| 单词 | separated |
| 例句 | 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 You and Kutti watched as the boys carefully separated our rubbish into piles: cardboard, metal, plastic, glass. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But a generation’s worth of hard feelings and resentments separated the leadership. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The importance of isolation is most obvious for Hawaii and Tonga, both of which were separated by at least 4,000 miles of ocean from the nearest societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How was I to know, since apart from our two bodies, now separated, there wasn’t anything to keep us together or even to remind us of each other? The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 Slowly in Pippin’s aching head memory pieced itself together and became separated from dream-shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z 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 My shoulder popped and separated from the socket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 “We got separated from our caravan,” I said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The sidewalk is flush with the curb, and Diallo’s apartment building is flush with the sidewalk, separated by just a four-step stoop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There, the alchemist separated the disk into four parts. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 A fence separated them and Anne was sick with typhus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 It was what separated the men from the dweebs. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 This creek was upstream from the first and separated from it by a high waterfall. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Children, separated from their parents, wailed on the sidewalks, frantic and freezing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 The prison, according to apartheid dictates, separated detainees by color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 This officer too was separated from his troops. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The second and third floors were completely separated, just as they were in any three-story brownstone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 I took one last look through the plate glass that separated the set from the control room. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 ‘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 You three have been separated from your friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My father, meanwhile, separated the seeds from the pulp and set them out to dry on a cookie sheet, so that we could roast them later on. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 The electrolysis separated the hydrogen and oxygen from each other. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they were right by the see-through wall that separated the crowd from the stage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Why are the planetary orbits nearly circular and neatly separated one from the other? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The C02 needs to be separated in order to be processed. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The deep intention separated me from every other thing in existence. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The moment they separated, Koffi felt a terrible vacuum, a void. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 A space of dust and rubbish separated it from the village. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 It crept up the stairwell that separated our space from Robbie’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 When we separated, Mom wiped the tears from both my eyes and hers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “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 In many ways, even though we were separated, I kept up a lifelong conversation with him in my head. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My younger sister was in the class below me; we were normal ages and normally separated. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They followed the river as far as the ring of trees and brush that separated Uglyville from the suburbs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 Rowan seemed to have no problem with being separated from his family. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z 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 I ran out back, through the courtyard that separated the house from the servants’ quarters, and upstairs to her room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents permanently separated when he was four. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Then I set out to obliterate the barriers that separated me from them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once on the other side the two lines of warriors separated. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Maddie was safely separated from her would-be assassin, if he was an assassin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z 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 She dropped a bright peeling into her lap and separated an orange section slowly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 They did concur, however, that a discernible gap of time separated the two shots. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 The inner and outer tubes separated cleanly and easily. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Aside from the four decades that separated their ages, they were a study in opposites. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 She couldn’t move the debris that separated her and Leo from the others. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were two beds separated by a monastic partition. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 She was separated from all her family members too. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Once the teachers separated us, Kim and I looked at each other and started laughing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I could look down through the woods and see, far below, with the sun on it, the line of the river that separated the two armies. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I divided them into two layers separated by cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Two men and two women separated themselves from the crowd. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 I’m separated from the entry hall by a half wall with white balusters. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Whenever the authorities separated us, I would be slightly relieved, but then the worry over how he was doing would only add to my anxieties. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But the look on her face was a hard and distant one; it separated him from her body by a great suggestion of space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The men were then separated from the women, and Amari’s neck irons and leg irons were finally removed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 My mother hated to be separated from us, but she had no choice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a great scrambling and jostling as people separated, banged into each other, and ordered others out of their space. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 And they might still be calling to this day had not a single voice separated itself from the others: “Burn ’im, Magee!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The tunnel was high and wide, so wide that, though the hobbits walked abreast, only touching the side-walls with their outstretched hands, they were separated, cut off alone in the darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z 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 Various missing-persons agencies were collecting information and trying to connect those separated from their families. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I kept to the solid walkway that stretched along the rink, separated by narrow pillars. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z George's dad had hung it after he and Mom separated, but before he left town. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She was never separated from the actual earth and personified. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few shades separated their skin color. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I can’t imagine being an only kid, plus having separated parents. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Back outside on the marble steps, they all separated. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z 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 For the first time since our family had been forced into the ghetto some eighteen months before, the five of us still together were to be separated. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z 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 Still, the station here, separated into two staging areas and six tracks, bustles with activity. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The Kalimabenge River, which separated the mountains from the city, was not far from our house, and we spent a lot of time there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 Ten minutes later they were crossing the frontier that separated civilization from savagery. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I was not happy to be separated from my colleagues and I missed my garden and the sunny terrace on the third floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the accompanying letter, Martha wrote that she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Next to him, a tall chain-link fence separated the highway from a neighborhood of winding streets, cozy houses, and tall eucalyptus trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 In truth, very little separated the experiences of these two groups. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 Cows separated from their calves will mope and bellow for days. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Police separated the two and charged Ms. Worthy with disorderly conduct. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Some families had been separated for days or weeks. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She stood up on the cement parapet that separated the rubber trees from the driveway, and clapped her hands over Velutha’s eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Remember? Never separated again. And after we get home...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert’s songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele is remarkably short, considering they are separated by two hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z 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 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 They were separated and made into rings and pendants for unmarried daughters’ dowries. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Two college students, with thick books in their hands, are quickly separated from the group. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He said he knew I had been alone for some time and separated from my colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Merry and Pippin, separated by a dozen Orcs or more, climbed down with them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z 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 Musab told me all families head to Ankara to find separated relatives. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The cards were separated into ten multicolored ministacks, one for each room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z 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 I’d seen the flimsy line that separated getting by and going under. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “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 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 Even if he had had some motive to use me, he knew that I was separated from Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, my “power base,” according to the press in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 According to this version the two were never separated again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 But the United Kingdom is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel and the North Sea. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 I walked through the little swinging door that separated the offices from the waiting area, and headed down the hall. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I longed for a confessional, for the safety of the wood cubicle and the green curtain that separated priest and penitent. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Worse, the separated head went on gulping for air and blinking its eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 And since mothers and fathers couldn’t be sold off and separated, they could even marry then, something they weren’t allowed during slavery. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 I didn’t realize how tired I was until we separated. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 He says my sudden shyness was one of the most heartbreaking symptoms of being separated from us for so long. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z By eighteen years old, other teenagers have separated from their parents. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They had been separated for some time, and it was the first time James senior had ever seen his son play football at Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 It was strange, all of us separated by walls, divided into compartments like bees in a dusty hive, so we kept our doors open. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The twin cities were separated by a tall chainlink fence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z 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 They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z My science teacher separated us and I was shaking uncontrollably. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 At length Mrs. Weidenbach separated the two old warriors, though her hoopskirt got in the way. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At first I thought there was a breeze, because of all the motion in the treetops, but then one of the many leaves separated and fluttered down to us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 I separated myself from the others and edged around to stand beside Mom. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 As usual we were separated from the white people, set apart in a wooded section away from the pool and the merry- go-round. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that she felt alone with Bitter and Aloe—it was just quieter in their house, with the three of them when they had been three, before she chose Pet and separated herself. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was separated from his travelling companions on the boat, and did not see them again. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The Norse visits were instead launched from the Greenland colony, separated from North America only by the 200-mile width of Davis Strait. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many had been separated from loved ones during the fire and now had the daunting task of searching through a ruined city for them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 He and his wife had separated in September. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Southside had separated from my grandmother decades earlier, when my mother was in her teens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Only twenty feet separated him from the enemy now, and he tried to remember the ground between. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Elijah Muhammad teaches his followers that, first, the moon separated from the earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Would the boats be separated when they took to the ocean? Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His uncle’s BMW was parked a few yards away, separated from the other cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The woman’s voice rose in pitch and she separated her legs, securing her position on the sidewalk. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was what separated the queens from the runners-up. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Had it still occupied that space, the impact would have separated it from Butler’s shoulders. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “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 “She had it on her when we got separated.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 are the ones who came up with a one-drop rule that separated the “white” from the “black,” even if it meant that their own blue-eyed sons would live under the lash. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He had felt isolated from the other fellows, separated by the secret he was forced to carry. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that when the show was originally conceived, the decision was made that all fantasy elements of the show be separated from the real elements. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 When her parents separated, her mom stopped attending, though Candice still went with her father sometimes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 “When my parents separated, they made me see a therapist,” Candice said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 I had lunch before class in the high school quad and noticed that, like everywhere else, it was really separated by race. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Then came the long period of mourning and the obligatory withdrawal and they separated for a time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There was movement behind the tangle of shrubs that separated the yard from the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Twenty paces of open street separated us from the shadows on the other side. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Wait, no one told us we were going to be separated.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 By this time, the rocket had used all its fuel, so we separated from it and floated to the moon in the weightlessness of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We had never heard from Hershel in those six long years we had been separated. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Her condition, the trek, the language barrier, being separated from her...husband.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 As far as I can see, there are low buildings separated by trimmed grass and fledgling trees. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They walked together to the next corner, then separated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 When he looked up, he was standing by a low red building separated from the main building by a covered walkway. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The velvet ropes that kept us separated from the kids of rich families. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z 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 Neutrons from the Rad Lab could be detected even in Gilman Hall, the headquarters of Gilbert Lewis’s chemistry department, which was separated from the lab by a broad alley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z First they were all separated, exploding into different directions, but then they swooped back toward each other, like family, and became one big black wave, twisting and sweeping up through the trees around them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In prison we were separated from each other by this elaborate metal contraption, while in court we all mingled freely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They were separated from the sick monkeys by open floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Ivy had heard that his parents officially separated, but Drew seemed to be doing okay. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Castroville Street was deep in sticky mud, and Chinatown was so flooded that its inhabitants had laid planks across the narrow street that separated their hutches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “Children are not meant to be separated from their parents.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “She thought it would make things easier for Mama. Finally, my mother said yes, because she did not want my sister to suffer hunger, but it broke her heart to have Jadzia separated from us.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 An hour has passed since Amar and Christina separated from us near the Hancock building, which means he probably knows that the serum virus didn’t work. 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 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 They were not allowed to go home first to their families so many people are separated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a soldier separated from the group, she took a step backward, directly into his path. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “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 When the train pulled into Little Rock, we were separated from the white people again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Big Time stepped through the curtain that separated the front room from the back. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Would all these families be separated and scattered about the countryside? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The hotel room was basic: two double beds separated by a wooden nightstand with a gray lamp on it, across from a chest of drawers that doubled as a stand for the TV and coffeemaker. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Although separated in age by almost four decades, the two players became relatively close and remained so for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 A curtain separated the colored car from the white, and only the porters and the conductor could pass through. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z This baby has been separated from its mom and dad, in a nest that has fallen from the tree that probably fell too, and George said it was bad. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When the four guys separated, Dimple noted with horror that Rishi’s nose was bleeding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The boy wanted to believe that his friend had simply become separated from him by accident. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 Zero walks closer to me, his muscles shifting underneath the black armor, until we are separated by a mere foot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 The thing that separated the human hand from Nature was the space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out of it, the colors melt together, and from the many separated lines a solid gray emerges. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The old woman led the boy to a room at the back of her house; it was separated from her living room by a curtain of colored beads. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. 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 And when we separated I thought how maybe we were together now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 Suddenly Rosy came from behind the lab bench that separated us and began moving toward me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Caught by fading light, they headed back to their car but somehow became separated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not know what life will be like, separated from a faction—it feels disengaged, like a leaf divided from the tree that gives it sustenance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z There were two worlds as far as we were concerned, separated absolutely in every sense. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She kept asking why she had been separated from her family. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When Grub was seven years old, Hugo and I separated and divorced. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 I look left—there’s the dining room, painted blue, overlooked by a television, full of circular tables, separated from the hall by that glass with the square wire mesh in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z For the hundredth time Matt felt the gulf that separated him from humanity. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Or if he had separated us, asked about me and then about Jaja. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Nawaz leads me between two rows of beds separated by white plastic curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 The Byrd house sat on a neat lawn separated by a white picket fence from the field grass on either side of the property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The women were expected to sit silently, separated from the men by a bar and low curtain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "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 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 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 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 Again, and loose straw separated from the bunch. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 They may be widely separated both in space and time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “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 The few other men and I were separated from the women. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Me and Diego separated quick, turned to Principal Cody, straightening out our plain white T-shirts. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 Candice’s parents had been divorced for about six months, and separated even longer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “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 I sat in the back with Father Amadi, separated from him by the space in the middle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Walter, Kathy, and Ray were angry that we had been separated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 I worry about lunch, when we’ll see the rest of the team without the close supervision of teachers, but we’re called down to guidance and separated just before it’s time to eat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Now, the garden separated the Marches’ house from that of Mr. Laurence. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Did he take pity on me, a boy separated from his family? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Where his eyes should be are two dark pieces of coal separated by a sharp, thin nose, below which are thin lips that spit out saliva. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Inmate and visitor were kept separated only if one of them requested it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He went over to the middle window in the room, which was separated by a window seat from the cherrywood table where Mrs. Glass paid bills and wrote letters. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Under her hands pieces of dog and pieces of man separated and mingled and re-formed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Of course, melodies don't always divide into clear, separated phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nothing made sense: The side that Chess had stepped on wasn’t even the side that had separated the most from the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 The roof was built with an overhang, so that a narrow gap separated the two buildings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 The printed words were a code that forever separated us. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The kraals of my father’s wives were separated by many miles and he commuted among them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They stood for what seemed like a long time, exchanging words, separated by the screen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 I keep a hand on Garrett, just to make sure we don’t get separated. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Without rope or crosspieces and nails the logs just rolled and separated. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 “Pooh!” said Michael, as they were watching Andrew one day through the fence that separated Number Seventeen from Next Door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Louis Swift’s goal was to keep black and white workers separated. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were a few trying experiences such as being blocked from passage to class by a few rough, tough-looking sideburners, boys who I’m sure if separated would not attack a mouse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The best that I could do was keep Vonetta and Fern separated. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Most likely scouts or drifters who had been separated from their unit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Someone was close, separated only by a few wooden boards. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 Whatever had separated him from Pollard had vanished. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Keeping it together under pressure was what separated the winners from the losers. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z We are sitting across from each other, separated by a little table with two cold cups of tea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Lest they be frightened out of their feathers, a garden separated the birds from the ogres. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom licks her lips and says, “Between the 1940s and 1970s, about one-third of Native children were separated from their families. Until Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Only the floor separated him from the dizzying drop. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 Downtown consisted of two intersecting streets, Main Street and High Street, separated by a single flashing stoplight and no traffic. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z 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 Unlike the other rooms in the school, they are separated, not by glass, but by mirrors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Petra and Calder felt separated from everyday life by a chasm of responsibility. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z All too soon, we separated, both of us in tears. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z 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 Ambrose points at Ma’s purse and asks, “What else did she have on her when you...uh, got separated?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 I’m sorry the police came and separated us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z 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 The camp had a handful of outhouses, separated for women and men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 It was too hard being separated like this. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Now separated, we would each face our fear alone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She led them into the thickest clustering of trees, then they separated to go to the bathroom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 It didn’t occur to me for many years that they were as alike as sisters, separated only by formal education. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her next letter to Gay said that she and Art had separated. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Well, we left school together, but she and I separated at the top of the road that led to our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 When the second stage, or upper half, of the Titan separated from the first stage, I thought we had blown up. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything in his life would now be separated into before and after this moment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 The two of them had been separated for five years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 We kept our piles separated with an oversized pencil. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 Heavy iron bars separated them from where the captives were crowded together in the dark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 What would become of them, separated as they now were? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Knots of dense galaxies are separated by vast voids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The government ordered him to be held as a "restricted or isolated prisoner" to keep him separated from the other inmates. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Only now do I trouble to notice what intricate differences separated home Catholicism from classroom Catholicism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “That way if we get separated, we can be in contact and still help each other.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z 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 There was a furnace between the layers of clothing that separated us. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z 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 From up here, I can see that the two beasts have separated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Because I feel that when a father and his child are separated, the child has a tendency to take the wrong route in life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 So they did everything they could to discourage the Indians—indentured workers were beaten by their employers, arrested, kept to certain areas, or separated from their families. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Her calves are separated from her shortly after birth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was separated from his unit and, what was worse for an infantryman, from his rifle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “That was the mistake, you realize. They were too well matched. Too taken with each other to be competitive. And now they can never be separated. Pity.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Harry found himself crammed beside Ginny; the unsaid things that had just passed between them made him wish they had been separated by a few more people. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 This policy results in more than 2,300 migrant children being separated from their families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z 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 They keep their tasks and names very carefully separated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z 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 The lifeboat and the raft had already separated as far as the rope would go, about forty feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Sometimes I heard this loud family across the hallway that separated our two apartment doors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Or by the time Gregor crawled across the few feet of stone that separated them, would he again be mumbling about fish and abandoning Gregor to the darkness? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he strode through the cordon of officials and began to pass the athletes, separated from them by a rope line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Finally, I began walking across the wide grassy land that separated the house from the fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Inmates weren’t separated by age or sex, and often included sex offenders. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 Instead, he probed the explosive characteristics of U-235 and soon realized that a bomb could be made from roughly a pound of the separated isotope. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 I sat on the floor and separated the invoices from the checks. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew there was a world war going on: It meant that they were cold and hungry, separated from family and home—some of them even from their own children. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They were separated by rolling green fields, rivers, mountain ranges, and forests. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 And they had come upon a low promontory that separated one part of the beach from the next. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 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 We stacked up our dollar bills and separated the coins by type. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 She separated a smaller file of papers from the rest. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 I was with a bunch of girls who had been separated from their other friends, who were in another tent. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 They got separated from the fighter planes of another regiment that were supposed to escort them and provide them with protection from enemy fighters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 But strangely, the darkness separated me from everything. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was! But then we...we got separated and Trub—your father—he came to help me find Ma. And he took me out for a burger.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The Tillermans stood on the sidewalk, separated by a briar hedge from this scene. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Nana was dead, and she was here, in a strange city, separated from the life she’d known by valleys and chains of snow-capped mountains and entire deserts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A strip of sky separated it from the lake, but it was most definitely a patch of land with trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 There were no private rooms, and patients were separated by flimsy plywood dividers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I ignore the dangers of being separated from my guard. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “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 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 She hated the thought of being separated from Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He pulled them apart while she separated the other two. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Kathy’s eyes locked on to the sliding wooden partition that separated this teller from the others. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 In some places, the skin almost separated from the underlying tissue. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The gym was at the other end of the school, a quarter of a mile away at least, separated from us by a field of ice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t suppose it’s a coincidence that they separated us?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It may have been because of the two separated shoulders. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 became widely separated as they straggled up the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 At the center of each was a unique symbol that corresponded to a legend at the bottom of the page, where the symbols reappeared next to a list of numbers separated by dashes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I am glad that I never separated from Him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 The surface was covered with horizontal strips of wood separated by gaps. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She separated out a large section of Sierra’s hair and started braiding it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 In liberty or bondage, the African could not be separated from the American. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Back in town, Doha separated from the others and headed farther into the village. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z 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 I couldn’t reconcile his world with mine so I separated them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And Jews were being rounded up and separated from the rest of the population. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z 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 The people gathered on the road as usual, except this time I noticed they were separated into union and company families, each keeping an icy distance. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After breakfast we walked on top of the wall that separated the Hulls’ property from the Chinese farms. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I’m separated from so-and-so . . .” he would say. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If we had separated as I wanted, one of us might have gotten away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was seventeen years old, irreparably separated from her and already pressing forward in his drive for wealth, when he learned that there was probably not another stomach like hers on earth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “Of course, my Lord, of course. You are merciful, thank n you. Voldemort moved on, and stopped, staring at the space — large enough for two people —- that separated Malfoy and the next man. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 Mate had not been separated from her baby overnight since we’d come home from prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they had gone back to being civil, Mama often came over to see Baby, through the wooden gate in the mud wall that separated her home from Odenigbo’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 “You are some child’s toy, am I right? And you have been separated, somehow, from the child who loves you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The quad bikes separated, arcing away from each other. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And now—when the end seemed near—fate had separated them. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Dorothy Vaughan was keenly aware of that undulating invisible line that separated the past from the future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 Seconds plodded by, each separated from the next by an eternity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The other half, separated by an iron gate, held the sick inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 We lived separated by thick doors with several bolts, windows with iron grates, peepholes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “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 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 These months mark the longest we have ever been separated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Then their footsteps separated, his lordship's going towards his study, Mr Cardinal's towards the library. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 I moved Fern to my left side to keep them separated. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 The culture and generation gap that separated us was too immense to navigate. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was as though someone had decided that we were family and couldn’t be separated. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The Hillpark side was separated from the East Shoal side by the concession stand and press box planted behind home plate. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z If they got separated now, they were dead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If my roots stretched past the property line that separated them, well, that’s never been my concern. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Different genres of writing had to be physically separated. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The passengers were separated from the people waiting for them by glass doors and walls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now only summer separated me from going to school every morning with them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z After parking in my driveway, we walked across the strip of grass that separated Margo’s house from mine, just as we had Saturday. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 They had “stolen” much more, and Jiichan separated the grain from the straw. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He spoke intently to his friend, then laughed and clapped his back as they separated. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A solid two feet separated us, but it still counted. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The two boys separated and went their ways. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Grandma had explained to us that by age six or eight, we would be separated by very strict lines forbidding us to ever speak to each other again, except if absolutely necessary. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The distance between them and me was far more than the miles that physically separated us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But Coach Mustilli always said that commitment and hard work were what separated champions from everyone else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z 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 There’s a whole crowd of Muhammad’s friends hanging out there, guys with fledgling beards and girls with poufy hijabs, supposedly gender separated but, really, getting chatty with one another. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z 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 “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 “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 Milo’s mustache was unfortunate because the separated halves never matched. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “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 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 In Dixie there are two worlds, the white world and the black world, and they are physically separated. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of families had become separated in the mad scramble to escape the flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Most are as separated as Jupiter is from the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 In my dream, painters separated green into yellow and blue. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My mother tells me this as we fold laundry, white towels separated from the colored ones. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 “I saw her in Zu’s nightmare. They got separated.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z 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 I threw a switch on my instrument panel, and our two spacecraft were separated. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Eva’s hands separated, and each one clung to an arm of the chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 The brothers are separated by almost five hundred miles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z 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 |
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