I have the bike here and you can stick the case in the basket and I’ll walk you home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, couldn’t he smell the cinnamon and apple perfume wafting out from Perilee’s basket? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Vendors selling fruit and shoes called out their wares while people rushed past — some pushing wheelbarrows or balancing baskets on their shoulders. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was hanging out the wash and tripped over the clothes basket. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We better try and find the basket,” he said, “maybe.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But when she went outside with a basket of washing she looked back to see him standing on his hind legs peering after, his soundless mouth opening and shutting behind the window. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he gestured toward the back of his bicycle, where a carrying basket had been attached. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was shiny purple and had a white banana seat, wire baskets on the side, chrome handlebars that swept out like steer horns, and white plastic handles with purple-and-silver tassels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So Felix did the only rational thing that would give him a chance of sinking a basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It fell out of the basket and vanished with a shriek. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo bent down, whisked a smallish fish from the cone-shaped trap, and popped it into a basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he produced a large basket from under the seat. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I went to the parcel counter where we had checked our things and got my basket and bedroll. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can see men pulling handcarts up to the main door and another man unloading the baskets of orchard fruit. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a basket full of plastic eggs, all colored blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a laundry basket right by the door, clothes spilling out. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon Lin Nai-Nai came to me with a little picnic basket in her hand. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After pouring the grits into a napkin out of the picnic basket so I could use the bucket, I filled the radiator from the creek and cranked up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I tried taking a deep breath to get control of myself, but all that happened was a loud gulp, like in a cartoon when the bear eats the picnic basket whole. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the basket also lay a box of donuts and mini-cartons of iced tea. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She plucks a strawberry and flower from one of the fruit baskets and saunters over to Amber. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The weigher emerged from the storeroom with a basket of ingots just as Ranofer took his place beside the waiting scribe. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In a flash, done so quickly that she did not realize it until afterward, the one wearing a blue beret grasped her basket, took the tin of corned beef, and ran off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a basket of freshly sliced rye bread and the coffee cups were set out on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama brought us Easter baskets, stuffed animals, and new clothes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In his right hand he carried a basket and in his left hand a wooden staff. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a deli with baskets of fresh fruit for sale outside, a chocolate shop, a coffee shop, and a ton of fancy restaurants. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I bumped open the front door with my right hip and swung the basket I was carrying through the door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The closer it got to St. Nicholas Day, the more we all thought back to last year’s festively decorated basket. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Carefully I tucked the letters and the check back in the lunch basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I came with my basket half-laden and saw my husband sitting on the floor staring out before him, a dazed expression on his face and his lips trembling loosely. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong could just make out the tidy rows of buildings through his pinprick window in the basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Hanging out with my basket of fruit. I always carry a basket of fruit. Would you like a pear?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The last egg was inside a big basket of chocolate rabbits and yellow marshmallow chicks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Perfectly ridiculous,” said Mrs. Caraway, but she continued to cut the white blossoms and drop them into the wicker baskets. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Other vendors along the street were starting to arrange their wares—rubber sandals, wool shawls, toys, baskets of pomegranates, cinnamon sticks, and cloves. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand he carried a covered wicker basket. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When clouds and snow squalls made a flight impossible, Ngawang was loaded into a basket and, under Hunt’s care, carried down the glacier to Pheriche on the backs of Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took a basket of grapes and a sympathy note to Lucretia, which he handed to Brown before going in to speak with Bliss and Woodward. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was sweeping the kitchen floor when Jay came in lugging two peach baskets full of ripe vegetables and plunked them on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I lifted the towel to grab one of the leftover sandwiches in the basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then I saw he was a very old man, the load he carried kept slipping over his lean shanks and every time he hitched the baskets up they bumped against me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day after dinner Mr. Lapham took a long nap under his basket snoring as gently as he did everything else. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would be her basket name or pet name, and would be used until she grew older. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, frantically looking behind the sheaves and the piles of fruit baskets. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

With the basket balanced on my hip, I wade into the river until the water reaches my knees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the meat in my basket, covering the package with a newspaper, which soaks through in minutes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to harvest potatoes without her help this year,” my mother said, and they turned away toward the fields, straw baskets in their arms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Min’s wife emerged from behind a tangled bush, holding the bowl in one hand and a basket in the other. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The lady in the middle held an enormous basket of electric-blue yarn. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alice came up the twilit trail with a basket of sweet wild strawberries from Mrs. Strawberry’s field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lee had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without pausing to think, Pong tipped the basket and climbed inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Hunkie women in black babushkas go into the fields with baskets to pull them up. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff tiptoed across the kitchen to a shelf which held a basket of tea olive and two water pitchers full of zinnias. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The silence was shattered by the bell, and as Mr. Larson dropped the shredded paper into the trash basket, he barked, “Class dismissed!” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The basket of fruit had been stolen, but the other boxes were intact. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She still clutched the empty basket in her hand as she glanced anxiously back over her shoulder to see what was moving from behind. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The lamp hanging by its chain from the ceiling cast a yellow circle and lighted Alice and her mending basket on the table in front of her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next time he started toward the basket, I dropped back and jumped just as he let the shot go. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were inside the house, I let poor Kurry out of her basket and we all gave a big sigh, glad to be safe again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And on her basket with the bags in it?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I nearly jumped—I did not know the basket was full of live snails that Mama Joe sold. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“For a few minutes only, I am busy,” he replied, and as I picked up my basket he peered in. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her other hand, she carried the basket of food. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We may raise the possibility that Mr. X mislaid his picnic basket and chose to report it stolen in the hopes of making a claim on his insurance, and so on. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Over their shoulders the vendors had heavy poles, from which they balanced baskets at either end—some with vegetables, others with pastries, or candies, or toys. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way back when the creek had water in it, I came floating down it in a wicker basket waterproofed with pitch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As I rounded the butcher’s stall at the far end of the market, someone grabbed my basket and spun me around. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captive sparrow fluttered her wings against the upturned basket. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tuffett took her note, wadded it up without reading it, and threw it at the wastepaper basket. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Grab that controller. It's in the basket by the wall." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a basket and stayed there watching. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I shook out my towel and carefully tucked it into the bike’s front- hanging basket. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She placed a big basket of extra blooms nearby, so that others could use them to make garlands. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That is why we have trash baskets,” she has explained. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes, and she passed me the collection basket. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strawberries like fleshy hearts, mounded in little baskets. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She found seaweed and small dried anchovies and a basket of fruits and vegetables. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pedro Tercero was put in the trunk of the car, curled up like a package, and covered with market baskets full of fruit and vegetables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk back toward the closet, past Tuerto, who is napping on a shelf, curled inside a basket of fabric scraps. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She put down her basket and bent and stared at Edward. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew ‘so heavy’, was still on its accustomed shelf. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little bird was resting in the basket, cushioned by the pile of white wool, and I saw that it was, indeed, breathing—tiny, fast breaths that moved the wool up and down. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Meggie took another apricot from the basket and put it into his hand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I say to him, waving the empty basket of chips in the hopes he catches my drift for a refill. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eric dribbled to his basket and made his shot with no trouble at all. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I walked two steps behind her, carrying a basket of daisies and a heart filled with dread. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Frodo laughed: from the covered basket he held, the scent of mushrooms was rising. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lee put down his darning, moved his sewing basket to the floor, and changed his glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I see what is in the baskets I gasp. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had calabashes of water and boiled marula juice, a pot of toasted grasshoppers, a basket of tsenza roots, and a small grass mat covered with ripe bramble berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every bump and footstep made her jolt, and she’d managed to swipe a few pins from Philippa’s sewing basket when she wasn’t looking. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

By the time I filled the basket, the Aleut ship had sailed around the wide kelp bed that encloses our island and be tween our two rocks that guard Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pulled out five bushels of brown razor clams, dumped them in our baskets, and carried them down to the workboat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Returning to the village late in the day, with her baskets and belly full of apples, Alyce cut through the manor field, near where the villagers had dug a pit for the quarrying of gravel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the washers and dryers, a couple of which are running, there are gray concrete walls, a wobbly table, a big metal sink, and a red plastic laundry basket. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While she was turned away, examining an old peach basket I’d put in the throwaway pile, I sucked in my breath. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nike reached into a basket at her side and produced a wreath of thick green laurels. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Keep him away from the basket and don’t let him take his set.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, she brought out plates of spicy tamales and borracho beans, and when that was gone, she brought down a fruit basket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Mrs. Weasley glance at the clock in the washing basket as they left the kitchen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Next day I carried a basket of eels from the fish market to Wall Street, thinking only of hot eel pie for supper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in perfect time, Lee Scoresby leaned over the side of the basket and pulled the cord on one of the bags of ballast. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Alyce, with baskets tied to each end of a pole, walked with the cat to the abbey gardens to gather fallen fruit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based on the cheering that echoed through the gym and the way the team lifted me up in joy, I figured I’d made the basket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She placed the compact in one of the glass baskets. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Palmer came home that day to find Dorothy shooting baskets in his room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Zane waited until Marigold had both feet safely on the ground before he hoisted his leg over the edge of the basket, clinging tight to the rope. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A few mornings later, Mrs. Albury turned up at our front door with Little Dizzy on one arm and a basket on the other. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wynn had attached the basket, and a matching aqua ribbon wove its way through the basket’s top lattice and ended in a bow right in the front. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Two lanterns hung on the wall, and a small basket sat next to the stairs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She'd hand in her basket and then go someplace swanky for lunch. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

Zane peered down over the edge of the basket, where the expansive glass walls of the New York City convention center gleamed in the sunshine. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“This basket is hopeless. Isn’t there another one someplace?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I play facing the hoop and either dishing off or busting a move for the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I walk past Deacon Malloy, who is holding the basket, and I smile. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not surprising that the previous Lord Mayor did not know about this tradition,” said the chubby man, whose basket was almost full. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Their basket was always so full since there were two of them using it. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hand Clap set off with a basket on one arm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she drops the basket and falls to her knees, her face to the ground. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He scored on three savage drives to the basket and on two of the drives he was fouled by Sanders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The one with the white basket. And the flowers.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At dusk I was coming back from the spring with a basket of water on my shoulder, walking along the cliff with Rontu-Aru. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped only to switch bikes when Dorothy could no longer bear to transport the basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Each happily believed all the others were bound for hell in a basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick weaves yet another water basket and a net for fishing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not mean,” he said as he added another lobster to the basket and replaced the lid. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“That is what I did,” I said: “I stole a bike. Just like everybody says I did. One with a little pink basket in front for my panties, and tassels.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I put Ben’s things on the floor and wiped Tilly off with an old bath towel we kept in a basket inside the front door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We each took a handle of the basket and carried it to the clotheshorse, a rope strung between two wooden frames that we used for drying clothes and linens. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at her ease in the platform rocker, with her sewing basket at her feet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I went into the sitting room she was already in her chair, her left foot on the footstool, with its petit point cushion, roses in a basket. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen both Doc and Mama weave strips of palmetto leaves and sea grasses into baskets and other shapes: flowers, crosses, and such. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had been in a fight with another boy who wanted to take his basket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the small bench underneath the window he found a sealed envelope and a basket with a woven lid. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Isaiah, help me carry these baskets,” Mama says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The spare brush was one of many stored in a metal basket. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He places his tomato with the others in his basket. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to fill all four baskets,” said the smaller man, “and then distribute a flower to everyone in the Old Town.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sorting through the contents of my basket, I drew out some wilted stems. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A flood of concerned grown-ups started pulling up to our house with baskets and bags of food, flowers, balloons, toys. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong sat gagging in the basket, stinky juice dripping off his hair and down the bridge of his nose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Sister Burke,” Ma said, balancing the basket on her hip. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Give you five baskets, give you?” it asked, as if the whole idea was a new one. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alice began to find gifts—in her sewing basket, in her worn-out purse, under her pillow—two cinnamon pinks, a bluebird’s tailfeather, half a stick of green sealing wax, a stolen handkerchief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He considered sending her a card or perhaps a basket of fruit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled Devil’s Shoestrings out of the basket one by one, then started to braid them in a circle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Peaches kind of dried up on me in this heat,” said Pilate, and she reached for a peck basket which held about a half dozen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so hungry they shook out the crumbs from the basket to divvy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Awesome,” Daniela says, admiring a basket of snacks on the table. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The brave tin soldier in his little paper boat—she imagined him suddenly appearing beside the fruit basket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Benny didn’t respond, turning his back to her as he adjusted the display of breads hanging in wire baskets against the wall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I sat on my knees on the floor in front of the coffee table as I gathered the Lotería boards and playing cards to put them back in their basket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Or you could want beautiful drawings you made when you were a kid,” says Mirren, kneeling by the laundry basket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was about four steps to the basket and he must have taken three before he realized he hadn’t dribbled. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I made a note to bring in some ashtrays and then I rooted through the wastepaper basket for a few empty cans. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty big barn, 200 to 250 feet from end to end, maybe, and about half full of baskets of crested pine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She ripped it up into little pieces and dropped them into the wastepaper basket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we met him at one of his stores he always had a sundry basket of treats for her, trifles from his shelves, bars of dark chocolate, exotic tropical fruits, tissue-wrapped biscotti. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds out the basket of sliced bread, waiting. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She wore only a bronze sheet around her legs, and she was holding a basket of metal fruit. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The kitchen cat, curled in his basket by the back door, stretched lazily as she unlatched the door and slipped outside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At one corner of the field, a mound of bushel baskets waited. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You making me sit in a basket of rotten durian rinds,” said Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

“Five baskets win,” he says, and drops the ball on the floor so I got to pick it up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Near the Street of the Sailmakers he spied the baker's boy, Kai, emerging from his master’s shop with a laden basket on his head. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She covered the bread basket with a dishtowel that had, he suddenly noticed, the Ten Commandments printed on it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a little messy to get at them, and Mr. Coggin, the movie cameraman, was sick in a waste basket. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was much to take—my two birds, the skirt I had made, the stone utensils, my beads and earrings, the cormorant feathers, and all of my baskets and weapons. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scurried across the deck and hid himself between two big baskets of corn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was considerable excitement and honor in winning, especially after Mother took a scrap of blue silk from her sewing basket and cut out a fine medallion, complete with long streamers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ulape had two boxes of earrings, for she was vainer than I, and when she put them into her baskets, she drew a thin mark with blue clay across her nose and cheekbones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” I say, “put this in the peck basket. It’s a keeper.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We can only hope, when it comes to our missing picnic basket, that the more enlightened side of Aristotle’s counsel would have prevailed before Boo-Boo got waterboarded. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

This giant ate no meat at all, though he was a holy terror when served a basket of roots, crunching onions and turnips and even raw hard neeps between his big square teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, one by one, we climbed into a little wire basket on the end of a cable, and were hoisted up into the helicopter. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at my basket of eggs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On the cloth altar, she arranged baskets of food—quinoa and cheese and hard-boiled eggs, and as a special treat for the most recently dead baby, chocolate ice cream and a bottle of Inca Kola. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A water with a lemon and a lime both, please, and the largest free basket of chips that you’re allowed to bring me.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She succeeded in convincing Santa Sofía de la Piedad that she had found him floating in a basket. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Leah had a basket in her arms, carrying for me some burden that held her back from her preferred place at the head of the pack. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie ruffled his sisters curly blond hair and snagged a banana from the basket in the center of the table. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The washerwoman gave him one last glance, picked up her basket, and walked away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Aphros said proudly, shoving an old-fashioned picnic basket into Leo’s arms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bright, lifeless roses that lay in peck baskets for months until the specialty buyer at Gerhardt’s sent Freddie the janitor over to tell the girls that they could use another gross. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go up and down each aisle, filling the basket with things I really like, pretending I have the money to buy them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She reached into her basket and held them up. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I kept the mending basket close to hand in case I needed to hide my crime. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soon realize that it isn’t the pendant that makes them cheer; someone on our team has scored a basket. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were carrying baskets, and both had red hair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These are for you,” she says, handing Ashima a cellophane-wrapped basket full of tinned pates and jars of cornichons and chutneys that Gogol knows his parents will never open or enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clenching clothespins between her teeth, she folded towels, pants, and work shirts before dropping them into the wicker basket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was hoping to sit for a few minutes when I came out of their bedroom, but cringed when I saw the basket of clothing Parvin had brought in. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She bent him double and put him in her basket, which smelled of weeds and fish, and then she kept walking, swinging the basket and singing, “Nobody knows the troubles I seen.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

A dry oak leaf came whirling down and landed in the basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother was out in one field, wearing a broad straw hat, picking tomatoes into another of the bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

While a trip to the market should be an ordinary, everyday occurrence, Citra found that food shopping with a scythe carried its own basket of crazy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My few clothes and my book of Tagore’s poems went into a basket. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She rode briskly, her dæmon sitting in the basket on the handlebars, and arrived at the Trout feeling a little out of breath and warm enough to take her coat off at once. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Alyce returned, the midwife was waiting in the yard, her bottles and herbs and linen neatly packed in the basket beside her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought you some guavas,” said Maria, placing a basket on the bedside table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s piled ragtag with parcels and boxes covered in leather skins, bits of furniture and large baskets, all tumbled together, almost overflowing with itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Finally Ma put the basket back in her lap and reached in. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And one of them, the archer who’d saved Lyra from Mrs. Coulter, flew directly alongside the basket, and Lyra saw her clearly for the first time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She tears them off the line and hurls them back into the basket. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rigged his harpoon long before and its coil of light rope was in a round basket and the end was made fast to the bitt in the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were made of branches as thick as my arm, woven together like wicker baskets. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A large, finely woven bamboo basket as tall as Minli’s waist stood next to the chairs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before Gwydion could speak again, the Horned King, bearing a torch, rode to the wicker baskets and thrust the fire into them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He was holding the basket with both arms as he pushed through the men. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She misses standing on the balcony and lowering the basket down with a rope for the peddler to fill with pineapples and coconuts. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What if we promise to be nice to you for the whole afternoon if you eat everything in your baskets?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But he did not dare to put the basket down because he was afraid something might be stolen from it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“It was cool,” he said, turning the basket upside down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Every year my birthday cake, my Easter basket, my Christmas candy canes always had to be blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The busboy came by and dropped off our Cokes and put a basket of bread in the middle of the table. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They call out “Wingapo!” when they approach our settlement, and always bring us baskets of food. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I lifted my petticoat out of the wash basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was no sound now in the early-night hush, except for their feet scraping laxly through the dust, their clothes rustling as they grunted softly and sent the ball toward the basket. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called the county police, then quickly gathered up a basket of food for Miss Volker. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She tipped the basket towards the girls and smiled a wide, warm smile at the two men. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern pouted as the groceries went into the basket. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father says we’re not supposed to have it. Says we have to keep it hidden up there behind the basket because it’s American and was printed in Scotland. It’s just birds!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Poppy left the bananas and the basket both. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Get all your misses out today. Save your baskets for tomorrow.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the ball smoothly arced to the basket, the stadium quieted, and time slowed down. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk to the back door, into the kitchen, set down my basket, go upstairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m starved. Wonder what Miss Rachel put in the basket?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Another woman’s voice said, “There's all the food you need to get you to St. Louis right in the basket.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the town, by a beautiful unfenced grove, the wanderer met a small train of men and women servants loaded with baskets. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever poetry was in him found release as his hands rolled the ball over and over, spinning it, warming to it, touching it before he made his first move toward the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy was standing with her back to the basket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As each person took their own shoe out of the basket, there was a roar of laughter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grantham had pulled some knitting from her basket and the click of needles, like the rubbing of the smallest of bones, entered the conversation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of comely serving girls sauntered past carrying a wicker basket of rushes between them, but the sell- sword never looked, "Bronn, I despair of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She threw her braid over her shoulder and reached down to resettle a sheet in her basket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In an hour, the baskets were nearly empty. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the basket emerged hundreds of tiny white butterflies. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Charlie,” Mama says, staring past me, “make sure all your toys and clothes are in your basket.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I rise and look out from the window, where I see Therese struggling to carry a heavy basket. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And Lee was aware of a powerful flutter of wingbeats as the eagle dæmon settled again on the basket rim. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked them: Would you pause to text while driving to the basket? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I turned it up a gear, scoring the next three baskets. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He straightened his legs as best he could between the baskets and clothing bundles. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully unpinned the clothes and laid them into her laundry basket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I seen two women carrying a basket down the alley not long ago. They’ll know what to do with the child, and they’ll send one to care for the mother.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happily, he stood underneath the basket and filled one hand with seeds. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive at a small square with a few market stalls busy with local shoppers filling their baskets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

That square of light opens up again when the shirt hits the basket in the kitchen below. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There, among the pink vanities with baskets of little towels and talcum powder and brushes, we come up with our plot. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After a few days Boori Ma moved her baskets and her cooking bucket to the rooftop as well. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Still sitting in the basket. I threw it some breadcrumbs,'' Mosca answered. “And now let's get on with it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

After supper I wrapped the toady-frog in the sweater Ma had been working on and put it in her knitting basket and ran ’cross the road to hide in the drainage ditch with Cooter. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The man pointed a finger at Marigold, still hunched over the side of the basket, practicing her new Talent. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He took Ben almost underneath the basket, then in a quick, fluid move, he pivoted for a hook shot that caromed lightly off the backboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the residents tossed her bucket and rags, her baskets and reed broom, down the stairwell, past the letter boxes, through the collapsible gate, and into the alley. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every time Aileen and I were alone, I felt like my stomach was a basket of eggs, and I dropped it every time we were close enough to kiss. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She follows me down the stairs, grabbing up our baskets before I can. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It sounded like some winning basket had just been made in the game against our oldest rivals. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg pulled out a wicker basket with bread, cheese, and a bottle of wine. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He tosses the Kleenex ball into the trash, then yanks out another stack, wads those up, and slam-dunks those into the basket with the others. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“He would give the Ewe people impossible jobs—like weaving baskets out of sand.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping into the gloom, he felt his way from shelf to shelf, encountering the curve of bowls, the rough edge of a basket, the cool, sweating sides of the big water jar. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then he clomped down the stairs, carrying his basket of food. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The woman in the pink striped frock with the little boy got up and wandered off along the path towards Kerrith, the man in the shorts following with the picnic basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mom retrieved a basket from the table and put the leftover rolls in a Ziploc bag. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Viola picks up another basket, brings it over right next to me, and sits down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ll just upset her mother more. I’ll take a food basket there myself. Tomorrow. Now put on a clean apron, Matilda, and wash your hands. It’s time to get to work.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some ladies wearing floral headscarves come out the Laundromat, carrying big baskets of clothes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gifts in a basket over my arm, I stood at the bottom of Perilee’s steps. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

People moved up and down the rows gathering corn, squashes, tomatoes or cucumbers into bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved past him, grabbed a wicker basket, and leaned into the coop. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The wind god settled on a nearby wall with his basket of fruit and spread his russet wings in the sun. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Leave the browned cabbage in the basket. It makes no sense to save a head with only a few good leaves.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the cash register, there are baskets with items for a dollar and up. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On a sideboard nearby there was a little chafing dish and a basket of poppy heads. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Fatty, my basketball coach, told me that my first step to the basket was good but that my second was weak. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Me and Viola watch as the workers start returning to their trees and their baskets and their whatevers, some eyes still on us but most people getting back to work. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Molly fingers the never-used baby blanket, its basket- weave design still vivid, the stitches intricately pristine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was sure about the place: McClellanville, South Carolina, where her mama had woven sweet-grass baskets and sold them on the roadside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As commanded, I purchased two packets of straight pins, a piece of lace, and a basket of turnip greens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, I flip on the iron, yank Mister Johnny’s white shirt out of the basket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Laundered and folded it lay in a basket her mother had used. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on poking, and then with the tip of the broom handle, he shoved the basket away—and out it came. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In a kind of furious daze, forgetting the eggs, I got a big old gray peach basket off the porch and dragged it down the path. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The only red in view was in their own hands and in the basket. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spends her days lying down, a pink plastic wastepaper basket by her side, the shades drawn, her mouth and teeth coated with the taste of metal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sandi pointed to the basket in which the dancer was rearranging the rejected dolls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I carried a basket filled with two Mason jars of Uncle Chester’s canned wild plums to share at the after-service dinner. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, come on,” she said, “make some use of yourself and help me fill this basket with strawberries.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been accidentally hit in the face while driving to the basket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A bowl of pomegranates with ruby-red skin and some waxed-paper-wrapped peanut candies sat in one of Mama’s sweetgrass baskets on Doc’s worktable next to a deck of playing cards. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My mom puts on her jacket and hoists the laundry basket onto her hip. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wait and she walks up to the man unloading the baskets from the cart. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They had given them to the women of the nobility as favors, and he’d snagged one from the basket as it was passed around. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She finishes her taping job and hefts the basket up to her hip. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had just knotted the last button when Jojo returned, triumphant, with the egg basket filled with feathers and pinecones. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I ducked behind Johnny, faked as if I were heading for the basket, and ran out near the foul line. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He drops the coin in just as the baskets are collected, then he disappears into the crowd. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Pitchers of thick cream and baskets of blackberries had been set out, and the guests were sipping a sweet orange-scented wine from engraved silver cups. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A shape, red with white wings around the face, a shape like mine, a nondescript woman in red carrying a basket, comes along the brick sidewalk towards me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, right in the basket’s center, he could see the last scrap of parchment. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I rolled behind a pile of baskets filled with rotting chickens now, and to my left, upon the littered curb, a woman and man crouched behind an upturned delivery cart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan went to break the dams and I with him and with me our children, sunken-eyed, noisy as they had not been for many days at the thought of the feast, carrying nets and baskets. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made the barber cutting hair, the dentist pulling teeth, the man who cleaned ears, and the man with the basket of cobras. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could read by the fire with a mending basket nearby to slip the book into should Madam approach. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My basket of vegetables dragged heavily on my arm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shiny, slippery rats, fat and fast, poured in and out of the basket, twitching their noses and flicking their tails. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Pastor Patton’s salary came from the collection basket, which usually only gathered a few coins each Sunday, supplemented by the goodness of others who occasionally brought him fresh chickens or eggs or bread. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All manner of household goods could be had, baskets and straw sleeping mats and wooden chests. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The basket was crumbled, the red-and-blue striped bag ripped and deflated. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Along the road I saw women winnowing baskets of threshed grain in the wind, the clouds of chaff flying off in the breeze. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only Aliya makes a move and stacks the folded piles into a laundry basket. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I had not gathered food for many days and the baskets were empty, so I left water for the dog and, after mending the fence, went down to the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little work of art, a delicate basket woven from grass and twigs and feathers, and it was right above the robot’s head. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The baskets of fruit were broken, so that the coco-nuts poured down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was very far away, so far that he appeared smaller than Sumac hunched in his little basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Let me pray on those dinner specials over another basket of chips. Carl.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

What brought it to me was a dream I was having of my mother carrying a wicker basket, walking across a field and into a woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were all used to shooting baskets in this kind of white night. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Months later, they graduated to utensils—a pitcher, a basket, a knife. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Higgins delivered it himself when he heard about our night,” she said, unpacking things from her basket. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They both liked to go horseback riding in the middle of the morning, with a picnic basket and an array of canvas and leather bags containing Jean’s belongings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like each of the men, he carried a large, empty wicker basket. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Servants loaded baskets into the boat without a word. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Each addition to Yolanda's beach basket causes a spill from the stash already piled high above the brim. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then Lizabeth said, “Quincy, you can take the vegetables you like from the garden, or you can make a list and Stephen can make a basket for you on the days that he comes here.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Tonight,” he reflected wryly, “I’d give him the whole bed! I’d even sleep in the basket myself—if only he would come back!” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

James carried a bushel basket by its two metal handles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulape dropped her basket of shellfish and set out for the village, arriving there so out of breath that she could only point in the direction of the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed over another loaf, started to raise the basket to his head again and hesitated. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

On our way out, Eliza accepted a basket of dry bread from the woman who ran the boarding house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘As for this’ - she scrunched it up and threw it in the waste-paper basket - ‘it’s beyond us, Ted.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cookie basket was empty save one bag, and they had gathered twenty more signatures on the petition. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As Dr. Fanning spoke to one of the waiters, a dancer approached the table, carrying a large straw basket with a strap that went around her neck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Neeley wouldn’t say who won but he had the other boy’s basket besides his own. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one right next to me had one of those straw baskets that you see nuns and Salvation Army babes collecting dough with around Christmas time. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I scurry up and down the aisles, piling things into a red plastic basket. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed a distant man, often lost in his own thoughts as he stood behind the counter stacking porgies in the basket for deep-frying. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept a photograph of her dead husband on the windowsill, beside the braided horsehair basket that was a gift from her son. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I open my basket and take out a dirty plum, wiping it on my shirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She reached into the basket and pulled out a chain with pink plastic all around it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He moved under the basket and started grabbing rebounds and passing the ball back to me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I might never finish it, and it’ll wind up in the wastepaper basket or the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As her mother plucked the purple berries, Stella coaxed a half-dozen more figs from the tree and placed them carefully into Mama’s basket. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Osh went straight to his easel, where he’d been working on a painting of Mouse curled up in a lightship basket, her tail hanging over the rim. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was headed away from him on the plank sidewalk, a basket in one hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a tin out of the basket and passed it to me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the referee handed me the ball, Finkle waved to the fans sitting behind the basket. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So before the sky was even light, Jinny sneaked down to the kitchen, packed a basket of snacks, and returned to the cabin for Ess. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"What do you reckon's in the basket, Billy?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She handed over the basket and rubbed her left shoulder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the coal supplier unloaded his baskets on the roof, we advised her to smile and make a comment about the weather. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pressed clothes—baskets of giants’ BVD’s, long underwear even in summertime, T-shirts, sweat shirts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up an enterprising snail that was crawling out of the open basket. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked athletic, like a tennis player maybe, or a serious pickup b-ball player, although he was too short to play under the basket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then he began to drive all the way to the basket, dribbling slowly, then exploding toward the basket, changing hands in midair and letting the ball roll off his fingertips and into the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her maids bore a basket full of axeheads, bronze and iron implements for the master’s game. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone paving was still wet from the washing down after market, and the last of the farmers gathered baskets and gear before going home. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I was a total basket case for the last six months of college. I would lose it at anybody. You know, you don’t have to do everything all the time.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to buy the whole basket and set that one snail free. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without a thought, as the twin whose legs never failed her, she shifted the basket to her left hip and took a giant step over a pyramid of oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for Oliver to respond, Angie grabbed one of the two handles of the cookie basket and together they lugged it to Angie’s apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dr. van Heerden painted them with poison and put them under little wire baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo killed a chicken in honor of Vatete, who had returned with her, and several other relatives arrived from the other village with baskets of food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed an egg in his basket and straightened up. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He lay the bread on the table next to the bushel basket and all the children’s eyes fixed on him attentively. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When McCandless tried to walk out of the bush one year ago the previous week, the basket was in the same place it is now, on his side of the canyon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the doorway stood a monk with a basket. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Bethan peeled bits of the bark and added it to the basket. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even Amaranta, lying in a wicker basket, observed with curiosity the absorbing work of her father and her brother in the small room where the air was rarefied by mercury vapors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fake orchids sprouted out of a planter next to a big basket in a corner. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Around the barn in the hen house she found Edward, egg basket still empty, kneeling before the chickens. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking what a clever bird he was, the thrush swooped down on the basket that had been left behind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Near the opening of the cave they had also cut two deep basins in the stone, which I decided to use for storing water since they held much more than the baskets. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were having such a good time laughing and singing songs that they didn’t notice me when I jumped into the picnic basket,” continued Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He changed back into his sweet self as he handed Hanako one of the bags, which he placed in the basket for her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“By Jove, she’s forgotten her dinner!” cried the unconscious youth, poking the scarlet monster into its place with his cane, and preparing to hand out the basket after the old lady. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His basket weighed five pounds in no time. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her basket she had some fat meat, potatoes, and a small bottle of vanilla flavoring, which she had bought with the money she got for her walnut kernels. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came upon a street that was a scene out of the infernal regions, each house afire, a lane where demonic citizens might walk, capes black, bonnets bulging, baskets filled with mewling roots. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Fang, who had been skulking in his basket during the burial, now came padding softly across to them and put his heavy head into Harry’s lap as usual. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He picked up a basket of books and set them on the table. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jack was sliding the pits off the photo into his wastepaper basket. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shoved past him and pushed the laundry basket onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She managed to grab an overhanging branch when she got close to shore, but the baskets got wet and even the mealie bag was dampened. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to pull Bran from his basket first, so he would not get squished. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I carried the basket of linen back to the house on Wall Street, put a pot of water over the fire, and gathered the soap and the scrubbing board. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a basket of chocolate goodies on the table, an iced-down bottle of sparkling cider on the nightstand, and a mint on the pillow with a handwritten note that said: Enjoy your cruise! The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dried food was still good, but the water was stale, so I went back to the spring and filled a fresh basket. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to put on tiny socks from the socks basket and just looked puzzled when they didn’t fit. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

While her mother slept restlessly, Kira sorted the dyed threads in her basket and began to weave them into the cloth scrap with a bone needle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being of simple mind, Dana probably had thought only of his unexpected good fortune as the laundry basket was loaded into the laundry truck, which was then driven out the gates of the detention center. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to law, the trashman had to dump his baskets outside the city limits, where the river made a wide bend. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then there came another jerk, so sudden that it threw them all to the floor again, and the basket began to sink with frightening speed, spinning all the while. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

To grow them year after year without dread of flood or plague, in soil that offers up green stems that bend to the scythe again and again, bread from a bottomless basket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the corned beef back into her basket and covered it with a bag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom, taking a roll from the basket: Cindy will call me when the autopsy results come in. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He picks up a basket from the coffee table and hands it to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting on toward sunset when at last he came back, pushing his big basket on a wheelbarrow. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head at the dancer, who had since reached in her basket and extracted three more dolls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Other favorite smugglers’ hiding places for booze included fake floorboards and hidden second gas tanks in automobiles, false-bottomed shopping baskets and suitcases, and hot water bottles. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I asked, setting down the basket of eggs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same yellowed awards cluster the walls, the same books spill off the bookshelf, and the same old toys are heaped in the toy basket. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s Mother. Hide the basket, quick!” cried Jo, as a door slammed and steps sounded in the hall. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sort of start led me but I heard her book fall when she opened her basket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes into the hall closet and picks up the laundry basket. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve put some of Anthony’s old clothes on the hamper. And drop those— whatever they are—into the laundry basket.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If they just dropped their dough in her basket, then walked away without saying anything to her, ignoring her and all, she'd quit in about an hour. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Whenever I shot around with my dad, the shooter got the ball back after a made basket, so I passed the ball to her and she shot again, and then again, and again. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My foul shot rimmed the basket and fell in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once the front door banged shut behind me, I retrieved the paper from my basket and sighed at the title. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ben carried a basket into the school bus that was very heavy although he could not see the cargo since it was covered with a layer of Spanish moss. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He transferred Nipper to the basket rim, left the room and returned a minute later. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He leans over my handlebars, one hand grazing into the basket attached to the front. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter grabbed his basket of eggs and went back over to kiss Big Ma, who wiped his kiss away like she’d been buzzed by a fly. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I saw something I liked this morning, and I meant to tell it at dinner, but I forgot,” said Beth, putting Jo’s topsy-turvy basket in order as she talked. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the desk we found a wicker basket full of presents from the Genies: wooden shoes, an orange Holland T-shirt, chocolates, and various other goodies. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The women walked steadily away from me, each holding a large basket over their arms. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of crystal baskets floated to the left of them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wore a basket on her head when the sun bothered her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Termites had already found and attacked the baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira had lifted it from her mother’s neck when she was ill in order to wash the fevered body, and had placed it on the shelf near the basket of herbs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m the new boy and I have to be messenger boy while he’s gone, cycling around Limerick on the bicycle with the big metal basket in front. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t trust this weird god with the hoop and the wings and the basket of fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They set out bowls of honey wine to tempt the fairies away from milking cows, and left out baskets of fruit to distract them from their orchards. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman balanced the coconut basket on her head and climbed in. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Only a man, one man and no other, who brought the snake in a basket or carried it stunned or charmed like a gift in his own two hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie put two walnuts for decoys in her last year’s Easter basket and the children set out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you looked, there were very tiny old dark ladies lugging entire baskets of things along the order of wilting greens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy helped his mother carry more and more baskets of laundry to and from the big houses; the clotheslines grew longer and longer. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old monk leaned over the basket and looped the braid around the baby’s wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“By the pond,” the boy said, steadying his basket as he tipped his chin to show her the direction. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

These were cleverly constructed baskets attached to the tips of reeds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over and drop it in the peck basket. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Every time I made a basket, Styx pounded my fist. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He put a basket of fruit on the table for them, and a plate of small, sweet cakes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then in a move that’s remarkably similar to old, competent mom, she retrieves some duct tape from a drawer and sits down next to the basket ready to do some reconstructive surgery. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Want to shoot some baskets?” she asks, pushing her hair away. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya stood in the doorway, a basket full of gathered plants hanging from her arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A carved wooden box stood on a shelf pushed back behind a round basket woven from black and green telephone wires. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I entered the kitchen and set the basket on the table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And there you have it," says Peeta, scooping the breads back in the basket. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pick up the basket, go through the kitchen door and along the hall towards the grandfather clock. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, there he was, popping from the woods, pedaling furiously straight at her, the donut box flying in the basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mama handed him the basket of food, and he placed a few bills in her hand. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I lowered the sail and scrambled out of the skiff, towing it into the shallows, where Osh stepped out and hoisted the dripping basket onto his shoulder. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the wolfswood, Bran turned in his basket for one last glimpse of the castle that had been his life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he built the twigs into walls with a sturdy basket weave of shredded bark all the way around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fruit and candy store where he had bought the newspaper that afternoon he selected a basket of fruit wrapped in cellophane. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That is how we all came into Ormaie on Saturday night, all of us from different directions, all with our baskets and panniers crammed with homemade bombs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Before proceeding, she turns back to the bicycle and bends over a small basket hanging from the handlebars. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There was only the one egg in all the nests, and she didn’t have a basket, so she simply held it in her hand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He glided to where I was and placed the basket at my feet and pointed to it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He learned how to make oars, how to improve the boat and to make baskets. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Morris then moves over to her desk and points to two wire baskets. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He hobbled over to the basket where he kept his odds and ends, and brought forth a piece of twine. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I carried five baskets up the ravine and hid them near my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then she came over again and again, always with something new in her basket.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“There is only a little rice left in the basket,” said the old man, seating himself at the table in the middle room and stirring with his chopsticks the thick yellow gruel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Francie saw her mother’s still fumbling hands take the sleeping child from the basket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pretended to pass it in my direction and then he took off, right to the basket. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

James and Dicey carried the full baskets back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama looked at Doc, then back at me before she put down the sweetgrass basket she was weaving. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He put the basket in its place and tied it to the leg of a table, convinced that the long-awaited event was imminent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When he dribbled, no one tried to stop him; when he called for a pass, whoever had the ball passed it; and when he missed a basket, no one raced him for the rebound. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“If you’d like to unwrap me,” he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, “we still have an hour until the temple service.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Sofia. I like that name,” said Bo, peeking into the pigeon basket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when it came time to kneel before the basket, he shook just as badly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As the sun dips low in the sky, Taryn and I unpack our baskets from home, which contain bread, butter, cheese, and plums. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From the bottom of the basket she took the folded brown paper bag into which she poured each night’s pickin’s and put it on the shelf. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julian's father was carrying a basket over his arm. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man leaned over the edge of the basket to peer down at them. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A third girl held a basket of apples and the fourth held a five-cent pumpkin pie which was the size of a small saucer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each carried a basket of rose petals, which she tossed in handfuls at the crowd. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom reached into the kitchen cabinet and removed a small basket made of twigs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stood to push past Dante, who threw his legs in my way as if he were blocking me from scoring a basket. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stood there with the sunlight in her hair, her white skirt fluttering around her legs, a basket of grapes and fresh-baked bread tucked under one arm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But as he saw the sober faces of the adults, he was reminded of how his mother would always send baskets of food to Sunjin’s family and others. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rita stops chopping the carrots, stands up, takes the parcels out of the basket, almost eagerly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was too dark to be sure of her direction, she brought the oar inside and wriggled down between the baskets of food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrap them in maple leaves and store them in the grape vine basket in the root cellar. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit began uncoiling the thick length of knotted rope from the corner of the basket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to pick up the scattered wool that hadn’t blown away and placed it back inside the basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Or do they label stuff in special compartments...baskets for fingers? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tablecloth came out the other end of the mangle, and I dropped it into a hickory basket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Bicycle Bill, in his tricked-out three-wheeler bike with a basket that carried a huge speaker and his toy poodle, Henry, and had a large picture of Celia Cruz taped to the front. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Pong crouched inside the basket, one eye pressed against the straw, trying to see the world outside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit whipped the rope over the side of the basket, where it unfurled to the sidewalk below with a loud fwop! A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, Kevin and I had a lot of fun riding bikes, playing video games, shooting baskets, skateboarding. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old woman stood frozen, the basket of sticky rice her husband had forgotten swinging from her fingertips. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On die wall beside the door hung a basket, stoutly of wicker and leather, with holes cut for Bran's legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the small towns, there are open-air markets: chickens and geese in elaborate bamboo baskets, vegetables laid out in rows on the ground, slabs of pork on tables, tobacco being sold in big clumps. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We put them into our baskets and go out again, past the pregnant woman and her partner, who beside her looks spindly, shrunken; as we all do. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one lights a lamp and hides it under a basket. They put it on a table so it can shine for all to see.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

From my basket I drew out a handful of leaves, which I crushed in my fist to release their strong odor. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The basket floated to Father Cham and stopped at his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A stick stuck up from one corner of the basket, and, on it, like a sluggish flag stood six pretzels. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds mounded in her basket and stirred her hunger with thoughts of hot roasted nuts on cold winter nights. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no, my mind cleared a bit, and I heard Sumac making little raspy eeeee sounds in the basket to my right. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They each had one suitcase, and Mama carried a basket filled with food for the twelve-hour journey. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A small two-colored basket made of bast, in which the ferrymen kept the copper and silver coins which they received as their payment, had also disappeared. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The injured man put his arms around their shoulders and lowered himself into the basket they had made with their arms. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” Ivy mumbled, and walked over to the basket. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stared greedily at the fruit until Fenoglio pushed the basket over to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Abbott crabbed along beside him until Ben whirled with a reverse dribble, sprinted for the basket, and laid up the first two points of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put six eggs into a cardboard container and placed it in a peach basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were dirty plates on them, coffee-stained mugs, wooden boards where cheese rinds lay, knives, sausages, empty bread baskets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I picked up the basket, tightened the blanket across my shoulders, and stepped over the threshold. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until the tide was low, which was close to dawn, and filled a basket with sea water and abalones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the spot where the golden light danced, and he tracked the shimmer back to Father Cham and the basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I put the bowl of bread pudding into a basket, tied on my cloak, and wound up my hands in rags to keep the frost from biting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives me a quick grin as she fills another globe and sets it gingerly in a basket by her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The mother took the basket and said “Thank you” and then “Thank you, again,” and then “Thank you most, most kindly,” and they went back inside. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through that first hard year, gifts had arrived, of produce that the Ashidas had not yet planted—baskets of asparagus, lettuce. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s something of a whiz with snares, rigging them to bent saplings so they pull the kill out of the reach of predators, balancing logs on delicate stick triggers, weaving inescapable baskets to capture fish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of his hummingbear puzzlers sat nearby in a large willow basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He put the coins back on the pile, took a basket from those stacked behind him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took her basket of sheets and clothes and melted back into the house. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Old wicker lawn furniture, tattered fruit baskets, a large, cracked headboard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yo, it probably had a little basket in the front so he had a place to put his panties.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve, as a matter of tradition, she’d buy a special hors d’oeuvre basket, the kind that came filled with blocks of cheese, smoked oysters in a tin, and different kinds of salami. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“A good nut year means a good baby year,” the midwife said as she sent Alyce and her nutting basket to the woods to see what kind of a year it would be. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put away the work basket and fitted the coat with the mourning band very carefully on his shoulders. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Giant iron baskets held burning logs to light the rows of white tents. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Below, on the overcrowded sidewalks, more than two and a half million people, armed with beach chairs, picnic baskets, and thermoses, solemnly watched hundreds of floats pass by. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mae and Birdie did not seem particularly surprised to find a basket containing a baby screecher arriving at their door. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The assassin flipped back the lid of the basket. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ma was not sitting with her mending basket as usual. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Ares chariot, Clarisse barked an order to her fighter, who quickly threw a screen of camouflage netting over their basket. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We buy some of the things I know Suesetta and her family love and when we get home, we arrange everything in the basket. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the basket were a dozen dark-haired Barbie dolls dressed like Spanish señoritas. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was taking the basket somewhere but he could not find the place to leave it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There on a doorstep was a wickerwork basket, “k”; yonder, “n,” the ripples on the water. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The basket of green leaves suddenly seemed to be giving off a beautiful, sweet perfume. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ron turned to stare incredulously at Harry as his mother hoisted the laundry basket and the teetering clock into her arms and stormed out of the room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were a few crumbs in the basket and an onion in one of the bowls, but Gebu had left nothing else—on purpose, Ranofer was certain. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She took the food from the basket and handed out the wooden boxes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was nothing at all on the storeroom shelves except empty crocks and baskets, and a dish containing the crumbs of last night’s loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sara pulls more fruit off the plant, making a little basket with the bottom of her tunic to hold them. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Taking up a jug each, with a small basket of fresh loaves and some goat cheese, they set off, with Cornflower in the lead carrying a lantern. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When the waitress brings out a basket of bread, we just stare at each other confused until we see the couple next to us dip their bread in olive oil. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I helped Art haul in plastic totes the size of laundry baskets laden with meat and produce. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bran grasped a wall sconce with both hands and used it to pull himself up and out of the basket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That let them collapse under the basket and box out for the rebounds. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His legs seemed to move of their own accord as Father Olufemi gestured toward the basket a final time, then stepped back to give him space. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He starts to drop his coin in my basket, then pulls his hand back. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I look at the baskets of beans and squash we’ve already gathered. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As it always did, their word game dissolved into nonsense and they laughed as they carried the basket back down the hill. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When we climbed to the top of the tower, however, the basket wasn’t there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms were loaded with the parts of the moving-picture machine and the basket of fruit he carried for his friend. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What will I do then, when all my hopes of making things better are in the same basket marked ART SCHOOL? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I prefer not to put all of my secrets in one basket, particularly not a basket that spends so much time dangling on the arm of Lord Voldemort.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The basket was filled with berries, which she had apparently been gathering on the mountainside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She dropped her paper in my bicycle basket as I passed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our job is to fill up the baskets and deliver them to the cooks in the communal kitchen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vendor with a basket of fruit and another selling leather bottles of beer wove through the crowd. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A creature half the size of a man, with leathery wings and hooked claws, was crawling over the side of the basket toward Lee Scoresby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep counting them: My hands that make it possible to carry a basket of groceries to a family in need. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Being inside a basket of durian is punishment enough. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Dicey and James carried a towering pile of bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried the picnic basket into the kitchen with no help, resting my script and notepad on top. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A different, more ominous-looking forest backdrop had been unfurled, and an actor dressed as a young girl in red cape and hood entered, carrying a basket. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Matthias tossed the last of the hazelnuts into the basket and stood awkwardly shuffling his large sandals in the grass. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘Your father begged on the roads, and your mother’s roora was a basket of stale millet! My roora was a herd of fine cows.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the vases and baskets were stuffed with broken pens, dried-up gumdrops, sprung paper clips and smudgy erasers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The basket was on the floor under Hanako’s feet, and her grandfather had pushed the other bag of rice under the seat in front of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Digging around deeper in the basket, the garlicky outlaw called out to Cutwater. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean a clam rake? Yeah, we have some out back, I think. And baskets and a gauge. But...I have a permit. You need a permit.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

This box he dropped down in the room where Wang Lung returned to find his basket and would carry it no further, and indeed he disappeared without another word. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mama’s got a full laundry basket tucked under one arm, but she reaches out with her free hand. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Naomi was walking out with her laundry basket when he’d driven up, and when he asked, she told him that the twins were off running in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Some hot idea that was,” I said as we stared at our basket of unsold gum. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were shining with excitement, but in decency he pulled up his rock, and then he pulled up his basket of oysters and lifted them in. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months, they had been sneaking ammunition and TNT into Saigon under loads of firewood and inside baskets of rice. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a bar in the back, and some kind of hip-hop music playing, and waiters turning sideways to squeeze through the crowd with pints of beer and baskets of chicken wings. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As though he was choosing mangoes from a basket. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leans down, handing her baby with Down syndrome chunky plastic blocks from the toy basket. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eyes the plastic laundry basket that’s now full to bursting and has a crack in the side, and I think she’s about to say no, but she actually nods. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Quietly, I take up a basket of mending and sit at the worktable. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bed, I saw a wicker basket stuffed with books, a locomotive, a water- color set. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I did not get the free basket with candy eggs or a photo with the fake rabbit. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As Ben fed him passes from under the basket, Bull made eight out of twelve set shots, moving in a semicircle outside the scratched-out foul line. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We say good-bye to Old Mike, take our bundles, and pack them into the basket on Jenna’s bike. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“If she can make baskets with her toes, you can play the guitar without your fingers,” he told him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if my mother, sitting on the other side of the closed pocket doors with her sewing basket, ever puzzled over these frightful noises. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Women walked by us with baskets of corn upon their heads; men mowed wheat with scythes, followed closely by teams of gatherers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mamá pulled out the board with El Corazón, the human heart, in the corner block out of the basket and showed it to me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The basket of her bike contained a camera bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He unzipped his knapsack, pushed Miranda’s basket of manicure supplies to one side of the table, and spread his crayons over the surface. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Mama, please,” I say, rummaging through a basket where she keeps her keys. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Priscilla Willis held up her finger, where a bee rested, baskets packed with yellow pollen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“My wife sent me in here to get some things for a basket our church is putting together for a boy who came on that orphan train,” he says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They failed to detect the deadly cargo, coiled sleeping at the bottom of the basket. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

And he shifted the box to his own back, regardless of the best robe he wore, and she, still speechless, took the handle of the basket. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They had slept shivering and crouching over their baskets, the baskets now empty at their feet. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He bends and looks in the laundry basket at my feet. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Remembering my unkept promise, I pried its roots from the earth with desperate fingers and filled my basket, hoping that Elnora would somehow find them there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A few hours later he was back, carrying with him twenty baskets of food and twenty buckets of water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We have an actual picnic basket and everything. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As a result, the basket swung this way and that, rocking and bumping much more than on a normal flight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a pillow, his mother’s knitting basket, and his father’s suspenders. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo didn’t protest as her cousin took some of the heavy packets of mealie meal from the basket and transferred them to the sling on her back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a few moments to visualize a thick round glass tube leading from my hand up and into the basket like a funnel. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Donna barges into the bedroom wearing only her fancy underwear and holding a basket filled with combs, curlers, a curling iron, a flat iron, a blow-dryer, pomades, hair lotions, and makeup. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe she didn’t understand what it meant to be hungry, not even to care when the server gave you a look as he brought the eighth, ninth basket of breadsticks to the table. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Adam looked at the telescope basket Lee brought into the dining room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After she gets better I find a small knitted sock, pastel green, in my mother’s sewing basket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The basket was on the floor beside him; in its corner, beside Gabriel’s head, the stuffed hippo sat staring with its blank eyes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

On a shelf behind the counter is a basket of yellow stars and spools of thread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

More and more men swarmed into the square with their baskets of pepper to be weighed and stored in bags. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Forests is creepy things," said Jemmy, hanging on to the basket as best he could. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

A girl rode by on a bike with a basket on the handlebars. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Going down to the lodge with a basket on my arm, grapes and peaches for the old lady who was sick. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It held two baskets of water and enough tunas and dried abalone to last many days. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped my basket and covered the scar with my hands, holding the skin tightly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He dangles the coin over the basket again. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was carrying a large basket and walked off in exactly the opposite direction. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sets a laundry basket on my bed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But I kept thinking of the torn scraps in the basket, and after a moment I had to get up and look in the basket once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She finds a worn-down tube of lipstick in her mother’s wastepaper basket and hides it away, and takes it to school in her pocket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or that bearded guy who was carrying one of those red baskets. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how people can jump high enough to throw the ball down into the basket,” she said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were comparing details, like the way light struck a fingernail or a wrist bone, the look of a woven basket handle or a curl of hair. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the cowboy hat spit sunflower seed shells into a wastepaper basket. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

To this I nodded and myself pointed to the three baskets I had placed by the fire, making a gesture of taking them with me to the ship. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his feet sat a wicker picnic basket full of fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The covered basket at the entrance of Mama Joe’s shed moved. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around for a container and found a plastic grocery-style bag lining the wastepaper basket. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Water tipped out of the basket and trickled over my face. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were bloodstained and compactly folded and packed in the baskets. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Here ya go, Boss!” he said, and held out a basket full of fruit. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He produced a big basket of chicken, enough to feed a dozen people. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a basket ready for the grieving family. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She lifted a wicker basket to the cedar railing and began drawing in her family’s laundry. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The kitchen table was still laden with breakfast: a basket of toasted bread, bowls of nuts, jars of jam, a platter of cheese, and a few slices of some sort of melon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She puts them in the basket, and we both go downstairs. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maxim was sitting in his chair, Jasper at his feet, the old dog in her basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before they could go deeper in theology, they saw another little boy turn on to Ainslie Street from Humboldt Street carrying a basket on his arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it Mami put a cot with its own mosquito net, a small table and chair, and a basket for my underclothes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His wicker basket was heavy and wet and dripping now. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted my basket peeking out from behind the tree and commanded me forward. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There the courts stood in silence; there the little room where he had left his basket; here the long verandas supported by the delicate, red-varnished pillars. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The baskets reeked sweetly, like raw chicken left in the sun all day. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The delicacies and delights the queen ordered included a basket of figs. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He crushed the paper into a hard wad and tossed it into the waste basket. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to keep all our food safe from rats and mice and cats, so the women wove grass baskets for storage. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nettle fetched the basket and they spread out what they had on their table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The keeper opened a basket he had on his back and took from it a small piece of raw meat. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked at the ref and he was signaling no basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Annie stepped to the line, bounced the ball slowly three times, and glanced at the basket. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Father was busy unstrapping the carrying basket from the back of his bicycle. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a master craftsman, he wasn’t going to buy charcoal by the basket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran reached up over his head and pulled himself out of his seat, drawing the dead weight of his legs up through the holes in the wicker basket. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Grandma passes me a basket full of clean, dry T-shirts before I head on up. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Connor and I tilted his basket over the crate, and the baby slid out like a sledder on a snowy hill. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Grandma is going to see my shirts land in the basket there at the end of the kitchen. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When it reached the third robo-basket from the end, a set of rollers popped up and shunted the book off to the side into the waiting wire basket. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then three baskets of mixed males, five to five and three-quarters. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Doc had taken all of her rootwork possessions: her potions, her perfumes, and all of her jars and baskets. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jay held up jar after jar to his flashlight, dropping them all back into the baskets he plucked them from. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mother and Viola followed behind with a basket filled with hairpins and ribbons and tongs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We walk a long circle around the sanctuary and when I get to the front, I place one nickel in the basket instead of two. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, the basket was larger than anything she had ever attempted, but Nhamo was afraid to ask her cousin to take some of the load. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dog lay asleep in her basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, and basket of plums, please,” he mumbled. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs would crawl from their baskets, yawn and stretch themselves, wander out on to the terrace and blink at the first struggles of the pale sun coming through the mist. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I carried my dirty clothing downstairs, the girl called Libby took them and gingerly dropped them in a basket. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't understand what anyone was saying or doing, but she still wanted to observe and even dropped five dollars in the donation basket. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of them grabbed Masvita’s basket and hurled it into the deep. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several other travelers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was like shooting the winning basket in double overtime! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Ramo picked up a root and was about to drop it into the basket. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy saw that the prince was wearing a black cloak and carrying a wicker basket the size of a sea chest. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He fills my basket with sand, not looking at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The basket, the water bottle, the clamp for my phone, the headlamp and bell. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Higgledy-piggledy in the branches were wedged baskets of supplies, and on a corner of the platform, protected on two sides by branches, was Mother’s picture, weighted down with stones. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramo hopped along far in front with one of our baskets, but before long he ran back to say that he had forgotten his fishing spear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his basket down and greeted her with their special basketball handshake, a complicated series of backhand slaps and finger pointing, ending with tilting their heads over their shoulders and saying “Oh yeah!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The vacation was over and the Truebas returned to the city laden with jars of candy, preserves, boxes of fruit, cheese, pickled chicken and rabbit, and baskets full of eggs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shelly tossed the plastic razor into a trash basket, poured herself a cup of coffee, and sat down at the dinette. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I drank for a long time and filled my basket and then, feeling better, crawled toward the mouth of the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a basket, swung from his neck, cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Just as the emperor was being carried over the last carved ramp, a servant came running up with a large, steaming bamboo basket. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How am I supposed to collect eggs with a hole in the basket?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a pair of balled socks from the clean-clothes basket and lob it at her head. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The cable was erected in 1970 to chart the Teklanika’s seasonal fluctuations; hydrologists traveled back and forth above the river by means of an aluminum basket that is suspended from the cable with pulleys. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This station with its hanging baskets of flowers is another sham, like Theresienstadt with its concerts, plays and lectures. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Give you four baskets, give you?” it said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could see the pro- ' cessional clerics busy about the decencies of death, and the twinkling knights standing motionless, and the people’s heads, like baskets of coconuts, round the outside of the square. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the willow laundry basket and lined it with some clean blankets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A sewing basket offered her a selection of knitting. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting at his desk, staring at his schoolwork as his family hovered over the newchild in its basket, he shook his head, trying to forget the odd incident. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We fill the basket and pass it around, taking deep gulps and, later, luxuriously, splashing our faces clean. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, she noticed a mouse pilfering a basket of peanuts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed the paper into the nearest wastepaper basket and headed out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She pointed out, too, the maidenhair fern nearby; the black stems, she said, retained their shine in a pine needle basket’s weave. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mamou was at the kitchen table, drinking her own cup of tea, when I brought the basket of cleaned sabzi into the kitchen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Since then, he occasionally sidles up to me for a lunch-line chat while he chomps on a basket of cafeteria fries. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The first boy who shot missed the basket by three feet in his excitement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small wickerwork basket stood beside the heap of trunks, spitting loudly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We were watched around the clock, our visits supervised, even food vendors had their baskets checked at the gate. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, when the field was open, Guy would walk up to the basket, staring at it with the same kind of longing that most men display when they admire very pretty girls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, he returned, carrying a basket full of some type of grass. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother would send me out to get chicken baskets on Friday nights. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“This is my wild raspberry- picking basket,” she said proudly, and inspected it to make sure all the twigs were still woven in place. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They helped us find books they thought we’d like, and we filled up the wire baskets on our bicycles and pedaled home right down the middle of the sidewalks, as if we owned the place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who came in merely stepped to the desk, placed a note in the wire basket, and walked out again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He came back with three bushel baskets full of groceries, fresh apples and oranges, garden vegetables, and two chickens. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She returned with a freshly killed hen and a basket full of beet greens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pack a basket, pick a spot, and go. Simple as that.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get a move on before someone steals my regular seat. Fridays fill up faster than an Easter basket.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Pottery and straw baskets and all stuff like that. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pa and Mrs. watched Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell try to stop each other from scoring baskets. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mam- machi’s violin and violin stand, the Ooty cupboards, the plastic basket chairs, the Delhi beds, the dressing table from Vienna with cracked ivory knobs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama reached into the basket and pulled out a bag labeled “OLIVER.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Grandma reached down for something in her sewing basket. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were many peasants with baskets and sacks upon their backs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She brought back a haunch of goat and a basket of fruits and vegetables. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I reach for my gel pens in a basket on the window ledge and spread them out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Each time Bull received the ball he would take his time, dribbling cautiously, moving backward, taking his smaller son under the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the summer Lee came in off the street, carrying his big market basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the game pieces, I used a bunch of old action figures I had found in the after-school toy basket. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We both remembered that Auntie Braxton got a basket from the Ladies’ Society at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got over forty-five minutes, darling. Hold your horses. You’re going to turn me into a basket case if you don’t relax. Let’s go pray at the shrine.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counters and the tables and the kitchen chairs are covered with baskets and platters and foil pans and plastic cartons of food. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a long time, she put the work in her basket, covered it with a cloth, and stood up from her chair, knees creaking. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He got to Nick just as he reached our basket and fouled him as the buzzer sounded. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I try on a few pairs and then pick up a thick bracelet the color of a pomegranate and sitting in the clearance basket. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were three things she longed for—a gold necklace; a gray pony with a basket cart; a little sailboat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately Matthias scrambled about on all fours, hastily trying to stuff nuts back into the basket as he muttered clumsy apologies, avoiding the stern gaze of his elder. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Zane had been watching the man work the balloon’s controls ever since they’d climbed inside the basket, and he was good at it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mama and Baachan would need two of the boxes for work in the fields the next day, so she stuffed the three boxes as full as possible and put them into a basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had a beard and a turban and two wicker baskets. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Day two: a neat spherical basket with a tight-fitting lid, filled with mangwansi beans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely the grocery store workers had seen my sisters and me skipping through the aisles with our basket. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shivering in his basket, his few feathers ruffled in a sad attempt to keep warm. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“That way, you won’t have all your eggs in one basket,” he said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

From behind the tree came the call, “Is that you, Jane, my dove?” and out leaped the baker, holding a bunch of Michaelmas daisies and a basket of bread before him. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bending over the basket as he said this and he heard, but did not see, her jump in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t mean turn around, stare up at the basket, and wait for someone taller to get the ball.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

From the baskets rose the agonized screams of men. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘You shall have it! Give me that basket!’ said Merry, and rode ahead into the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the days that followed he was seen with a net and a small basket, hunting butterflies on the outskirts of town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I say, now licking chip crumbs from the wax basket liner. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He could climb a tree; but that was putting all his eggs in one basket. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Carefully, without disturbing the pileup of plastic baskets, we climbed up and over the nearest register’s conveyer belt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She was fumbling with the straps of Crookshanks’s basket as she spoke. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Robin set the plates down on her desk and moved the laundry basket to the floor, freeing up the armchair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She put some change in a basket on a shelf above the candles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The trash baskets sat near the river dock, on the other side of the guards’ storage hut. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She stumbled along with the heavy basket on her head, but she couldn’t feel the ache in her neck anymore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced myself through a couple more books for school and shot a lot of baskets in the side yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

This lady carries a big basket of bananas on her head like the marchantas in the market calling out their wares. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When the basket was full, we each took a handle and lugged it up to the high rocks where we spread it to wait for rain. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She balanced the baskets in the branches of the musasa tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep out the wind, she rummaged through her baskets for some newspapers and crammed them into the diamond-shaped openings of the collapsible gate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woman picked up the basket and shook it, searching for tiny shells hidden among the big ones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many had been bought with Lannister silver, so the Mummers often returned with bags of coin as well as baskets of heads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“After all, I thought, they probably come from New Canaan or some other nearby town. They’ll have to unpack the basket sooner or later. Little did I know!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon he set his heavy basket on the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And if it is up to Vikus, soon we will have no baskets to give,” the girl said pointedly to the bearded man who had turned his focus to Gregor and Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No little ducks and vultures and baskets, all spelling words, appeared upon a slab under the skillful chisel of an artist. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He reached into the basket and pulled out an ugly rock. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He ran down the dock, zigzagging around baskets and barrels and coils of ropes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even inside the basket, he felt too exposed, like he was naked. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the young girls holding baskets of flowers were two of his virgins. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chuck! Can you bring me Melody’s pink T-shirt from the clean clothes basket? She spilled juice all over her shirt!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Traps it back in the basket of his stick. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And on Saturdays, when Mama sold the sweetgrass baskets she made along with our extra vegetables at the stall, me and Jay spent all day with Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only Beaudelet remained behind, tinkering at his boat and Mariequita walked away with her basket of shrimps, casting a look of childish ill-humor and reproach at Robert from the comer of her eye. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the obvious geometry of windowpanes and floor tiles, and then all the pearls, baskets, pitchers, and framed maps. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room was cut in half by a long counter, cluttered with wire baskets full of papers and brightly colored flyers taped to its front. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I considered my mother’s life: the mending basket that never emptied, the sheets and collars and cuffs to be turned, the twenty loaves of bread to be punched down each and every week. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She hiked up the path, opened the cabin door, and pointed to a basket on the floor that sat beside the wooden box that was the wishing hole. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her mom opened the closet and took out a stack of towels and a laundry basket full of socks. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And Mary Poppins, when this had been done, took something shiny from her basket and fixed it to the glue. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They gather these pieces in peach baskets that they pass from hand to hand, not minding their torn gloves, torn skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I looked for the barrel of smoked meat, too. And baskets of dried oysters. Gone.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I laid the dead hens in my basket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning,” she said, her smile unusually bright as she handed me a peach basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Play to ten baskets by one. You have to win by two.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the cool plates from the basket, put them into the oven and took out two heated plates. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked out a can of chicken noodle soup, a quart of milk, a loaf of bread, a bar of soap, a box of safety matches and four tomatoes from a bushel basket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawl onto my favorite beanbag chair and grab the fleece blanket that somebody left in a basket on the bottom of the bookshelf. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The third king breathed on a basket of wheat. His disease blew away with the chaff. This is why wheat chaff is able to give people tuberculosis.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to recall that we netted two full baskets of rank peelers that day. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, a lava lamp and the little table with a snack basket on top. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In no time there came Jane Sharp from the village and, from the other path, with a basket of bread steaming and warm, came the baker. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me a basket, pointing me toward the produce section. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A clock that didn’t work, a flowered tin wastepaper basket. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People nearby catch a glimpse of tiny cinnamon-colored ears and two peppercorn eyes peering out of the basket. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“And the wicker baskets hanging from the posts?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And then as he saw Wang Lung take the basket from the woman he cried again, “And have you spent money?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Annabelle and Matthew scampered about the large room, giggling, while Kira wrapped the pie she had baked and placed it in a basket she had adorned with daisies and ferns. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In Polly’s she was riding her bike with the stupid basket in front of the library. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He put the lamp on the table by the laundry basket and looked in on the small sleeping faces of the babies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sighs and looks at the clothes still outside of the laundry basket. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the time we sailed through the Narrows and into the harbor, we had twelve big lobsters in a bushel basket fitted with a lid. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We gathered them at low tide in baskets and carried them to the mesa where we cut the dark red flesh from the shell and placed it on flat rocks to dry in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang was trembling under a blanket in his basket. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

People go there on the train, in buses, or in cars with picnic baskets; sometimes they stay all weekend and see three or four Shakespeare plays, one after the other. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ball sank well before the basket, and he landed on his knees. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied with a job well done, the work crews stacked up their materials, and were hauled up to the ramparts in the large grain baskets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His eyes popped open in time to realize that his basket was being picked up and tipped over the side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Hanako carried her grandparents’ food basket as they hurried back home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She looked past him and saw their grandmother standing to hold the porch door open for James, who struggled up the steps with a basket of tomatoes in his arms. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see the little bird, but I couldn’t remember what it was that I had first put into the basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She smiled at someone in line behind them, and Jiichan furtively hid the bags in the food basket, which he now took from Hanako. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t put his body on me even when we were right under the basket, so I had the move. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their center scored the next two baskets and our coach called a time-out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jody stood overwhelmed by the thing in Gitano’s hand, a lean and lovely rapier with a golden basket hilt. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women and girls with baskets of their belongings trailed behind them, babies in lapas clinging to their backs. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granola bars and fruit snacks and juice boxes overflowed from a little basket near the door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Smiling widely, I lift my basket to my chest, hoping to catch her eye. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tossed them in a basket to knock off the wings and legs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he followed her to the washing line and sat by the basket, purring. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chose a pattern with a woven look at the corners that resembles the weaving of a basket, five strips of fabric around the border. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go home,” his wife was saying to him as she balanced a heavy basket on her head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The women circled the basket, which was full of blackberries still on their short, thorny branches. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie leaned sideways and rooted around in a large basket sitting by his chair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pong would look at the kids playing on the stairs and sometimes think about Tanaburi Village School, and about the basket babies whose families must not have had a place like this to turn to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I drop my tomato in his basket with the others. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran used the bars sunk into the wall to support as he swung the dead weight of his legs into the basket and through the holes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stuff the dress back into the laundry basket and grab at the black collar peeking out from the bottom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time Penelope had made her way back to the barn carrying a basket full of fresh-baked plum cakes and a large pitcher of milk, the sun had already dipped far below the horizon. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about that beatup old straw basket they went around collecting money with when they weren't teaching school. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Father asked, looking down at the basket where the newchild lay gurgling after his feeding, ready to be taken back to the Nurturing Center for the day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had a basket full of clean laundry next to me, and I handed Mom shirts to fold. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The word was that such a man would only live with a woman who carried a basket on her head because he himself had taken a big fall in the world. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The wand was gone but she wore a big hat with an ostrich plume and she carried an enormous basket from which a turkey’s feet protruded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dig through my green basket of clothes until I find my black jeans with no holes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The past would not exist for either of us, we were starting afresh, he and I. The past had blown away like the ashes in the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Made baskets get the ball,” Drew said, passing the rock to me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Surely, this Bavarian peasant is worthy of framing; and this basket of apples! never have I seen anything more lifelike. One might almost be tempted to reach out a hand and take one.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound startled Sumac, whose little head jutted up above the edge of the basket at my side. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye 1 saw a dark mass near an overturned basket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I dribbled twice, focused on the basket, and shot the ball. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He dragged the basket out into the floor and set the jars out of it and then tipped over the basket and tapped out the dirt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the dried barks for her, and she placed them in her carrying basket. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to take away with me except a basket of food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Textbooks cover the tabletops, leaving just enough room for drinks and a couple of baskets of fries. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She stole toward it, half fearful at being alone, but unable to resist the desire to fill her basket with it, exactly as Zeus had supposed she would feel. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell cannot hit a ball with a bat or get one into a basket, and he is never on the A-list when kids are picking players for a makeup game of soccer or softball. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the basket and carried it into the house. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he broke us into groups at the six baskets around the gym and told us to keep score. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She had a servant to carry her basket, so her hands were free to pinch up her skirt, and pick her way through the muck, daintily, daintily. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The women sit on the ground, with a large wicker basket full of peeled and sliced cactus in little plastic bags. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Kino had two ropes, one tied to a heavy stone and one to a basket. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone mentioned a bike ride and a picnic lunch along the river; apparently the kitchen staff would pack your lunch in a basket if you asked in advance. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She held the coat to her cheek for a moment, wetting it with her tears, before she came out to the living room with Mamá’s small sewing basket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

On the table was a basket, and in the basket were three turnips, each of them lavender on one end and white on the other. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tucked the egg into the basket and handed it to him. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Stooping I placed my basket in front of him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the stories about mmuo, that they were spirits who had climbed out of ant holes, that they could make chairs ran and baskets hold water, were all devilish folklore. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling with his hand tucked behind him, he looks just like he did when he stole my Easter candy from my basket and thought I didn’t know exactly where it was. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whiskers pranced around my feet in the snow, batting at a clothespin that had tumbled out of the laundry basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the angles are funnel-like openings for nets or basket traps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Felix swatted the ball and caused it to miss the basket wildly. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a long time listening to her footsteps, until I could hear them no more, and then I went to the headland and brought the baskets back to the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baskets and pots Amah had placed on the floor near the gang trembled as the beating came closer. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And even those who could manage a visit to the Market could not afford the heaps of goods that Antain’s mother piled into her basket. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My knitting basket is one of the few things I bothered to unpack when I moved here. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she carried them herself in a basket, and she always gave them a few drops of paregoric so they would keep quiet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raced down the other way—just me, him, a defender and the basket. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up the basket and stood with it and the bowl of beans over her mother. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like he scored a basket at the buzzer? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I let Dylan reach into the basket to select our clue. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Moving through her room, trembling with excitement, Celaena gathered two balls of yarn from Philippa’s sewing basket, along with three sticks of chalk and one of her makeshift knives. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Overturned baskets and mangoes were strewn all around. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a mesh basket by the door and threw in a Spanish Inquisition comic. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I swatted the ball from his hands and made a fast break for the basket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There were photos on the mantel, a few paintings on the walls, and a basket of yarn beside the armchair. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hunkered down between the wall and the wicker basket of shirts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the brown package in the basket she always carried when she went to the store. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to push his foot deep into the grass, cursing his wife as she went on her way, the basket swaying from side to side on her head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The guy who worked there said, “This basket is ten feet tall. For older kids. Kids like yours might as well shoot at the sun. ’’And then he laughed. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I rushed out to welcome the Americans with a bottle of excellent brandy and a basket of flowers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some older men were fishing off the end of the pier I went down, and a heavyset woman was lowering crab baskets over the side. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And this was three times farther from the basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the serving men helped lift him from his basket. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time I caught the cable car back to Polk Street, my basket would be weighed down. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood, placing the alpaca wool in a basket at my hip. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The Garden Club displayed strawberries and fuchsia baskets, and the chamber of commerce awarded trophies for a float competition. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Disgusted, Dad threw down my hand and kicked the last two baskets up toward the front of the boat. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thanks to him, the very next day, Tía Inés dragged me up and down the drugstore aisles as she filled a plastic basket with sprays and powders for places I didn’t even know needed them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The trashman turned them down another canal, then another, picking up more baskets of rotting garbage before returning to the wide highway of traffic on the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I turn the roll I have just taken from the basket over and over in my hands, but my appetite is gone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The baby screecher skittered back and forth in the basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

My husband ploughed it, steadying the plough behind the two bullocks while I came behind, strewing the seed to either side and sprinkling the earth over from the basket at my hip. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just set the basket right there,” Grandma said after she covered her table with a blue bedsheet. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The baskets didn't do much to hide the smell, but luckily the trashman would come in his boat that same evening to dump them downriver. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When she was done, she sat on her rocking chair facing the door, took up a basket of crochet, and began working. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung started forward, but the gateman stopped him, crying in disgust, “You cannot appear before a great lady with a basket on your arm—a basket of pork and beancurd! How will you bow?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the basket, dusted some sand from her bag of cornmeal, and walked home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom hasn’t made me laugh so hard since that time she took a balled-up sock out of a laundry basket and threw it at Dad’s butt. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I drag the wicker laundry basket from the closet, take down all the pictures, and load them into the basket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Now she shut the door and put her basket on the tin-topped table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just you, the basket, and the ball. Put it all together.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Tha wants to get those knees seen to, love,” advised one of the ladies with baskets. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My basket was filled with garlands and herbs I had chosen with care for the king and queen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There are large wooden bowls of steaming beans, peas and squash, platters of roasted fish and venison, baskets of bread and fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The headmistress turned her face away from the basket to see what was going on outside the window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, moved by a will that is not my own, I turn and with one swift motion lift baby Hamlet from his basket and unwrap him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I pick up one, two, three, four and put them in my basket. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” he said, finding one, pushing the pea basket pressing into his hip over a little. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Here you go, Ivy,” Robin said, motioning toward a laundry basket full of clothes perched on the armchair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She laughs and deposits the leggings into the laundry basket. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The church put together baskets of food at Thanksgiving and Christmas for these families. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘What’s up?’ he whispered as soon as he had helped carry out the heavy basket of wash. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ari,” he called to one of the boys standing near the bushel basket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a loaf of Italian bread in a little basket, and iceberg lettuce and grated carrots tossed with bottled dressing and croutons, and glasses of red wine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had told Aureliano and had even made plans to set him up in a business that would bring him a living, because the baskets of food had stopped coming since Fernanda's burial. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He waved to Father and Lily as they left the dwelling, carrying Gabe in his basket. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of Bran in his basket drew stares from those who had not seen it before, but hc had learned to ignore stares. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was still clutching the basket that held all of my things, but it was very heavy and I realized that I could not swim with it in my arms. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A slip of paper? Something you find in a basket of eggs?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wide aisles were lined with bins of nuts and dried fruit, baskets of apples, and clothing racks with tie-dyed shirts and gauzy Tinker Bell-type dresses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Morning,” I grumbled, taking the basket and shuffling outside to fill it with the ripest vegetables and fruit I could find. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With that he dropped the now empty covers of the book into the basket and marched out of the room, leaving the telly blaring. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Bomb shrugs her narrow shoulders and points a bare toe at the basket of globes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the air above, Miss Sarah and Miss Rose carried a large basket of additional refugees between them as they flapped to the shore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She carried baskets of food, a bag of oranges, balls, and a guitar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roger was waking too; the creaking of the basket was enough to wake the deepest sleeper, nevermind the rocking and bumping. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The only other person I see is the Apple Lady, wearing her usual headphones and carrying a basket away from the orchard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The basket maker has made a traveling chair for you, Va-Ambuya” he said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a closet full of wicker baskets of all sizes that she fills up with groceries for people in need. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It was coming from a picnic basket,” said Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was why Nhamo was unwilling to share her load with Masvita, even though she suspected the heavy basket would make her neck ache. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the basket and ran to catch up with me, even as I increased my pace. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Doc removed something that looked like a big metal key from a basket and handed it to Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He picks up my basket and takes my hand, leading me to the shade of the cliffs and setting me down on a small boulder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But then he pushed himself up, and they all left for the fields, Hanako carrying the food basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, one of the serpents lifted its head slightly from the basket to eye them with curiosity. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The hotelkeeper brings him bread and cheese in a basket made from dark wicker, covered nicely with a cotton napkin: everything shipshape. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Families staked out spots before the stage, unrolling blankets and removing supper from baskets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The spider also sent down three woven baskets filled with clean water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I helped my parents carry their tools, and they walked ahead so straight, each carrying a basket or a hoe not to overburden me, their tears falling privately. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey carried the two baskets she and Sammy filled back to the porch, without going inside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crumpled it and threw it into the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ben moved in close to guard his father, who began dribbling toward the basket with deliberate caution. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the school, someone gave him a basket, and he worked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Water cannot be carried in a basket,” the santero says, shaking his head. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her brother helped lift Bran out of the wicker basket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The masked one was carrying a basket and Prosper was looking agitated as he peered in their direction. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you be? If your belly was empty and you saw whole baskets of bread on the other side of a window, would you continue waiting patiently, Béene? Or would you throw a rock?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed the top of Mattie’s head, fetched my basket from the back, and strolled the rest of the way home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Leslie sat way up in the front corner nowhere near the waste basket or pencil sharpener, so there was no way he could pretend to be heading somewhere else and sneak a word with her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two to a basket, they carried the bushels down to where the pile of empty baskets waited. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re pickpockets,” she explained to a man who carried a basket of dried fish. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The following week I sold almost my whole basket to him, keeping only a little for Old Granny. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I say, pointing to the wire basket with a floatable noodle around the rim so it sits in the water, tied to me so it won’t drift away. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The gifts he would carry were wrapped in colored tissue paper—and in addition there was a deluxe basket of fruits done up in cellophane and a crate of late-shipped strawberries. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Old men were trudging up the skinny street with baskets of kindling tied to their backs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Teams of woodland carpenters, Abbey smiths and laborers, plus any creatures that felt the need to help were lowered down to the road in large wickerwork baskets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bent at the knee, it fits in the basket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her little granddaughter, the one who lives in her own world, takes a bright blue ball of yarn from my mother’s knitting basket. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He’s a half-step behind but he’s coming and I made the layup on the other side of the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her at this and suddenly he said, “I will take the box. Here is the basket.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I put on my straw hat and pick up a basket. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mama came in with a basket of freshly ironed and folded handkerchiefs and put them on the table by the door. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With one eye pressed against the straw weave of the basket, he could see a blurry, golden view of what was happening outside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I tore the page up in many little fragments and threw them into the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had held her braided hair up, in a huge bun that looked like a raffia basket balanced on her head. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He and Rabscuttle had only just time to slip behind a pile of baskets before the man came in, leading Rowsby Woof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came another snag, more violent, and the two men were thrown hard against the rim of the basket. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A yawning lady with a flowered scarf tied under her chin lugged a food basket jammed with Jell-O boxes, paper napkins, and coffee filters. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver put the books back on his bookshelf, shoved a few petition papers into his back pocket, then stumbled down the stairs with the enormous basket. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was still holding the basket and he set it down in the grass and climbed the steps again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The basket contained victuals: bread, half a chicken, water, and a bottle of beer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, for instance, inside a bean basket with the lid on tight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we left the house, my parents packed a picnic basket for us. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even some of the young women who were courting had come out, with basket! of provisions for the men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his clothes from the basket and went a little way off into the woods to change. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Someone swung open the basket lid and held it open for a long time. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had just made a basket and he wanted the guy at the booth to know it. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She piled our plates with succulent fatty ribs and steaming collard greens and passed around a basket with neatly cut squares of corn bread, which we slathered with butter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When she turns off the TV and opens her mouth to say something to me and Charlie, I sling my backpack over my shoulder, yank up my basket, and brush past her to the door. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I clutch the food basket to my chest, hurrying down the steps to the left to day care. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Dicey came up with the last basket, she saw him rolling about in the long grass, like a dog. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed aside the cloth sitting on top of a basket of roasted ears of corn and passed him some. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before dark I had emptied one of the baskets in which food was stored and used it to dip out the water that came over the sides. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So let us say that, in the dock, there stands one Yogi Bear, accused of stealing a picnic basket from the table at a campsite in the Jellystone National Park. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ekon watched the writhing bodies of six black mambas tangle in their basket, each one of their eyes locked on him in waiting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I was told to expect a bridegroom today. But I did not recognize you with a basket on your arm.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His mother was unpacking her basket of shopping. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A basket of mossy bread in the center of the table was crawling with brown mice. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stopped in front of a basket of fuzzy knit hats and mittens. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

This in spite of the fact that I’m fairly short and can’t make a basket to save my soul. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We drank three bottles of the champagne and the count left the basket in my kitchen. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A second man stuck two branding irons into the metal basket to heat them up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though my basket was hill, I found room for a sack of hard candy and a small loaf of sugar. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to guard Teddy, but before I got to him, Doug made a basket. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Feeling the fuzzy hair of the beans between my thumb and finger, I crave to put it in my mouth before anyone sees me, but instead I drop it in the basket. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a basket of okra on the counter waiting to be pickled next. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He circled the basket like it was prey, wary eyes fixed on the two remaining slips of paper as he tried to determine which bore his family’s name. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I pick up the shopping basket, put it over my arm. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other woman carefully removes the lid from the basket before taking out a flute of her own and adding a countermelody to the first. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He added some Italian junk food to the basket, just to sort of disguise his more suspicious purchases, then dumped his stuff at the register. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was then that they looked down, and saw the basket at their feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas carried the pie basket and Matthew rode atop his father’s shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Scraps and wisps of it flew through the basket, and then everything was obscured, all at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He came back with a small wicker basket. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When the two had managed to get the basket into the room, the girl stretched her back and turned around, facing them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached up on tiptoes and peered over a circle of heads into the garage which was lit only by a yellow light in a swinging wire basket overhead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning Becky sent me to the washerwoman with a giant basket of dirty tablecloths and serviettes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The basket is good,” the referee motioned to the scorer’s table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A portrait had fallen off the desk into a basket of dirty laundry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Lee got up and went to the laundry basket and looked down at the babies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They reached into the basket again and again, changed threads in a motion so fast he could barely follow it, and the needle entered the cloth, and entered the cloth, and entered the cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When he saw what was inside the basket, however, his blood ran cold. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This guy looks like a basket case and he's going to act like one. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw Amah swiftly shuffling baskets and boxes to further hide the gang. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Pothinus put Pompey’s severed head in a basket and arranged to have it delivered to Caesar, who had sailed to Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She hugged it and ran over to the basket and threw it up, but she had been in too much of a hurry. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He puts the towel in the basket and places it on the floor. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mami ran from the window, her face glowing, to the basket of house clothes and slipped out of her flowered dress into a faded shift. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as she saw him come up the alley, she would pick up a basket of mending, or scrub the pots, or reorganize the canned goods on the shelves of the kitchen area. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I looped the basket over my arm and went down the pavement toward the store. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have old spears. Old arrowheads. I have old armor. I have blankets. And paintings. And sculptures. And baskets. And jewelry.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pounced on her cousin when she found her packing a basket in the girls’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t forget the one you’re standing on,” she said, tossing the tissue into the basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Watch out, Little Mouse,” a gruff man said behind her, his baskets of cabbages driving her into the crowd. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I crumpled Dad’s note into a ball and practiced throwing it into the wastepaper basket from different positions in the kitchen. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eric rolled his eyes and handed Rolf the basket, “Here,” he said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I took the baskets, my spear, and the bow and arrows, and turned the canoe over so that the tides could not take it out to sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s Bram, carrying a grocery basket, and his curls are damp and his eyes are luminous. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She was in a basket in the doctor’s office where he could keep an eye on her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached the hidden grove where we’d dug that morning, Quinby was making eager squeaking noises and scratching at the sides of the basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Several grubby urchins stood around a bushel basket on the table, clutching winter apples. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shot baskets with his Nerf ball, glancing at the window after every shot, listening for taps on the pane. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He carried an enormous wicker basket laden with jugs of milk, with cheese, honeycombs, and fruits that, in the lowlands, would not be in season for another month. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He laid his diving rock and his basket and the two ropes in the sand by the canoe. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

An aide reaches into a basket and places a pair of shoes into each one’s hands. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There are baskets full of flower petals, and a monstrous stove in the corner releases tiny clouds of steam. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Hello,” Dad says with a laugh as he sets the laundry basket on the floor and rubs Ziggy’s head. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor was sitting at the table sipping coffee with a pile of laundry in a basket on the floor next to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Serafina Pekkala called to the aeronaut, and he woke at once, groggy with cold, but aware from the movement of the basket dial something was wrong. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At four o’clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steam billowed up, sending several frightened naiads scrambling out of the water with half-woven wicker baskets. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“My school chum, Charlie,” I answered the question in his voice, then tucked the letters in my lunch basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Beto started to take two fish from the basket in the shallows, but Naomi shook her head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Night fell and I drank from the basket. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast she packed a basket: chicken, peach pickles, fresh tomatoes, butterbeans in a jar, the leftover biscuits, and half a pecan pie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A bushel basket of tomatoes was on the kitchen table. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pong made himself come twice a week—for no other reason than to walk out the door on his own two feet, rather than riding out in a durian basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

First she drew a silhouette of the old man and then his wife with her basket on her head, perched over him like a ballerina, unaware of her load. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The boys grabbed two breadsticks each, and the basket was empty. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So they obediently put their beautiful cakes into the basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I asked, and looked her in the eye, then looked back at the basket, which looked like it had been woven by a raccoon. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not far away was my basket, overturned in the dirt, a reminder of Ucho and his cruel words. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I carried the basket full of small brown and white eggs. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her hair was woven with dried grasses so it reminded me of a wicker basket. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

While it was cold, baskets of all shapes and sizes, some with handles, some not, piled up in all the rooms in our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I scooted under the basket and out to the comer of the court, but there were Shirts all over me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s magic was more like a jumble of trinkets left in a basket after a long journey—bits and pieces knocking together. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But Master Lockton enjoyed the dish, so fat eels weighed down my basket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leather masks in white and black and silver with ribbon ties are set in baskets by the gates and around the circus for patrons to wear, should they wish. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I began drifting from store to store, hanging around outside where things like apples were displayed in boxes and barrels and baskets, and I would watch my chance and steal me a treat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the husks were loosened, Nhamo poured the grain into a winnowing basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what the other kids in the cafe saw, but they went crazy and started throwing their burritos and baskets of chips and sodas at each other, shrieking and screaming. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ma could spot one of my brown hairs in a basket of rye bread. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I notice a bouquet of flowers resting in his basket, which makes me wonder if they were for Abuela or maybe someone else. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After Saturday dinner, Mr. Lapham as usual prepared for a snooze, stretched out in the one armchair in the shop, with his basket over his head to keep off the flies. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Prosper lifted the basket he heard rustling inside, He nearly dropped it again in surprise. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her sideways as I went past, with my basket of oranges and lamb chops. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I showed him the spice merchants and the vegetable stalls and the man with the basket of cobras. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a flash, he was on the far side of the baby, planted solidly in the middle of the road with his empty basket at the ready. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I start slamming clothes into my basket, and I have to keep blinking because my eyes feel all prickly with the tears trying to stab their way out. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Once a week, with my empty basket on my arm, I would walk the block down to the cable car line and ride a cable car over the steep hills into the Tang people’s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants move in and out of the doors, carrying trays and baskets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Often he was able to enter her presence in disguise, now as a rude reaper bringing her a basket of barley-ears, now as a clumsy herdsman, or a vine-pruner. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cradling Sumac’s basket under my arm, I stood. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In her palm, I stack up gauze drawn from the basket under the sink. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lee took the second baby, washed it, wrapped it, and put it in the basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She spit into her palm, rubbed her hands together, drew the basket closer, and started to rearrange the snails. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday evening at a quarter to eight we trooped upstairs carrying the big laundry basket, which had been decorated with cutouts and bows made of pink and blue carbon paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

After them would scurry a flock of small girls, pulling arrows from the corpses to fill their baskets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Shall I carry the picnic basket for a while, Lieutenant?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, a lot of times, depending on his shift, he’d come out with me after school to haul in my catch and toss the keepers into the baskets on my skiff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In one thin arm, threaded with veins in a kind of senescent bas-relief, was a basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the day she had seen old Hardman going about the house with a wicker basket, replacing electric bulbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Right now her sister, Angeline, was digging at the ground near spruce trees and cutting lengths of the roots, used to secure the house better and to finish baskets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once, sleepless at dawn, she had watched from the window of her cubicle and seen four Products, tucked into baskets, loaded into a two-wheeled cart attached to the back of a bicycle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And its deck was already loaded up with baskets and crates heaped with corn and potatoes and cherries. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still another sold eggs from a basket, and another sold coconuts. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the basket they would drop a weighted plumb line to measure the river’s depth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is worthless! Look how hard we worked on the garden all summer, and for what? Two baskets of chile and one of corn! Bah!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The station was decommissioned nine years ago for lack of funds, at which time the basket was supposed to be chained and locked to the tower on our side—the highway side—of the river. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the conspirators, the tables were turned that night, for Hayes sent up a wilderness of flowers, with a lovely basket arranged in his best manner for a centerpiece. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos comes back with a laundry basket and towel. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stood up from his chair and floated in the air, carrying the basket. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He reached me in one stride, grabbed my arm, and shook it so hard, plums went flying from my basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Quincey’s head is level. This burglary business is getting serious; we got off once all right; but we have now a rare job on hand—unless we can find the Count’s key basket.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Corinthians had seen him before her mother did, but when Ruth looked up she was so startled she dropped the basket, scattering the roses everywhere. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the strange moving basket again before answering. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

It didn’t explain much about me, since he never tried to bungee-jump out of the basket. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

His hand went backward 330 and, fishing out a cow’s foot from the basket, he let it fly. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the table in front of me are two baskets. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions; it seems enough for a company of soldiers. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She carried two pieces of luggage and a string purse; her daughter carried a covered basket of food. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I took the basket with the still-sleeping bird in one hand and my sister’s palm in the other. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I walk around to the back door, open it, go in, set my basket down on the kitchen table. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket was filled and I carried it up to the mesa. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seemingly they went back to their master’s house across Salt Lane for dinner, while the nephew ate out of a basket and minded the shop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In each of our baskets are strawberries — the strawberries are in season now, so we’ll eat them and eat them until we’re sick of them — and some wrapped fish. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shoveled tea from the bright orange tin into the filter basket, topped it with two scoops of rock sugar, and tucked it under the spigot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The man behind me was laden with two baskets; he kept prodding me with them until at last I turned round in irritation. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often saw them at the grocery, packing picnic baskets with bottles of cold soda pop and thick sandwiches. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wagon slowed to a creaking halt before us, all wind-shorn wood and rusty nails, its bed heaped with green squashes and baskets of peaches. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve already covered the whole barn more than once, counted the baskets, recounted them, made an attempt to fix the loose board in the wall even tho no one asked me to. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A basket with Oreos, Pringles, and oranges sits on her desk, along with 4 bottles of water and 4 cans of Coke. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He backed the truck so that its back section was where the filled bushel baskets waited and its nose pointed almost straight down the road to the farmhouse. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made a move for the basket, went up for a jump shot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evy put all the dinner plates in the oven to heat and instructed Francie to put hot plates into the basket, remove them when they cooled and substitute other hot plates. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boatmen unloaded baskets of wares for customers who would come later in the evening to haggle over prices in the nearby market. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting the curtain by his bed, he saw his father shooting baskets beneath the night light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You made bamboo baskets or hats and sold them in the market. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We were able to donate over thirty baskets of food to area families. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought we were going on a picnic, and in fact there is a picnic basket on the back seat, beside her, with real food in it, hard- boiled eggs, thermos and all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It’s basically a wooden basket, open at the back, mounted on an axle between two wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed it to the bottom of her laundry basket and was pulling on a clean shirt when she heard the front door open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As the balloon began to move in that direction, Pantalaimon came to perch on the edge of the basket as a tern. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We are in the aisle of feminine products, and she's standing there with an empty basket, unlike mine, which overflows with items I've collected but cannot buy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I’m done with all the aisles, the basket is piled so high, I can barely see over it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The twin on the ground grabbed the fish from my basket and threw it. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He stole an apple from my basket and took a bite. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rope was tied to the roof, and the roof opened up like a basket lid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gather around the baskets and find ripe red strawberries, purple mulberries, and round loaves of bread made from some kind of coarse meal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, we will put both to the test. Each of your family names has been written on a piece of parchment and placed inside this basket.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A pot of tea and an assortment of cakes sat on the bottom layer of the basket, to finish off the dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie’s quiet as she puts her dolls and clothes into her basket. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I leaned over, opened my mouth, and let the oatburger blob, fall into the basket. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

More and more, the villagers began to recognize baskets and bags belonging to their families. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something he probably threw into his basket as an afterthought. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I pulled Madam’s list from my pocket and prayed he would not look inside my basket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the table, with candlesticks around it, was a big white cake and a box of chocolates, and beside these a basket with a magnum of champagne peeking out of crushed ice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mags brings over a basket, and the grass is so tightly woven it holds water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce could not bear to leave her like that, so she put down her baskets of apples and slid into the pit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was stopped by two patrols and had to open all the food baskets, but the children’s contagious gaiety and the innocent contents of the baskets sent all suspicion flying. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baskets fitted so tightly the animals could hardly wiggle as cages of tsetse flies were placed over them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even little children slapped their friends and stole caterpillars from each other’s baskets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bounced the ball hard a couple of times and when the kids turned around I started my move to the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Stella asked, poking at the gathered bits in the basket. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Already I was helping Lin Nai-Nai fill baskets with food to take to Wuchang as soon as the city gates opened. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the lantern and basket in one paw and the jug in the other, Cornflower ascended the steps at the south-east corner of the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kurry was shut up tight in a basket on my lap, and the Jordans, who were traveling all the way to Hankow with us, led our procession. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balancing our wicker baskets on our hips, we walk barefoot around the new market in our blue outfits, yelling out our goods of the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she asked me to bring in this basket of apples. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Her straw traveling basket was gone and the best of her clothing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Claudius passed near enough to me that I could have flung my basket at his head, but he took no notice of me at all. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He rummaged in a basket in the corner and pulled out a couple of yards of plaid fabric. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As it passed his boat, Pong looked down, and the white mist swirled into the shape of a baby tucked into a basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And you couldn’t forget Idabelle the Inside Cat in her basket by the stove. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He leaned over his telescope basket and untied the rope that held it shut. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the toolshed, I picked up a basket to fill with razor clams from the refrigerator. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He reached down and picked up one of the wild plums he’d jarred from my basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I dropped them in the basket and returned to her side. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“All rebounds are offensive. After a basket, you gotta make three passes before you take another shot. Got it?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She remembered what her uncle had said of baskets and winches. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She carried a basket of laundry fresh from the clothesline and set it down before scooping the baby from me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She laid down her basket then, and walked quickly across the ring of firelight, stooping down to look more closely. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women clutched their baskets and peered over the gate and muttered about these relief people wasting time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each piece of clothing that moves from my basket to Mary’s—or one of the other women’s— gives me a feeling of accomplishment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

All the other ladies have big baskets on their heads too, so nobody stares at Mama Mwanza one way or another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad laughed out loud at the idea of a man basket. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were no baskets of bones, no cauldrons of bubbling witches’ brew. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He told Tayo to get the sharp scissors out of Auntie’s sewing basket, and he trimmed the hairs in his thin mustache. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The family socks basket was another thing Petra didn’t like—she always ended up with one sock either too big or too small. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He noted the multicolored banners folded in woven baskets, to be shared with the rest of the populace in two months. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As they climbed, Bran turned awkwardly in his basket to watch as Meera slid an arm beneath her brother to lift him to his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From seaweed we wove a rough basket which we filled before the sun was overhead. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digger was in his front yard, shooting baskets with his little brother, Hank, when I skidded to a halt on my bike. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was happy to gather the stinking, sticky rinds and cram them into the trash baskets by the river dock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Lee sat with a darning basket, mending the long black stockings the twins wore to school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Look, Lydia, you lend me a sheet for just a few moments. If I get it dirty, I’ll wash it, and besides, I’ll hang up every sheet in your basket.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woven raffia basket on the floor was large and round, not unlike the ones he sometimes saw women balance atop their heads down in the market, but something about this basket was wrong. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It lifted Claire s long curls as she knelt and filled a basket with nettles. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In Sabbath school Mr. Travis is always telling us that the Lord loves laughter, and what could be funnier than watching Ma reaching down into her basket and getting a little surprise? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He took his rock in one hand and his basket in the other, and he slipped feet first over the side and the rock carried him to the bottom. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat at a picnic table next to Manolito’s food truck, sharing baskets of tortilla chips and salsa. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment they seem to be one snake and not two, and then they separate again, moving down along the sides of the basket, gliding onto the ground quite close to your feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wandered along the highway leading to the village and paused at the edges of fields, filling my basket with herbs and flowers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I carried the big laundry basket out to the sheets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came over and slipped a tin of corned beef into her basket and then hurried away as if he had done nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A woman strides alongside the ditch under her basket of roasted corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made the basket, the swish of the net prompting loud cheers from the visiting team’s fans. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He took the jar from me and put it in the basket. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The grandfather would slide his body into the water while his grandson sat on the shore with a basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Benny took three loaves from the basket and bagged them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I roll the dirty clothes and sheets into a wicker basket and walk down to the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crates were emptied, five pigeons at a time, into two white wooden boxes, each about the size of Dorothy’s bicycle basket. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd behind the basket began to chant. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He plucked a green apple from his basket and frowned at it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to picture my mother or somebody, or my aunt, or Sally Hayes's crazy mother, standing outside some department store and collecting dough for poor people in a beat-up old straw basket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I reached into my basket and brought out my surprise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After that every Wednesday a delivery boy brought a basket of food that was quite sufficient for a week. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A basket of fresh lettuce, hot bean paste. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee Scoresby was attaching a coil of stout rope to the leather-covered iron ring that gathered the ropes running over the gas bag, and from which the basket itself was suspended. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They swam round and round until she scooped them into her basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay holding on to Roger on the floor of the basket, pressed down by the acceleration. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully we slid my coat under the overturned basket, then upended it. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The story always left the other twin, the stronger twin, washed and dressed and lying in a basket. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha stood still at the entrance to the grove and watched the procession, the men servants, the maids and the baskets. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s it, son. Lay it up there soft, like it was a basket of eggs.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the same playground me and Sneaky used to shoot baskets at, so I’m already feeling a little down by being here. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Once I buttoned up my play dress, I left my good one in the laundry basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They carried baskets for picking herbs—oregano and mint, sumac and thyme. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped it up carefully and put it in a basket. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The preparations for the trip kept the family busy for two weeks, and the house became a clutter of trunks, steamer baskets, and valises. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Building a ring of mounds with baskets or deerskins full of dirt is a long-term enterprise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I took the scissors out of the sewing basket in the kitchen and snipped the threads of the hem of my cloak. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man peered doubtfully into the basket, plunged in his hand and drew one up, wriggling, by the back of the neck. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was an exhausting day, and even Gabriel, retrieved in his basket from the Nurturing Center, slept soundly that night. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He left the table and came back with a trash basket. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Grabbing his basket and my cloak, I rushed outside. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As they approached the fence surrounding the field where the large wicker basket and deflated balloon rested on the ground, Guy let go of the hands of both his wife and the boy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A crowd of old women with baskets on their arms waited for a bus. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He carried a basket of corn on his arm to throw off any Union troops he might encounter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandma bathed you and dressed you and put you in the basket.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was eerie, watching it, and I thought then of chairs running, their four legs knocking together, of water being held in a basket, of human forms climbing out of ant holes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A low rhythmic moaning came from his throat, and his dæmon gripped the edge of the basket, equally entranced. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed into her bed as she ate breakfast; Emma pulled licorice out of her sewing basket and gave them treats. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was so busy thinking about how ridiculous it is to have a basket of leaves in a bathroom that I said, “No.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In half an hour I had picked enough to fill the basket; I could have filled two. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I made a shelter of brush at the foot of the rock, which kept off some of the water, and ate the food I had stored in the basket. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reminds us to put our homework in the basket and gets the class helpers working on lunch counts and stuff. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In order to recoup his costs, he set out a cash basket and a sign with the suggested price. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Just thinking of it again made me realize how, growing up, we three were together all the time: camping out, exploring the woods, shooting baskets, fishing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The pile of laundry already in the basket is pretty big, but I dig around in the leftover clothes until I find Aurora’s pink sparkly leggings that desperately need to be washed. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The guys jogged to the far basket, and each dunked the ball. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guards, on each side of the gap, at first did not notice the basket. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Viola asks, as two women cross the road in front of us with full baskets, watching us as they go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After we checked our baskets and bedrolls, Sass handed me my claim check and hurried me into the street, where she hailed a bicycle rickshaw. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

On her day off, she takes the men’s laundry—six baskets—to the Laundromat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Here is this box and this basket,” he said gruffly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then she opened the basket, and she and Akira stared at the colors. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I love this place: the jumble of old, glittery broaches in the glass case, the worn pots and dishes and frayed baskets on the bookshelves. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst crime you could commit as a Persian human is to not have hot tea, pastries, cucumbers, nuts, and a basket of fruit at the ready when someone enters your house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I descended the tower stairs to the kitchen, where I put two half-eaten venison shanks in my basket. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In haste I covered the hole with dirt and put the root, leaves, and fruit of the plant all in my basket. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I put Mister Leefolt’s wrinkled shirts in a basket, get a cloth for Baby Girl’s face to wipe off the jelly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Hanako held tightly to the food basket, then reluctantly let it slip to the floor in front of her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put our quarters in the basket and she lit the candle. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Where it stood was a wooden bench, and a litter basket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Guy was climbing over the side of the basket. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she fell asleep in the remains of a tomato basket, with the juice soaking into her dress-cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lance Pierson takes his stick and tucks the basket under Calvin’s butt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They even knew now what the basket had contained because he did not have that with him now either, though doubtless at the time it merely puzzled them more than ever. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a week I would cut and pack our garden produce, selecting the best and leaving the spoilt or bruised vegetables for ourselves, cover the basket with leaves and set off for the village. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him was the chauffeur carrying a basket of champagne. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He would utter something simple, like “aster,” or something odd, like “Calopogon,” and I would go, much like a setter after a duck, to fetch it for his basket. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Our mothers had packed baskets of food to keep us going. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Nathan carried the small picnic basket with bottles of punch and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that Lily had thrown together at the last minute. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Her mom picked up her laundry basket and left. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But I smiled and put my cormorant skirt away in one of the baskets to wear when I got across the sea, sometime when the men were not around. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer stomped his foot, sending Nipper in a flutter from the basket rim. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

About all I could think of were those two nuns that went around collecting dough in those beatup old straw baskets. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They entered the headmistress’s office, and Father Cham leaned on his staff as he lowered to the floor in front of a woven laundry basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Leaving my basket, I ran to him, dirty hands and all, with a glad, welcoming heart. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom came back, set down the laundry basket she was carrying, leaned against the doorjamb, and folded her arms with a sly smile. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

So Genie went back over to the pea patch, grabbed the basket of winners he and Ernie had picked, and headed back toward the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The goddess resealed the cookie and tossed it in her basket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She handed him an enormous basket of cookies, all packaged in clear cellophane with jaunty little tags. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I take off his wet diaper and drop it in a white painted basket with the other dirty diapers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osh began on a second basket while I thought about whether I was brave enough to cross to New Bedford alone. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jiichan seemed reluctant to let the conductor touch the rice and basket, so he simply threw them down and quickly jumped off. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We climbed into the wagon and settled down among the baskets and sacks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stored the roots in a carrying basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the woman had patched the torn place, she got the walnut basket, folded her apron in her lap, and began to pick out the golden-brown kernels. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hungarian lieutenant went around with a basket and retrieved the last possessions from those who chose not to go on tasting the bitterness of fear. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own hands are clenched, I note, tight around the handle of my basket. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. I’ll collect the eggs. What on earth happened to this basket?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a handful of nuts, the biggest and hardest and heaviest in her basket, and heaved them at the boys. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I slept on the headland at the place where I had left my baskets. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit leaned over the basket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He places it in a basket and heaves the debris into a wheelbarrow. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had been picking mushrooms in the forest and was hauling my baskets to the cold cellar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my grandmother, afraid that if I loosened my fingers an iota, I would find myself once more cold and clean in a forgotten basket. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By heating small stones and dropping them into a mixture of water and seeds in the basket I could make gruel. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grumman sat resting in a corner of the basket while his dæmon groomed her feathers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evergreen arch wouldn’t stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least Baba doesn’t do any dirty work,” Neel said, watching his sister pour more rice into the flat basket on her lap. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Weasels and stoats jostled past them carrying baskets of earth or dragging rocks and roots. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of our soldiers tries to grab a chunk of meat right out of a basket, but the Indian man holding it puts up his hand abruptly to stop him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As she came near, she could see that there was a sleeping infant in the basket. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And baskets of rolls—more bread than any of us had seen in years. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew exactly where the basket was, on a shelf in the kitchen cupboard, and where the greens grew. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The table is covered in a white lace cloth and dotted by silver platters with lids, bowls of grapes, baskets of bread, and glasses of bubbling liquids. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My fingers played among the herbs in my basket: rosemary, rue, the root of wild ginger, and creeping thyme. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a basket in a corner, and she placed the boxes in there—they barely fit. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I watched it resting in the basket, comfortable even though I was so close. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Angrier than ever, he proceeded to grope in the bottoms of the vases and baskets of dried flowers, but was not at all surprised that the locket was not there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mom, taking another roll out of basket: I can’t go to the wake because of work. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When I bumped into her, she dropped her basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mimi had wandered over to where the purple coat lay draped over a basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mother normally ironed all the clothes as soon as Parvin pulled them off the clothesline—it kept the cotton kamizes from getting hopelessly wrinkled—but today the clothes still sat in their basket untouched. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They stood shyly around the basket on their front porch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forcing down her revulsion, she picked up the handkerchiefs with her cleaning rag and dropped them into the laundry basket in the hall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m no basket case—not even any bad dreams. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Forcible skipped behind her, holding a basket of flowers. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It even had a basket attached to the front. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Just then Min’s wife came around the house with a basket of laundry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then I’m on the bench watching Wes win the jump ball, which he tips to Russ, who dribbles toward the basket. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the eggs carefully tucked in my basket, I moved on to Mr. Owens’s stall. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cashier said something and flexed his outstretched hand, so Arturo gave him the basket, but the cashier only dropped the basket behind the counter. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I got it dug by paying a whole troop of local boys for each and every basket of earth they moved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dragging a large five-bushel basket of what looked like brambles, and a woman was pushing the other side of it, saying, “Watch the doorsill, baby.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong was ready to give up and get out, but now the guards had moved back into position and would see him if he climbed out of the basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Carrying Hamlet in his basket, I hasten to Therese’s room, where the three Marys are gathered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It basically looks like a rectangle-shaped metal basket with legs and wheels. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

What you do is throw your one piece of cereal and try to make a basket. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. Claudia, for instance, made the bread basket. And the twins prepared the livers.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I retrieved the ball and did as he said, bending my knees and reaching out toward the basket with both arms. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I finally fall asleep and dream that Santa has arrived in a black Volkswagen filled with cousins carrying baskets full of apples and raisins and nuts. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“The basket is twice the diameter of the ball,” he kept saying. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks into my new life running a Nazi boarding house, I come home from work with a basket of beets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you my present, or is there something in that basket at your feet?” she asked. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mama was gathering up her blue metal cash box and getting her crates of jams and jellies and baskets ready to go. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting some things together,” Mama continues, putting my T-shirts and socks in my green basket. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She took every single spare button from the basket’s bottom. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, bluster. I keep forgetting my symbol is a basket of unripe fruit. Why doesn’t the spring wind get more credit? Summer has all the fun.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And of course, watching like a hawk to be sure they didn’t stuff the bottom of the basket with leaves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores of cooked and raw food lay in the makeshift baskets Nhamo had been able to produce. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep going for the basket, make them stop you. If they collapse on you it’ll open it up for Trip and Nick.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He set Ma’s rocker back up then collected all her knitting tools and put ’em back in the basket. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When I opened the door to the gym, Ty and Johnny were in there shooting baskets. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I told her, and started loading containers of oatmeal into my basket until I cleared the shelf of it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

These perks act as multipliers, a doubling or tripling down on an already overflowing basket of advantages: the parents’ good genes, the family’s wealth and status, the leafy neighborhood within the excellent school district. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He fell to the ground, hitting the waste-paper basket as he did so, and broke into fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you make it,” Ben said, leaning with all his weight against his father’s rear, trying to slow the inevitable move toward the basket for the easy hook shot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homes, stores, and restaurants lined the water’s edge, stacked one on top of the other, lit ceiling to floor in a rainbow of orb lights that blurred together through Pong's tiny basket window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then she tripped and fell into the mud, smashing her chest against the basket, and the moment was gone. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Keep your elbows in against your sides. When your elbows are out, you’re gonna push the ball sideways left or right. You want your hands moving directly toward the target, straight for the basket.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two fish in one basket, all thanks to her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The basket had to be kept warm for the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made two half-hearted feints toward the basket, hoping to catch Ben off balance and get an unchallenged set shot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex makes a mental note to figure out which shadowy gay noble taught Henry all this and send the man a fruit basket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Axel stands, drops the crumpled paper cup into the garbage basket. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Two white cobras coil around each other as they rise from the woven basket, in perfect time with the music. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She is carrying a basket with an unplucked chicken, four lemons, and a brittle garlic clove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although by the end of May Day I look like someone dumped a huge basket of trash on top of me. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On some of the tables glasses stood half-empty; in one ashtray a cigarette had burned down to the butt; a plate of risotto stood next to a basket of stale rolls as hard as cardboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man smiled, loosened a beet from the earth, and placed it in the basket of vegetables. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Samuel pointed to the bundle in a laundry basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Brother Luke put his strong arms under Robin, hoisted him onto his back, carrying the bundle of Robin’s clothes and the basket in one hand and steadying Robin with the other. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She spent her days embroidering infants’ dresses, knitting woolen booties, decorating little baskets, arranging the stacks of tiny blouses, bibs, and diapers, and ironing the sheets she had embroidered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osh handed me a bushel basket and, armed with a pitchfork, began to harvest seaweed from the wrack line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I recall the nearly empty hickory nut and groundnut baskets. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a tiny bit self-conscious as we carried our rackets and basket of balls to the empty court. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His weight meant that the basket was tilted to one side, but that didn’t matter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she piled them up in a basket and threw them into the washing machine on Friday evenings, she had come to see this, the heaping of dirty underwear, as normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Wang Lung appeared he shouted roughly, thinking from the basket that he had come to sell something. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“All by himself in a great wicker basket. It was too sweet for words. Orgoch, of course...” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beside it was a breathtaking picture of his sister Elsie, standing in front of a white porch railing next to a basket of dried flowers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn we find two overturned carts in the road, grains of wheat spilled everywhere and a few empty baskets rolled on their sides across the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Lily,” Father said, “it’s time to leave for school. Would you walk beside me this morning and keep an eye on the newchild’s basket? We want to be certain he doesn’t wiggle himself loose.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a basket woven from pliant cottonwood branches, so that as the weight of the body inside shifted the coffin seemed to groan. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra contented herself with clinging to the rim of the basket, just under her chin when she was standing, and peering wide-eyed into the swirling cloud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jars, baskets, pots; a doll, a spindle, earrings, a photograph, a stack of sticks, a set of silver brushes and a silver cigar case. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breathless with haste we filled the basket and I was back while the line of waiters still stretched before the hut. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the big goon in the key moved up to guard him, Will bounce-passed to Todd, who was free under the basket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Masks are returned to the baskets in the courtyard and by the gates, jumbled piles of empty eyes and ribbons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What had passed before us was a basket of death, exploded. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit. putting down my basket, strawberries again, chicken again, and I note the swear word: something new. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends of my childhood—Flora, the rag doll, and Rosamunde, the wooden doll in the gown with seven flounces—nestled in their basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Pick up a basket and help me, unless you don’t know how.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t no basket like you see today. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They babbled and gestured toward her basket, their movements disjointed, their tones raised, and Olanna made out some of the words. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ron stood up so quickly he knocked Crookshanks’s basket to the floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I finish chewing, the front door opens and Dad walks in, carrying an empty laundry basket. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One of those robots with the book baskets came rumbling across his path, but Charles was able to dodge it. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A burning coil of incense sits between them, along with a large black-lidded basket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With baskets of palm nuts and orchids from the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

When she had everything stored at the back of the cave, she built a fire, boiled pumpkin, and toasted a few soldier termites she cornered in the baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me a long time, then walked over to the bushel baskets stacked at the back of the stand. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, look at you—you’re a basket case. She’s playing head games with you and you don’t even see it!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A picnic basket bobbed to the surface next to him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Swaying in his wicker basket on Hodor’s back, the boy hunched down, ducking his head as the big stableboy passed beneath the limb of an oak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I say “someplace” because we were using the examination room to blow needles at the anatomical guy’s basket. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when the Stirling Wildcats were up by twelve with two minutes left, Felix’s cheering section still yelled and clapped for every basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fold it one, two, three times and put it in the basket when Mr. Daniels comes by. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother put the basket on the table. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just left the baskets on the doorstep and ran. I ran all the way to the river and rented a sampan to take me across. Then I walked from the Bund.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he had her baskets piled in the back of the buckboard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he ran over to another machine, a small shiny affair that kept going phut-phut-phut-phut-phut, and every time it went phut, a large green marble dropped out of it into a basket on the floor. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And his father had loved to shoot baskets with him at the elementary school’s outdoor court in the cool misty summer evenings after supper. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought it to her chair, and moved a basket filled with bright threads to the floor beside her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I went on eating my eggs and bacon, Jasper at my feet, the old dog in her basket in the corner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me to shoot until I can make one hundred baskets in a row, which seems impossible. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she stepped up on the running board, I nodded toward the basket of corn and tomatoes in the back seat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I made a basket catch over my shoulder and threw her a high pop-up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before we get back to the tree, Rani stops again to buy some dried fish and some other food from vendors sitting on the sidewalk, selling things in baskets. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Each time, Dad caught the ball in the air, flipped it up into the basket, and told me I had gotten it in by myself. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He took a small oyster from the basket, cut the muscle, searched the folds of flesh, and threw it in the water. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filled our lunch baskets with wild plums from a tree at the creek bank, then rejoined the others and visited some more. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

With the empty basket still in my hand, I walked along the short path to the dock. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Books and magazines were stacked in a basket near her bed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What was it like, Dad,” Ben said, throwing him the ball, “shooting at a peach basket?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, we cobbled together some sandwich makings and found a dusty picnic basket in the hallway utility closet. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, she’d take another quick peek at the basket and put the ball up. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The house no longer vacant, the front porch was now decorated with hanging baskets of little pink flowers and white wicker furniture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Floor’s good enough for me,” said Pilate, and she squatted down on her haunches and lifted a branch gently from the basket. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas lifted a cloth off a wide wicker basket. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d fed Sumac again, and he was nestled into the center of a basket filled with warm alpaca wool, just to the side of my rush mat. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to look for the basket. You treat that ball like it’s radioactive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Amaranta's basket began to move by itself and made a complete turn about the room, to the consternation of Aureliano, who hurried to stop it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In one swift motion, Felix lifted the ball above his head and launched it at the basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rewards them for their kindness with a basket full of fresh bread and butter that magically replenishes itself and a hollow stone with a flame inside that never burns out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The basket was covered with a clean ragged cloth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

DeVante’s talking to Kenya as she holds a basket full of groceries. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He wished for a whole basket of yellow pomelo fruits, sweeter than grapefruits, to eat by himself. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the two men were served cuts from a roast and bread from a bread basket. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was about the size of the forge back at Camp Half-Blood, with bronze-topped worktables along the walls, and baskets full of ancient metalworking tools. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He stood looking after the basket inside the kitchen door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I grab the cart and push so hard, I run into a basket of lotions and soaps. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Then he carrying the child and she the cakes in the basket, they set out on the path across the fields, now barren with winter. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

That morning there were a lot of pickings; I soon filled the small basket I had with me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ducky got the pass from Trip and went toward the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Joon laughed as she dropped a fish into the basket at her feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Did you tell him about our mesh baskets?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Right on cue, the waitress appeared with our drinks and a basket of breadsticks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The beautiful woman moved a bouquet of calla lilies out of the way and placed it over a basket full of fresh tomatoes, squash, and chiles to make room for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Esi picked up her basket of cotton and, with a quick wave, headed home to make her own preparations. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On George’s birthday they had bought him a little red bike with a bell and a basket on the handlebars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With every basket, deafening cheers erupted from the crowd. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Anything but beets,” Matty said, making a face as he threw another into the basket. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In one swift maneuver, I switch the sick and healthy baskets. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As for Ralph — by the time Callie was crawling and making nests for herself in the laundry basket, her father had moved on to writing up his results. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamt continually of bread, of grainy ryes and pumpemickels, whole wheat and challah in woven straw baskets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whimpers at first, but once he’s in the basket, he stops. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hefted my basket of goodies and stepped out to greet the Muellers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Genie wondered why Grandma didn’t just get one of those fly zappers they had in Marlon’s as he and Ernie squeezed and snapped peas off the vine, tossing them into the basket. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at a large clock that was perched awkwardly on top of a pile of sheets in the washing basket at the end of the table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We received baskets of candy until we grew older and the Easter Bunny branched out. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Next, the warriors threw baskets of food away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the pack and the other blankets and the coats in the basket and picked up the boy and set him on top and unlaced his shoes and pulled them off. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They sat at a picnic table and ate two baskets of clam cakes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the other street corners, he passed the men who had been with the Lady Mayoress, each man with a basket, handing out the white flowers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Benji got a few more baskets and blocked half a dozen shots, but he fouled just as often. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Iorek put out a great paw to hold them in, because the basket was jolting so violently. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boy on the right side in Ben’s line received the ball from Coach Spinks, took one tentative, almost apologetic dribble toward the basket, then stopped and looked for his partner. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a woman with a very edgy basket in her hands, who was just behind Shasta, pushed the basket hard against his shoulders, and said, "Now then! Who are you shoving!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Samuel leaned over the basket and put his finger against the small palm of one of the twins and the fingers closed and held on. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Women carried stacks of woven mats, baskets of fish and produce, yowling children. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A system of ropes and pulleys carried the baskets of stone and trench debris up to the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Surprised, Peanut hesitated, then broke for his basket, not noticing that Ben trailed him and not noticing that a flight jacketed figure trailed Ben on the sidelines. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I dropped one in her basket, I thought how good it would taste. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and picked up the books from the basket. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The prizes included VIP seating for Shrek, signed books, tee times, and about a thousand different gift baskets. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having set the advertisement, the boy took a covered basket from under the counter, put it on a table, and drew up two stools. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were women in the car now, with market baskets, and men in work-clothes were beginning to outnumber the shined shoes and collars. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were small, and she Jcept them folded over the handle of her basket Her feet were broad and coarse. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set a basket of biscuits on the table. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He sat back in a corner of the basket while his dæmon perched on the suspension ring, her claws dug deep in the leather binding. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was happy to have the basket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother used to gather them every spring, carrying a basket to put them in, and David, Joseph, and I used to go-with her—and Faro, of course. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d had to switch to a wheelbarrow, covered with a tarp, because she was too heavy to carry in the basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

If the wrist failed him, then the touch had fled and he would be forced to challenge the tall men who dwelled beneath the basket with swift drives that they would quickly move to intercept. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Teddy just grabbed the old sponge ball from the floor and shot it at the basket over the door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But for the past week, Gogol has been in bed, just like his mother, listless, without appetite, claiming to have a stomachache, even vomiting one day into his mother’s pink wastepaper basket. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bounces the ball over to Colin and the group of guys at the nearby basket. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I clutched my lunch basket closer and reminded myself that a lady should also keep her own counsel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The basket had two handles, so we each took a side, and Connor held the rope as well. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Now from the fire his fat blood pudding came, deposited before him by Antinoos—then, to boot, two brown loaves from the basket, and some wine in a fine cup of gold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, White and his family struggled to pile “seven trunks, four bundles, four valises, two baskets, and one hamper of provisions” onto a wagon. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was whistling a song I didn’t know, and he had a sweetgrass basket over his arm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I placed this toadstool inside my basket, making sure that it was cradled by the alpaca wool. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When I felt the weight of the apple in the canvas catcher, I lowered it to deposit yet another Macintosh into the basket. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Get in!” she cried to Roger, and scrambled over the leather-bound rim of the basket to fall in a snowy heap inside. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He took the blue cloth out of the dirty clothes basket. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you click-clickin’ down there at the table,” her mother replied as she sorted the elderberries in her basket. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But every single morsel in each of my enemies’ baskets has been well and thoroughly salted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She would swipe her finger over the slip of paper like she was smudging it, then magically reseal the cookie and toss it into a nearby basket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bran would be riding in his basket on Hodor's back, no doubt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“May I come if I carry the picnic basket?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I flipped out—I mean, how else would you explain the fact that all of a sudden I started picking up those baskets and dumping everything back overboard? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A woman followed behind carrying a basket of laundry—pants and shirts and shalwar kamizes piled in a heap. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a long spool of bright-red knitting yarn from Mama’s sewing basket. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Together he and Hagar dragged two baskets up the porch stairs and into the house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi nods, then offers me a basket for the sand and hurries away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Feldman left behind an open basket for the cash, but too often the money vanished. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The altar boys collected them in the offering baskets and funneled them through the church office. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had sent a big basket of fruit when Laurie was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants move in and out of a set of doors carrying trays and baskets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The boy gasped for air, clutching onto the rope of the crab basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So off she went, leaving me filling the root cellar with bushel baskets of vegetables, pruning the fruit trees, spreading the compost—getting ready for winter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Finally he lashed a score of sandbags around the basket for ballast. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see a few people attempt to slip Sweet, Sweet Revenge into their shopping baskets without anyone noticing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She put him in a reed basket and cast him away in a river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leafie shifted the basket she carried from her left arm to her right. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

If a player attempts twenty shots per night, for example, the probability is surprisingly almost 50 percent that he will hit at least four straight baskets sometime during the game. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left the filled baskets where they were when they finished with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a suppressed murmur when she picked up a basket and went to work. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Spurge kept scratching at his skin while Werfel went to their baskets of provisions and pulled out an eel-pickle pie and a bottle of gorgonbladder wine. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At 4 EM., before they leave, the children must return the shoes to the basket. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to put my one-dollar donation inside, but I was so distracted by magic squares and talking and presentations, I forgot and just passed the basket onto the next person. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good evening, sir,” I said, holding out my basket to the huge soldier, Fisher, who opened the door to the Bridewell guardhouse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the basket, the rigging, and the gasbag where they lay, tangled and twisted among the branches. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And up a little farther was a short row of carnival-type stalls, the kind where you can win a stuffed animal if you throw a baseball into a basket. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I turned, but it was just a statue of a young girl holding an Easter basket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A basket of fresh fruit and green tea-flavored snacks sits on the glass coffee table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He gave me the package and waited as I settled it in my basket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were women with baskets trying to get their shopping done at the Saturday market. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

One woman who came trying to sell us her handmade baskets looked in our door and spied our scissors and asked right flat out if she could have them! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had enough food to eat, but on the third day the water in the basket ran low. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children and women followed, carrying the largest baskets their arms were able to circle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas had casually picked up an apple from the basket where the snacks were kept, and had thrown it to his friend. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I read them the story about a kitten who decided to adopt a basket of mice. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We’re shooting baskets in the back—have you been back there? It’s cool. Want to come hang out?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They buzz around the gazebos, dropping coins into baskets held by servants who kneel beside them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, rifling through the basket to find my favorite board, the one with La Luna, the moon, in the right corner block. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A woman carrying a basket spies them and makes a shooing movement with her hands. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hazelnuts scattered out upon the grass from the rush basket he was carrying. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Behind the wagon came the Company, with coils of ropes over their shoulders and baskets of food. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira remembered that she had brought a basket of her own threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attendants poured water over their fingers, while the maids piled baskets full of brown loaves near at hand, and houseboys brimmed the bowls with wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the scissors from him and began to cut the clumps of blossom, and she and the three men started to fill the baskets with the flowers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I pretended to be looking for Algernon under a waste basket. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She dumped the whole basket of powders, razors, and deodorants at the cashier’s counter just the same. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lupita crumpled the paper towel and threw it into the big metal basket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The game remained close, both combatants missing shots they should have made and sinking baskets that defied all principles of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched next to the coop and waited until I saw Doc leave with a basket on his arm, headed for the deeper part of the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then Carlos lifts the laundry basket and carries it upstairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She carries all her things in a basket on top of her head. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure that when the man lifted the basket, he'd realize it was too heavy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Methuselah tapped the basket sharply with the blade of the dagger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe how many big vases and baskets of yard flowers had been brought in and set on tables and on the floor around the coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Arturo lifted the blue plastic shopping basket off the floor and turned it over to show that it was empty. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One demon even had a bushel basket full of trinkets. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them screams, startling me into dropping the basket. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She cheered whenever the hall went in the basket, regardless of which team shot it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There were odd things for sale in baskets on the counter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sam stood there staring at me with the broken egg basket in his arms, and I knew he was trying to decide whether or not to tell me something. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning the hand did not come out to draw up the basket. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worn and worried faces; men, women, and children who came with baskets and money. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inside is a wicker basket, full of crumpled towels and bedsheets, waiting to be washed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he lifts his basket into his lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hit it up in the air just before it went into the basket. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One holds a basket of apples, one a sack full of bread. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just then, Conner shouted in triumph as he made a basket. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She looked around, shifting the basket to her other hand. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But then Brothers pulls the pill in and he’s clear for the basket, but instead of going for the basket he comes out again and around Ice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I made another little move and I saw I could move him back toward the basket. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a blank, beige kind of conference room, filled with banquet tables, coffee thermoses, fruit baskets, plastic towers of cereal, tiered plate stands, and stainless steel food warmers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He helps himself to some chips from the snack basket on the coffee table. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One Saturday as she was carrying the basket from her parents’ room, she jiggled it a little so that the contents would sift down and not spill out as she walked. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hot, so I tossed two in the air and caught them in my skirt, pulling it out to make a basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Raking leaves for Mr. Hodges, he had gone into the cellar for two bushel baskets to put them in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped paddling and worked with the basket until the bottom of the canoe was almost dry. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew he made his basket messy on purpose. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you want the paper to go into the basket?” he asked. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She resealed the cookie and tossed it into the basket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We will give four baskets, and one for thanks,” said a voice behind Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the weaver of the world itself had kept the snipped ends of every thread she’d ever used, her basket might look something like this. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He clutched the sides of the basket, lost in a woozy fog. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He picks up a silver mask from a basket by the gates and slips it over his face. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lovely as the basket was, there were flowers as lovely to fill it with, sweet-smelling narcissus and hyacinths and violets and yellow crocus, and most radiant of all, the crimson splendor of the wild rose. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bounce it off the rim, throw an air ball. It doesn’t matter. As long as that ball doesn’t end up in the basket, I’ll give your Mom back the job she did so well.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the basket as he looked down to inspect his shoe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.... Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Idabelle, as if sensing my despair, climbed from her basket and came over to butt her wide forehead against my shins. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They fished the baby out of her basket and measured her against the tree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grumman sat steady and quiet; his dæmon, wind-torn, clung firmly with her talons deep in the basket rim and her feathers blown erect. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller spiral-shelled snails were cheaper, piled high in baskets, but she could not buy them, could not think of them as food; they had always been, to her, playthings for village children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stood on fake grass next to a giant fake egg in a giant fake basket. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand, the ball drummed against the cement as Ben waited for his father to move out against him and Bull held back, fearing the drive to the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very little escaped this woman who rode the trolley against traffic at 6:00 p.m.; who examined the trash baskets of powerful whitemen, looked at photographs of women and children on their desks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They aren’t selling anything, no baskets and it’s too early for blueberries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even after I slid my coat off the top of the basket, the baby sat calmly, peering up at us with her vigilant green eyes, rimmed in yellow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Women’s Club made up baskets of food and delivered them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took a basket from a high shelf and loaded it with bread, hard cheese, and a piece of dried beef I cut from the slab that hung in the pantry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took nothing with us when we thought we would have to flee, so there was much excitement as we packed our baskets. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung said nothing, but he went out and took the basket into the kitchen and the woman followed him there. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I flip over one of the baskets, drag it over to where the road overlooks the river, and sit down on it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You eat the crumbs from the bottom of the hull basket,” she said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a cut-crystal pitcher full of water, a basket of fruit, and a big loaf of pumpernickel for them to eat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I settled it in the basket atop the fat cod and followed Sarah as she headed away from the market. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the street, I ran into Frankie, who carried a basket of pastries against his chest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z