caused him to stop. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Anyways, me and Rondell ended up just telling random stuff from our lives. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Mom was like a saint, friendly to everyone in the neighborhood, including the homeless, the troubled, random drifters. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was random doodles, but lately I’d been experimenting with graffiti—tagging, specifically—because some tagging techniques reminded me of highly stylized Persian calligraphy. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She scooped up the graphic novel and opened it to any random page, determined to get her mind on something else. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Watney shuffled to the ration cupboard and grabbed a breakfast at random. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The top drawer was reserved for random items—handheld pencil sharpeners, school glue, masking tape, abnormally small screwdrivers, things like that. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I could see him now, hobbling to the bodega to get me some random, no-frills girlie diapers because that’s the kind he can afford. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He pulled a few random sandwich bags from his pocket, folded them awkwardly, then stuffed them back down. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z On the walls of his room are a few random video game posters, but one in particular sticks out to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I think the leaders choose people at random and change the simulations for them.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He imagined some hapless monster terrorizing a random demigod in Kansas, only to find itself surrounded by several dozen carloads of heavily armoured Romans. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The cashier was impatient so I chose at random. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And second, some genes are activated by external triggers or by random chance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In those two weeks, Lucas and I had nearly searched all of the surrounding area ourselves, had kayaked down the river twice, getting out to search random sandbanks and things like that. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “I guess she was just saying a random story,” I said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z "Intelligence is essentially a banal trade of sifting through huge amounts of random information in a search for a single enlightening gem or illuminating link," he wrote. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I spend all of Sunday in my room switching between the Smiths and Kid Cudi at top volume, and I don’t even care if that’s too random for my parents. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We had to sell our house and move into a random apartment where the walls are too thin and there aren’t enough rooms. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But simple luck is the random birthright of the hapless. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And in all that time, no one has ever asked a "random question" about "epiphanies" for "no reason." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z I took my samples from the riverside willows, the new blue willow grove, and the leaves I’d collected from random trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I remember when he was maybe a year old, Jeffrey went through a phase of picking up random objects from the floor and giving them to one of us — usually me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if they were just a group of random women or if they were some sort of crew, like a sorority or something. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She gets a lifetime of being stopped by the FAA for random bag searches every time she flies. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Pretty random stuff—so I called my blog Aven’s Random Thoughts. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Dad was a dishwasher, and Mom was a waitress, where she tried out her crazy accents on random customers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He was in a T-shirt and jeans, like any random dude. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “To answer stones and bad language with a random volley of .30-caliber bullets was not imaginable in America,” he later reflected. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Today, while she stands valiantly observing the world, I draw the random things that come to mind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Polishing silver reminds me of preschool, where I did all these random chores like sorting, scrubbing, and sewing giant buttons with a blunt needle. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Under the dolls were books, a dozen or so, that her mother must have grabbed at random; she wouldn't have known which were Eleanor's favorites. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z This kind of random terror made us do strange things. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But Matt is copying stuff down into his notebook like a madman, so I pick an FAQ at random and just start copying its answer down. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes I chose—I like the Psalms and Ecclesiastes—and sometimes I just opened it at random. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That they chose me for a reason and not at random. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I know that's such a random thought, but in moments like these, I missed her bad. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t remember, but I think it was considered a random street crime, a horrible case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They never arrested anyone.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He’d probably get around to giving me a lesson one day, but it would be pure random chance when and if it ever happened. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A pair of lobster claws stuck up from his head like horns, turning and snapping at random. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Gracie opens the door to a random office and shoves me in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Every time we get to a new town we cruise into whatever shopping center there is and ask random people to make a small donation to help our hoop squad. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Maybe it made Pet seem more like an individual, not just a random creature popping out of a painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Now it would be easy to toss our piece of cardboard around the field and collect random ten-centimeter samples. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There is no theory of the universe: events cannot be predicted beyond a certain extent but occur in a random and arbitrary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t like the way he seems, worrying to Theo that Vincent is “exaggerated and overwrought, quoting at random from the Bible....It is a bitter, bitter shame.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Professors, relatives, random people I met, asked what was next for me, and when I mentioned I was bound for law school—Harvard Law School, as it turned out—the affirmation was overwhelming. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Indeed, if it were, it would by definition not be random. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann’s models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally she would get animated and start spilling any random facts that she knows about Malala. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Luke read a sentence at random: “While debate continues over the carrying capacity of the earth—” He skipped ahead. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Creeksecrets is supposed to be where you can post anonymous confessions and secret random thoughts, and people can comment, but no one really judges you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The second and third floors had a collection of random businesses, but the entire bottom floor used to be a library. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The unpredictable, random element comes in only when we try to interpret the wave in terms of the positions and velocities of particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Before then, new varieties of organisms could arise only from the accumulation of random mutations—the selection of changes, letter by letter, in the genetic instructions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the front doors are metal detectors manned by large grumpy people who perform random bag searches. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because of your parents? Because I’m some random white guy?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But my family doesn’t have random spending money. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I stuffed it into my backpack, knowing it would probably get crumpled with all the other random papers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z This school had a couple of green spaces, and I’d picked one at random to make my own. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It must have looked like just another one of those random movements that kids like me seem to make. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z His disregard for humanity was fierce and random. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Moreover, we all know that the astonishment is transient, and sooner or later our particles will all go back to being random. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was suddenly quiet except for a few random sparks and sizzles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Our reading material was random and inappropriate, delivered to us in unlabeled cardboard boxes from Léopoldville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several square, solid tables covered with family pictures and random books and magazines, and also three small, elegant tables not used for anything. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Easy, because the stock exchange guarantees there’ll be a new random number every day. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m watching a high-flying plane, and I send some random love to it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Their expanded powers permitted them to knock on anyone’s door to pursue an accusation and for random inspections as well, in the name of public safety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I watch as random kids and parents walk in and out of view, unaware they’re being watched. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Those molecules in turn disturb other nearby molecules out of their normal patterns of random motion, so that the disturbance itself becomes a thing that moves through the air — a sound wave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The sphere was constructed from five concentric rings, each inscribed with zodiac symbols—the bull, the scorpion, et cetera—and seemingly random numbers and letters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not random. It’s a plan. It’s what they want...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There’s a random assortment of toys that have clearly been played with before they made it to this apartment. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She squeezed my hand, clearly believing that my random symptoms weren’t contagious. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And not by some faceless enemy, some random shot from far away, but by an enemy I could see and hear. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Small lumps of matter—the first condensations in the disk—are injected at random times into the cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since mutations are random nucleotide changes, most of them are harmful or lethal, coding into existence nonfunctional enzymes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “And a waterslide!” said Brown Fur, who was pulling random tools out of Leo’s belt, tossing aside wrenches, hammers, and staple guns. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Plus a few random portraits of my friends, not that I ever plan on showing those to anyone. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The first scientists appear, as far as their religious beliefs are concerned, to be a more or less random sample of the intellectuals of seventeenth-century Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Now he saw that it was not random thorny branches and his own clumsiness in walking into them, but rather an assault from Forest itself. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I do not wanna be that random person on Twitter, going into threads and dropping Dat Cloud links that nobody asked for. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Frederick plucks random pieces out of his box and holds them to the light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She said sometimes random stuff popped into his head, but usually he doesn't know where he is, even though he's in his own house. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z They could imagine a virtual fire pit at any random point. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It still catches me off guard that this isn’t some random anomaly of a weekend. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z East German guards kept watch over random checkpoints, demanding identity papers for anyone wishing to pass through. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness and the silence he could see bits of light that appeared random on the night grid. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z These clouds were moving as the result of pure chance, the effect of utterly, random events at the level of atoms and molecules; their shadows speeding over the grassland had no meaning at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I think the various police agencies here and in the Soviet Union have gotten them all. The population is small enough now; everyone, sooner or later, runs into a random checkpoint.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was such a random name to call me that it cracked me up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Whoever thought digging up a random orange root—then eating it—was a good idea? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z When his father opens up one of the books to a random page, the print is far smaller than in the Hardy Boys series Gogol has begun recently to enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These random gunshots sent the younger children diving between the legs of their parents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “The Word is the Word, Sonny,” he said, running his finger along a random passage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I pull up some random fanfic on my phone, and then I take it down the hall. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I wonder if she just opens her mouth and waits to see what random thing will fly out of it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Assume that one of three possible symbols chosen at random is placed under a piece of cardboard and the subject is asked to identify it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Assume now that these batteries come off the assembly line in random order and are packed in boxes of thirty-six. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, these things do not happen at random,” Rariden said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I sat down on the bed and watched the other kids change into pajamas, swapping random camp tales. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I close my eyes and pull a random item from the bag. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Kaede had the impression that additional wings had been added at random, creating a maze of connecting rooms that opened here and there into sky wells and broader courtyards. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When his screaming got too pathetic to bear, our grim-faced mother brought in his cage and set it on the floor by the window, where Methuselah continued his loud, random commentary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Okay, real talk: I hate when people drop a random name like I’m supposed to magically know it. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z "Random questions" are the least random of all questions. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For they knew well that royal commissions were assigned at seemingly random intervals. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Maybe it will remain entirely random until the very last piece slots into place, when everything becomes beautifully obvious. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But they like hearing about the random cute boys I see on the subway. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude—the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z She had said she didn’t want her body found by random kids—and it made sense that out of everyone she knew, she would pick me to find her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He allows him a random act of violence that removes him from the dilemma of his life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z On its surface are arranged, seemingly at random, several bright pink objects not unlike those to be found in abstract paintings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d put on his best suit and stroll through the streets of Soweto on random afternoons, making everybody laugh and charming all the women he’d meet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Since the volatility of these last digits makes them essentially random, every number from 000 to 999 is equally likely to come up. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When we had all sat down again, Ms. Fender asked me to play a random interval—a C followed by whatever other note I wanted. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Three groups of them: the first got one grain per peck, the second one grain every other peck, the third was random. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the centre of the crowd stood an empty, makeshift throne of twisted scaffolding and stone blocks apparently yanked at random from the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street comer, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Even random stuff like yarn and knitting needles. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z To cite a simple example, the probability that a person chosen at random from the phone book is over 250 pounds is quite small. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She peeked out through her eyelashes and the random strands of hair that slid down over her face. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He picked a present at random from under the tree. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a powerful random character to the evolutionary process. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most everybody jotted down random guesses, but I took a ruler and measured the length of what we had and the length left to reach the floor. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He found a small pack of metal needles and chose one at random. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The rhythmic sounds might be the recapitulation of something else—an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate, random matter in chaos into the improbable, ordered dance of living forms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not a big deal. He’s just a random guy.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In my random sample, the low score was 9 and the high score was 118. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Miguel, “once we have more clues, we can use Sherlock Holmes’s famous ‘deductive reasoning’ method to make logical connections between all the random junk.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until we were all in the car, several blocks away from home, that I realized the random shirt I had put on was last year’s middle school band concert shirt. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z No tracks in the random patches of melting snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then some random scythe in the audience heckled. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z That their presence here was not planned, but random? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Sunset’s Passions,” he read, and opened the book to a random page to read aloud. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I let my thumb trace the cover of the journal, and before my brain could tell me not to, I yanked it into my lap and flipped to a random page. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I shrug and highlight random things in my math notebook. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In his rainy form, he was sluggish and warm and random. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “They are just a tiny bit random, Bridge.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Kneeling before the box, she opened the diary and read a random entry dated September 24th, three years ago. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She whips out these little snippets of random information, just to show off what an Involved Mom she is. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “Perspective drawing . . . algebraic equations . . . music theory . . .” Now giggling at the impossibility of keeping up, the children fetched books at random and stacked the volumes at their governess’s feet. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In 1936 he began a series of random arrests and executions that touched every aspect of Soviet society. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I always called him by some random H name, like Harry, Hubert, Henry, or Hogan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I started imagining possible cupcake recipes, listing all sorts of random ingredients in my head. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Whatever the cause, we see again how tied our existence is to random astronomical and geological events. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I am just another random girl in the halls—the freshmen will think I’m a senior, and the seniors will think I’m a freshman. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Trying to put a dinosaur together based on a few random bones and you don’t even know if they’re all from the same kind of animal. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z One minute they were talking about the crazy coincidence of having met about eight years ago at some random wedding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Occasionally he would ask a random question that he hadn’t gotten to in the past two days of interrogation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Wait, how do you know it’s not just some random guy named Hudson?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Someone had folded down the corners of several seemingly random pages. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Whenever I had my shirt off, he would make up some random comment about his artistic interpretation for the meaning of the scars on my back. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Gael could talk through the night about all kinds of random ridiculous facts, while Juan spent his days crafting a careful casualness and practicing guitar at all hours. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z So it’s not really dancing, it’s just random gyrating of her hips. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After stopping by a few taverns at random and not finding her, I walked back to the University, not knowing if I should be worried or irritated. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll take it away in some random direction and stick it on a migrating bird. See how the Specials like South America.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Cal’s running around dealing with the tech people, and it’s kind of a relief to just be hanging out with a bunch of random senior girls at the moment. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Some random cute girl from another school brings him water with her number scrawled on the cup, and he sees SJ slip it in the garbage when she thinks he’s not looking. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Did that wretched sign bring you? Because we’re not in the mood to design anything. Especially not for random people who haven’t made an appointment. Besides, the inspiration to create just isn’t there, is it?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z One possible way you may come to learn this: You’re in a town where every family includes a mother, father, and two children, and, picking a house at random, you are greeted by a girl. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 3.1: A random jumble of sound waves is heard as a noise. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She pulled a slim book off a shelf at random. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At church potlucks they play a secret game of dumping random cans of food in casserole dishes and pretending their grandmothers gave them the recipe. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But it’s not like having a crush on some random musician or actor or Harry freaking Potter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night sight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I open random profiles of those of her friends without privacy settings. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Tally blinked through menus quickly, picking a style at random. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I didn’t think it would matter which copy of his hometown I went to, so I selected one at random, near the equator. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I kept wondering who she was exactly, and how she could walk up to some random chauffeur and immediately get a ride. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z If you drew a blank card from the deck, that meant you could fill it in, assigning it a point value and an effect, the more random the better. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Unable to sleep, I sat midst the swarming darkness, starting at every random rustling and crackling that came to ear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “I double dare you to pick up the phone and dial a random number and have a conversation with whoever answers, like you know them.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Each day Citra would go out with Scythe Curie to towns that were selected completely at random. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We play the piece again, and when the school heaters stop banging and all the toots and random blats come together, it sounds all right. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z In the paragraph below is a list of around 250 surnames, all taken at random from the Manhattan phone book. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, they settled into the random camaraderie of men on the outskirts of a birth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Weekends consisted of sleep, Web surfing, shopping for random groceries and fast food, perhaps catching a part of a movie. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For days she’d been sneaking into the camp and stealing random items — eyelash curlers, a hair dryer, earrings, stockings. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Obviously, I’m not doing this. I’m not wasting my time searching for some random guy I talked to for five seconds. Okay? Can we just chill?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The countless small, unpredictable and random events that flow on continually often have no long- range consequences. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they pass those changes on to each new generation of cells through cell division, a random process that produces even more changes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Reaching into the waterproof bag, she pulled out a food packet at random. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Some messages use random letters instead, such as an “XX.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The electricity went off all the time, at random hours throughout the day and night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Or maybe it really was completely random, just something that happened. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Annabeth stepped around random bristles sharp enough to impale her foot, and clusters of...well, not rocks exactly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then, gathering my last wisps of strength, I pull out Secrets to a Happy Life, flip to a random section, and reread it in the dim light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cordelia takes off her mittens and scoops up snowballs, throwing them at trees, at telephone poles, at random. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She carried a bottle of Lysol in her car that she would often spray at random, only half-joking. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I like poker myself—of course, it’s rather a vulgar game, and no fun at all with two—but still, there’s a certain random element in it which appeals to me.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This is more than random chat to distract me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She shares quotes from famous novels, random facts about nature, or sometimes even song lyrics. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They popped up and down selecting random targets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Elinor was right; there was no point in simply running off at random. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Most people don’t realize that random events generally can seem quite ordered. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Scythes were supposed to be random in their choices, but this random? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He wasn’t going to fire any random ballistae again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Is the method for choosing exchanges and numbers random? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue lanterns dangle at random intervals above the stone paths, similar to the ones that lit the Choosing room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I’m not trying to be a jerk. It’s just that I’ve been getting lots of responses from random people, and—I guess I need to know it’s really you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Nine times out of ten, your European name was chosen at random, plucked from the Bible or taken from a Hollywood celebrity or a famous politician in the news. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And being hungry makes us talk about the most random things, man. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Bailey and Poppet take a more leisurely route, choosing platforms to climb at random, crawling up bits of white netting and maneuvering carefully through narrow passages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I even go around to the front where you rent beach gear, because I know that sometimes he likes to stand around and talk to random people. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was cluttered with a random assortment of boxes and barrels and bags: things he had taken from travelers, probably. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Sierra nodded, conceding the point, as Rutilio struggled back to his feet and hurled a random scrap of metal for Cojones to chase after. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She ducks and turns, seemingly at random, down a series of dark corridors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Honey, you can’t pet random dogs like that. It’s not safe. Look at how big he is. He might hurt you.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Just like the last time Mama walked in on a Very Important Conversation and he said something seemingly random as we were leaving that actually wasn’t random at all. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z There were records and info sheets full of scratched-out numbers and random words that didn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As he became more comfortable, we began to laugh about random things. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The children tried desperately to read it, but there were no letters, no words, no sentences, just random, disconnected markings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Then this girl Jacey, who said random things at moments of stress, announced, “In Brazil more cars run on ethanol than regular gas.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Almost at random he said: “Did you ever happen to hear an old rhyme that begins Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A meaningless swirl in the stream of time, a temporary gathering of bits, a few random specks, a cloud . Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wow!” said a random guy wearing a too-tight shirt as he entered the festival. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I find a scented purple pen and start to write about my trip, random thoughts and memories that I can maybe turn into lyrics later. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z And no one was considered to be even remotely beautiful, privileged because of a random twist in their genes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It’s virtually deserted, with just a few random people who seem to meander aimlessly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Select which book to hunt by title, location, or random selection—it’s up to you! Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly Aurora is out of my lap, clearing off random clothes from the mattress. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Matt and Karen clad themselves with random selections from various summer and winter uniforms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about how random it was that we had survived when so many others had not. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Nowadays, experts agree: There are many typeface variations in the First Folio, and they appear at random. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Ephialtes laughed as he pushed buttons on his control board, cranking the conveyor belts into high gear and opening random animal cages. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Select which book to hunt by title, location, or random selection—it’s up to you! Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I’m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z As I went on along the path I realized that a whole village or town was scattered about in the shadow of that slanting forest, all as random as Rer was, but secretive, peaceful, rural. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Tally pulled out the few clothes, which she’d shoved in at random, and found Shay’s note. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He was picking people at random now in his fury, punishing innocent people for the dead man’s effrontery. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he realized the man was tapping his fingers on the arm of his chair, but the tapping wasn’t random. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z So much might unfold from what you have—but you dedicate scores of pages to the quality of light and shade, and to random impressions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But in general the random character of the evolutionary process should create extraterrestrial creatures very different from any that we know. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet they just thought they'd have to give us gifts on random days—days that wasn't our birthday or Christmas. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z They were random, just patterns of dots on that strange pink sheet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We should all remember that our impressions of others are usually filtered in this way, and that our sampling of people and their moods is not random. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The solar cells and extra battery stayed beautifully in place while traversing eight kilometers of random terrain. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We play against each other plus some random kid being shadowed by his dad. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason, it’s clear they don’t select at random. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Kvothe motioned Chronicler forward imperiously, then turned to grab two thick glasses and a bottle seemingly at random. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I pulled a random book off the shelf and turned around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Opening windows here and there at random would take all night. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was talking at random, but Heqet pounced on the words. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Their flight last night had been wild and at random. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Your weapon will be random. Choose a slip of paper from the box.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At a gas station, Vivi enchanted a random woman to take us home with her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure if these are going to work,” Dari said as we put the finishing touches on S’meggs, sticking random twigs into jumbo-size marshmallows. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Because I trust your random guesses more than my own.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Werner can receive the BBC from the north and propaganda stations from the south; sometimes he manages to snare random flits of Morse code. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s coming from everywhere, a dozen different kind of beeps—loud ones, scary ones, ding-y ones, random ones. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Full of survivor’s guilt, he was surrendering himself to the random forces of the uni-verse, trying to punish himself for still being alive. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I figured he was yelling out random numbers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z A random part of his mind thought, I should lodge a complaint. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z His eyes focused blindly at a random spot on the wall. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He was all color, painted at random, but none of it highlighted his grief. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Obtaining random samples is a difficult art, and the pollster doesn’t always succeed. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of getting random answers correct, her students would show real improvement on the easier types of questions they had previously missed, an indication of actual learning. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She played with my hair, or told me the latest gossip, or brought random gifts that served no purpose other than to produce a shadow of a smile: A windup toy. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And what force would be stronger than me and my admittedly underdeveloped upper- body muscles wailing on the trunk with random tools? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We chose a road at random; walked for some time without seeing anyone. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There are shattered mailboxes, cars that have jumped curbs into hedges, and the kind of random debris that one generally doesn’t find in a turnkey community like this one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z That’s much easier said than done, because the process of change is random. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dudley crossed the hall and opened a door, perhaps at random. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I long for one, just one, rubbishy and insolently random and hard to get rid of and perennially yellow as the sun. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is your grandma serious about coming? It’s so crazy, going to these random places because of me.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z All these random things, they just kept flashing through my mind, and I let ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The morning was like that: hang around, stare at people, distract Jeffrey for a while, meet random new people who know all about my brother, stare some more. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As Tally watched it fade, breaking down into random lines and arcs again as the sparklers extinguished, she wondered if the words were really true. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I ended up knocking on a bunch of random doors till someone answered. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I’m sure she carries her parents’ credit card—her parents, who are married and forty-five and not dating random dudes with plural names. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He was disappointed that he hadn’t found anything to fix Uncle Wood’s truck, but the market was random and weirdly awesome, and he was definitely glad he came. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But then as she looked more, seeing us in random places we had never been, like Africa, she laughed and thought it was pretty cute. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Bea, perpetually the lone sober voice of the group, picks one of the suites at random and deposits June and Nora in the king-size bed and Pez in the empty bathtub. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then Miss Peregrine, apparently impatient to pacify Claire, took one edge of the book’s cover in her beak and opened it to a seemingly random chapter. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z At first only a few random words were clear enough to be understood: “Market...too free to be...obfuscate...” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z At random times Aru’s weapon, Vajra, liked to shift into lightning-bolt form and zip across the sky before turning into a ball and bouncing in front of her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t see them as random kids anymore. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z There were broken tables and tiles and random stuff piled in front of the closed door. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I grabbed a bag of chips, reached into my bag to grab my cell phone, a random lady tripped over me, and the next thing I know I was getting pressed out by the officer. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was a random shot, and yet the reporter's instinct was right. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I settled in a corner of the back seat with my notepad, ready for random thoughts. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I said I knew He picked them, but that He picked them at random. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He said it was so I would stay alert during my shift, but really I think he just liked to punch me in the arm for random reasons. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, in the dense alphabet forest of the page, little black tulips began to pop up in a quick, random pattern like falling raindrops. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Percy picked up a book at random—a tattered copy of A History of Horseracing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Only I’m not trying to save random innocent kids who’re running around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Martin shuffles his feet, still staring at this random point over my shoulder. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The old man had barely said anything since his stroke, but occasionally he’d blurt out random boleros from back in the day. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The myriad factors affecting innovativeness make the historian’s task paradoxically easier, by converting societal variation in innovativeness into essentially a random variable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One way to fashion an outline is to jot your ideas on a page or on index cards more or less at random and then look for ones that seem to belong together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And if we lived in an unpredictable world, where things changed in random or very complex ways, we would not be able to figure things out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m scared of my dad getting pulled into Secondary Security Screening at the airport for “random” questioning. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Once I heard the pattern, I couldn’t stop hearing it, and I spent the rest of the summer looking and listening for patterns in other random sources—the wind, clothes tumbling in the dryer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Another parent asks about the metal detectors, random pat-downs, and the armed cops. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Like the difference between hearing random noises versus hearing an orchestra,” I said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Listen, Sparrow, I know this may seem like a random question, but the school year’s almost over....” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But at least in the past I’d go trick-or-treating with her—even if my costume was random: some ripped-up jeans, one of Daddy’s work shirts, and some powder thrown on my face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And he orates random thoughts of profundity with such authority that you want to write them down and hang them on the wall, but they only allow writing instruments in the rec room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “To not having random sex with French dudes.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The whispers in the dark, random and soft, in the sinuous Orgota language that made Karhidish sound like rocks rattled in a can, ceased little by little. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A word dropped here at random, a question, a passing phrase. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My journal is still a whole lot of blank pages and some random observations that don’t seem all that interesting. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Twenty,” Lazlo reminded him, though in truth he couldn’t be certain, having chosen a birthday at random when he was a boy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Zoe got bored and started shooting arrows at random billboards as we flew by. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Almost never does a commentator say that the market’s activity for the day or even the week was largely a result of random fluctuations. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Honestly, you don’t understand how this works. People don’t insist on driving random people around for no reason.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It wasn’t impossible, since there were people selling things like old black-and-white photos of random people, rusty screws, paintings and drawings—some were cool and some were lame. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was an entirely random decision which, as you will see, turned out to be quite fateful. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The woman across the street waves at me while directing some guy gardening for her, but I ignore the random act. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He sits on the random folding chair that's set up behind the door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Suppose, for example, that I played you a number of different musical tones, at random, and asked you to identify each one with a number. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Good institutions are not a random variable that could have popped up anywhere around the globe, in Denmark or in Somalia, with equal probability. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The arriving students were milling about, some roaming at random, some in clusters, but as I approached, there seemed to be a distinct clearing around the palmetto. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I tugged at Otto’s ear and he, in response to the improvised game, swung his hand in the air, making a random Z. Bouain froze. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He strolled past booths, picking up random items as he dropped coins in their place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They came out at random, with no special significance attached to one or the other, and he talked about them neither with bitterness nor with self-pity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Enormous ice monuments tower in the landscape, erupting from the glacier at random intervals. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Blows were random, unexpected, and undeserved: a rubber truncheon across the back, a gun butt to the ribs, a kick in the rear or the stomach. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The clumps, runs, and patterns that random sequences evince can to an extent be predicted. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He complained about the conditions of his confinement until a random thought caused him to abruptly switch topics. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I approached from the stacks, sort of wandering out and casually bumping against the table to make it look like the whole encounter was completely random. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z At the Mexican side of the bridge, one in ten cars gets a red light and is pulled over for a random inspection. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But nobody really cares; they’re too caught up in each other or themselves to notice a random geek in their midst. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And they went to Junior Jay's, or the candy store, or the pizza place, or they went to CVS to buy random stuff. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Jerking the wheel, he turns off into a random alleyway and puts the truck in park. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Underlying the random drifting was a deeper, slower, universal movement, out from the land toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And there they were in damp cardboard boxes all strewn around some random room on the sixth floor. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I could feel a few random feet kicking me in my side, sideline suckers trying to get free licks. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z A walk of broken random flags, speared by fresh coarse blades of grass, led to the broken stoop. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda's desk. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well played. The grips deal with lighting. So fiddle with the light bulbs and see what you can do with that disco ball and all those random reflections.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Were here for the Shetani, not a random chase through the jungle.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There had been a few boxes of random Amazon merchandise in the front, and Ella shrieked with delight when she found a shipment of books. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A random series of events given meaning by someone desperate to prove there’s a design to our lives. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z So you walk the streets, and spout out randomness at people, knowing there’s nothing random about it at all. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Two other guards came out of the bus and fired random shots into the bushes at us in the dark. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Clinging on for dear life, Harry sent Stunning Spells flying at random into the whirling night. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Maybe random thoughts invaded his brain the way they often do right before you fall asleep. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They'll teach you to fight so you don't have to walk afraid—of the Stingers, of the cops, of the random crazies who go around making trouble. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He looks tired—he has dark circles under his eyes, and his short hair sticks out at random, like he’s been pulling it all night. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yep. There’s a combination lock—the kind with four wheels of random letters.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z He would disassemble the fifteen or so pieces and spread them at random on the table or floor, then see how fast he could reassemble them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z |
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