| 单词 | set up |
| 例句 | They drove through the rain to Salisbury and set up the tent and booths in the rain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z My smile didn't waver when we met her college roommate and helped set up her dorm room. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Yes. Bring the Abbot’s chair out of the place they call Cavern Hole. Have it set up for me on a platform by the gatehouse. I’ve got some judgments to deliver.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After I went and picked up the pillowcase I set up my dinosaurs and LJ set up the Nazis and we started the batde. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Evacuation centers are being set up throughout Southern California in school gymnasiums, churches, and malls—but there seems to be a staggering number of people who are choosing not to cooperate with these government mandates.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They left the lantern burning at Tab’s grave while they set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Okay, big baby, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. They’d been camping sort of by Yellowstone for a week and were supposed to set up at Rock Creek. They even pulled in there that afternoon.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z They entered noiselessly before dawn, with two pieces of light artillery drawn by mules, and they set up their headquarters in the school. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z First he hears that a group of boys took Frederick out and set up torches in the snow and told him to shoot the torches with his rifle—to prove he had adequate eyesight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I started setting up my dinosaurs and LJ said, “This ain’t right. If this really is the World’s Greatest Dinosaur War Ever we need more monsters. You should go get the rest of ’em.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It took longer than they thought to get the minigun set up inside the concertina wire surrounding the camp. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The rain pounded the metal roof of the shed so that the plink of milk in the pail set up a counter-rhythm. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Once she gets it, set up meeting to teach troop. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was almost time to go home, Miss Rhonda told us to go inside and help set up the chairs for Sunday school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “I mean...I’d like it if all of you started using Tor, maybe set up some two-factor authentication on your devices, took some steps to protect your own privacy.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He took to kicking a football, soccer style, into a small net that he set up in our backyard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment J.B, fell off his rocking horse and set up a tremendous squalling. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Finally he reached the place where Melquíades used to set up his tent and he found a taciturn Armenian who in Spanish was hawking a syrup to make oneself invisible. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “He said your dad was trying to set up a chinchorro tour for people visiting Puerto Rico. He asked Archie if he wanted to pay to have his chinchorro listed as one of the stops.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z So nervous that I just set up a separate e-mail account, since Mom knows my password and checks my regular e-mail every once in a while. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “She was set up to give specific clues or bits of information if someone used the right prompts.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The only things he’s set up are the kitchen, the stereo components, and some of his books. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I walk back to the main street of town and set up my “office” at the pay phone near the pier, from which I secure invitations to view a few more apartments, forget the shares. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As I entered the living room early one evening, Grandma was setting up the manger scene, gingerly placing each of the crudely carved wooden figures that had been handed down from her mother. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up a trust account for Nick, and the bank manager said he could make arrangements with Mr. Lawrence so any other money would be deposited automatically. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Germans arrived, British intelligence officers set up hidden microphones all over Farm Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, we mean to set up a committee of private citizens to oversee free elections. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up the distiller to catch another half cup of water before the sun went down. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As the photographer set up his equipment again, this time across the room, I put a hand on the president’s back, guiding him around the couches, to the great dark wood desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When I finished walking around the room, I saw that Chris was setting up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Our next-door neighbor and her sons had set up a table on sawhorses nearby, and a caldron of water bubbled over the fire in the pit, tended by some people I didn’t recognize. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The Guinness Book of World Records keeps calling Mayor Radisson to set up a time to come to Chokecherry to witness it officially for their book. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Can you and Mustafa grab the rest of the things from the trunk while I set up the kitchen? I’m not doing those stairs again.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I quickly check the email I set up in the morning, and there’s no message from Rhiannon yet. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I seat myself at a corner table and set up my laptop, away from the action. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Our dining room, like many dining rooms, is set up to represent a world where people dine together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I found it lying on a curb in my neighborhood a couple years ago,” he said of the couch as he worked on setting up my PlayStation 2 on top of his footlocker. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The business of setting up camp, making everything secure, getting all the clinging snow off one’s outer clothing, and so on, was trying. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe someone’s set up another loudspeaker across the river,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His voice seemed to set up a curious rustling in that silent place. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He set up an appointment for my brother to see the owner of the Buster Brown Shoe Store on Broadway that Saturday afternoon. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "Recharging. He's got all the solar cells set up," Mindy said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, little lady! Here’s your robe, toiletries, and this pretty flowery book. How about you go take a nice, hot bath while I get everything set up?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Government car was parked next to the post office under the flagpole, and he had set up the table next to the car, trying to find shelter from the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I set up a bunch of toy soldiers on a table and pick them off with a rubber band one by one. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Ash and Ana and Clara waited in the parlor, watching as the musicians set up in the front hall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z While the TV crew finished setting up, the director walked over to have a hushed conversation with Jenny. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Several machines are set up around it, and there ate wires everywhere. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “But don’t activate it until you’re in the Smoke. This has taken us some time to set up. I want the real thing, Tally.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Seven and Poppy would often help Miss Dewey set up for meetings there...Funny that until that moment, Seven had not thought of the purple coven or Poppy in a long time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A phony business was set up, be it a candy store, a comic-book shop, or a florist. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Green set up this new galley and was soon serving up hot stews, tea, and cocoa. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It takes almost two hours before we sit in the living room and I set up my little recording area. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And the hens were a bother, darting from the periphery into the thick of things, setting up a great hysterical hoo-hah. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Once he had slipped in and set up his stand no arguments could make him budge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At eight o’clock on Sunday morning a wooden ballot box was set up in the square, which was watched over by the six soldiers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z All this time, I had been set up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashid spotted them and said, “The firefighters are setting up an inflatable cushion.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When he sat in the grass and listened to the purling stream, the barriers set up in his mind by the stern day went down to ruin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Cressida and Pollux have made beds for us, arranged our food and medical supplies, and now ask what I want to do about setting up a guard. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I told him I could set up an e-mail account for him if he wanted. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, I went to the kitchen to get breakfast and was surprised to see a few of my baking supplies set up on the island. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z We had a radio tent set up as the base for our communications. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My stomach is fragile enough that even though the lot is well beyond the stockyards, I stay inside the stock car until everything’s been set up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Yeah, making my own comics was the big thing back then. I had a little studio space set up in my room and everything.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There have been a few times in the past I considered setting up a profile to keep Deckers company, but I didn’t think I could provide much for them. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It took ten seconds to set up the lemonade stand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It looked like a gym where the Red Cross had set up an evacuation center. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was morning in the desert, and Julia had already gotten out of bed and was boiling coffee on a propane stove wed set up on the tailgate of Cade’s pickup. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I’ve set up a child’s cot for her next to his bed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z All I needed were some lemons and a place to set up shop, and the money was sure to pour in. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I can set up an account for you, if you want. You could send his son a friend request or a Facebook message.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The deck was set up for a party. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Now that I’ve managed to upset everyone, Mike, do you want to take them to a cabin and get them set up in the rotations?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Our Navajo net on board the Bunker Hill was set up in the radio room just above the flag bridge at the very top of the ship. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z To entice him to stay, G.F.’s father offered him twenty-five dollars to set up his own business right there on Cape Cod, a challenge and an opportunity that G.F. agreed to take on. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I thought maybe we could set up the camera in that corner.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Then he’d set up a yell you could have heard a mile off and go chasing after the butterfly. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z My phone vibrates noisily next to me and I look over, but it’s just a notification from her app, telling me it’s time to take my nighttime meds and set up my G-tube feeding. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He left, came back, set up some chairs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z So when Kyro and some parent helpers start setting up hurdles, I take the opportunity to crutch across the track to the bleachers. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I have a second chair set up in front of me as an art desk, with stacks of board games on it and a chessboard on top. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Everywhere she set up cameras, Riefenstahl made sure she had the most flattering angles, generally cast upward, for filming the ultimate stars of the show, Adolf Hitler and his entourage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then the group moved as one machine, setting up the main camp, stringing the woods with traps and alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Why must a typical reader struggle to follow an academic article, the fine print on a tax return, or the instructions for setting up a wireless home network? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I saw her at the animal shelter this morning. Conner gave me an application, but I need Mom and Dad to agree and then go with me to set up the adoption.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I mentioned the case of Robey Leibbrandt, who set up an underground organization during the Second World War to oppose South Africa’s support for the Allies; he was sentenced to life imprisonment but soon pardoned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like yesterday, he has a wall of shields on over his data, set up so that anyone trying to break in would automatically be redirected to a shield instead of to his data. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And four or five interviews won’t be enough for a book. You’ll need a dozen, maybe more. You have more interviews set up, I assume?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them the correct distance from one another. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Edging over to my left, I groped for the ropes I’d set up that afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizabeth tole Biddy they could set up a schedule for what need doing in the house. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The minute the bell rang, me and Pork Chop and Ira headed downtown to where the New Dealers had set up shop. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pococks set up shop in an old, derelict shed floating on timbers fifty yards offshore in Coal Harbour and then finally resumed what would be their life’s work—crafting fine racing shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The poster you set up for Ben sounds wonderful, by the way. I feel like I’m in the presence of romantic greatness.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Garfield’s bed was set up in a large open room on the cottage's second floor, positioned so that he could look out the window. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They set up two biocontainment pavilions at the hospital and shut the people up for a couple of weeks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a huddle of college kids setting up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He wants to see people break— has always wanted to, ever since he set up the camera in my execution room when I nearly drowned, and probably long before then. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “He’s playing you. He wanted us, me and you, set up, not you and him. He got caught up in it, he told me.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z While my father and Jeffrey were getting set up in the room, I kind of hovered near the door. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sherpas put in the route, set up the camps, did the cooking, hauled all the loads. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They set up a formal commission to go out and study institutionalized racism all over the world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In that small space, a little living room had been set up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The picture was framed in gold and set up on a tiny dais like it was sacred. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He stepped inside and eyed dozens of huge photographs set up on easels. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A stepladder was set up underneath a wooden loft door in the ceiling. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He had a car, and had set up a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound sale. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They were penned in by dense trees, and the ground was rocky, but it was the best place they could find to set up camp. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Jonathan nods in acceptance, distracted by the task of setting up his stereo components. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We could set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Muhammad sets up his laptop so that we’re sitting on the couch with the window behind us, the rest of the apartment strategically hidden from view. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She set up an emergency refuge, never thinking that she would have to keep him hidden for several months while the soldiers combed the country looking for him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once having set up her idols and built altars to diem it was inevitable that she would worship there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Near Hrothgar’s hall stand the images of the Scyldings’ gods, grotesque faces carved out of wood or hacked from stone and set up in a circle, eyes staring inward, gazing thoughtfully at nothing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Duchess and Lady saw Frightful bring food to Drum and set up such a screaming demand that Frightful picked up the rabbit and carried it above the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He set up a long and dreadful howling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z IS: I got her an apartment till she gets herself set up. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Many nights, the dog teams set up a wolf pack howl, sending their lonesome cries up toward an aurora australis that was bright enough to cast shadows on the endless field of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z With help from Molly, Vivian sets up an Amazon account and orders books. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Within a few days of my setting up an isolated forest camp with Wiwor and Sauakari, they came close to fighting each other with axes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had been awarded tickets to the 9/11 memorial service for her charity work, because she had spent the better part of the entire last year helping to set up the temporary memorial. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z When the second squirrel did, the first one would set up an excited chatter and make a run for a longer leap. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, after he sets up Noah with canvases and paint—Noah couldn’t resist when Guillermo offered—Guillermo finds me in the yard, where I’ve started on the clay model for Mom’s sculpture. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But then he looks around the apartment for reassurance, reminding himself of the life they’ve set up together and share. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A bearded DJ with a shaved head is set up in a corner with a laptop that has colorful stickers all over it and a set of jumbo speakers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Mr. Donnelly and the long-haired photographer were set up at midfield. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We set up the tents and bring all the bedding ashore from the ships. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Same story. Whoever this Zero person is, he set up this level to report stats to him about every single audience member watching the game.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now, I might marry, set up my own home, and plow my own field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tex came over and helped me set up, and I reached in my pocket to pay the driver. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Even when the unknowns are appropriately symbolized and the relevant equation can be set up, the manipulations necessary to solve it are too often only hazily understood. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now, I can only have it set up when I'm inside the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Roman Ideals When the Romans set up their Republic nearly a half-century earlier, they rose up against the Etruscan kings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A funeral chapel had been set up in the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the system isn’t set up that way.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z About an hour into this channel, we come across people who have set up camp on either side of the aqueduct, and it doesn’t look like a new occurrence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Grab those boxes, and let’s go outside to set up.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A few days later, I called the new D.A. to set up a meeting. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then, with help from Jennings, the men set up their machine in the White House basement. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was the biggest thing to happen to the area since Collis Huntington set up his shipyard in Newport News. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My job was to set up the chairs and tables as usual, and of course help carry the superlight casket in. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A makeshift clinic had been set up in the small parsonage beside the church. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z As soon as she stepped out of the tent onto the frozen shore, she saw a small dock scarcely twenty feet from where they had set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “The rodeo arena is all closed down, so I thought we could set up a soccer goal out there and practice.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When she finally got her laughter under control, she said, “I really need to set up a filter to edit out that laugh of mine.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z April 21—I figured out a new way to set up the mixing machines in the bakery to speed up production. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Bradley points to where the two of them are sitting together at the mapping station Mrs. Barton had set up, examining the Oregon Trail. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z As I put away my cloth and set up “Pirate Medley” on my music stand, I couldn’t stop grinning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Puglisi barked a coffee order at Cherry and situated himself in the corner, setting up his lens. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z These are set up underneath the indoors clothesline where the Smeath underwear is hung up to dry when it rains or snows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Anticipating the worst, American authorities had set up evacuation points for its citizens. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z David must have mentioned the hairy-eyeball treatment to his lawyer that afternoon because the next day there is a videocamera set up in the back of class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z So we go over there, set up shop right next to ’em, and me and Diego pull off our shirts and start tossin’ the football around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But before he broached the idea, he fretted for days, fearing that Park might be an informer, that he was being set up, that he would be executed like his mother and brother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What if we’d been set up—sent to this deserted part of the city to be ambushed out of view? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Every theorem in Euclidean geometry can be dualized in projective geometry, setting up a whole set of new theorems in the parallel universe of projective geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In his book Descartes’ Error, Damasio describes trying to set up an appointment with a patient with this kind of brain damage: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “He’s a dirty communiss. Them people want to set up a police state.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond it a little camp had been set up, with five or six tents and the remains of cooking fires. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The next day I set up shop again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I taught the Clarks how to make a portable greenhouse, and even gave them some of the materials. I showed your friends down the block how to set up an outhouse.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I think they go canvassing and also help set up for the teas and fund-raising banquets that the League puts on,” Suesetta says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “When we have the Company set up again, you bring her over for dinner sometime. Then we’ll give her a proper dinner.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She laughed again and started setting up her supplies. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Within a few months, word came that a party of English had set up shop at Patuxet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a queen-size bed for my parents and, in the corner, a cot set up for me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was also working on setting up a website, with the help of the kid who fixed computers at Wilson’s Furniture Store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Man, this girl is good, I thought as I watched her set up her next shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She motions at one of her attendants, who sets up an easel with a beauty board on it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When the actors came to the village and set up their scaffolding, my grandmother bought a large section up front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It seriously looks like the circus is setting up in town. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Then she has to get back to the Jump & Grind to close and set up for tomorrow. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Even her little rollaway had been folded down neatly, set up for her just to climb right in and go to sleep. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Only the families of the boys being initiated were allowed to set up their huts in that village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get home Mom is setting up her telescope in the front yard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A special audition in front of a trombone expert was set up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The roof of the temple was a big open deck that had been set up as a command center. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Last night, Hannah drove me to the community theater where my mom was setting up so that I could have my entire wardrobe approved. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Some of them even set up food stands. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When you are organized to apply knowledge, set up targets, produce a usable product, you require a high degree of certainty from the outset. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days after McCandless set up camp beside Lake Mead, an unusually robust wall of thunderheads reared up in the afternoon sky, and it began to rain, very hard, over much of the Detrital Valley. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Twelve of the fire performers quietly enter the courtyard with small platforms that they set up along the perimeter like numbers on a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They pinned him down with automatic fire while the mortar squads set up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Lucas pointed across the way to a small table surrounded by children that had been set up by my church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I have never heard it compared to other industrial complexes—like this whole system that is set up to teach women how to act, how to think, what to wear...whoa! Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Ivy heard Evan babbling from where she knew he was set up in his high chair, stuffing his face with Cheerios. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And even though the rules were set up by the Capitol, not the districts, certainly not Madge's family, it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Yet he was as deliberate about setting up his motel room as a military ritual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “We can set up visitation,” Catalina said one day when they met in the adoption counselor’s office. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Freak can't move much the way they've got him set up in the bed, so he sort of shakes his eyes instead of his head. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The catering truck had arrived, and tables were being set up all over the grounds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Around him, crews adjusted lights and cameras, setting up for the president’s final broadcast. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The sixteen-page weekly paper set up its office in New York City in the same building where the Women’s Loyal National League had once rented space. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z On the plateau, the team would set up camp, scout routes to the target, radio weather reports back to Britain, and light up a landing strip on the edge of a frozen lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Her maman would set up tea parties with sugar cakes and marzipan rose creams just for us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z On the balcony of a hotel room at Watergate, Liddy set up a walkie-talkie antenna. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They adjusted her blankets, set up clean cloths and towels close by, and made sure the hot water was ready in the basin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Wickersham didn’t take the folding chair I set up next to mine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kids had come over while we were setting up. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z They were setting up the great room, setting it up as if for a homeowners’ meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stop calling it that. It’s a town set up to give hardworking poor people a helping hand.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Slaves had been flocking to these islands ever since the Union forces had set up headquarters there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But always two or three stayed and set up housekeeping in the doorway. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Borelli still saw a role for God in setting up the system in the first place—as the designer of the machine, if you like. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z From there, I set up my hack to penetrate each of the accounts of the other teams. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn't want to set up any expectations. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z One of the moms across the street set up a sprinkler in her front yard, and soon all the kids in the neighborhood were running through the sprinkler and grabbing handfuls of Cheetos. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I set up my stand, cover Finway’s bowl, and twist together my trombone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It’s a short walk over the Long Water back to Kensington, and they meet Bea at the Orangery, where a dozen members of her event-planning team are scurrying around, setting up a stage. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Later, after everything has been taken inside, the workmen come out and set up a trampoline under the tall ceiba tree. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He decorates his apartment, pinning some Japanese prints on the walls, and he sets up a tiny studio—a “cubby-hole”—in the same building as his flat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It might have been cozy, if not for the animal traps set up in a perimeter around the place, jagged-toothed things trailing chains. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The heather which he had brought was set up dramatically in a cup with no water—she was every inch the homebody—and he was free to go. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The PAC decided to boycott the talks, accusing the ANC and the National Party of conspiring together to set up a multiracial government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gurgi, who had been listening silently, set up a long howl. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z By the time I’d set up a bill-paying system and gotten everything entered and paid, Auntie Buzz had turned a nice profit in the past quarter. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up new hybrid crosses—tall with short; yellow with green; wrinkled with smooth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Soon there would be a lunch break, with tables set up and lunch packets distributed, outside the Auditorium. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “He has Sanctuaries set up all over the world. The maps on the back show their locations.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We just stayed in the front and sat at an old card table they had set up in the middle of the living room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Papá oiled it and set up his barbershop in the shed, using an unstable wooden box as a chair. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A Gulf & Western infrared Eye-View Monitor was set up just off to the left, carefully calibrated to track the fovea movements of each subject. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I got the distinct feeling I was being set up. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z All three teams had identical five and one records in the district, and a numbing scenario was set up. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Catherine already had her canvas and paint set up on the veranda of her house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But I know better than to try to move her once she’s all set up. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z To show his appreciation, Vanderbilt set up a brokerage firm, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., the first female firm on Wall Street. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She pulled out Dill’s computer, went to YouTube, and set up an account for him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In every town and village the Germans invaded, they took over and set up their own soldiers and government to occupy and replace the Soviet system. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They walked to the alcove in the front hall where the shrine was set up beneath the steps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother said she aimed to set up a plank shack by the road and sell bouquets for three-fifty apiece. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We agreed to set up a joint working group to resolve the many obstacles that still stood in our way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other, there’s clinking and shouting as white-jacketed white men set up glass after glass of lemonade, forming pyramids of full glasses on the counters of their red and white striped concession stands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Jackie and I helped her set up some card tables out in the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Over those first few days, Lazlo had to see to it that all the Godslayer’s delegates were set up with workspace to accommodate their needs, as well as materials and, in some cases, assistants. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I showed him how to set up his graphs, how to utilize the tables in his textbook, and how to reduce experimental findings to mathematical formulas. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They had distilleries set up to make drinking water and stocks of food enough to last for years. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At the spring concert, he came over, asked if I needed assistance setting up my camera. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He stole a neighbor’s coffee percolator tube, set up a sniper’s nest in a tree, crammed pepper-tree berries into his mouth, spat them through the tube, and sent the neighborhood girls running. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Then, after 40 kilometers' travel due south, I had a quick EVA to set up another. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He dims his lights and pulls out his laptop, which he sets up on a pile of pillows in front of us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “They set up a colony,” the boy answered. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Luke wondered if his parents could set up the same kind of system. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Durant liked what he saw and hired him to set up dealerships and recruit dealers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In May 1991, when I was sixteen years old, the rebels drove the president out of the country and set up a new government that was friendly with Northern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I tuck myself behind the giant cardboard cutout of Harry Potter saying, “Read!” that Mr. Herd has set up on the side of the entrance. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z "Making a presupply is a six- month process. We're set up to pipeline a bunch of them at once, not to make one in a hurry." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shoun brothers set up a plank as a makeshift table. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The bridge table is set up in Hilly’s antebellum- style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Dr. Walsh set up a treatment plan and said that with some mild medication and “gradual exposure to your triggers,” we could control my OCD. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The assistant who had set up Nixon’s secret recording system also testified, describing in detail how it worked. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They stalled around, trying to set up a play, and finally got the ball in to their center who had positioned Jimmy deep. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Gallup would continue with the Shakespeare project, but Elizebeth and William were told to set up a separate Department of Ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dad had a knack for setting up publicity pictures that tied in with his motion-study projects. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I look toward the noise to see the preacher standing at a podium that’s been set up next to the serving window. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Fluted glasses appear from somewhere behind him and are set up on Marlena’s vanity. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Everything in the Atlas Clearing was set up to get your head started whirling and keep it going that way, and there waren’t no hiding from none of it! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Francie knew that this was so because now, as soon as night came and the street lights went on, the hot-chestnut man set up his little stand on the corner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And every day in chapel there was some announcement about qualifying for “V-12,” an officer-training program the Navy had set up in many colleges and universities. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother has set up an altar on the highest bookshelf. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I’m setting up another meeting for Sunday. For the church. You wanna come to that?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z "I did not want to risk two wires for a spark. It would be dangerous to us if we had static while setting up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On an early run, Mandela set up Muamer, the new, mustachioed Bosnian forward, with a touch pass off the back of his foot, but Muamer missed the shot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She set up a Nativity scene with hay inside her house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I turned to Wynn, who was already in the kitchen setting up to fry pork chops. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They found two empty crates in Miss Rachel’s smokehouse and set up an altar in front of the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They couldn’t use the automated landing system because it wasn’t set up to handle a plane with that much weight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We settled on 10 a.m. and set up a schedule so that each boy would get a turn at being the cook. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z April was watching him set up the pins and suddenly got a brilliant idea. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom directed us into position as she set up the tripod and camera. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The blue plush chair was exactly where she’d shoved it two days earlier, catercornered three feet from the place she’d have to set up the ladder in order to reach “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z When it’s our turn, the phone man agrees to charge and set up the phone in return for water-purifying tablets from Baba’s pharmacy back home. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Julia and her squad were the ones who set up that whole command.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Sure,” I said, and after I got her set up I ran down to the newspaper office where Mr. Greene was smoking his pipe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Most of it is of no consequence—plans for setting up equipment for the opening-night party; mail from fans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "I'm not going to be that way. I feel rather good, you know. I feel rather set up." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Phil set up a folding cot for him in Josh’s room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z To this end, I rehearsed my speeches again and again using a teleprompter set up in one corner of my office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Along the spine of the Andes the empire set up a string of a dozen administrative centers that were like smaller versions of the capital. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Here’s a tip, Alcyoneus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don’t set up base in the part that’s only ten miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “The hogan is still set up for his diagnosis. Not fit for sleeping in.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z At the makeshift camp, the guerrillas set up their tents and open cans of pinto beans and pressed meat the color of dung. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “If Halliday hadn’t set up the Third Gate to require three keys...the Sixers might have already found the egg by now.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And so an impromptu parade is thrown together, after which the animals are led to the menagerie and the candy butchers and other concessionaires set up their wares. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe so, maybe not. Ten billion places we could’ve set up last night, the man picks a latrine.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says you were the contact man in setting up the Smith house explosion,” White said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It was organized if this guy sets up fights. There are laws against that. It’s cruel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Laura Friendly had set up a Freebie account for anything the dog needed, from vet appointments to food to chew toys. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Others at Merry’s orders were setting up barriers across the road at each end of the village. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z After Scott had set up his congregation, he found that Komo was embezzling money from people who were contributing to the fight against the removal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Words that make my dad slam his fist on the table and call my teacher to shout about setting up a parent-teacher conference, and my mom to go out and buy fruit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He’d stare at one corner, then another, like he was setting up his whirligigs there, in his head, getting the feel of it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z A squirrel up in a tall oak tree set up a terrific chittering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent the rest of that Tuesday night throwing darts into the void, setting up my laptop to shoot endless combinations of usernames and passwords into iCloud and the thousands of other digital storage warehouses. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Holly and I only had a few free moments after closing to set up the back room for her first class. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Then he moved out of his apartment and set up camp on the bajada. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are enough reporters and cameramen on the narrow sidewalk that the police have set up barricades to keep them from flowing out into the street and obstructing traffic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then my three younger brothers set up their own grizzling chorus about how unfair it was that they didn’t get paid for anything. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He asked if it is fair to take tax money from the Negro and then use it to support an organization set up for the avowed purpose of suppressing him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Nights, I almost invariably set up my easel between the twin beds in the room I shared with Bobby, and painted. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It was James who sighted the circus ahead, set up on a fallow field. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “So we set up a program to assist and improve the proficiency of aviation English.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I set up my ironing in the living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Tree-ear was to set up the stall so that Min would stand with his back to the sea and his wares before him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z We get there super early so Mom and Dad can socialize and Mom can help set up the desserts and coffee. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Now I've gone the full 80 kilometers, set up my solar cells for charging, and I'm logging the wattage. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “And they aint going to be no luck in saying that name, lessen you going to set up with him while he cries.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Matthew, David wants to set up a meeting with your supervisor to discuss one of the serum developments. Last time Alan completely forgot about it, so I was wondering if you could escort him.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “We will certainly set up defenses,” Chiron agreed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s a tailor who sets up his foot-pedal sewing machine under the tree and takes their orders, simple as that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go set up the sprinkler in the garden,” Gus said to me, tugging on his dirty baseball cap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z After twenty minutes of trying to set up the telescope, Diego threw his hands in the air and admitted defeat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Hagrid, who was invited to the wedding the following day, but was far too bulky to sleep in the overstretched Burrow, left to set up a tent for himself in a neighboring field. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I rubbed my temples where a headache was setting up camp. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I was astonished to find there were real laws set up to justify mistreating us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She immediately set up a trust fund for the “perpetual betterment of Riverview Middle School and all struggling public education facilities in the city.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z They set up the camera again and the sports guy put the microphone back in my face. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z After an audience with the Emperor, he was appointed Imperial Mathematician, granted a good income and offered a choice of three castles in which to set up his observatory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He backed away and moved over to stage right, where someone had set up a table and a few microphones. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Since Burger was an accomplished artist and violin player, he was instructed to set up a studio and advertise his services as a commercial artist in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Thanks for setting up the trap, Uncle Jet.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It had set up a classroom on the air force base, a cooperative venture with George Washington University, presumably available to all employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Behind her, Coach Hedge whistled happily as he set up a row of blenders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A couple of tents had been set up by the rocks for guard duty. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We were to set up an “L” just off the road. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The balding wizard’s colleagues set up an uproar, under cover of which Ron grabbed Mrs. Cattermole, pulled her into the still-open fireplace, and disappeared. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The only movement was in the parks, which had been set up as field hospitals. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z According to her, it’s set up for poor people like me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It was required in school. I’ve been learning about how to set up a successful colony since I was five.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Annie and I played church together out behind her house, setting up chairs and doing services. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The parents have even set up three desks for them, which seem to have been left over from a one-room schoolhouse at the turn of the last century. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They worked twenty-hour days, setting up instruments to measure the blast, and building a 100-foot steel tower to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Job had the cultivators all set up at last. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Down there in a dim storage room adjacent to the furnace I’ve set up a realm of ersatz squalor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Our host beamed and disappeared back into the kitchen, and I heard a cabinet squeak open and the tinkling sound of glasses being set up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The living room has a square dining table in one corner, and a desk and file cabinets set up in another. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He is thinking once again about leaving the firm and setting up his own art dealership. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After realizing that the hospital system could be better about hiring minority- and women-owned businesses for its contracted work, I helped set up the Office of Business Diversity as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I gathered up my captured men and began setting up the board for another game. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “You were on point tonight, man,” Todd told me as he set up the cups on his side of the Ping-Pong table. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The Space Task Group set up shop on Langley’s East Side in some of the laboratory’s oldest buildings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There is a Juliet balcony off the bedroom, in one corner of which Moushumi sets up her desk, her computer and printer, her files. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the arches of the peddler’s colonnade the scribes and money changers had set up for business, along with a hedge wizard, an herb woman, and a very bad juggler. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nhamo fled past more houses, where other dogs set up a clamor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Gib, Frank and Kathy set up shop in what had once been Arnold’s living room, using the dining room table and dragging the kitchen table in too. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s concrete all around the pool, but people have set up deck chairs and sun loungers, and they’ve got large parasols to keep them in the shade. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus had two couches set up at a right angle, with a coffee table in the center “for drinks and feet.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Mind pouring me one? I’ll get Star Trek set up in the living room.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z With no choice but to stop, the camaradas began setting up camp. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Deane, despite his lack of training, managed to set up the most spectacular sabotage operation of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The old Tijuana track was reduced to a squatter’s haven, and Pollard and Woolf set up shop across town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “What else? Chicken. Real gamey chicken. If that’s the case, we don’t need to fix the fence; just set up a trap,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Sandy keeps up his fishing and picking berries, and even sets up a snare for a rabbit, which he catches and skins and cooks like it’s nothing. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She and Adah and Ruth May helped unpack and set up housekeeping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No gallows was set up to hang ‘rebels.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Elinor had suggested that Mo set up his workshop next door to the library. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Nali was setting up chairs by the fire to his right. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “How do they set up meetings if they don’t have E.S.P.?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She immediately had four appointments set up for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The opposing coach calls a time-out to set up a press break, and, as my teammates jog off the court, they stare at me too. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate at a table set up on the lawn, savoring Alice’s turtle soup and mutton and devising compliments for the cook, who would never receive them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In Chatham, New Jersey, he set up a big camp, complete with a bakery large enough to supply bread to an army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve hiked for the day, set up camp, run for our lives, and hiked all night. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z All the science-fair projects were set up on tables in the gym. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Late Sunday night/early Monday morning Angela buzzed me with a red alert text, a link somebody had posted to the fan page set up by Nicole’s well-wishers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Many of us stayed after school yesterday to make welcome signs to decorate the walls and several students got to school really early to help set up a big buffet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Upon arrival, one look was all they needed to see that the Black Belt was not set up to offer them what they were looking for. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When Dr. Du Bois had come to Ghana, she told me, Dr. Nkrumah had set up the aging great militant Afro-American scholar like a king, giving to Dr. Du Bois everything he could wish for. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was playing with natural outcomes, setting up an already battered kid for a big fall. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “MoMo’s been trying to tamp down an insurgency in the ROC. Needs some firepower. We sell him arms; he lets The Corporation set up shop in his country. Covertly, of course.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Father and I worked for over two hours outlining the whole set up, pointing out problems and things we needed to do. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z We place the rug on the floor, set up the card table, position the bookshelf, and find the best spot for the beanbag chairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But I went on, and the strength did not fail me till I had reached the cache in the foothills, and set up the tent, and done what I could for Ai. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z After the interviews is the luncheon, and after that is when contestants are allowed to set up their dressing room spaces. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The camp controllers tried to keep things as simple as possible; they set up rows and rows of tables lengthwise across the dusty concrete floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In November, he announced that the National Security Management System, a secret structure set up under P. W. Botha to combat antiapartheid forces, would be dissolved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “An alarm might go off if the wrong person touches it. They might have set up that level of security.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z With another series of grunts they heaved it over the ship’s warped decking and rolled it to where a rudimentary crane had been set up. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z By the time we get back to the truck, Jack and Violet are setting up a surveillance camera that wasn’t stolen by people in the fringe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She kept her eyes on the little man as she carefully set up the stepladder at the far end of the bookcase wall. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z There we set up command posts and a hospital. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We all had a glass while Arnold explained how he wanted to set up my account with Mom and Dad, and Grandma asked if Arnold could find her a boxer to sponsor too. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The two music stands are set up again for a mock debate. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “Martins right,” said my father “And Hitler’s setting up a system of ghettos in Poland.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Phillips said he was a good hunter and he set up the tents and managed the sails. Once, he even saved Clark from drowning.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She wanted to study what the ATA was getting right, so she could go back to the United States and set up a similar program for women pilots in her own country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bacteria are the greatest of all at setting up joint enterprises, on which the lives of their hosts are totally dependent. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up the deception so that British scouts stopped his horseback couriers and grabbed the fake documents, thinking they were real. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She once conducted another experiment in which she set up a tasting booth with a variety of exotic gourmet jams at the upscale grocery store Draeger’s in Menlo Park, California. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “The doctor has just set up the chessmen.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The upshot was that a papal commission was set up to look into the affair. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I set up on the post and called for the ball. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In reality, the machine was set up right on the ground, as simple as you please. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Thus Kino’s future was real, but having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it, and this he knew, so that he had to prepare to meet the attack. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z We were told to set up enough folding chairs and tables to accommodate the 111 people who remained of our class in four or five long rows. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Jacobi’s parents let us use their garage, but it didn’t really matter where we were; we’d just set up our old boom box and breakdance. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother thinks that I was sick enough to have a croup tent set up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By evening, we had set up our camp along the edge of an enormous crater—a hollowed-out earthen swimming pool half a mile across that would have been the lake for Aberdeen Lake. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He set up crying out as if in great terror. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We were like running around corners and peeking and diving, and there were these mirrors set up to confuse you, so you’d see all these nonexistent beef hallways. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got back to the block, some kids had set up a hoop in front of the bicycle shop and were playing some rough three-on-three. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z From being a mobile lunch counter, she set up a stand between the two points of fiscal interest and supplied the workers’ needs for a few years. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z While she ate, some of the witches carried the dead cliff-ghast away, rebuilt the fire, and then set up a watch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A friend of hers has set up her own public relations firm and she needs an assistant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Two or three tables are set up on the back patio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A life-sized Nativity scene has been set up on the lawn below the towering statue of El Jefe on his horse. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The weather was nice, and he'd set up a table in the backyard so that we might sit in the sun. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They would set up a mortar attack from somewhere within the jungle, raise a little hell, and then split before anyone could get to them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ted helped me set up a studio downstairs so I could take in work as a free-lance production assistant for graphic artists. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It took, like, a million phone calls and texts between Imani’s parents and both sets of my parents to get this set up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Outside the walkup some men had set up a table and were sitting on milk crates, drinking Budweisers in paper bags and playing dominoes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The bank had called to ask her to sign some paperwork authorizing the direct-withdrawal program I’d set up with the tax lady. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, the union set up locals for unskilled workers throughout the laborers’ neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Cheskin set up a blind taste test with two hundred brandy drinkers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They started setting up and I saw that they had six violins, two clarinets, a marching snare, Marjorie on a portable keyboard, and two flutes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Mom squawks, but it's already set up, so we're having a dinner party. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Street vendors push food carts piled with steamed dumplings, smoked beef teriyaki sticks, and roasted peanuts along the sidewalks and begin to set up for another day of business. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up walls to save Joe from a hostile world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She didn't answer him, so he went back to setting up his cars. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “Irritated, but not completely angry. Just enough ‘memory’ set up in it by someone so it growled when I touched it.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z While he waits with the crowd, he wonders how the circus manages to set up so quickly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Maddie could see that it was all set up as informally and cozily as it was possible to make this bleak little room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Dad set up a still camera on a tripod, connected the delayed-action attachment, and took a series of pictures showing us lowering the coffin into the grave and covering it with sand. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when have you been one of the top students in the school, Potter? Or is this a school you and Longbottom have set up together?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The good news is we’re all set up to begin making our movie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Most unnerving is a line of new constructions—an official whipping post, several stockades, and a gallows—set up in the center of the square. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After setting up the fume hood, I made my way to the table where the bone-tar was kept. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Researchers came to his lab several times each week wanting to learn his techniques, and he often traveled to labs around the world to help set up cell-culture facilities. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I spent the spring of 1993 working furiously to set up an office and hire a small staff so that we could have a class of Allies in place by the fall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You got it. It was the second English colony, after the one set up in Jamestown in 1607—not too far from where we are now, actually!” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A screen had been set up before the bookcase, and the blinds drawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I did this after I had set up interviews at Hunter College and New York University. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z There’s some woods next to where they set up the market. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z We set up towels and just lie there like bacon. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Then Baba sighed as he spotted a guy setting up across the street. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Malfoy set up his cauldron right next to Harry and Ron, so that they were preparing their ingredients on the same table. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Because it looks like sleet or snow, the market is set up in the covered building just behind, which isn’t exactly indoors but is warmer than the outside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He set up his post at the back of the boat, as far away from JoJo as he could put himself. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m obliged to you for setting up the meeting.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Minutes into the game, the Fugees were called for a foul in the box, setting up a penalty shot for the Phoenix. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Savannah and I will set up quarterly tax payments and establish a trust to protect your savings and start your college account. And, of course, a retirement plan.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Had Mom set up this whole room after that? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They set up picket lines outside the mines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z We set up and operated our own government, we controlled our own arms and we organized our trade and commerce. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both set up their looms and stretched the warp upon them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He sits on the random folding chair that's set up behind the door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Freed from her studio work, Maria gathered glass jars and wooden boxes covered with gauze and set up a work space in an unused corner. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After the cleaning, I plug the TV in and set up the antenna. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Everything is set up, though, the rented thick-stemmed wineglasses, the bottles of mediocre hooch, the mineral water for teetotalers, because who would serve unadulterated chlorine from the tap? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Making our way into the maze of many thousands of people, we move to a spot in the middle of the crowd and set up for the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything seemed to be set up in perfect lines and squares. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I got up from bed ready to set up housekeeping at Mama’s. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It made sense they told each other, to set up their shipbroking business in one of the great coaling ports of Europe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get home I close myself in my room and set up my easel. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I found Mr. Caton’s lathe and set up a piece of bar stock in it as I had seen him do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mustafa ended up staying home too, and we both helped to spread the word about the meeting that Mama and others had set up with county officials. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor near the elevators, a little storelike affair had been set up; it sold prints and art books, and Luba halted there, tarrying. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Presently he came to an open space where a small tent had been set up for the king under a great tree. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z People were hurrying around, setting up games, carrying boxes marked with the names of soft drinks; a man tinkered with the engine that drove the ferris wheel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We found a good spot to set up the game at the park. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “You want to set up one for Piedmont High or use the same one?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Dari, Twig, and I set up on our table in the back, and Dari started telling us about his trip to India while we worked. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I guess I assumed because he and Will hung out, they were both set up for life. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z They had set up a table on the corner of Grand and MacArthur and stacked it high with every Tupperware container they had between the four of them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “How is the test set up?” she asked me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Once they arrived, they would use the frames set up last year for their big sugaring house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z To regain the upper hand, the English set up a target made of steel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She set up a trust fund with Ivan Woolworth, an attorney who worked for the Fischers pro bono. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “By the bye,” said Frank Churchill to Mrs. Weston presently, “what became of Mr. Perry’s plan of setting up his carriage?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z There were a lot of peddlers bringing their wares across and setting up on the Brownsville side. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The top three boxes on page 1 were set up for the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of Miami. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I cover Finway’s bowl with his night cloth to protect him from my playing, and set up my trombone. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z When people till and sow the land, anthropologists say, they set up systems to protect their investment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I had been so absorbed for so long with setting up and executing the first part of the trip that I hadn’t actually stopped to consider where I would be at this point. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But when their class got to the gym, the maintenance guys were setting up tables around the edges of the room. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I stepped forward to drop my pack and set up, but Miig grabbed my shoulder, holding me there for a moment. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Soon we were inside, coats off, helping to set up tables of sandwiches, cake, beans, and cottage cheese. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s a new school set up to create the leaders of tomorrow; corporate internships are mandatory; the higher-ups of Merrill Lynch come and speak to classes and distribute travel mugs and stuff. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We could hear beds being moved around upstairs, and we knew the wards were being set up again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama liked to set up shop near the docks and the village center. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We didn’t have a real stadium, but we would go out and mow the pasture, and set up table for a big Sunday feast and get together afterward. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest sat on my cot that the orderly had set up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “What if we got businesses to have booths, got some restaurants to set up a few stands and sell food, and maybe some giveaways or a contest?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Starting to organize, Master W. D. Fard set up a class for training ministers to carry the teachings to America’s black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The news vans are already here, and they have a little podium set up out front.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In the square beneath it market-booths were set up and there was some coming and going of people. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The Americans set up camp, putting out one-sided explosive claymore mines along the perimeter for protection. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With wind whipping snow crystals into his face, Knut Haugland set up his radio antenna on the roof of the cabin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our rendezvous might be set up at 11 P.M. the night before or 5:15 A.M. the morning of. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Silkworm and Miss Spider, after they had both been taught to make nylon thread instead of silk, set up a factory together and made ropes for tightrope walkers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z If we could get that set up, we'd only be limited by transmission time! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A hospital had been set up for them on Port Royal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was back in the small cluster of rafts and blankets that Liam and his friend had set up the last time he was here. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All around us people are sleeping, eating, or setting up their areas. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Mother set up a Family Council, patterned after an employer-employee board. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She quit the beauty salon, set up a messenger service as an operating front, and ran all of her business by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We set up the homemade Monopoly game that my mother made out of paper when she was my age. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Along an unused railway spur, four workmen labored in the shadowy red heat, setting up a platform and steel launchers for the evening fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The music blared and vibrated throughout the building, which was set up like a theater. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Thanks to the advance work of Sackett and his woman agent, Washington already had a spy network set up in Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But two hours later, only the beds and kitchen are left to set up. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z This would explain why the Dictograph set up by the private detectives working for Mollie Burkhart’s family had never picked up any incriminating statements, and why Rose’s clothes had never been found in the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then I dragged it out with me to the rover I'd set up as a temporary nursery. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I’m setting up a problem for later because Dad’s always late, but I have rules, too, and one of mine is: Sometimes you're, gotta work with what you're, got. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “How was it all set up in the first place?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There was no way to win this game playing by the rules that had been set up so long ago. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Performers standing stock-still with elaborate costumes and painted skin on platforms set up in precarious spaces between tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She set up spreadsheets and trackers, and even made Mrs. Hameed a shopping list so she simply checks off the items she needs to restock. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Tents were set up at the cemeteries so that gravediggers could rest but never be far from their ceaseless work. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Six days after the election, I flew to D.C., having set up meetings with administrators at a couple of different schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the depths of the car our mother unearths a primus stove, which she sets up on the kitchen floor, since there is no table. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, but I want to set up a display of Klan material in a classroom,” he told her, coming up with the idea on the spot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So, before I leave my studio, I set up a booby trap—two tight rows of paint cans on the floor just inside the door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z By silver light I saw the black thing pulling shadows into itself, setting up magnetic whorls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you know. A place to stay. People to talk with in the beginning about setting up some programs . . .” “In Milagro?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Closer to the Capitol, Alexander Gardner set up his camera to photograph the inauguration. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But to encourage the reader to parse it as a noun phrase, he should have set up a context in which the reader indeed expects to see a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Chas began setting up the game, and the guys sat in a circle on the floor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She put the iron on to heat while she sprinkled the shirt and set up the ironing board on two chairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They set up a toll-free hot line so that Cuban exiles could call in and choose from three scathing messages to send directly to the National Palace, demanding El Li'der’s resignation. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma was pretty sure there was a way to set up a secret computer program to test various keys to Mom’s code, but it seemed like it would take too long to figure that out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It charged against the fence, setting up a clamor that would rouse anyone in the house, Dicey thought. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z So I move to the squatty desk and set up. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you guys follow me this way? We have a table set up for you already.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He began to set up his rows on the blanket. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Our committee has more than it can manage—handing out programs, setting up chairs, arranging for prizes, keeping the ladies' public rest room tidy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1940, Lysenko deposed his critics, assumed the directorship of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Union, and set up his own totalitarian fiefdom over Soviet biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Annabeth went to join her brethren from the Athena cabin, who had set up a command tent and were directing operations. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This can easily be caused by the chlorinated hydrocarbons, which, as we have seen, set up changes in liver cells at very low levels of intake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But it was a war, and he had his orders, so they’d set up a perimeter and crawled under their ponchos and tried to settle in for the night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We set up our Base Camp at 17,800 feet on the lateral moraine that formed the outer edge of the turn. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we entered, Sahil left to talk to Victoria about setting up a quiet space for the behind-the-scenes interviews. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Then this morning, Minerva asked me if I wouldn’t come to Monte Cristi and help her set up housekeeping. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only now did Penelope notice that, during the dancing, a curtained playing area had been quickly set up on one side of the ballroom, between the tall windows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z You don’t know how hard it was to set up this meeting. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z At the other end of the spectrum, the Refined tended toward the more formalized ritual, setting up black churches within traditionally white denominations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Five portable grills were set up on the driveway. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Often they had bought a Cadillac, and sometimes for three and four days, they were setting up drinks and buying steaks for all their friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Suggs, who had set up their canning apparatus in their front yard, saw her running, dancing toward them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z What if Miss Leefolt come home and I’m setting up on this toilet? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Genie took one hesitant step forward, then another, until he saw, tucked between all the foliage, five birdcages all made of wood and wire and set up like small castles. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z No, Miig wouldn’t set up camp for that long, especially not with a steady thread of smoke reaching above the trees, blasting a signal to anyone who might be out there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Grammer had set up his own private power plant so that his gangs could work all day and all night—the furtive light of the moon no longer needed to manufacture moonshine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “When I first got to the dorms, my roommate was already set up in our room. Guy looks up at me and goes ‘’Sup, homie? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He barked out orders; all hands were on deck to set up for the awards. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The Hunters set up their camping site in a matter of minutes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z At nightfall, worn to the bone and feeling as though she might fall asleep in the saddle, Kaede was relieved when the Huntsman stopped and told them they could set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Cook was going to show Ophie how to wash the sheets, but she’d been busy setting up a menu for a dinner party Richard had decided to hold at the last minute. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z If it is, they definitely haven’t read The Art of War, which points out that setting up camp in a ditch is a death wish. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He sets up chess problems and works them out, or splits kindling, or goes for long walks by himself with a butterfly book. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Dunbar asked plaintively from the floor, wincing at the vibrating pains in his temples that his voice set up. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan watches as we heft our scythes and head over to the table Mrs. Spencer has set up. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The Preacher walked off twenty steps and set up five hunks of wood ’bout three feet apart one from the ’nother. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z But now it was just a place kids would meet and kick a ball around or set up a makeshift diamond for stickball or whatnot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hunters had set up a defensive line on 37th, just three blocks north of Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He squatted in front of the apple crate the dealer had set up as a makeshift table and flipped down another nickel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I watched Emily set up the tent we were to share. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’m also going to set up a fresh flour/cocoa pan and let science fair-goers drop marbles to make their own craters. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I just have to be careful not to set up a pattern. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In the mountains my mother set up a hospital in a cave, and she carried the wounded there. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit with la juventud at the smaller table set up for the kids by the picture window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Sneaky’s mom is setting up chairs and blankets, and she shakes her head when we come over shivering. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The shop owner had just finished setting up a tidy pyramid of fresh-baked sweets: golden egg-flour cakes, the insides probably stuffed with sweet beans or pineapple jelly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They were inside a makeshift medical tent that had been set up just beyond the disaster zone. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z There were four of them, and they were having a whale of a good time as they helped each other set up their cots. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Elizabeth and I watch as Chef Morgan moves along with a wave of adoring fans to the back of the gym, where a few chairs are set up for teachers and guests. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The ironing board was kept set up in the kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one large room set up like an auditorium. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I set up a vase on the table right under his picture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z T. Arnold Hill led the Urban League’s efforts to help, conducting a food survey and setting up a food station to distribute donated groceries. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Downstairs, Yoyo found her father setting up a brand new electric typewriter on the kitchen table. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Jefferson was on the road back to Monticello immediately after the inaugural ceremony, setting up the Republican government in exile, waiting for the inevitable catastrophes to befall the presidency of his old friend. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “They don’t move like that for me. Why don’t you just set up a mirror and watch yourself act it out?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had the warlocks do their thing into lithium batteries, and then set up a network of receiver dishes around the designated area. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Finally he got permission to set up his movie equipment in an operating room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But they have to set up tall lamps. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “I’m having a devil of a time setting up extra circuits in the laundry.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like to donate part of this to help set up a little kids’ basketball league at the Islamic Center when it reopens,” he says, and the room erupts into cheers. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z You’re sitting by the window watching a guy with a bucket of roses set up shop near the subway station. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Although the boy had nodded casually as Johnny came in, he did not speak to him until after the woman was gone and he had set up the few lines of type. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was set up to give specific clues or bits of information if someone used the right prompts.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My hospital room even had its very own television set up on the wall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1958, Congress and the Eisenhower Administration set up the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in an attempt to put some order into the space program. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had his housekeeper with him, he said, and they were well set up for the time being. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z After my drive, I set up the solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless she had a spy camera set up in the janitor’s closet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The custodial staff brought risers out and set up a stage on the grass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Kurnakov still couldn’t figure out if he was being set up by the FBI or handed the gift of a lifetime. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When we get there, Mom’s already all set up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z If he were lucky, he might get to do some programming, set up some systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the dance floor to set up, menu to finalize, Snapchat filter to approve. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He ran into the cornfield and saw the lizard trapped in the cage that Jet had set up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I know. Trust me, we teachers hate them, too. But it’s how the system is set up. With less funding, we’ve had to turn to alternative ways to get through the year.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “And it’s not even set up to use in Turkey.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Musicians performed on a stage set up at one end of the pasture while families sprawled on blankets. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t think much of them, though, and briskly set up his own, more effective system. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Trucks and vans already covered the parking lot to set up the stage and equipment. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z As yet no gates had been set up again, but a barrier was laid across the entrance to the City, and there stood men at arms in silver and black with long swords drawn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The mayor, Charles Smith, ordered the chief of police to set up machine-gun emplacements at Pier 91; the chief refused and handed the mayor his badge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Jackson would provide a ladder to set up behind the backdrop for Charlotte to appear from above. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The same year, Papa replaced our old-fashioned white picket fence with a fancy iron one and set up the iron stag between the pittosporum bush and the elaeagnus. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But then he set up a cry, shouting, “There!” and pointed right at me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Sierra’s next door neighbors, the Middletons, had set up a kiddie pool, and a bunch of the little ones were screaming and splashing around in it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Once I set up the solar panels, I fired up the oxygenator and let it work through the backlog of C02 that the regulator had stored up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom already has the warm milk for me and my place all set up in her bed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “People were feverishly setting up wires all over the desert,” he said, “building the tower, building little huts in which to put cameras and house people at the time of the explosion.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “This certainly isn’t the easiest thing to get set up, is it?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z After hearing the news and rushing back to Fairfax, lawmen set up floodlights at the front and rear exits of the hospital, in case the killers planned to finish off Bill there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two- thirds full but felt one-third empty. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Habib had had a small darkroom set up in their house on Shogund Street, and when he could get his hands on supplies, they would develop the rolls they had taken together. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But Lafayette’s maneuvers helped set up what would be the battle that ended the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Once that was set up, I had access to just about everything. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Volunteers set up tables and large white tents. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z On the Field of Mars, engineers were hard at work, pulling down the remains of last night’s fort and setting up barricades for a game of deathball. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There were a bunch of men and women in there, mopping and setting up chairs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Papa saw the tree and was reminded of the many Christmas trees he had dragged into the brownstone and set up in that exact spot. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At the end of the number one line in the Bronx, where the trains stop before turning around and going back to Manhattan, Gunn set up a cleaning station. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined a big tent on the bridge, with cots set up in neat rows. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She set up a card table which she covered with a filigree lace tablecloth from Florence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before you ask, the answer is yes. My mother set up the appointment for after school on Wednesday. She’s going to call your mother tonight.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Working methodically—and filming everything with movie cameras—the Soviets and East Germans finally reached the halfway point of the tunnel, where Harvey had set up a barrier of barbed wire and sandbags. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What we were supposed to do was to set up an ambush on what we figured to be their route. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gone away from it and he had set up his house in a town and he was rich. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Eventually, the light began to fail, and the driver and Mollie had to stop and set up camp. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In between setting up, he found time to make some notebook jottings, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Avery had his easel set up, and he was working on another picture of a little Conch house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance Old Johnny Mercer had finished setting up die large green tarp over Aunt Florentine’s grave site. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like she’s got some auto-service set up, so these are set to go out at certain times. Tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, then...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Police were setting up barricades blocking one whole lane of cars. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The referee blew the whistle, and Blue Springs quickly set up for a direct kick from nearly twenty-five yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Before long, they had us set up with a mountain of old newspapers starting at 1908. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their triumphs were constantly announced on the radio, in newspapers, and even on big screens they set up to play newsreels with scenes of their victories. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ellsberg set up his typewriter on a table and, much to the irritation of downstairs neighbors, pounded away late into the night. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Then we set up shop and sell them to every kid around.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Our rooms overlooked Lafayette Square and the North Lawn of the White House, where we could see the grandstand and metal bleachers being set up in preparation for the inaugural parade. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I see that his exhibit is all set up and ready to go. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z There were other market-folk and visitors setting up their stalls all over the meadow, putting up tents and hanging draperies from trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Burres, as one of the vendors, had set up some folding tables displaying cheap, mostly secondhand goods for sale, and McCandless volunteered to oversee her large inventory of used paperback books. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m disappointed, but I set up my phone to keep recording my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Late the next morning I was sitting on our couch and setting up the new phone I had just got. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Hers had both the cooking area and an eating area, which hadn’t been set up for eating. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z After a couple of minutes he settled outside the Waystone, set up his sharpening wheel and began to grind a knife. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This occurred to many in Greece, in the cities of Ionia and the Hellespont, where Darius set up rulers in order to hold these cities for his own security and glory. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The deejay is set up right in front of our stoop, and our whole building seems to dance to the rhythm of the music. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Can we set up two separate accounts?” his mom asked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad had already set up the new goal in the rodeo arena, and we had gone out there together early one morning before the sun could cook us. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When it was finally closer to dinnertime, Dad ordered the pizza and I set up the grid for another round while we waited. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The Colonel, Takumi, and I got there first, setting up our sleeping bags on the softest bales of hay. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z There are blue and yellow balloons punching around in the wind, and two bake sale tables set up with blue and yellow tablecloths, and about twenty-five or thirty people in blue-and-gold track uniforms. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I happened to have a position from one of my postal instruction games set up on the board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The technicians set up a makeshift radio studio around his bed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because on a counter by the bed, she has set up a miniature version of what must sit on her mantle at home, wherever that is. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The police had set up a checkpoint in the street that was nothing but a card table with a sign taped to it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I finished setting up the tracking app for Braviary,” she says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Across the street, the Apollo campers had set up a field hospital to tend the wounded—dozens of campers and almost as many Hunters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Darius, aren’t you going to help me set up?” she asks before she even makes it into the living room, or whatever this giant room is called. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z So I set up ten tables, five chairs each. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Some kind of memorial should have been set up to remember that this little boy’s life was taken from him before his time. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackson further parlayed the desire of the packers and other manufacturing business owners to win the hearts and minds of their black employees, setting up a host of company-sponsored social groups. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He watched the spectacle for a while, then decided that the whippings were going too slow, so he had guards set up long tables and lined us up in rows, four across. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z At about the same time, a local neighborhood organization set up by Operation Breakthrough also demanded that the landlord lower rents or fix the houses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This time, under the glare of extra lights that have been set up outside, I focus so I see them more clearly. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After the war they all determined to bring ‘high art’, as it was deemed to be, to the people, setting up various publicly funded and privately sponsored institutions to make this a reality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Despite the odds Archie had set up with the raffle tickets. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If they had a deuce set up you could bank it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z A podium had been set up in the middle of the basketball court, close to the bleachers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “But after the attack, David and the council decided we needed more extensive surveillance set up there so we can prevent an attack from happening again.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z These people were all stuck in the past, setting up their booths at the art fair and thinking themselves successful because they'd sold a silk screen of a footprint in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Good boy,” I tell him, then set up to throw the ball across the front yard. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z This one she set up on a shelf that was above the reach of the dogs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people were setting up tables and chairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The women have set up long tables and laid out side dishes, desserts, and cold drinks. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So they’d have to remove the lock of hair after the bomb was set up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z While Lorena fiddles with her phone and begins playing her horribly sexist rap songs, I walk over to the altar her mom has set up in the corner of the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Under the trees, on pounded dirt and among mud puddles from fresh rains, people set up stands for selling umbrellas and plastic wrist watches. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Baca connected extension cords into electrical outlets inside the cafeteria that Mrs. Hidalgo ran out to where we were setting up. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Hugh Huxley came to my rescue by offering to teach me how to set up the X-ray camera for photographing TMV. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They set up the quintain at the far end of the lists while the prince's pony was being saddled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For thirty-six years I worked for different groups, promoting world government, setting up conferences on pacifism, raising money, stuffing envelopes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked pained — she’d spent her life setting up this “creepy place,” after all. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t get down to where the stage was set up, but she had made her way to the tall fence where people had hung photos and flowers and stuffed animals. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z A motion-picture camera was set up at the border—to record the fabulous victory. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Heavy television cameras and audio equipment were set up, and the operators quietly waited. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I'm following a script sent by NASA, which was set up to make things as easy as possible. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit by the central elevator, where they set up Santa’s Workshop after Halloween. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s the first question,” Rick said; the gear had now been set up and the needles of the two dials quivered. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mama had already set up the dreaded frame of branches and there were strings of hide nearby that she would use to tie the skin up tight so that it could be worked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A table that Caleb may as well have set up himself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Straight-backed, prim Mary set up a modest but respectable home near the city center, a part of town where blacks and whites lived peaceably together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Perhaps it’s just as well we wait, then. Tomorrow at sundown is Fortuna’s Feast. By then, we must invade— Amazons or no. In the meantime, dig in! We set up camp here, on high ground.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She arranged the little packages in neat rows on the empty seat in front of her as though she was setting up a phlegm stall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Angry now, they made another run, and set up the overlap and cross on the right side—the very sequence Luma had warned her players to shut down. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They wound around the fake plants set up in the room, draped over the wall clocks and basketball goals, snaked through the bowls of chips and cookies on the snack table. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z James McCord, a former CIA technician now working with the Plumbers, set up a listening post in a room of the Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then I set up the card table on the screened breezeway between the house and the garage. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z During school on Wednesday, I scope out how the auditorium will be set up for Thursday evening’s talent show. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z This must be my cue to name a few names, because this is how Ted operates, my coworkers claim—through snitches and by setting up one woman against another. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I set up an appointment for tomorrow afternoon to turn yourself in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z We were both still chuckling as we walked to the fire pit, where they were just starting to set up for dinner. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “You can have the good sleeping bag if you want,” I told him while we were setting up in the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z A radioman from K Company had set up against the seawall and was railing loudly about interference; every time battleship guns were fired offshore even the static died out, he complained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The two big doors that opened to the outside were standing wide open, and every now and then, I could hear beats booming from the DJ setting up out there. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z At this, the creature set up a loud and piteous whining, rolled his eyes, and beat the ground with his palms. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “So . . . you were making it so you could set up other city experiments more efficiently, right?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, the police set up roadblocks on Spirit Lake Memorial Highway. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z We’d hired a caterer to add to the food my mom cooked, and a bartender to set up and serve the drinks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Next, the White House invited a man from Baltimore, R. S. Jennings, to set up a machine he proposed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They’d read it right away, the senator said, and set up a public hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—a dramatic setting in which to unveil the Pentagon Papers to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “My friend Mr. Perry! What are they saying about Mr. Perry?—Has he been here this morning?—And how does he travel now?—Has he set up his carriage?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z A community college there was holding a college fair, and Blackburn set up a table in a hallway, draping it with the University of Virginia’s blue and orange flag. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Afterward, we went to my house, and Abby’s dad brought all the leftovers from the One Stop booth to set up in our yard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But another outlaw told White that Hale had actually set up the robbery—that he’d told Kirby about the diamonds and suggested the ideal time to break in. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A week before Christopher’s hearing—which the Town of Marysville was taking its time setting up, probably to make him sweat—my father stopped eating supper with us. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Two tables were set up in the middle of the room with twenty-four bottles of cold Coors beer on each one. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of kids called out to him from where they were setting up lunch near the fire pit and, ever the president’s son, he smiled and waved at them real pretty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Mom spent a lot of time reading, and Dad got the shed set up so he could work on inventions, and I made a couple of new friends. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We advocated the creation of a multiparty negotiating conference to set up the interim government and set out the guiding principles for the functioning of a constituent assembly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan, Wynn, and I went to the parade while Momma, Brent, and his crew went to do a sound check and set up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z That afternoon Ben set up his mother’s dining room and kitchen chairs in a straight line, at intervals of three feet, from the back of the paved driveway to the front. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With Gertrude’s money, I could marry a nobleman or buy a merchant’s wares and set up my own shop. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “It’s set up that way so families can get food for everyone,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter, now, to figure out how Jeanine set up the security on her laboratory, of all things. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “A group of men who have quarrelled with the law cannot be expected to set up a government patterned after the one they antagonized.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To that end, he set up a limited liability company. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Karl was thunderstruck, and he turned and stumbled back to where his own family had set up their picnic on the beach. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z In the morning they would open their headquarters at the Washington Athletic Club, name a chairman, and set up teams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In order to break through the communication barrier and begin peace negotiations with the Nhambiquara, Rondon set up a phonograph and played records. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Lkossa’s streets, it seemed, were only just beginning to stir, filling with people leaving their homes and setting up wares for the day. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A green striped canopy, of the sort used for lawn parties, was set up over the grave. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Winchell looked good, setting up with poise in the pocket, throwing nicely, no rushed throws skittering off the hand. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The cameraman set up his tripod on the sidewalk. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an order to set up a military tribunal system to try the men accused of helping the hijackers. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z For over a century, institutional care for Americans suffering from serious mental illness shifted between prisons and hospitals set up to manage people with mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m just playing, man. I ain’t touch no dead people, and Mr. Ray told me I don’t have to. I just help out with setting up chairs and stuff like that.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “All right, then. But for sure today. I’m really getting uncomfortable about keeping secrets from them. And I want your parents to set up a proper account for you.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I'm ending today's drive early and setting up for recharge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When there’s nothing left to paint, Carlos helps us bring over the stuff from the original Hideout, so we can set up the rest of the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Off to one side of the camp, under a large black gum tree, we set up our tent. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The man tells the girl to go set up the table, so she turns and runs, looking over her shoulder at me once before she disappears down the hall. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The following morning, on March 18, Rondon spent extra time setting up a large post near the newly found tributary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The Frankfurt catalogues were circulated throughout Europe, setting up for the first time a truly international trade in books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the corner of my vision, I saw the scientists and doctors in their white scrubs, setting up machines and computers around me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Johnson had put Lieutenant Carroll down and was setting up the M-60. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The physical fitness test was set up for subjects taller, heavier, and with a greater muscle mass—in other words, men. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z A makeshift stage was set up at the south end of the basketball court, closest to the boys’ locker room, where we dressed and waited to perform. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He set up the Ramadan gig for him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He takes us to the hotel courtyard, where some camera operators and other show people are setting up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Once the microphone was set up, Sherm would run offstage, leaving Em to sing her song. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I type in the school’s log-in page and start setting up our blog. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The girls had set up all the stuff in the auditorium; and they had, with Miss Violet’s help, composed the story about the three wise men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His temporary desk at JPL was nothing more than a folding table set up in the back of a break room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After setting up the solar panels today, I went for a little walk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z First, Nick turned twenty-one years old, and the frindle trust fund set up by his father became legally Nick’s. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If Robbie had been set up by Dad, so had I. “You upset about something, Mountain Goat?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Across the room, tables had been set up for comfortable seating. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I set up the card tables beside the myrtle trees so the streamers would drift over and tickle our faces while we ate. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Other kids set up a voting system and tallied the results, or worked on letters that they would post on the Internet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Television cameras were set up in the Electronic Learning Center so spectators, in the library and at home, could watch the great flying reptile race. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The men set up a domino table and took turns playing, the losers giving up their chairs to the ones waiting their turn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When the sighting rod was set up, Rondon’s loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant João Salustiano Lyra, used a telemeter, an instrument that measured the distance from his canoe to the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And then, with everything well on its way to Safety, the Spoil-Funs, the people with Mercurochrome for blood and iodine-colored eyes, came now to set up their Moral Climates and dole out goodness to everyone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Just down from me, a family was set up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d also mentioned it the day before after they had set up their campsite. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He set up headquarters in the palace to protect the royal family as the fighting flared around them. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother’s complexion was pink, and the daughter’s was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z We set up camp when he couldn’t go on. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I had already set up the pillow and blanket for her because we figured it was probably best for her to sleep it off a little in the car before we went home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It is set up in a crater alongside us; Berger has fetched it, and now the counter-attack comes over from behind; we are set free and make contact with the rear. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The ' dirt-smeared windows looking down into its basement were right where the crew was setting up to shoot the next scene. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The otak still rode his shoulder, nestling in the fold of his hood as they sat at dinner at long tables set up for the festival in the Hearth Hall. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In case anything went wrong and either of them was unable to meet, Yatzkov set up an emergency system. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had probably set up an entire, elaborate system of false info to throw off anyone who tried to get to him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the lethargy of her pregnancy, Amaranta Úrsula tried to set up a business in necklaces made out of the backbones of fish. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then she set up an account for herself at a bank in Miami and transferred the money there. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z "And I am trying to tell you. Your mother told Izzy and Grandma Draper that she wanted to move to New York State, so Grandma set up a job interview with Dr. Gershom." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z That Mr. Binks guy was setting up his table too, right next to theirs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the eastern areas where the beetles have been longest established, attempts have been made to set up natural controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You will set up the Goblet of Fire once more, and we will continue adding names until each school has two champions. It’s only fair, Dumbledore.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She set up a chopping block across the armrests of her wheelchair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We decided we’d set up shop nearby, so you wouldn’t have to walk far in the rain. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The kegs were in the barn where the speakers were set up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In the laboratory, which adjoined the parlor, Dad, his movie cameraman, a nurse, and Dr. Burton were converting a desk into an operating table, and setting up the cross-section background and lights. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up what barriers of sorcery he could about his house and about the isle where he lived. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Chairs were set up along the walls of the house, and into the yard, and people from the neighborhood, and some I’d never seen before, sat quietly sipping coffee or talking in whispers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was impossible to set up the tents with the wind shrieking around them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In terms of my participation in things, I am trying to go to social events that they set up in my school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He was confidently directing his team from center midfield, ordering defense to move up the field in an effort to set up the offside trap. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z "You scared the sand will swallow your feet, boy?" a man calls out from a fruit stall he's setting up. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Yuko’s friend had been set up with Ahmaad’s friend, and though they courted for a few months, that relationship came to an end. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Nearby was her family’s inn, Buck’s Tavern, where Washington once set up overnight headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Otto shifted to my back to get a better view of what I was doing as I set up the board on my mother’s worktable. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z David’s successor, Solomon, set up a music school attached to the temple at Jerusalem for the training of musicians. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That the entrance they were taking was the wrong one, for another, a false one, set up to foil those, like himself, who did not belong. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The Canadians had things set up real easy for you if you was traveling; the train station wasn’t but a hop, skip, and a jump ’way from where the ferry let you off. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The two of them had stayed to set up camp while the others went to gather more wood and refill their water skins. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When they arrived at Actium to set up headquarters at their camp on the south side of the strait, they found Octavian’s army camped on the opposite bank. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z To practical men of industry the possibilities seem real enough so that at least one major electronic corporation is preparing to set up a laboratory to test them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tables and pop-tents had been set up beyond the benches under frizzy trees, their leaves lit with orange lanterns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Around midday we would halt, and cut and set up a few blocks of ice for a protective wall if the wind was strong. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I nod, even though my mother has been setting up shrines and praying for Pri’s father’s soul on the anniversary of his death each year. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His scheme for setting up a housing cooperative had failed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A short, pugnacious, mustached kid named Ronny came with a backpack full of pot and set up shop in the living room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Then she helped her father set up a pallet in the barn for Spoon Man. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After he set up both of them, the thin fellow laid the book on the desk, opened it to a blank page, and perched on the rickety stool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or”—Abby glances at me—“you could set up an online store. Maybe you could upload some designs, and then people could order prints and phone cases and stuff.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Maria and her daughters set up shop, grinding paint powders and displaying cases of carefully preserved butterflies and pupae. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Rue set up the fire but never made it back here. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The time I’ve lost from setting up the dynamite is now made up as I rapidly get higher and higher, until I reach the wall of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If we charge $15 a ticket and there are a thousand seats in the auditorium here, that’s fifteen thousand right there.Then we have a bake sale set up in the lobby. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the system is set up so you don’t succeed. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening as we were driving back to swinging singles, I asked my father if he knew that Margaret had set up Mother's job interview. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It was hardly the same as going off on a business trip and then setting up an automatic text to arrive a week later saying she was never coming back. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He arrives in Dresden on September 28, and spends the day wandering the outskirts of the city, wondering where the circus might set up. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "I will go bathe while you set up," she says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A hovercraft takes us to, of all places, 12, where a makeshift transportation area has been set up outside the fire zone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Supermarket chains like Whole Foods or Wal- Mart are not set up to do business with dozens of small family-owned farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Along the back wall, near the Ping-Pong and pool tables, several army cots had been set up, and in the corner was a pile of sleeping bags. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Baba sets up an IV with painkillers, but even so, I cry out and grip Dayah when he cleans and bandages my feet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Both you and Daphne. They’re setting up shelters. They might not have water yet, but they’ll have medicine—I’m sure they will.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Someone had set up their own little camp, using bright blue pool rafts as mattresses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The fella had set up an easel in front of a little Conch house on Nassau Lane. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I was back there too, setting up Angela’s phone camera inside the pastry case. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Not that a gentleman like you, so well set up as you, can’t win ’em off of his own game; but money shall back you! Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Over the past few months Kelton’s family has assembled an over-the-top surveillance system, set up a mini greenhouse in their side yard, and lined their entire roof with some kind of unregistered, off-grid solar panels. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “We would go around to these villages and set up perimeters of defense,” Horan explained. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Some will set up camp close to their first homes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We take our meds together, then get our tube-feeding bags out to set up for the night. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z We set up on strip number one—there were twelve different strips on the floor—and Coach took me back through all of my best high school moves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He also set up a modest general store where the tenants could buy whatever they needed without having to make the trip by oxcart all the way into San Lucas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The ease and rapidity with which this meeting was set up made me suspect that the government might have planned this rendezvous ahead of time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re in my chair. And class is about to start, so I need to set up my stand and everything, okay?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The old man’s hands fumbled setting up the chess pieces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We had to climb three sets of stairs to get to the apartment were setting up and are each carrying an armload of bedding. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Swallowing, Kaede set up the iron tripod and hung the kettle over the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The Huntsman and the other riders were taking bundles down from their horses, and Kaede watched them in confusion, for it was too early in the day to set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Daddy stands in the doorway, watching a reporter and camera operator set up in front of Mr. Lewis’s shop. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z There’s a rectangular table—like the kind we set up for bake sales at school, but narrower—pushed against one side of the trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Losing his nights to cheap beer and the nameless heavy metal band setting up in the corner. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The walking candy store helps out by handing me two Wint O Green Life Savers from her bulging laptop case as she opens it to set up her equipment. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Y’all have the Facebook plan set up, and it sounds like you got the details worked out. You mind if I send some people from my school your way?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The soldiers set up their garrison in another unfinished brick house, and there they socialized separate from the civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Mr. Stewart, thank you for coming with us and setting up this meeting,” Ma said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Down by Galveston, you set up camp on the beach. The fish, they were this big.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They set up a play for Ducky where he was supposed to move off a pick at the top of the key and cut across the lane. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I walked up to the microphone stand Mrs. Hidalgo had set up for me and tapped it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Stick said okay, and we spent an entire day setting up an elaborate floor plan and building the base and everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z How carefully I had set up our lives here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Why aren’t you here yet? I have something important that I wanted to give you before the party started. Molly and Kimberly have been here for over an hour helping me set up.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z That night, she set up her guard post near the window to the side yard where she thought we were most vulnerable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, your mom and Brent are setting up,” he said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The guard who was to have removed the pedestal and drape was called outside to set up sawhorses and make orderly rows out of the mass of people. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that several teachers, Professor Slughorn amongst them, suggested that he join the Ministry of Magic, offered to set up appointments, put him in touch with useful contacts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Once we reached the clearing that, I assumed, had once been used for campers to set up tents, we were surrounded by dozens of kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The Lightning wore red and gold and traveled with parents, friends, and siblings, who had made the fifty-minute trip to Decatur and set up camp on the sideline across from the Lightning bench. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z General John L. Throckmorton set up the headquarters of the 101st Airborne at Southeastern High, where my parents had gone to school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Lose the dog, guys,” Jenny reluctantly told a group setting up lighting and sound equipment. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1774, he set up a secret group that met regularly at the Green Dragon Tavern with the express purpose of monitoring British troop movements. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They are important to a nation—like Britain or Spain—when it plans to set up colonies in an area. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z While I was failing a quiz this morning, Samantha went over to Dylan’s early “to help set up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z There Washington would begin setting up his biggest and most successful spy network. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They set up in a small equipment shed on the property. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mami and Joy set up a chair and table next to my bed and that becomes my classroom. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z They set up a base in one village and waited for a Miami assault. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The teachers were still telling everyone to be quiet while the microphone was set up, and a loud screech from the amplifiers pierced the room. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z After the storm he had set up a makeshift office in Baton Rouge and was already working with prisoners brought to the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They were clustered mainly around the park entrance at Columbus Circle and the busier paths, but some had been set up deeper in the undergrowth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I set my travelsack on the leeward side of one of the grey- stones and the two of us began to set up camp. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There are umbrellas and awnings set up to keep them in the shade, but not nearly enough. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Inside Amity Harbor’s courthouse, opposite the courtroom’s four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They was setting up a factory to make the powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In a village near the city, they found a displaced persons’ camp set up at a former military base to provide temporary shelter and help for war victims and refugees. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He ordered Tallmadge to set up a spy ring that would provide such important secrets as the size and location of British military supplies and “the health and spirits of the army, navy and City.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The booths are set up in several rows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And when they’re not setting up to attack us and lay the torch to our homes, they’re aping our fine ways, eating elfin foods, trying to be just like us. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In August, when Karl returned to his classroom to set up for the new school year, he unpacked the clipboards from the box where Sasha had stowed them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He offered to set up a school to train code breakers for the Army, all expenses paid. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I gathered the necessary tools and set up in one of the fume hoods along the eastern wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Taisin tried to ignore them, setting up her bedroll on the edge of the platform. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z At half past six the next evening—she worked on Saturday nights, of course, while the rest of the staff went to the pub—she set up the camera again with Gosling’s help. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The race was set up on Plum Street, the long, level block between Ash and Jackson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In January, when he stopped working at his carrel in the library, he set up his desk there deliberately, partly because the room soothed him, and partly because it was a place Shoba avoided. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We set up experimental chambers there, and fed the raccoons and serpents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Within four days he had set up a small company that was selling cheap plastic ballpoint pens specially imprinted with the word frindle. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Exhausted, Ma and Keav struggle to set up our resting spot and start a fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ekman set up the projector, Tomkins waited in the back. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z After some iced barley tea and a quick snack my father and his friends would set up a volleyball net and start all over again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They had even set up checkpoints at the local bus and railway stations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Poole has set up a website for people to tell their stories of possession. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Even with mostly full batteries, I had set up the solar cells when I stopped. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She had her parlour set up just as nice as our ’n. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z There was a snack bar, where Mr. McDaniels was setting up a cake, and an organ in one corner, where old Mrs. Chapman, the piano teacher from down the street, was playing a polka. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Olympic Stadium, out at the Reichssportfeld, she set up thirty cameras for the opening ceremony alone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I should explain to you, grandchildren, how our teams were set up to use the code. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Our equipment is set up at the baseball held for our class. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We’re in physics class, and the assignment is to set up a pulley system. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Once out of Independence Hall, Anthony spotted a bandstand that had been set up for a musical concert that evening. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There were tables set up there, and they were covered with various clumps of that rust-colored mud so greasy it’s mostly just clay, and poking from some of those clumps were the fossils. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He sets up a card table for me in his office. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She had seen a neighboring family put out of their house when General Howe decided to set up his headquarters there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I overheard him telling Baba how he and his brother knew the Russian and Afghan soldiers who worked the checkpoints, how they had set up a “mutually profitable” arrangement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nowhere is the stratification of education more vivid than in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson once tried, and failed, to set up the nation’s first public high schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Theo has persuaded them to let him set up a little display of Impressionists on the entresol. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The suite known as AA-5 was a group of negative-pressure biocontainment rooms that had been set up as a research lab for Ebola_ virus by a civilian Army scientist named Eugene Johnson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I do remember complaining to her about the committee that had been set up to find a more modern name for Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I was very confused about why the window was set up in such a way that the human connection was lost between the interviewer and the interviewee. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Newsreel photographers shot a few more feet of film on deck and then scampered off the ship to set up their cameras for shots of it leaving. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Light tables were taken from the walls and set up on trestles and laden with gear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “This whole time, I thought the Taliban was the enemy of America. But didn’t the Afghani family we set up the apartment for have to escape and come here because of them?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Allen set up his machine gun and started firing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Faro set up a barking inside, and a minute later Mr. Loomis appeared. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She’d pin up a big map over the blackboard, and next to it, set up an easel. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked Bob Haldeman about setting up the kind of system Kennedy had used. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Sarah is in the foyer setting up a Ramadan fund-raising drive display. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She told him who Gretchen Silver was and suggested that they try to set up a meeting for the next morning. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You would have to set up a staging area. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She set up a meeting for me with the activities director at her senior citizen complex. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z This task fell to the beleaguered York, who served as their go-between, shuttling between Berkeley and Chicago, where Teller had set up his Super lab in exile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The FBI men, said Henry, had set up a temporary headquarters in an empty classroom down the hall from Dr. Roland’s office, and that was where they talked to him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Jim and his friend watched the cooling machine being set up. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “TV’s here, too,” said Kojo excitedly, nodding toward a couple of camera crews from local stations that had set up their tripods and equipment on the gym floor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Then something whizzed past me through the air, making straight for them, where it set up a commotion, thrashing around inside one flower after another. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z All I had to do was to get to my new apartment, set up my rig, and log back into the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Fela had set up an altar with pictures of the girls cut out from the popular posters that appeared each November. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So it’s Friday morning and I'm sitting in history listening to Mr. Penny, the history teacher, talk about all the arguments they had before they set up the Constitution. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Against the same wall as the office, but in the opposite corner of the barn, Margo has set up a kind of bed—four forklift pallets beneath an orange air mattress. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z There was a coastal farmer, he tells us, whose islands suffered under a nuisance of foxes—so he set up a fox-trap on one of them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re setting up a detour. Turn around and cross on the lower bridge.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z His father headed into the main medical room where several small beds were set up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He set up a small, hidden platform in a tree near a river where two of the attacks had taken place. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They looked up at me without any surprise on their faces: I had been set up, for sure. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Fazlullah had set up a public court to enforce his edicts, and his men were now flogging or killing policemen, government officials, and other men and women who disobeyed him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We moved back fifty meters and set up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents took the bedroom, and I set up a cot for myself in the kitchen—a definite upgrade from the crowded bunks of the concentration camps. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “We could of set up a .50-caliber machine gun and shot the old geezers as they tottered out,” Shorty grinned, touching a match—arrogantly lit on his fly zipper—to the end of his cigar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I said, if the book ever got published, I would set up a scholarship fund for descendants of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A paper screen is set up, splitting the front of the room right down the middle, surrounded by a collection of round tables and chairs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Before dinner, Uncle Jet set up a cage trap in the middle of the cornfield. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I swung open the front door, and there was my new bike, all set up in the living room like a little kid’s Christmas present. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When it began to grow dark, they set up camp just off the trail; downhill, the river Nir was pregnant with rain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z So they had crossed the street and set up on the corner opposite where they once were. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Our side-by-side beds were already set up for the night with mosquito nets. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z During Mardi Gras, when the local jails were full, the New Orleans police often housed drunks and thieves in temporary jails set up in tents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z About a dozen people are setting up cameras and lighting. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Regional Commands were set up around the country, and an area like the eastern Cape had over fifty cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk outside and see my cousins’ cousin Freddy and his wife, Alicia, arrive as the piñata is being set up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Look at the diagonals that Audubon sets up first,” Mr. Powell said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The next two days on Cape Torokina were spent setting up our base and strengthening our position while small parties tried to follow the trails that led farther into the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked up debris, swept the space clear, and set up planks to display their masters’ wares. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And as for the enormous peach stone—it was set up permanently in a place of honor in Central Park and became a famous monument. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt looked over the map of South America that was set up as a visual aid. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad had already set up the game on the kitchen table. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I could see a few tents set up, the first rows of black barracks, and beyond them, blurred by sand, rows of barracks that seemed to spread for miles across this plain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the idea to set up a booth that sold hot cocoa and s’mores fixings, and we lit fires in a couple of the old metal garbage cans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z So he set up his encampment at Yorktown at the tip of the York River peninsula on Chesapeake Bay. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As each of them was setting up his pieces behind the cyvasse screen, Haldon said, “What news from downriver? Will it be war?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After that, it didn’t take Amy and me long to set up a routine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Those who stayed in Chicago, setting up house and looking for work, found that only the lowest jobs were open to blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z More people spilled out the doorway and onto the sidewalk to listen on loudspeakers set up outside. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Tata Mwanza’s father came forward to set up the clay voting bowls in front of the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They set up in the lane closest to him, and before long, each of them began to broadcast live from the site of the protest. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Gymnasts set up their apparatuses, but with the ship swaying, they kept getting bucked off. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z If those policemen at Ellis Island hadn’t taken my silkworms, I could set up a cocoonery in the backyard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They seemed to be setting up some sort of camp behind the high school. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women’s suffrage meeting Miss Love set up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In Cardiff, the shipbroking firm of ‘Aadnesen & Dahl’ was set up and a single room in Bute Street was rented as an office. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I had just begun to feel the pulsing set up between myself and the people, hearing them answering in staccato applause and agreement when Tod Clifton caught my eye, pointing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The slaves set up the heavy copper tub in the comer of the tent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The farmer’s wife I usually deal with is just setting up her booth and complains that I have been going elsewhere. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Roger leads us into the kitchen and tells us to set up camp at the round wooden table. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I could do a photography course, or set up a market stall, sell jewellery. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Nate and the men had set up their tents inside the fort’s tall dirt walls. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The other reason was: They weren’t hiring anyone under eighteen now, on account of a new community service program they’d set up with the high school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “But you can just set up a new email account, you know. They’re free. I did one for my grandmother.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Some fifty yards away, Imogen and her friend set up for the afternoon. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He has no success persuading Uncle Cent to give him money to set up his own gallery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He had seen their own RA units at work, tightly knit groups, working all hours, proud of the speed with which they could set up a line, and proud of their discipline, drills, training, teamwork. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When everything is set up, we gather around the fire and eat a dinner of rice and salted pork that Ma cooked earlier in the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dylan was the one who set up Quinton and Maria’s kidnapping. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Now Day and I struggle through the rain back to the rail yard where we’re going to set up camp. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Sahil and I set up the scene and the camera and told them to take their places. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It looked like a hundred people were sitting around it, watching things bum or waiting for the food cooking in three big pots set up in the fire. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Ram is set up in his favorite seat in the corner of the living room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The ritual of it, the setting up and sitting down that seemed to her, from outside of it, the simple heart of culture. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He set up the screen so that it could be watched by all the patients. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “That’s enough to pay off all our work debts. With that much cash you could set up scavenge on your own. Even buy Bapi’s light crew slot.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘You knew Orion would be right behind me. You’re setting up an ambush. I’m the bait.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We are also renovating their schoolhouse and setting up a little clinic. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The thing was heavy, and he’d called ahead to request that an easel be set up in the president’s office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Everyone must have been out setting up for dinner. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At one point she got set up with this guy Gary. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z While they were setting up camp at the foot of the rapids, Rondon and Kermit found a deep and narrow stream entering the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He set up a door on brick piles for a table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You didn’t ask me to help you set up for Iridis.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He wrote, “The system set up by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs...insures that there will always be a Russian world champion....The Russians arranged it that way.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Truman’s cast and crew have been given two hours to set up in an unfamiliar theater, after which the doors will open again and nearly a thousand people will pour in. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In 1931, Japan tested the waters, invading the Chinese province of Manchuria and setting up a fiercely oppressive puppet state. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Oh my God. He's just being nice. I know the two of you were scoring last year, but like, I'm sorry. It’s all set up.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z After the pigs had been slaughtered and fresh pork was for sale in the market, another wave of British officers moved in and set up their camp beds in the second-floor drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They waited until we reached the place where Mr. Turner, the undertaker, had set up a little shade tent. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I refuse to go in there ever since David set up a motion-detecting alarm in the doorway. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She recruited working women, set up lecture tours for British suffragettes, and brought in a number of wealthy supporters to the cause. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Our alligators tried to make a quick crawl up the steep slope of the terrace so they could set up a fire line. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Titan army had set up camp all around the UN complex. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I walked up toward the river, trying to pick out specific landmarks, but all 1 recognized was a small rise where Jimmy Cross had set up his command post that night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his easel set up by the ocean. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z David Ballantine, Louis Napoleon, and a group of other Vigilance Committee agents had set up a barricade with some shipping crates at the steam chimney and were taking potshots over the top. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We set up our tents in a semicircle, backing onto the woods, midway between their fire and the cliff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The young men had seen a temporary medical staging ground set up at the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles, and they agreed that they would deliver the passengers there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He walked out of the tent, which was set up on the curve of a narrow dirt road, and was instantly blinded. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Bull saw Ben set up a trick that Bull had taught his son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning we’d open the doors, run an extension cord out into the street, set up a table, and play music. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z With the raffling of the mule, Petra Cotes and he bought some more animals with which they managed to set up a primitive lottery business. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I set up to shoot another one and Mr. Stokely blew his whistle behind my head as I was about to shoot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But the men had set up a snug and spotless dugout for the pilots of the 46th Guards to sleep in. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The kids we had seen in the kitchen had set up a table full of what looked like slow cookers and were making runs between the office building and the fire to replenish them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Her mother bathed her face with cool water and set up a water pitcher beside her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Earlier that day, I’d asked Ali to set up the kursi for us—which was basically an electric heater under a low table covered with a thick, quilted blanket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I asked Ishtar while the others set up our camp. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The Coalwood Women’s Club was setting up a picnic table with all kinds of pastries and jugs of punch and tea. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had his easel set up, and he was painting a picture of her house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z We can set up factories to manufacture our own necessities! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was right; once we set up all the spider webs and stuff, it 100 percent looked like a room in a castle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jenna asked if the school could set up a changing space for girls who need privacy, but Coach refused. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Looking out toward the river, he knew for a fact that he had made a mistake setting up here. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma’s solution to keeping us busy was setting up what she called a House Systems Program. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Coach had it set up so that we always knew what we were doing at practice every day. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Once they got set up, the house really started to jump. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z We took over the street in front of his house, ran the electricity out of his place, set up the computer, set up speakers, and borrowed a tent, and people came. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The rest of the class is setting up their pads on their stands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Over a glass of burgundy, the winemaker suggests that Friedrick might enjoy the circus that is in town, set up in a field a few miles away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Throughout the month of June, the union wooed workers, setting up a band on a flatbed outside the Great Gate of the Union Stock Yard, greeting workers with lively tunes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some felt that Holm had been deliberately set up by the journalists in order to manufacture a story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His laptop is set up on the breakfast bar with a USB cord plugged into his camera. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Armelio toddles away to the dining room to set up the cards. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “In the midst of the resulting chaos, turmoil, and disorder,” Yutar proclaimed, “it was planned by the accused to set up a Provisional Revolutionary Government to take over the administration and control of the country.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not think that I was set up by the warder who left the newspaper on the bench, though some assumed I had been. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your situation is more complicated, I know, but it looks like we’ve reached an agreement. We’re thinking about setting up a scholarship fund in Lucy’s name—something like that.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Just let me set up my tripod on the porch so I can ring the doorbell... Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The law set up the Civil Service Commission to fill thousands of federal government jobs based on applicants' experience and ability, not their political connections. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Charlie Company scrambled to set up a perimeter to defend themselves. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I just set up the system and I’m testing it out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Abby’s dad said he’d set up a mobile One Stop food truck and would recruit other restaurant owners in town to do the same. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Outside the Merchant’s House a trestle table had been set up in the shade and decorated with striped blue-and-white pennons that fluttered at every breath of air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After photos, we’re released to set up our backstage dressing areas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In turn, she set up the apothecary I now use and fitted it with every tool of science known in France today. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I got up from where I'd set up by the tent to count and recount ammo and followed her through the pines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z An hour later, they were all set up. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Alarmed, I walk faster, and see that the fire rises from large, man-sized metal bowls set up on the sidewalks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The other half of the room was set up like an office. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He got his law degree and set up a practice on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She flopped onto the green bag and we set up the game, laying all the pieces out on the rug. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The first thing he does is instruct Soldier Jackson, his second in command, to set up a two-person, round-the-clock guard on Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z For since such a government, having been set up by that prince, knows it cannot last without his friendship and power, it must do everything possible to maintain them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They were not financially able to abandon their potatoes, so they cheerfully set up camp right on the state line, where they ate potatoes, sold potatoes, bartered potatoes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If he could not set up a pope he wanted, at least he could act to ensure that it would not be someone he did not want. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Then the engineers set up an experiment re-creating the circumstances of the accident, flying a test plane into the trailing wake of a larger plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was thinking, Well, it’s not just marriage that’s set up like that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hall of the home, Celina Aunty set up a little crèche, a set of dolls in a stable: baby Yesu, Mary, Joseph, three kings, a drummer boy, and lots of animals. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Beside the grave, a few chairs had been set up for the family. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z You focus on getting your own one little place set up perfect, as I have done, and you’ll see. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fizz sets up her corner, selling scarf jewelry, and I snap some pictures of that. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Preacher set up the beat, and we took off. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could just set up and play outside somewhere.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She was ready for them with a table, chair, and empty pitcher all set up. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The committee, created by the Continental Congress, was really a spy agency, set up “for the sole purpose of Corresponding with our friends in Great Britain, Ireland and other parts of the world.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t say nothing but he walked back the twenty paces and this time set up ten pieces of wood. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z SquareHead314: why don’t you set up tomorrow’s problem of the day? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z After the game, tables were set up and there was good food to share with both teams. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In which the general sets up a spy ring. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Grandpa finishes his last bite, I quickly clear the dishes, wash the plates, and run to set up my phone with the little tripod my dad bought for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They set up tables in the kitchen and served roast beef—the Jaaxes did not like turkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Following the instructions, which told him to cut here, lift there, and fold back all around, he soon had the tollbooth unpacked and set up on its stand. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z If you’re setting up, you sit on the cement with your legs spread open and put a marble on a crack in front of you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We had little choice, though, but to push the fears away, continuing to trust the structure set up to protect us and to simply live. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I knew when I was being set up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had set up a wordless howling, like an animal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z While I was a student at Syracuse University, I set up a foundation to help improve the lives of Sudanese refugees still in Africa, as well as Lost Boys who had moved to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z To Bobby, the positions were as clear as if he had the game set up on a board in front of him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Across the street from the school the police had set up wooden barriers to keep the crowd back, and they paraded back and forth, ignoring the jokes called to them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And maybe I could start getting things set up like they used to be, just in case we could make this into a farm with animals again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I cut through a block in which there were close to a dozen funeral parlors, each decked out with neon signs, all set up in old brownstone buildings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony, ready to redirect his attention to the Parthian campaign, moved his family to Athens to set up his headquarters. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z After the scan, we walk inside the main hall of the Hub, where dozens of registration tables are set up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They’d even set up bunkers on our roof, where they acted out a battle. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He married his fiancee, finished his education, and was set up in business in Ilium by his father-in-law. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll have to set up a goose fence around my grave, he thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And the Federals running, no guns set up, nothing but one battery and one regiment in line.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in Malia’s junior year, the two of us had gone to spend a day visiting colleges in New York City, for instance, setting up tours at New York University and Columbia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “That was before I set up these logs. No small undertaking.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z To maintain some hold on his selfesteem Papa began to pursue his doomed plan for setting up a housing cooperative among the returning Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She led me, not to the stiff chair set up, interrogative style, in front of her desk, but to the plush crimson cushion of her window seat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After seeing my psychological report I set up another meeting with the shrink. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I know the word framed means a person was set up to look guilty of a crime they didn’t commit. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z There was a drum kit set up, as well as a few acoustic and electric guitars. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z We called a time-out and the coach set up a play for me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z At that time Axelroot was just in the process of getting set up in Johannesburg. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she knows it, she is setting up her life as if it were an exhibit labeled neatly for those who can read: the sister who survived. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell him to let me out, but I stayed because I needed Sapo to set up a meeting with Bodega, so I could make a deal with him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Shahir, the left midfielder who frequently set up Josiah for attacks down the left sideline, had lost the nails of both his big toes because his cleats had been too tight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z We could not have been more than one hundred yards away, when the chairs began falling into our lane, setting up imminent impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I ended up throwing a bunch of them at some bottles I set up on a fence. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z So I was set up in the weekly market just south of Belair-sur-Oise, and I was keepin’ the people entertained, as I do, when I notice the strangest sight. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Mom had stationed him on the sofa so he could set up his tape recorder on the coffee table. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Quigley Stadium was where the 101st troops set up their headquarters. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We all exchange terse nods then focus our attention on the temporary stage that is set up before the Justice Building. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The black shirts had been busy setting up a performance area on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When it was no longer possible for Woundwort to be everywhere, the Council was set up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I finish the chapter I’m on and peek out the window—checking to see if anyone is setting up for the block party yet. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet even suggested capturing what was stealing the seeds by setting up a steel cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Because it was a wind strange to me, and therefore mysterious, it set up mysterious responses in me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The bell hung in its own rack, set up to sound alarms. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z So whoever arrived first and set up residence in houses or apartments can claim them as theirs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when everybody was raving about Truman because he had set up a Committee on Civil Rights, Milkman secretly preferred FDR and felt very very close to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “We know where the entrance is now. We can set up a defensive line and wait for them. If an army tries to come through, they’ll find us waiting with our bows.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Vendors set up their shops, hocking everything from oven parts to bicycles to dinofeed and saddles. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The letters told her to call the 800 number and set up a payment schedule. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Protestors have come, hundreds more, setting up a site that looks like a Burning Man village. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z An elevated seating unit has been set up for prestigious guests, with the stylists commanding the front row. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On Lake Street, for instance, Margaret O’Toole set up her small stand and began selling chestnuts. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d never meant to get caught in the blast and had believed her father’s aide had set up another student to take the fall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He went to help Pol set up their tent, leaving Taisin kneeling on the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On December 14, weary of paddling, he hauled the canoe far up the beach, climbed a sandstone bluff, and set up camp on the edge of a desolate plateau. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds, thousands, millions of places the Slip Kid could have set up camp, and I wanted to help them puzzle it out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The organization had set up a Free Mandela Committee and launched a lively campaign with the slogan “Free Mandela.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not see how the virus could be contained unless the monkey house was set up for quarantine with an independently filtered air supply. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She set up her easel under the stovepipe, right next to the back window, because she said it got natural sunlight—which it did, relatively speaking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He fled to Hungary and then to Israel, supposedly with bags of money—to avoid prosecution and with hope of setting up a government-in-exile. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A desk and a chair were set up on the floor at the base of the steep amphitheater. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z No wonder some twenty-eight hundred Japanese companies have set up operations here or teamed up with Chinese partners. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We made our garage sale treks on Saturdays, Baba the driver and me the navigator, and set up our display on Sundays. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One a clock come and I make sure I got my ironing all set up in front a Miss Leefolt’s tee-vee, tuned to Channel Three. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The big stage is set up across from the food vendors, where the Greendale High School jazz band fills the air with classic tunes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He set up a stepladder and hoisted himself through a window. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We set up camp in a small clearing and then went looking for our first pipe. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I introduced Mom and Dad to Frank, and we set up to bowl. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Before us, traders were setting up their wares in stalls and tables. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z For marbles you’re either the person setting up the target or the person shooting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He remembers the big, long folding tables that he’d helped his father to set up, chalkboards on the walls, Sonia standing up on a chair, writing “Congratulations.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the house they still had guests for lunch and the old routine was never really set up again until the banana company left years later. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He began setting up a spy network by turning to trusted friends. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They bandaged her wound, but there was nothing else they could do until they set up camp, and none of them wished to remain here, surrounded by the stinking corpses of dead wolves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When we were setting up, Joe realized he’d left the cord to his guitar in his locker and had to run back to find it, which cut into the time we’d been given. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “If you had any foreign bodies in your legs they would set up an inflammation and you’d have fever.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z For a while Will’s sisters set up camp on their front lawn just to give directions to all the visitors who inevitably made a wrong turn or two. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She set up her tent beside the barrel, banked the snow around the bottom to seal out the wind, and spread her ground cloth under it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She set up the ironing board on two chairs and put the iron to heat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My father wandered over to the folding chairs set up outside the tent for the men under the night sky. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Mounting the dais which had been set up for his use, he swirled the sinister cloak about him and sat down in the Abbot’s chair. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I wave at Micah, who is setting up a line of djembes for the percussion-group performance. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A lean, blond striker set up to take the kick. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Tree-ear glanced surreptitiously at his colleagues; many were setting up half a dozen planks or more. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Instead, black churches set up “shopping centers” in their basements, and chartered buses to transport shoppers to Raleigh and Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The guy sets up his grill and starts getting out hot dogs and stuff. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “We have a meeting set up next week. I have a lot to do before that, though. And it’s only a preliminary interview.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The room is kind of set up like a stage, anyway. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Disheartened, the men moored their canoes securely to some trees and set up camp. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The FBI caught wind of this, set up a sting, and arrested Westerberg. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He planned to get another one set up once he rebuilt the chicken coop. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “That’s probably the reason it was set up in the first place.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Most importantly, alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages—the first permanent settlements in history, long predating the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Perplexed, Hunt decided to put him inside the pressurized Gamow Bag, which was set up in a lodge adjacent to the HRA clinic. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Sefia set up camp; Archer packed it away in the morning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In interviews here, my previous findings were confirmed: with the exception of those trained in professions where they can set up independent practice, they can find jobs commensurate with their education only outside the South. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry. The people who did this are shameless cowards. They won’t dare to come back. And even if they try, we are working with the police to set up additional security.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “We’ll set up a track record for you today, Mr. Howard,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A telephone hotline has been set up for assistance in locating missing New York City family members,” the woman on the radio said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z By the time Xan hobbled into the widow woman’s garden, half the town was already there, setting up tables and tents, with legions upon legions of busybodies preparing themselves to fuss over the old woman. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We got to the hamlet and just hung around while the civilians set up a screen and started showing Walt Disney movies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The two women set up a studio there, aided by elder daughter Johanna, who soon afterward headed to Surinam herself. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The secret police wanted Shostakovich to answer questions about his friendship with Marshal Tukhachevsky, formerly head of the Red Army, who was being set up for a show trial. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The cashiers are still setting up their registers. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Walowick had put the chessboard on a box, and we started setting up the pieces. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked off the field for a moment to set up my eyeglasses for the game. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Father only smiled, and went to work setting up the poles correctly, giving directions to me and Robin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In a Thanksgiving day rout of Texas A & M, he intercepted two passes that helped set up scores. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He sets up his studio there, and he hopes to turn the room on the first floor into his bedroom at some point. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At night they stopped beside a bubbling stream to water the animals, and the Xi set up small, strange tents in the spaces between trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was usually too tired to stumble back to the cabin after his shift, and spent most of his days sleeping in the tents they had set up near that entrance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The roof over the garage was flat, and he set up the tent there, securing it with books and a few cinder blocks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The scornful boy set up a howl as his mother pushed him into the doctor’s room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With desalination units being set up along the coast, she figures there’ll be enough water for everyone soon enough, so why not be generous? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There’s a man looking at a newspaper near the market stalls being set up in the square. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The waiting room is set up like a doctor’s office, only the chairs are plain molded plastic, and instead of carpeting there’s chipped linoleum. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The stage had been set up for a town-hall-style meeting, with a long table and six chairs behind it for the board members. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Let’s text Sheryl to see if she set up our ride,” she says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He settled on the inner ash wood sill, leaning against the door jamb—cypress timber the skilled carpenter planed years ago and set up with a plumbline. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s actually seeing chiropractic patients at the clinic that some of the doctors have set up in a partitioned section of the Hub. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The girl didn’t know, the old man was out of the picture—everything was set up perfectly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A police blockade was set up around the entire state of Ukraine so that no one could get out and no food could be brought in. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We set up a scene with Moms and Derek playing like Derek was a customer and Mom was a used car salesman and they were bargaining over a car. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m glad you’re here early. Let’s see if we have you set up correctly. We’re really glad to have you participate.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I try to imagine it with all of the boxes and junk gone, and set up like the Hideout. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The local “ground crew” set up our radio by attaching it to the poor Rosalie’s battery and sticking the antenna up a tree that conveniently hid the car from the air, as well. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I was done driving and had the camp set up by noon. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He began to charge a modest fee for his knowledge, which enabled him to rent a house where he set up his academy of converts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Meeks, all kinds of people set up shop in the Central Port, using a network of catwalks and rickety wooden planks to connect their barges and narrow boats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I saw the cassette tape recorder that had been set up in the hallway and watched an officer bring over a tape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Gathering her pack, she ran her hand over the outside to check that its contents were safe, and limped away from the water to set up the little tent. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His sister, conscious of having been robbed of something, had set up a feeble wail. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He'd barely finished setting up when the customers started lining up. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z By the time they graduated, they were broke and in debt, with no money to set up a practice as veterinarians, and so they had enlisted in the Army together. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I set up a goal in front of the gray wall and they took turns shooting at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I finished setting up, then tiptoed up the steps and slipped in to where the service was going on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Like falling into a pool of oil and already having a buyer set up. Shouldn’t your dad just take a cut and let this Pyce run with it?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ali called for me to come over to the middle, where the DJ was set up and where parts of our cities had been moved. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Tables would be set up outside where we’d eat, laugh, and play dominoes under the stars until it was time to go to midnight Mass. It was like one big party. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It explained how the World Wide Web worked, how one could own a browser, how to go about setting up a Web server. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z So they set up a perimeter, ate chow, then crawled under their ponchos and tried to settle in for the night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And it’s quiet—so quiet you can hear the buzz of the makeshift lighting that has been set up outside. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z My family scrambles to set up our encampment in the field near an abandoned hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence had already telephoned Arthur Compton to set up a meeting in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And they used to set up the workers with housing, too. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A row of folding tables had been set up in front of the auditorium stage. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Two or three other migrants set up their buckets along the same sidewalk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Their dark green tents are set up in the middle of a group of trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing left to do in the Hideout is set up my thrift store purchase. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Afterward, they were shepherded into the dining room, which had been set up quite nicely for the talent show. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Fisher calls our names, and we walk to the front and set up our giant poster, which is filled with the words from all the poems we liked. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z He sets up shop on the sideline, even catering for the kids with soft drinks and lollies. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z When we didn’t have access to the school’s dance studio we’d break down oversize cardboard boxes in abandoned streets and parking lots, set up a boom box, and practice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z To minimize the evidence found on him when the police habitually came his way, he set up loot-stashing sites around town, including a three-seater cave that he dug in a nearby forest. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z One local news crew was allowed to set up their camera equipment in our living room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Extreme care must be used in order to create an insecticidal effect in the blood and tissues of the host without setting up a fatal poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We take a seat at the small table set up on the sidewalk and eat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They placed a gypsy woman at one end of the village and set up the telescope at the entrance to the tent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When the music started, the caps started marching toward the folding chairs set up on the field. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z But the good news is that that the World-Famous Betty Allen Cake Raffle was set up on the lawn in front of the Lost Shepherd Church. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When we set up an ambush at the tipple gate, the miners going on shift got into the spirit of things, whooping and returning our imaginary fire. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “And it worked perfectly! Good job, Kristina Houck. Mission accomplished. You set up your best friend after she kept your secret for over two years, and then you lost her. Nice job.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Descartes was willing to envision a universe where God set up the initial conditions and then left the machine to assemble and run itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Every year, I set up a theme for us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “He invited. If I go now, I can help him set up for the night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Three hundred years ago, the Royal Society was set up: the first true scientific society in her world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z People who protested were put on bread and water with their ankles in a set of stocks that he had set up in a schoolroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They stood next to a group of older men who had set up a small table to play checkers, the same men who often played at Lowell Park. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As they set up for their third contest, the dwarf studied his opponent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ethel had said, “I never heard it so quiet. No music, cat’s got Kate’s tongue. It’s like setting up with a corpse.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Men set up booths, hung strings of electric lights, and put the final coat of paint on the new gazebo. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Soon, we are lined up and brought to the main butterfly garden, which is a clear plastic tent set up inside a bigger room. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z John White Sr. gave up his office in the Alaska Building downtown and set up an office upstairs in the house on the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was because of such threats, I said, that it was absolutely critical to set up a transitional government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In detention, Mr. Harris didn’t set up any rules. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Lights flicked on and house-doors opened all down the street, to watch the carnival set up. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Others set up dozens of tables in the yard, spread a tablecloth on each. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Extra chairs had been set up along the wall, and a crowd of people unable to get seats stood in the hall, craning their necks to see in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On May 6,1 set up a base camp on the ice cap just northeast of the Thumb and waited for the airdrop. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The air armies were set up in divisions, each with its own job—for example, bomber, fighter, or ground attack. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Hartshorne and May, in other words, had set up a sting operation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past, Dorothy would have set up the equations in a data sheet and walked one of her girls through the process of filling it out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When the federal government set up the Housing Authority in 1934 to help local governments replace substandard housing, many cities rushed to grab their share of the half-billion-dollar program. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A riser set up at one end before a butterfly light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dana, Caroline, and I set up shop by the Smart Board, painstakingly listing parents and siblings, relatives and friends. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I set up the congas at the height I liked; I was tired and thirsty, but I couldn’t wait to come back down and play the Latin pieces I had been sweating over all year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall there were always cotton buyers, and usually four or five drummers who would set up their merchandise in a hotel room, stay a few days, then move on to another little town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In them he set up his lights, his tripods, and his various machines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to set up his own gallery, where he can show the artists he wants, such as Claude Monet, whom he is representing already. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “What the hell are you talking about? We just got here. We're still setting up!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They drove out there, checked the chlorine shed, toured the perimeter, then trooped into a little shack that had been set up with four cots. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge group of parents, siblings, and friends accompanied the Gwinnett Phoenix team to Decatur and set up camp on a sideline with folding chairs, blankets, coolers, and picnic lunches. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Mark Antony’s army set up camp on the south side of the strait. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The police got ready, the gambling houses got ready, and the papers set up congratulatory editorials in advance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He quickly learned to set up the barriers, but I’m not sure he felt he could count on them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1623, when the First Folio was printed, every page had to be set up for the press by hand, using tiny metal letters called movable type. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He went about setting up the triangles for our shelter, and I took off my clothes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead a large round table had been set up in the center of the hall, with tall chairs all around it where men might sit and talk as peers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Large kettles were set up outside the White House and in nearby Lafayette Park. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Scott, a friend of theirs, was an expert in setting up projects like the one Salva had in mind. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s say I’m setting up our retirement house in advance. I’ll come back here for holidays, or when you really need me.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Everyone brought sleeping bags, but instead of using them, we set up a nest of blankets and sheets and pillows on top of the carpet. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z They are sitting in rows of chairs facing a microphone set up on one end of the room. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I usually had some sort of errand to run while my parents set up for dinner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “One more,” he’d say voraciously, setting up the pieces, and no one refused him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I get all this from the reactions of the soldiers setting up their beds, because the two women do not speak Polish at all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Go just so far as is necessary, set up camp inches beyond the reach, the fingertips of the law. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Instead, she had to travel twenty-five blocks away by bus to another school that was set up for our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After setting up half of them, I figured out I could drag them rather than carry them, and that sped things up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they hiked for another hour or two before setting up camp. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He sets up a folding aluminum chair in front of the garage doors and applauds as I take the stage on the oil-stained concrete floor. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “It would be doing what the segregationists wanted—setting up separate schools. Not to mention that it would be betraying the nine Negro students at Central who suffered through last year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the TV room I set up a tray table. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were just hanging out but when Karen started setting up her drawing pad they came over to check us out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z They make a living selling their mushrooms to brokers who set up shop in motel rooms near the forests. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They set up in the front garden, near the generator house, and stayed until the last guests left, all of them slow and sated, taking food wrapped in foil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They would have to stop and set up camp in the rain. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z This time he pulled several things from it, including a bulky square, which he unfolded and set up—the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z After school, Mr. Daniels is setting up a chessboard and pieces at the reading table. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Caesar in Alexandria Julius Caesar marched into Alexandria and set up camp in the palace. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I marched past the rows of tents set up on the grounds outside of the fort, trying very hard to ignore the men and boys who stared as I walked by. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z That winter my mother and brother came and we set up housekeeping, buying furniture on the installment plan, being cheated and yet knowing no way to avoid it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They were setting up a lemonade stand together, and Evan had been grumbling about dragging the cooler across the street and down two houses, just like Scott. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z He would print until he had not a sheet of paper left to print on, or until the very day the gallows was set up for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I register as a Decker, set up my profile, upload an old photo off my Instagram, and I’m good to go. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I will be setting up a Web site where you may post letters on a computerized message board. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Then he set up his staff that Ogion had made him for a mast, stayed it with spells, and fixed across it a yard of sound wood. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z My beauty caisse is set up behind me, fanned open so the medley of instruments inside twinkle in the subtle light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Fadi glanced at the table the school tree huggers association had set up to raise money for a campaign to clean up local beaches. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z As a sort of test, he had agreed to set up a cage with a few pairs of the rodents, imitating on a reduced scale the enterprise under consideration. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Wooden folding chairs are set up before a movie screen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So after Mrs. V gets Penny set up with her dollhouse at the foot of the couch, we add even more words and phrases. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “If Missus Stein likes it,” I say, practically chanting the familiar words, “I just want to have the next interview set up and ready.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Twelve tables were set up in the dining room. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z William Wise had set up a workbench for him and had finished the tool of hardened iron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z They set up shop on the bluffs that mark the edge of high water—close enough to the river to fish, far enough to avoid the flood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There was this rescue dog I knew about; she was a real scrapper. And I know a guy who sets up fights sometimes. He has a couple pit bulls. It wasn’t, like, an organized thing.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You have a row of dominoes set up,” said President Dwight Eisenhower. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I started to set up the fire, surrounding dry leaves with a pyramid of progressively larger twigs and branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Two blocks were turned into Manzanar High, and a third block of fifteen barracks was set up to house the elementary grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After a long journey, during which we had stopped twice to set up camp, we arrived at the gorge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon after Jadzia left, the Nazis set up a border between the two towns. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The dogs set up a horrible cry as they galloped on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his photographer had set up a shot with Cesar and Maya. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Auntie Harrigan accompanied Mama to the second floor to help set up, while Papa and Uncle Arthur carried up a long folding table, followed by a dozen folding chairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was a keg of beer set up at the end of each long table and it was free to all good Democrats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I get set up at the MAV, my solar cells and batteries will be in a fixed position. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the Communists had allowed a few boatloads of sick and wounded to cross the river to hospitals that the Y.M.C.A. had helped to set up. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d just set up to send and receive and was waiting for the first messages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In late December 1938, in the German capital of Berlin, a chemist named Otto Hahn set up a new experiment in his lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes we stay in motels, but only if it’s too late at night to find a place to set up the tent. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On Senior Day, something the school had set up to keep juniors from dropping out, the seniors wore funny clothes and got to skip classes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Adrian set up a round of shots, sloshing a dark brown liquid into the glasses, spilling some over the sides. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There was a hallway right by where the DJ was set up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Yeah. You know, the ones you set up?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I want to leave the hummingbird room before somebody starts setting up a snare. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z David set up the chairs behind a large piece of electronic equipment. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I shall set up a mighty country under the control of the Organization of Colored Leaders and Scholars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z While the grownups busied themselves setting up the meal, I made my escape, sneaking away to ride 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 There are tables set up alongside the track. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A manger scene was set up at the left side of the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A podium had been set up in the center for Sayle, the prime minister, his press secretary, and the minister of state for education. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z When she telephoned on the afternoon of October first to set up the meeting, Mrs. Chatham had asked Nick to be there, too. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They needed to avoid the checkpoints set up by black-turbaned men on the main road. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z There, under some shady acacia trees, we set up the tents that would be home for the next three months. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother and Prim had set up a medical area for the injured and were attempting to treat them with whatever they could glean from the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the Germans didn’t have prisoner-of-war camps set up to accommodate women soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A temporary morgue was set up in a tiny stable to handle the remains of the dead. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The second implication of the hockey example is that the systems we set up to determine who gets ahead aren’t particularly efficient. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Schools set up across Egypt trained the leaders and administrators of the future. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “A medal-league table was set up every day in most newspapers, which showed the points every team had reached....For us youngsters, it was a nail-biting experience to the very last day. We had won!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “No. Church already set up a plan to pay the lawyer. To keep him on for when she come up for parole.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They didn’t want to keep subleasing from other gyms, so they began looking for a space where they could set up their own temporary training center. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The ladder fell sideways, cannoning into another one that had been set up beside it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When it was time, he carried him down to the Great Hall, where a long trestle table had been set up near the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After a week of stalling, I wake up Sunday morning with one goal—to call Roger and set up the acupuncture session. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z We walk in and Jack’s setting up lights and fancy camera equipment. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Tables and pop-tents had been set up beyond the benches under frizzy trees, their leaves lit with orange lanterns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Most likely, the sender was setting up a meeting point. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Some vendors were setting up to grill meat along the side of the street. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All evening at school, my mind was filled with words bouncing around in my head like the popcorn machine someone had set up in the corner of the cafeteria. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Invisible servants had set up a table with beef stew and apple cider, which may not sound all that exciting, but that’s because you haven’t tasted it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Jones works hard setting up the gym for dozens of kids. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z One morning my brother and I, while playing in the rear of our flat, found a stray kitten that set up a loud, persistent meowing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So were all her emails and text messages—except for the automatic ones she’d set up for Ms. Morales. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The British had set up a new camp in Brooklyn on Long Island, and Washington was moving his troops around like pieces on a checkerboard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We were sitting on the couch outside Nilekani’s office, waiting for the TV crew to set up its cameras. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z At this the bard set up a loud lament and bowed his head. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z IV George had set up his stakeout on Poydras Street across from the Paradise Vendors, Incorporated, garage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember to take your bedtime meds and then set up your G-tube feeding for the night, okay?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The first time he and Cara went to the resource center on Monday afternoon, it took him only twenty minutes to set up the basic framework of the newspaper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Lena took the board from Kendra and began setting up the pegs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was a carpeted hall and I moved down with pounding heart as a dog set up a terrific din within the top apartment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We cleaned up the house and set up a pulpit with a white tablecloth and invited the McNairs and the Ingrams and the Taylors and the Floods over. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t take long for them to set up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The director of the school musical had set up a meeting to discuss the responsibilities of the house manager. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ground in Norway, Poulsson and his team found the best possible landing spot and set up lights along a strip of land. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t no real roadblock set up for them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She would set up a darkroom in the bathroom, after Pearl had fallen asleep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Wow,” I said, sitting down in front of the new computer she had set up at my desk. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Lots of scarce Treasury money had to be committed to set up his biophysics show, and suspicions existed that this was money down the drain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The collection of tables and chairs had been rearranged into a basic U shape around the room, and multiple colleges had set up their displays on them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m squeezing lemons for the lemonade stand Zack and I set up on our street corner. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Tim does a quick card trick with a volunteer from the audience, then returns to the stage to set up the main event. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Once the bedroom is set up again, I can take off my EVA suit and relax. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They set up camps all along the west coast of Greece to create a supply chain heading south. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth—razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He was setting up the cards for our card game. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z There were news vans set up like permanent trailer parks—surrounding the strip mine, outside the school, and along US Route 30. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z They had rarely seen their homes in the last two months; a makeshift bunk room had been set up in the cafeteria. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After a short while, we found another clump of brush and rock to set up camp. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Kitum Cave expedition set up headquarters in the Mount Elgon Lodge, a decayed resort dating from the nineteen twenties, when the English had ruled East Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the crew was setting up its floodlights on tripods, a Dayton, Ohio, radio station called, wishing to interview Mali colm X by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It took time to set up the new camp, and by nightfall, Roosevelt’s temperature was so high he was delirious. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The commission had been set up in Cuba following the Spanish-American War to discover the cause of yellow fever and develop a cure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She said that the program had been specifically set up for boys because no one even knew the situation of the girls at the camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “We should set up a family meeting,” he said as her mom’s hands moved to her paper napkin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We set up a two-block perimeter, with a command tent at the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z My boss, a white woman, directed me in unpacking barrels of dishes, setting up new tables, painting, and so on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That night he slept in a hut, but before he lay down he set up the fly whisks so that they would see if anybody came in at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the other Gypsies retreated to a safe distance and began to set up camp, pitching tents and starting cookfires. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They unclipped the spool and rolled it over to where they’d set up their stripping operation near the oil tanker’s prow. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The ARVNs set up a perimeter, and we were told that we could rest. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The poachers set up a machine-gun nest at the mouth of Kitum Cave, and after that the surviving elephants had learned their lesson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba sets up the ice cream, and we get to work assembling. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I figured he meant he wasn’t set up for shipping, so I offered him my FedEx account number. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z From the time they set up camp to stop and build the portage, the bugs were worse than ever. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Every few miles they stop and set up a transceiver on some hump or ridge. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As the researchers noted, the work had to be done before the Maya could move in and set up their milpas and gardens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I felt better seeing everybody else’s eggs, and when Charlaine and the other judges started setting up, Twig, Dari, and I abandoned our parents and walked around the room to get a closer look. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z This room, set up to accommodate about twenty workers, was nearly full. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She even gave the penman, who set up temporary shop outside headquarters, a dime to make a card for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The way the festival is set up, each school performing a full-length play is to be critiqued afterward by drama directors from other Pennsylvania high schools. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The redbrick buildings were still standing, but all the decent stores had either shut down or moved out to the mall when Wal-Mart set up shop on the outskirts of town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z |
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