| 单词 | basement |
| 例句 | Would he have to carry all three of them up the basement stairs next? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Her escorts immediately responded, nearly giving Kendra whiplash as they plummeted into the church and glided to the basement door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The basement rec room was a throwback to the sixties: shag carpeting, modern furniture, a small bar jutting out from the wall, and a Ping-Pong table. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I followed him down carpeted stairs to a huge basement bedroom. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Dad had found the pew, disassembled, in the basement of our cottage. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z "Seventh house on the right. In the basement. The door's unlocked." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Those same policemen had to secretly ferry us out of the basement of the school at the end of the day, past a mob of citizens determined to hang us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He went through the basement, pausing to look at the roaring furnace, and then went to the kitchen door and stepped in softly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When nothing happens for a long time, I toss a pebble at the basement window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I looked around the basement where my beloved grandmother lay on her back, still and quiet. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even the door to the basement was shut, which meant that either Mom or Dad had camped out downstairs rather than share their room with each other. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the shadows on the far side of the room, they saw Haley Daley heading for the staircase they’d just come up: steps that would take her back to the basement. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Others are bulgy, dumpy, with clamped self-righteous mouths, their arms festooned with shopping bags; these we associate with sales, with bargain basements. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The power goes next, lights out in the damp basement. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The basement smelled like moonshine, and not a little of its vapors spread through the house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To do so meant going down to the basement and turning on one of the two personal computers, hers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I took the stairs to the basement in case he was doing laundry, but the machines were silent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The night was full of noises: bursts of drunken laughter, two raucous voices raised in song, the clatter and whine of some badly oiled machine in a basement. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We started down the steps into a basement. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He drew in his breath and went on writing: I went with her through the doorway and across a backyard into a basement kitchen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The limestone that elsewhere gives Iowa its hard mineralized water was obliterated and replaced by the shocked basement rocks that so puzzled the water driller in 1912. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I only remember falling down the stairs that led to Trapis’ basement, my purse of money clutched tight in my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One administration official went down to the basement and was alarmed by the men and their military equipment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But the first night the hamster made so much noise running around in his wheel that I had to move him down to the basement. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z While students and teachers hoped their desks and basements would stand up to the power of a nuclear blast, the country’s leaders also prepared for a possible attack—in high style. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Her job was to fill two bowls with fresh yogurt from the sacks hanging in the basement larder, where the floor was packed dirt, and where the old cook kept his pickling jars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When we arrived at the school, we headed down to the basement to the janitor’s room to get the cleaning cart. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Chess shoved Finn toward the basement stairs and screamed, “Don’t stop until you get to the other side!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The silence in the basement was broken only by the breathing of the occupants. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Homework,” I said, hurrying into my bedroom in the basement to avoid him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Otto ran from the basement into the backyard and sat with his back against Missus Thunkle’s biggest flowerpot, cupping his face in his hands and crying out his fear. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Some people would lock us up in a cobwebby basement for hollering.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Richie brought home a mattress and put it in the basement, and now Ben had to sleep down there with the dog and Richie's free weights. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And I opened the door to the basement, and my sister and this boy were naked. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He calls himself a cab and goes to the basement one last time to throw away the towel he’d used to dry off, the gray push-button phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And in the basement is a sink and instruments for embalming and for injecting. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grab the fireplace poker and go down into the basement, and if any of those vermin are twitching hit them with the poker and knock them into the Promised Land,” she ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Down in the basement are the functions our remote ancestors mainly depended on— aggression, child-rearing, fear, sex, the willingness to follow leaders blindly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our basement is made with thick walls of concrete, but I know after a storm like this there will be water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Her dad was a nanotechnologist whose laboratory was in their basement. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Shortly after Terryl got back home, in early July, she got a call patched through from the receptionist while she was sitting in her office, in the basement of the Cache County prosecutor’s office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I shouldn’t have been surprised to find the basement still looking like an advertisement for a couple dozen of the carnal sins. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It had four floors; a cook and other servants could stay in the attic and in the basement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat on the chair, perched really, suddenly thinking that, from reading a City Paper ad, she was now alone with a strange man in the basement of a strange house in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When he moved, she walked down the steps and dragged him through their basement onto the sidewalk outside. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Big Tony was standing on a chair, staring out the basement window. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I can see her at the funeral, a shoddy, low-cost affair held in the basement of some dubious funeral parlor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandonment has opened the door to the dark and ugly basement where the monsters have been waiting. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Chapter Eleven tapped into the pneumatic system in the basement and spent hours sending a Ping-Pong ball around the house through a network of vacuum cleaner hoses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was the same smell they couldn’t get out of their basement after a rat died inside one of the walls. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He stumbles down the steps, which narrow to the dugout basement. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When Mama took us to the bargain basement sales in the Loveman’s and Pizitz department stores, we never asked why we couldn’t try on clothes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, Chess switched off the light in the empty basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Byrd knocks her hand against the basement doorframe. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So mostly I just vegetate in the basement and pick my navel, to quote Grim, Mr. Belly Button Lint himself. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Will our new place have a basement? So I can practice?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The basement was immaculate, and that made it creepier for some, reason. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I felt pretty sure of two things: Nobody had noticed that I was hidden away in the dark basement like a leper, and everybody would be asleep when I went upstairs this time. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They rode in silence until they reached the basement and the elevator doors opened. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In the basement was a bucket of filthy rags. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Then, with help from Jennings, the men set up their machine in the White House basement. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At the bottom of a stairwell leading to the school basement, a boy crouched, furtively eating his lunch. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t love the smell of the tiny dugout basement under the cottage, but it keeps him and Byrd protected from high winds and bad storms. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A corpse floating in the black water of a basement among the trash and rusting ductwork. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It’s got two floors—three counting the basement and four counting the attic. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents told me he was still sleeping downstairs, so I knocked loudly on the basement door before entering, then asked, “Gus?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z With an illegal gambling den in the basement, even gentlemen needed to be able to make a quick getaway. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Finn saw a space like the wide-open part of the Greystones’ basement, with tiny half windows at the top letting in murky light. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Usually that purpose involved an ax and/or chain saw, and a basement and/or attic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Several fairies took hold of Hugo and lifted him out of the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Those knees in Mr. Kreuk's basement room had no scars; they were smooth and white and knobby. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He passed by all our display preparations in the basement going and coming from the mine, but said nothing to me about them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Friday night, and were not at the Waffle House, and we’re not playing Assassin’s Creed in Nick’s basement, and we’re not pining for Blue. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z This time, however, I visited not as the little girl in the corner of the basement when Mama Lessie had died but as a hospital chaplain. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Right now, he’s reading Finding Yourself by Screaming a Lot, and the other night, when I heard the most awful noise coming from the basement, I didn’t even bat an eyelid. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z He came to a farmhouse, forced open a basement window, and hid in the coal bin for two days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The eyes of that dead lady down in the basement cooler at Russell's house? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After several days, weeks, or months of sleeping in your aunt’s basement or on a friend’s couch, a time comes when you are expected to fend for yourself. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I walk down the steps to the basement. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Thula, with yet another infant to tend to, was no happier in their cramped quarters in the basement than she had been in the cabin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mom helps me carry the plastic deck furniture up from the basement and I scrub it with bleach. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, Mom and us kids went down into the basement. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d left three loaded rockets, Auks VI, VII, and VIII, to cure in the basement while we were on vacation and decided to fire all three the Saturday after we came back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When they’d gone for the pictures down into the damp basement? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Zeitoun knew the basement would be a loss, and might not be habitable for some time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 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 Then she ushered us into a basement heaven. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “But I’ll see what I can do about getting us out of the basement.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Just like Anne’s story made it out of the attic and Zlata’s out of the basement, I hope our stories make it out of Room 203. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He stood up and said, “Just think about it. I’ve got an extra bedroom in the basement ready for you anytime. Okay?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He toppled down a set of steps and sprawled on the floor of an excavated Roman basement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was bulky and bolted to an iron workstation in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The basement itself was “gargantuan,” Volpe says, with enough room for a couch and a settee to make up a little waiting room, almost like one of the department stores. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Ten months later, after recounting this exchange to two dozen wedding guests in the basement of Grace Lutheran Church, Lil raises her glass in a toast. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z One day Ashima goes shopping in downtown Boston, spending hours in the basement of Jordan Marsh as she pushes Gogol in his stroller, spending every last penny. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “One summer when I was about nine, my dad went off to rehab for his dryer sheet addiction. He used to huff ’em down in the basement, box after box. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z With these majestic violins, you’d think we were in some castle on the English moor instead of a dingy church basement in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When Moon Orchid wasn’t looking, she put them at the bottom of a storage box in the basement. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy was working on this letter in the basement rumpus room of his empty house. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The only real noise was the creaking from the ceiling of the leather belts that connected the wheels in the weaving room to the gigantic waterwheel in the basement. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The party was in the basement of this house. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The corridor was split in half with a metal staircase leading down into what must be some sort of basement. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z My taxi was cutting through the back streets of Bloomsbury, past the house where my father lived after his second marriage, and past the basement flat where I lived and worked all through the fifties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I hid out in the basement bathroom to think the matter through. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I opened the basement door and they bolted outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The basement door was opening, letting streaks of sunlight in. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only when the elevator door begins to open that it occurs to me that waiting in the basement with a bag of garbage makes absolutely no sense. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe she’s smart. But she’s incredibly weird. She’s going to end up living alone in a basement with a bunch of cats. Windy, you used to have better taste in friends.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They walked around stark naked in the eternal twilight of the basement, defying the humidity and drafts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A fourth voice said, “Well, I’m glad to hear it, that means I didn’t go digging around in the basement for nothing. I think he’s going to really like this.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Several did not wait to hear more; they rushed out of the basement to telephone their stories in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her father was working on something in the basement. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, I head down to the basement for our game night. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Most children rode the city bus to school or walked, as I did the dozen or so blocks from where I lived, in a two-room basement apartment. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Boys from my graduating class are signing up and shipping out, and every week there’s a farewell potluck dinner in a church basement or the lobby of the Roxy or in someone’s home. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The bungee jacket would go back to the art school basement that night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The basement had a room full of children’s books, which we read. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Since we still had a guidance problem, I spent the next couple of days in the basement, tinkering with fins and how to attach them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When he opened the door, he looked her over, mercilessly sizing her up, and then he smiled and said, “Come on in. My office is in the basement.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I listened from my basement lab as they shouted at each other for nearly an hour, neither man giving an inch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Beside the washing machine in the basement was a wide counter and a deep steel sink. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As she followed Grandma Sorenson into the spacious basement, the implications of the scene began to register. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We circle around the ghetto fence to a new place, near a small basement window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Surely there wasn’t that much distance between our basement and the empty house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As soon as he disappears into the basement, the dogs sort of deflate. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly I heard footsteps hurrying through the basement, and her sister ran into the lavatory calling her name. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After school, I’d go out to the woodpile next to the basement and practice karate chops and droplocks on the kindling while laying down some pretty wicked curse words. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I meant to,” Mom says, “but then you asked for my help with the basement, and I got caught up in that and forgot to bring it up.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “I had dinner in the basement,” he finally said, his voice empty. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And if one were just too pathetic, forlorn, and unremembered, one could always scrounge up some decade-old, generic canned fruit cocktail from the depths of the basement pantry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The basement remained, a great square hole in the ground; and in its crumbling walls, protected from the wind and snow, numerous small creatures lived. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Music and laughter and the sweet smell of German beer poured from the rathskeller in the building’s basement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She invented a way of dipping the chimneys in a big can of kerosene she had in the basement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I was going to get Janae,” I say, pacing around the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He remembered the way she’d looked at him down in the temple’s basements—untrusting, skeptical. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mentally, I scroll through my list of black market clients, thinking of the artistic ones who might have basement darkrooms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He crossed a yard and followed a fence that led into Darling Street where Pilate lived in a narrow single-story house whose basement seemed to be rising from rather than settling into the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “So far as my social life goes, what strikes me as a good idea is leaving him in the basement wrapped in a cocoon of pink insulation.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, it would hardly surprise him to discover he must enter the building through a basement window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The main part of the basement is lined with hard brown foldout chairs already filled with people. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Most of them had joined the Varsity Boat Club and lived in the club’s rented house on Seventeenth Avenue, a block north of the campus, though joe remained in the basement of the YMCA. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With outside help, Bahumat was moved to a new holding area in the basement of the church. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Locked everyone in the basement and said if Headmistress and Miss Avocet didn’t change into birds he’d put an extra hole in my head. So they did, and he stuffed ’em both into a cage.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The dogs in the basement sounded super agitated. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The basement was lit up with the white flash of a dozen silver bulbs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom made me take a shower in the basement before letting me upstairs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I love books and I wanna be around ’em all day, even if it’s in some dingy basement at a stuffy old university on the Upper West Side.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z "She stayed with me for a while. Papa travels so often he didn't suspect someone was in the basement." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z These people would have secret get-togethers, too, usually in someone’s flat or in empty basements that had been converted into clubs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Double garage with separate entrance. Finished basement. Sliding glass doors.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The minute Jared, Kyle, Tyler, and Blake step into Manny’s basement, it’s clear Jared’s Equality Brigade thing was a terrible idea. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The adults headed down to the basement to commiserate or whatever, leaving the three of us alone in the living room. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The metal was in the form of coins, packed in small, heavy boxes, which he carried through the house and piled in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was halfway down the steps to the basement when she heard a noise coming from the garage. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z She kept a bookshelf in the basement, stocked with books on herbalism, along with a few old paperbacks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Seven opened the door, revealing stairs leading to a basement. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Who doesn’t? We still have a giant tub of hats and costumes in our basement. My brothers run around in their superhero gear all the time. It is so annoying.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They walked into the church together, and found a sign telling them to wait in the basement. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Since I’m underage, Mom sticks me in the basement stockroom. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I black out the basement windows with thick muslin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The school lunchroom was in the basement, and the grated windows near the tops of the tile walls let in little light. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Winston Lacks was a burly man with a beard that grew to his belly—he drank almost every night in a saloon hidden in the basement beneath the general store. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My basement lab stank one last time with zincoshine preparation, six rockets curing at once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The smoke was rolling from the furnace now in heavy billowing grey clouds, filling the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z On April 16 Cockcroft and Walton nervously summoned Rutherford to the basement so he might see for himself a scintillation pattern they thought heavily suggestive of alpha particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the afternoon she made her own sausages, spiced with fennel, and hung them over the heating pipes in the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Malloy has taken the white wooden chairs from the basement into the living room to make sure everyone has a seat. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I leapt up from the computer desk in the basement and raced upstairs to the kitchen to find her. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z What he was proposing, in effect, was a stratum of artificial bedrock that would also serve as the floor of the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I went down the back steps and out the basement door, then over to Commons—its red brick facade flat as a stage backdrop against the empty sky—and called Henry from the pay phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There’s always the basement, but no one ever goes down there, and it could be weeks, maybe even months, before Mom and my sisters would find me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Meaning we got Tatarska, and Max is to meet me at the basement window—which seems the safest spot—in two days. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Just Fang, hunched up alone in his skanky basement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Kelly and her father lived in a two-room basement apartment, and their front door was really a back door. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Back home, I headed for the basement after a brief raid on Mom’s kitchen cupboard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It's the incinerator door, still closed, but leading to a dark, scary room down in the building's basement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the far side of the basement was a large alcove. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In mid-August she had gone into her basement with an aerosol spray containing DDT and petroleum distillate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The man on the right jerked his head at a basement opium den we had yet to try. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of options and patience, they nodded in silent agreement, then burst into the basement. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When they're done, I follow them down the back stairs to the kitchen, but I don't go on down to the basement with them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And opening a door Mr. Foster led the way down a staircase into the basement. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z All that was left, a cliff drop of some forty feet below the heat-buckled walk, was the shell of concrete with weirdly bent and rusted rods that had been its basement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Petunia, the lanky Doberman, was leaping off the floor and banging her paws against the basement window. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I text Nick to see what he’s up to, even though I know he’s playing video games in the basement, because that’s what he always does in the afternoons until soccer season starts. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He finds a place where the stairs go down into the basement and he pulls away the boards and planks. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Go to your father and brother. The alley on the right, down to the basement. Knock twice, then three times, then six times.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Everything was wired to recording machines in the basement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I'm just this critter hiding out in the basement, drooling in my comic books or whatever. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z His mind goes back to a brightly lit space in the basement of a church his parents and their friends sometimes rented for especially large parties. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, he and Isaac are in the basement.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Uh, um, if it’s okay—and even if it’s not—I’m going to leave the basement door open. It’s not that I don’t trust you two, but I think Rachel’s parents wouldn’t approve—” “Fine!” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It turned out that downstairs, the mood had been jubilant all along, the basement TV pumping out a consistent stream of good news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even though they’re not held captive in an attic or dodging bombs in a basement, the violence permeating the streets is just as frightening—and just as real. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z From the safety of my seat in the cineplex, I had scoffed at their idiocy and now, here I was, in Bat Lady’s lair, and someone else was here, in the basement. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z And a lot of people have volunteered their spare rooms, basements, and attics. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She notices that and asks, “Why are we going to the basement?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z After service is over, everyone files into the church basement for “fellowship.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I arrived at the courthouse early the next morning to visit Walter in his basement cell before the proceedings began. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He leapt up on the ratty sofa in Big Tony’s basement TV room as if it was the raging river. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I was absorbed in the tale of a renowned scientist who had rigged up a mystery room made of metal in the basement of his palatial home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It helped when I was out on the rooftops alone, knowing that Trapis and the basement were there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At West Virginia University, students cried in each other’s arms, phoned their parents to say good-bye forever, and hid in the dormitory basement. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z So high up, and yet the room was like a basement. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Her crying was like an animal’s—a seal’s —and it echoed around the basement. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Used to always ask me to bring up Vemorsfrom the basement, Milton thought to himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ben was so afraid that Richie would send him to the basement early that he was sitting in the bedroom closet, playing with his cars. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z All I need to do now is get Nora to come down to the basement for the big reveal. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z That must have been in his mind in those days when he talked about saving money and gave me my haircuts down in the basement. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He began to undress, thinking, I’ll tell ’em I left her with Jan in the car after I took the trunk down in the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z After Mary Elizabeth dropped me off, I went into the house and found my sister crying in the basement. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Tony, with his asthma, probably had never been in a basement before last week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t even know the Big House had a basement. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The basement was our home for the next week and, by the third night, I discovered the source of the scratching sounds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I went down to the basement and looked around. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I open the door to the basement, hoping I don’t reek too much of baby vomit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I nodded, and he took me downstairs to the basement, except it wasn’t really a basement because the ceilings were like fifteen feet high. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He closed the search window on his phone and hurried down the steps to the basement. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I stopped by his basement often in those first few months, then less and less as time went by. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For Thula, though, it was yet another disappointment, not much of an improvement over Boulder City, her parents’ basement, or the apartment over the tire shop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I sighed and went back down to the basement. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The house the Links eventually bought in Medlock Bridge, built in 1987, has 3,900 square feet and 1,100 more in a basement with a wall of windows facing the backyard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The front half of the basement was stacked with crates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His queasy stomach fills with worry and the smell of the basement, and Frank’s papers on the floor. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After Mom gets home from work, Dad stays with Malia for a little longer so Mom and I can go down to the room in the basement. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Aileen pulled rubber gloves from her purse, snapped them over her hands, and ducked below the service window in the basement hallway to the small metal door by the dishwashing room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The locker room was in the school basement and it was so quiet right then that I could hear water coursing through the pipes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In the New Deal we were their guestroom, their finished basement. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “She was poisoning the mice in her basement with the chocolates you gave her,” I shot right back. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I need the violence of video games and the smell of this basement and the familiarity of Nick and Leah. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z For me she would forever be a mythic weaver in the basement of an ancient house in Ardestan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The lights were still on in the basement, and Aileen stood holding a trash bag and another pair of shoes. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z We climbed out of the Marriott basement and stood on the sidewalk in the bright summer daylight, squinting at the traffic and crowds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The walls and floors are buttressed like a basement, and the entire space is much larger than the small building we entered. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We had no attic, no basement to hide in, and but one door. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Grandma officially moved out of her apartment in Billings and into our basement, which my dad had put a bathroom in but never got around to completely finishing. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z When she thumped down the basement steps with them and two glasses of milk, the plate she handed Quentin was piled twice as high as mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Kyle saw Haley Daley dash down another set of steps into the basement, to what the floor plan called the Stacks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z There they would be, sitting in a neat pile outside his door, waiting for the super to pick them up and take them down to the basement. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Crawling up the steps, I left Souma in the basement and went to be with the others. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She made Moon Orchid sit in the kitchen sun while she picked over the herbs in cupboards and basement and the fresh plants that grew in the winter garden. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Willy scrambled off to find some kids his age down in the basement, where they usually played video games, and I headed outside. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Standing in the dimly lit basement while her father tried one key after another, Shirley was glad she was not alone. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The ' dirt-smeared windows looking down into its basement were right where the crew was setting up to shoot the next scene. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “You think we go to labor camps if we fail? June, the only labor camps are the morgues in hospital basements.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Zlata was trapped in her basement while she heard bombs going off and people screaming. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There would be a large basement with hidden chambers and a subbasement for the permanent storage of sensitive material. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When my father discovered my colony of frozen slugs in the basement freezer, I chose not to explain my complex theories of suspended animation. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She sprayed the entire basement thoroughly, under the stairs, in the fruit cupboards and in all the protected areas around ceiling and rafters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then I went downstairs to the family computer in the basement and sorted through the boxes of software until I found the bookkeeping program Mom uses for her store. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart ofjesus.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I parked in the garage, grabbed something to eat, and headed down to the basement. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Having a game night in a secret location means a lot more planning and strategy than meeting up in someone’s basement. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I turn quickly on the stairs, aware that I’m in a basement with the door closed again, with a guy again, and music so loud. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He started down the basement stairs but froze when he heard Mom talking. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I trotted down the basement steps, carefully stepping over Lucifer, who raised a single irritated eye. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I crept back into the basement like a highly skilled sneak thief and then proceeded to listen to the most calming music I know: the Beatles. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelly pulled George into the main room of the basement apartment. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Anyway, the night of the seventh, we were in Fang’s basement and the air was thick, but we weren’t all chilled out and laughing at nothing like usual. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We have a popcorn ceiling in our basement, and in the darkness, its texture makes shadowy pictures and faces. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We were climbing upward, out of the basement toward bright sunlight. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I explain how I found the room in the basement, and how Carlos said it wasn’t being used for anything. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Cronkite explained that he just needed to make a quick call from the basement pay phone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then she hurried Aunt Elizabeth down the stairs to the basement. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Only if you came into the entryway would you see the two inner doors, one leading to the upstairs apartment, one to the downstairs, and their shared basement beneath. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad hauled our ancient barbecue out of the basement and spent the afternoon scrubbing it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Minho still hasn’t shown up,” he said as they walked down the stairs to the basement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Yusuf doesn’t take his eyes off the television or move from the best spot on the worn couch in their basement. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Mark went up backward, just in case someone figured out another way to get into the basement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Jenny looked down into the nearby basement and saw the angry dogs. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the afternoons, Richard could nearly always be found in the dark basement, wedged in the crawl space between the couch and the wall, an encyclopedia propped open in front of him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Finished basement,” the red headline on Tina Davis’s sign out front said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Two hours later, Mr. Trepid opened the basement door and called down to Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, far away from the hotel, in the basement of a New York City apartment building, two other dogs were also watching TV. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I slipped a pin blade into the basement door lock and broke it with a twist. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I looked around and found a nail—you can always find a nail in an old basement—and hammered it in behind one of the stairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We sat in a coffee shop in the basement of 30 Rockefeller Center. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He had begun it in the basement, but it was cold down there, and there was not much room, so he brought it out to the back porch. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hugo just kept twirling and twisting and heaving, a violent ballet that sent as many imps as pounced on him careening across the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The band did not step out on the stage but rose from some hidden basement. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “She hit some wrong button on the elevator and it took her all the way down in the basement where it was dark,” Deborah told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I went to work but came home early and lay in a dark corner of the basement, waiting it out. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Shoulder to shoulder, they tiptoed down the stairs into the basement, where Redemption’s training room had been built. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was 3:15 a.m. exactly when Chess noticed that the door to the basement was slightly ajar. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Next is the weight of her on each wooden step, until the door at the top of the staircase flashes open, light spilling into the basement. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The ground doesn’t slope down enough for it to be a basement. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Ford Hall had chemistry labs, and some administration officials worried that these radicals were making bombs in the basement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I lie in my bed, wide awake, listening to the faint sound of drums coming from Madrina’s basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “He got back Friday. He’s just in the basement.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Both came running down the basement steps just as I threw in another cup of mixture. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Their classroom was in the basement, but there was enough light to see by, coming in through a few small windows near the ceiling. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The Granger Gazette and the yearbook shared an office down in the basement near the music rooms. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Then he saw Mr. Dalton and another white man standing at the far end of the basement; in the red shadows their faces were white discs of danger floating still in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Everyone gets here around six, and we end up packed onto the scraggly basement couch eating pizza and watching reruns of The Soup. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z On his first trip to the basement, Gogol sees a table on which other tenants have left things up for grabs: books, videotapes, a white casserole with a clear glass lid. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad ordered everybody out who could get out and then slammed the phone down and ran to the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They would often play together, side by side, at computers in their basement. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Florida stomped across the basement room and kicked the wall and the stool. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Twig asked as she flicked on the basement lights, illuminating our favorite hangout spot for the past few years. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He came without fail every noontime, from his little basement restaurant up near the Polo Grounds; the joke was he never lasted more than two minutes... but he always left twenty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The fluids that Russell's dad pumps into the dead bodies down in the basement of the funeral home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Living in the rear basement apartment, right behind Reginald and me, was one of Harlem’s most successful narcotics dealers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood in the darkened basement with the trunk upon his back and listened to the roaring draft of the furnace and saw the coals burning red through the cracks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I pictured it in our basement bathroom, its delicate wings set against the coarse cement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Ibtihaj, you are funny. All of this begging and pleading, and you’re talking about girls having to sleep in the basement.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then Fizz and I sneak to the basement to watch TV. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He wanted to run from the basement and go as far as possible from the sight of this bloody throat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Some new people came with bottles wrapped in brown paper bags, and Major blacked out the little basement window with his jacket. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He found the monster with me on the basement stairwell at Dad’s house. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z His mind wanders back six months to a fetid basement. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Waiting with a bag of garbage to go to the basement, yes. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe they had to hide down in the basement or someplace.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The basement is empty, like the other times I was here. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Lovey said she lived on the first floor, which is always buzzer number two, because buzzer number one would be the ground floor, basement apartment. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Once my eyes adjusted to the dark, I counted about thirty refugees in that basement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t stop to ask myself then what would happen to all the kids who’d been left in the basement with the teacher who couldn’t teach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Canvases—some blank, some painted on, some drawn on—are all over the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The basement was not lighted as brightly as before, although the fairies carried their own luminescence with them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It seemed as if I had spent my life in that basement, doing the worst thing I had yet done to another person. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got home I pretended that the garbage was full and said I would take it down to the basement. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The house was enormous, three floors and a basement. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I give him a surprised look as he pulls me out of his bedroom, past a sleeping Layla, and up the stairs leading out of the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We headed down to the basement of the main building to the janitor’s room to get the cleaning cart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z And now he was shivering in a dark basement, afraid to come out, and mumbling about someone named Mary. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z An hour out of the basement, Fang and I trudged along the dark corridor of road cutting through the wetlands park on the outskirts of town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We were in the basement and June sat on the couch while I stood on the fireplace like it was a stage. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The meetings were held in the basement of Wharton Hall, a harshly lit, windowless room, paper plates, pizza cartons, and soda bottles piled on a metal table, folding chairs arranged in a limp semicircle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the early 1970s, a group of social scientists at Stanford University, led by Philip Zimbardo, decided to create a mock prison in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I did what I normally did when I was in the basement getting stoned, which was ponder all the stuff Fang and I used to do before we dedicated ourselves to drugs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Army troops from the 82nd Airborne were trucked into the city and hidden in the basement of the Executive Office Building, right next door to the White House. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Well, I do have some cow hearts pickling in the basement,” he said, pretending to consider it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Never had Jessie heard Isa’s violin sound better, and she knew it was from the homemade acoustical treatment her sister had created in the basement over the years. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They were sitting in the basement with some girl named Heather, and when she left to go to the bathroom, Brad and Patrick were left alone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z That troubled Kaylene and reminded her of just a handful of the thousands of convicts she’d worked with, including one woman from Smithfield who had chained a girl in her basement and shown zero remorse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Milton brought our suitcases up from the basement and told my mother and me to start packing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The third Justice propped the dopey up against the railing that ran along the steps to the basement and stepped to one side. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He was relaxing in the living room of his 10,000-square-foot house, which has a basement movie theater and a two-thousand-bottle wine cellar. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There was a basement under the main part of the Fitzgibbons’ house, but the big kitchen had been added later and stood on a foundation of concrete blocks, with only a crawl space beneath. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She disappeared behind a white swinging door, and we could hear the uneven flap of her footsteps as she descended into the basement. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Trout lives in a rented basement in Ilium, about two miles from Billy’s nice white home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After the gasoline rationing and the public transport strike, she had unearthed this childhood toy from the basement as her only means of getting around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually when someone got a little hurt and Alex’s mom came running down the basement stairs, telling everyone it was time to go home before someone got really hurt. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z For this reason, and not out of neglect, as was later said, the hatbox was stowed away in the basement, where it awaited a more propitious moment to be given a Christian burial. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the light going on in the basement. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z And then we were both running across the foyer to the door near the kitchen, and then down the stairs to the basement. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Darius leaves and walks up a flight of stairs at the other end of the basement, and I kneel down in front of Layla to rub her forehead. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There was a jam around the lifts with trolleys waiting to get to the operating theaters in the basement, and others still trying to get up to the wards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Also, we probably should’ve done this outside. I guess we better start cleaning,” Twig said as she surveyed the destroyed shag rug in the basement. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I gave her a little wave and headed in the direction of the basement. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Then I walked back down the hall, past my bedroom to the basement door, which I had left partway open because of the noisy latch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The basement where he used to watch Dog Squad on Thursday nights. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Go to her house and down into the basement. She’s tied up down there.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Finally, Olive gets up and the three of us file down the basement steps. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The former paintings in the lobby—landscapes aglow with Manifest Destiny, scenes of Indians being slaughtered—had been carted down to the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Dugout was in the basement of the Owl’s Nest restaurant across from the high school, and there were dances there every Saturday night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The trainings take place in the basements of churches and the back rooms of stores, on long car trips and anywhere else where people can gather. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I caught my breath and ran through the crowds of children, firefighters, police officers, attack dogs, white tanks, and Bull Connor and found my way into the church basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Good find. Let’s keep that in mind while we head to the basement. Uh, okay if I lead?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Hopefully she wouldn't ask him why he was hiding in the dark basement. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Killing, ice-pick-wielding Hagar, who, shortly after a Christmas thank-you note, found herself each month searching the barrels and cupboards and basement shelves for some comfortably portable weapon with which to murder her true love. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her about the photograph, the butterfly emblem, and the light in the basement. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z They passed the baker’s where the smell of freshly baked rolls came up to them from the baking room in the basement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And while you’re at it,” I added, “you might as well bury my mother-in-law’s head. It’s been gathering dust down in the basement since God knows when.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All four of them walked through the empty basement and up the stairs in a clump, almost like a single creature—an amoeba, maybe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “It’s a pleasure, Colonel,” Colonel Cathcart replied, and he stepped back out of the basement, dosing the door after him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The chapel building, opposite B-block, was used mainly to show movies, but it had churchlike worship spaces for Catholics and Protestants and areas in its basement for Muslims, Jews, and Quakers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other employees watch me like I’m a rat, like my mother has sent me to the basement to spy on them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I looked all over the house for Henry and found him sitting by himself on an army cot, in the basement, in the dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Part of me wanted to fling open that basement door and take my chances. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He went to the basement door, opened it and looked inside; no one was there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t, in good conscience, just stand by and watch Rishi’s talent wither away like some poor plant in a dark basement. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z You used the end of the fire poker to unlock it, and it opened onto a secret stairway that led to Sefia’s basement room, just a small place for her bed and belongings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He spent nearly every moment of his waking life in that damp basement caring for the hopeless people no one else would bother with. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z People just don’t live and hide in basements if they’re happy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Scraping noises; and then, like the gates of the Western Paradise, the trap door would open, lowering into the basement an almost intolerable beam of light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in the very basement they found themselves in now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He could hang out in the living room, or his office, or the basement. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When Katie made her a bed in the basement, she wouldn’t even go down the stairs. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z When Joe’s mom got to the basement, we officially started band practice. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z In 1941, three years before Avery’s landmark experiment, two scientists, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working in a basement tunnel at Stanford University, discovered the missing link between genes and physical traits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He turned off the sidewalk and walked up the Dalton driveway, went into the basement and looked through the bright cracks of the furnace door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Patrons came around back, giving a coded knock—a long and two shorts followed by two longs—on the basement door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Let me show you the basement,” Dad says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I asked my dad to put Fidel in the basement so I wouldn’t have to look at that stupid wheelchair ever again. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Her mom keeps staring at me though, like she knows about me and Jeremy in the elevator, so I quickly join Muhammad and Saint Sarah as they head down the basement steps. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She lets me go ahead of her at the basement door, then shuts and locks it before scrambling down the stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The basement is the storeroom with shelves, shelves clear to the ceiling loaded with jars of preserved animals. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Children drift down into the basement, the older ones to rooms upstairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the photograph I’d stood next to in the basement hallway of the Academy countless times as we waited for chow, entitled something like Smoldering Ruins of Auburn Prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent most of one Sunday spraying the basement and all secluded areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She heads down a set of basement stairs so grimy that they look like the inside of a chimney. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Out on the streets it was everyone for themselves, but Trapis’ basement was the closest thing to a sanctuary we had, like a church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I took all this home and carried it down to the basement in several trips. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I guess that’s how we worked our way into full-time-stoner status, how we ended up where we were at that moment, sitting in Fang’s basement, smoking up on his refugee couch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z His mother says good night, and we tiptoe back down to the basement, where Layla is just starting to toss about. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He went across the vacant lot, crossed the street and entered the basement of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As I remember it, the dark side of my mother sprang from the basement in our old house in Oakland. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Once preparations were ready for the first Hearing Circle, notices were sent out and meetings were held in the basement of the public library. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z After he finished cutting out the pictures, he took them all to the basement and found the bright yellow oil paint left over from a go-cart he had made to run kids down with. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I pushed my way in and entered the kitchen stairwell, heading toward the basement. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The next day they had the piano moved down into the basement at one end of the ice rink. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Tiberinus pointed to a set of stone steps on the side of the building—the sort that would have led to a basement apartment if this place were in Manhattan. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And though I stopped by his basement frequently in the months that followed, I never heard Trapis tell another story again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Maybe now, Mama Lessie, no other black child’s beloved grandmother will have to die beneath the dripping water pipes in a cold, dingy hospital basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I took my test in Paris, in the basement of an engineering school not far from my apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The turret room was lit, the bedrooms were lit, the windows of the basement glowed orange. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It was courageous of her to leave the basement and move to Montana. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The basement is small, with crates of goods in one corner and a round table in the center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "Max, dear, I'm sorry to bother you—you know I never come into the basement—but I just got a call from Gwen Avery and I think it's important." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Tenors are higher than basses,” she says, “which is easy to remember because basses are in the basement.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The surgical cases were prepared for the basement operating theaters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Why did she even go to the basement?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was just one in a warren of such rooms that had been partitioned off in a converted coal storage basement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There’s a laundry room, an unfinished basement, and a two-car garage. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The basement is actually nice and carpeted and painted, with lights everywhere and my dad’s old hockey trophies and framed jersey and bookshelves packed with books, even though he absolutely does not read. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The basement was full of snakes, but that didn’t worry me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Dallas and Florida had racked up hundreds of hours in the Thinking Corner, the damp, dark, cobwebbed corner of the basement. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Isa’s eyes followed Jessie as she walked slowly around the basement, running her fingers through thick, nubby carpets hung on the wall and gently touching delicate silver stars strung above. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He’d found them while rummaging in the basement of an abandoned building at the hospital sometime in the eighties, he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I put the food in the palm of my hand and went downstairs to the basement, where I opened the top of Tiny Tim’s cage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z And she knew, just knew, that if she could save Isa’s basement, then the Benny thing would be okay too. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Four stones, one of them in the basement of the museum, locked in a safe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hunter Marsh peers out the basement window at me, like a troll. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I whisper, "My dad's poking around with these wires that are hooked to the machine I found in the basement. He's testing the electrical parts of my electric blanket control." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as Alex walked down the short flight of outdoor steps to his family’s basement apartment, the electricity went out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “You told the boy to take her trunk down to the basement?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he went into the basement to make his Lemonade-on-Wheels sign. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Over the summer, the basement got flooded and the uniforms all shrank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Be in the basement by the half chime.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bieber and I cut around to Nick’s backyard and through the basement. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The washing was done in the basement and in the back half of the first floor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The basement wasn’t quite finished, bathroom project abandoned years ago, toilet bowl off its sewage site, half inch of dust coating it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I wanted to go down to the cool basement to read. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But she said she could never forgive us kids and didn’t want us in her house any longer, even if we stayed in the basement and kept as quiet as church mice. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Shag down here and get it yourself, you hack!” the voice shouted up from the basement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We are in the basement of Abnegation headquarters. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “So it’s like you two have a whole basement apartment to yourselves?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The social sciences building at the University of Michigan has a long, narrow hallway in the basement lined with filing cabinets. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It had fallen straight through into the basement. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He thought he was a big deal around town, but he was kind of sinister and lived and worked out of a tiny office in the moldy basement of the Community Center. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Soon Helmuth knows his way around the administrative offices, and one morning he's sent to file papers in a basement storeroom. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Terryl’s basement office had windows, but you sort of had to crane to look out of them because the room was half underground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We imagined what would happen if a grease fire broke out in the kitchen, or if an electrical fire started in the basement, or if lightning struck from above. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He gets a chemistry set and does experiments down in the basement. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He raced downstairs and I heard the hollow thumping of the basement steps as he went down them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One by one their little gray bodies failed under the strain, and the basement came to resemble a Civil War field hospital. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I make a bundle out of brown paper and my apron, then take the back way around the ghetto fence to the basement window, avoiding the guarded gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Isaiah doesn’t say which is evil, butter or honey,” Dad said, grinning as my brothers lugged the white tubs to the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Filth! Mudbloods! Scum!” she screamed after them as they dashed down into the basement kitchen and slammed the door behind them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the basements of these buildings, rooms were refitted into airtight chambers where victims were gassed to death with carbon monoxide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If they arrived to work even a few minutes late, as punishment they were locked in the basement for an hour and not allowed to go to their sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Sorry about that. You said you’re looking for Carlos? He should be in the basement. He’s fixing an issue with the trash chute. There’s always something in this building.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Dad has his old weights in the basement. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z There was no window anywhere in his basement cell, no portal through which the autumn light could come to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Father and I found four heavy steel bars in the basement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much time left to get to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He smells like basement and wears video game T-shirts, which he sometimes pairs with socks and sandals. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As I sat in the basement, I listened to the chaos outside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Here he comes,” Margo whispered, and I didn’t know what she meant until, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a shirt- less Jason Worthington wiggling out of the basement window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z And in order to get round to the other side he had to pass between the horse’s hoofs and the railings of the “area” that surrounded the house; for the Ketterleys’ house had a basement. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z So instead, I found a stairway and headed down to the basement. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z My best friend, Cynthia Wesley, also stood at the mirror in the basement restroom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The kind where you get to someone’s house and their mom shows you down to the basement, and there’s junk food and Apples to Apples and a bunch of people randomly singing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Valley stuffed rancid jelly bean fish from the Uncle’s basement in Seven’s pockets, in the hood of her cloak—she even put one in her shoe. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Once, she barked at the ceiling in our basement so insistently that my father pulled down part of the insulation and found a possum’s nest made out of leaves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Then I took it down and put it in the basement.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Emma walked out into the main part of the basement and squinted up at the tiny windows. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There was a computer in the basement with a program called Mavis Beacon, which gave lessons on typing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It's pretty dim down here, only the daylight from one basement window, but it catches him just right and makes his eyes shine. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “We could try to get out through the basement, but that may be wired also. Or you could run from here and I could distract anyone who saw us.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Since the basement doesn’t get as much light as upstairs, we should stick to lighter colors.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I feel like I’m ten again, standing in the basement of Christ Temple Church, having my first kiss with him at Vacation Bible School. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Fortunately, my dad has a Stone Age stereo system in the basement with an actual turntable, so I was playing along with at least one whole Latin record each night. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The headaches had become less frequent, so that she was shutting herself in the basement only two or three days a week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As the undulations subsided, the basement had been replaced by a low hill. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Oliver opened the basement door just as Mama came down the stairs with a big box in her arms. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I turn the lock open as silently as I can and make my way down to the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Finally, when the money was used up, I would be moved to a state hospital, with hundreds of people like me, in a big cage in the basement. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Of course, Finn hadn’t heard Mom in the basement last night saying, “This is exactly what I was afraid of.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He leaves the comfort of the quiet basement for the chaos of the world above. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With eyes glazed, with nerves tingling with excitement, he looked about the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Percy, Annabeth and she found themselves in a cool, damp pit that seemed to be the basement level of a temple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Their dad kept an apple cider jug filled with loose change down in his basement workshop. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We were chasing one another through the playground and in and out of the basement, where the playroom and lavatory were. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Four years earlier, when she had wandered in from the mountains, I hid her for a day, secretly feeding her in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It had sat on the market a long time, and a story had been going around town that the previous owner had hanged himself in the basement. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no windows in the basement, so she groped her way among the chairs and toys that had once seemed so familiar—now riddled with the potential for bruised toes and dinged shins. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It had a basement she thought she could sublet for extra income. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Dad had shown us the spot near the house where we were going to put the foundation and basement for the Glass Castle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Ten days later he was in the basement. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After it had steeped awhile, I took out the bags, added quite a lot of sugar and put the pitcher in the basement. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “There it is,” he says, noticing a couple emerging from a basement door below the steps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I get to the basement at 1:31 p.m. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My nose tickled from the dust in the sleeping bag, and the basement floor—which was poured concrete beneath a thin, comfortless layer of indoor-outdoor carpeting—made my bones ache whichever way I turned. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “If I were as gorgeous as Roza, I’d smile all the time,” Amber said, glancing at the clots of guys assembled in the dank, dim basement. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I might even have a ladder in my basement . . .” Gilly jumped up from the table, then caught herself— slow down, slow down. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “You’ve really got the basement in a mess. You want to clean it up down there?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s like what Sausun described in the basement of Dad’s house, this feeling of wanting to grind the monster into the ground. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z What if she was at B’s house right now, tied up in the basement, hurt and bleeding, or buried in the garden? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But that had changed a few days earlier in Trapis’ basement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One writer who signed his name “A Hint” said the cause of the fever was the stinking barrels of rotting garbage routinely found in backyards and basements. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Now Dallas sat on a stool in the basement Thinking Corner. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He needed to find whatever it was that had made Bri go back to the basement. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z "Down in the basement, out of sight, out of mind?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I bolted out the basement door, dashing into the cold, dark snow. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He got his cap and coat and went to the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, the Pilar Cafe’s basement was a gambling den. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A door opened at the other end of the room and Colonel Cathcart stepped into the basement as though from a closet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Yes; he would see about the fire again when he got to the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually she asked you If you wanted to go dance in the basement. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Inside was all must and dankness — like a shut-up basement, only more so. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve re-created Morrow’s basement perfectly. Every last detail. I want to live here.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I stood in the basement ironing, with the girls sound asleep upstairs, I continued to pray. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was enough for Stanley to buy his family a new house, with a laboratory in the basement, and for Hector to hire a team of private investigators. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z An obscure object all her own, which in addition to the need for privacy was responsible for bringing her down to the basement bathroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I’m hyped about this band. We can practice in my basement. My mom has stuff in there from her band days we can probably use.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Black men, women, and children suffering with everything from dementia and tuberculosis to “nervousness,” “lack of self-confidence,” and epilepsy were packed into every conceivable space, including windowless basement rooms and barred-in porches. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Instead, he descended into the structure’s basement—cold, dank, poorly lighted—to inspect birth and death registers kept there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Unable to sleep, he would put on his robe and slippers and walk down to the situation room in the White House basement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Wrapped in a silent, frozen rage, she folded the stepladder and carried it to the basement. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I bent down low and checked the basement windows. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She was forced to live in a basement where she could barely stand up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I thought for a moment and with a small inward sigh remembered pulling the waterproofs out some days before and spreading them out in the basement to air. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, they returned to the basement kitchen, where Kreacher served them all stew and treacle tart. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I know this happens, that some of the Jews who disappear are packed like winter linens in other people’s basements rather than relocated to work camps. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He sketched a wooden chute that would descend from a secret location on the second floor all the way to the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After seven years of living in the basement and watching TV, after doing absolutelij nothing at all, my sister decided she needed to change her life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She had a whole collection of newly purchased murder weapons and dead UPS men in her basement and/or attic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking of trying a new instrument. Like drums. Dad’s kit is down in the basement gathering dust.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no wind in the basement,” Finn said, unnecessarily. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In fact, he even went so far as to bring an old garden hose up from the basement and sprinkle all the floors that night until the water was an inch deep. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “The whole thing would be hundreds of miles long. It’s all over town, in warehouses, silos, basements, and attics.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She was just about to screw the top back on when she heard Evan coming up the basement stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Then she took me by the hand down the stairs to her basement, which is where the party was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z When she sings her orisha praise songs during her ceremonies down in the basement, I can feel it all the way up here on the third floor. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The only other items in the room were eight trunks, just like the one containing the knives in the weapons basement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Smoking half a joint wasn’t necessarily a one-way ticket to the booby hatch, and a den, I was gently told, was not the same as a basement. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I leap up, back to the x, and say, “I was able to do that, two shows a day, for a whole weekend of performances in my friend’s basement back home.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The four of us walked to the lower level and into a wider hallway, a brightly lit area of what appeared to be a basement corridor leading to the biggest cafeteria I had ever seen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I see a tiny flash, like a speedy picture, of Franz in the basement of a bell tower, cold and shivering among the mices and roaches. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He was a fighter, and had been since his youngest days, when we wrestled in the basement and he actually bit through my shoe until I screamed in pain and let him go. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s fine,” she says, “but this time, you’re going to make the basement presentable, or else you’ll be ringing in the New Year on the couch, smack dab in between your dad and me.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Using an iron shovel from the Dalton basement, Buckley showed how the bones had been raked out; explained how Bigger had “craftily crept up the stairs during the excitement and taken flight.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I went around back and banged on the sliding door leading into the basement, screaming for Fang to let me in until I thought to actually check the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In the poorly lit basement Mrs. Fanning squinted at the writing on the two doors. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Unless one of those rooms leads down to the basement, I don’t know where else the entrance might be. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z We lived in a basement apartment in Brooklyn, which I doubt you remember, down the street from Uncle Ben and his wife, your aunt Janai. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Got a basement full of them,” he replied just as quickly, and before Mom could offer another barter he said, “I wish I didn’t have to ask you for cash, but I do.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When a rowdy crowd circled Henry Kissinger’s apartment, he moved into the White House basement to get some sleep. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The only place they didn’t use was the basement because there was no telephone there. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They scampered up another aisle, turned right, and saw Haley, her hand jammed through a horizontal slot near the top of the basement wall. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z There’s this hush that comes over Muhammad and me as we step lightly through the white hallway toward the door at the end that leads to the basement. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Down in that basement speakeasy, my grandfather acquired the attributes of the barkeep he would be for the rest of his life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Everyone back in this house and we’ll go back through the basement tunnel. But don’t touch anything. You didn’t damage anything already, did you?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He let himself be caught up in the stream and made his way to the basement steps, his brains still swirling with the sounds of cussing and sobbing. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z My sister, the basement mole rat, was smarter than me? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to go down into that damp basement and beat in the cute heads of little furry rodents any more than she did. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And when she needed some anger she could just go into the basement and open a jar and get worked up all over again. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All she wanted to do was run as fast as possible out of that basement and far away, but she had to know what was going on. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z That first apartment was three rooms, for a hundred dollars a month, I think, in the front basement of a house on 147th Street between Convent and St. Nicholas Avenues. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They all climbed back down the stairs and went into the little room that was shut off from the rest of the basement the same way the Boring Room was in the Greystones’ basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I was mostly surprised that the house even had a basement—you can’t dig very deep before hitting water in most of Orlando. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Rocket came galloping toward them from the opposite direction, streaking down the stairs and then around the corner toward the basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I tripped through the wreckage and stumbled blindly across the stinking basement to the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When he walked into the basement classroom, he saw Mrs. Myers had already had Leslie’s desk taken out of the front of the room. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She was loud and loved being silly and having dance-offs in the basement. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She came all the way down the stairs and looked round the basement, as though seeking some missing detail. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It felt strange unlocking the door to the basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But first I go back down to the basement to look at the room next to the elevator again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z An in-mate had lured him into a kitchen basement for the attack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived at her house I quickly went into the basement to get a load of sheets going. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He fumbles with his keys again, opening a second door that leads down into the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Grace Church is nothing but a basement rented from the bigger church with white people upstairs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Dad looked up with me for a little longer, but when I didn’t elaborate he shook his head and went down into the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z You’ll be put in the basement and given some lavender for the wound. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Lucifer moved inside, taking possession of the rug at the bottom of the basement steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Stuffing them into her pants pocket, she headed toward to the basement entrance as fast as she could go without looking conspicuous. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the same basement as my quinceañera, and when we walk down the stairs, I get flashbacks of that horrible night. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Sierra reached the thick metal door that led to the archival basement and turned the handle ever so gently. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The subway hummed along, rocking rhythmically, like the washers in the basement did. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Billy Clayton loved a good prank and had been happy to deliver the 1918 newspapers that had not made their way to the basement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The big clapboard house burned to the ground, but Grandpa and Stanley got out alive, and they moved into a windowless two-room apartment in the basement of an old house around the hill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And then Jim Weinraub says that when he slept over at Russell's once, they sneaked down to the basement in the middle of the night and looked at a dead woman. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, okay. But the weather is ugly, and I woke up with a migraine. Plus, Penny is sick, and Butterscotch threw up on the carpet. I had to put her in the basement.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He disappeared into the basement before she returned home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The next morning he climbed down into the basement on Hurl- but and went to work. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Workers would erect pyramids of stone on the basement slab. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She regarded the main part of the basement: the one saggy couch that had been retired from the living room upstairs after Finn spilled grape Kool-Aid on it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Jutta’s husband, Albert, is a kind, slow-moving, and balding accountant whose great passion is running model trains in the basement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The newspaper clip in Mr. Ray’s basement—the one separate from the rest. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The first thing they did was to pay off the man who had installed the freezing plant in the basement. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z So I just leave it on and hurry down to the basement to find a cardboard box. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lead the way quietly into the basement. Protect us from harm, but do not kill.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I can handle the basement,” I tell Dad. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She ran her finger from the basement up to the roof in a straight line. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But he marched to the basement steps, and plunged down into the clubroom. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph suggested that in the basement it might stink up his office. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She made him stand in a dark basement corner on one foot, nose pressed to the wall, dirt filling his eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Here’s the hex book and your glasses,” Valerie puffed, coming up the basement ladder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He went down the steps, through the basement to the stairs leading to the kitchen door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His parents had turned their basement into a giant playroom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He led us down a spiral stone staircase to an elevator that carried us down several more floors to Og’s basement. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The whole basement smells like that sweet cologne. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We continue until we reach the point where the forest ends and the stone basement begins. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z There’s music coming from the basement—the soundtrack to Joseph. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It was a longer flight than would ordinarily lead to a basement—more than twenty steep stairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “The basement—my friend Calder and I need to finish an assignment by today—is there some one who could let me in?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Wooden planks have been nailed across the opening, and when I go to the basement window where Max scooted in last time, there’s no one there, either. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “We’ve been on soccer together since we were ten. His parents don’t get home till eight, and sometimes he brings a date down to the rec room in the basement.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One Saturday evening not long ago, an improvisation comedy group called Mother took the stage in a small theater in the basement of a supermarket on Manhattan’s West Side. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I followed the boys through the twisting streets until I saw them turn a corner and scurry down a flight of stairs into the basement of a burned-out building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I hadn’t taken off my jacket and I was definitely feeling edgy in the basement with the unoccupied easy chair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Nothing, suh. I just took the trunk to the basement and left. Miss Dalton told me to leave the car out. She said Mr. Jan would take care of it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was ruins—a few stones in a square, a slight depression for the basement, and trees growing right up through what had once been the living room. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point Speed and Wyche invited Gey’s former assistant, Mary Kubicek, to an event in the basement of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in Turner Station, to talk about how she grew HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At the moment, Isa was in the dungeon practicing her violin and Jessie was perched at the top of the basement stairs, a new experiment spread out before her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We took Richard down into the church basement, threw a rope over the railing that ran around the gym, and were stringing him up when Reverend Abbott came along. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “In the basement? Could there have been someone else down there?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I waited while he went down in the basement and returned with my chemicals in a cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow after school she would go downstairs to the basement, where Señora Rodriguez, the landlady, doubled as a music teacher. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Bobby was content in his basement apartment on Mockingbird Lane in South Pasadena, a small, quiet place out of sight from the world, and he lived there for several years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Frank’s drawing table takes up most of the basement. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And they ended up fooling around right there in the basement. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It was many evenings and weekends before Shirley realized the treasure her father had mined from the basement. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z So, I was sitting alone in her basement while she was upstairs getting us something to drink. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z At four thirty, all the copy would go to the composing room, where the text was set into lead type for the printing presses in the basement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A wave of warmth rolled from the chamber to the far walls of the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He’ll probably end up living in his mom’s basement until he’s forty. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This, I thought, explained the light in the basement I had seen when I was in her house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Ever since his trip beneath Rome with Piper and Percy, fighting those twin giants in the hypogeum under the Colosseum, most of his nightmares were about basements, trapdoors, and large hamster wheels. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Dandy and Poteet also stayed in the basement, except for quick runs to the yard to do their business. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I kissed Gat before he went down to the basement. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Night after night, in dressing gown and slippers, carrying a flashlight, Johnson would walk from his bedroom down to the situation room in the basement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The basement rooms are up to code, yes,” Carlos says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I moved into the house, stopping abruptly in the entryway when I saw a three-foot hole in the linoleum that plunged to the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At five o’clock, Max and Valerie were in the basement sipping coffee. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z My parents keep the television on in the living room even though they’re in the basement, watching Pretty in Pink on an ancient portable DVD player. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The cell was one of two in the courthouse basement and had neither bars nor windows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Standing in the cold basement, I felt watched by eyes blinking in the dark. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z No one would get a phone call, or a telegram, or have to look through a glass window in some cold and foreign basement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She threw them in the trash and took the garbage bag down to the basement. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z My little brothers and I stepped out of the car and walked into the church’s lower-level door, which opened to the basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Just before my birthday party had started, Chapter Eleven had been down in his basement laboratory, using a hacksaw on a newfangled Titleist that advertised a “liquid center.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Simon, the basement fridge. Not later. Not in a minute. Now,” my mom says, “or the party is off.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Morning. I want to ask you about the empty room down in the basement, right near the elevator. I saw some old furniture in there. Is it being used for storage or something?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And when she really didn’t want to be disturbed, she worked in a windowless room in the basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a spare from the basement, and they hadn’t even had to trick the rack to get it free. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The basement was a meandering complex of rooms so lightless I may as well have explored them blindfolded. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Believe me, even when I thought we were going to live in the marble palace, I would have given it up to sit on that basement dirt floor again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But the child’s favorite plaything was the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently, the men began to wander aimlessly about the basement, looking into corners, examining the shovel, the garbage pail, and the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She waited outside the basement door, pretending to use the pay phone until there was no one in either direction. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He tells me this at night when I work in the basement of the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That was another selling point of the basement bathroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dad has an eight-bedroom house with a basement that has four more bedrooms in addition to the nanny suite. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In single file, they ushered him down a wobbly flight of wooden stairs leading to the basement and led him into a damp, gloomy room with a low cement ceiling and unfinished stone walls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z People have come in and out of our building, saying their goodbyes to Mama and Papi, and paying their final respects to Madrina’s basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I went back down to the basement and hung it up beneath the stairs again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now we sit on the steps that swing around the basement apartment where Earl lives. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom came home around four o’clock from her summer job, Dad came out of his lab in the basement, I helped in the kitchen and we had a proper sit-down meal. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I stood up stiffly, nodded, and went down into the basement with my white lightning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling's like the one in my basement at home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From there you could go down to the basement or up to the second floor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This was Yoyo's time to herself, after she finished her homework, while her sisters were still downstairs watching TV in the basement. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z By the time they’d reached the basement, Seven was out of breath and ready for a nap. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He wanted to lunge at the man and take the shovel from him, lam him across the head with it and bolt from the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad were in the basement—I could hear the shower running—when I slipped inside the house and went to my room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We ate sweet pastries in the basements of churches. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The unusual mannequin was dancing a little jig, arms swaying, feet tapping and shuffling, gazing toward the far end of the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At noon I went across the street and found Harrison sitting on a box in the basement. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Little basement dance halls with “For Rent” signs on them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We all hovered around our parents, preferring to be nearby instead of playing in the basement like usual. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They had worked their way through Gracie Hall except for the basement, which was locked. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The basement bathroom was the opposite of our locker room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But waiting for the elevator in the basement, not so much. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It made the basement in Gracie feel cozy. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I was standing in a vast cube-shaped crater—the space where the foundation and lower basement levels of Castle Anorak had stood. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Others were gathering supplies and tools; Thomas saw Minho carrying weapons from the basement to the main building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For once, his luck held, Petey and TimeStar were still in the basement workshop, discussing their own futile strategies, looking as depressed as the ice cream shop Clock Watchers. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Gogol brings up the box from the basement. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If they said Bri needed to get out of the basement, it would be sinful to let pride interfere with good judgment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I went down into the basement and got a shovel and came back to the porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But then I made the mistake of telling Taylor about Nick’s drum kit—the one he can’t even play—which made Taylor realize that rehearsing in Nick’s basement was her life’s great purpose. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I could see into the basement where mangled parts of children’s bicycles lay in dusty heaps. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The office, as Myron had told me maybe a million times, used to be my dad’s bedroom, and before Myron moved to the basement, he and my father had shared it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z They went first to the furnace room in the basement, where the pajama-clad Mr. Clutter had been found sprawled atop the cardboard mattress box. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There were stairs at the back, narrow and rickety, and occasionally missing a tread, and down we went into the basement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t care if he hoards bongs or spends his days in his mother’s basement, learning guitar. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We sit on the wooden bench in the church basement, in the dark, watching the wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Holmes led his visitor down the stairs to the first floor and from there down another, darker flight to the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In a church basement, Walter's sister found flyers advertising the fish fry held at Walter’s house; they confirmed that the event had taken place on the same day as the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I mean”—the medic lit a cigarette and glared at her—“some kids called up and said there’s a dead guy in the basement. But there ain’t. So nothing. Nada.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “This was...the basement for a manor house, built in later Greek times.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the basement of the school or out back behind the wood shed, I learned Navajo songs and stories. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mom got home, she wrinkled her nose at the sulfurous odor, then went into the basement and looked at the ruined hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen him a couple times this past week, and he seems okay, although he’s still sticking close to the basement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z That night, Dad dragged a pile of old army bags up from the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Following this cold wind, which kept blowing through the Indian summer of 1932,1 sail down the basement stairs to find my grandfather, one morning, counting money. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “The basement is approximately the same size as my parents’ entire house,” Jim Link said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Do either the Hans or Mrs. Childers have a totally empty basement?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “If it were just you and Julie, we wouldn’t say anything. But we know you’re doing everything you can for your family, and Bri really needs to be moved out of the basement.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z At the highest tides, the sea creeps into basements at the very center of town. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “No one, I swear it. I was careful. I waited in the basement...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Isn’t there some way to grow stuff inside during the winter? Like down in the basement, with special lights, lots of water and extra minerals. And then you could sell it?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Five floors, right? Processing area, and four levels of cells. So what’s here? In the basement?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The basement stairs are hidden behind a group of kids taking shots. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The basement bathroom at Baker & Inglis was done up like a box at the opera. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was shut in the basement when the second call came. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She had never sold anything in her life beyond an occasional angel cake for the Altar Guild in the basement of the Episcopal church, but she began to sell bonds by the bale. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “To drop by the Uglyville art school. They have bungee jackets in the basement. A whole rack of spares.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We were dancing in her basement with a bunch of our girlfriends and somehow the CD got ruined. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Armed with a bowl of orange popcorn and diet sodas, we retreat to the basement. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I use the basement bedroom, which had been Myron’s room, and do all I can to avoid the upstairs room where my father spent his childhood. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He made frequent trips down to the Situation Room in the White House basement to hear the latest news. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Those jars were something you might expect to find in the basement of a fly-by-night medical school, not a house full of children. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I went to the basement of the church and laid all the cold food out on platters. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The basement, it turned out, had a light switch. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Pulling open the basement door, she clicked on the switch and slipped inside. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “The furnace—the thing in the basement, the thing that makes hot air that comes out of these registers. I don’t think it’s working.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I meandered down the stairs to check out the basement. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The coroner leads us to the basement and slips through a door, leaving us in the hall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The basement didn’t seem to have any windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Who the hell knows what he meant, but suddenly, he seemed kind of powerful, like someone who shouldn’t necessarily be wound up in a cocoon of pink insulation and hidden in a basement somewhere. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Again he looked round the basement, into every nook and corner, to see if he had left any trace of what had happened last night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As the room cleared, fairies charged through the door to the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It met every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z When it’s my turn, I fill my plate with rice, shami kabob, lentils, and butter chicken, skipping the cauliflower and salad, and pile the naan high before carefully carrying it downstairs to the basement. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But on rainy days, the three of us had some of our best times down in J.T.’s basement. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z From the molten basements of the world, two hundred miles down, it comes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jessie sat in the cool darkness of the basement and thought back to Monday, the day the letter had come. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “But I want to show Hazel Grace the basement,” Augustus said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z They stored them in the basement and used some to make jewelry for Grandma. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Better to sit in my refrigerator than disappear in a drawer in some museum basement,” he would say. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “I made it in this house when my mother ran the Girl Scout meetings in our basement. I got a badge for the best-made basket.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The fight took place one Saturday afternoon in the basement of a Main Street building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have an idea. I think I remember a basement entrance.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Her feet dragged on the concrete as he led her to the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My hope for my grandmother’s recovery faded day by day as I sat in the basement of Princeton Hospital and watched her suffer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We stop in the foyer and, instead of entering the sanctuary, we go straight downstairs to the basement and take our turns coming out of the bathroom just in case someone asks where we were. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The dogs down in the basement were suddenly quiet. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She poured us two tall glasses of cold milk, and Twig and I made our way down to the basement. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The figure swooped Thorn up and ran in the direction of a door leading out of the basement. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z This reservation had tried to suffocate her, had kept her trapped in a basement, and now she was out roaming the huge grassy fields of Montana. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I took Henry’s Scotch and soda, lots of ice, and his water, no ice, and walked past Francis, out the swinging door and down to the basement. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then the basement door burst open suddenly and one of the men who had gone to telephone came in, his mouth open, his face wet and red from the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A bloodcurdling scream came ringing up the staircase from the basement. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Down in the basement either Gretchen was practicing her piano or the cat was chasing a moth across the keys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Oh. But I thought your office was in the basement.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And he was keeping it all to himself here in this basement. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The Faith Temple, a former movie theater which had been converted fifteen years previously, could seat a thousand in its auditorium and another seven hundred in its basement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I started tiptoeing toward the basement door when I heard voices coming from upstairs. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z On the tragic day, I came home, said hi to Mom, glugged down some milk, and headed down to the basement to practice. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma started counting her steps as soon as they entered the tunnel—right after Chess pulled the door to the empty house’s basement shut tight behind them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “The only way in was through the front door. The fire exits could only be opened from the inside, like at a movie theater. The vault itself was all the way down in the basement.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Instead of being shot, Yelena was imprisoned in the basement of the officers’ guardhouse for ten days with the job of whitewashing the walls. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z There was nothing fine about being told by a twenty-seven-year-old guy who lived in his parents’ basement and had Cheetos stains on his T-shirt that you had to clear out in three weeks. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He could suddenly smell her over the dank basement. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Pickles kept in dim crypts and basements by every family, each with their own recipe passed down from generation to generation. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z When I fight that, his feet advance from the basement stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There’s a basement, too, so it’s four floors altogether. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I never told her what I wanted to give as my answer, that I would choose whichever coast my brother happened to be hiding on or locked in a basement near or buried under. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Reminiscing about the kindergarten field trip to the basement, a tradition in the Lower School, Calder and Petra watched as the principal struggled with the bolt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I look for rusty hand trucks and hasty corner displays, and then down tenement alleys strung with fancy laundry and in the half-soaped windows of basement stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember happier times—movie nights in our old basement, sharing popcorn, and my mother’s un-ironic love for eighties movies starring Molly Ringwald. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There was a sign directing us down to the basement. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z By the time we’re done putting up two coats of paint, the room looks amazing, like so much more than a basement storage room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But if you really think about a basement, it is cement poured over restless earth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 sat in his basement headquarters, recuperating, while we crept around the house and Mommy walked about silently, eyes still red-rimmed, on edge. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, they’d only just gotten the door itself, which he’d found in the basement of another abandoned building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, black churches set up “shopping centers” in their basements, and chartered buses to transport shoppers to Raleigh and Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The slanted rays of the rising sun fell into the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then, slowly, he looked round the basement, turning his head like an animal with eyes and ears alert, searching to see if anything was amiss. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But when he emerged from the basement, we all saw the dots . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It wore three dove-gray domes, like caps, and had a basement for socializing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A man who used to sleep in his basement surrounded by images of who he used to be, his life suddenly changed forever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then he remembered the laundry room was in the basement. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Things were quiet, and Brown, a new officer from up north, offered to show me around the inmate-programs area in the basement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, with a burst of strength and a wail that surely reaches down to the basement, Ma gives a fierce tug and then a hefty shove. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Doc was in the basement working on cats when Henri burst in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He leads me down the stairwell, two flights down, until we enter the basement where execution rooms, electric grids, and storage chambers line the halls. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He slips through the basement door, out into the backyard, and starts kicking the ball gently from one foot to the other. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The closest she’d got to Jason was finding a note he’d left for her under a bust of Diocletian in the basement. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Back in the day, down in Alex’s basement, Ben had once cut his head on the metal heating vent. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z And we’d have a basement and at least three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn’t have to tell everybody. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They were heavy constructions of plywood, a sanded dowel for backstroke starts, puke-green carpet torn from somebody's basement stapled into the sloping tops for traction, and lane numbers spray-painted in orange on the backs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Only then did the boys notice the basement windows of that house glowing with electric blue light. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z So enamored was Petra of her new self that she didn’t hear her mother come up from her art studio in the basement. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “She went to the basement for some reason, then took the elevator up, only the electricity went out while she was in it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was as if she could preserve her anger and store it in a glass jar next to the hot horseradish and yellow beans and corn chowchow she kept in the dank basement pantry. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe she’s down in the basement,” he says, heading to a door opposite the French doors we entered through. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Which was what I was doing down in the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were general rules and kitchen rules, bathroom rules and stairway rules, basement rules and outside rules, upstairs rules and downstairs rules, clothing rules, washing rules, cleaning rules, rules upon rules upon rules. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Watson ran down to the metal shop in the basement of the Cavendish labs to expedite the fabrication of the modeling parts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Keep ’em down in the basement so shanks like Gaily can’t get to them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Probably just a strip between two real basements. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “But let’s get a move on while there’s still electricity. We can take the service elevator to the basement to get the sled.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z So the elevator reaches the basement, and as the doors begin to open, the elevator is flooded by freezing water. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z After each execution, the dead body was taken to the basement under guard. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He strode around the table and hugged Harry; the scene in the basement of Grimmauld Place might never have happened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I stepped inside and let my eyes adjust to the dim basement light. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The fairies set them down a good distance from the wreckage and the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Dad went down in the basement and brought back a can of putty and patted it over the hole in the wall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence went into business for himself, opening a convenience store in the basement of an old townhouse; Sonny had graduated from high school, joined the air force, and grown into a handsome ladies’ man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He could take the trunk to the basement and put the car into the garage and then go home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll check on the first floor, and Emma can try the basement. She needs to go back down there to throw away the kitty litter she scooped, anyway.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Alvarez’s experiment, which involved his spending long hours in the LeConte basement counting clicks on his handmade X-ray detector, set a new standard for rigorous physics at the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Because there’s an entrance like that in the hotel basement, where we store our costumes. It’s got the mark of Daedalus.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In my rounds as a part-time chaplain, I often thought back to those sad, frightening days when Mama Lessie lay dying in the unfinished basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They will enter through the basement doorway and make their way up the back steps to the lower tower rooms. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z When it’s fully decorated, the basement looks like a giant birthday cake for some pretty girl’s quinceañera. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I hear him in the basement, expectorating back to a vuvv language soundtrack. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I wanted four bedrooms, two and a half baths, and a basement,” Kathy Link said, “and I had to have a yard.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The night before, he hadn’t come home until 8:30, and went right down to his computer in the basement, at the desk strewn with computer discs, and started working again. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z So Mrs. Popper picked out three different tunes to play on the basement piano, one for each different kind of act. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “He was hiding when the man shut us all in the basement, and when he lit out Millard followed!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When we get home, I help Mami clean and then we take the sheets and towels and clothes to wash and dry in the machines in the basement. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Once home, I got out measuring spoons, cups, a mixing bowl, and an egg beater from Mom’s cupboard and carried them to the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought he was pulling my leg, but he moved the lever, and I heard a muffled roar kick on in the basement. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he went back down the basement steps. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Volpe built a workshop in the basement for his wife’s business, with big mirrors for fittings. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We go down to the basement, still equipped with office partitions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Zlata’s cage was the basement she had to use for shelter, away from bombs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The operating theaters were now in the basement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a wine cellar in the basement of the main house. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As they neared the yard, they heard the inhuman groan again, the same sound they had heard while exiting the basement, only louder than ever. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I yanked open her back door and dashed to the basement door and pulled it open. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the basement, he had found an old wheelchair, covered with dust and cobwebs. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, she saw a mosaic floor decorated with deer and fauns—maybe a room from an Ancient Roman villa, just stashed away under this modern basement along with the crates of string and plastic swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Paul’s staff had to expand its office from a basement room to ten rooms on two floors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He had them in the basement of their parents' brownstone, and in order to come, you had to get a special invite, and know the secret code, which changed every time, to get in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Gregor twisted around in the air, trying to position himself so he wouldn’t land on Boots when they hit the basement floor, but no impact came. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This veteran decided to take his car into the basement, and he closed the door and started down, but his wedding ring was caught in all the ornaments. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Dalton standing upon the basement steps. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The basement of the Château de Bordeaux is a warren of strangeness. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The stench of something dank, like mildew, bludgeoned my nostrils the moment Karim opened the door that led down the creaky steps to the basement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I could see a light on in the house’s basement, but no movement. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I raided the basement for hammers and saws and threw them in the back of Roy Lee’s wreck of a car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He started going to the clubroom in the basement of the building where Henry's father was superintendent. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His outstretched hands were inches from taking hold of her when a thunderclap shook the basement, accompanied by a brief moment of blackness. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Rough drafts of articles and scrap paper with notes were carried back to the Times building and put through the basement shredder. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Bus 209 is also known as the poor kid bus, because it goes to Brentwood Apartments and Forest Oaks, which are the bad neighborhoods with houses that don’t have basements for when tornadoes come. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But when he got to the bottom of the stairs the basement was empty and there were no doors. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, when the group reached the basement, the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves didn’t start sliding into another maze formation. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z And did she dig out a whole other part of our basement and build these walls and shelves in that time, too? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It had been such a rainy May, and the basement felt appropriately cryptlike: cobwebs around the doorframe ghosting our faces, that smell of dirt and rot and trapped air, and it was dark, totally dark. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The lights are burning here, but darkness is all around me—in the alley, in the attic, in the basement, in every closet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wished he lived in a split-level or a house with a finished basement. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z There was a policy at the county medical center consigning all black patients to the basement, which meant that women giving birth were sometimes put next to patients with infectious diseases. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t until Chapter Eleven descended into the basement to play Ping-Pong with Milton that I understood what was behind all this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The remainder of the fairies assembled above the basement, floating in an enormous ring. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I pull out something old on vinyl without checking what it is and slap it onto the turntable I found in the basement. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I think he deserves to be in the basement folding shirts and helping my mother. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He had sat down heavily on the basement steps, and his head was bowed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They used the least distraction on the pan of the inhabitants of the house to sneak down to the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only Rocket standing and stretching on the basement couch, but Emma jumped. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The book was later confiscated by the German army, and it was eventually found in the basement of a castle in Germany by American soldiers in 1945, just before the Nazi surrender. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After his big prime-time television appearance, I wasn’t in the mood for him, or any of the boys from the basement for that matter. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She was not even thinking of the furnace; she was just a little ashamed of having been seen in the basement in her kimono. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The full bag was hauled to the basement and burned. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I always have to fight the urge to put Markie in a cardboard box in back of the furnace in the basement, securely closed with duct tape. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s face was starkly pale, as if he hadn’t left the basement in weeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I drag the tree out of the basement and stand it in the driveway so I can sweep the dust and cobwebs off it with a broom. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I was just about to go downstairs to the basement to play when I heard a scream from one of the lower floors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z As news broke that the Martians had reached the Midwest, the pranksters lit firecrackers in the basement and flicked off the electricity. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I understand you will be put up in the basement. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “But it would be really cool to have a tunnel out of my basement so I could escape from being grounded.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Chaos continued to rule in our country when, two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as police led him through the basement of the Dallas jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The holding cells for prisoners were in the basement of the courthouse, and after meeting with Walter, I made my way upstairs to get ready for court to begin. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They clicked the basement door shut behind them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The boys are shackled and led to a small holding cell in the basement. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Seems he had come to the house and hadn’t seen us, so he’d gone investigating down in the basement. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask if they can help clean up and paint the basement room over the next few days. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z With my messy ponytails and dress from the bargain basement, I feel like the fairy tale’s ragged girl with the basket of onions when I’m around Miss Mademoiselle Danielle. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Bigger went behind Peggy down the stairs and back into the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Darius walks through a door at the other end of the basement, and I can spot a giant bed in that room. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Back and forth they walked across the basement floor in the glare of the furnace with their hats on and with cigars and cigarettes in their mouths. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I took the cookies and headed to the basement, ready to start our first official band practice. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The basement portion was nearly complete, and with the upstairs portion under way Harry had moved into the basement with his children. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The washers and driers in the basement laundry room rumbled well past midnight, and in the wintertime, the oil burner that kept the entire building heated drowned out all the other sounds. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The rookery had scarcely been moved to the basement when Greta laid the first egg. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Requests and repeated requests, reporters at the basement door posing as utility men, utility women, they’re at the point where they simply want to get inside the walls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire, it turned out, had been in the basement. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We switched off the hall light and went down to the basement.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z That year, Sherry Heller invited Charlie and me to her basement New Year’s Eve party so we could all watch her make out with her big-nosed boyfriend from Midland Catholic. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Kyle and Mr. Lemoncello stood on top of the highest box and helped the others up and out of the basement. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Especially today, since Mike had blown his lead by choosing the standard route down to the basement. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “She’s upstairs getting yelled at by her parents. But, like, how long does that lecture last? I mean, what do you say? ‘You shouldn’t screw Margo’s boyfriend in the basement.’ Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Imagine my surprise when basement lights went out! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of months after Erma died, Uncle Stanley fell asleep in the basement while reading comic books and smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew eggs were kept in cool places, so I looked in iceboxes and basements. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Does your mom let you live in that basement rent-free or what? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now, working on it in the so- called den in the basement, he applied a last coat of varnish. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In their old house, Ben wouldn't even go down to the basement to put clothes in the wash—and that basement had at least been dry and mostly finished. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z TimeStar left his hiding place in the shadowy basement doorway and heaved a disappointed breath. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z If the man entered and Hannah was carrying a coal scuttle up from the basement, she handled it in such a way that it became a gesture of love. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I went down to the basement and lifted some weights for a couple of hours. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I can see only half of a basement which, I judge from the distance I’ve come, is under the church. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She wants us to sink below the basement into the warm crawly dirt, where Cassie has a room waiting, so the three of us can curl into critter balls and wait for spring. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “I mean why are we in your basement?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z We were four of the stars of the junior-high track team, but we moved through that basement a few timid steps at a time. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He gave Alec a grim look and followed the older man past them, to the stairs to the basement, and went down, weapons held at the ready. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Any minute, some intuitive guards might venture down to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We go into the basement of this ramshackle combination motel and boardinghouse, where Earl indicates a closed door—the kitchen, he says—but we can’t go in now, because a guy is sleeping there. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can I ask you a question? Why did you take those dogs down here? This is where those stairs lead, from the lobby, right? To the basement?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z With key ring in one hand and candle in the other, Shirley made her way past the frantic tenants to the basement. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I shine the light on every inch of floor in every single room; I check every closet; I even look in the attic and basement. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead we had long, accordion-like barriers, made from sisal, that worked by a pneumatic pump located down in the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I looked back at the house and noticed that the basement light was now off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z For him there was the back door, and the dark stairs, and the kitchen or the basement. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z One day I went to the basement to do the laundry and found one of his socks was stuffed with bloody handkerchiefs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The basement was the only genuinely dark place Colin had ever seen in Chicago—day and night, orange-gray light seeped through any place with windows. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He tiptoed along the hall, through the kitchen, down the steps and into the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Paranoid got tacked on about a year later, after I verbally attacked a librarian for trying to hand me propaganda pamphlets for an underground Communist force operating out of the basement of the public library. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “I need my basement back,” she’d said, laughing, making sure each child got something, even if only a yo-yo. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z What young women are left dress themselves in rags, cower in basements. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The “Mexican wing” of Crockett High School, which was really five dank and crowded basement rooms that no white student ever entered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Manny’s spot is around the other side and down some stairs to the basement, if I remember right.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z As the Augur predicted, the back door to the house's basement is unlocked. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "I washed your blue bathing suit last night. It's hanging in the basement. What time are the Moriartys picking you up?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Papa took off his coat and hung it up next to the door, then walked across the kitchen to the basement door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He considers going back down to the basement to get the tape player or the television. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z So we followed him down to the basement. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think we need a thing down there,” he said of the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mother had given up homeschooling by then, but still had a computer, and there were books in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She left it on the floor of the basement during the party last night. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I once asked Madrina how she knows so much about the strangers who come down to the basement for her love consultations. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “No, it’s for the basement room I’m fixing up.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I took two steps back and quietly padded back down to my bedroom in the basement. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The secret room that had spun them around and somehow joined the Greystones’ basement with the mysterious house really did feel more like a tunnel now. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t care about the photos in the basement, and I was sick of riddles and mysteries and last words. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My sister and I would play in the parking lots outside the little doors to the basements of the abandoned buildings. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I was going to poke around and search that basement— and if I had to climb those stairs and break into Bat Lady’s bedroom to get answers, well, I would do that too. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “We need to be back in the basement.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z And for now I could sneak into the library’s basement to sleep. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He’s not someone who keeps power tools in the basement or shakes off work stress by making a risotto or trimming hedges. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes she woke screaming in her basement bedroom, knowing with absolute certainty that someone was coming for them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She excused herself to go to the bathroom more than once, tore down to the basement door each time, and knocked softly. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z We follow Mrs. Kim to a small, square room at the back of the basement. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “In the basement of that church,” I answer. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In her eyes, we were a class of “bad kids,” though we had no guidance and no structure and had been sentenced to a grim, underlit room in the basement of the school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Once he and Roy had watched a man and woman in the basement of a condemned house. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty- three hours a day alone in a basement. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z These smells are even stronger as I make my way down to the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He remembered the halfdarkness of a basement kitchen and a woman’s cavernous mouth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Grace and I sit on the wooden benches in the church basement, watching the illuminated slides on the wall, singing the words to the songs, while the piano plods onward in the darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A low murmur buzzed through the basement, beneath it the sound of water drops trickling somewhere, and, something else, a scratching sound. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He just went down to his workshop in the basement or to the garage to work on his car. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Our session gathered the next morning in a classroom in the basement, near a lounge and the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he heard the door slam, he got up and grabbed his cap and went softly down the stairs into the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The men looked round the basement with flashlights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I can have a room without a kitchenette right now if I want, but it’s in the basement and the price—$144 a week—seems a little steep. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The basement in their North Logan home was an electronics graveyard that included Keith’s first Atari, an ancient model he’d sometimes pull out, disassemble, then solder back together as an improved version. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We say goodbye, and then Nora and I take the stairs one floor down to the basement level. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Then the rotten old floor collapsed, and the boys plummeted into the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was baptized in a skanky basement shower. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I wish I could keep deleting into my life, deleting the Sunday the Monster came down into the basement. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “The main part of your basement was on the side that faced the street,” she said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I was sitting on the floor of a basement of my first real party between Sam and Patrick, and I remembered that Sam introduced me as her friend to Bob. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We were inside some kind of basement garage. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was a small basement one, and five rows of six desks already filled it more than comfortably. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Then he points to a closed door on the opposite side of the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Seven looked around the basement and found the closet door from the memory. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Parzival: Because I don’t want to find out that I’ve got a crush on some 300 lb. dude named Chuck who lives in his mother’s basement in suburban Detroit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now, laid up in the basement of Princeton Hospital, Mama Lessie’s expression held neither hope nor accomplishment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And even if they do, how would five hundred kids fit into one basement? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Opening the door to the basement, Kendra peered down the steps into the darkness. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I’m not going to say too much about Delaney except that his mother was never home, so by the time we were seventeen his basement pretty much reeked. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They fell onto the bed in a knot of arms and legs, each calling the other by the secret names they had used in the days of the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At night they slept in police stations and in the basement of City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After the prisoners arrived at the Department of Justice, they entered in the basement and were taken into a specially reserved elevator, which stopped on the heavily guarded fifth floor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The next morning April and Melanie went dutifully down the little dark basement hallway and knocked on the door of the Chungs’ apartment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Leave them in the door to the basement. She’ll think Mrs. Trek left them there.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z We went down a set of stairs to the basement. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Gat in the basement, me on the ground floor, Johnny on the second, and Mirren on top. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z My stomach grumbled, loud in the silent basement, reminding me that now that I was awake I should be finding it some food. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z In the basement, I opened up a cupboard underneath Dad’s workbench and pulled out a boxful of rags. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z What if there was some monster living in this basement? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He rose and followed her out of the kitchen, down a narrow stairway at the end of which was the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They passed through the showers and, instead of continuing to the holding area, turned down a tight flight of stairs and the long dark hall that led to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For many years, including his stint in high school, the basement had been Myron’s bedroom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Now in the basement Thinking Corner, Florida saw that woman again in her mind, and she thought, Well, she could have been my mother. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Will we have to stay down here in the basement?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In our basement I found an oversized knit sweater, stained and hole-ridden, and an ugly blue dress, which Mother bleached to a faded brown. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She climbed back to the basement and stared at the open crates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the back of the basement, the floor had been excavated, revealing another set of steps—these of white stone—leading still deeper underground. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then she sits up even straighter, elegant on a crate in a dirty basement where people lost their lives. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “There’s a chapel in the basement of the cell house. If she doesn’t get in, then maybe she and 105 can get married. He’s getting out soon.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A door in the basement led directly outside, so we never went upstairs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We sit under the stairs in the basement because it’s the safest place. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Judging from the acoustics, Reyna was in a small room with brick or concrete walls: maybe a basement or a cell. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I turned it on and carefully went down the basement steps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The rest of the basement was given over to beds, each of which had a little table beside it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a snooker table in the basement of the Chelsea house and he’d often spent evenings playing against his uncle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Downstairs from Meme’s is a basement apartment that Meme’s mother fixed up and rented to a Puerto Rican family. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra found herself worrying that the floor would give way and Hugo would take an abrupt shortcut to the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z MacDuffy sent me to the basement of Building No. 2 on a new assignment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s nothing special, just a regular basement room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Nick grabs a six-pack and his acoustic guitar and heads down to the basement. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Once she pulls away I sneak in the rear entrance and run straight to the basement and strip off her clothes and change back into a regular shirt and skirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all the way in the basement,” I tell her. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z As soon as they were in the house, he could run just as fast and excitedly down to the basement as he wanted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Jim was home from college, but he had a new girlfriend over in Berwind and had taken the Buick and sped off almost as soon as he deposited his laundry in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The neighbors have been complaining about some of them, who want to use their upstairs to look in on Kwang’s house, some even asking if the basements might be connected. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He planned to install the kiln in the basement and hired a bricklayer named Joseph E. Berkler to do the job. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She lived in a cheap basement flat on the fringes of a very refined neighborhood and studied her betters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the basement she found a jelly jar with a top and carried it out to the carriage house where the tools were kept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure he’s in the basement playing video games.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z There were rumors of cells in the basement where the souls of dead prisoners, prisoners who had died in jail, howled all night. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Everyone else who plays has their own set in the finished basements of their personal mansions. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He went down to the basement, to the closet where his mother had stored everyone’s winter clothes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z A long, darkly clothed arm stretched from the basement and tapped TimeStar’s shoulder. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Abel Martinson handcuffed the accused man, then allowed his wife to speak to him once before urging his prisoner toward the basement. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I prefer it here in the mostly unconsidered rooms of the basement, the stone walls rough-hewn, damp, ill lighted like any memory. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I try it on in my room in the hotel basement and stand on the bed so I can see myself in the small mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some black men had robbed the store and taken him to the basement and bound him and beaten him up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one the lovers tried out all the abandoned rooms, and finally chose an improvised nest in the depths of the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually after service we went down to the basement and had cake, fried or baked chicken, and string beans. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z TV\\«*rjcla>j, December f Harvey had outdone himself, Alex thought as he carried the sled into his old basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I’m walking on air as he leads me past the indoor garden, down the stairs, to a small, windowless room in the basement. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunch one day Russell tells me they've got a big cooler down in the basement next to the room where his dad gets the bodies ready. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She chose a basement room located under a real estate firm on F Street in a well-traveled part of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He went back to the basement, dragged the trunk to the door, lifted it to his back, carried it to the car and fastened it to the running board. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The high concentration room, deep in the basement of the steel and concrete structure, was unscratched. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We stumbled into a wine cellar—a bunch of dusty bottles in wooden racks—like we were walking through somebody’s basement, only there was no exit above us, just more tunnels leading on. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The wall lined the basement of what had once been a large farmhouse. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z For a week or so he just stood outside the basement door and looked in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was pretty close to Big Tony’s basement but far enough away for Fred to focus better. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “That’s true. I’m not even sure we brought it upstairs. Is it still in the basement, Mark?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The eeriest phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then a group of twelve workmen brought in the furnace, piece by piece, from the Dalton basement and mounted it upon a giant wooden platform. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One more row of cells, she thought, then back down to the basement with nothing to show for it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The thoughts merged into the Beiderman and their brownstone and her basement, and Isa felt so lonely and lost that she didn’t know how their mission to win him over could possibly succeed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He sat in his basement headquarters, recuperating, while we crept around the house and Mommy walked about silently, eyes still red-rimmed, on edge. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Inventory will be in the basement instead of in the back, and the store will be organized into departments. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He wanted the basement free for the boilers and dynamo. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mother didn’t come out of the basement for a week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Dalton were standing upon the steps: Mrs. Dalton in white and Mr. Dalton with the letter in his hand and his eyes looking straight back to the rear wall of the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Are you just getting off rehearsal?” she asks as we walk around the path to Nick’s basement door. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I whispered, “This is a bad idea,” but I followed behind her, crouched down as she was, until we were standing in front of the still-open basement window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Axel races across the room, flings open the basement door, all the while his stomach fills with woodpeckers all trying to hammer out of him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The dungeon, it seemed, was in the basement. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “I found an extra mattress down in the basement, but I need help getting it up the stairs.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The basement was big, paneled in dark wood, with a wine-red carpet and at least one hundred folding chairs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z To hold up ten stories of stone and brick, however, the pyramids would have to be immense, the basement transformed into a Giza of stone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Britten asked as the men entered the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There were supposed to be rattlesnakes in the basement, but none showed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Ms. Morales and Finn were already out of the room, headed for the basement stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Having no better idea, Palmer dragged his sled down to the basement. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Alex waited five minutes, to make sure she was safely upstairs, then unlocked the outside door to the basement. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She found herself in a basement that was an architectural cyborg. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And in my head, I heard the hamster’s squeaky wheel turning in our basement. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z They crammed them into filthy basements or old, rotting ships. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z As if on cue, a police officer walked out of the basement. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z This week’s youth discussion in the church basement will be on teen suicide. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We took everything home, divvied it up, and went off to pack—Katz to the bedroom where all his other stuff was, I to my basement HQ. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Until I stood in that basement room looking at jellyfish on the other side of the glass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were men in the basement waiting for us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She ought to put Penny in the basement with the dog! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It was in the basement, or the bowels, of the dormitory. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Where I rode the sled across the rows of apple trees and into the Drinkers’ basement that time. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Dewey says, “Were you using the flashlight or did you turn on the basement lights?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Stanley volunteered to give us his room in the basement and sleep on a cot in the foyer while we were there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The school detention room is in the basement, next to the boiler room. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z My father led me down the stairs like we were going to the building’s furnace in the basement, but instead we went out through the back door, into the alley behind our building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I met Max at a downtown basement club a few months ago. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got to the court where the hearing would take place, about a three-hour drive from the prison, I went to see Avery in the court's basement holding cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Next, father and son were escorted to the basement, and there Mr. Clutter was made to tape Kenyon and tie him to the playroom couch. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When the shouting had ended and the lesson resumed, Shirley found herself thinking how silly Emily looked in curls, rather like that batch of old springs Father kept in the basement. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Her sons and daughters mumbled and disappeared— into the bathroom, the basement, the various hiding places they had dug throughout the house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of times each year the family bought a side of butchered beef and stored it in a large freezer in their basement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mostly Bowdy and I just sat in my basement room, which was maybe five degrees cooler than the rest of the house, and read books and watched TV and played video games. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z John Roanhorse was taken into the cold stone basement and chained in a dark corner. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She had breakfast, then her mom emerged from the basement holding something puffy and purple. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She was on her hands and knees, back arched high, on a bright blue mat on the basement floor, while Ifemelu lay on the couch, eating a chocolate bar and watching her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The electricity was off again, but even in the basement apartment there was enough late-afternoon sunlight so that no candles or flashlights were needed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Down to the basement. Two hours in the Thinking Corner.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He was in the basement, Mother said, in bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The men lifted their silver bulbs and again lightning flashed in the red gloom of the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She paused, thinking of their lonely house on top of the hill, her basement bedroom, her parents’ insular lives. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He thought about asking Mr. Stine if he’d gone down to the basement to check the heaters in the wood shop, but then he snuck a look at his watch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m in the basement when she’s on the third floor, I’m in the gym when she’s all the way across the school in Orchestra Hall, I’m in the science wing when she’s in Spanish. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They had forty-five minutes to search the high-security cells, meet back at the landing, and get to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He took another enormous bite and walked out of the kitchen and down the basement stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Mark carefully removed himself from the stairs and went to the basement door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I stopped in the kitchen to suck down some OJ, and then continued my silent journey to the basement. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are propped against the walls, some are hanging, and some are stacked up on a wide wooden table in the far corner of the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If he’s in the basement, it can only mean one thing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Something about this place seemed even creepier than the palace basement in Split. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The church supper is the grandfather of the country club, just as the Thursday poetry reading in the basement under the vestry sired the little theater. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Other times his overnight quarters might be an abandoned car, an empty garage, a basement stairwell. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The wreckage from the church slid across the field, clattering into the open basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He put the car into the garage, set the trunk in the snow, locked the garage door, lifted the trunk to his back and carried it to the entrance of the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When we got home, I hurried down to the basement, closing the door behind me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Finally arrived, he was shown to the basement of a small boarding house, where he was to share sleeping space on the floor with three other boarders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The air was cold and suffused with a strange odor, like clothes left to rot in a flooded basement. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z |
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