The base people eat the berries and vegetables from the community gardens, but the new people are punished if they do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are five hundred base people already living in Ro Leap. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people stood with the guards about the base. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My face is hot, there is cold sweat under my armpits and at the base of my spine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image she shared then—her sister’s frozen corpse at the base of the mighty pine—seemed to exhaust her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Was it relevant and based on sufficient and credible information? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had set up a classroom on the air force base, a cooperative venture with George Washington University, presumably available to all employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This module introduces several traditions that are very different from each other, but that are all based on modes or ragas rather than on scales: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The dead man was found at the base of the inner wall, with his neck broken and only his left leg showing above the snow that had buried him during the night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Matthew said as the three stood at the base of the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Blackberry burrowed his way into the moss and ivy round the base of the thorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bits had rotted out of the wood at the base of the door, as if someone had kicked at it in unappeasable anger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smearing the grease liberally on top of the third step, Foremole inserted the flat metal tip against the base of the fifth step. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, everything except the concrete base of the sign was demolished. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he tucked his tail and ran away, he’d have just enough juice to make it back to base. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was after six o’clock when I reached the base of the mountain on the other side and found a decent campsite beside a grassy, little-used logging road at a place called Baker Stream. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the facts on which you base protocols must be reasonably hard facts with unambiguous meaning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the balloons that hunted us on the beach were based here, and we’d unwittingly stumbled into a nest of wights? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But what stood out on this gray day was a bright yellow pyramid the size of a circus tent pitched near the base of the elevator. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Always pairing adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine meant that the base sequences of the two intertwined chains were complementary to each other. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Sohrab stood at the base of the ladder with his left foot on the bottom rung. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Most people at least have a dad to base themselves on—and either try to be or try not to be. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

After writing two books based on her experiences in the Hitler Youth, Melita Maschmann changed her name and moved to India. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He found a large rock he could use as an anvil base, and he pulled nails from his tool belt until he had enough to melt into a plate for a hammering surface. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In business, education, science, and so forth, most productivity is determined by an evaluation of employees or students, and funding is often allocated based on that assessment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to District Thirteen based on that? A shot of a bird? You think you’re going to find some new city with people strolling around in it? And that’s just fine with the Capitol?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Langley Air Force Base and Fort Monroe moved forward to integrate the housing and the schools on their bases; as federal outposts, they were bound to comply with federal law. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Quinn's campaign will be based on the fact that he claims I’m a robot.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Doha knew him to be a huge fan of Americans, although his admiration was solely based on the fact that they resoundingly beat the Imperial Japanese Army. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I was finished, we had an extraordinarily strong dam, which, like the beavers’, was much wider at the base than the top. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any time I bent over—to put on my shoes or pick up my bunny—it felt like I was being stabbed at the base of my spine. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“If they follow, lead them away from base, or you’ll answer for it. Sana, get the girl’s silver and let’s go.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I believe, on hunch, that an inventory of our major disease problems based on this sort of classification would show a limited number of important questions for which the predictable answers carry certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the elephants continued to dig away at the base of the pillar, it might eventually collapse, bringing down the roof of Kitum Cave with it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last good look I had at Mary Hudson, she was over near third base crying. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Winston Churchill, the British prime minister himself, sent warnings based on captured German codes to the Soviet government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We had put straw and leaves on the roof of our hooch back at the base to keep the sun from baking us, but it didn’t help that much. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed one car where a Drill Instructor from the training base on Biddle Island was holding his crying son in his arms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were quick on their feet, stole every stealable base at least once, and were clearly out for blood. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Moving the green dresser is easy as it has wheels at its base. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In the Pythagorean system, all tuning is based on the interval of the pure fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I poked a stick in the hole at the base of the rock trying to provoke him. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, as has been described in earlier chapters, the classical laws were superseded by quantum laws based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. But you have to understand—you were the exception to the rule. And I didn’t want it to be based on deception. Which is why you’re the first person I’ve ever told.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The den entrance was right beside his own bed at the base of the chimney. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Scheduled to run that summer, the show would consist of one-hour dramas based on familiar novels and stories. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He found the Air Force base all right, barricaded, walled, fenced, with keep out signs starting a mile away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We left only two men behind to guard the base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I tightened my grip on the horn, making a decision, based on another kind of instinct, not to surrender my hold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A singing game is an activity based on a song verse, which has actions or movements associated with it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The most secure system was based on a one-time pad. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The offending piece was Theodora, a setting of a libretto by his friend Thomas Morell, which itself was based on an account of the early Christian martyr by Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was enough light, it was established, from stars, and from the cloud base reflecting streetlights from the nearest town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Built of white limestone and pink Aswan granite, the Pharos had a tripartite structure based on a vaguely Pythagorean geometric theme, with a square-sided base, octagonal middle, and circular upper stage. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Is the rule based on some crackpot theory, such as that English should emulate Latin, or that the original meaning of a word is the only correct one? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t tell me your client base isn’t feeling the pinch?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The spear crashed into the base of the claws. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He assigned each of the twelve notes in the scale a different colour, based on Opticks, Sir Isaac Newton’s 1704 study of light, colour and diffraction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The wheels on her metal base make a strange screeching sound when you move her, too, no matter how many times Lolo oils them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They knew that this would provide a base of strength for their children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we got to the base and the sergeant doctor went to work on me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They carried their catch to their base, which was about five miles from the shore. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only things left behind at the base of the wall were a walking stick, a washboard, and an enamel cup, lying on its side. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the bases turned inside, they had to be jammed and tucked against each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Around two thousand years ago, Hopewell jumped into prominence from its bases in the Midwest, establishing a trade network that covered most of North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“No. I used geometry and focused on the parabola of my shots. I also knew exactly when to feed you the ball, based on timing and patterns I was seeing on the floor.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

You can kind of measure how crazy you are based on how soon they want to see you back. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not remembering which of the bases had amino groups, he could not qualitatively describe the quantum-mechanical argument until he asked Chargaff to write out their formulas. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When the onions are sizzling in the pot, Mama throws in fresh ginger, tomatoes, and spices to create the masala that forms the base of all her meals. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was aware that the European Community and the States were inclined to relax sanctions based on Mr. de Klerk’s reforms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin got to it first, getting down on his hands and knees and peering at the rocket’s base. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It may also refer to a single movement or piece of music with a form based on the constant repetition of a single short section. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Garzoni’s and della Porta’s facts are based not on a collective knowledge, on a shared understanding, but on direct, personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Spanish landfalls in the Americas were at subtropical latitudes highly suitable for food production, based at first mostly on Native American crops but also on Eurasian domestic animals, especially cattle and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later they struck another American base, killing ten more. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, French, you gotta trust that people are making decisions for the better of the community based on things they know that you don’t.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Melodies are based on raga, which is a set of pitches similar to what we think of as a scale, but with many more non-musical characteristics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As Taran’s eyes grew accustomed to this yellow twilight, he made out a heavy, studded portal with a slot at the base. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The band was offered a record deal with a medium-size label based in Seattle and now were busy in the studio recording. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the occipital bone, the posterior base of my skull,” Rachael said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A guide on the right-hand side of the page recommended various styles based on body type. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That silly legend was based on us, you fool. We are empousai, servants of Hecate.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For example, based on a single phone call, I have begun to hope for a miracle. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The only groups that didn’t run numbers based on testing worked in the small Theoretical and Physical Research Division and the Stability Research Division—the “no-air” engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if the entire operation, this bus station-turned-military base, had been arranged for them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Two irregular sequences of bases could be regularly packed in the center of a helix if a purine always hydrogen-bonded to a pyrimidine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Kids found one another based not on the color of their skin but on who was outside and ready to play. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She waddles over to the knotty base of the tree and sits. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"Every few minutes. Sometimes there's a gap, based on the satellite orbits. But it's enough that we can track all his EVA activities." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the arrangement been otherwise, we would use base eight or base twelve arithmetic and relegate base ten to the New Math. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An important difference between the new Indian number system and the Babylonian style was that Indian numbers were base-10 instead of base-60. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At least, I must go limp, because I find myself at the base of the flagpole, unable to account for the last few seconds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As the crowd grew, it spread back along the Mall, stretching around both sides of the long reflecting pool and extending beyond to the base of the Washington Monument, three-quarters of a mile away. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They turn right and left, past a walnut tree like a giant charred toothpick jammed into the ground, past two crows picking at something unidentifiable, until they reach the base of the ramparts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He also carried a military title, thus outranking Burr with his honorary designation as “General Hamilton,” based on his last appointment, that of inspector general of the New Army in 1799. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Access to the snail’s interior was gained by a child-sized tunnel, maybe two feet high, at the base of the tail. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The trunk twisted like the arm of a dancer, and below, on the lip of dirt, the base widened. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” she answered, playing with the tiny pink flowerets at the base of her collar. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain George Crowninshield had built a lookout there for him on a high point—a solid granite base, with steps leading up to a seat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Calvin stopped replying to his letters, Servetus, based in Vienna, continued to send a stream of increasingly vituperative correspondence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lester placed the spotlight at the base of a tree nearby. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It took all three of them to raise the chariot, but finally they’d managed to haul everything ashore to a black sand beach near the base of the glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The heavy-muscled drink wrapped its sweet aroma around his head and struck at the base of his nose like a blow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard herself repeating what Fin had told her on the beach at the Academy: “All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of these features distinguish Jomon people from observed modern hunter-gatherers who shift base every few weeks, build only shelters, and burden themselves with few and easily portable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For all the banter that flies back and forth between Volpe and his students, it is a collaboration that seems based on respect. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A narrow tongue of land made a landing beach at the base of the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

With their thick, clumsy bases, my mugs weighed in at close to five pounds each. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were at the base of the sandstone mesa, which was now dark purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward on his desk and intertwined lean fingers with tufts of brown hair growing at the bases. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, HUD policies excluding people from housing assistance based on arrests as well as convictions guarantee highly discriminatory results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the decision were based on that, she'd be chosen easily. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed weird to me that the government specifically chose the Colorado forest instead of a military base. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The heavy weight of four muted funerals weighed on her head, funerals based not on physical bodies but on her words. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And based on my decisions, a film will evolve—one that has the power to start conversations and get people talking about things like feminism and art. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He resumed his now-usual position, his forehead against the base of my neck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded up the civilians—men, women, boys, and young girls—hiding in the huts and houses, and made them carry our loot back to the base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She based most of her decisions—who she’d date, what classes she took—primarily on how fun it was likely to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

How the piano and xylophone, the cymbals and drums hold them up like a base color. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She could have let her fingers stray to the base of his flat stomach. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doing so is sometimes termed the “broad base” fallacy, and we’ve already cited a couple of instances of it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not in Chicago at the same time—Penn has been based in Europe since the early ’30s. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Tiny gas jets allowed compressed air to squirt out under this base, causing it to rise a fraction of an inch off the surface, so that the machine floated on a cushion of air. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thus started wondering whether each DNA molecule consisted of two chains with identical base sequences held together by hydrogen bonds between pairs of identical bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Even during good films I found it almost impossible to forget the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Growling, he sniffed around the base of the tree, lifted a leg and marked it with a stream of urine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A little bingo is an old-school baseball term that means get a base hit. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

"He said, `Can they climb it?'" answers Peeta, drawing my focus back to the base of the horn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to second, stood on the base and shouted for the ball. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I plant it at the base of the pole, careful to position it so that the explosion will break the pole in the right direction. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once I had the record of the case, I could put together an appeal, usually based on some judicial irregularity such as bias, incorrect procedure, or insufficient evidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe bestowed praise—based on a particular thing a student had written, said, or acted onstage—and it resonated for life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The theory of Burt’s involvement in the murder of Bigheart and Vaughan, though, was still based on circumstantial evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You could say I covered all the bases. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A little girl about six years old peeked out from behind the base of the statue. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sprint around the bases and jump on home plate. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It was caught on a bounce and thrown to Sidney Goldberg, but by that time Danny Saunders was standing solidly on my base and the yeshiva team was screaming with joy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They are waiting for the base people to come and take them.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many soldiers at this base, and it is easy to recognize them because they wear identical loose-fitting black pajama pants and shirts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heartbeat feels as though it is in the base of my throat, uncomfortable and loud. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy is suffering and we have no medicine here to lessen his pain. Everything is at our former base.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I knew the glow was my imag-ination or an optical illusion based on the fact that the light coming from the basement was bright while the rest of the house was so dark. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had left his father and was trying to scramble up the base of the Abbey wall with the small dagger clenched in his teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Boyle and Newton believed in the transmutation of base metals into gold; but they were excellent judges when dealing with other empirical questions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The neighborhoods it draws from are often called blue-collar, but that is an outdated notion, one based on steady union jobs at U.S. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the air, Allied planes based in Great Britain were raining bombs on German cities and industrial sites, killing tens of thousands of civilians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts,” she wrote, “and...as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more and more happy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was based on the floor plan of the house I lived in at Victor Verster. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family forgot about her, her best friend betrayed her, her crush...well...she wasn’t exactly sure what June was thinking, but based on her silence and tears, it couldn’t be anything good. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Those philosophers only sit in their churches and issue judgments based on inaccurate texts from Concordia,” her mother said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Thorn were suddenly at the base of the tree, looking up with matching worried expressions. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Facts are based in experience and they are refuted by experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The speech both indicated our line of defense and disarmed the prosecution, which had prepared its entire case based on the expectation that I would be giving evidence denying responsibility for sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stalled their ship while turning from base leg onto landing approach. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Every product made in this typical Amish kitchen is based on what nature provides,” one of the girls said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had our own kind of fame, based mostly on the rich girls' supposition and our own silence. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I strapped the life jacket that had been attached to the footrest oar to the base of the mast. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faded purple wreath leaning against the base. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I actually laughed and, spotting a honey-free place near the base of the statue, worked to get it covered up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the operation over, the exhausted men had put the unused mortar shells back into the cases, stacked them in the truck, and driven back to the base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the top of the quarry were grass and palm trees, and at the base was a clearing with a few old metal sheds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, sixth grade: Tiny was playing third base, and I was at first. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“There are ribbons of electromagnetic material in the lining of the bookcases. The strength of those magnets will be modulated by our maglev computer based on the call number you input.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Because, after all, there really was something ridiculously out of proportion between the verdict such certainty was based on and the imperturbable march of events from the moment the verdict was announced. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And if I was caught in a rundown between bases kids would point and say, “Once again, caught in a rundown by his own mother!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The public will judge this sentence based only on the media—very few of the public will do anything to educate themselves about this problem.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first afternoon following the discovery that A-T and G-C base pairs had similar shapes, he went back to his thesis measurements, but his effort was ineffectual. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Guys, this is Rae Chin, though I assume you already knew that based on the way you’re all looking at her,” Coach says. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They are put in camps to grow food, make tools, work as porters, and train as soldiers on bases like ours. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Housing Rights Act of 1968, making it illegal to discriminate in the housing industry based on race, had lingered in Congress for years, vehemently opposed by legislators both in the North and the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As Alex rounded second base, Rex passed the center fielder and was closing fast. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Because our whole lives are based on dumb stuff,” Link insists. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The score was 10 to 2, and though the Chinese rookie never got on base again or caught even one ball, Shirley was confident that the next time...next time, she could. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The probable cause showing could be based on nothing more than hearsay, innuendo, or even the paid, self-serving testimony of someone with interests clearly adverse to the property owner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, but that is because countries in Europe were based on exclusion and not, as in America, on inclusion,” Mark said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the handle, leaned my weight against it, and staggered as it snapped off at the base. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even more important, these hydrogen bonds were present at very low DNA concentrations, strongly hinting that the bonds linked together bases in the same molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Somebody had hooked up portable speakers to a phone, and people were dancing all around the base of Horn Rock. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I could be sure that I had the correct structures when I drew tiny pictures of the bases on sheets of Cavendish notepaper. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Moreover, though each base has two flat sides, no explanation existed for why only one side would be chosen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The next two days on Cape Torokina were spent setting up our base and strengthening our position while small parties tried to follow the trails that led farther into the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a challenge to him to needle the Negro into acts of a baser nature, into open physical conflict. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the roadless North Slope had fewer wolves than it did before the gussaks erected their military bases and brought airplanes, snowmobiles, electricity, and jeeps to the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next seventeen years he was based at home in The Hague and devoted himself to the scientific study of nature. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Capitol reinforced these and set about making the mountain their new military base. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His role was to keep the official scorebook and put down the code that marked every measurable moment of the contests: hits, runs, strikeouts, stolen bases, errors, wild pitches. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A typical Raven’s test consists of forty-eight items, each one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based on how many items are answered correctly. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

One of the crossbowers clapped his hands, and two bodies in camouflage stepped out of the trees at the base of the hill, bows pointed at us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then he pulls Werner behind this makeshift bunker, unscrews the base of a grenade and yanks the pull cord to ignite the five-second fuse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I felt the bile burn at the base of my throat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then they drive a few hundred yards, enough to build the base of a triangle, calculating distance all the way, and Werner switches on the primary receiver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My work computer was built into the chair’s circular base, and it activated itself automatically when I sat down. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But its exuberant canopy is a mask covering an impoverished base. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She laid down a base of brown paint. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Medill accused him of nurturing the city’s basest instincts but also called him “the most remarkable man that our city has ever produced.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing wrong with it was that it seemed not to be based on the text it was explaining. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a small hatch at the base of the door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Articles accused their detractors of basing comments on brief medical bulletins and newspaper reports, hardly enough to make a diagnosis. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In just nine years, from a base of zero, he became the leading authority on American plants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It also leads many other music traditions to prefer tunings other than equal temperament, particularly tunings in which some of the important intervals are based on the pure, simple-ratio intervals of physics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Gently Mama called her from the base of the ladder. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He developed an admiration for her based on fear. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to judge, based on a story, what he might really have been like. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Still, there was a clear pecking order based on this accommodation, and he lorded it over the others. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The outfield is playing shallow, because if there’s a base hit, it gives them a better chance of throwing Luis out at the plate. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“You can also tell her that all stereotypes come from some form of truth. So they had to be based on something. Maybe Jasmine just looks the part.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Jalil had taught her that gray clouds got their color by being so dense that their top parts absorbed the sunlight and cast their own shadow along the base. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he served two years moving between different military bases. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We started off reasonably slowly, and I got my first glimpse of the base. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a scar zigzagging across his left cheek and one running from the base of his nose into his lip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

These were heretical ideas in the eyes of a Church based on the concept of the Holy Trinity. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not included in the News of the World: a shot of my father’s AKA transport ship leaving Coronado naval base, heading west. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The two with the hammer and the crowbar were drilling a hole near the base of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He lowered them to Warbeak, who was waiting below at the base of the arch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He reached for the ticket of the woman in the nearest seat, who—based on the numerous crossword puzzles scattered around her—appeared to be a Talented solver. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Generally, it was late in the evening after I got back to my rooms that I tried to puzzle out the mystery of the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“You walk into dangerous territory when you make judgments against a person based on limited interaction.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

True, we had yet to deal with the irregular sequence of the bases that faced the outside—but this difficulty might vanish in the wash when the correct internal arrangement was located. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

"There is now little doubt," Michael Coe, the Yale archaeologist, wrote in 1994, “that all later civilizations in Mesoamerica, whether Mexican or Maya, ultimately rest on an Olmec base.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A long line had formed at the base of the Eiffel Tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He saw it as building a fan base for his future as World-Famous Rock Star. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Each word felt like it was being engraved at the base of her heart, cutting into her, burning, and she picked up the second photo and turned it over. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He’d had the base of the statue engraved with the following: Mom and Dad didn’t get it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But each time I tried to come up with a solution I ran into the obstacle that the four bases each had a quite different shape. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the base of each god’s statue. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy had based his astronomy on measurements, just as Kepler did. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I typically stretch my legs across the backseat and work on a crossword, but this morning, I can feel the beat thrumming at the base of my spine, almost like it’s inside me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She reached level ground and made her way around the base of the hill, crouching low to the ground to duck under the smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Lannisters had piled brush around the tower's base and set it afire, but the stone would not bum, and Lorch did not have the patience to starve them out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I realized, of course, that this might be because my theory about the old D&D module was completely lame and totally off base. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then, when Marshall discovered that the wooden base of the Diana statue was hollow, and one side was a little loose, they had a perfect secret vault for the storage of sacred records. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could scarcely believe what it said: I had been nominated for the international peace prize of Kids Rights, a children’s advocacy group based in Amsterdam. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

From the American base in Japan, Horan and other members of the 3rd Recon were deployed into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he had gone halfway around the lake, and had jumped up twenty or so birds, he finally gave up and sat at the base of a tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after his arrival, Louie was standing at the base, sweating and despairing over the landscape, when a squarish second lieutenant walked up and introduced himself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He gives Nana a silk scarf and a bag of her favorite licorice from the base commissary—it’s German. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of toppling to the ground next to the base it was once connected to, it hung diagonally in the air, as if on strings. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Koffi noted with a pang the bandage near the base of her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"It's opening doors on behavior. I mean, literature is good. But the literature of the future is going to be based on genetics, not on environment. Believe me, the stuff we are learning is heavy." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At some point I lay down in an irresistible hollow at the base of a tree and urged Mother and the others to go on without me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on a stump at the base of a ragged old shagbark hickory. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I parked at an information center at its base and set off into the welcoming green woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“At least until you get to the base of the neck.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet below that, a highway emerged from the hill’s base and wound its way toward Berkeley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They had before them the basest of crimes, a crime made worse than sordid by the fact that they were dealing with a monster, a man without morals. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We sit at the base of the George Washington Monument, squeezing close for shade, our legs stretched out before us in the long afternoon shadow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“My status, Foaly, is extremely annoyed. Get on your computers. I want to know everything there is to know about one Artemis Fowl, and I want to know it before I get back to base.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All summer long, kids playing punchball—hitting a pink “Spaldeen” ball with your fist and then running bases drawn in chalk on the streets—had tried to steal home to copy Robinson. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That would give them a chance to get inside and look around and hopefully spot either Ashley or, based on my description, Candy. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock, Toomer drove his mule and wagon up in front of Fogle’s General Store at the base of the bridge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took them outdoors, bid them sit at the base of a tree, and laid it on the line. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Started at third base my junior and senior year. No one cared that he was gay—not the players, not the coaches, not the fans.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Numerous studies have shown that prosecutors interpret and respond to identical criminal activity differently based on the race of the person charged with the crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And since the other bases were set wherever a slab of granite showed its back, they weren’t playing on anything you could rightly call a diamond. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All I got was a faint hum in the base of my skull. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We paint a white base coat in silence, and when it’s almost dry, something cool splats against my cheek. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Three strong hydrogen bonds can be drawn between guanine and cytosine. make the two types of base pairs identical in shape. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Many governments, agencies, and foundations base their policies, foreign aid, and loans on this explanation, by making the development of good institutions in poor countries their top priority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Catches us ALL off guard, but especially me: during this rotation, I’m at third base. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

As we had for the last six years, we took time on Christmas Day to visit with service members and their families at a nearby Marine Corps base. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the base of that, the land rose hundreds of feet in jagged steps, as if chopped with a giant hoe. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Gashes the size of football fields would appear at the mountain base, leaving a desolation of broken roots and upturned trees where once there had been a forest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This was, it quickly became evident, the base of the first big hill, Frosty Mountain, and it was immediately taxing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place where neighbor loved helping neighbor, based on a long-standing tradition that ranchers always left their homes unlocked because you never knew who might need to borrow something or cook a meal. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Watson tried to jam the two helices together, with the A on one strand matched with an A on the other—like bases paired with like. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Vivid flashbacks of the battles he’d been in and the mortar explosion at the base crowded his mind. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It is a guess based on a lifetime’s experience with robots. You had better rely on such a guess, Stephen.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The idea that the value of goods was based on the amount of labor that went into them seemed particularly appropriate for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legion was arrayed at the base of Half-Blood Hill, its five cohorts in perfect order, its standards bright and proud. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Workers hurried around the base of the derrick. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naval base, a deep water harbor, and a Marine airfield had all been taken over by the Japanese when they invaded Guam on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also discovered, among the piles of stones at the base of a cliff, some stones whose shapes suggested the possibility of their being crude tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a pair of gloves from Abuela and got onto my hands and knees to help spread the dirt around the base of the floribunda bush. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Inside was a black-and-white bull’s horn, the base jagged from being broken off, the tip splattered with dried blood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I borrow a glove from a kid on Del’s team and make my way to second base. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I explained in our last class, onions form the base of most Pakistani curries,” she intones like a college professor. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Though I was equally anxious to build the complete model, I thought more about Linus and the possibility that he might stumble upon the base pairs before we told him the answer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The blowing snow had covered the ashes at the base of the pyre and crept up the dead man’s leg as far as his ankle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I found this at the base of the Whomping Willow,” said Snape, throwing the cloak aside, careful to keep his wand pointing directly at Lupin’s chest. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cobblestone courtyard, a dozen shaggy cow creatures were sniffing around the mossy base of an old stone well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Act Two: The Door and the Boy I sit there transfixed as a second shadow figure grows upward from the base of the window. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She did not have to run far in order to see the broken pile of rubble at the base of the tree. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Throughout the long afternoon, Matthias lay hidden at the base of a lilac bush. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The upshot is that physics had two theories, based on conflicting premises, that produced the same results. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Homes may be searched for drugs based on a tip from an unreliable, confidential informant who is trading the information for money or to escape prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The drive to the Towers of Silence wound around the base of the mountains outside Yazd. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

None of this is in the playwright’s script; Courtney is writing a backstory based on what she imagines and what she knows of real life. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not long after I return the cab to base, Audrey pulls into the lot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The lumbering Time Suck had just reached the base of Fry High Boulevard, where its path was blocked by the cars. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But we spent the night there, turning the pagoda into a little fortress, and then for the next seven or eight days we used the place as a base of operations. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no desire for power, no taste for politics, and no skill in base flattery.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And there were few relationships among us at Devon not based on rivalry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Methodist minister was a Reverend Jones, a nervous and gloomy fellow who had been based in the Congo during its revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the magic was all based on lies. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he didn’t seem so far off base. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Carved from the base of the Wall and closed with heavy wooden doors, the ice cells ranged from small to smaller. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m thankful, in a way, that what I assumed would happen based on that flag symbol didn’t really happen at all. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

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

No one devised this grammar, and no one wrote down its rules, but they came to be generally understood for the simple reason that they were based on the paradigm case of geographical discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I used blue painter’s tape for the diamond, flattened shoebox tops for the bases, and a balance ball for the pitcher’s mound. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And there, at the base of the impregnable anchor, where smooth mesarthium met the stones it had crushed two hundred years ago underneath its awful weight, was the solution to Weep’s problem. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To the edge of the woods we headed, finally coming to the base of a fig tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Much of the training was based on SAS methods and this included the numbers and makeup of each team. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She misread Spiro Teluman—he is a man and so, in her mind, is only capable of a man's base appetites. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If the stain were shaped like a circle, or like a square or a triangle, it would be easy to figure out; just take a ruler and measure its radius or its height and base. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The secret had to be in the combination of bases. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The base of the cliff was large boulders, some of them slippery with damp moss on their shadowed sides. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After that, we wandered in the forest searching for a new base before the wet season started. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was only supposed to feel that smooth base when the tree tips were green and the swallows were awake and singing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A second problem arose with fitting the bases inside the helix: the precise measurement of the outer backbone became crucial. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Sam,” Bando says, pointing to the logs, “I need to saw these lengthwise—down the middle from tip to base.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

That means that all modern humans arose from a very small population base, which would explain our lack of genetic diversity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had just switched over to catcher from second base—partially because my coach realized I noticed stuff like a shifted stance—and I was still getting my bearings. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Later, the judges would score the surviving eggs based on durability and bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From the veranda above them, Lillian called down to her husband, “When are you going to check in at the base, sugah?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I traced the white road winding round the base of one mountain, and vanishing in a gorge between two; how I longed to follow it farther! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He realized a young woman was standing only ten feet from the base of the boulder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m further reassured when Peeta casually tells me the power is off in sections of the fence because crews are out securing the base of the chain link to the ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped walking and leaned toward me as if to hug me, but simply put his hand near the base of my neck and spoke into my ear. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I suppose perspectives change based on events. What’s most important is that I hope this week will be better.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The hasty moments together, the locked doors and base contrivances, the guilty manoeuvres which the husband’s presence forced on his lovers—these had the effect of soiling what had no excuse unless it was beautiful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her drakon-bone sword over the base of the chains. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hurley sarcastically parried Neylan’s questions about his associations with liberal organizations while Latimer quietly seethed at the injustice of a proceeding based on hearsay and FBI files that the accused was forbidden to see. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He shuffled off, picking up stones and throwing them out into the water, loitering by the base of the bluff, and finally Dicey saw him climb back up by Sammy. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only answer that I can give to this problem is based on Darwin’s principle of natural selection. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She maneuvered all three of them back into position at the base of the tree and implored them to stay, just for a few seconds this time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

What Netscape did was bring a new killer app—the browser—to this installed base of PCs, making the computer and its connectivity inherently more useful for millions of people. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pushing my shortened hair behind my ears, I stepped onto the ledge at the base of the rock and placed my hands against its cool surface. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Not that I have any real context, since I’ve only ever been to third base with a boy, and it was on summer vacation with a dude I met at a teen dance party. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

All of this was absent not only from my high school textbooks, but from the academic accounts they were based on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was at the base of the L, looking up the long part with the short part out to his right. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perceptions of the individual based on their gender and race influence all of us in all areas. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“We expected many of you to do well based on your performance over the two years. But when the results came from Pretoria, we found that many of you had failed.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She truly cares about us and never judges us based on appearances. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The officers on the base took action on the Major Major problem later that same day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In any case, a symbol for zero—the placeholder in the base-10 numbering system—was certainly in use by the ninth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was one of those places that custom-creates the ice cream, mixing the base with candy or nuts or fruit. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would take fifteen drops from the base formula—which was kept in Mother’s sewing cupboard, where it would not be used or polluted—and add them to a small bottle of distilled water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Celeste’s giant hair roll reached the top of her ponytail, she grabbed another hair band and wrapped it around the base of the bun. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Going a bit further back, Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech, as it became known, was based on a classical allusion: “Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lawyers typically have little information about potential jurors, so their decisions to strike individual jurors tend to be based on nothing more than stereotypes, prejudices, and hunches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He had a system for predicting how a horse would do, based on what horse was on either side of him, based on their emotional relationship,” Ekman remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Princeton doesn’t give out athletic scholarships, but many of our tennis players receive financial aid based on need. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Griegson’s orange pickup was parked on the old dirt road at the base of the fir tree. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Galanter shouted, “Goldberg, move in!” and Sidney Goldberg, our shortstop, took two steps forward and moved a little closer to third base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Branch had chased a small lizard to the base of a tree and was watching, frustrated, as it slithered up the trunk beyond his reach. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood back and pointed at me, and I was so scared I puked near the base of the fence. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And I know, based on who appeared on my list, that not everyone answered honestly. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Their mounts subsisted on the tough brown devilgrass that grew in dumps at the base of rocks and dead trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Root caught up with Foaly at the base of the north tower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Gene regulation works through the transcription of DNA into RNA—which depends on base pairing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ben slides the Cog along my neck at the top of my spine, until it catches in the indent at the base of my skull. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She moves to the bridge and starts flinging fluid all over the knots on the closest stake, shaking out the last drops into a puddle at the base. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His face and neck and a F-shaped triangle at the base of his throat were darker than the rest of him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His heavy, dark eyebrows, the curve of his cheek, the line of his nose, the hollow at the base of his neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To do so he took another job as a traveler, this time with a nursery company based in Portland, Maine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The group made several circuits, sipping champagne and smoking cigars, then exited the wheel to the cheers of the crowd that now thronged its base. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So in building models we would postulate that the sugar-phosphate backbone was very regular, and the order of bases of necessity very irregular. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Night patrol from the new base was something else. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

More dirt spilled from the base of the arrow wound in his throat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The naval base and port were also a prime target for Russia’s Red Army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Logan was at the base of the mountains, too, the ones that defined Utah in so many ways. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He began to dig at the base of the sycamore. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hab is normally a dome, with flexible support poles maintaining the arch and rigid, folding floor material to keep its base flat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you drop something from the top of a tower it should fall considerably to the west of the base of the tower. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is parted just off-center, a bit crooked at the base. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset the wind died, and the ceiling lifted 150 feet off the glacier, enabling me to locate my base camp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the base of a blossoming bush. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They are now given joint credit with Linde for what is called “the new inflationary model,” based on the idea of a slow breaking of symmetry. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glared at the crowd and gave the wheel a hard spin that nearly knocked it off its base. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, calculus was based on faith. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was Cade’s own shirt he used to press against the cut, which was just at the base of my skull behind my right ear. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Neither of us had ever heard of the others’ squad or base or the lieutenants who were in charge of the squads. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Under MacLean’s direction, the college also established a US naval training school, effectively turning the campus into an active military base. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Failing that, if contact was absolutely necessary, a series of thumb jabs to the nerve cluster at the base of the neck would be his chosen modus operandi—quiet as a whisper. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

O’Dell sat the rocket on its base and then used a rock to hold it steady. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our lawyers, who were based in Johannesburg, had trouble seeing us in prison and were unable to prepare our case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detective Geyer testified how during his search of the house he had opened the base of a chimney flue that extended from roof to cellar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are six or seven base women stirring and scooping food from the pots. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a high tide, one block away and six stories below, lapping at the base of the city walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He lay face downward at the base of a tree, his fingernails digging into the scuffed earth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Inning by inning and run by run, we chipped away, and a minute ago, we tied things up when I scored all the way from first on Luis’s base knock to right. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I blinked the blood from my eyes and saw it was one of the brass balls from the ring in the table base. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Castro promised a more equitable society based on communist principles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty-three-year-old lieutenant got out his binoculars and scanned the landscape beyond the fences of the American base. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And after years of bumbling, potentially crooked investigations into the Osage murders, White needed to weed out half facts and build an indubitable narrative based on what he called an “unbroken chain of evidence.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Also, she had seen the working party gnawing industriously at the base of a tall poplar. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mom likes to make fun of his career as a jarhead—his “extraction missions,” because technically he worked as a military dentist and never actually left his base. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Huygens had always suffered from ill health, and although he was based in Paris for the next fifteen years, he twice had to return to Holland for lengthy periods to recuperate from sickness. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Plus, based on the last couple of days, the Runner was home hours early. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Farmer could only make guesses, based on the wreckage he returned to at Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The system of mass incarceration is based on the prison label, not prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few scorings, and small flake-like splinters near the base, were all the marks that it bore of the fury of the Ents. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One lone chemist had suggested, insistently, that the bases of DNA must have something to do with each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s rather interesting; I had based our estimated taxes on a historical rate of return of approximately 10% annual yield. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collective clothing lies folded at the base of each bed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s tricky work. The shark is a moving target and you really need to get that tag right at the sweet spot at the base of the dorsal fin.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“And this—Tokyo—was the city that Ren answered for. Maybe everyone else also responded based on whatever city they’re physically located in.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After we recorded an episode, we sat whispering in her room, talking about what we could have done better and how to expand our viewer base. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reached the base of the columns and squinted up at Coach Hedge, who was precariously perched at the feet of the Athena Parthenos, unravelling ropes and knotting a ladder. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"All your charges are conspiracy based," Newman replied. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At this key moment, as analysts scrutinized the U-2 photographs of Soviet bases in Cuba, one of the secret documents handed over by Penkovsky earlier that year took on a special significance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after taking office as AEC chairman in 1953, Strauss expanded Project Sherwood, an Atoms for Peace program aimed at developing electric power reactors based on nuclear fusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Very little is known about his life, but among the works he left for posterity there was a great summary of astronomy, based on 500 years of Greek astronomical and cosmological thinking. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Yes, an orphan, poor thing. One of our farmers found her, wrapped in blankets near the crossroads at the base of the mountain." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The dandelions at the base of the telephone pole. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hale had clearly lost patience; his face was flushed to the base of his neck. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They passed out of sight, and then a rope ladder unfurled from the ledge, unwinding all the way to the base of the cliff. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The shock of his freezing hand on my flushed skin made me flinch, but it was the explosion of pain at the base of my skull that made me cry out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This base had existed for some time, privately financed by interested parties. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They finally discovered a tumor, awkwardly located at the base of his skull, and declared it inoperable. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Pressing against the faint warmth at the base of the chimney they settled down for the night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned back and dug at the base of the perch until it toppled and fell. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someone had slathered wet cement over the “Knowledge Not Shared Remains Unknown” motto chiseled into the fountain’s base. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The queen dubbed it “the Chrysopoesium”—from chrysopoeia, the transmutation of base metal into gold—and she wore her necklace of his hair when she came to present it to him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We always destroyed the bases we abandoned so that other squads wouldn’t be able to use them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go out alone. News from the warfront is they’re cutting power to residences tonight to save energy for the airfield bases. So stay put, okay? The streets’ll be darker than usual.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I only managed to cover a small corner of the base, maybe five square meters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bead of condensation drips down the side of my milkshake, settling at the base of the plastic cup. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Serving size is based on your age, height, body type, health, and amount of physical labor required by your schedule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He wears a tent-sized silver sweatsuit with maroon splashes along the sides, zipper pulled to the base of his throat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still weak from her tropical illness and pressed for time, she was forced to hire others to etch and engrave most of the copper plates based on her paintings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But even thinking that was off base, because there was no comparison. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After coffee, Watson capitulated: perhaps the backbone was on the outside, and the bases—A, T, G, and C—faced in, apposed against each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But of course it was based ... on assumptions that were totally false. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They based this speculation on the hard lessons learned during the twentieth century about the behavior of children of similar character. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

With both Robett and Galbart warring in the south, it would be lightly held, and once the castle fell the ironmen would have a secure base in the heart of the north. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For each question, you will have ten seconds to make your selection on your phone screen. Lemoncello.it will instantaneously calculate your score based on correctness and speed of answering. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two rocks then slid back to their original bases. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That seating chart accounts for all the rational numbers—it assigns each of them a seat—so we can count them off one by one, in order, based on their seat number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She leaned over so the receiver was close to the base. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Word spread that it was oil, and Chief White Halfoat was kicked off the base. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He said that people had rearranged God’s order by segregating the races and that the Civil Rights movement was attempting to restore a rightful order to the universe based on biblical principles. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And we were playing touch instead of tackle, so the entire game was really based on speed and ball handling. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The lake reached closely to the base of the hills, obliging Taran to splash through the shallows. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When we were in New York, we found that our favorite restaurant had a soup-starter base that would replicate its famous soup at home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they reached the base of the beech, she lifted him to the first branch, saying, “Go on. Go on. I got you.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a bra with stiff wire along its base in order to lift them up. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then they took a group of traders from Wall Street across New York Harbor to the military base on Governor’s Island and played war games on computers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Roz turned, and with her long strides, she carried her son away from the gravesite and over to the base of the sea cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Danny Saunders screamed in Yiddish across the field, and more out of obedience than awareness the third baseman put a foot on the base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He fieldstripped the carbine—it was full of sand—and cleaned it as carefully as he could under the conditions, sitting against the base of the seawall with his steel helmet unstrapped. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the crowd at the base of the bridge. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then finally the command came for them to take the frontline trenches at the base of Missionary Ridge, which towered like a steep wall opposite Lookout. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the Iron Throne, Varys was gathering papers from the council table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Sherman and I got within arm’s reach of our Auk, I inspected its base. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He found that the hypnotic, seemingly repetitive and endless patterns of these drum- and mallet- based styles did not in fact stay the same: instead they changed subtly with each reiteration of the phrase. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the morning, all the ground and aircrews would drive or fly home to their base to repair damaged planes and get some sleep. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She noticed how passionate Sasha was about everything—their conviction that the ancient Greeks were better than base ten, that cats were better than dogs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How long would it take before Carlos was back at his base? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On December 9,1938, under the new name The Campbell Playhouse, the Mercury team presented a drama based on the novel Rebecca. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

By then we didn’t mind, for the evidence favoring the base pairs was steadily mounting. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They honed in on the sound and followed it into the alley that ran along the base of the anchor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Orders were sent to commanders in the field in Virginia, chasing down leads based on early but false information Stanton received from tipsters. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both were long chains made of four components, called bases, strung together along a stringlike chain or backbone. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was his responsibility to determine each candidate's "fitness" based on how fluent they were in English and how well they knew America and its culture. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The acorns were scattered around the base of a lightning-struck oak a few full-bounds north of where he had last seen his boy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The girl nipped nimbly round the lions at the base of the monument and joined in the rush. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For that, the AEC gave only conditional approval, with the final nod to be based on the Mark Is performance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thick knobby whorls of the same brown extended from the wall’s base. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the second, she constructed the cake, using cardboard bases and straws for supports, and made the basic icing to cover the layers. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Japanese planes bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then don’t get mad at her if she never does what you ask her to do,” Bertha harped, stirring some flour into a gravy base in a frying pan on the stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Miranda was told the proper way to apply it, in swift upward strokes beginning at the base of her throat, he spun the lipstick carousel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The people, I said, wanted democracy, and political leadership based on merit not birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These may have been the base from which Homo sapiens launched its first transoceanic enterprise: the invasion of Australia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was based on the realization that all living things have within them an isotope of carbon called carbon-14, which begins to decay at a measurable rate the instant they die. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone is also entitled to performance bonuses that allow them to earn, in certain cases, the equivalent of 100 percent of their base salary. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once, after my dad caught an earful of their conversation, he rushed over to the phone base and stabbed the button down with his finger to disconnect the call. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Maurice was busy when, just before four, I walked in with the news that the Pauling model was far off base. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They committed ecological suicide by destroying their own resource base. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The children leave one base and run toward the safety of the other. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, at the base by the main entrance annex. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She snapped me at the base of my wig. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A wrestler’s ranking is based on his performance in the elite tournaments that are held six times a year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He tottered to the base of the bluff and fell over. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two dragons like the first rose up from the base of the highest tower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something suddenly fell out of the hole at the base of the skull—fell through her fingers and rang as it hit the floor, and she nearly dropped the skull in alarm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There at the base of the tree, a girl was lying unconscious. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at the base of my trunk on her blanket. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Crack—I loved the sound of the bat hitting the ball. Loved running ’round bases and sliding into home.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Conceivably, adenine equaled thymine because of a yet undiscovered role in the ordering of the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She ran faster, the hard rectangular object beating painfully against the base of her spine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know how many base children there are in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see one PSF or camp controller—not until we were at the base of the stairwell, stepping over, but mostly on, the three prone black figures on the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It finally ended in defeat in April 1939, when the patent office rejected the claims finally and decisively based on the prior publications by Cockcroft and Walton and by Lewis, Lawrence, Livingston, and Henderson. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to see why McCandless decided to make this his base camp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered this one day when I ate so much algae at the base of a small tree that I exposed its roots. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This bident was six feet tall and protruded from an obsidian base. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s an old military base,” Mark offered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Well, some words ending in s are also the same in singular and plural: series, species, and headquarters, which can mean a base or bases. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With most people I could tell, even if I couldn’t see their faces, just based on how they hung their heads. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They constructed its base walls with sand- stone blocks, the array interrupted every ten feet by rectangular stone pillars that are easily ten feet tall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though the Marine Corps put its bases in the South, he could never accustom himself to the sad fact that he was inevitably raising southern children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was not much more than a tall man’s height now, and at its base there were wide flat shelves of dry stone; the water ran in a channel on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the girl standing at the base of the monument, reading or pretending to read a poster which ran spirally up the column. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’m on the second nine when I feel his foot punch the base of my spine and I go sprawling forward onto the grass, the wind knocked out of me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This approach led Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and Paul Dirac in the 1920s to reformulate mechanics into a new theory called quantum mechanics, based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax sniffed the tree and the base of the wall thoroughly, but he could find no trace of his boy now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

An old deflated football sat in one corner, at the base of a Virgin Mary statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I trudge along the base of the cliffs, watching the horizon pale as the sun rises. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or soldiers on trucks from the bases in Norfolk. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knot at the base of my neck loosened. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths—by telling different stories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed down the interior steps and into the enemy base. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Borrowing one of Farmer’s famous lines in debate, Jim said, “On what data exactly do you base that statement?” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then she was posted to RAF Maidsend, an operational base for a squadron of new Spitfire fighter planes, not far from Canterbury, near the Kentish coast. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Somewhere deep in the Heart of Stone, I relaxed, glad that the master’s irritation was based on Hemme’s angrily abridged version of the truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother proud and small, her black hair twisted into a bun at the base of her neck, a silver star glinting at her chest like a sheriff. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Einar left a pile of rocks beside the base of the path and told her to add one more to the sack each day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ice floats because it has a broad, flat base, which cannot push downwards through the water. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as the falls start falling, the valley opens up, wide as the sky itself, taking the river that starts again at the base of the falls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This may mean that the people who lived in what is now France used a base-20 or vigesimal number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had a considerable power base from strong religious and ethnic loyalties, and he was harboring and sponsoring four different terrorist organizations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Near the chimney base he clawed out a cozy wolf bed and settled in. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I loved watching her go over her lessons and rework them based on what worked and what didn't the day before. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

An uncomfortable tingle started at the base of Jason’s skull - the same feeling he got when a huge electrical storm was about to break. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You do that. Then come back in the afternoon so we can touch base again.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d take her double position at shortstop and second base and yell out to the rest of us, “Look alive, you bunch of stiffs.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, Aurora’s booster seat is easy to detach, but the base of Hector’s big hulking car seat is a different story. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Fights based on race or the way someone dresses are just ignorant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been reared in a family proud of its academic accomplishments and its mixed blood—in fact, they believed the former was based on the latter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no interview or anything, getting in is based pretty much only on your artwork. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We emerged at the base of a cliff, on a plain of black volcanic sand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

China had developed intensive agriculture based on millets in the north and rice in the south, and with domestic pigs, chickens, and water buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Olympic trials track finals would be held in New York in July, and the Olympic committee would base its selection of competitors on a series of qualifying races. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Carlisle ran into the ball, and then raced Jasper to first base. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The employees came together for extracurricular activities based at the laboratory: in 1954, Henry Reid appointed Chubby Peddrew to serve as one of the directors of Langley’s inaugural United Fund Drive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My stipend was a predetermined amount of money—based on world ranking—to defray the cost of training expenses. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I looked like a bloody turkey with its head cut off as I circled the bases. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They set up a base in one village and waited for a Miami assault. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Its square base stretched maybe fifty feet wide and ten feet tall, with an intact facade of Corinthian columns rising another twenty-five feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“They use pork fat as a base,” he said. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She asked Papa to seal the base of the tent by piling extra dirt, about six inches high, all around it outside so that animals, especially snakes, could not crawl underneath during the night. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie figured it was based on their mood: most happy ghosts glimmered yellow, while sad ghosts like the one sitting next to Miss Alice were outlined in shimmering blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nina and Inej were tucked up against the base of the biggest dome, a filigreed skylight that overlooked the embassy’s entry rotunda. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the air base turned in the direction of the fat-bodied transport plane that was bringing foodstuffs and airplane parts to Smythe Field, and Bull Meecham back to his family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feldman has also reached some of his own conclusions about honesty, based more on his experience than the data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My right foot caught the block tower right in its base. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They told me that they had been randomly selected, too, and asked by their commander to follow the men who visited their base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But many other musical traditions around the world are not based on Western scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The villages that we captured and turned into our bases as we went along and the forests that we slept in became my home. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Especially not when Joe DiMaggio was swinging the bat with two men on base. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A sharp pop pop pop came from the base of the sacred tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Cambridge band was communal while the one at Oxford was based on nuclear families. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my position on first base, I glanced behind me now and then. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The IBM machines used the inputs they received to make calculations based on the orbit determination programs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ernest recognized that the rapidly rising stature of the Rad Lab in worldwide physics was based partially on its generosity to other universities seeking advice, manpower, and radioactive products. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She shuffled up to its base, again marveling at its construction. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Standing at the base of the massive concrete supports that formed the foundation for the bridge, Claire measured it with her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She went on to say, “Things are based on seniority around here.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two of the hives crashed off their bases and fell into the road, one of them striking Mac Pettus on the leg. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the two sources Danny had quoted contained a biblical verse, and his father asked him who else had based a law upon this verse. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is no broadcasting of material but, rather, concentrated application to the base of the trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the split second he was turning around Peanut Abbott cracked into the back of Ben’s head, his forearm shivering against the base of the brain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Known as Wally, she was a flight instructor at Fort Sill, an army base in southwestern Oklahoma, when she picked up the Life magazine featuring Jerrie Cobb. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Orff developed the concept of elemental music based on the synthesis of the arts of the Greek Muses, which combined tone, dance, poetry, image, design, and theatrical gesture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My mother would later make an observation about the Stewarts and their new community, based on the fact that almost all of their neighbors on the street seemed to be white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Food production based on eastern U.S. crops alone had been insufficient to trigger the boom, for reasons that are easy to specify. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Carlisle was marking bases, but could they really be that far apart? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Anderson faced the now hushed and expectant crowd that stretched across the Mall from the base of the Lincoln Memorial all the way to the Washington Monument. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Galanter stood alongside third base, shouting his words of encouragement at us. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The historical record makes it perfectly clear, to be sure, that Jefferson was orchestrating the campaign of vilification, which had its chief base of operations in Virginia and its headquarters at Monticello. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a National Orphan Train Complex based in Concordia, Kansas, with a website that includes riders’ testimonies and photographs and a link to FAQs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to take one from here down to its normal base this afternoon. It’s not top priority but it’s got one of those “S” chits, secrecy and a report required. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were three leaves rolled into the shape of a triangle at the base of a tree. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how can I make decisions based on love when there is no one left to love? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was the demons’ calendar, which was based on the movements of the sun with its fixed number of days and months and its seven-day weeks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we had gone back to base to get the rest of the squad, we would have missed capturing their supply of food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He picks up my suitcase and carries it to the open cargo compartment in the base of the bus. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was an improvement on her overall look, but based on Mom’s reaction, she didn’t agree. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As one of her admirers observed, “She has plenty of nerve and is as sharp as a steel trap. She moved her base up north and continued speaking out in cities around the country. “ A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s based on the concepts of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” and it’s about how The Taker cured his loneliness at his old school through nonconformity and inconsistency. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that’s the word. This hotelier brings him these parts. Now, this fence used to be a doctor, and he knows how to identify a skeleton’s sex based on, I don’t know, measurements.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he heard it, the man tipped his hat down a little over his eyes, hoisted his trousers and thought about the hollow place at the base of her neck. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m happy to, but you should also take lessons. There’s a Korean-language school that is based in our church. We can sign you up to take Korean class with kids your age.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On what, then, will the economy of this separate nation be based? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

At the base of the pole from which the light bulb hung were three seeming haystacks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth’s primordial ocean, which came into existence not long after the earth was formed, about four and a half billion years ago, may well have contained microscopic life forms based on rna. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On May 6,1 set up a base camp on the ice cap just northeast of the Thumb and waited for the airdrop. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My account of Shawn’s fall is based on the story as it was told to me at the time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I walked away from him and took up my position near the base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It participates in the pathos appeal inasmuch as it stirs an audience’s emotions to laughter—but more importantly, it participates in the ethos appeal, inasmuch as laughter is based on a set of common assumptions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The notion of blood purity based on a family’s history of being Christian traveled to what came to be called the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Notice the freshly dug soil at the base of that oak tree? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She passed young saplings clustering around the bases of the tallest trees like children surrounding their mother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The need for nets, in Haas’s view, gave the inland cities the whip hand—Norte Chico was based on farming, like all other complex societies, although not on farming for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Alongside them, in the years between 1653 and 1691, a third argument developed, an argument which was based on the new language of ‘matter of fact’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Leaving my basket at the base of the willow tree, I climbed onto a strong limb that grew aslant the brook. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ser Corliss lit the first pyre with the torch, then thrust it into the wood at the base of the second. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The artifact was based on the possibility of reviewing every morning, from beginning to end, the totality of knowledge acquired during one's life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

People’s image of science is unfortunately often based on physics and a few other fields with similar methodologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the story of the steam-powered boat is based on a misunderstanding: Papin had built a boat powered neither by sail nor oars, and the boat was indeed destroyed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’ve never got past first base or gone to the prom or got detention for PDA. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We were so scared for you! We thought it was strange when he took you to the woods, away from the base. We kept our eyes on you, then you disappeared!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree’s roots, thickly twisted and fanning out like huge, grasping fingers, snaked out from its base. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Each strand of DNA, recall, is a long sequence of “bases”—A, T, G, and C. The bases are linked together by the sugar-phosphate backbone. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Because I said we’re going to the base,” his father answered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The graduates then headed off to stateside service at bases like Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ground zero for the navy’s flight test activity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

During an eight-year career playing for seven major league teams, he became known as one of the greatest base stealers the game had yet seen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On the base, from left to right, are Kepler in his study, a map of Brahe’s island of Hven and a printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now her cane finds the base of a wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His freedom wouldn't be based on some tricky legal loophole or the exploitation of a technicality. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet, meanwhile, adjusted the tilt so that the posts were upright and then packed the sands at the base. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her judgment was as swift as it was dismissive, probably based on a quick-glance calculus involving my grades and test scores. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My blade hit the base of Luke’s and I twisted, putting my whole weight into a downward thrust. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought she’d drowned the girl, but then he saw a flash of pale clothing on the rocks at the base of the island. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stood a penny in a slot on the canopy of cloud and pulled the lever at the base. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The economy was based on farming, but in most countries, Jews were not allowed to own land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Your next term’s tuition was based on your performance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

President Bush's order was closely based on former president Roosevelt's proclamation to try the Nazi saboteurs in a military tribunal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, science is based on experience; it is open to correction by observation and experiment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She reached across with her left arm quickly, into the debris that formed the thick base of the nest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They simultaneously attacked nearly every major city and many of the military bases. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the base of the captive balloon, Manager Morgan ordered his men to grab mooring ropes and hang on tight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not on what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I, when there, have precipitated him to their base. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm just too old and worn-out to share their excitement over such innocent pleasures as a boat ride down the Seine or a potluck picnic at the base of the Eiffel Tower. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They chewed through whole paragraphs describing the naval base, the destroyers and submarines docked at the pier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Supporters of Garfield's doctors rushed to their defense, saying that the negative comments were not based on direct observation of the patient or of the autopsy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s the base for us to put the subfloor on. Then the house,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Holly sat on the edge of her bed, fingers curled around the metal base. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Pong had never been to a temple before, but based on what he'd seen in books, this one was on the plain side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jackson then launched into a sermon on God's will, which he described as patently proslavery, based on several passages in the Bible and the pronouncements of every Christian minister in Georgia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"One in three, based on empirical data. That's pretty bad if you think about it." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Coca-Cola mystique had always been based on its famous secret formula, unchanged since the earliest days of the company. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“An hour off base. There’s room for one more, if you’re free.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Newsflashes declared that Martians had defeated the military and taken over its bases. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Near the base of the waterfall will be the field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Joly, also of Trinity, decided to give Edmond Halley’s ocean salts idea a whirl, but his method was based on so many faulty assumptions that he was hopelessly adrift. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But the real stumbling block was the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The boy pointed to a lamp base on the second shelf, and then to himself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers came into the house and told the sergeant doctor that the lieutenant had sent them to help take me back to our former base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They are called “base people” because they have lived in the village since before the revolution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, there’s a show based off this series. My Fabiana couldn’t put the books down, and now she’s glued to the TV every week. I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as my daughter did.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They reach the base of the ramparts and turn right, following a lane Marie-Laure has not been on before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A propaganda song, “Footsteps,” was circulated at military bases to prepare the cadre for the coming of a dynamic “Young General.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His conception had been much more conservative, based in fact on the New Year’s party at La Ida, but if it was going to be like that why Hughie was willing to take credit. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the base of the Statue of Liberty was made of granite mined from Cape Ann quarries. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s based on small family farms like Salatin’s, which practice true sustainable farming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-one, he was sent to JBLM, a joint military base south of Tacoma. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s guaranteed, but based on what Dr. Cook just said”—she smiles—“I may have a job.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If it landed before being caught, you could run the bases. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A light sheen of sweat forms along my hairline at the base of my neck as I move down the row of doors to find 206. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I finally had a stable base, and I went from being a guest in other people’s homes to having guests in my own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delilah is writing the obituary based on the interview her boss didn’t fire her over. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Another palpable temptation is to pretend that none of this has happened, to deny any accusation she makes based on whatever remnant of memory remains. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I dared her to saw down the yield sign on Strevell Avenue, one of the last street signs in town with a wooden base. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Applicant 1: “It should be based on accounts, then, where I can grow, I can grow in my career.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the makeshift alchemical laboratory in the windowless attic of the crematorium, a small blue flame touched the curved glass base of a suspended flask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For both of those reasons, all developments of economically complex, socially stratified, politically centralized societies beyond the level of small nascent chiefdoms were based on food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Pyramid shouldered eight hundred feet into the sky, from its huge square base to the lofty apex where the queen kept her private chambers, surrounded by greenery and fragrant pools. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1925, when White was still based in Houston, Hoover expressed outrage to him that several agents in the San Francisco field office were drinking liquor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Papa used to hike along the creeks that channeled down from the base of the Sierras. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried frantically to get the Courts to issue a stay based on the new issues we'd uncovered, to no avail. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In one year alone he stole ninety-two bases, a record topped only by the immortal Ty Cobb, who had stolen ninety-six. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I forgot that the reason I had these students as freshmen in the first place was that I was told, “Things are based on seniority around here.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bando finds some shelled beechnuts and hazelnuts lying at the base of a hollow tree near the grave. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord Hamlet, it seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trusts only his sight and is a slave to his base desire!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I gathered a handful of fronds, cut them at the base, and tied the bunch tightly with a piece of twine. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took up my position near second base, and Sidney Goldberg came over to me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the base of the devil tree, exposing its roots, was a deserted animal burrow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Deciding who we were just based on what it said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In October 1967, he drove from his base in Norfolk, Virginia, to the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Those rules are only guidelines based on patterns discovered by the theoreticians, which is why there are usually plenty of "exceptions" to every rule. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Data scientists analyze data, separate the noise from the signal, discern patterns, draw conclusions, and recommend actions based on the results.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Love knows no limits; it sees no distinctions based on birth or any other characteristic. A prince may love a seamstress as much as any princess.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Among them was the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who later wrote Little House on the Prairie based on her experiences. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, a rumor based on a kiss has a snowball effect. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The pain in my left eye was so intense I could feel it in the base of my spine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I followed the épée group into the adjacent cafeteria, where we were broken down into smaller groups of ten or so based on our ability. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I took my bag without a word, the beginnings of a headache rumbling at the base of my skull. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They hid the boat in the reeds growing at the base of the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I follow another path and find a deep groove at the base of her pointer finger. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’s never even uttered the word, but she’s covered all the bases regarding ablution, hair removal, and the power of kajal—the sooty black eyeliner favored by generations of South Asian women. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course it’s all based on averages—we can go days or even weeks without gleaning—but we must meet our quota before the next conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Only by the most special pleading could I imagine the polynucleotide backbone bending enough to accommodate irregular base sequences. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Keenan opens the door at the base of the stairs before Sana can knock. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In tonal music, just about any melody is allowed, as long as it fits into the harmonies as they wander away from and then head back to their home base. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She knew better than anyone not to underestimate opponents based on their appearance. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a deep indentation at the base of where two bushes overlapped. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I scrambled up and picked handfuls of capulfs, then leaned over to hand them to her, and she made a little pile of berries at the base of the tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four wall frames stand vertically from the base of the trailer bed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, they wandered off and watched from the stands, whispering behind their hands while I rounded the bases, arms pumping. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I am mean and I am cheap. Sometimes I am a coward and often times I’m selfish. I ain’t a beauty to look at. But I am not vile, shameful, base, or depraved!” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty steps to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls to the mouth of the alley that grows ever narrower. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hitchhiking back to base for the next assignment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Until 1946, Japanese schools taught a myth of Japanese history based on the earliest Japanese chronicles of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thin-slicing” refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Johnson agreed to send two battalions of combat troops to protect the base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Galanter screamed at him, and Sidney stopped at first and stood on the base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They made crisp, mesmerized treks from base to base where the men perfected the martial arts and where families settled into counterfeit security for a year or two. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had been in the South Vietnamese military and worked with the Americans at the Da Nang Air Force base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the base of the gun, a basket was filled with more edible ammunition. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The windows acted like skylights at the base of the dome, allowing sunshine to flood into the room below. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

This meant that each cipher was based on an ordinary book—one that the sender and receiver both owned. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even there, people were ready to make assumptions about me based on how I looked. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The golden spire shuddered as boat after damaged boat was thrown against its base. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tree held the base while Zheegwon carefully made his way up, testing each rung with his rubber boot before putting weight on it. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, contortionists are either front bending or back bending, depending on the flexibility of their respective spines, and their tricks and performances are based upon this distinction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A constant and steady supply of broken planes coaxed back to repair sites, new ones delivered from factory to operational base—all flown by civilian pilots, no instruments, no radio, no guns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But Garfield's case is difficult to analyze based on historical documents alone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And amazingly, in those countries where people pick their foods based on custom and taste, the people are actually healthier than we are. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One of the most useful of these is the scale based on the dorian mode, which is often called the dorian minor, since it has a basically minor sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They worshipped figures in Staff God poses, lived in networks of vertical exchange, and had public architecture with designs based on templates from the coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is an odd-looking choice, especially since most human societies chose 5, 10, or 20 as their base number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lying low made sense because we were up the creek with models based on sugar-phosphate cores. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Once again, the pairing of bases is used to build the gene back. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

More doilies, a big lamp with green-and-gold base and white shade. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It featured a hummingbear, spitting water into the air, the base black from its brush with the inferno. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The fantastical creatures and characters, on the other hand, were allotted a much more exotic and complex musical palette, often based on the so-called ‘Octatonic’ scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A single strand of DNA consists of a backbone of sugars and phosphates, and four bases—A, T, G, and C—attached to the backbone, like teeth jutting out from a zipper strand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if he were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Once a shoe had a good base, it was a simple matter to restore its brilliance when the shine faded. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transport rolled into a parking garage at the base of the circular tower and descended a series of concrete ramps until we arrived in a large open area resembling a loading dock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He would select the delegates himself based on their qualifications. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He felt Spider crawl underneath his shirt at the base of his neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He is at the base of the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I nodded, like of course I knew the movie was based on a book. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise opera, or dramma per musica as it was known in its first, Italian century, spread from its power base in Venice to Naples and Rome, and thence north into Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was too easy to assume that their behavior toward me was based on some sort of racial or religious prejudice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Could my religious beliefs be based on such convoluted history? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Farther away another dark creature slashed through the water, and another; of course they are based in New London, and this is their home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fundamental structural unit, on which the whole design is based, is the arch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, folk, blues, rock, marches, and Classical-era46 music is based on relatively straightforward chord progressions, but of course there are plenty of exceptions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Which is calculated as a number between 0 and 5 based on the difference in attraction to each other. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A few base children who have not yet gone home stand there now watching us with frowning faces. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the war approached its peak, every single American military airplane in production was based fundamentally—and in many cases in specific detail—upon the research results and recommendations of the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The plan was to first secure the village, then remain there and form a new base instead of bringing the goods back. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In Karhide/Orgoreyn years are not numbered consecutively from a base year forward to the present; the base year is the current year. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He set the trash can down on its base and began to speak. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

One of his last acts as president was to place on file in the State Department his rejoinder to Bache’s accusations, which historians have long since discovered were based on forged English documents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No one followed Beethoven’s lead in reflecting emotion through nature more passionately than his near contemporary Franz Schubert, also based in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Go, Gogol!” his classmates shout on golden autumn days as he runs the bases or sprints in a dash. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or target the electric grids of Batalla or the airfield bases, cut their power and shut them down. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Attached at the base of each one is an aerosol dispenser used for terra-forming. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At that time, based on my job performance, it was possible I would be offered a permanent position with IOI. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She spotted the sphere of winds at the base of the foremast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s at the base of the chair now,” Joe whispered, and Finn shivered with anticipation. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rather, he established a base line which enabled others to make priority claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Griffith, however, did not go along, since for some months he had preferred a scheme where gene copying was based upon the alternative formation of complementary surfaces. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was coming to them, although a great deal more was due. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to laugh, but instead of laughter, she feels ticklish wings unfolding like a fan at the base of her throat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His quickly pushing the bases together in a number of different ways did not reveal any other way to satisfy Chargaff’s rules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The man slipped his hand into his pocket, removed a ring of keys, and deftly unlocked the case, sliding out a mirrored base on which the necklace rested. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

For Galileo’s rejection of the view that success in science can be based on rhetorical prowess, see below, p. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The scale is of course more an idea than an object, an arbitrary measure of the Earth’s tremblings based on surface measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the base of the dark cave, the mini-chinchilla scrambles through the vine curtain. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

General William Westmoreland, the commanding general of US forces in Vietnam, pointed out that the American air base in Da Nang, near the border between North and South Vietnam, was now vulnerable to attack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her bright fur shone at the base of the large pine that towered over the meadow, the pine under which her sister had died. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he wondered whether his own logic was faulty, since he based his arguments on geometry, whose infinitely divisible lines automatically reject atomism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sitting at my desk, I removed the stopper from the base of my Einstein-in-a-lab-coat piggy bank. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Aureliano wrote the name on a piece of paper that he pasted to the base of the small anvil: stake. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Westward the view was blocked by the base of the great turret that stood at the back of this upper court and reared its horn high above the crest of the encircling hills. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I found white dust at the base of the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Then she ran the tap at the base of the cistern. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Georgia Governor Zell Miller, in 1998, proposed sending every newborn in the state a copy of a classical CD based on this supposed “effect.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Bob swept his broom around the base of the altar, occasionally crouching to study the ground as if looking for something. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Galanter was shouting from alongside third base, and I took two steps back. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Smaller than a pack of gum, Mind’s Eye attaches to the base of the skull and inserts microfilaments into the brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He realized that the base pairs could now easily be stacked atop each other, facing inward into the center of the helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the snow began to melt, the ground around their base became so thick with mud and slush that supply trucks couldn’t get through to them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The iron cage moved downward at the end of its long chain, creaking and rattling, until it finally jerked to a halt a foot above the ground at the base of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, the ‘corpuscularian philosophy’, as Boyle called it, was based on the teachings of Epicurus and Lucretius, opponents of all religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Malcolm never stopped pursuing truth and the right course, based on the best information he had at any given moment. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’m my own Aunt Matilda: when I was a kid I once dreamed of hitting a grand- slam home run and two days later I hit a bases- loaded triple. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She got a promotion. Now she'll be at the headquarters, based right here in New York." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To Clinton, this was proof that Washington was establishing a base camp for his assault on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the third Crab manages a sharp grounder, but shortstop Khyler scoops it up and fires it to Laury at first base before homegirl can get there. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I’d packed the new bottles of Rescue Remedy, but the base formula still sat on the counter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her scouting parties had secured it as a forward base for the legion’s assault on Camp Half-Blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They took the extra precaution of securing the bound guards to the base of a stone slab. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nymeria was waking for her in the guardroom at the base of the stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The choppers came in and lifted us out, and we were back at the base before we knew it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert and Galileo were developing a new type of science, based upon systematic experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Sure, sure. Thing is, it takes a while to build a client base.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were too close to the tree, close enough to sniff it, they could only look up at the base of the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She smiled at me and might have said something, but I got a strange feeling near the base of my neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have another base left over from what is now the trailer balloon. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the steps, several Amazons in camouflage were having a heated argument while a young woman— Queen Hylla, Hazel assumed—watched and listened from her throne. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were to be hostels and inns and seasonal study centers, and eventually permanent woodland villages—“self-owning” communities whose inhabitants would support themselves with cooperative “non-industrial activity” based on forestry, farming, and crafts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten to loosen the nets at dusk and sweep the base lines, making sure they were securely tacked into the clay. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the other side of the town square some base children scurry back home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All fall she’s been worrying about where to apply to college based on where her boyfriend—Derrick—is applying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But upon close inspection, the information invariably traced back to the same dubious sources: private eyes and local lawmen, whose opinions were based on little more than hearsay. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t simple. They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In these and other modal traditions, the rules for constructing a piece of music are quite different than the rules for music that is based on a scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Under pale blue skies, he drove along the base of high, sheer basalt cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The protests of the workers this time were based on the lack of sanitary facilities in their living quarters, the nonexistence of medical services, and terrible working conditions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Racism operated as a deeply held belief system based on “truths” beyond question or doubt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the stars as she thought of a story to tell Mother, whose jar rested at the base of the cliff with the rest of Nhamo’s belongings. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He convinced her that she was “too pure” for his base “animal instincts.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of my training, I was transferred to a base outside Atlanta, Georgia. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California- based aerospace industry, and the boom was on. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The decision not to attend the fight was not based solely on my hatred of boxing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magazines and newspapers are notorious for announcing biased results based on responses to questionnaires appearing in the periodical. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andean societies were based on the widespread exchange of goods and services, but kin and government, not market forces, directed the flow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After leading the geese toward Montreal, Mr. Lemoncello drifted down to buzz and salute the statues perched atop the pillars at the base of the dome. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brunner parked his wheelchair at the base of the handicapped ramp. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of his neck was the mark I’d seen before—the dark shape of a bird grafted to his skin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the floor was placed a machine which looked like a floor polisher with a circular base about a foot and a half in diameter. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 437th was based on the Stalingrad Front and had already lost several pilots and even more planes in the now furious battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It was base,” he said indignantly, “it was ignoble.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parole board officials maintained that their ruling was based on the grounds of Hale’s advanced age—he was seventy-two—and his record as a good prisoner. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Over time, as inherited wealth smoothed the rough edges, their descendants morphed into American high society and evolved a signature style of living based on understatement and old- fashioned patrician values. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She handed me a plant, which had a clump of dirt and roots at the base. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a small hole in the base. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They ran to the center of the base. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sarge asked us to be runners—guys who sprint back and forth from regiment to base camp, getting orders and supplies. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Word was that the man sitting by first base was a scout for St. Louis, out to scout a pitcher. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

De Klerk, a friend of mine, informed me that the three South African climbers and Charlotte Noble, their team’s doctor, had resigned from the expedition before even getting to the base of the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the scholars didn’t even know it was there, but the librarians did, because they used it as a shortcut between the stacks and the reading rooms in the base of the tower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She flexed her fingers, repeating the maneuver again and again, until the steel base left deep welts in her finger joints. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This time he felt the bone at the base of the brain and he hit him again in the same place while the shark tore the meat loose sluggishly and slid down from the fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was in addition the X-ray crystallographic result that each pure base so far examined formed as many irregular hydrogen bonds as stereochemically possible. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But most wild animal and plant species have proved unsuitable for domestication: food production has been based on relatively few species of livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"I've spied on their base camp by the lake. They made it back before they collapsed from the stingers. But he's not there. Maybe he did save you and had to run." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You go everywhere, but this is your base.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was easier when Miss Scalapino read to the class from a book with illustrations because I made up my own stories, in Spanish, based on the pictures. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This Extreme Challenge is based on the classic Game of Authors card game,” said Mr. Lemoncello. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Rows of striking pins were controlled by levers on the outside of the cone, which was fixed to a square metal base with a bunch of crank handles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was just a few hours from setting when they arrived at the base of the hill below the outlying shacks and huts. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled into the motel parking lot and tied Dozer and Petunia to the base of the motel’s neon sign. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

These spies saw us as a threat not to the white power structure but to black interests, for whites would mistreat all blacks based on the conduct of a few agitators. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is based on in­tuition rather than hard evidence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I based my crop yield estimates on the potato industry back on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to being disappointed that they weren’t flying into battle, the young pilots didn’t like the food at their new air base—they knew that frontline soldiers were getting better rations than they were. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Several letter writers based their idea on the fact that cold air sinks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It remained an educated guess based on logic and circumstantial evidence and was largely ignored by medical professionals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Greeks also had a base-10 style of counting, and there was very little difference in the ways the two cultures wrote down their numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He passed a massive catapult, as tall as a city wall, its base sunk deep into the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The legion lined the base of the eastern hills, ready for a dawn attack. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She holds the base of Princess Sabine's teacup, helping her take larger sips. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The global trade network of today is based on our trust in such fictional entities as the dollar, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the totemic trademarks of corporations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently parting the ferns, they gazed in horror at the dreadful scene around the base of the elm tree. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to “encode” a radical change in human fate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To Watson and Crick, it was immediately clear that no single base—A, C, T, or G—could carry sufficient genetic message to build any part of a protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was the printing press that established a common knowledge base against which these discoveries could be measured. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Race had become, yet again, a powerful wedge, breaking up what had been a solid liberal coalition based on economic interests of the poor and the working and lower-middle classes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hiskey suddenly found himself drafted into the army and shipped to a remote military base in the Northwest Territories of Canada—far from atomic bomb secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Keeth would give me scenarios to try in practice that he thought would work against certain fencers based on their style of fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Both Rosy’s and Maurice’s papers covered roughly the same ground and in each case interpreted their results in terms of the base pairs. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Once in a while a mortar shell would land near the base, and then we would all run out into the trench built in front of the tent. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia learns to cut the cane straight across at the base, strip its leaves with her machete, then chop it in even pieces for the gatherers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock the next morning, with the stores loaded onto the boats, the men pushed off into the water again, rowing along the base of the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A promise based on nothing but a gut instinct. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Well, my walk didn’t matter since I got nailed at second base in a double play. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than alienate his base, he simply added to it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She wore a narrow sleeveless dress, salmon-colored, which exposed a pair of pretty collarbones and the sweet frail vertebrae at the base of her neck—lovely kneecaps, lovely ankles, lovely bare, strong-muscled legs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Erickson, based at the University of Pennsylvania, worked in concert with a Bolivian archaeologist, who that day was elsewhere, freeing up a seat in the plane for me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A stripe of incandescent sky bums beneath the cloud base on the north-western horizon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shrieked and twitched as Kaz yanked out his eyeball, its base trailing a bloody root. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt like the base- camp operator on a mountain-climbing expedition. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of it is a fragile land base where the elevation is high, rainfall is scarce, and drought is a part of life. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And still, I maintain that even for a cosmopolitan boy like you, there is something to be found there—a base, even in these modern times, a port in the American storm. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So now we were walking in the grove behind the college, down by the scrubby little pine forest at the base of the mountains, with one of them on either side of me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I based the portrait on the Old Master pictures of saints Mr. Reilly showed me where the holy undead are in a magical garden. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stampede of fetterlings crashed against the base of the palace, and then the time for words was over. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Soon, regular U-2 missions provided Eisenhower and the CIA with razor-sharp images of military bases, missile launching pads, and more. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the windows of the residence, I could see the red tulips and lavender grape hyacinth that surrounded the fountain at the base of the hill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In Peking, in the 1670s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Jesuit astronomer, was able to build instruments based on his designs without ever having seen Brahe’s originals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In short, there would be a multiparty democracy based on universal adult suffrage on a common voters’ roll. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t about a fever. You use it to find out what your base temperature is. It’s more accurate and precise than a regular fever- type thermometer.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Just as he’d figured, a hundred yards uphill the highway cut through the base of the cliff. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I'd never felt a girl's breast before, but I figured it might be kinda like that, based on the shape and the bounce and whatnot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don’t say diddly. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had put them in an old crystal vase we had, and left the sealed envelope at its base next to a note from him that said Back at 5. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bill Harvey spent the next three years in Berlin building BOB into a formidable base of operations for America's secret campaign against Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lena led Kendra to the basement door, pointing out a second little door at the base, about the size a cat would use. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His mouth opens and I know that I will forever judge him based on how he reacts to this information, but a voice interrupts him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We returned to base and I reported my squad’s findings to the lieutenant. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mill owner Julian Carr went so far as to implement at his Durham Hosiery Mills a system of “industrial democracy” based on the U.S. federal government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or do what baseball teams do when it’s late in the game and they need a solid batter to bring the guys on base home? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie had found some pebbles at the base of the fence and, for lack of any other way to show how she felt, had flung one at the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of us, cross-country is what we do to build up our base for track. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Back at their base, during the report they had to make about how the mission went, they joked with the 10th Leningrad pilots, calling them “brothers” or “old men.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She was only a few feet away, and I could see sweat dotting the base of her neck, could smell stale clothing and body odor. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and walked over to another cross, this one almost completely overgrown with weeds, the ground firm at its base. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Enquiries based on this premise are bound to conclude that the claims made on behalf of well-founded beliefs are excessive because that conclusion is built into the methodology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most legal transactions were based on an exchange of oaths sworn in the name of Jesus Christ. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Federal authorities planned to pry the houses off their bases and send the units to “war-devastated populations in Europe.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Success in hockey is based on individual merit—and both of those words are important. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then he bent his head down and touched his cold lips softly to the hollow at the base of my throat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the slanted nature of the news, we were glad to have it, and prided ourselves on reading between the lines and making educated guesses based on the obvious omissions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not even going to repeat some of the things he used to say because they are so horrifically base. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw all my gear into my pack and made a break for the base camp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, not looking to the right or left, she did not see the runner stealing home base. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ball had been tossed quickly to second base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I drove a one-meter bit half a meter into a rock, unplugged the power line, and tied it around the base of the bit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on first base and watched. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One of the first episodes was based on the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I grasped the base of one to pull myself up. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says I need to make decisions based on love, not on anger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yankees have the bases loaded in the top of the sixth and the cable dies on me.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then the pudgy kid playing Tiny stands up and takes a step forward, in front of the coach and sings, "What's second base for a gay man?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

At the new base, I stayed put for three weeks and appointed Alhaji to be in charge of my expedition squad. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The simulations stimulate the amygdala* which is responsible for processing fear, induce a hallucination based on that fear, and then transmit the data to a computer to be processed and observed.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A lump rises in the base of my throat, tightening my airway and shortening my breaths to shallow gulps. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the lion catches a child between the bases, he joins the lions team. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also began to understand that the separate water fountains and schools, were based on something. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He ran his hand down the back of a Roman column, all the way to the base. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If they could get control of the whole of Africa, if they had airfields and submarine bases at the Cape, it would cut Oceania in two. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the machine had a rubber strip around its base and every time I bumped into a baseboard, the machine bounced back, giving me a slight jolt in protest. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They began to endorse Japanese products and had a cartoon and a live-action TV series based on their exploits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I reached behind me, grasping onto the cast-iron base to anchor myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was stopped by his leash, which was knotted to a steel ring at the base of his perch and to the jesses on his legs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our first base coach said, “Way to go. Good eye, George.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wondered if that burning mark was based on a real sacred owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The prosecution also engaged in disparate questioning of jurors based on race—practices that seemed linked to the jury-selection manual. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The agreement was never more than approximate, and it was based on a mystical belief that the heavens must be governed by geometry, not on anything that we would now call science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The great majority of what one hears said about his lordship today is, in any case, utter nonsense, based on an almost complete ignorance of the facts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was so stunned, so angry, so upside-down confused that she just stood paralyzed at the base of the steps. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The laser beam, aimed with skill, based on years of training, bifurcated Inspector Garland’s head. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The dark orange sandstone formation held springs like this one, all along the base of the sandstone where wind and erosion had cut narrow canyons into the rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, both music aptitude and music achievement are dependent on audiation; i.e., our music learning potentials and our music learning achievements are based on our music thinking. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

At the base of the steps, I decided it would be better if I didn’t use the front door, lest they see me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was always dusk inside the base of the Great Pyramid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"The kind the Fashion Minister told me to. He picked out colors for you based on your complexion." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The river ran at the base of the ravine behind them, its roar bouncing up to them at the top. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For example, a few minutes ago I gathered a handful of acorns and placed them at the base of the pine tree near my fallen log. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She felt it all right at the back of her throat, like a bomb—or a tiger—sitting on the base of her tongue. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Goudsmit told Berg that based on reliable information coming out of Germany, Werner Heisenberg would be leaving the country on or about December 15, traveling to Switzerland for a scientific conference. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exceptionally good, I'd say, based on the guys I used to know at his age and the things I see on TV. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He picks his friends based on whether he likes or dislikes the colors of their names. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Who is to say she should not have run to the forest with her hair and umbilical cords flying, and knelt to deposit each of these three at the base of its own pine tree? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are both based on his unspoken assumption that time continues back forever, whether or not the universe had existed forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he was able to compile a mailing list of thousands of rank-and-file Klansmen and other supporters who would eventually become his political base. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, they try to deduce all of mathematics from simple logical principles and show that mathematics is really based on logic. It’s pretty complicated stuff. But I enjoy it.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham was approaching that prime meridian of inebriation that his wife, his sons, and his daughters, based on a grievously embattled history, had come to fear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing the system is sexagesimal—based on the number 60. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As she walked around the trees, she saw that there was a split in the larger tree that widened to almost two feet across at its base. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two figures crouched near the base of a giant oak tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I want to go all the way with this, to stop mucking around and do what I feel, so at the base of the statue I put my favorite punk rallying cry: I’M A MESS. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad wanted me to play second this year. The coach wanted me to be the shortstop but Dad said I had to learn how to play second base first. Next year I’ll be at shortstop.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One such organization, based in Oakland, California, is named All of Us or None. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The safety of this nation,” he insisted, “cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its scientific or technical prowess. It can be based only on making future wars impossible.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, by the time my letter reached Cal Tech the base pairs had fallen out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I followed up a solid base of meatballs with a couple of packaged cupcakes and washed them down with a can of cream soda. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Marine Corps, air force, army, and navy units at various military bases around the country stood by to enact the commands of Red and Blue Team brass. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Thousands of US troops were already stationed at American bases in occupied Japan, just a short hop across the Sea of Japan from Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There, at the base, was a squat, round structure, piled with layers of old blankets and tarps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Other cultures not only have different note names and different scales, they may even have different notes — different pitches — based on a different tuning system. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We move on to ping-pong and score based on who can hit the most surfaces around the room with a single shot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The authorities in charge of protecting the burrowing owls would never block construction of the pancake house based on such fuzzy evidence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie carefully positioned the water bottle in the wire cage, aimed the spout into the base of the funnel, then unscrewed the bottle cap. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Butterscotch, clearly happy to be unleashed, bounds next to them, sniffing the base of every tree. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The existence of two intertwined chains with identical base sequences could not be a chance matter. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Who really deserved the patent for a discovery that might be based on the work of innumerable scientists over years or decades? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A large, round cage set on a wooden base that has been carved into swirling white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The imperial attendants place me, glass carriage and all, back on the wheeled base. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Claire knelt on the path at the base of the cliff while Einar leaned his walking sticks against the rock wall and adjusted the pack on her back. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat down at the table and drew up the day’s Map based on his memory and notes, Minho looking over his shoulder the whole time, giving pointers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Anderson made her final decision based on her best musical judgment—on the strength of the repertoire and musicianship she had achieved through her years of work with Vehanen. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Farther down, embedded into the base of a tree and hidden by palm fronds, was the delay switch for the enclosure’s entrance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The company had constructed it shortly after the contest began, to serve as IOI’s online base of operations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Each fencer was put into a randomly selected pool with other fencers based on ranking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

These relationships, and all the others based on mathematically straightforward ratios, are pure and perfect’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The base of its body reattached itself to different shadows and detached from previous ones, like fire moving from kindling to kindling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We heard the names of islands thousands of miles away where the Japanese were attacking American and Allied bases in the Pacific. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, around 3000 B.C. the hunter-gatherers of southern Sweden adopted farming based on Southwest Asian crops, but abandoned it around 2700 B.C. and reverted to hunting-gathering for 400 years before resuming farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had the horse statue reared up completely off its base and given her a kick? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And men always live their lives based on the future.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In anatomy, discovery does not begin with Vesalius: rather, he provides the base line that allows others to claim to have made discoveries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Yes. And it tripped a Yankee base runner. Changed the momentum of the entire game. The Red Sox ended up winning. Didu's face showed up on the big screen and the entire stadium booed." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha wandered along a strange, twisted path of this last and most base declivity through the game of dice. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You walk into dangerous territory when you make judgments against a person based on limited interaction.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s my fault. I heard the tryout was based on Bureau knowledge and I told Amari about it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Beecher-Tilton story was based on gossip spread in part by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At sentencing, the judge based the drug quantity calculation on testimony from the informant and another witness, who both claimed they bought crack from Marcus on other occasions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It WAS basest betrayal to think of anything but Theresa, but they had no choice. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard he tried, he never developed any imperishable allegiances to the washed-out, bloodless Marine bases where he had lived for most of his seventeen years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard he plays first base. I’d like to see that. Do they let you, you know, watch?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Rules are rules. As a praetor, you should understand that. This distribution centre is one of our most important bases. We have to control access. I can’t make exceptions, especially not for my family.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"I will base your character upon the attributes of the boulders on the lake- shore: silent, apathetic, and—considering how little they exercise—surprisingly chiseled." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

An idea began tickling at the base of Percy’s skull. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nymeria was waking for her in the guardroom at the base of the stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Given the freedom to pick his own training site, Tibbets selected a base in Wendover, Utah, a remote spot surrounded by salt flats. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like that of the Babylonians, the Pythagorean universe seems more a construction based on mysticism and aesthetics than the result of empirical study. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

We held the bat on our shoulders until we walked to first base. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the third or fourth inning of our ball game that afternoon, I spotted Mary Hudson from first base. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, the man who had passed out was being used for third base by a gang of street urchins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like most passionate nations Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Dale doesn’t care to hear Axel’s reasons for not writing the report based on this technicality. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Fischer: The United States is based on lies. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From second base I looked to the third-base coach for the sign. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was cared for by a group of Jansenists, Catholics who belonged to a sect based largely on a hatred of the Jesuit order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I slam the phone on the base before I even allow Tanisha to say good-bye. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a dark circle at the base of his skull. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On a Wednesday morning, he reported to the base library to take the admittance exam for the U.S. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was wearing boots that matched the prints around the base of the Castiglione’s tree house. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’d left manure and hoofprints on graves, crushed flower arrangements into piles of stems, ribbon, and Styrofoam, and knocked over several tombstones, which now lay flat on the ground next to their bases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He played intelligently, keeping the ball low, out of the reach of Rosalie’s always-ready hand in the outfield, gaining two bases like lightning before Emmett could get the ball back in play. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

That was all I did for three days before we left for the new base we had captured. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And if it did get to the base of the hill, there was no way it was going up the hill through the trees unless somebody chopped out a path for it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty meters to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls; from her pocket she pulls Hubert Bazin’s iron key. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I show it to Morrie with the pride of a Little Leaguer rounding the bases on his first home run. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that price, a parent with one child could afford to be late every day and only pay an extra $60 each month—just one-sixth of the base fee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Of course ‘made to work’ is a slippery concept: plenty of alchemists thought they had seen base metal turn into gold, and plenty of doctors thought they had cured their patients through bloodletting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m out of breath by the time he scurries into the tiny hole at the red mountain’s base. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The kid and the geezer base- balled their lunchtimes away, and the after-dinner- times and weekends. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia when the United States bombed Cambodia’s borders to try to destroy the North Vietnamese bases. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swim a quarter-mile a day because I have a bad disc at the base of my spine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There's the lake, but I find that an unlikely option since it's so close to the Careers' base camp. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At first, they tried to salvage the essence of their first model, placing the phosphate backbone in the middle, and the bases projecting out to the sides. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we can predict a certain amount based on what we know,” Freddie continued. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To determine those differences, the Times relied on a computer model based on the Treasury’s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Funded by both the War Department and the State Department, the outfit was based in New York City, at a town house on East Thirty-Eighth Street. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tall and beautifully proportioned, rising from its base to flare gracefully and then round to the mouth, a prunus vase was designed for one purpose—to display a single branch of flowering plum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Maria now felt certain—based on her own observations—that all European butterflies and moths followed the same cycle of transformation: egg to caterpillar to pupa and back to egg again. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While serving at a base in the Southwest, he began collecting arrowheads, a hobby that ultimately led to his abandoning geology and coming to the University of Arizona as a graduate student in archaeology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was called off the bench to pinch-hit with two outs in the ninth, two Dodgers on base after walks, and the enemy leading by one run. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She climbed on a park bench and examined the base of the statue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another time he gave her a table lamp whose base was a model one foot high of the famous “Iron Maiden of Nuremberg.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can't cast someone based on how they look, it's how they act that matters. What is that girl thinking?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The flap held up everything to the very base of the buildings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They picked through the brush at the base of the railroad bridge. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Thus, conceivably the crux of the matter was a rule governing hydrogen bonding between bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers around the base of the rocket, studied carefully the soldered washer, sniffed speculatively at the cured black-powder mix. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, she could not confirm the presence of Ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he based his home reservations system in Salt Lake City, where the vast majority of the women are Mormons and many are stay-at-home mothers. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and felt how quickly the dense Kenyan heat at the base of the mountain transforms into the chill of its snowcapped peak, where deep breaths are hard to find. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Figure 2.6: A melodic phrase based on the Siegfried leitmotif , from Wagner's opera The Valkyrie. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A total of sixty-four American planes hit four North Vietnamese patrol boat bases. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’d managed to find five of them by digging, with great effort, at the base of the blue willows Connor had told me about. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The agricultural economy was based on a seasonal cycle of production, comprising long months of cultivation followed by short peak periods of harvest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was soft grass on both sides of the river, and beyond the grass, trees and bushes sloped up to the bases of the cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Clear-cut successful in all respects. Visual effects greater than Trinity. Proceeding to regular base.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaltain ran a finger along the base of the goblet and grinned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He ground his elbow into the base of her neck, pushing it down her spine. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say that because, based on current quotas, a person’s chance of being gleaned within the next one hundred years is only 1 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was also the vexing problem of how the intertwined chains might be held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In the meadow at the base of the ravine, several dozen sheep were milling around. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then yesterday in my science elective, we were doing this cool mystery-powder investigation where we had to classify a substance as an acid or a base. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then you bury the base in dirt so it’s nice and sturdy. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For this, you need centralized authority, elaborately detailed time schedules, and some sort of reward system based on speed and perfection. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he unlatched it, Prosper heard the canal water slosh against the base of the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I freeze his face in my mind, his warm eyes beckoning me to him, his arms holding me, protecting me while a base person spits at him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle watched from the base of the pine above them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Learning language, understanding other people’s intentions based on their behavior, um . . He frowns. “And empathy.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As they reached the base of the hill, Genie noticed that the front door of Tess’s house was open. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the early 20th century, Carl Orff met gymnastics and dance educator Dorothée Gunther and established an innovative school for children based on the idea that all human beings are musical by nature. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We had to move around the base of the hill to another area. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a point to meet Representative Benjamin Butler, an influential Republican congressman from Massachusetts, who hoped to lead his party to victory in the elections based on the expansion of women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the herald's voice dismissed the court, she fled the balcony, only to find Joffrey waiting for her at the base of the curving stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before long, I discover a tuft of chives growing at the base of some rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even if he had had some motive to use me, he knew that I was separated from Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, my “power base,” according to the press in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans have never been comfortable with the notion of a pecking order based on anything other than talent and hard work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Allies may have used a very powerful bomb, he said, but not a real atomic bomb, not a bomb based on the fission of uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high point in Chargaff’s scorn came when he led Francis into admitting that he did not remember the chemical differences among the four bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When I got to the base of the stairs, I hesitated. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Eight men in official patterned clothes moved about a litter, a structure with a wooden base and ceiling surrounded by beautiful hanging cloth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

According to the agency, an absolute bar to employment based on prior convictions—without consideration of these factors—violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act if such a bar has a racially disparate impact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In my peripheral vision, I see the blond, freckly-faced girl on third base take a quick peek at her coach, who tugs at his right earlobe, and then brushes a finger beneath his nose. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The base people do not eat at communal kitchens but cook for themselves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indigenous peoples’ land base has also been drastically reduced since first contact with Europeans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But only slightly higher, at 19,000 feet, the ropes brought us to the base of a gargantuan, perilously balanced serac. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So: • Paintbrush Falls, New York: not real, but based in part on the town of Webster, New York, where I grew up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were quickly writing up their results and wanted to publish simultaneously with our announcement of the base pairs. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Yet the fact is that no animal other than Sapiens engages in trade, and all the Sapiens trade networks about which we have detailed evidence were based on fictions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frolic went to the base of a wooden post that was entwined with a purple-blossomed vine, and lifted his leg to proclaim his presence and authority here. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to Tyrion that the gold and silver and platinum links far outnumbered those of baser metals. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I looked up the road until it disappeared around the curve at the base of the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She slides a hidden drawer out of the base, finds a hidden compartment beneath the drawer, takes out a wooden key, and slots the key inside the chimney. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The curious zigs and zags of the proposed division gave Permian a clear edge over Odessa High in the number of blacks assigned to go there based on where they lived. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heartbeat later another bush killed Quenton, driving an axe into the base of his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The argument was based on something so trivial it didn’t seem worth wasting a single word on it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He could feel, somewhere deep inside him, anger and pain building, a knot of tension at the base of his skull, a tightness at the temples. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As a bonus, Hooke filled a space at the end of the book with drawings based on some of his astronomical observations. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The seer was a specialist in the casting of twigs; he threw them on the ground, and made interpretations based on how they fell. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wax dripped down the sticks, gathering in craggy hills at their bases. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If you can't name the scale notes in a key, you may find it difficult to predict whether a chord should be based on a sharp, flat, or natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At the base camp the observers were instructed to lay prone in ditches excavated to protect them from the blast, with their feet pointed toward the tower. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

Imagine a dump truck arriving once each year at the base of a mountain, filling up with a single load, and driving off, not to reappear for another twelve months. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The figures at the base of columns are the first year of the decade, so 1470 refers to the decade 1470-1479. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Travelers had placed little stones, twisted straw, and dried flowers at its base to ensure a safe journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, I know a lot about sharks, but I don’t know anything about sunfish! I thought the fin was weird, but I panicked just based on its size. It’s huge!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mulefa couples, for example, on entering marriage, would exchange strips of bright copper, which were bent around the base of one of their horns with much the same meaning as a wedding ring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Cutie Pi has cancer. He has a tumor at the base of his brain. You may have noticed that he tilts his head a lot.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train carried him to a perpetual dust storm known as Ephrata, Washington, where there was an air base in the middle of a dry lakebed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The noun phrase containing view is the subject of the third is-phrase, is not based on a lack of understanding. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The first was very base birth, having once herded sheep in Thrace. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kim said that in the five years he was based in Pyongyang for the state insurance corporation, bags of cash always arrived in time for his leader’s birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The bakery sometimes sold us day-old bread at a discount, but it was hit-or-miss based on what was available. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on August 6,1945, a plane took off from the air base on Saipan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We gotta stop,” I say, dropping the rucksack at the base of a tree. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out they were soldiers who worked with military scout dogs and lived on the far side of the base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The path led them up and around the base of a great green hill, round and treeless, the hill that Ged had seen from the ship as they entered the charmed waters of Roke Island. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each had a wide, round base and a narrow stovepipe sticking up from it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naif’s rough hand rubbed the back of his neck and the base of his hairline. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly her senses were on high alert, as if somebody had snapped a rubber band against the base of her neck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her legs are apart, I lie between them, my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the stone base of the gate and reached up for Sarai’s body. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon Mrs. Sen lifted the blade and locked it into place, so that it met the base at an angle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every time someone new arrives at the base, Kim asks if they know or have ever heard of our brothers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In particular, my research on the history of words has been internet based. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know exactly what happened to it. That Jacob Carlyle blew his knee out trying to steal third base during a game a few weeks later. Ended his career.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They were arranged in a U, with two at the base and five in a row on either side. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The water oozed out from the dark orange sandstone at the base of the long mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wolves and filthy bears, and all the baser beasts, fall upon the dying. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the stance that our actions should be based not on idealistic considerations but on practical ones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the cliffs, I fall to the sand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I realized how much of my self-worth, my sense of safety, was based on Rowdy’s fists. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The government classified and, to a considerable extent, segregated the entire North Korean population based on the perceived reliability of an individual’s parents and grandparents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we docked at the naval base in Crist6bal, Panama, and I was rushed to a hospital, although I really didn’t think it was necessary. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this “messenger molecule,” as he called it, that carried the instructions to build a protein based on a gene’s code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Facts must come first, and inescapable conclusions, at least about probabilities, must be based upon them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We get back to the base, remind me to memorize a prayer.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the prophet Brigham Young reached the base of the Wasatch Mountains, he reportedly declared, “This is the place.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For this base action Zeus himself punished him: he sent him to Lydia to be a slave to the Queen, Omphale, some say for a year, some for three years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretending to be in a trance, Woodhull passed along inside information to Vanderbilt about the business plans of his rivals, based on gossip she had heard from Mansfield. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This specialist now has a large number of detailed case histories based on every patient he has seen with leukemias, aplastic anemias, Hodgkin’s disease, and other disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dicey’s fingers cramped from holding onto the bag, so she moved it under her armpit, holding it by a hand across the base. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sincerely be-lieved this and planned my life based on that assumption. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of protesters gathered at the base of the monument, many waving banners with antiwar slogans. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This isn’t an exact answer, of course, but it is an accurate estimate based on all our calculations. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

My mom usually sticks to the list, but some days she changes her mind based on the yellow signs for today’s specials or clearance items. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The screecher sits near the base of the blue willow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A really silly name, but it’s based on a mistake. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Find the base of myself and roll around. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was really comforting to watch two white guys debate why I should or shouldn’t get beat up based entirely on what I could do for them. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Lacking actual evidence of criminal activity, the officers decided to stop them based on a pretext—a traffic violation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The article was in Vanity Fair, and it was titled “Ground Zero,” based on his encounters in Bosnia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The possibility of social irrationality resting on a base of individual rationality is suggested by a slight variant of Condorcet’s original example. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deftly he tied it around the base of Kira’s walking stick. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just know that to protect myself, I often have to rub dirt and charcoal on my skin to look as dark as the base people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Acidalia Planitia, if I got off course, I could just point in the right direction based on new data. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the aqueduct, the First and Second Cohorts were trying to encircle Polybotes, but they were taking a pounding. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As we approached the base of the mountain the land took a downward slope. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Stravinsky reported that the idea for a piece based on an ancient pagan dance of ritual human sacrifice came to him in a dream and that the scenario suggested such a deliberately layered sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My eyes quickly inspect the base, which is lined with enormous metal plates. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Can they tell, based on my reactions, that it’s not music I’m listening to? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Leo gave the helm to Coach Hedge again, after making the satyr promise he would not steer them to the nearest military base “for fun.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But what did one base—A, say—have to do with another base? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her temperament was not based on a series of good and bad days but, rather, good and bad moments. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But none of those rocks at the base of the cliff is an obviously human-made tool, as are Clovis points and Cro-Magnon tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Salary increases for Grout and Sauceda are based partly on how many migrants they catch. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Hello, the book that Lawrence of Arabia was based on?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of thousands greeted the men at the American base. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I felt as if the ground had turned upside down and I was going to fall off, so I clutched the base of a tree with one hand. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the morning they arrived at the base camp of Pursat City, where we are now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Other groups were purchased, loaded into wagons, and driven off through the valley to disappear through the V at the base of the hills. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had chipped it into the base of the marble to identify himself as owner, much as brands are burned into the hides of cattle to identify their owners. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s based on a true story about a shipwreck and it made Gericault famous. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

With the bases facing outside, there had been no trouble fitting them: they had simply circled around the central backbone, like a spiral rosette. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their mechanics took a record player with them as they moved from base to base; one of them, Sonya Tishurova, organized a group who performed national dances from different states in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Minli could not see the tip or the bottom of it, as it seemed to grow out of a gorge so deep that the base must have been at the foundation of the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His goal was to create a system of power-sharing based on group rights, which would preserve a modified form of minority power in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of Caputo’s job was to verify the numbers by inspecting bodies brought into the base. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have literally just dragged myself into the tangle of hushes at the base of the trees when there's Cato, barreling onto the plain, soon followed by his companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A massive pyramid-shaped structure covering several square kilometers at its base, it towered above most of the structures adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The plane dubbed "the black lady of espionage" by the Soviets revved its engines and started on a 3,788-mile arc over the Soviet Union to a secret base in Bodo, Norway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That feeling she used to have when she was sitting next to Park on the bus—that feeling that she was on base, that she was safe for the moment—she could summon it now. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Hailey had conducted two expeditions to make the measurements on which the map was based, and the hope was that this would open the way to using magnetic variation to measure longitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A rumor based on a kiss started a reputation that other people believed in and reacted to. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The police are allowed by the courts to conduct fishing expeditions for drugs on streets and freeways based on nothing more than a hunch. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was behind Stef’s hairline, at the base of her skull. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t court-martialed, but he was stripped of his rank and confined to the base for six months. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not all relationships are based on like.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He could see Mars Bar’s foot sticking out, trying to trip him up as he circled the bases for a home run. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to create a base, pushing back against Luke with an unexpected determination. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But I think Thursday morning we were moved to the golf course at the Presidio, another army base slightly to the east of the Golden Gate. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were pushed inside, the frightful problem existed of how to pack together two or more chains with irregular sequences of bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There was a powerboat tied up at the base of the steps, and Alice was right: there were two men. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Kids at camp are always talking about it. Big battle happened on the summit, at the old Titan base.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s a spot in the roof, see it, almost over them. The last blast didn’t quite get it. If you can get it at the base, half the roof will cave in.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, those things! The spiky ones without a base so you can't put them down? Are they still taking up loft space?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The structure wound down into the opposite chair, then onto the floor, emptying at the base of a three-level cat tower, otherwise barricaded from Fig’s access. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I raise my arms and start circling the bases. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Tied around the base of each blade were lots of bead necklaces. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A huge pile of dead ones littered the base of the tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alex hit third base and rounded the corner without breaking stride. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been living on bases and in cities for so long that I forgot what the South really is.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a good arm, but we played against a lot of teams that could do the hit-and-run and steal a lot of bases. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More broadly, she can “teach to the test,” basing her lesson plans on questions from past years’ exams, which isn’t considered cheating but may well violate the spirit of the test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

More immediately, in New York City, where I would naturally base any operation, I had a large, direct personal following of non-Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It continued to rain heavily, but they eventually found a huge tatajuba, a type of rubber tree, that was five feet in diameter around the base. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was a dark November evening, and the base was beginning to quiet down for the night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty made his way across the mossy ground of the clear­ ing to a thicket of tall ferns near the base of a tree. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The base people will train us to be hard workers and teach us to have pride in our country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be based on an event in American history that America would rather forget. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

After contentedly poring over The Tivies, I wandered into the lab to see Francis, unquestionably early, flipping the cardboard base pairs about an imaginary line. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Interesting that it is much more like elfin architecture than goblin architecture. They must have based these buildings on elfin cities.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I thought about the picture Rachel had drawn in my dreams—an army at the base of die Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Dig out all the posts, put a concrete base, then stick it right in. Post will last for days, I tell ya.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All other intervals are given by irrational numbers based on the twelfth root of two, not nice numbers that can be written as a ratio of two small whole numbers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Startled by the good weather, mentally unprepared to commence the actual climb, I hurriedly packed up a rucksack nonetheless and began skiing toward the base of the Thumb. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Her Highness has had me attempt to make several vivant dresses based on the one you created as her wedding look." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He even had the commercial smarts to form a film syndicate, based on the fame of his expedition photographer, an Australian named Frank Hurley. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Francis’ grumbles did not disturb me, however, because further refining of our latest backbone without a solution to the bases would not represent a real step forward. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Aiming for the weak point at the base of the skull, she let the troll have a long burst of the concentrated ion ray. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Pa had traded inside the village with the base people for rice and other grains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I figured kids on the baseball field would be calling me “Headless Turkey Boy” and when I ran the bases they’d tease me by making clucking noises. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Neither phosphorus atoms nor the purine and pyrimidine bases were on hand. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I think that maybe I will forever judge her based on what she does and says at this very moment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The camel driver was seated at the base of a palm tree, observing the sunset. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

John’s medical hypothesis was based on the observation that phosphorus naturally concentrates in bone marrow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All servicemen must return to their bases immediately, the man said. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

From somewhere nearby a shiny green frog emerged from the base of a bush. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I named the small town at the base of the Bighorns, near where the Penrose Trail comes out, or down and out. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Came in handy when I attacked an air base. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But we can make some educated guesses as to what music from ancient Greek and Roman times really sounded like, based on their writings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They dug around the base of the post to loosen it, then kicked the post over. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had a considerable power base from strong religious and ethnic loyalties and was thought to be harboring terrorist organizations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Half-blind, the dead unicorn stumbled toward the green rock needle until it reached a depression at its base, where it dropped to the knees of its forelegs in a ghastly parody of prayer. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last week, Noah received an invitation to attend CSA, based on the photos of his mural I took. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then there came a sudden, furious sound like nails on a slate as the draccus clawed madly against the base of the cliff. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It makes me touch my own hair, its thick wavy darkness, bound at the base of my neck for health code reasons. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A yawning black hole opened in the ground at the base of the tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I think they could both embark on serious acting careers just based on this behavior. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Those are the beliefs and practices on which we base our life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I crawled to its base through the mud and rain and placed my hand against its rough body once more. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She moves her hands at the base of my neck. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the crack at the base of the screen widened; we pushed it open, and we were standing on the roof of Nimh, free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With the financial backing of Durham’s white leaders, Shepard founded North Carolina College, a school based on Washington’s theories of self-improvement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what those state troopers did, put together accident scenes based on the physical evidence. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The present conclusion of experts is that “housefly control has escaped insecticidal techniques and once more must be based on general sanitation.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When birds alighted on my palm, I could yield my muscles under their feet and give them no base from which to fly away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the base of the glass dome. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear made his way around the base of the cliff to the river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“A lovely choice,” he said, releasing it from the base. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our job was to learn a new top-secret code based on the Navajo language. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the stairs, the cement stoop cracked under the man’s feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Eye movement research is based on the idea that the human eye is capable of focusing on only a very small area at one time — what is called a perceptual span. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he loves the other children, the uncorrupted base children with their uncontaminated parents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or consider the automobile dealership: a salesman does his best to obscure the car’s base price under a mountain of add-ons and incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was based on a play that had been published only the previous year and was set in recent times rather than in the safely distant past. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The station had become a kind of military base. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now with one man on base, her hero smacked the ball right out of the park. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The real problem was the absence of any structural hypothesis which would allow them to pack the bases regularly in the inside of the helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It came to rest in the garden of a farm at the base of the mountain. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A collection of white shopping bags lie at the base of her stool. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She folded up that skin and left it tucked up near the base of one of the largest trees. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was based in New York, and his running mate, William English, had been a congressman from Indiana. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The realization was based on the fact that they remained boys in mind. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or, as a variation on this same exercise, I may attempt to think of three witticisms based on the events of the past hour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Conor’s house was still behind him, but the mist covered his backyard, replacing it with a field with a giant yew in the center and a man and a woman sleeping at its base. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But all such claims are based on pure speculation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A camel named Pashka carried water to the base from the Volga River. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Bunks were assigned based on alphabetical order, which put Sam directly above me—a small mercy, seeing as the rest of the girls were nothing like her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The upshot is that your computations are necessarily based on a series of nested assumptions, any of which could be a source of contention. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They left ducks on the pond—runners on base—in the third and fourth, and against the Renegades, you best not waste scoring opportunities, because it’s going to come back to haunt you. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

To the point that I’ve somehow moved from the sidewalk near the street, up the cracked walkway, to the base of the porch steps. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Some went off to write letters or party or sleep; the others trooped down to the base perimeter, where, for the next eleven hours, they would pull night guard duty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the shape of a silver salmon, Loki was swept over the waterfall, and he vanished into the depths of the deep pool at the base of the mountain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Every fiction has its base in fact,” he tells her. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Records show that Cleopatra studied subjects based on Greek literature. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Twice she could not even find her own room in the cellar and had to sleep on the floor at the base of the steps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We came upon him, and the lieutenant asked him where their base was. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At trial, the judge finds that the entire sweep was based on the testimony of a single informant who lied to the prosecution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope we get back to base to kick it,” I said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got back to the base, and they took off the VC first. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, it sat in the display room along with the projects of his classmates, including wooden plaques and a plain box that someone called a telephone base. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the late summer of 1982, four youths and two men were on a canoeing holiday in Banff National Park when they failed to return to their base camp at the end of the day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

By coincidence, Pauling and Corey had also suggested a triple helix, with the bases A, C, G, and T pointed outside. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can still feel the crispy hair at the base of my neck from dancing until I sweated. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The men with picks and crowbars scurried away from the base of the cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From where we were at the base the action looked like it was just a few miles away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer: knowledge of natural processes based on evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This U.S. stamp is based on a tulip from her flower book. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They watched as the base of the wig joined itself to her scalp, and then Sif stood in front of them even more radiant and beautiful than before. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He joined the air force soon after he graduated from high school, and he and my grandma first met when he was stationed at a military base in San Antonio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My doodling of the bases on paper at first got no where, regardless of whether or not I had been to a film. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As far as a compass and ruler could tell him, both sets of base pairs neatly fitted into the backbone configuration. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The tension mounted when a radical black party, based on the Black Panthers, formed and publicly called for white extermination. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go for a swim at the base pool and do this later.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his politics to protect him, and his scientifically based theories of class, and his own rather forced self-certainty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jeanine Matthews is Erudite’s sole representative, selected based on her IQ score. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I bet he's heading back to the base." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The rope is thirty feet long, and this close to the base of the watchtower, the cliffs aren't as sheer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

While Johnson leaned over the table to look, McNamara pointed out potential targets for an American air strike, mainly North Vietnamese torpedo boat bases along the coast. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The computer reported no change in pressure over that time, other than a minor fluctuation based on temperature. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His confidence was based on the recent discovery by Dirac of the equation that governed the electron. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I located wood and piled it around the base of the palm tree that held our water keg and the tin box. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His schemes, until then unknown to us in detail, always dealt with groups of three bases, hydrogen-bonded in the middle, many of which we now knew to be in the wrong tautomeric forms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Sedentary villages based on cereals were already in existence before the rise of food production and predisposed those hunter-gatherers to agriculture and herding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The simple type was based on dots and lines, while the complicated type was based on glyphs—grotesque faces. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bree holds a handkerchief to the base, and a small stream of blood trickles out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Rondon reported that, based on the new information he had collected, the River of Doubt wasn’t as long as they originally guessed. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her acts were based on feelings rather than thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The end of that night’s journey brought them to the base of the mountains. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Thus, the essential trick of gene replication could come from the requirement that each base in the newly synthesized chain always hydrogen-bonds to an identical base. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As the pilot turned back toward his base, he pointed down to the wetland below. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then — bingo — they both started up, and we raced back to the base. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the game, she got on base every time she came to bat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I threw a runner out trying to steal second base and we had a double play in both the sixth and the seventh. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitney Young was subdivided into five “houses,” each one serving as a home base for its members and meant to add intimacy to the big-school experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then she dusted her hands as she walked to first base, where she rubbed her hands softly, fingers spread. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its base spanned a mile, its dark form swelling out of the earth and rising into a flawless spire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After a few hours of shelling, all is quiet again.Then without warning, a mortar explodes near our base, blazing the sky white like lightning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the deals that Aaron Giebel had made from his base of operations in Midland during the boom, the hardest part, by his own account, was figuring out which one was the worst. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly giving us time to breathe, Ms. Faraci launched into her lecture on acids and bases and the importance of a neutral pH. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a chromium affair with a heavy ebonite base—a useful weapon. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I now had to reconstruct the text upon which the simple commentary had been based. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I put my stump into the socket, the notched peg pushes down through a hole in the base of the socket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbles as the base of the streetlight explodes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when I’m Dusty circling the bases, I twirl the bat like a baton and dance, which makes her laugh. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The organisms killed might, for all we know, be at the base of a vast ecological pyramid at the top of which totter we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upper Djerholm had no real center, but the bulk of its taverns, inns, and market stalls were clustered around the base of the hill leading to the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“So, just based on first day impressions, who do you guys think is going to win Insomnia Con?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Much of Jordan’s civil code was based on Islamic law. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, but without understanding that language, this journey would have been much more difficult.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, he reacted to them, and his reactions were based on what he felt at the moment. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one hits the base of the mug. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Silas crept to the base of the cherry tree, tail twitching, head steady. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t make any decisions based on that information, though. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Some lucky chance in our worlds long ago must have meant that creatures with backbones had it a bit easier, so all kinds of other shapes developed, all based on the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Namitha works for a company called Growing Stars, based in Cochin and Fremont, California. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a village near the city, they found a displaced persons’ camp set up at a former military base to provide temporary shelter and help for war victims and refugees. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like questioning a criminal who says he is not guilty and then closing the case based on his word. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He wiped the verdigris from the plate at the base. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They tipped the dirty water away onto the base of a clump of snapdragons which, Nettle said, made him homesick for his parents’ back garden. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After removing the dirt down to the level of the coffin lid, a section was dug around the base of the coffin so several people could stand next to it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She always got tagged out before second base. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The she-elk was bigger than life, painted in pale lavender clay on the south face of sandstone, along the base of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he had never been in the States, and even Brooklyn would provide a base from which he could visit more agreeable regions. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

With the base of my palm, I press on it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Your love is based on sensuality, and you must open your eyes to the danger in order to flee it all the more forcefully.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he landed at the base of the three-story cat tower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I like school, anyway, which increases the loser quotient above and beyond what most other kids would calculate, simply based on the whole two-years-younger-than-my-classmates thing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even though I can feel my rapid heartbeat at the base of my throat, I ignore it and focus my attention on the conversation. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a tip, Alcyoneus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don’t set up base in the part that’s only ten miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was Chris himself who had criticized a recent theft of weapons from an air force base; preliminary police reports suggested that the gun that killed him had come from that stockpile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the ear pendant, a serpent’s fangs held a small loop. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shackleton sweet-talked wealthy patrons, took public donations, and raised money as an advance based on future sales of film and photo rights. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Stick said okay, and we spent an entire day setting up an elaborate floor plan and building the base and everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The law set up the Civil Service Commission to fill thousands of federal government jobs based on applicants' experience and ability, not their political connections. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Wayne’s units entered what is now northwestern Ohio and established a base they called Fort Defiance in the heart of an Indigenous alliance that included Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the decade after 1927, sixty-six papers were published in scientific journals based on research carried out at Tower House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The base of the staircase was a smoking crater. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A desk and a chair were set up on the floor at the base of the steep amphitheater. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A month after joining the United States Navy, Milton found himself stationed at Coronado naval base in San Diego. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His wing broke off at the base, and his plane dropped like a rock and was almost out of sight in an instant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the possibility that the team might break up into cliques based on country or tribe or language was always there. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, Nguyen found odd jobs to do for the Americans on the nearby base, digging ditches and fixing potholes in roads. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Galanter said I might take second base if you have to pitch.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Indigenous civilizations were based on advanced agriculture and well-developed systems of governance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He cut it at the base with a knife and handed it to me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not a good judge of dogs, but based on Murphy’s drooling and intense focus, I’d guess he’d do anything—including decapitating my teammates—to get to that ball. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they tracked Hatchet to the base of the Kambali Mountains in northern Oxscini, after two weeks on the trail together, they had developed an informal partnership. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was blood already—he’d stumbled and ripped open the tender web of skin at the base of his thumb on a jagged splinter—and buckets of sweat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Part of the base had served as a military prison over the years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The difference in the speed of clocks at different heights above the earth is now of considerable practical importance, with the advent of very accurate navigation systems based on signals from satellites. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told some people precisely what the experiment was about and told them explicitly to avoid stereotypes based on race. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was also equipped with a compass, a telescope, and several strange maps that he had traced himself based on various theories of Leonardo da Vinci and on the polar knowledge of the Incas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer had a dozen retorts, but all of them were based in his distrust of the half-man’s motives. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Night patrol from our last base was scary. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His manner as he bestowed a tip suggested generous good-nature, a wish to give pleasure, based on physical well-being and sincere kindliness of heart. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Archer brought up his shaking hands and put his fingers to the base of his throat, where his scar began, and spread them around his neck like claws. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The cliffs and the base of the hillside were blindingly white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d make her final decision about the team’s season based on how those tryouts went. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Whether federal judges based in Alabama would actually follow it and hear the case was the big question. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Three. Five-tool talents can fly. They steal bases and take extra bases.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to reconnoiter this situation for ourselves. Black Boar isn’t far off and once we see what Hatchet’s up to, we can send someone back to base with concrete information.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was based on him not knowing and not being taught how to deal with his feelings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known several of them in previous assignments and other bases and he had met almost all of them in the days preceding his inauguration as their commander. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So his conclusions about the human body were mostly based on studies of other animals and were incorrect in many ways. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Notes with this small-number ratio of 2:1 are so closely related that we give them the same name, and most tuning systems are based on this octave relationship. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Its specialty was reading the coded cables of foreign diplomats who were based in the United States. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I have always found this criticism to be vexing and based on both ignorance of ANC history and maliciousness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winter night blew in with frosty wind, and the street lamps with their sputtering carbons swung restlessly and made the shadows dart back and forth like a runner trying to steal second base. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On February 8, communist guerrillas attacked a U.S. helicopter base, killing eight American advisors. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So he jerked his head away from the candle, and looked at the soot around the base of the coffeepot. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be based on simple justice—he was an innocent man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a related exercise, Democritus imagined calculating the volume of a cone or a pyramid by a very large number of extremely small stacked plates tapering in size from the base to the apex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Farmer and his team intervened, proposing a very aggressive combination of MDR drugs—based largely on Farmer’s guesswork—they needed official approval from the Peruvian doctors before the drugs could be administered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Anyone who worked at PIH knew that a simple “epi” map—based on what makes people sick and what kills them, and in what numbers and at what ages—could be coded in two colors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was able to enter the city by squeezing through one of the largest of these cracks, at the base of the dome. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Indeed, this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes: how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our system is based not only on the family, but also on the village itself. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sides of the triangle of which the log was base were less evenly defined. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She hung in the air for a terrifying moment, and then her hands grasped the lantern’s base. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Outside the house, he stopped only to grab a bait net and a pail before heading for the tidal pools at the base of the rocks where minnows and sand eels often found themselves stranded. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Livingston dropped everything to write a hasty thesis based on his work with the four-inch accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All cancers originate from a single cell gone wrong and are categorized based on the type of cell they start from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“A feeling based off what, Mom? You can't just tell someone you don’t trust them and not give them a reason.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Its base is brown brick and black trim. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

You’re a chemist, you have a German accent, you had a base on Mars . . . what more can there be? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hit a baseball farther and round the bases faster than anyone else at his school, and he could haul more cotton than two of his older brothers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I press my back against the base of the elm and close my eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled away from my wino fan base and dashed toward him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I took up my position at second base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, Francis had the feeling that DNA replication involved specific attractive forces between the flat surfaces of the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A few had ivy twisting around their bases. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“But we rangers spend most of our time out in the wild. The fire helicopters are based in the mountains.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They hopped in Smith’s small Ford and took the drive to Regina, a big city that would be their home base. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just mud, the plants, the base of the rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Edward was far out in left field, Carlisle stood between the first and second bases, and Alice held the ball, positioned on the spot that must be the pitcher’s mound. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like Clarkebury, Healdtown was a mission school of the Methodist Church, and provided a Christian and liberal arts education based on an English model. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pass through a room arranged like a church, rows of seats facing the altar, where a marble Jesus lies on his deathbed above a base of glittering crystals. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’d shown up as a reporter knowing little about the team other than that it was based in a town called Clarkston, the players were refugees, and the coach was a woman. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fuller based his work on the principle he had learned at Case Western, the belief that if conditions were to improve for poor people, they themselves would have to implement the necessary changes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Personally, I don’t think the children are at risk based on this single incident, but my supervisor is probably not going to want to accept further responsibility.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When we reach its base, I allow myself to relax for a second. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he reached the American headquarters in Chaumont, France, where he would be based for the rest of the war, he told her all about that, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Since the war, Chargaff and his students had been painstakingly analyzing various DNA samples for the relative proportions of their purine and pyrimidine bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Still, the White House announced that the enemy offensive was running out of steam, that casualties at Khesanh were light, that we would never give up the marine base there. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I must make decisions based on his survival only. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she wouldn't let him get to first base with her, but it drove me crazy anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Allen was standing with his regiment at the base of the Black Virgin Mountain. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jason pointed to the base of the archers’ wall, where steps led down into some kind of tunnel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When they reached the base of Franang’s Falls, the gods unrolled the net they had made. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled into the sea so that, a thunderous plume of spray leapt half-way up the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Felix knew Benji was looking for a big idea, like swimming with great white sharks or running bases at Yankee Stadium. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like lam not hearing anything new—just the same philosophy that spawned the factions, driving people to manipulate their genes instead of separating into virtue- based groups. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had a knack for fielding and batting, but although he was fast, he wasn’t a particularly coordinated runner on the bases. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d thought she’d find something based on her divine parent, but she didn’t see anything like Lord Indra’s thunderbolt in this collection. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Witchery, you can be sure. She and that servant—that base laundry maid—are surely conspiring in some evil,” growls Durufle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They even had GIs tending to flowers around some of the barracks and some doing the same kinds of details they would have been doing back in Devens or any stateside base. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this was manifested as a new willingness to admit error, as when Niels Bohr visited Berkeley in April 1937 and casually demolished an Oppenheimer theory based on results from the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From 1975 onward I therefore started to develop a more powerful approach to quantum gravity based on Richard Feynman’s idea of a sum over histories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was mounted on a beautiful marble base and belonged in a museum—a science museum, not an art museum. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without Hugh by my side to translate, every interaction was based upon a series of assumptions. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The path bent around the base of a hill rising in the woods. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And soon I’ll be able to leave groundling status, simply based on this movie I’m making, which’ll force people to see me and the message I want to send to the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Third World Center—or TWC, as most of us called it—quickly became a kind of home base for me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“They will lead us to their base,” he said, and we advanced toward them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had giant curved sides, was set into a concrete base, and was held together with long rows of rivets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The key tightened a spring connected to a series of gears that extended down into the base of the figure. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Audrey was holding a sprig of violets, wrapped at the base with silver foil. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Below this threshold, communities, businesses, social networks and military units can maintain themselves based mainly on intimate acquaintance and rumour-mongering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Civil War, eight different plays based on the life of Uncle Tom had been written and produced, without Mrs. Stowe’s consent. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly summoned the final dribble of magic from the base of her skull. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But already Sam was more than half way up the base, and the plain of Gorgoroth was dim below him, wrapped in fume and shadow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two letters from Pasadena that week brought the news that Pauling was still way off base. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At the base of the structure, thrusters fire, throwing Pouncey, Link, and the others clear of the barn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thirty feet below, more than a dozen people were queued up at the base of the Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bod took it, then said, “Ow,” as something stabbed into the base of his thumb. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They think I am one of them, one of the pure base children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to think about what our marriage is really based on . . . not this balance sheet, who owes who what.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon reaching the base of the hill, he dropped upon his hands and knees. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I put the book back in the base of the beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he stopped to catch his breath amidst the scrub, thorns, and tumbled rocks at the base of the hill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We know he was engaged in a lengthy search for the secret of how to turn base metal into gold; indeed, briefly in the 1580s, he thought he had found it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Before the war it had a posh civil flying club, and it has also been a Royal Air Force base for years. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Pol Pot is sending soldiers into villages and towns and taking all children eight years and older from their homes, including base children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And once the onions are soft, we’ll add the tomatoes and spices to make a curry base.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Muthu prodded a broken bottle at the base of a mound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eighteen hours later, his body was discovered at the base of a cliff of ice. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the golden ticket, because Martha Karolyi would select the next artistic gymnastics women’s senior and junior national teams based on the results at Nationals. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I leave my feet and dive, and with my glove fully extended, I catch the ball in the webbing and hold on as I hit the ground and crash into the base of the fence. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The seismologists resolutely based their conclusions on the behavior of Hawaiian volcanoes, which don’t blow out sideways. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Though the Respectables had steady work, their wages were consistently low, as they found themselves shut out of higher-paying factory jobs in Chicago’s fast-growing industrial base. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Leo had been experimenting with all sorts of weapons based on the Archimedes sphere that he’d recovered in Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our teammates on the bench jump to their feet, cheering as my cousin lopes easily around the bases. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most Western tonal music is based on major and minor scales, both of which easily give that strongly tonal feeling. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He first cut off the bush at the base, then started on the root, but no matter how deep he dug, he never could seem to get to the bottom of it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She fastened a small bundle to the base of the backpack. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upon learning that we had all fought for the so-called army, in different parts of the country, we calmed down and talked about what bases we were from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So the best place to attack was on the western shore, a place called Empress Augusta Bay, forty miles from the nearest large Japanese base on Bougainville’s other side. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the calluses at the base of his fingers, rough against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was still slightly afraid something would go wrong and did not want Pauling to think about hydrogen-bonded base pairs until we had a few more days to digest our position. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At the base of each tower were businesses ranging from supermarkets to dental offices. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then I’m Glenn Burke hitting his home run and silly-dancing around the bases. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A cold sweat broke out at the base of her spine. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One day he told her he had composed a poem called “The Mango Lady,” based on the accident they’d witnessed, and dedicated it to Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It looked like a heavily fortified military base. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There are uncountable snakes at the base of the tree, biting at the roots. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s played with two bases, one for someone taking the role of a lion and the other for children whom the lion “hunts.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again our reasoning was partially based upon simplicity. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Just like her, I knew the feeling of discrimination and to be looked down upon based on the way you look. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Commandant stands at the base of the tower, her face stiff—from anger or nerves, I can’t tell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a last defense I had always taken refuge in a scornful superiority, based on nothing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now refuse covered the farm and was creeping toward the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For most of the summer, the young women of the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment stayed at their first base in the village among the orchards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the best example of an organization that has successfully navigated this problem is Gore Associates, a privately held, multimillion-dollar high-tech firm based in Newark, Delaware. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was based on a realization that had come to him “lying in bed one night” at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s not sentimental nonsense: it’s based on the story of Father’s life. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Small cochas, perfect circles cut into the stone base of the city, held pools of still water that reflected the sky above. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“And can you have a few of your guys start jackhammering the base below there too?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally they were pulled out, and he was given a choice: he could be reassigned to the American base in Okinawa, or he could stay in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I turned in the drawings based on my scientific calculations to Mr. Ferro, he studied them, asked a few questions, and then called in Mr. Caton to do the work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Pyramid of Meereen was eight hundred feet high from base to point. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of descending to my base camp on the ice cap, though, I decided to spend the night on the steep flank of the mountain, just below my high point. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their decision to answer the packers' call might have been based on thinking like Horace Cayton’s. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From all over the base, others were already coming at a run. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sides of the base layer are decorated with Indian elephants connected nose to tail. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often Maeve would sit at the base of my trunk and write in her journal. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As long as this flaw remained, calculus would be based upon faith rather than logic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Garzoni is not very interested in garlic and magnets; but his tract begins by stating that there is much nonsense written about magnets, and that reliable knowledge has to be based on experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Because their system of counting was based on the number 20, the Mayans naturally divided their year into 18 months of 20 days each, totaling 360 days. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She turned off the highway and arrived at the main gate of the base. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The lakebed was on a mission to bury the base, the men, and all of their planes, and it was succeeding. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The same equation we’d used to calculate altitude based on time was the one we needed first; good old S = ½at². October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His wanderings brought him, as they always did whether he liked it or not, to the base of the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Flowers, Hill, Rivers, Snow ... we give such names to base- born children to mark them for what they are, but they are always quick to shed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And your father’s going to be based in Oxford?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Of course this presumed that Rosy had hit it right in wanting the bases in the center and the backbone outside. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But based on the president's condition after two days, Agnew and Hamilton believed that no organs had been injured. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They dodged around the base of the ferris wheel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ...” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Looking at the designs based on Gale’s traps. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Corporal Reynolds whips around, startled by the loud clatter of the handset against the phone’s base. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Not just at the base, either, but at least halfway up the trunk. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“First love makes everyone mad—it’s foolish to throw away your future because of one hormonal decision based on less than a year of your life when you were barely in your twenties.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Conant had advised Bush to put the uranium project on the shelf for the duration of the war, but that advice had been based on his impression that a bomb was purely conjectural. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A blue flame flickered at the base of his spine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bundles of orange or red fruit hang like clusters of bocce balls from the base of the fronds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The foot as a unit of measurement is based, naturally, on the foot. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some modern Non-Western music traditions, which have a very different approach to melody and harmony, still base their tuning on the perfect fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Newton’s figures are not based on independent measurements; they are the best available, in his judgement, at the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He felt as if there was something atrophied between his eyes, where the base of the nose grew into the skull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days, he was flown out to Camp Ranger, a base camp about twenty miles north of Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Right at the base of his own throat he thought he could feel a little door that might stick. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross scims with the soldiers coming down from the top of the tower while she battles those heading up from the base. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This was Japan’s eighth largest city, and the location of an important army base. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We formed a ring around the base of the tree, and one by one deposited our combustibles at the trunk. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a path made of the long leaves that circled all the way down to the base of this plant, where there was a beach. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"The flower of immortality lies in a cave at the base of the Rock of Nisir, the only feature within the endless ocean. Wherever you might be, you will be able to see it." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A small army unit, based next to the train station, was out catching migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Who has that kind of money to dish out based on me singing one little song? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So the 7-7 wrestler, based on past outcomes, was expected to win just less than half the time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I saw Mr. Galanter standing near third base, wiping his forehead. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The report discussed three possible military applications for fissionable uranium: dropping radioactive materials over enemy territory; generating power for submarines and other oceangoing vessels; and development of a bomb based on U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly I became aware that an adenine thymine pair was identical in shape to a guanine cytosine pair...no fudging was required to make the two types of base pairs identical in shape.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I came to a slow stop at the base of the hill, sinking face-first in the muddy bank. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The records no longer exist, but his appeal, which went before a five-member review board in Oklahoma, was based at least partly on his cooperation with the bureau’s investigation of the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We are some of the few very fortunate people in the village who have possessions to trade with the base people for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second way was the American quarantine in the early 1990s of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, who were detained at the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Kanei and Moriba returned with the corporal, some soldiers, and civilians who carried the bundles of food, drugs, and ammunition back to base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Chasing after their lost ball, a pair of teenage boys ran to the base of the centaur, followed by a young girl. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dancing like schoolboys, Bull and Virgil went from one boy to the other as though touching bases, pleading with them to rise and fight again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The War of the Worlds broadcast was based on fake news. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a phrase I didn’t know, so I made up that meaning based on how it sounded. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Second, the reports Adams was receiving from John Quincy in Prussia, based on his network of contacts in Paris and Amsterdam, provided fresh evidence that Talleyrand was now eager for peace with the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Arnold, a thirty-one-year-old Confederate army veteran and former schoolmate of Booth’s, was arrested based on a tip. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cardinals were fast on the base paths and they weren’t afraid to try to pull off a hit-and-run. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if she was angry or excited—her zealotry managed to cover pretty much all the emotional bases. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I knew there was enough fire or charring on it to light off the base of fried palm fronds beneath the signal fire. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But,” Ainsley protests, “we need time for real homework. We shouldn’t waste it on made-up projects based on pointless ‘Dear Diary’ entries.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The sermon was to be based on Luke 23:34, the words Christ spoke from the cross: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She stops next to a locked door and stands on her tiptoes, peering at the base of the blue lamp hanging from the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Lately, the base people in the village are whispering the name as if it is a powerful incantation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ache reaches up through the base of his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So I was wondering if the Winnebago company is based in Tennessee or something.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The official syllabus was still largely based on Aristotle, and Galileo dutifully, but without enthusiasm, taught the party line in his lectures. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Neither did I find an entry for those who fear the terrible truth that their self-worth is based entirely on the completion of a daily crossword puzzle. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There is quite an armada assembled here at the naval base. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only her hands and bare feet, wedged in the single cleft that ran spiral from the base of the tower to its tip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“These fools always trying to guess what kind of money folks got based on their caskets.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This is the same lady who tackled him that one time they were playing baseball in her backyard and he tried to block her from reaching first base! Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

At base, though the white brings forth many arguments to justify his viewpoint, one feels the reality is simply that he cannot bear to “lose” to the traditionally servant class. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin line of down from her belly button led over the gentle curve of the base of her belly, to her dark triangle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is this that underlies his decision to declare war on ‘false rumour and the opinions of some, based on unreliable and untrustworthy foundations’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His bronze base had several drawers, spinning gears, and a set of steam vents. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One look at the opposing bases convinced Crick. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, both Francis and I had the impression that the most satisfactory angle of rotation between two adjacent bases was between 30 and 40 degrees. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

This is based on the false idea that humans went out and forced animals to be domesticated. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Curveballs and bus fumes and dreams, dreams of the Majors — clean sheets and an umpire at every base. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warden redirected him, then cut a hole in the back of Kemmler’s shirt, near the base of his spine, where an electrode would go. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its base was a mammoth marble neoclassical museum, complete with Corinthian pillars and carved entablature. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They are the vehicle to challenge a conviction based on ineffective counsel, the State's failure to disclose evidence, and most important, new evidence of innocence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It varies depending on a homeowner’s needs, but the base price for this model is about sixty-five thousand dollars.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z