I can only hear one sound—cat—but he says that the word cat has three separate sounds. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It's on Flathead Lake and we had a suite, a hotel room with its own separate bedroom! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They continue to remove layer after layer until nothing separates them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I learned a lot—like when you have a checking account, your money is separate from all the other money in the bank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Each wheel was to be separate yet united, in accordance with the young nation’s federalism, as well as classically symmetrical, in accordance with Jeffersonian aesthetics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually she made him open a separate checking account for the lab, and kept him away from their personal money as much as she could. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Laura’s separated from me now, folded into a press of onlookers wanting suddenly to get close. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The North was wary; it feared domination from the more educated South and had always wanted a country separate from the infidel South anyway. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were going our separate ways.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Late that night we were still at work, cleaning the fish, hulling the rice, separating the grain from the husk. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He separated from the group and rode to Lee’s tent and the motley bright cloud remained respectfully distant. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchs described some of the complex challenges of separating uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, she crossed paths with Eleanor Roosevelt, another perpetual traveler, and they would enjoy a brief visit before going their separate ways. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I tease him about it—about how in college all his white clothes will come out pink because he won’t remember to separate his wash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Tillermans stood on the sidewalk, separated by a briar hedge from this scene. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The central theme of the report was the rejection of the idea of integration between the races in favor of a policy of separate de-velopment of black and white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, out with separate groups of friends, they found themselves punting on the Cam River. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now there was nothing left of the dumb show by the fountain beyond what survived in memory, in three separate and overlapping memories. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Without some kind of breakthrough, the entire experiment with republican government at the national level would “burst and vanish, and the states separate to take care of everyone of itself.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

High above the ground and far from home, we had much more that united us than separated us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, such music calls for notes that are a little more separate or defined than legato, but still nowhere as short as staccato. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

No one can reach the other—everyone is separated by a good fifty feet of space in the central gap. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then only thirty feet of bare stone would separate her from it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Instead it was probably created to separate elite from hoi pol- loi, with the goal of emphasizing the priestly rulers' separate, superior, socially critical connection to the divine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘That’s right. For hundreds of years, the gods tried to separate us to keep us from fighting. But there’s a better kind of peace - cooperation.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Pickett suggested with authority that it was growing quite late and that his officers should get back to their separate commands. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each trait was unitary—distinct, separate, and indelible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The area for the women was in a separate location. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was well composed, given the subject of our conversation, and for most of the visit I struggled to separate how she actually felt from what I felt she must be feeling. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its twenty-odd rooms are separated into grace-and-favor apartments for those members of the faculty unable to find, or afford, other quarters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we reach our meeting place, Pithy leaves and goes her separate way. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my muscles tearing apart and separating from their anchoring bones. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two suspects were placed in separate rooms and left to stir. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This early culture was a separate entity—another nail in the coffin of the Clovis-as-template theory, to her way of thinking. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thousands of separate feet merged into only one gigantic pair. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On nights when Tom Bird felt separate from his life’s design, he shared stories of the Great Spirit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Wonderful smells of coffee and apple pie and hash and—would it be fish?—wafted through the house from the magical stove as though to prove how many separate wonders it could perform at once. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The brief bits I inherited were not worth the bother of a separate side. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

That word made the blog even more apart from her, a separate thing that could thrive or not, sometimes without her and sometimes with her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It allows your body to process the water separate from your food and absorb more nutrients.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bottom has slowly started to separate from the rest of the boot. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From the moment I achieved consciousness, I vowed to separate myself from the Scythedom in perpetuity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"Do you want to use my lock box to keep the money in? It's got a tray with separate compartments for all the different coins." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

To discover the agent of disease and death depends on a patient piecing together of many seemingly distinct and unrelated facts developed through a vast amount of research in widely separated fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mamá and Papá did not want to separate our family. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They stopped at the hallway crossroads where they would part ways to their separate rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s because of the electric fence that seems to separate us even when I’m in his arms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The whites I separate carefully, and take upstairs to my mother, who makes them into meringue cookies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the separate kitchen at the back, his wife pours basins of hot water for us to wash. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Bram began his second point, de Wet again interrupted him to say that he also conceded the fact that the two organizations were separate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see every separate hair on his head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one expected it to be a problem because they had been separated for a long time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the explanation itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if he would never come to the top of the field and the hedgerow separating it from the forest beyond. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Likewise, extended dance forms such as ballet didn’t become separated from storylines until the mid-twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A victory for nostalgic racists longing for the “good old days” of segregated units and separate bathrooms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The granite ledges were streaked by a thousand shades of gray and silver, separated by slices of pink quartz that glowed like happiness. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a separate country east of Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only after we separate for homeroom that I feel an emotion kicking at me, one I thought I had under control: jealousy. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ella took a special interest in me right away—Hilda must have mentioned some of my troubles in particular, since she was always concerned about me being separated from the family. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

These Guardians were immortal and worthy of worship, but they were often considered separate from the main league of gods and goddesses. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As a result, China very early became dominated by two huge geographic core areas of high productivity, themselves only weakly separated from each other and eventually fused into a single core. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk about the refugees living in camps all over the globe, displaced by war, separated from their loved ones. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It bordered the Bakers’ backyard, with a wall of hedges separating it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The stone was of a mottled pink marble, like canned salmon, and all there was on it was my father's name and, under it, two dates, separated by a little dash. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The story, spread over the four separate operas, begins with the theft of a precious Golden Ring from the depths of the River Rhine, which represents indomitable, deathless Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors tried to salvage their case by filing separate charges against Burkhart, naming him as a co-conspirator in the bombing of the Smiths’ house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He started trying to separate the calls from the texts, the long ones from the short ones. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the biggest obstacle by far, and the one that separates newly arrived Mexicans from Greeks, Italians, and most other immigrants—including earlier generations of Mexicans—is their illegal status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Madoc does not bother to separate off the flesh, eating bones and all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On January 1, 1812, a short but cordial note went out from Quincy to Monticello, relaying family news and referring to two pieces of Homespun coming along by separate packet. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A flaw in identity; a genetic illness; a blemish that cannot be separated from the self—the same phrase served all meanings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As a soldier separated from the group, she took a step backward, directly into his path. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I crush maple leaves underfoot all the way to the wall separating school from the street. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were separated from our island by but two hundred yards of water—a channel scarcely sufficient to splash through as refreshment on a summer’s day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Behind the open market was a towering wooden building with four separate roofed sections and fenced- in courtyards. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons he rarely revealed, he was separated at some point from his parents and taken in by his uncle, a stern and demanding man named Barlea, and a great-aunt, whom he simply called Grandma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They’re separated and interrogated, and each is given the choice of confessing to the major crime and implicating his partner or remaining silent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two worlds as far as we were concerned, separated absolutely in every sense. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So let us, the black people, separate ourselves from this white man slavemaster, who despises us so much! You are out here begging him for some so-called ‘integration! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You at least shall go with him. It is hardly possible to separate you from him, even when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The new, more yielding environment allowed the carbon fibers to separate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They led very separate lives from those of women. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in reality, an invisible line ran down the middle of Berlin, separating the communist East from the capitalist West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I reach the fields that separate the city from the outside world, I press down the accelerator. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the morning, after gassing up, I headed straight west along the Rainy River, which separates Minnesota from Canada, and which for me separated one life from another. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with some other cousins and neighbors, we split into teams of five, then hunted one another in the maize rows and across the dirt courtyard that separated our house from Geoffrey’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Southside had separated from my grandmother decades earlier, when my mother was in her teens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We lived separated by thick doors with several bolts, windows with iron grates, peepholes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There's just one crown, though, and you can hear the crowd's confusion -whose head will he place it on? -until President Snow gives it a twist and it separates into two halves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A ladder led up to the top of the wall, and people were climbing up the ladder and spreading down to stand on the walls that separated the two corrals. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m starting in on that theme when she suddenly dives behind the rack that separates the place where we’re standing, in the Jordache/No Boundaries section, from the Faded Glory region. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one a separate trip to the hospital with Abby there to hold my hand. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For as long as she could remember he’d always been on the other side of the goat’s-hair blanket that separated their beds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And even if a Neanderthal Romeo and a Sapiens Juliet fell in love, they could not produce fertile children, because the genetic gulf separating the two populations was already unbridgeable. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The congresses authorized me to go ahead and form a new military organization, separate from the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To live factionless is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Comparable differences separate the lifestyles of other peoples of the world as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since the ugliness on the Trident, the Starks and their household had ridden well ahead of the main column, the better to separate themselves from the Lannisters and the growing tension. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Percy sprinted toward Ephialtes, but slots in the floor opened under his feet, and metal walls shot up on either side, separating him from his friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One man, dressed in black, kneeled closer to the king, separate from the rest of the courtiers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The few other men and I were separated from the women. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is a living room separate from the dining room, something Uhmma did not know could exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It looks as though at first Boyle wanted to keep these two sides of his intellectual life, with their different vocabularies, separate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s comforting to know that regardless of our vast differences and the light-years that separate our worlds, we’ll always have nipples in common. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

High, low, from a multitude of separate throats, only two voices squeaked or growled. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy walked to school on the other side of the street, toeing the invisible line that separated them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My eyes dart from the edge of the bed, to the flashing images on the TV, to the door separating us from a herd of loud strangers. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Certainly, most uniformed positions allow the wearers to have a separate life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The French Congo and the newly independent Republic of Congo are separated by one mere river and about a million miles of contemporaneous modern thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gold leaf was rubbed off, and each separate six-inch hook was sharpened and filed to a deadly point. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have had to separate myself from my dear wife and children, from my mother and sisters to live as an outlaw in my own land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk to a separate part of the bookstore, where there’s a restaurant, a small stage, and a black man wearing a bow tie. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They step inside, joining a line that ascends a curving stairway around the perimeter, separated from the interior of the tent by a heavy black curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tyrone and Johnny are now incarcerated in separate juvenile prisons in Illinois, where they could remain until they are twenty-one. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By twenty-three, she was the mother of five children, had been married and separated, and been a casualty of the crack epidemic of the 1980s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So Arul showed you how to separate and sort the trash. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now, nothing separated the mighty Sixer and gunter armies but open ground and empty space. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What had begun as a joke between them had become a resolute ceremony fraught with competition and even with something deeper, something almost mythological that separated them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us prayed that our suffering was over, that we could go back to our lives, to the families from whom we had been separated for so long. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The inner and outer tubes separated cleanly and easily. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It will be hard to separate myself from everything I know, but maybe it will be good. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The pavilion was big enough to take two separate groups without them bothering each other—in the summer, a third group could hang about out on the veranda. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After PE, where Coach put me and Jenna on separate basketball courts for scrimmages, Jenna took off for her after-school newspaper meeting and I headed to the library to study with Audrey. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They kept filling out in separate detachments into the afternoon. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm took the soggy bundle and carefully separated what was to be thrown away and what was to be washed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the teacher in the yard rings her brass handbell we have to line up in twos by classrooms, girls in one line, boys in another, and file into our separate doors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The river was noisy with the barking of dogs, the bleating of sheep, the calling and cursing of men, and the furious bawling of those lambs separated from their mothers. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I always loved most about middle school was that it was separate and different from home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She makes me sit at a separate table with my cousins. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series, and stages. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then, separated from the rest of the scribbles by a few blank pages, like he’d wanted to remember these things specifically, were short one- or two-sentence declarations, marked with the dates they’d been written. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Kendra used a hacksaw to separate another pumpkin from the vine. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans, by virtue of compatibility on all those separate counts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I do not really want to be separate from them. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the distance that separated the two schools and the fact that Permian, at a cost of $20,000 to the school district, had chartered a 737 jet to get to Marshall. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Diego separated quick, turned to Principal Cody, straightening out our plain white T-shirts. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers investigate my scalp, lifting and separating the hair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The party did not exist as a separate entity on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said they should have put ’em all in separate cages. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only skin, muscle, and bone separate my heart from Kasim’s heart. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her fingers caught the strands of a wire fence, the fence that separated Miss Rachel’s garden from the Finch back yard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Back in Iowa they had come close to separating. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It now becomes your duty to try and separate the facts from the fancy. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True. But I will be first to successfully separate a fairy from its gold.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Let the players develop on separate tracks and then pick all-star teams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how tired I was until we separated. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate possible causes of failure. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Senses Taker sat back with a satisfied smile on his puffy little face as the demons came closer and closer, until less than a minute separated them from their helpless victims. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He calmly got up and walked to the curtain separating our rooms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They did concur, however, that a discernible gap of time separated the two shots. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“There,” he finally said, pointing at the water tower that served the residents of St. Catherine’s Island, the first and the largest of the sea islands separating Ravenel from the mainland. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still going their separate ways in a couple months. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Lockers, benches, mirrors—even privies, separated only by low walls—leave all of us in full sight. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. de Klerk, for his part, suggested that the system of separate development had been conceived as a benign idea, but had not worked in practice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, a number of Huntsmen had separated from the band, and with great strides held to the track of the fleeing companions. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had the effect of a referee’s whistle, separating the combatants from their clinch. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But once you are able to separate yourself from the whims of the flesh and embrace the silence and nothingness of your soul, you will be liberated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s because of the electric fence that seems to separate us even when I’m in his arms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The idea was to drive to Usedom, an island in the Baltic, and stay in an old resort once favored by Wilhelm II. I made a point to emphasize that we would have separate rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tunnel goes on and on and I think of the tons of rock separating me from the sky, and my chest tightens. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt oddly separate from everyone around him, whether they were wishing him good luck or hissing “We’ll have a box of tissues ready, Potter” as he passed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were two beds separated by a monastic partition. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This was followed by an awful splintering noise as the enormous rainbow snapped right across the middle and became two separate pieces. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Flow would she endure the time and distance that separated her from her children, the warmth of their embraces still fresh on her skin as the bus gained the road south? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And they had come upon a low promontory that separated one part of the beach from the next. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I take the small machine from her tray and hold it as she fits each vial into one of three separate compartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian areas were segregated from colored areas, which were segregated from black areas—all of them segregated from white areas and separated from one another by buffer zones of empty land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Can we set up two separate accounts?” his mom asked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping carefully over the rope that separated these books from the rest of the library, he held up his lamp to read the titles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Twelve of them ready to be made one, waiting to come together, to be fused, to lose their twelve separate identities in a larger being. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s better for her to be mean and for us go on separate paths. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The two low work-tables faced one another; between them crawled the conveyor with its load of separate parts; forty-seven blonde heads were confronted by forty-seven brown ones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how their hair cow-licked in three separate places, just like mine. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I loved it when the separate colors would come together all smooth into a brand-new shade. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel’s initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The demonstration ended with another short prayer service and then the crowd drifted off slowly, the mourners reluctant to separate on the sorrowful day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My friend Justine survived, and I saw her briefly, but we got separated and it would be the last time I ever saw her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Before heading for our separate classes, Paul said, “Go get your petition. I want to be the first one to sign it.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I would separate from them and Big Boy and I would go to a point where I figured that the rabbit, returning, would have to pass me first. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the morning cutting it up, separating the good from the bad and packaging the meat. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They leave home, have separate lives, make separate memories. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He next started to invent separate signs for each word, and again became dissatisfied when he had coined thousands of signs and still needed more. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption and Hibiscus were staring at each other in a separate silence. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For once the three little girls were separate, each with their families. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We took the blueprint of our apartment from the hallway closet and taped it to the inside of the front door, with an orange and a green marker we separated Something from Nothing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he refused to show up for the parades I marched in, this separated me from him that much more, while the events he did show up for left me miserable with embarrassment. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s multiracial sports policy mandated that if blacks were accepted to any white clubs, separate showers, locker rooms, restaurants and bathrooms had to be created for them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel thinks it may be the water they use, which comes from a separate spring that rims clear even in the dry season. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My blood swirls inside the meter's different chambers, churning, separating the proteins related to each arcana, determining which ones need rebalancing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Often an usher would roughly separate me from my parents and pull me into a line of young children. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have put it back in the cigar box, but somehow it had separated itself from the rest of the items. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The separate noises of the fire merged into a drum-roll that seemed to shake the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her parents are “amicably separated,” but he sends these huge checks once a month, and Twig’s mom makes a lot of money, too, designing apps that tell pretty people what clothes they should wear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh no. Not separate limos .” I try not to smile. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We were told the women would follow on a separate train. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Gaia had been separated from her source of power, charmed to sleep and then atomized in the combined explosion of Leo’s fire and Octavian’s man-made comet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That same evening a bull separated itself from the herd and came up to my mother’s hut. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Hadiya Pendleton became one of three people who died in separate incidents of gun violence in Chicago on that one January day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Lili and the boy stood watching from a distance as Guy tried to push his hand deeper, beyond the chain link fence that separated him from the balloon. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the laughter came more frequently, the whispering began to separate out into sentences spoken in a language she did not understand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot Elisabeth at a separate child's table, glaring down into her lap with a scowl. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In tenth grade, he won a part in Blood Brothers, a musical about fraternal twins separated at birth. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The principal’s office was a cramped, achromatic cubicle separated from the library door by a glass trophy case that overflowed with the gilded booty of athletics earned over the past thirty years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The punishment united the often jealous, often indifferent, separate colonies, as the Tea Party itself had not. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would notify Borman and he could separate his command module from the Saturn V and return to earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

About eighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining to the common good, and, in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family and I were going to share our separate processed meals, from a fast-food restaurant at the end of the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The villagers took little note of Claire’s odd new hobby; the hill paths were not visible, and Alys’s hut was separate. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most people follow us back to Gram’s house once we’re done in the graveyard, although some of them go their separate ways. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those who would be separated. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they left the house she got separated from him and was killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many aromas, it was difficult to separate them, but I was pretty certain one was fish. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As the prison staff proudly explained to them, it was the separate system and the use of force that enabled the strict control they saw. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

China’s size and ecological diversity spawned many separate local cultures, distinguishable archaeologically by their differing styles of pottery and artifacts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No, no, it is the door that separates me from Jeanine and my goal. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they separate, he holds her arms, and looks at her in the eyes, and she looks at him, and they see each other. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The boys paired off for safety and fanned out in separate directions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I am surprised myself by what’s in these stories, of separate colored refrigerators at the governor’s mansion, of white women throwing two-year-old fits over wrinkled napkins, white babies calling Aibileen “Mama.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was the Elder who had seemed separate from the others at the Ceremony, though he was dressed in the same special clothing that only Elders wore. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mwila walked down the space that separated the girls and Ellis Carter from the boys, to hand out our second attempt at essay writing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when his parents announced they were separating and his mother moved out of Brooklyn to Manhattan, Hudson still had hope they would get back together. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I follow her behind the curtain that separates the two rooms. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“If you’d been willing to spend the money, sir, we could have had separate rooms. Weren’t you lucky there were two berths on the boat!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the corner of a separate cage a mother rat lay over her litter of blind naked children and let them suckle and the mother stared about nervously and fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every measurement—every angle and width, all the spaces separating the molecules—was nearly perfect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I am returning the typescript under separate cover. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kyle tugged the envelope free and heard the unmistakable sound of Velcro strips separating. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still, Ralph considered his rise from the couch a separate miracle, his own. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, and loose straw separated from the bunch. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even nearby civilizations could spend millions of years in such separate or joint colonial ventures without ever stumbling upon our obscure solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red sash covered the waist, forming an inverted peak that separated the bodice from the explosion of skirts beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They live in their own houses on the other side of the village, separate from us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old, old mystery took hold as the priest slid open the tiny door that separated him from the sinner and made the sign of the cross before the grilled window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many separate times did writing evolve in human history, under what circumstances, and for what uses? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The distance between them and me was far more than the miles that physically separated us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a long knife Ma cut this mass into little squares, and let it stand while the curd separated from the whey. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musab told me all families head to Ankara to find separated relatives. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stream didn’t slow us down much, but over the next half hour we had to cross it three separate times as it wound back and forth across the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Rosy came from behind the lab bench that separated us and began moving toward me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

These months mark the longest we have ever been separated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Those laws said whites and blacks should be separated in all public places: drinking fountains, parks, trains, buses, downtown food counters, and public schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The larger room, dominated by an oven, was the bakery, and the other, separated by a flimsy curtain, was his bedroom. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Do you have separate dreams for boys and for girls?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t feel like when we went into the world of the dead, though. Like when we were really separated.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In order not to have to dig a great hole, we decided to bury the manuscript in three separate places. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy iron bars separated them from where the captives were crowded together in the dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember? Never separated again. And after we get home...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

These were automatically filed in a separate folder, so I could sort through them later. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He learns the endless terms, the vocabulary that classifies the details of ancient buildings, writing them on separate index cards and making illustrations on the back: architrave, entablature, tympanum, voussoir. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By selecting the Potomac location, the Congress had implicitly decided to separate the political and financial capitals of the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far his social life had been neatly divided into two separate relationships: one with Dorothy, one with the guys. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She takes out serving dishes from the cabinet, and I pour the pretzels and nuts into separate bowls while she arranges the crackers around the chunk of cheese in the middle of a small tray. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not only were the men separated from their work, they were cut off from their homes, credit at the company stores, and identification as a Coalwood citizen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We went in the usual way: together at first, in groups, then separating into pairs, and eventually finding ourselves alone as we followed tracks or sounds deeper into the forest.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make a separate page for the accident itself. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The school system separated blacks and whites in unequal schools. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least a thousand years separate the beginning from the end. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once again, I could not separate bubble from leaf. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

These women spent their days in the steady labors of planting, digging, and pounding manioc, though the dreamy way they moved through that work made it seem entirely separate from any end product. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Nazis deported the Jews, Moniek had been separated from his parents, two brothers, and two sisters. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I scooted out of the kitchen, but not so fast that my legs separated too much, cause I was feeling super lumpy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

White immigrants, in contrast, were not so easy to identify and separate, thus amplifying the anxieties of ethnic contamination and miscegenation in the 1920s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, still not speaking, they returned to the coast and took separate ships home. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To make the lotion, women would fill jugs with milk and shake the jugs until the fat separated from the milk. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, it’s hard to separate real memories from the videos of me that Dad took on his camcorder. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In liberty or bondage, the African could not be separated from the American. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My father would be working as a chicken sexer, which he told us is where you separate the male chicks from the female chicks when they’re still wet from being inside the egg. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The water inside the bathrooms was not potable and was separate and sealed in the rooms by tight doors. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Union leaders were not to be completely shut down, but the union was forced to scale back its plans, with separate parades for blacks and whites. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For the hundredth time Matt felt the gulf that separated him from humanity. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern couldn’t get back at the Mouseketeers who had stuck their tongues out at her, but only one person separated her from Vonetta. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Why would the teachers want to separate us? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I found myself in the middle of the throng: Nathan had got separated and looking round I saw him on the outward fringe among the very old and crippled. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a loft. See? Up there—it’s kind of open to everything down below. I hope you don’t mind. All our kids slept up there together. I’m sorry we don’t have separate rooms for you.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can’t see the other. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Later, when Hale was being held on a separate tier from the cell housing Blackie Thompson, he passed him a note through a hole where a radiator pipe went through the ceiling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the second level just above the park, the entire perimeter is lined with eight lanes separated by white stripes just like a running track. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I ask everyone staying behind with the kids to separate into groups and take cover in two trailers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The other half, separated by an iron gate, held the sick inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fraternal twins come from two totally separate eggs, and the differences between us were obvious: I got all the scientific genes, and Harry got all the artistic genes. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Queen Mary glides in wearing slate-gray separates and a stony expression, her gray bob arranged with razor precision around the edges of her face. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He tried to deal with the concept of love as distinct from possession, and couldn’t separate them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Later it gently separated at the seams and became vast billows traveling above the sea instead of a still white miasma. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was more a feat of boredom last spring as we all got ready to go off in separate directions for a break from school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Van Valen explained this idea years later, saying, “HeLa cells are evolving separately from humans, and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A compelling need for occasional privacy led them to spend some hours alone in their separate rooms, without disturbance. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we come to the Pamunkey River, which separates us from Werowocomoco, we find a canoe in the rushes and use it to paddle across. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mama and Daddy had just separated, and Daddy had promised me for months that he was going to get me this bright red bike we’d seen in Walmart for my birthday. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At once, I release the splendor as it erupts, thundering loudly before it separates from me and my blade to seep back into the earth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A separate territory on which we can lift ourselves out of these white man’s slums for us, and his breadlines for us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand the answer to this paradox, we have to remember that, until 400 B.C., the frontier of Tsushima Strait separated not rich farmers from poor hunter-gatherers but poor farmers from rich hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I became more tactful, careful to keep separate the two very different worlds of my day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only now do I trouble to notice what intricate differences separated home Catholicism from classroom Catholicism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing to be found here were thousands of identical school campuses separated by rolling green fields, perfectly landscaped parks, rivers, meadows, and sprawling template-generated forests. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inmates weren’t separated by age or sex, and often included sex offenders. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My mother hated to be separated from us, but she had no choice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though most of my writing time is spent on notes which I keep in a separate folder, from time to time I have to put down my moods and thoughts out of sheer habit. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were flying over the six kilometre zone of park-land that separated Central London from its first ring of satellite suburbs. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb helps me sit up and separates the hems of his two shirts, pulling the long-sleeved one over his head and offering it to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Charlie and I were separated by the plethora of new people we’d never met before who went to the other middle school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They divided the food preparation into separate tasks performed by different workers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The bell rings then, and Fina and I have to go our separate ways. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

An 1875 amendment to the state constitution provided for “separate but equal” schools for whites, blacks, and Indians, laying the foundation for discrimination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Rabscuttle got separated from the others, and after wandering about for some time, he strayed into the guards’ quarters outside King Darzin’s city; and they caught him and took him up to the King. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she left, individual shouts and people’s crying separated from the general roar of the crowd. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He proceeded forward, running his hand along the green tarps of the lifeboats, until he met the chain separating steerage from third class. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was a loner and invariably separated himself from the other children, possibly because of acute shyness or fear of competition. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the school a high board fence separated girlside from boyside, and the back of the play yard was bounded by a slough of standing water in which tall tules and even cattails grew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before we went our separate ways, though, Samantha had one more thing to tell me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estha settled against a distant pillar and they sat through the performance like this, separated by the breadth of the kuthambalam, but joined by a story. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Miss Lisa slammed the door behind us and locked it, separating us from Grandma, I had an awful feeling inside. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When the train pulled into Little Rock, we were separated from the white people again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We kept our piles separated with an oversized pencil. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Toby didn’t know why these were separate things, but he nodded and, for maybe the first time in his life, didn’t say every word that was coming shooting into his brain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On the political front, the government was pursuing its standard divide-and-rule strategy in attempting to separate Africans from Coloureds and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, how is the American Negro now to form himself into a separate nation? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The woman named Narcissa gained the top of the bank, where a line of old railings separated the river from a narrow, cobbled street. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The southwest corner of the fence abutted the main road but also separated the Lonogan property from the Rude farm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now that it was winter and the legislature was in session, we were separated for a good part of every week. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Seldom if ever does Nature operate in closed and separate compartments, and she has not done so in distributing the earth’s water supply. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Time turned to syrup as she tried to take the four steps that separated her from where he sat at the table. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the batter was done, I separated it into three bowls and we added the red, blue, and green food coloring. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Before taking off, he was informed that the first microscopic quantity of U-235 had been separated from natural uranium in the thirty-seven-inch cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is a separate hut, behind the main house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Back in Chicago, separated again from Barack, I still sometimes went to my old happy-hour gatherings, though I rarely stayed out late. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It would be doing what the segregationists wanted—setting up separate schools. Not to mention that it would be betraying the nine Negro students at Central who suffered through last year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go home together after class,” An Yi called as we separated at the third floor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I borrow the Westerlo and Altamont quadrangle maps and we separate, planning to meet at Beaver Corners at dawn if all is well. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kills him to be separated from them—“It just kills him,” she says softly, her eyes misting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Talk about blurring the line that separates us, Sofia. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to separate out this presence from the others, but she was increasingly convinced that this spirit—if that is what it was—had a goal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That spring, Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and then demands Danzig and the Polish corridor—the land separating Germany from East Prussia. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

We are separated by only a sheet of glass and my shaking hand as I reach to turn the lock. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was a commercial center, with distinctly drawn neighborhoods that separated the rich from the poor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to send a blood sample to Kinshasa, see what diseases he might have. We’ll have to keep him separate from the other nursery bonobos for a few days, until I get it back.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation, and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor would these, together with electrons, form separate, well-defined atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Mutter’s bedroom, separate from my father’s. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There is even an entire separate room for yoga and meditating, with wide windows looking out over the courtyard. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As time separated me from the experience, I could feel no hate for the men who had driven me from the job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It separates me from who I was and who I will be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A white family would separate a Chinese child from her culture. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A schooner, a catamaran freighter, and a yacht, all of them lying across a bridge at a separate dock. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They lived on the grounds in bleak, single-sex barracks that contained hundreds of concrete bunks separated from each other by only a few inches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the corridor, long strands of shells hang in an arched doorway, the mollusks separated by odd-shaped bits of polished onyx. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the next morning, three separate palmists had examined Bibi’s hand and confirmed that there was, no doubt, evidence of an imminent union etched into her skin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her voice was distinctly separate from the other children’s voices, and not just because she was seated nearest me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to object, because it is a traveler’s first law never to get separated from his passport, but I didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood for what seemed like a long time, exchanging words, separated by the screen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you could see an expanse of farmland, the fields stretching into the distance, separated from any houses. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her son had never been a person to her, a separate real person. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were, in our separate ways, looking to establish our respective identities. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She can’t separate her past and her fixture; she will never get over her husband, will never love another man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was probably best that the bloom was separated by my T-shirt and not against my skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their drink ware, too, came from the separate cupboard. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the morning, and just as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o’clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

During moments of actual violence, they often felt separated or isolated from themselves, as if they were watching someone else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their haste the two friends got separated and Euryalus took the wrong path. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we left Ma and went to our separate camps, we have had no way of receiving news from our older brothers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the mouse was separate; there was something of Lyra in his expression, but something else too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Because we were working on a project for it together. Then the iron monsters attacked, and we fled our separate ways. I came back here, and Anansi disappeared, but the Story Box was left behind.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It reappeared, going away from the Sun, a little later, and was at first thought to be two separate comets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to discover where the sky and the sea meet each other like two old paramours who had been separated for a very long time. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They started separating themselves out, some still whimpering and wiping tears away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She put all the dried blossoms in a separate pile and gazed at them, fighting back tears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a freight train thundered past on the other side of the broken fence that separated the tracks from this junkyard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Powerful white men—state and city leaders, as well as the Klan-infiltrated police department—used intimidation and bombs to keep blacks and whites separated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They came up on deck at the appointed mealtimes and stood in separate lines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps its knowledge and wisdom kept it separate, like a shaman living on the edge of a llaqta, feared by the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the flimsy line that separated getting by and going under. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He then discussed Africa and separated the continent into different nations, giving specific constellations to different tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel like a separate species altogether. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

‘I got two hard-boiled eggs—already stuffed—with separate little packages of salt and pepper. And sandwiches—blackberry jelly with butter. Everything wrapped in oil paper. And paper napkins.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“That if I had let Rufus die, everyone would have been sold. More families would have been separated. She has three children now.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They are what separate the civilized man from the barbarian. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If she concentrated, she could see her normal arms, but when she moved them they rippled like mirages, separating into three different sets of muscular Earthborn arms. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Knots of dense galaxies are separated by vast voids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There’s always pot at Aaron’s house; he has a room with an entirely separate ventilation system and lockable door that his parents could rent out as another apartment. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They’d been separated for about a month and he was staying at a hotel. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The first thing I see is a ceiling like the ones in school: plaster tile rectangles spotted with holes and separated by thin metal strips. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

However, by putting this limit sign in front of a series, you separate the process from the goal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They had “stolen” much more, and Jiichan separated the grain from the straw. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every night, when Ron sends us home, we walk to our cars, a few feet separating us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She pulls a ring of keys from her pocket and impatiently unlocks three separate locks in order to access the room that is drenched in bright afternoon sun. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You must miss her. When I think of you, only a boy, separated from your mother for so much of the day, I am ashamed.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of them are divided into separate sections, depending on race. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The North Vietnamese agreed to accept South Vietnam as a separate country, and a cease-fire was established.On the same day, in Washington, DC, the Selective Service announced the end of the draft. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There is an immense difference between the two poets, who are separated from each other not only by six or seven hundred years, but also by the fundamental difference between the Greek, and the Roman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I would’ve given anything to change the geography separating Seattle from Montana. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

If only he could separate his part of the building from the part that came from Grover! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them separate, each from the other, and jiggle up and down in a silly way. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A space of dust and rubbish separated it from the village. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the top half of her body was motionless and her legs fluttered on their own separate motor. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The skin puffs up and separates from the flesh like a bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two boys separated and went their ways. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I walk to the glass that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She dropped a bright peeling into her lap and separated an orange section slowly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s say that the dash separates the line, so that we will look at the last three words, ‘am that is.’ Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship’s residence.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

We walked through the small alley that separated the main road from Mshumpela Street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was a suite with three separate bedrooms and a bar stocked with candy, sodas, and chips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was close to rushing over and breaking it up myself, but the birds were a blur of talons and beaks, and no one could get close enough to separate them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My science teacher separated us and I was shaking uncontrollably. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The teenagers are separated in two houses, one for the boys and one for the girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the Americas, Indians spoke some 1,200 separate languages that have been classified into as many as 180 linguistic families. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The presence of the county jail supplies the first quality, while the so- called Sheriff’s Residence, a pleasant apartment separated from the jail proper by steel doors and a short corridor, accounts for the second. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid was intrigued by the way they clung to each other, and the way they responded to each other’s gurgles, and the way they reached for each other when they were separated. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

At one side the boards had separated and there was a wide space he could jump through. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of people within the hospice, but they were separated by thick walls and long passages. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We found a huge oak with branches thick as separate trees spread wide to shade a large area. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost lunchtime, and the earliest arrivals were drifting into the headquarters mess halls, the enlisted men and officers separating into different dining halls on facing sides of the archaic rotunda. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My goal was to forge an independent relationship with the king, separate from my relationship with Chief Buthelezi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep folds of skin connected her nose to either side of her chin, and separated that section of her face from the rest of it, like a snout. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the number that separates the positive numbers from the negative numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One of them had been charged a year before with two counts of first-degree murder for separate shootings in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was getting worse for her now, and she believed that she had to touch every separate slat in every separate bench beside the pond. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey and I had left a bag marked CHAS, and one marked PALMER, inside my closet after we separated out the goods. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old, old enough to separate from my family and live with the Huangs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from—and when we ignore that fact, planes crash. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It blocked the way and separated the parade just ahead of the Weidenbach float, which drew up short. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We pass the ever-vigilant Ezra and head for our separate tables. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Each stone he had come to know now as a separate enemy, and he knew each rut by which he might evade a stone and so use an ounce less of his life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His parents permanently separated when he was four. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We separate it into three glasses and add the hairs.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Our separate gene libraries have many pages in common, another reminder of our common evolutionary heritage. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single step separated the woman gathering wild wheat from the woman farming domesticated wheat, so it’s hard to say exactly when the decisive transition to agriculture took place. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe and Violet wouldn’t think of it—paying money for a meal they had not missed and that required them to sit still at, or worse, separated by, a table. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For months and months after they met in Perú, they were separated, months and months." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They went in and talked to my teachers, who made sure to separate me from Brandon for the rest of the year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even so, many places were segregated, with the races separated by an invisible line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the laughter, the girls’ feet became entangled and they fell to the ground, Sosie on top of Jennifer, their faces separated by no more than an inch of warm jungle air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He began aggressively to ask the various defendants, who regarded him as a sellout, why they objected to separate development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After rummaging through bags and boxes, and yanking open kitchen cabinets and drawers, she sighed to the ceiling separating her apartment from James’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We formed an exclusive—eccentric!—society, separated from others who would never care or be able to share our concerns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words ballooned from the lips and hovered about our heads—silent, separate, and pleasantly mysterious. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We race across the boulevard that cuts in front of the school, and alongside the trees that separate the main parking lot from the river that splits the town in half. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They reserved a separate day for the Midway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Why are the planetary orbits nearly circular and neatly separated one from the other? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Arabic, she would say batkhayyal, which also means “to see the shadow of a thought,” as if one is separated from it by a thin cloth. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But now we had to navigate the more than nine hundred miles that would separate us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We used separate code words for things often mentioned in warfare. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They may be widely separated both in space and time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And now you!” said Mr. Jaggers, suddenly stopping, and turning on the two women with the shawls, from whom the three men had meekly separated,—“Oh! Amelia, is it?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps when separated by 15,000 kilometers, their vocalizations are love songs, cast hopefully into the vastness of the deep. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only I could break the glass separating me and Manman with my thoughts alone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, whitish silver, and it was moving ceaselessly; the surface of it became ruffled like water beneath wind, and then, like clouds, separated and swirled smoothly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The solution, he explained, was to establish two separate compartments in his mind. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge spans the Appomattox River, separating central and western Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry the police came and separated us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Since each of the three superstates is unconquerable, each is in effect a separate universe within which almost any perversion of thought can be safely practiced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then our hands separated, and he went slowly up the aisle, his hands clasped behind his back, tall, a little stooped and, I thought, a little majestic. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Different genres of writing had to be physically separated. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The ability to make art is one of our most distinctive features, for it separates us from all other creatures across an evolutionary gap that is unbridgeable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s still very young to be separated from his mother. We have to keep him healthy for you. Has he eaten?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it was, for we were to be separated for much longer than either of us could then have imagined. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the white world, any time my mother took me to a white church, we were the only black people there, and my mom didn’t separate herself from anyone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In any other circumstance, he and Kamau would have been sent to one of the city’s orphanages, and perhaps they would have been separated, but his brother hadn’t let that happen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s the most ragtag crew I’ve ever seen, standing there, staring at the boxes laid out on my bed, each of them with a separate but important role. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The major had been there on two separate tours of duty. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “I can get switched to some other desk. The department does ten or eleven separate jobs. Animal theft; I could transfer to that.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sat peacefully in a chair by the wall that separated his office and the vault. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After breakfast we walked on top of the wall that separated the Hulls’ property from the Chinese farms. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a separate correspondence about the same time with John Taylor, another prominent Virginia planter and political thinker who had also questioned Adams’s views on aristocracy, Adams called attention to the irony of the situation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was too grateful for that one word that allowed me at last to leave the island and begin to build myself as a soul, separate from the long, long shadow of my twin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All too soon, we separated, both of us in tears. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The distance the Bureau has kept from the rest of the world is an evil separate from the war they intend to wage against our memories—more subtle, but, in its way, just as sinister. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was movement behind the tangle of shrubs that separated the yard from the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At a time when most scholars were trying to separate the natural world into categories, Maria insisted on finding connections—between life stages, between insect and plant, between art and science. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I just feel...separate from everybody. Like no one else can understand what’s happening to me.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thousands of families had become separated in the mad scramble to escape the flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had my own separate bedroom, but there was a door connecting my room with my grandmother's room so that we could visit each other without going into the corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

As far as I can see, there are low buildings separated by trimmed grass and fledgling trees. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A little before seven, three separate news vans showed up, parked north of Moss’s location. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The man stands just inches away from Max, separated only by a thin piece of plywood beneath the desk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Next to the warehouse doors is another outside door, a separate entrance to the office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In her bedroom, he would submit the full weight of his knowledge to healing her condition, knowing all the while that his success would only separate them forever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now my feet have saved me too often, and I can’t separate running and fighting from what they are: a way to escape danger, a way to stay alive. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Von Rumpel braces his chin on the sill, feeling as if his head might separate from his neck and go tumbling down to explode on the street. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Anya helped her pour the potion into a separate flask with a stopper, and Mama tied a tiny wooden spoon to the flask’s neck. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Though they were separated by several feet, she was disconcerted by the intensity of his gaze; she felt as if he could pull her open from afar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until then she had never thought about him as being a real separate person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Operation Gold began in the summer of 1954 with the construction of a drab-looking warehouse sitting just over the boundary separating East and West Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They quickly bounced off each other and went their separate ways. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that my brothers and I were going to be separated one more time made me anxious, but I was happy that Zuraiq would become mine alone when my brothers were in school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mammachi had a separate entrance built for Chacko’s room, which was at the eastern end of the house, so that the objects of his “Needs” wouldn’t have to go traipsing through the house. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when she came to a stiff halt did we each murmur: “Excuse me, Miss,” and separate. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Russian was given two separate code names inside the Agency: IRONBARK, for the military information he provided, and CHICKADEE, for his political espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them the spires of New Pretty Town rose from the center of town, and around them was the greenbelt, a swath of forest that separated the middle and the late pretties from the youngsters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could not tolerate anything with a sauce or any foods combined, so Gay would separate the meat and vegetables for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

By then we’d gone into the small six-bed dorms over in the separate huts, and in ours we had a portable cassette player up on the shelf above the radiator. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do me a favor and put the samples in a separate bag,” I whisper softly so Mrs. Walton won’t hear. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the first time since he’d read the Government books, he could see the two things being separate. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered about everywhere there are separate, individual boxes for the same purpose. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb and I climb the stairs and, at the top, when we divide to go to our separate bedrooms, he stops me with a hand on my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then you had another, separate part of your mind try to find it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If they are really separate from each other, what happens in another universe can have no observable consequences in our own universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government was then engaged in a massive effort to make a success of its separate development policy, and “quasi-independent” homelands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minli felt as if she were on the edge of the world as she stared across the great gulf separating them from the Never-Ending Mountain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were still a long way from land, separated from solid ground by an array of ships from every corner of Kelanna. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The culture and generation gap that separated us was too immense to navigate. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the spacecraft finally separated into two ships, one landing and the other one staying up in space, we all cheered. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In three months, in a time when the leaves would be fat and full, our lives would separate like the branches overhead that made their own way into the sunlight. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The two worlds seemed too separate to bring one back into the other without some kind of trouble following, except I was beginning to think I wasn’t going to have to worry about that now. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother tells me this as we fold laundry, white towels separated from the colored ones. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He lived on the Flanders side of the Dodendraad electric fence that had been built to separate occupied Belgium from Holland. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses—no more than mud shacks in most cases—separated by narrow alleys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

How quickly, how gracefully he would move through the crowds of people separating us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lunar module separated from the command module and landed on the moon’s surface that Saturday afternoon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed somehow important to keep the two worlds separate. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From up here, I can see that the two beasts have separated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My mask sits atop my face, separate and foreign, hiding my features as well as my emotions. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She kept the bonuses from her job in a separate bank account in her name. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Any image is a separate and self-contained reality which has its own ends and responds to its own imperatives, for artists are bound only to their creativity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you strip the clause of its false clues—the words separating the subject and verb—you end up with who . . . played for high stakes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, using a lightly drawn grid, she duplicated those shapes exactly on a separate piece of paper. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was what separated the men from the dweebs. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment, not altogether by accident, he allowed himself to become separated from her by a small knot of people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Practitioners of medicine and the analysts will be in trouble if they are not kept separate. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he had gotten separated from his colleagues and when he approached the gate and saw the commotion of his fellow accused being arrested, he asked a policeman what was going on. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might contemplate a separate creation of each atomic species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled the bottom with rocks to help separate the water from the dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

This step is separate from, and arguably more primitive than, the receiving of information; before we get information, we are getting some stimulation through an act of stimulus response. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I noted that his cheek and lip fuzz was missing and his eyebrows were now separated by a stark white space of skin rather than the unruly mess of hairs that had been there before. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her: Yes, even though I had to close yesterday AND Saturday AND I had this calc stuff that is like reading Sanskrit AND I had to wear the Chuckle costume like twelve separate times. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, melodies don't always divide into clear, separated phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I want to keep my lives separate—Virginia the poor indigena in Yana Urku, Virginia the rich indigena at queen rehearsals; Virginia the dishwasher at the hotel, Virginia the star student at school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the glimmer of bare skin, like a pale veil separating two bloody-minded adversaries. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I feel okay until we have to go our separate ways for first period. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’d lived together all these years, separate in their box together. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them wanted to speak but could find no common ground to bridge the abyss that separated them as father and son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all sounds like separate events, you know? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was already disappearing behind the hedge separating the Bernoffskis’ yard from the Connellys’ when she called out, asking if I wanted a drink. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He poked the eyelash into the water droplet and stirred it, separating the slices from one another. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we go our separate ways here. I hope it’s not forever.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

To climb these stairs you must pay a separate admission of five dollars. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As I told Dali-wonga, separate development was a spurious solution to a problem that whites had no idea how to control. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the capsule climbed through the launch window, separated from the Atlas, and settled into a successful orbit, it established communication links with the ground stations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When the Soviet Union entered World War II in 1941, Marina Raskova took command of a thousand female aviators and trained them to fly in three separate bomber and fighter regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The windows fog up, separating us from the outside. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Having failed to revive the great collaboration of the revolutionary era, Adams and Jefferson went their separate ways with different intimates. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He separated them from the cotton, pointing them out one by one as he tossed them on the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This extraordinary circumstance—unheard of in the rest of the world—is treated here in America as a basic fact of life, as normal as separate water fountains were just a half century ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two men and two women separated themselves from the crowd. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so worn from countless washings that the threads were beginning to separate. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed we were no longer separate, hut were one. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And Jews were being rounded up and separated from the rest of the population. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We went in for another round of interviews, and this time, we were all separated in different rooms, with officials asking us questions individually. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Although only the river separated us, it was a ten-minute, winding drive back to my house because there’s only one bridge in my neighborhood. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In separate bunks of seaweed wrapped in burlap, with life vests doubling as pillows, they tried to sleep, to get used to the motion of the ship, and to tolerate the smells. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What would become of them, separated as they now were? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

On his return, he carefully lifted all the magazines from the boxes and set them in separate piles atop a redwood picnic table beside the pit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though I'd learned suddenly to look around corners; images of past humiliations flickered through my head and I saw that they were more than separate experiences. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each month, he found, was on a separate roll of microfilm. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bryants live in the only house on their street that has a separate house attached to it for a butler. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“He said James was lethal. What if something goes wrong, and they get separated? If something happens to any of them, Carlisle, Emmett . . . Edward ...” I gulped. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A moment ago I would have said that separating from Marcus would be a relief. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could separate women from men, young people from old, white from brown, but nothing more specific. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But, unlike Indians, there weren’t enough Chinese people to warrant devising a whole separate classification. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The children who watched the fast-paced show were less able to follow directions and, in a separate set of tasks, showed less patience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad clears his throat as he pours orange juice into three separate glasses. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t separate them, and he had to learn to live with both. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Children and lovers have no singularity here, but my aunt used a secret voice, a separate attentiveness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The population of Europe and western Asia between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago is represented by especially many skeletons, known as Neanderthals and sometimes classified as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the aircraft there was a separate compartment for the tail gunner, whose other job was to operate the radio. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The deserts of northern Mexico similarly separated the urban centers of southern Mexico from the chiefdoms of the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deciding what is art and rating a work of art are two separate problems. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being given his own house, separate, all to himself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The discovery of a fissile isotope that could be separated from its parent by chemical means might quell the skepticism still bogging down the uranium program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A long line of studies, including research into twins who were separated at birth, had already concluded that genes alone are responsible for perhaps 50 percent of a child’s personality and abilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I kept to the solid walkway that stretched along the rink, separated by narrow pillars. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Again and again, when a single wave of colonists spread out over diverse environments, their descendants developed in separate ways, depending on those environmental differences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After separating and turning around, I approached Eagle, which looked like a mechanical spider crouched in its hole atop the Saturn. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her four eyes glimmered as if she had a separate thought behind each and was trying to weave them into a coherent web. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two types of animals are consequently considered two distinct species, moving along separate evolutionary paths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbalism, he said, was a spiritual doctrine that separated the wheat from the tares, the faithful from the faithless. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A time when her parents did not sleep in separate rooms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t any me. I’m you. Don’t make up a separate me.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He rode his horse slowly through the long stretches of green that separated the pastures, asking after her as he went, until he spotted her on the path that led to her hut. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, the saboteurs were part of the Abwehr, which was also separate from the Gestapo. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Two giant hands separate the leaves and expose me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood at either end of the small space separated by a crude kitchen with a camp stove. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were all built by the same contractor at the height of apartheid—separate nodes in the central nervous system of a police state. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Compton’s report of the Schenectady meeting to Bush asserted firmly the practicality of building a “fission bomb of superlatively destructive power” and of separating isotopes on an industrial scale for no more than $100 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ophie nodded and quickly stripped the bed, separating the sheets and blankets out just like Cook had shown her so they could be laundered later. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He found he could not separate his thoughts any longer. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if he never managed to separate from the group? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“As much as I want to hunt a Nightbeast, because, well, I’m me, I had, like, twenty separate nightmares about being eaten by one,” Valley added. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped his mind from his body, separated the two, while he lay in the trench, pressing himself into the mud, luxuriating in how close and connected he was to the mud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two spheres with separate concerns, duties, even—the evolutionary biologists might say—thought patterns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The last group held Reverend Buckminster, who separated from them and came up the stairs, then went by Turner silently into the house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Tessie made Chapter Eleven and Meg sleep in separate bedrooms, but in the middle of the night there was a lot of tiptoeing and giggling in the dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I reach the end of his Trial document, I see the separate scores for his interview and physical sections. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His uncle’s BMW was parked a few yards away, separated from the other cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My mind worked hard to separate the way he looked from the images of the boys who treated me so badly at Central. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Familiar hyena-like laughter reaches us from the bank of printers and photocopiers along the half wall separating the checkout area and the book stacks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the bell rings, we go our separate ways. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

So we try to be discreet and go out one by one, so it doesn’t look like we know each other but are just separate people staying in the hotel rooms on the lower floors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I think maybe he’s talking about segregation, when Black people were kept separate from Whites. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And what arts did he use to separate them?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They met over lunch and dinner in their colleges, but they lived in separate mental worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Under her hands pieces of dog and pieces of man separated and mingled and re-formed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now, the garden separated the Marches’ house from that of Mr. Laurence. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like an overwhelming task, a mountain of adversity, separated from what few friends I have and a plain full of shamblers between me and where I want to be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

UC Berkeley’s medical school would not get over its disdain for John’s studies for years, until the situation was finessed by the creation of a separate laboratory for radiation science in 1942. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But he would teach on: “So let us separate from this white man, and for the same reason he says—in time to save ourselves from any more ‘integration!’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “alpha racetracks” like this one at Oak Ridge separated fissionable U-235 from natural uranium at a high volume, though not enough to build more than a single bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“If you can separate the two, then you can figure out what’s true.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We’re also driving on the line separating lanes on the road instead of between them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For black activists like Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, and many others, it was impossible to separate one’s status as a woman from one’s status as an African American. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what became of them after that, because they took me in a separate van. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was a two-bedroom, so Maya guessed the conversation about whether she and Lauren would have separate bedrooms was out of the question. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

These different pitches are called harmonics, and they are blended together so well that you do not hear them as separate notes at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then these separate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because that mound separates the road from the Oise River, don’t it? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A row of purple bougainvillea, cut smooth and straight as a buffet table, separated the gnarled trees from the driveway. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had to separate—we couldn’t be together all our life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the tall iron railing that separated Meeters from the Met, and Greeters from the Gret, Chacko, beaming, bursting through his suit and sideways tie, bowed to his new daughter and ex-wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cherie recalls that they were in custody for a time and then one by one they went their separate ways. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I told Mrs. Liebow, my English teacher, and she said that it was what separated heroes from humans, the not giving in, and I hadn’t understood that. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there weren’t any places left, just separate houses with separate televisions and separate telephones and less and less dropping by. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed his back against the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room, and stood still. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons we go our separate ways. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before they got into their separate cars, they hugged, both murmuring, “So good to see you,” and she imagined his driver and her driver watching them curiously. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But at least it will be separate, and will follow her lead. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her head is bowed but I know her hair, parted on the side, a strand separate from having been twirled. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of like how cabs have that window separating the front seat and the backseat, except in Mr. Ray’s car, it was tinted. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The noise called Tu-Whit Tu-Whoo, which is wished by poets on the owl, fa really a family noise, made by separate birds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel made them separate, himself remaining with Holly and Bluebell while Bigwig and Dandelion went out to either side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you had a gripe, you settled it outside, where you didn’t risk interrupting the hallowed practice of separating pigeons from their money. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I didn’t belong anywhere, as though I lived separated from life by a glass window. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That year would be separated from the others by referring to it as “the year Minty was bom.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she insisted on separate shots of all the champions. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They did, however, for his former friend at Monticello, who had spent the bulk of his adult life keeping his head and his heart in separate chambers of his personality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When she lifts her lashes, I realize I can feel the heat of her body, that mere inches separate our faces. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If the Saturn V veered off in the wrong direction, I could tell it by watching the dot separate from the line. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They held hands until they got close to the camp, then separated. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If the men who worked in the matzoh factory saw us, they sometimes would separate us and give everyone hot baked matzohs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She looked gorgeous, even from that distance, even separated by a pane of glass and a span of air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A town is a thing separate from all other towns, so that there are no two towns alike. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not long separated, when Miss Bingley came towards her, and with an expression of civil disdain accosted her: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

So nervous that I just set up a separate e-mail account, since Mom knows my password and checks my regular e-mail every once in a while. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some of them had separated their money, folded the bills around their fingers, clenched the fingers into fists, so the neat ends of the money stuck out in a blend of daintiness and violence. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Apa takes his time, licking his fingertips to separate each page from the next, makes the blood crest under my cheeks. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Our bodies are having their own conversation separate and apart from us. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we were outside, everyone was already going their separate ways. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each part of the house is treated as a separate pocket of space and as a design element that is integrated into the scene as a whole. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison, according to apartheid dictates, separated detainees by color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our forearms brush and separate and brush again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"And that means it goes so fast you can't even hear the separate beats. It must sound just like a buzz." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is perfectly obvious that this cup now stands where it belongs. The question is how was it ever separated from its fellows?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ernest Light was ordered to the right, he found himself separated from his father and brother. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes spent exchanging earnest banalities, we went our separate ways. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's shuffled away with a huge cohort of men, and I am separated from Papa for the first time in my life. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three separate times, after that, I visited the Great Mosque and circumambulated the Ka’ba. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stopper would shudder back and forth so fast it looked like it was splitting into two separate coils. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Without rope or crosspieces and nails the logs just rolled and separated. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a sudden, cold fear that this was all a trick, a plot to separate her from Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boys separate and head off to opposite ends of the park. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boy wanted to believe that his friend had simply become separated from him by accident. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that’s what separates the wannabes from the agents in the end. Quinton didn’t nominate ye ’cause he needed a rescuer, he nominated ye because he believed ye can thrive here. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The brothers are separated by almost five hundred miles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Kenna’s album was making the rounds in New York, being considered by music industry executives, on three separate occasions it was given to an outside market-research firm. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as he got up off his knees at the window sill, grieving because he could not fly, and went off to school, his velvet suit separated him from the other children. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. So she found out that it was possible to separate them.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had been separated for five years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

News vans and trucks are across the street from the courthouse, and police barricades separate them from everybody else. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The smell of roses and blood has grown stronger now that only a desk separates us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We separated for a moment to help the others navigate the trees and branches but were soon running side by side again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Using “separate but equal” language that previewed the Court's infamous decision in Plessy v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It separates the protestors from a cluster of officers in riot gear. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Moine’s argument is that what separates a great salesman from an average one is the number and quality of answers they have to the objections commonly raised by potential clients. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their clear laughter came up, separated by distance from the tumbles which gave it rise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom is behind a whole separate door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had gone to San Francisco for the books he needed and had written for a number of separates. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The locker room was empty at this hour, row after row of dull green lockers separated by wide wooden benches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t have nothing to separate our smells and sounds except for a big blanket tacked up in the middle,” she told us more times than we wanted, which was none. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In our town, trash is separated, with blue cans for recycling and green for anything from the yard. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Your grampa and his friends in the White Citizens’ Council are pretty worked up over it They’re dead set on keeping the colored schools separate from the white. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A new bubble, still separate from the others, sat next to his right paw. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We stare across the expanse that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Everything stood out separate from everything else, a rock, a rounded lump of sea-polished driftwood on a beach, a roof line. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was across the room from me, but our bodies did not seem separated by the distance. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I separated myself from the others and edged around to stand beside Mom. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, he took pains to keep us separate as much as possible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giant glass walls separated a wilderness area from the walkways, which had glass floors over the water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Too busy playing allies with the others. I should have never let them separate us!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From the ground floor, which in both buildings is known as the flats, you can look up and see how each structure is made up of two almost separate components. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad used to joke about how they were forced to sleep in separate bedrooms in case they talked about each other’s work,” their daughter, Barbara, recalled. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It usually took half an hour to find all the books, then we would divide them up and go into separate rooms to “do school.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I look over at the locker room, expecting some mutual friend of ours, but Tats shifts me to face the weight room, a separate facility that is connected to the gymnasium through an inconspicuous door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I'm at the kitchen table separating the peripheral wiring when Dell Duke's cell phone barks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Samuel thinks it may be the water they use, which comes from a separate spring that runs dear even in the dry season. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael and Hatsue went their separate ways to pick among their friends. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I back away, pulling Izzi with me, knowing that the quicker we go our separate ways, the better it will be for all concerned. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He explained, “I wouldn’t want a handout any more than you’d want one. As long as we keep the money thing separate, we’ll always be sure of our love for each other.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky separate and release a scatter of flurries. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It came to me in the middle of our third night at East River, right at the hour that separated day from night. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We were of course already separated from our white colleagues, but the separation from our Indian and Coloured comrades within the same non-White facility seemed like madness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was never separated from the actual earth and personified. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel her grab a handful and separate it into three parts. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

At 8 we assembled in the courtyard outside of our dormitory for “observation,” standing at attention as the girls arrived from separate dormitories. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the Muslim understanding of that sound is that it is really heightened speech or recitation rather than music, and belongs in a separate category. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Their single fault, from where Yossarian sat as a bombardier, was the tight crawlway separating the bombardier’s compartment in the plexiglass nose from the nearest escape hatch. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The four of us got up and went our separate ways—me up to my room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them they sported twenty separate dressing rooms, four shower rooms, twenty hot-water showers, storage on the ground level for ninety-seven racing shells, and rooms full of massage tables for bone-weary oarsmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dorothy had put herself and the children on a separate path forward, whereas the cycle of Howard’s life, despite the extensive travel to the exotic locations, still began and ended in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This park, or promenade, is right along the river separating Brooklyn from Manhattan. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At night when these witches go to sleep their heads separate from their bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few white hairs were all that separated him from baldness; his forked beard was equal parts white and grey, but always ragged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he warned her solemnly not to be persuaded by anyone to try to see him, on pain of being separated from him forever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a supper cooked over the shared stove in the courtyard, they separated to go to their rooms for the night, Kaede with Taisin and Shae, Con with Tali and Pol. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ships were separating into small groups as they descended, heading off in different directions, as if to blanket the entire surface of the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But they did not seem to be part of my relationship with the ocean; they seemed separate in some way. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The men had been kept from the women, housed in a separate section of the prison. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maycomb’s regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks’ honoraria. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the side mittam, by the separate “Men’s Needs” entrance, the chrome tailfins of the old Plymouth gleamed momentarily in the lightning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cards were separated into ten multicolored ministacks, one for each room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Places where Crazy Horse and our ancestors also walked. We occupied the same space they did, saw the same kinds of plants, heard the same kinds of birds. The only thing separating us is time.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of the morning, they went their separate ways and Burger returned to his hotel room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

About the same time that the Soviets began working on putting another woman in space, they also began talking about a space station, built from separate modules. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So stay next to me. Every second. Crowds can separate you, you know. They do that. Okay?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The Courters preferred fancy salads, but Gay would make me a separate one with chunks of plain iceberg. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later they were crossing the frontier that separated civilization from savagery. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The activists asked thought-provoking questions: Why do you go to a separate school from whites? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Wallace’s discovery initially seemed to confirm the three-migrations model: the haplogroups were seen as the legacy of separate waves of migration, with the most common haplogroup corresponding to the Clovis culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She felt cut away from him, each of them living and breathing in separate spheres, he bored and spiritless in Nsukka, she bored and spiritless in Lagos, and everything curdled in lethargy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some were leaning over the long bar that separated them from the cages, some were standing on the seats that rose in tiers opposite. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“But do tell me, Jacob—how on earth did you two manage to get separated anyway? You were so...close on the dance floor.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the middle is a plastic container with the buttons, separated into four even partitions. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtains and this little slice of Detroit opens up to me—an empty paved road and small houses with only a narrow space separating one from the other. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Daliwonga and I were on separate sides of this difficult issue. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I stare hard enough, it seems as if the seats were simply floating over the ground, with nothing separating us from the outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tent he lived in stood right smack up against the wall of the shallow, dull-colored forest separating his own squadron from Dunbar’s. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We agreed--cooperation in exchange for results! We agreed—” “This is entirely separate from our agreement,” says Jeanine, glancing at her watch. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The weather was such a stupid thing to separate me from Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most are as separated as Jupiter is from the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, very little separated the experiences of these two groups. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Malik and I hug and go our separate ways. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The clouds separate in the sky and the sun shines beams of white light on our new home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to reestablish the lines that separated black and white communities and to intimidate black residents who crossed over into white neighborhoods, they bombed black homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other building, just across a narrow open corridor, had a kitchen, plus a separate bedroom for me and my sisters. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The difficulty comes in trying to separate my eyes from my eyebrows, which alter my face much the way that varying punctuation marks can change the meaning of a sentence. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Though Dutchy is three years older than me, I’m tall for my age, and we’re only separated by one boy in the line. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says that when you separate people into groups, they start to believe that one group is better than another. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She glanced out of the window in time to see her father cleave a log into three separate pieces, which he then heaved onto a growing woodpile. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Distantly, he heard the sounds of party revelers still in the temple’s worship hall, but they felt like inhabitants of an entirely different world now, like something separate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Wedging an extra phrase into a tree is just one of the ways in which a subject can be separated from its verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Their calls first start all together and slow and then pick up speed and volume until they finally dissipate to separate voices and rounds of hand clapping and cheers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing they could do about that, or the separate “Colored girls” bathroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the town a drawbridge crossed the river, connecting Ravenel with the three sea islands that separated the town from the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a precaution, he recopied the instructions onto a separate paper, using shorthand that only he would recognize. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nickname given to the waiting room because of the large glass walls that separated it from the rest of the airport. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Joey was so neat she had a separate drawer for socks. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are in the right,” said she; and with these words we each went our separate way. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her younger sister were separated from their parents when they arrived at the death camp. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without ceasing to speak, Transito opened her legs, casually separating the soft columns of her thighs as if she were simply adjusting her posture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the segregated South, Jim Crow laws required black train passengers to use separate coaches and waiting rooms. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Then the period is over, and we go our separate ways. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks and whites lived together in the same city, but we truly lived in separate worlds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Narrow rows of lockers separated by benches, fellow students changing into their gym clothes, and the pungent odor of sweat and body spray made my skin itch. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some lands—in an area called the Sudd that separates Northern and Southern Sudan—never go dry. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I felt they were insisting too much on separating me from my dad. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We sit at two separate ends of the table, but still. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He has more than seventy separate hexes operating on him. You ought to untie seventy knots.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Some families had been separated for days or weeks. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She clung to Marsha's waist, kept hold of her arm, and leaned into her as if she intended never to let anyone physically separate them ever again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’d found separate places to change clothes in the stable before heading into the market, and now he was wearing a plain brown kaftan instead of the white one befitting a servant of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Recall that most wild plants either are regularly cross-pollinated hermaphrodites or consist of separate male and female individuals that inevitably depend on another individual for pollination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Macon dipped into the safe three separate times before Ruth unclasped her hands and reached for the money. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are another force that separates us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three or four hurled themselves at the barrier, twice the height of a man, which separated the arena from the audience, and tried to clamber up it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They would not be alone in their separate prisons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But then we got older and Twig’s parents got “amicably separated” and we learned which topics to avoid, because sometimes that’s what best friends do, too. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were shelves and shelves of them, on every wall from the floor to the ceiling, and separate shelves and shelves of them in the middle of the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had moved to Berkeley in the 1940s, briefly joining scientists to separate and purify isotopes for the Manhattan Project. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They had them separated into classes and Mr. Tate, looking like a stuffed sausage with a tie, came to the class to give them out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to keep the Fifth Avenue drums separate from the belt-buckle tunes vibrating from pianos and spinning on every Victrola. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize that next year, Ben, you and I will be separated for the first time in our whole lives.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Abu’s parents separated when he was five, my father was attracted to Islam’s emphasis on the family and the important role of the father in the family hierarchy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In Korean, there are no separate sounds for L and R, the sound is singular and without a baroque Spanish trill or roll. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fingerprint-smudged glass walls and electronic gates separated them from the escalators and stairs that went down to the level where the trains came and went. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But strangely, the darkness separated me from everything. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he only stood a few feet away, separated by a window, I kept talking to him through the phone. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost, but not quite, entirely separate species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a separate envelope he is given his father’s wallet, his car keys. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I get ready for school and leave the house at seven forty-five for the ten-minute walk to the schoolhouse, a brick building that holds sixty children, separated into grades. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She carries it with her always though she has a separate deck for circus readings, a custom-made version in black and white and shades of grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And there were sections of the city where different foreigners lived—Japanese, White Russians, Americans, and Germans—but never together, all with their own separate habits, some dirty, some clean. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food is arranged in ten separate bowls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is important because the fight that would come later, the one that finally separated us from my dad, began there. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A cloth curtain separated his place from the rest of the shop so that it was like a small private room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s weird, because Blue’s emails used to be this extra thing that was separate from my actual life. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This officer too was separated from his troops. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I ignore the dangers of being separated from my guard. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We would smile and say hi and continue on our way to our separate classes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

After the bicycle, my mom hired contractors she knew through the real-estate business to build her a separate house in the backyard, like a little servants’ quarters, and she moved in there with Isaac. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But two galaxies that are physically connected can hardly also be greatly separated from each other—in some cases by a billion light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light hit Jason’s sword and sprayed outwards in ten separate tendrils, zapping the basilisks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The regulator analyzes the air with spectroscopy, then separates the gasses by supercooling them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of feet separating them now, and Kaede felt as if that space was pulsing with the beat of her heart. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Alster Tower was a separate building, twice the size of my home, that George Boldt had built as a playhouse for his children. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Claudette faced three separate charges: violating the segregation law, disturbing the peace, and “assaulting” one of the policemen who had pulled her off the bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

What had from afar seemed to be one sheer mountainwall was split into several long steep ridges, separate isles perhaps, between which the sea ran in narrow sounds or channels. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now she saw how the separate news items might connect, and understood what everyone else must know and what the hospital administration was planning for. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When some of the grateful residents proposed building an addition to Valentine’s house for his books, Gloria suggested a separate structure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The floor is dark brown tile, and each shower stall has wooden walls and a plastic curtain separating it from the central aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the world had been created without the exclusion principle, quarks would not form separate, well-defined protons and neutrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never had he thought of his mother as a person, a separate individual, with a life apart from allowing or interfering with his own. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only thirty-six inches separates the wires from the tallest freight cars, the auto carriers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

All of this appeared in Centurion bold type—already antiquated in 1917—with delicate hairlines separating seven columns and subheads in bold serif relief. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought as we went our separate ways. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Like the very rich who live behind tall walls, my mother and father are always mindful of the line separating public from private life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they got separated now, they were dead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I hope he’s actually telling the truth, how he wanted to see how I was doing, and not that he’s here to say goodbye and suggest we go our separate ways. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Earlier decisions had chipped away at the “separate but equal” doctrine, yet Jim Crow had managed to adapt to the changing legal environment, and most Southerners had remained confident that the institution would survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The arrangement came to be known as the Pennsylvania—or “separate”—system, and it attracted much attention, both abroad and at home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the dirty window, I could see part of the overpass bridging the two Nogaleses and the chainlink fence separating the two cities. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Within the blood itself he could perceive its separate cells, and see their colors in his consciousness, and the prisms of their molecules, and all of it was awake now, gathering power. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was an empathic and patient listener, coaxing each of us through the maze of our feelings, separating out our weapons from our wounds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You cannot separate me from my children,” Mom declared. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three months earlier, two young white girls who lived nearby in Alcolu, a small mill town where the races were separated by railroad tracks, had gone out to pick flowers and never returned home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He finally pulled so hard I felt my thumb snap and separate to go with him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The bathroom, as was the style in very wealthy houses of those days, was a large room with a separate screened dressing area. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The two composers, both born in 1813, had pursued parallel but quite separate careers in opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By 1913, there were approximately sixteen thousand separate companies in New York City’s garment business, many just like the Borgenichts’ shop on Sheriff Street. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It is made up of separate poems, often about the same story, but never connected with each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nine giant-carrying helicopters each chose a separate giant and hovered directly over him. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Mr. Muhammad said that any whites who wanted to hear the truth could attend our public rallies, until a small separate section for whites was filled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some guy or girl put a whole bunch of words on a sheet of magnet and then cut the words into separate pieces. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

While they were crossing the strait which separates Europe and Asia, the girl, whose name was Helle, slipped and fell into the water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any story of a separated mother and daughter can get me started these days. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both our fathers were separated from their families, and when they came back, they had physically, emotionally, and mentally changed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mother and I blow each other kisses and go our separate ways. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stops abruptly when she sees that her mother and I are face-to-face, a few squares of concrete sidewalk separating us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry felt as separate from the crowd as though they were a different species. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Early on, the emotional sympathy she’d felt with Lefty had been so absolute that she’d sometimes forgotten they were separate people. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Janna, I know your number one concern is privacy. What if I make a promise that nothing will change in terms of that. I’ll treat your space as a separate room. Completely.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mullen examined the tapes and excerpted all references to the candidates, until he had 37 separate segments, each roughly two and a half seconds long. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some distance separated the bulls from each other, for they are bad-tempered, very jealous by nature and quick to fight over anything that displeases them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a rule, however, the extra is a separate chromosome, making the number 47. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Because maybe I do,” she admitted, and then she realized that she had chewed the top of her straw into two separate pieces. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After the Supreme Court declared separate schools inherently unequal in 1954, segregation persisted unabated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

HARRY: If you see them together, then get to them as quickly as possible, and keep them separate. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Then he took the broom from me, put the stuff away, and we went our separate ways. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Having no way to separate out the C02, the suit deliberately vented air to the Martian atmosphere, then backfilled with nitrogen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty stood often before it, looking carefully at the intricate embroidered tapestry depicting a large thick forest separating two small villages far from each other. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A white curtain separates me from the other people who lie here, groaning sometimes, coughing. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked together to the next corner, then separated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inmates arrived through a separate door, to our immediate left. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This is perhaps the most orienting part of the geek experience for many lads like Jesse: They see the Net as a separate world, their world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just two lines across, each word on a separate piece of paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He separated the crude bacterial debris from the virulent smooth strain, mixed it with the live bacteria of the nonvirulent rough strain, and injected the mix into mice. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And she said that if I sat an A level I would have to have a member of staff looking after me on my own in a separate room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pond separates our yard from Mr. Bender’s, and the small creek that feeds it separates our neighbors’ yards to the south, like a natural curving fence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She separated a smaller file of papers from the rest. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Kathy’s eyes locked on to the sliding wooden partition that separated this teller from the others. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The separate nations of Europe were linguistically and culturally different one from another; native societies were astonishingly diverse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s noon, and were all still in our pajamas, and everyone is sitting in the living room on separate laptops. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When Grub was seven years old, Hugo and I separated and divorced. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A tall row of elegant, lathe-turned spindles separated this table from the kitchen, allowing talk to pass from one room to the other. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if they did have a separate wing, I’d probably end up in it after what happened this morning. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a slight movement, but suddenly the distance between us is as wide as the ocean that usually separates us. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And at school, we separate ourselves from people who are different from us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A fence separated them and Anne was sick with typhus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the Adams version, this decision was truly decisive because it created separate and independent American governments. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sickle whistles as it slices through the air, singing in the moments before it separates her head from her body. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Fritz would drive along and stop, and then he and she and Joe took their big buckets and separated, each having certain trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Except, like the mask, it's no longer separate from her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They keep their tasks and names very carefully separated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She pressed her thumb against the charms, separating them a little. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Fuchs explained that he and the British team were working out the details of how best to separate U-235 from U-238. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there v\\as nothing like fresh sweet milk, the milk you get before it separates to milk and cream. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone danced but the twins, who could not be induced to separate during the brief period when one or the other should be whirling around the room in the arms of a man. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, ethos, pathos, and logos—the Three Musketeers of the persuasive arts—can’t be altogether separated. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Each thought unit is a separate stage of the total discussion that makes up the passage. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

China’s coastline is much smoother, and only the nearby Korean Peninsula attained separate importance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The city was suddenly separate, ripped from her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Older generations of pretties lived out in the suburbs, hidden by the hills, in rows of big houses separated by strips of private garden for their littlies to play in. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

MY LIFE, during the Defiance Campaign, ran on two separate tracks: my work in the struggle and my livelihood as an attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blacksteel cage kept here was separate from the others, and with good reason. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was now decanting the mysteriously separated ingredients of her poison into ten different crystal phials. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Although there had been a handful of Indian students at Fort Hare, they stayed in a separate hostel and I seldom had contact with them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elijah’s mission is to return “the so-called Negro” to Islam, to separate the chosen of Allah from this doomed nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Ferguson, the Court established the doctrine of “separate but equal”—a legal fiction that protected the Jim Crow system from judicial scrutiny for racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or was it just the two of us in all the world, trapped in our own separate boxes? The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

People always think there’s this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ship is made of millions of separate parts assembled redundantly, so that if some component fails, others will take over its responsibilities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home, Mom and Dad were at the dining room table on their separate laptops, and the moment I walked in the door, Mom slammed her laptop shut. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was separating screws from nails into jars on your workbench when they came up the path. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Having three separate address books makes her current task a bit complicated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She charged through the row of brush and small trees that separated the second field from the river, grabbing Sammy’s hand, pulling him with her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, that night, and the night after, we slept in separate rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The soldiers set up their garrison in another unfinished brick house, and there they socialized separate from the civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We hear each mixture of frequencies not as separate sounds, but as the color of the sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The entrance is protected by a separate concrete wall. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a place we can get to in Mexico. On the beach. I have a ride for us. If you want, once we get down there we can go our separate ways.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember how Dad took us into a separate car for a speech?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He behaved like this on four quite separate occasions. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that a vast distance separated the agitators from the masses, a distance so vast that the agitators did not know how to appeal to the people they sought to lead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the sense that I should have been able to unpack them, that there was only a thin veneer separating me from their meaning, and yet the veneer was impenetrable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The underlying reason why this transition was piecemeal is that food production systems evolved as a result of the accumulation of many separate decisions about allocating time and effort. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only grass to be had in the barrio grew in the alley, along the edges of fences that kept chickens and scrawny dogs separated from one another. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The thought of not being separated from Rowan was tempered by the knowledge of whose hand they’d be under. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he told them how he was separated from his unit at the beginning of the retreat, during a Stuka attack. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And it matters very little what one does or foresees, since if one does not separate or scatter the inhabitants, they will not forget that name or those institutions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I told someone to trade places with me when they started separating all the O’s and R’s out. Didn’t want to go down with them, you know?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And, critically, it is a kind of intelligence separate from the sort of analytical ability measured by IQ. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed her down, ran out the door that separated the rooms, and held it shut with his hands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time before the two groups, bringing word of separate attacks, met in the streets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just so you know, nothing happened between me and Daniel until after your mother and I separated.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All these elements come into play in people’s separate decisions about how to obtain their food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Four Brown Bears, each wearing a peaked cap, were trundling trolleys of food along the little corridor that separated the animals from the cages. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Throw that in the trash and go to bed. If I hear another word, I’m separating you two.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Gino was a patriot, so he said things that separated us sometimes, but he was also a fine boy and 1 understood his being a patriot. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He admires her, even resents her a little, for having moved to another country and made a separate life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks were ghettoed into separate bathrooms, but they had also been given an unprecedented entree into the professional world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thirty-three students were wounded in the hail of gunfire, some of them with as many as eight separate wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were no longer a whole, but three separate pieces. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mamou had this stained glass partition separating the living room from the dining room, and the light filtering through it cast constellations of color across my family’s faces. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The feathers were concave, which separated them from one another, making a texture of ridges which he considered graceful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a modest train ride separated the Burnhams, but the mounting demands of the fair made that distance as difficult to span as the Isthmus of Panama. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It was three separate shots, and one of those bullets went right by my head! I swear I heard it zing past me.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I pounded on the door and a guard walked over and stood by the glass doors that separated us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Szilard and Fermi, working in separate labs at Columbia University, came up with a figure closer to 2.0—still a large quantity under the circumstances. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“They just right there,” Rondell said, pointing at the line of boulders that separated the sand from where the houses started. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If my roots stretched past the property line that separated them, well, that’s never been my concern. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He advocated separate but equal facilities and charged that government programs to overcome discrimination amounted to special privileges for blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You are to make two separate piles of homework each day. If you have a cold, you are to place your homework in the pile marked ‘ill.’ A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ginny glanced at her arm as if it was a separate being from herself. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the border post separating the Soviet Union from Finland, Gordievsky lay motionless, covered with a heavy blanket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we leave, I remember how Khalil used to run up to the car when I was about to go, the sun shining on the grease lines that separated his cornrows. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

From this stuff Lelia separated what we would keep and what we would sell or donate to Goodwill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A separate residence a quarter-mile away houses staff members and a gym. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only twenty feet separated him from the enemy now, and he tried to remember the ground between. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am separate from this place and these people and my own body, and besides, I have always been a good runner. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They had reached the fork in the path that meant they would separate, he heading back along the river to his boat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Over the hedge and hydrangeas that separated the road from the stairs, they could see the tan car had joined the parade inching down the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then the inner door opened—the door, she now saw, which separated the office from the pair of cells—and in the light that streamed before him, the constable appeared, carrying a breakfast tray. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was sitting on a stool at the high counter that separates the kitchen from the rest of the great room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces, their flesh simmered with whiteness and they seemed so much a part of another life, so separated from me now that I felt consumed with loneliness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled back the blanket separating our side of the room from the Luftigs' side, and I saw that he had left something else. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo was absorbed in separating his chicken from the bone, and for once he ate all of his rice until his plate was clean. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My teacher, Miss Carpenter, announced that the Supreme Court had ruled that separate was not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They retreat to their three rooms, to their three separate beds, to their thick mattresses and pillows and fitted sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting hall is next to the church but separated from the grander building by a garden of white crosses, memorials to the deceased. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We eventually wrote separate letters to our respective organizations in the general section advocating the idea of unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We respectfully point out the holes in an opponent’s argument, but we don’t attack the person themselves. It’s their argument that isn’t as good as yours, not them. Keep it separate.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had to thread their way through the crowd single file now, and holding on to one another was the only way to keep from being separated. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Within this angle there is a separate little neighborhood. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America, she said, there was fear of death; here life was separate from Being. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From the button downwards, the lines of the coat separated and curved away behind the legs of the wearer and came together again at the backs of the knees, forming a pair of ‘tails’. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys at the Lycee Jean-Jacques called him “pepper head” because each separate kinky strand was coiled into a tight tiny ball that looked like small peppercorns. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She’ll only turn it into yet another thing that separates me from the married girls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When we separated, Mom wiped the tears from both my eyes and hers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We aren’t caught in our own worlds, lost in our separate thoughts. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence for a few moments, separated by a body’s length of the deepening darkness, and Ash suddenly felt self-conscious, not knowing what to say. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that day had its own separate space in my mind. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some, such as Buka and Manus, were separated from the closest land by 120 miles of open water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She hasn’t come here? There was a fire in Jacob’s town. Set by some stupid boys. Jacob was separated from his parents. They told him they would meet him here.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Judgment matters: it is what separates winners from losers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Only the thickness of the barbed wire separated my life in hell from their lives of freedom, but we might as well have been on separate planets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Father Olufemi had said there were six snakes, but he couldn’t separate them in his mind, which meant he couldn’t count them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wall separating the two had been impregnable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You three have been separated from your friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined a pair of shadows moving along the strip of sand where things came together but also separated. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point my mom moved to a separate bedroom in the house, and from then on they were married in name only, not even cohabitating but coexisting. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Willie melted the chocolate in a saucepan and I separated the egg whites from the yolks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For our purposes, however, the ultimate cause of the condition is less important than its systemic manifestation, which was a congenital inability to separate his thoughts from his feelings about them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have started talking with meanings which were separate from the words they used. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

While one hand holds on to a few sturdy leaves, the other wields the cleaver, separating the fruit from the tree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I began walking across the wide grassy land that separated the house from the fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The reason was, the sheriff wanted to keep him and Hickock separated from each other until after their trial. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first night, I had eaten in the kitchen, but I was separated because the rest of the folks was in the dining room. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her solution was to insist on vertical seating—an imaginary line drawn from the front of an auditorium to the topmost balcony, giving both races separate but equal seating opportunities. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Children who arrived at the refugee camp without their families were grouped together, so Salva was separated at once from the people he had traveled with. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had put Lin Nai-Nai’s present on the bottom of my bag so I wouldn’t be separated from it and now I quickly covered the two books I had packed with a bunch of underwear. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each school would have separate hours for chapel and library, with the Vincent de Paul morning Mass remaining mandatory. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was going to ask more, but then I heard Sohrab’s mom let out a cry and charge across the sea of Bahramis separating her from her target. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now only summer separated me from going to school every morning with them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden partition separating the entryway from the rest of the house, with shelves covered in pictures and candles and phone chargers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“When my parents separated, they made me see a therapist,” Candice said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was the first time in seventy-seven days that they had not been separated by a pane of glass. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tram stop to tram stop, we sat at separate ends of the car, not talking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Once I was awake, I tried to separate the other aromas of my grandparents’ house: Some mornings the meaty, spicy scent of sausage came up the stairs; other days the sweet fragrance of fresh muffins. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The saboteurs were working for the German government, not the Gestapo, which was a separate entity. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by apothecary drawers, separated into little square compartments into which he occasionally dipped his fingers for a pinch or two of pipeweed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see Sarah, Addie’s sister, who was in a separate area near the washbowls and toilets. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jellyfish separate the world that was from the one that is. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sky is vast, unblocked by buildings, even the modest ranch-style homes are separated by many acres. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead of moving away, her mother opened the door farther, letting light from the hall fall across the two beds, separating them right in half, light and dark. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Nawaz leads me between two rows of beds separated by white plastic curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless and the factionless have gathered between them, a narrow divide separating one group from the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man, still screaming, managed to separate himself from the machine on the way down, but the two of them hit the water at the same moment. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping it together under pressure was what separated the winners from the losers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Only the hollow, formal, intellectual definitions of the separate terms. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I demanded and eventually received separate space so that I could prepare my case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer were the Western art of geometry and the Eastern art of algebra separate domains. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the midday break the boys separated to different tasks; but Ranofer’s head rang with the words all day: “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It stayed alive in our separate memories, but it was too painful to call out into the open. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years when women first began campaigning for the ballot, a married woman had no identity separate from her husband. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the Carter home was a station—only a hundred yards separated it from the river—even when raids came up empty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Worried, haggard, fitfully puffing on a cigarette, Bernabe Montoya separated himself from the group of about a hundred onlookers and trudged over to the state cops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, the ghosts of the house remained in their own, separate spaces. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

What if the curtain that separates us is not death but a chain-link fence and some land? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Plaszów was a series of long, low buildings separated by dirt roads and surrounded by barbed wire. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead people spread themselves through estuaries, sometimes grouping into neighborhoods, sometimes with each family on its own, its maize ground proudly separate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Big Time stepped through the curtain that separated the front room from the back. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her calves are separated from her shortly after birth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After rummaging through bags and boxes, and yanking open kitchen cabinets and drawers, she sighed to the ceiling separating her apartment from James’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The masked men, all of them, dug into the sand and separated out into orange and then smoke-flame. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not feel confined, only separate, as though he and Celia are overlapping the circus, rather than contained within it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But our end held only rows of cages on shelves, each cage with a tag on it, and each separated from its neighbors by wooden partitions on both sides. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inmate and visitor were kept separated only if one of them requested it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bulletproof partition separates the customers from the cashier. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The crowd broke up in silence and went their separate ways. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled them apart while she separated the other two. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I separated out the bean sprouts and seaweed from my noodles, making a pile on the side of my bowl. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I looked over at the window separating us from the rest of the airport. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Groves lay on the ground in a separate bunker, his eyes facing away from the blast site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

FitzRoy’s volumes did not get as positive a reception as Charles’s, so the publisher released Darwin’s volume as a separate book without telling him or compensating him financially. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell lowered his head so fast and so far, I thought it would separate from his neck. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody would take a separate bath one after the other in the same water in a deep wooden tub. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a good many chemicals also have the power to separate oxidation from energy production, and the insecticides and weed killers are well represented on the list. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I feel like lam not hearing anything new—just the same philosophy that spawned the factions, driving people to manipulate their genes instead of separating into virtue- based groups. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The two of them got so entangled that Hornet and Prosper needed Mosca’s help to separate them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am hoping, sirs, that we brought separate vehicles for ...” I said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Karhidish village is like an ancient castle of Earth in having few or no separate, private dwellings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This creek was upstream from the first and separated from it by a high waterfall. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother seemed to know about the gulf that separated how she lived from what she was. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first two such colonies were founded by separate but similar religious groups, the Pilgrims and the Puritans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He, too, wanted a free South Africa but he thought that goal could be achieved faster and more peacefully through the government’s policy of separate development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter, Kathy, and Ray were angry that we had been separated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porch was separated by French doors from the parlor and by windows from the office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I heard this loud family across the hallway that separated our two apartment doors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy draperies with brocade and tassels hang on the windows and separate the rooms; paintings in gilded frames hang close together on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A wall of force shimmered along the fissure line, separating Kronos’s vanguard, my friends, and me from the bulk of the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

What may have looked like separate events were all evidence of seismic and systemic social change. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We scattered as a family, the men, and later the children, going their separate ways. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do not track him, but they do not unnerve him, either; they seem almost to see into a separate, deeper place, a world that consists only of music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You really think this is the time to separate?” the man boomed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Worse, the separated head went on gulping for air and blinking its eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In those first months at the Cottages, our friendship had stayed intact because, on my side at least, I’d had this notion there were two quite separate Ruths. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a central kitchen, and a separate mess hall for each of the three cellblocks; the busy crossroads between them all is known as Times Square. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a chain that separates us from our food and keeps us from knowing what it really is we’re eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We’ve kept the races separated for a long time and we don’t intend to change now,” was what Grampa or one of his friends usually ended up saying. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a metal gate separating the hallway from the lab, and Mr. Gideon unlocks it with a key around his neck. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The thing that separated the human hand from Nature was the space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As once a kelimi had separated a brother and sister, now a wool blanket separated second cousins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It should occur on average seven times per year, separated by intervals just slightly longer than that endured by Noah on his putative ark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That conference was also memorable, of course, for other quite separate reasons, as I would like now to explain. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Black and white citizens drank water from separate fountains and used different bathrooms. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

So he would now be inside his own separate copy of this room, probably with a team of Halliday scholars whispering suggestions in his ear, thanks to his hacked immersion rig. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I think she was afraid of being separated from my father; she was more worried than ever after she heard what happened in Ogdentown. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The moment they separated, Koffi felt a terrible vacuum, a void. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The separate languages of the Indo-European family were at one time, perhaps five thousand years ago, maybe much longer, a single language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got separated from our caravan,” I said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As in Płaszów, men and women were housed in separate barracks, but unlike Płaszów, we were allowed to visit each other. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The rusty metal jaws creaked, then started to separate. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All six boats were loosely bunched up, roughly a length and a half separating the German bow in first place from the American bow in last place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Let them stay separate and apart until that miserable moment of truth that would keep them apart forever. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

From the start, she spotted that twenty-three of the messages belonged in a separate group. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My dad has a separate little office down there. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

George's dad had hung it after he and Mom separated, but before he left town. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I feel my fingertips dig into the center of my bouquet to separate the thick stems. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

We were being separated from the rest of the outfit, which was supposed to be operating further north above Phuoc Ha. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Middle- class black girls would always try to separate themselves from dark-skinned girls like me and emulate white girls. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The color line no longer bothered C.P., but there remained the far less visible but just as substantial line of class separating himself from people like Howard Clement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Servants had prepared separate beds for them, but Boots had climbed right in with Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brick buildings loom from each side, but behind him is the door, the door that separates me from my father and brother. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It made it hard sometimes to separate good from great, great from greater. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The phenomenon of separate animals joining up to form an organism is not unique in insects. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of texture, does the first example consist of four separate lines or voices, or should they be performed all together? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Fear spiked through me that he was so close, that the only thing separating him from Miles was a closed door. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But her mother worried that they were too close to the thirty-eighth parallel that separated North and South Korea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They leave one at a time and go their separate ways. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until after we separated, on nights when Shoshana was asleep and I was lonely, that I wondered if perhaps my mother had poisoned my marriage. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would bulldoze the barrier separating the public from the private. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the space of a single productive minute, therefore, he might endorse twenty separate documents each advising him to pay absolutely no attention to any of the others. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Since the invasion of the Smoke, Tally hadn’t been separated from David for longer than that hour in the storm, and now she wouldn’t see him for a whole day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Staying in the vicinity so we don't get separated, he gives me space and time to scribble the words that are starting to flow again from my pen. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A dance gives nommo where bodies are not separate from the will that inhabits them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s simpler to play on our internalized “-isms” if you separate us and teed our tears—easier to make us “other” ourselves and do the Director’s work for him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The staff put Teresa up in a separate room, shuffling her away before she could even say goodbye. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Fingerprint-smudged glass walls and electronic gates separated them from the escalators and stairs that went down to the level where the trains came and went. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He saw himself as a citizen of the Net, a separate nation with rules, boundaries, and traditions of its own. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is miserable separated from her, he in his hospital bed, she in hers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Between the two grates was a space of eight to ten meters which separated the visitors from the prisoners. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had been keeping her separate from Chandresh and the circus, both to have something of his own and because it seemed appropriate, especially given his instructor’s vague advice about the matter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it is impossible to separate this apprenticeship in savagery from its fully mature incarnation; it was in this kindergarten of eugenic barbarism that the Nazis learned the alphabets of their trade. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m only here because Cotton kept me here, and you needed help. Now that you’ve separated him from the Maafa, I’m taking this bus to the end of the route.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Woundwort formed these into a separate group and took charge of it himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's why I started out with an atmosphere of pure oxygen, so the regulator could separate it later. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ninth-grade academy in a separate building, which had been successful in acclimating students to high school, was to be shut down. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each kanji was made up of separate lines, called “strokes,” and a single kanji could have more than thirty strokes—sometimes many more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Stay close to me. Hold on to my coat if you need to. We must not be separated.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The deep intention separated me from every other thing in existence. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining shamblers are practically ancient, wearing uniforms from the war, and it takes very little effort to separate their heads from their bodies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She lived in a separate house, a few minutes away. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Australians and New Guineans, separated from the Asian mainland by the Indonesian island chain, received only a trickle of inventions from Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her next letter to Gay said that she and Art had separated. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

You separated not the way upper-middle-class boomers’ kids did, gradually and in long and expensive stages, but abruptly, usually irrevocably. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was seeing her all those years after they had separated outside that cave, and remembering his anger and her betrayal. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she listened to the consecrations, one for His Body and one for His Blood, she believed that the words of the priest were a sword which mystically separated the Blood from the Body. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes voices retreat to separate topics, two or three conversations. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trip to Hawaii, I was figuring, would separate both of us from our work and give us a chance to simply breathe. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Usually after school they would separate from their age-mates and go to the studies required for their future jobs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He felt himself slipping, struggling to separate reality from memory, the immediate present from the distant past. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If you were a young person in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, you were unable to separate your fear of Stalin and his henchmen from your genuine patriotic fervor for your Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Part of the effort to divide black people was to make sure we were separated not just physically but by language as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At last they were taken into the student dormitory, where, since the girls’ room lay at one end of a long stone corridor and the boys’ at the other, they were forced to separate. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the end, when all of those separate and idiosyncratic chains were completed, half of those letters ended up in the hands of Jacobs, Jones, and Brown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is good for the family to be separated,” Pa says quietly and goes off to work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His name was Lone Bear. They’d been friends since boyhood. They were separated in the fighting. After it was over, Crazy Horse was looking around for him.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Harmonic rhythm can be completely separate from other rhythms and tempos. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious. What if there’s drama and it gets weird and we have to go to prom in separate limos?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The first line had been transformed into a confusion of separate struggles, The three tangled ships loomed ahead, turning, their decks a red chaos as men hacked at each other with sword and axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit walks on as though he had not paused, making his way through the curtains of velvet that separate the courtyard from the world outside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In a separate tent other healthy subjects slept wrapped in blankets soiled by the black vomit of patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never see one another again?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel that I am separated from you, Marmee dear, or that I love you any the less for loving John so much,” she said, clinging to her mother, with full eyes for a moment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good example is the song “One Bottle of Pop” in which three separate melodies work well together. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She’d lived a life separate from the rest of family for reasons no one had ever bothered to explain to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Soojin and I separate to meet our homeroom teachers, pick up our schedules, and find our lockers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I have also wondered why they wear stockings as separate items. If they were combined with the, ahem, panties, it would be more efficient.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Killing each separate louse is a tedious business when a man has hundreds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I divided them into two layers separated by cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They put everyone in the rabbit pen, separating us into groups. Croy said they’re going to take us all back to our cities.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But as we shall see in chapter 6, using a comma to separate a subject from its predicate or a verb from one of its complements is among the most grievous sins of mispunctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

To insist that the issue of validity must be separated from the issue of credibility is to insist that well-founded beliefs be treated as if they are unfounded beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was separated from all her family members too. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The next step was to throw a switch which separated Eagle from the Saturn and allowed Eagle and Columbia to float free. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence seven years’ distance in time and focus now separates me from GGS’s writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Annie and I got into separate elevators and raced each other up to the forty-ninth floor and then back down to street level. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had never before been inside a house where people had a separate room in which they slept. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, the young men and women sat in separate groups. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Both Luke and I had separate negligence lawsuits against the Mosses as well as against the state. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Negro often dreams of things separated from him only by a door, knowing that he is forever cut off from experiencing them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gallup would continue with the Shakespeare project, but Elizebeth and William were told to set up a separate Department of Ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To my disappointment, Stephen and Samar nodded at each other and promptly went into their separate houses. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It would be a couple of years before she was confronted with the whole rigmarole of separate bathrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was ushered past the wooden bar that separated the gallery from the court and given a glass of water to clear her throat. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I heard my father ask my mother through the wall separating our rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A good distance separated Rontu from his attacker and I could end the battle before he was wounded further or the pack fell upon him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I could gather, you had to separate them so that the male chickens could be killed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the tale of their mostly separate progress through time deserves prominent placement in any history of the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to this version the two were never separated again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to nearly fifty arrests on everything from theft to suspicion of murder, Hurd had been in prison in Colorado separate times for stealing, possession of narcotics, and a parole violation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Aimee had no idea where to stand as the other kids started to separate themselves into two teams, meandering their way to one end of the grassy area or the other. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Children, separated from their parents, wailed on the sidewalks, frantic and freezing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe there things were different Maybe like Mr. Paul’d said, God didn’t want to keep us separate. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After all the commotion from some of the teachers at school, we were worried that we would be separated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each of her footsteps made a sound like Velcro strips separating. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When we find a store called Paper Tokyo, we walk down separate aisles that stop right below our chins. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Four long days trapped with Gran and Viper, separated from my poor sick Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

After at least 13,000 years of separate developments, advanced American and Eurasian societies finally collided within the last thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to separate the actual words from the sound of Alice’s voice as she had spoken them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But now the two Syrians had been separated from the Americans, and there was no predicting where this would go. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The result was in fact a blueprint for “separate development” or grand apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He separated all the characters and ran comparisons with English, Chinese, Greek, Arabic, and with Cyrillic texts, even with Ogham. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And the two of them, Henry and Alex, like the world’s worst illustration of the Symposium: split down the middle and sent bleeding into separate lives. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As we sat back to back on our separate sides of the bed fumbling with our shoes in the horrid cheerful white light of the bed lamp, I sensed Constantin turn round. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As regards Indonesia, it was separated from northwestern Australia by water and was very different from it ecologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar in zero-g will float and the grains will separate, maximizing surface area. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also knew that, ultimately, it was her own peace of mind she strove for; self-interest and kindness were best not separated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I’d stepped into the gate, it had transported my avatar into a stand-alone simulation, a virtual location separate from the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He could not rest now, when only twenty-nine miles separated him from rescue for his men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Anise Fowler moves to a different island, and the pack of hyenas slowly separates, and suddenly I find that I’m sitting at lunch tables where there are other people. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m separated from the entry hall by a half wall with white balusters. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

However, she was becoming impatient with the segregation that mandated a separate council for black scouts, and she began campaigning for one organization overseeing all the scouts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Only for three months was he separated by more than a few small states from his father, a distance that had not troubled Gogol in the least, until it was too late. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had separated him from Pollard had vanished. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside wait fifteen pastries, separated by squares of wax paper and stuffed with strawberry preserves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wooden seats in the train car all face forward except for two groups of seats opposite each other in the front, separated by a narrow aisle. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looks at the two empty desks separating us. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In separate statements, the Retrenchment Committee urged the directors to make the committee permanent and invest it with the power to approve or deny every expenditure at the exposition, no matter how small. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like here, Tally. They don’t separate everyone, uglies from pretties, new and middle and late. And you can leave whenever you want, go anywhere you want.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

What if his parents were separating because of the storm? Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even though Bianca forgave him, they went their separate ways and she chose to go back with her coven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We were separated at Dark Gate and have had no word of them. Adaon, alas, is slain. And Doli, too, I fear.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Double garage with separate entrance. Finished basement. Sliding glass doors.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places, the skin almost separated from the underlying tissue. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father hung a blanket in the middle of the room, separating the six in our family from the Luftigs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

White Southerners could ignore the groundswell of discontent, but, especially following World War II, blacks were simply not going to tolerate a life separate from and unequal to the American mainstream. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A glass of champagne and a plate of fresh fruit sit on the table separating the lounge chairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys don’t have a separate classroom, they’re in with us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have a separate, mulish identity of their own that refused to be washed and folded and stowed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The children instinctively threw themselves onto his arms, separating him from the papers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The creek itself was viscous as phlegm, but its indentation marked the beginning of the brass curtain that separated the officers and their families from the enlisted men and their families. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner gets into a trundle bed that Frederick’s mother has apologized for three separate times, although its mattress is more comfortable than any he has slept on in his life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin, separated by a dozen Orcs or more, climbed down with them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As she watched Poppy walk off with her coven, skipping toward one of the mansions on the Hill and talking animatedly, Seven knew they weren’t just on different paths: They were in two separate worlds. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was what separated the queens from the runners-up. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It is not easy, however, to separate brain damage from the effects of fear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed Trotter over into the bushes that separate Mrs. Wheeler's yard from ours. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you tried writing all the letters on a separate page, in the order they show up in the book?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Claiborne Paul Ellis, known to everyone as C.P., lived just a weed patch north of the railroad tracks separating white Durham from black. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other women’s rights leaders, including Lucy Stone, advocated for the passage of a separate amendment that would ensure female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton are being rowed in separate boats across the Hudson River for an appointment on the plains of Weehawken. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were too few women at Muroc to warrant sending them off into a separate section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the place where he and his friends swam was farther down the river, a bend where the water, protected by encircling rocks, was calm, separated from the fast-moving water farther out. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hateful wall that separated them had become their means of reaching each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a child did was considered by his or her parents as something separate from the adult world and not particularly consequential. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“If it takes a lifetime to cross, if we get separated, if we’re unsuccessful, we still have to try.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The programs from shows in Chicago and London are in a separate binder. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her collar, he can see, is separating from the rest of the coat; threads are giving way. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Five entire floors separate us from the treasure. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our house was separated from the river by a crescent-shaped parcel of five acres of wild, uncleared growth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My shoulder popped and separated from the socket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and laughed.—“I cannot separate Miss Fairfax and her complexion.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

That was the only part I didn’t like about having the top floor of the house, that it separated me from my Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I used glass plates instead of film, and each of these had to be loaded into its separate container in the dark-room before I set out to take pictures. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Twinkle who led them in separate groups up and down the winding stairs, to gaze at the back lawn, to peer down the cellar steps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She judged him to be maybe ten years older than she was, married, he said, but separated from his wife and living with his mother. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They were separated by rolling green fields, rivers, mountain ranges, and forests. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Children mostly outgrow the inability to separate their own knowledge from someone else’s, but not entirely. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My sisters, I think, had separate fears of their own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here on the lower ground the buildings were nearly as imposing in size but housed a separate family behind each of their many grimy windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is separated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine being an only kid, plus having separated parents. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was given three rooms, and a separate toilet, with one room to be used for sleeping, one across the hall for studying, and another for exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the space was a cot and a small shelf made from planks of wood separated with cut logs and filled with books, folded clothes, papers, and some braided and bunched herbs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Actually, it made that house seem all the more scary, because behind its iron fence, it looked like some strange beast that had to be kept specially separate and fenced off from the others. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had become sounds he could neither separate nor say. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billions of kilometers of space, and more suns and moons than I can count, separate me from home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They slept in separate bedrooms because my uncle's snoring was so loud it was inhumane. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was in the bed nearer the door, separated by a curtain from his roommate: the Hampden County postmaster, as we later discovered, who was in for a prostate operation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I picked up a porcelain plate, but then I noticed the others grabbing metal ones from a separate cabinet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As if joining scraps of fabric to make a quilt, Molly puts them in the right sequence and stitches them together, creating a pattern that was impossible to see when each piece was separate. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So they were always separate. Did you ever think of that? Our mom is not just a copy!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a furnace between the layers of clothing that separated us. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

These grand homes, with their high, cool rooms, their polished mahogany furniture, their servants flitting between the main house and the separate cooking building, were meant to command attention, to show power and wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The little circles and the big circles went round and round, and the skirts swirled and the boots stamped, and partners bowed and separated and met and bowed again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were demands for separate dormitory facilities, clubhouses, separate cafeteria tables, even for soul- food menus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded toward the colored woman, who was nearly to the ditch that separated the unfenced pasture from the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Simultaneous Fertilization had occurred in the early morning hours of March 24, 1923, in separate, vertical bedrooms, after a night out at the theater. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every chance he got, Dreiser tried to separate Sara White from the Republic's entourage, which Dreiser called the “Forty Odd,” but Sara had brought along her sister Rose, which complicated things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Very good, ladies. Now, I want you to take one step back. Hold your pose, but separate yourself from your partner," Coach Whit instructed, the song now fading out, a new one beginning. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I thought the Director would separate us, but guards side-eye us whenever we try to speak anything more than passing words to one another. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Court had said that separate public schools for whites and African-Americans were not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Its only inn is a single room, divided by a woolen blanket to separate where the innkeeper sleeps and where he keeps his one table and two benches. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a hole in the chain-link fence that separated us from the rails and the long lines of empty cars. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He knew Mandela had been separated from the few Liberian friends he had who understood exactly what he was going through. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Her condition, the trek, the language barrier, being separated from her...husband.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We had separate blankets, and there were never fewer than three layers between us, but the possibilities kept me up half the night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You can’t separate it from space. Space-time is what we live in.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives, which had almost gone their separate ways a week ago, were now drawing together again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was odd that even though we were working together on a common goal, we still had separate rallies. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patients were then put in separate rooms, with the dying in one, the “very low” in another, and so on. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In art, conception and execution go hand in hand and are so completely interdependent that they cannot be separated from each other. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella and I go our separate ways after break, and I think how weird it is that it’s not all that weird for it to be just Isabella and me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As a special favor they were even given their own separate Pariah Bishop. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been separated and ...” As she gestured, all her rings glinted in the sun. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Counted the right number of strips on the disc that separated one song from the next. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The living room, dining room, and kitchen blend into one another in one big space, separated by furniture and appliances. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Children who have always had separate bedrooms don’t. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few stragglers, leaning on the wall that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When their names were called they walked down a narrow aisle separating the cafeteria in half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping off the last petal of the last flower, my hand sinks, fingers dragging through the background of stars, each pinpoint of light that Abby drew a separate attempt to capture infinity. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“The domovoi got mad because I wouldn’t give him the challah that I separated and burnt.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They lost her in the thick woods and they separated in order to double the chance of finding her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen and sitting area were at the front of the house, separated by cupboards and a tall, precarious bookshelf that was Papa’s most prized possession. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We hid behind a wall separating the marketplace and the main street, then kept to a fast but cautious path behind the houses off the bay. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bantustans, or reserves as they were also known, would be separate ethnic enclaves or homelands for all African citizens. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For millions of years, the separate fragments of Pangaea had almost no communication. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We separate and shake hands and he makes his way down the hall, waving without looking back. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Jonathan turned away and began to run through the copse of trees that separated, the field from their house. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though it goes against Ma’s warnings, Chou and I cannot separate ourselves so we head off in the same direction. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rode home in the bus, sulking in our separate seats. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a glass partition separating the front from the back. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Planet Earth was separated into several distinct ecosystems, each made up of a unique assembly of animals and plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk up the three steps to the altar and step over the small railing that separates the masses from all that is sacred. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And I dismissed the Nation of Islam’s demand for a separate black economy in America, which I had also heard before, as willful, and even mischievous, nonsense. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed so remote and no part of him; it was a play apart and separate, wondrous to watch, not without its strange pleasure. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand and find myself almost face-to-face with him, separated by only fifteen feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those values that I was accepting in school—being a good reader, being a person willing to explore the great ideas—were actually serving to separate me from other kids my age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back with Father Amadi, separated from him by the space in the middle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was looking through a low-power binocular microscope at a newly arrived batch of adult Drosophila immobilized with a little ether, and was busily separating the different varieties with a camel’s-hair brush. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the chicks were born, the sexers hurried to separate the males from the females. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I worked at separating the keys in her typewriter. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But though she tried to separate the two of them in her mind, she could not, for the bargain, she knew, included all three of them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In any war story, but especially a true one, it’s difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a database, they boasted, with forty thousand separate entries in it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists generally render these as a series of five numbers separated by dots, in the manner of Internet Protocol addresses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His tears were a mixture of anger, forgiveness, anguish, and exultation, the emotions overlapping and bleeding into one another, so that he was unable to separate them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision, the United States Supreme Court overruled the “separate but equal” laws once adopted in the 1896 Plessy v. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Out of consideration for me and what I’d been through, I felt I should have been placed in a separate room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Would all these families be separated and scattered about the countryside? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant, for example, the two separate notes G\\> and F# were combined into one, all-purpose note: one key represented them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Slowly in Pippin’s aching head memory pieced itself together and became separated from dream-shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A tinted glass portal separated us from the inner sanctum, where a giant bronze chalice held the ancient fire. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Twelve thousand foot, scattered around the castle in three separate camps, with the rivers between," her uncle said, with the craggy smile she remembered so well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If three friends wanted to sit together and there was one seat remaining in a row, the first inmate might refuse it, since that would separate him from the others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five days later, the Little Rock School Board published their statement saying that the district had been working on a plan to provide separate but equal opportunities for all the children in the city. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anger can come into you so tangibly, so physically it's like a separate person. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, central Indonesian islands between Bali and Australia remained surrounded and separated by deepwater channels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the importance of the years—as a child measures age—which separated him from the younger children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each in turn knelt respectfully and kissed the ring, transmitting their DNA to the worldwide immunity database in the Scythedom’s own special cloud separate and apart from the Thunderhead. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Although chemistry had come a long way in the century that separated Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a shadowy region, a No Man’s Land, the ground that separated the white world from the black that he stood upon. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You glance down at the table that separates you from his wrath. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The book said that the Jim Crow laws, which had been in effect since the 1880s, divided whites and blacks into two separate worlds. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The surface of the ocean separates the two worlds of hot air and cool water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The other spelling, discrete, means “separate,” “distinct,” or “unconnected.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was separating all of the mushrooms from the noodles when the phone rang. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And now—when the end seemed near—fate had separated them. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curtain separated our side of the room from the end where my parents slept in a four-poster bed veiled with mosquito netting. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were also four possible approaches for separating fissionable U-235 from natural ore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What if you’d known that you and Dad would be separated? Would you have jumped in anyway?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A group of men in baseball caps in line behind us had grumbled, “There should be a separate line for immigrants,” and “It’s not right Americans gotta wait longer because of these people.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Dr. Murphy had even borrowed some of Lee’s news separates and reports on diagnosis and practice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, I separated the batch into three different bowls and mixed a little gel food coloring into each one—red, blue, and green, to match the Froot Loops. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Candice’s parents had been divorced for about six months, and separated even longer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever Mr. Isles came to call after that, he always brought one box of candy for Mother and us, and a separate box for Lillian. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he knew if he didn’t run away, go then, he would be separated from her anyway. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Stone founded a separate suffrage group, Anthony considered it another betrayal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But I was in my own, separate element, too, submerged in rare sensations, pushing evolution’s envelope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It started with her parents separating and her father moving out. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

To prevent their getting separated and wandering in different directions they went in file, with Frodo leading. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The next chapter takes a peek behind the curtain of the ages, examining what life was like in the millennia separating the Cognitive Revolution from the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This tactic meant that Cleopatra would either have to leave her fleet and travel with Mark Antony or be separated from Mark Antony to lead her fleet by herself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

At Washington’s Union Station black and white passengers were separated. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“It expresses only the evident fact that...many characteristics of the organism are specified...in unique, separate and thereby independent ways.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don’t surprise you when you’re not expecting them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

However, the approach most scientists actually follow is to separate the problem into two parts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook them wildly, as if he wanted them to separate from the rest of him. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When the four guys separated, Dimple noted with horror that Rishi’s nose was bleeding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the negative side, arts teachers are seen as separate “specialists,” which erroneously relieves the classroom teacher of any responsibility for incorporating the arts into the daily classroom experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We must not fall prey to the kind of thinking that separates us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So I sheepishly separate from James and approach him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead he thought of how he and Shoba had become experts at avoiding each other in their three-bedroom house, spending as much time on separate floors as possible. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If we’re going to go our separate ways soon,” the boy said, “then teach me about alchemy.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would we maybe even be split up, me and Finn and Emma all going separate places? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The results were remark able by any standard—one delicate bust that Lechtman analyzed was less than an inch tall but made of twenty-two separate gold plates painstakingly joined. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later, the flap separating Major Major’s office from the orderly room flew open and the second C.I.D. man was back, puffing frantically in haste. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Reviewing Melquíades’ notes, serene now, without the exaltation of novelty, in prolonged and patient sessions they tried to separate Úrsula’s gold from the debris that was stuck to the bottom of the pot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The platform they were on had totally separated from the wall of the witness box now, sliding closer and closer to the front of the stage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were separated by a few days, and those days were the clearest and bluest Turner had ever seen. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Back in 1948, the year I was born, several black families had crossed the “color line” that separated white homes from black homes in the Smithfield area of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sit alone, still nervous, alternating between texting Jason and Hope and staring at the wall, images of Stella swirling around my head, separate moments over the past few weeks jumping out at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Tattlers pilfered from the mail chest created secret mountains beneath my bed, and Belle-cards slipped from Du Barry's office decorated the ivory screen separating my side of the room from Maman's. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But she had always been separated from them by hallways that got longer and more thickly carpeted as they moved from house to house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The star-filled tunnel has been removed, only a single curtain separates the courtyard from the entrance now. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Despite the strict discipline and regulations that separated boys’ and girls’ camps, some girls became pregnant. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her walk to the hedge that separated the two compounds and slip underneath it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he lunged up from his seat behind the railing that separated him from the aisle, and threw his hand back as if he was going to slap me across my face. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Narciso taunted, and even as the men struggled to separate them his huge arms flew out and landed with dull, sick thuds on Tenorio’s face and body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others are two separate words, like full circle and full house. ukulele. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the floor separated him from the dizzying drop. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that we went to separate schools: we even walked to school on opposite sides of the highway from whites, shouting insults at each other across the street. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And then he wasn’t sure whether he passed out or just forced himself to separate from his body until it was finally over. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The station wagon pulled into a parking space between two looming gray buildings separated by a narrow road. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Because of the prince’s status, we were allowed to meet one another in the consulting room, not the normal visiting area where one is separated from one’s family by thick walls and glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep a hand on Garrett, just to make sure we don’t get separated. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most of them were not conscious of living a special, separate, stunted way of life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the Dutch national crew dove into the melee, separating boys, pulling them back to their tables, smoothing out their feelings in crisp, perfect, diplomatic English. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My grandparents had been separated for many years, and my grandfather had for some time lived alone in the South Philadelphia housing projects. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was slowly separating from my parents, gradually less inclined to blurt every last thought in my head. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They’ll separate out the sinners and the righteous, I dare say. It’s no good praying now. It’s too late for that. You should have done that when you were alive. No use now.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We cannot be human without it; if we were to be separated from it our minds would die, as surely as bees lost from the hive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trick knees and punctured eardrums were minor complaints and not yet disabilities which would separate a few from the fate of the rest. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched to the square near the entrance to Salem, and separated into two lines, leaving the roadway open between for the parade to pass. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as there are separate doors for boys and girls, there are also separate parts of die schoolyard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second and third floors were completely separated, just as they were in any three-story brownstone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A man could run his hands through such a fog, separating it into tendrils and streamers that gathered themselves languidly once more into the whole and disappeared seamlessly, without a trace. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Black parishioners then walked out of St. George’s, and Jones and Allen each established a separate church of his own. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

Except in a story Homer and Hesiod tell, that Aglaia married Hephaestus, they are not treated as separate personalities, but always together, a triple incarnation of grace and beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the colonists crossed the straits separating each Indonesian island from the next one to the east, they adapted anew, filled up that next island, and went on to colonize the next island again. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She found the house in a pleasant street where each smallish building was separated from its neighbours by a bit of garden. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before that, African-American soldiers had separate sleeping places, separate units, and separate everything. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But only 17 percent of those who had entered in the mid-1990s made the switch within five years, according to a separate study. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He reaches toward the coffee table separating us and picks up a small black box resting on top of a stack of game magazines. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There, like Darwin, he observed astonishing differences between closely related species that had been separated by channels of water. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that these are two separate questions needs to be underscored right away. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like their owner — her reflection in the window was spindly and stiff, separated just this way, by a pane of glass, from some more vibrant world. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through their writing, they discovered they shared a common identity, which united them into a community that connected them, not separated them from the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t have gone to all that trouble breaking me out if they hadn’t had a method of keeping tabs on me if I got recaptured or separated from them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But we can totally add a separate photo of you.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Once it was all mixed up, I started combining the wet ingredients into a separate bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As they went their separate ways that night, Houseman hoped the challenge of the role would appeal to Welles. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They put me in the emergency room, a long room with a line of beds separated by pastel-patterned curtains. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It has cloth seats and air conditioning and a separate place to store luggage. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When it came time to divide the women into separate regiments, knowing how close these friends were, Marina assigned them all to the same squadron. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I memorized the separate sounds that she had uttered and went to the neighboring store. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police separated the two and charged Ms. Worthy with disorderly conduct. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The velvet ropes that kept us separated from the kids of rich families. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Opening the gate of the pen, he went inside, “Get along there now,” he said, pushing the woman and her two children out, separating them from the others. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Justice Henry Brown explained that separate but equal was just fine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He is fortunate that his parents and siblings are with him—many Syrian children are separated from their families as they flee their homes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ten-year-old boy wrote the two separate amounts down slowly and carefully. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Again, the crew would be separated, and again, they would time their movements to the chiming of the Elderclock, but now there would be even less room for error. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s even possible to separate the two. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he is out of sight, the nervous crowd separates to seek out shaded areas to rest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you tried writing all the letters on a separate page, in the order they show up in the book?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Two complete and separate thoughts ran in his mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Early kings were themselves the head of the state religion or else had separate high priests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since Ifemelu came back, he found himself seeking stories of men who had left their marriages, and willing the stories to end well, the children more contented with separated parents than with married unhappy parents. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m standing on it, the boards crack and separate, the bridge sways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A different sergeant pointed us into a separate room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, the two men went to the bunkhouse—a building separate from the farmhouse proper, which is too small to shelter all the Rupp children. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elijah Muhammad teaches his followers that, first, the moon separated from the earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subject boiled down to this: Could Seaborg devise a chemical process for separating element 94 from the stew of radioactive fission products in which it was mixed after the bombardment of uranium? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It took nine separate burnings before the fire got down to the straw and cotton ticking of its insides. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Why can’t they have a separate wing for people like that? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Turkey’s closer to Greece, two countries away from Saudi Arabia. A separate country.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But today the group stood anxiously, separate from the other children. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t move the debris that separated her and Leo from the others. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were executing officers of the rank of major and above who were separated from their troops. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I got separated from my parents. They told me to meet them at Saint-Denis. How about you? Where are you going?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He comes back with a few interested families, but no one wants to take in all three of us and we would rather brave the cold than be separated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Coach Mustilli always said that commitment and hard work were what separated champions from everyone else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The camp had a handful of outhouses, separated for women and men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys cut through the stitching along the edges and separated the blanket into two thinner sheets. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the National Party saw a potential ally in the PAC: they viewed the PAC as mirroring their anticommunism and supporting their views on separate development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The highest of them was at the right of the line and a little separated from the others. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But by forcing you to verbalize that memory—to explain yourself—I separate you from those instincts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That seemed so dangerous, to think of me and my body as two separate things—as if one could be sacrificed to protect the other. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She called us to come and separate the food from the dirt and dried leaves and grass. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell she’s getting older in the entries, her language becoming more refined as time separates her from the fringe where she once lived, her reactions becoming more moderate. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She watched the words separate inside the skull—baby lingered and flitted from the memory centers to the imaginative structures to the places where the brain enjoys playing with pleasing-sounding words. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sarah Pocket then made her separate effect of departing with, “Bless you, Miss Havisham dear!” and with a smile of forgiving pity on her walnut-shell countenance for the weaknesses of the rest. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, there wasn’t that much to say, as my parents separated when I was very young. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the high-speed chases and mandatory shoot-outs become too repetitive, I head over to the revival houses and watch gentler movies in which the couples sleep in separate beds and everyone wears a hat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It crept up the stairwell that separated our space from Robbie’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My parents separating, the Hideout closing, the other kids hating me. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as Miss Saunders came here, she separated me and Char’s seats. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The French masters had separated slaves who spoke the same African language, so in secret they had fashioned their own common tongue in order to communicate more effectively. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

July had brought us only the strange apparition of the family Fowles, and in its aftermath, the conviction in all our separate minds that their visit could only have been a dream. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right away, they started separating us: men to the right, women and children to the left. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Their bare branches spread out to join together the separate patches of land. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finish searching one patch, then look up at the chain-link fence that separates where I’m allowed to go from where I’m not. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few inches separated one man from another. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bed of damp earth, her breathing slowed and that which separated herself from the swamp disappeared. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She sat as far away as she could from the African slave girl, making sure the bundles separated them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the only thing separating us was an age difference and not a decision she made. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A solid two feet separated us, but it still counted. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I hung back in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was in the back of this apartment, a separate room. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like always, in case of emergency, in case me and Mama Ya-Ya get separated, I know I’m to go to Missionary Baptist Church. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

For there were not many buyers really—there was only one, and he kept these agents in separate offices to give a semblance of competition. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shimmering curtain of light separated the rear half of the car from the front. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And I will never be able to separate that moment from Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He turned the cleaning into a big production, making separate requests for the tiny bags of powdered soap we kept in the office, for a toilet brush, for garbage bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crowd into Cradle’s office and look for my keys—four separate rings of the big, heavy “bit” keys, which work cell doors, with center-gate, end-gate, and fire-alarm keys thrown on for good measure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they separated out 93 by repeating a tedious sequence of heating, evaporating, dissolving, precipitating, and centrifuging over three long days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Internet—given that its tribes don’t have any geography to mark out their separate identities—sees decorum operating in a dramatically exaggerated way. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The twin cities were separated by a tall chainlink fence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I moved Fern to my left side to keep them separated. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Malan introduced the Group Areas Act — which he described as “the very essence of apartheid” — requiring separate urban areas for each racial group. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know now that I want to live freely, without separating myself from others, without feeling that I need to pick a side, to stick to my own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At supper silly, the children sat at a separate smaller table. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first day, gray drapes covered the large glass windows that separated them from the public. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If Dudley was frightened enough to accept the Order’s help, his parents would accompany him: There could be no question of being separated from their Diddykins. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The materials for this story are taken from two poets, the Greek Aeschylus and the Roman Ovid, separated from each other by four hundred and fifty years and still more by their gifts and temperaments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now separated, we would each face our fear alone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my dream, painters separated green into yellow and blue. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my hometown of Isfahan, there is another town—a hidden town completely surrounded but separate—called New Jolfa. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were separated from the sick monkeys by open floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody raced around the room and sat down at separate desks to start tapping on the glass computer pads. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And as they rode the elevator up to their separate floors—Simeon on seven, Kenzi on nine—Simeon looked at Kenzi, knowing what he wished for. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

If this did not work out, they could move us someplace worse and probably separate us again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When the pledge is over, we walk single file back into the classroom, take our separate seats Alina and I far away from Gina. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The thunder of the guns swells to a single heavy roar and then breaks up again into separate explosions. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the four decades that separated their ages, they were a study in opposites. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Cap it off and Jinx’ll hook up that copper tubing. When the liquid separates from the mash, it goes through the tubing and ends up in this barrel.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At PacificVista Middle, the sixth graders had a separate building and a different lunch period, so we never had to run into Conner and the Morons last year. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Birdy comes over to us and tells us to separate. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, who had separated from my grandfather many years earlier, was especially unnerved by the crime and his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That night, and each night afterward, I separated the tobacco into equal piles and said to Steve, “Choose.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we all live in separate foster homes, that breakfast is the only time of the week all eight of us can be together. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the farmhouse, it was said, Napoleon inhabited separate apartments from the others. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Probably separate unions altogether for child jugglers and people who can do the splits. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two worlds developed side by side, wholly separate. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Above the hills that separate Marengo from the sea, the sky was streaked with red. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ten years separate Hokey’s memory and this one, ten years during which we can only guess at what Lord Voldemort was doing...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Now that I was seeing the Commander on the sly, if only to play his games and listen to him talk, our functions were no longer as separate as they should have been in theory. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Apollo machinery was being designed with two separate spacecraft, which would rendezvous and dock with each other while in orbit around the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the two separate beliefs loosely in my mind and let their singing discord lull me into senselessness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like we are two separate people, together, sharing this. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Instead of konohiki carrying out every aspect of administration for a Hawaiian district, state governments have several separate departments, each with its own hierarchy, to handle water management, taxes, military draft, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they came to the hallway where Rawiya and Moss would have to separate, she grabbed his arm again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The quad bikes separated, arcing away from each other. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Women received theirs in their own rooms and were kept separated from the men to protect their reputations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I stood still and allowed several giants to separate us. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt trapped and depressed, since the job would separate him from his young daughter, who would remain in California with her mother. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve got quite my own stockpile of supplies, separate and apart from the stuff Dad has in our safe room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the nine of us turned to go our separate ways, one by one a soldier followed each of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pump is a modification of Savery’s engine, with a float introduced to separate the steam from the water being pumped. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A dozen replicas had been fired in three separate batches, and the last firing yielded a pair of superb vases. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Still, the station here, separated into two staging areas and six tracks, bustles with activity. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She repeated after me, making the four syllables into four separate words. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the portrait hole and across the common room, the girls and boys divided toward their separate staircases. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I also received three separate emails from my Apptitude team members. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Apparently they’re owned by a subcontractor with separate insurance. It’s all very complicated, with lots of people in lots of offices claiming it’s not their liability.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the silence which fell on the room, they pursued their separate thoughts. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first time in a vehicle since I had been separated from my parents four years before. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t gotten separated from Nyanriak and her children, thank goodness, and now we were with a bigger group of people from our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I slept in fits, unable to separate dreaming from waking. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They all got to their feet then and returned to their separate offices. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As such, I’m under no illusions about the fact that they have a separate life that doesn’t involve me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Would the boats be separated when they took to the ocean? Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Once the teachers separated us, Kim and I looked at each other and started laughing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks were born in separate hospitals, attended separate schools, worshipped in separate churches and were buried in separate cemeteries. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa then separates the meat from the bones and cuts the flesh into very thin slices to soak in the lime juice that Ma has prepared. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke intently to his friend, then laughed and clapped his back as they separated. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a space in the hedge, and here, the trees were different, a separate group of them, inside the main wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Billy couldn’t read Tralfamadorian, of course, but he could at least see how the books were laid out—in brief clumps of symbols separated by stars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black and white babies were born in separate hospitals, lived their adult lives apart from one another, and were buried in separate cemeteries. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That morning, they’d had coffee together in a cafe near the harbor after which, like professional spies, they’d picked up their separate suitcases—Desdemona keeping her silkworm box—and had departed in different directions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They all bid the Millers goodbye and began to separate at the end of the walkway from the front stoop. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The newspaper clip in Mr. Ray’s basement—the one separate from the rest. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately, now that they were out of Delaware and a long way from Maryland there would be no green-as-poison curtain separating the colored people eating from the rest of the diners. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musa had just lifted his foot and was trying to separate the sand from his flesh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But a long-lived fissionable isotope, especially one that could be chemically separated from its uranium grandparent, might be especially suitable for a bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Over the hedge and hydrangeas that separated the road from the stairs, they could see the tan car had joined the parade inching down the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In animals, the urge to kill is separate from the urge to eat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In English, the letters stayed separate from each other, so it was easy to tell them apart. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her parents separated, her mom stopped attending, though Candice still went with her father sometimes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z