She wore a khaki shirt and a gold necklace charm shaped like a shovel. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Like any part of Time, I am hard and unyielding, the heavy hand that shapes the vessel.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even her shelf in the bathroom was a wondrous sight—a skyline of bottles, tubes, and jars of all shapes and hues. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He used it to turn figures and shapes into equations and. numbers; with Cartesian coordinates every geometric object—squares, triangles, wavy lines—could be represented by an equation, a mathematical relationship. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then the granite itself had to be shaped to conform to the contours of the future dam. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike the orbits of Mercury and Mars, the orbits of the other planets depart so little from circularity that we cannot make out their true shapes even in an extremely accurate diagram. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his right there loomed against the westward stars a dark black shape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was hugely long and tall, mostly circular in shape. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, Harry could just make out the ghostly shapes of hundreds and hundreds of tents, rising up the gentle slope of a large field toward a dark wood on the horizon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"I been running in the park, build up my wind, get in shape, strengthen my legs—" "Slow down. What are you talking about?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

First there was a very high iron bridge, as high-arched as a rainbow, and after a bit of low stone bridge built in the shape of an S-curve, and I was on Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four stories high, shaped from cold gray stone. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond, half-seen, were other shapes: shattered spires, headless statues, trees with roots bigger than their boat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could see the dark shapes of both men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if text-messaging shorthand as used on mobile phones were to shape the way language was written in books. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I used to take some pride in that—the caution of owls when my shape looms in, the alarm I stir in these giant northern wolves. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A transparent target in the shape of a laser scope pops up on the hologram behind Nyla. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He showed that, provided a stationary rotating black hole had an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could still feel the shape and weight of her hand in his, the warmth and softness of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had long, muscular upper lips which they could shape like the bells of bugles. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I keep telling you, forget about him. I know where I cut him. It's a miracle he hasn't bled to death yet. At any rate, he's in no shape to raid us," says Cato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined a whirlwind, dark and swift, and in the middle of it a gentle oval-shaped stillness, shaped like a bicycle wheel seen from an angle: the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I don’t think she really sees me, just my shape in her half-blind eyes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The outer ring consists of trilithons, or 𝚷-shaped rocks like gigantic doorways. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet away, another shape, hairier, fled the growing flames. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A Patronus is a magical charm, a projection of all your most positive feelings, and takes the shape of the animal with whom you share the deepest affinity. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Then the bunch of reeds was pulled apart in the middle to form a hollow, and the two sides were tied all along their length to make a basic boat shape. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you grab a handful of rice and shape it into a lump. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Next door to it was a pasticceria with pastries and cakes of all shapes and sizes in its windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she hadn’t seen a single shadow spirit since they’d entered the Tower, and what good were her ’shaping skills with nothing to ’shape? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I see dark shapes moving closer to Michigan Avenue, but they disappear behind the row of buildings without stopping. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then another white shape moved close by, and Hermione, coated in dust like a second statue, pressed her finger to her lips. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He wore a long robe, patched and mended to such a degree that I couldn’t really guess at its original color or shape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With a power of perception that far outpaced his era, Burnham recognized that the tiniest details would shape the way people judged the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As they flitted across they glanced back and saw the great black shape upon the battlement; then they plunged down between high rock-walls in a cutting that fell steeply to join the Morgul-road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That force took shape in the middle of spring with the arrival of Tom Buchanan. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When that looks about right, you shape the face itself and smooth the forehead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The screen’s camera flickered with laser light, and a green grid sprang up on Shay’s face, a field of tiny squares imposed across the shape of her cheekbones, nose, lips, and forehead. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"The National Socialist educational program surpasses anything of its kind in history. You see, my boys, the reality is this: It is your job to shape the fate of our Fatherland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A phenotype, in contrast, refers to an organism’s physical or biological attributes and characteristics—the color of an eye, the shape of a wing, or resistance to hot or cold temperatures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To sustain her being in love, she often worked at herself in the mirror, guessing at the colors and shapes that would interest him, changing them frequently in order to hit on the right combination. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maskelyne realized that the nub of the problem lay with finding a mountain of sufficiently regular shape to judge its mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Obscure at the time they were spoken, the words were now as clear to Ranofer as the shape of the shelves in front of him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The gray shape of the city vanished in the night’s onset like an apparition and he lit the little lamp and set it back out of the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Like many inmates, he’s in excellent shape from weight lifting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His old red Toyota was not in the best of shape, and he had lost any interest in its resale value. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole cherishes it, and the astonishing fact that I was the first to tell him the shape of our world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There he is!” said Michael, pointing suddenly to a shape that banged heavily against the gate. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

One half of the chamber’s interior was occupied by a hollow semicircular electrode shaped like the letter D and known forever more as a “dee.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Most of us, when we think of volcanoes, think of the classic cone shapes of a Fuji or Kilimanjaro, which are created when erupting magma accumulates in a symmetrical mound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When we got there, Grandma was out in the yard, standing over a. thing made out of lumber in the shape of a teepee. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then all three shapes appeared at once, and the record said: “Are.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I know you were less than thrilled when I showed up, and I know he’s a working man and all, but he’s an old man and he’s in bad shape and he needs help.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But somehow these plays never take shape the way she wants them to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed her fingernails, the shape of her toes, the hollow place at her throat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the card are a receipt for a yearly subscription to Feminist Monthly, a pressed violet, and a letter folded into the shape of a rabbit: Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A contortionist in a sparkling black costume twists on a platform nearby, bending her body into impossible shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a faded plastic bank in the shape of a cartoon character. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And the Tourmaline Brotherhood pressed on her a crown wrought in the shape of a three-headed dragon,- the coils were yellow gold, the wings silver, the heads carved from jade, ivory, and onyx. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pacioli is a mathematician; the person who painted him was surely also a mathematician, as demonstrated by his understanding of complex mathematical shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Down and down they rushed, first through darkness and then through a mass of vague and whirling shapes which might have been almost anything. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was something very uncomfortable about those great, silent shapes of stone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At home we danced with each other or with the mop or broom to keep in shape. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I thought of her sickle­shaped birthmark, the elegant curve of her neck, her luminous eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad tries to block my view, but not before I see a swarm of dark shapes running toward the ship from the forest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to him that I would one day try to shape my life around climbing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows from the white crocheted curtains on every window cast lacy shapes on the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Ten,” I say, looking past the anesthesiologist to the operating room wall, my eyes landing on a shape that’s oddly familiar. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

One of the pale shapes detaches from the others and swims toward her, but my shadow in the water makes it hesitate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Animals took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal substance. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo was just yielding to the temptation to lie down again when a dark shape, hardly visible, floated close to one of the moored boats. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He handed her a small, oddly shaped package, wrapped in leftover Christmas paper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Frequent changes of shape in a child’s dæmon, and a wide variety of forms to assume, were a good indicator of intelligence and curiosity. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were thin chains crisscrossed in diamond shapes around them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our parents and grandparents were taught with little singsong lessons, the way you’d teach a preschooler shapes and colors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Outside the window, clouds puff out, changing shape. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They were not very big, but they were so similar in shape and size that they looked like clones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed the wand at the silvery shape and murmured, “Accio Sword.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as the earth warmed, the birchbark house always took shape under Nokomis’s swift hands. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then she reached down to another snowy shape. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, the two swords touch, cross, making a perfect X shape like the school’s emblem. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Usually his clothes and possessions just sort of melted into his animal shape, but apparently he still smelled like a yummy poison dinner. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It is shaped like a can of cola. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her hair frizzes around her head in a lovely disc shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nicasia’s limbs are long and perfectly shaped, her mouth the pink of coral, her hair the color of the deepest, coldest part of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I arrived home, Grandma handed me a large oddly shaped envelope. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us here will lick you into shape, says Aunt Lydia, with satisfied good cheer. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Naima could stop herself, her mind began to dance with colors, shapes, sizes, balance, symmetry, patterns. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

With a heavy sigh I held up one of the cardboard cutouts shaped like a cell phone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The melon shape is common enough now—I see it often,” Kim said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

By the friendly, round shapes of their faces, even when they were surprised by a crazy kid and his dog in their kitchen. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Shadows in the shape of skulls, skulls that turned to mist, bodies locked together in lust, writhing and rolling and clawing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A smear of light mud shaped like a handprint had dried on the side of the black leather, stopping where the wide splash of blue paint covered the top. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was bread in all shapes and sausages of all lengths and colors and fruits and candies. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Jeanne has been screaming—but she stops when she sees a dark shape, storming out of the stable. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet and very dark in the alley and familiar things loomed up suddenly, huge and out of shape. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse saw a narrow dark line, the same shape as a rainbow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The window behind the curtain let in enough afternoon light to hint at the shape of a bed and dresser. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At first it was just a shadow in the mist, but as she approached, she made out the muted shape of a grassy hill, a stone foundation, and white walls. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Have a little faith," she coaches herself, as the dark shape floats easily through the screen like smoke or clouds or figments of any sort. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ages’ house, somewhat larger than a shoebox but about the same shape, resembled the house of a hermit. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the sides of this crevasse were great shapes of ice, and there was no bottom to it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The marks on the pages, the “squiggles” as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He thought he could see the shape of a fish, fossilized in it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ma lowered her head so far down that I could see the dip in the back of her neck, where she had a port-wine mark shaped like Manhattan Island. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Made of cast iron, the plowshare was shaped like a V, with the blade carving into the ground and the two arms arcing away like gull wings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then Pattie lights incense that is in the shape of a triangle and she places it on a red plate. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some accident of eye shape and eye color, it is. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I picked three that had an intriguing torpedo shape. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Weird!” he said, “What a shape! This is money?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped the cheese omelette from the pan onto the plate, flipping it as she did so, letting it fold itself into a perfect omelette shape. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He lifted Sophie’s picture and kept turning it, his eyes darting back and forth, as if he might steal something new from the shape of her face, another profile, an unwitnessed angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this the majors? We’re not even in shape, some of us are old men—is the point to kill each other?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, as I arrived on the Peak in the early morning before it was properly light, I saw the dark shape of a large animal looming in front of me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, it faded after I finished shaping a story. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The candles were small trees that had been pruned and tied to wires to make them grow in the shape of candelabra. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their colors and shapes get messy, like I’m forcing them to play along when they don’t want to. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It has a high melting point and good tensile strength too. Expensive stuff though. Take some time to drill and shape. C’mon.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We make red bells out of construction paper, folding the paper in half before cutting out the shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then it took shape in the mist: a dark house, which loomed at them out of the formless whiteness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“But suppose your daemon setdes in a shape you don’t like?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They set it down upon the platform and I looked at the shape of the cheap gray coffin and all I could remember was the sound of his name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elaborate funeral cars stood along the curb, one a dull black with windows shaped like Gothic arches, through which I saw funeral flowers piled upon a casket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat in this unmade room, Lonesome Harry began to take shape and dimension. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer laughed and his hands shaped the words with wild speed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can only see a shadowy shape in the road. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When he looked up afterward, he saw the pentomino shapes echoed in the kitchen. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A thick, gnarled cane with a handle carved in the shape of a cobras head lay across her knees. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He sobbed in desperation and turned, but the thing pursuing him now stood in his path—a colossal being wrapped in shadows, its shape vaguely humanoid, its head almost scraping the ceiling twenty feet above. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Harry was staring unblinkingly ahead of him, trying to discern shapes through the gloom . . . and then, without warning, something grabbed hold of his ankle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Will looked around for the angel and saw his shape outlined in droplets of mist in the late afternoon light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Atop the head were small, ex­pressive ears shaped like perfect arches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Except it turns out he did have to sleep in a tent, a nice four-person green outfit shaped like half an egg, but still a tent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I am wearing a bottle-green gown with earrings in the shape of berries. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"What? Man, this thing is crooked! Look like you shaped me up with your eyes closed. Like you drunk. Better yet, like you gotta syndrome!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thing Wormtail had been carrying had the shape of a crouched human child, except that Harry had never seen anything less like a child. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I made a list of all the accessories I would require, including a black wig and a golden armband shaped like a snake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I notice that your birthday cake is in the shape of a Snitch,” Scrimgeour said to Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A lone shape was sprinting across the courtyard of the Glade toward the exit through which Gaily had just been taken. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the glare it threw, he saw three hooded figures carrying between them a fourth whose shape was indistinct, and who seemed ill, or wounded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Your personality will be shaped by the world you grow up in. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He doesn't follow the lines of the rectangle room; he makes his own shapes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Cobras were laughing because they figured the dumb, scraggly runt would get out of the East End in about as good shape as a bare big toe in a convention of snapping turtles. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping to end up in a little better shape than he did. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in Lyell’s lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He could leam to pound, roll, twist and shape the dough into the small round forms. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Sefia reached out, feeling the familiar shape of her pack and the book inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was about the same size and shape as Mendel’s garden—and in time it would become an equally iconic site in the history of genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother, her hair twisted into the shape of a spiraling shell, sat at the King’s right hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My old nests were woven of leaves and sticks and shaped like his bathtub, cool green cocoons. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They squat down to listen to the main one that talks, and their legs and arms are so skinny you can tell just what shape a bone is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the shape of this drama because I had lived it already, with my sister. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He walks over to a slim, blackened stone with a pleasing shape, rounded at the top before rising into a cross. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Geometric constructions and shapes were the same thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For the first time in human experience, people now had watertight containers readily available in any desired shape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A second later there appeared from round a distant corner, the dark shapes of two men walking backwards and carrying tall candles. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I would’ve gotten in and said, “Take me to the place where children’s dreams come true if they aren’t eliminated for being too pear shaped or not being able to juggle.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Take the number 5—it’s a jelly bean shape, red-brown, like the color of Carolina mud. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the other, completely bewildered, had gone off in his boat, the girl returned to her own shape. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I notice that 1 of the black spots on his back is the shape of a lightning bolt. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over there, large black-and-yellow butterflies formed the shape of a boy, who chased her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mouths and eyes and noses of every imaginable shape, all combined insanely on people of every age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself as a dentist, removing that gold tooth, pocketing it, and refitting Mr. Trepid with something else, maybe something red, maybe plastic, shaped like a fang. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever portable plurality she found, she organized into neat lines, according to their size, shape, or gradations of color. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his face was a small, faded birthmark, shaped a little like a pineapple. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked down the valley, there was a light on every porch, and I could see the dark shapes of people walking up the street toward the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize that my feet had stopped moving until Martin’s round shape appeared on the other side of the trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But my favorite was a stirrup cup molded in the shape of a wolf’s head and shoulders, with the head lifted and the mouth pulled into an O for a long howl. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And while it was obviously a sword, it was not a familiar shape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as we shall shortly see, every note of music subsequently written and played would be shaped by the spirit of the age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The equivalence of numbers and shapes made the ancient Greeks the masters of geometry, yet it had a serious drawback. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I recently sacrificed one of my two pop-tents to be the trailer balloon, but the other is in perfect shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you save it? I know it’s in terrible shape, and I’m afraid the others aren’t in a much better way, but...” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He grinds his teeth against me like we’re supposed to mold together, but it feels like two pieces of metal that are shaped all wrong for each other. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The shadows rise, morphing into a manlike shape. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not safe. The floors are in bad shape, and the cellar’s full of snakes. Copperheads, someone told me.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I spent today figuring out the exact sizes and shapes of canvas I'll need. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks the guest room where she will be staying—which is really a former hayloft shaped by a sloped roof—has “two lopsides.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I want a experienced mechanic to run this and keep the works in good shape,’ Patterson said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What figure or shape would express what he had learned during the dance? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was as black as space itself and shaped like a rocket lying on its side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The graveyard faced east, all the stones and markers laid out in a fan shape bordered with saw palmetto and evergreen trees. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From within the dark rectangle, another shape rose up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Down the slope was a tumble of dark, rounded shapes, and then another slope rose beyond that. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so weird how a little thought like that, about a cocoon shape on a wall, can make your entire body feel all like Jell-O. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The plan is still in its early stages and hasn’t completely shaped up yet, but I’m working on it.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

August bent over the hive, inspecting the frames, looking for wax buildup on the comb, the half- moon shape of her helmet bouncing along. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like—now don’t get mad—you look like a person—” “No! Not a people—” “Well, wait, not exactly, no, no. You have the shape of a person, and a pleasing face—” “Pleasing? Attractiful?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Your neighbor’s a millionaire, and he’s not smart enough to keep his boat in shape?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal pulls the fabric off of the shape like he’s a magician and everyone says, Oh! and, Ah! Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I get up from my bed of moss and climb to Throne Rock, two big boulders covered in yellow lichen that grow together in the shape of—you guessed it—a throne. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She got the recliner secondhand, so it wasn’t covered in plastic, which meant it had conformed to her shape. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All that was left was a shape that resembled me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brokk could hear the sound of Eitri’s hammers outside the forge, and the sounds of filing and twisting, of shaping and banging. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The press had more than the usual fun with such an esoteric engineering concept, calling the new planes “wasp-waisted” and “Coke-bottle shaped” and talking about the “Marilyn Monroe effect.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

City clothing only used seams and stitching for decoration, but David’s jacket seemed to be cut together from a dozen patches of leather, all different shades and shapes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You made Mango’s and Grandpa’s eyes the same shape.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Next she took two strips of skin from the water and held them in place while they froze to the bottom of the bowl, in the shape of flat rockers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There took shape in my mind—as though an answer was trying to grope its way out of the depths of me—the tale of a flood, Down by the Riverside. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My board has pictures of family and friends, and in between the spaces, holding it together, are tiny houses in all shapes and colors, cut out from magazines. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Yet it had a shape now, even in the daylight. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, the blade flickered, showing the dark shape of the giant Clytius moving through a corridor, snuffing out torches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dobbs was in even worse shape than Hungry Joe, who could at least fly missions when he was not having nightmares. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Joaquin was standing behind them, almost like protection, and Grace steadied herself and reached out to the tarnished brass knocker shaped like a lion. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We leave it to you in good shape; try to have it in better shape when we return.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I read an article about a woman who says she goes to an acupuncture clinic because when the needles go in, amazing colors and shapes appear in front of her face. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now she awoke to the sound of the peacocks, and got out of bed, with the shape of her day familiar and her routines unthinking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of the diamond shapes on Pond, there were aggressive triangles and zigzags on this one. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand over his face, trying to familiarize himself with the new shape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“But my dear,” Mrs. Owens said to the shape, now all that was left of the three shapes that had appeared in the graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At the base of his neck was the mark I’d seen before—the dark shape of a bird grafted to his skin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the brandy bottles and a bottle shaped like a bear, which had held kiimmel, that Miss Van Campen found. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two men detach themselves from the shape of it, come up the front steps, ring the bell. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I stay still, I can see the clouds shift shape. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It makes patterns of light shaped like birds. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to think my Baba could change the shape of teeth as easily as the great hero Rostam could move mountains. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The thirty-six pictures around the dial were minute and clear, the three hands and the one needle were exquisitely shaped out of some silver-gray metal, and a golden sunburst surrounded the center of the dial. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She folded the paper into the shape of a hawk. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I stayed there all the time, clinging to the familiar shape of the Company’s wagon while Father and Hand Clap unloaded our things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, these balls begin taking the shape of skulls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Same small size, same boxy shape, same pitched roofs and squat brick chimneys. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now there was a shape crouching beside her, looming over her, and a voice by her ear. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Slowly—exceedingly slowly—the mess of wool in my hands began to take shape. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In Handel’s London, the vogue for adult soloist castrati was short-lived, and Italian-style opera itself soon came up against stiff competition in the shape of what we would today call jukebox musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He cut the holes in shapes of windows, and little stars, and crescent moons, and circles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr slid in snake shape through the hole in the mountain until the hole ended and he found himself in a huge cavern. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sighs as the stones fall on the dirt in the shapes of new constellations. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning, was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“They’re out on Highway 6. The sign is shaped like a cross.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive “set pieces,” fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Today she was dressed like a Christmas tree, with all this stuff pinned to her clothes, shapes cut out of fabric, ribbon. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They are oddly shaped, each a six-inch square block, much larger than a home computer, and each is connected to its own battery dock. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

After Pearl had begun to snore softly, Mia kept her hand in place, as if she were a sculptor shaping Pearl’s shoulder blades. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She lay back in a chair that moved to take her shape even as she moved. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watched shapes claiming him he could not see. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It is the musical equivalent of dropping a random blob of ink on a piece of paper: by folding the paper and creating a symmetrical double, a pleasing shape is suddenly formed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Only two or three hours had passed, and it was barely mid-day, when the shadowy shapes of the explorers appeared again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But I need to know the shape of the storm, too. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my camera and snapped a shot of a green truck and white snow and black clouds and the friendly shape of a good man inside and red glowing taillights, driving away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As she wet me down with the vegetable sprayer, I could feel my hair collapsing from its planetoid shape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And I do, and as I do, the hand shape disappears. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than a colossal biblical Flood, Lyell argued, there had been millions of floods; God had shaped the earth not through singular cataclysms but through a million paper cuts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Will, not put off by being shy, said, “When does your dæmon stop changing shape?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A new kind of competition between Russia and the United States took shape that fall, a nuclear arms race that quickly raised the stakes of the Cold War to unforeseen and terrifying heights. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think that there are facts about people’s appearance—their size or shape or color or sex—that can trigger a very similar set of powerful associations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He drew his sword and looked at it, and the intertwining shapes of red and gold; and the flowing characters of Númenor glinted like fire upon the blade. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Over time, the finch’s beak would harden and become pincer shaped. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A dark shape started emerging from the concrete of the parking lot, a massive form of twisted ink and ice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No, not a sword, a long, dark cudgel of some sort, too regularly shaped to be a piece of firewood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bushes rustled, and a lean black shape came padding from behind the weirwood, teeth bared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She shaped the dough into a ball and set it in the middle of the counter. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they’re swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There is a table in the shape of a hexagon. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the exact same shape and color as Finn’s. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I keep in shape, sir. I’m in better shape than any man in this outfit, and I’ll prove it if you like.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little black shapes with little red eyes and sharp yellow teeth.They started to sing, Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He walked toward the TV, where a huge pile of DVDs and video games were arranged into a vague pyramid shape. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Still, the shape and odd angle of both of Kaitlin s legs made it clear the damage inside them was severe. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As Ma sets to work shaping Keav into a great lady, Pa has more serious worries. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked everything about El Patron—his voice, the shape of his face, and his eyes, which were the color of the dark pond with the fish lurking in its depths. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The triangular shape of the boy leaning on the ledge gives stability to the painting, which helps to suspend the fleeting instant in time. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our first day, Jimmy spent about five entire minutes pointing to a plastic bank shaped like Fred Flintstone that he had up on a shelf in the back room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Thick black clouds hung heavily overhead as they fled through the darkness, and Milo, looking back for just a moment, could see the awful shapes coming closer and closer. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walking home, my shadow shows eels dancing on my head with tails in shapes of bows, stars, hearts. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But neither of them was in good shape for battle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Min was making vases in the melon shape that had so pleased the emissary. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He and the greater part of his men were across the river, working on Pharaoh’s new addition to the Great Temple, shaping and fitting stones as they were needed for the walls. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Ulster Scots had a key role in shaping not just the geography of the United States but also its political leadership. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when a moment of clarity takes shape in front of me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I sat on the ridge in despair and watched the distant baby-blue shape of the Cyclops as he moved among his flocks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are almond-shaped, which is the Persian shape for eyes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The streets were as crooked and wayward as country streams, dissecting the city not into square blocks but into convoluted shapes of all sizes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

So they went along in their pokey fashion, the weirdly shaped Gremlin making rolling stops at traffic signs and the Eldorado, a little bit later, doing the same. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The shape of that there leaf is real clear.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They were unusual spectacles, being without ear pieces, but shaped rather like scissors or like the antennae of the tarantula wasp. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banana slices are balanced on its surface, arranged in the shape of a smiley face. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was in any shape to run, but Nico was right. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The familiar square shape filled his palm, and he gently squeezed it before letting go. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The roots seemed to be shaping themselves around him, slowly pulling him into the earth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The point is that the peroration shapes the impression— intellectually, yes, but above all in terms of emotion or tone— with which the audience comes away from your speech. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The shape of his face reminds me of a kid at school—Cole Stead. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A massive dark shape, vaguely humanoid, now loomed over them, its foot raised as if to crush Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I'd never felt a girl's breast before, but I figured it might be kinda like that, based on the shape and the bounce and whatnot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

White women of all sizes and shapes, in bright puffy gowns that spin gracefully as they step and twirl and rock their hips. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge, dark shape lurked just below the surface. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The skyline was broken here and there by the shapes of bams and farmhouses some way away over the fields, but otherwise, I appeared to have left behind all signs of community. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby lay a rectangular cairn - hundreds of stones piled in the shape of an oversized grave with a granite obelisk for a headstone. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The history took shape: Billy Marvel was the beginning of a long line of actors. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Seems like it’s always in pretty fair shape.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never really told me what happened to Alby that day— why he was in such bad shape. Obviously the Griever woke up, but what happened?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Despite my plan, I still couldn't understand why Iranian societal norms dictated an age-appropriate time to shape one's eyebrows. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once people were able to do that, they gradually discovered that some sticks or stones had a handier shape than others, and they put them aside for future use. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bricks appear and move outward, they distort the cell, causing it to bulge and change shape, and finally the cell pops—it bursts and dies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And thank you for returning him in such excellent condition. He’s in even better shape than when you stole him.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

From what she can tell, it’s a low grotto, maybe four yards long and half as wide, shaped like a loaf of bread. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This one was a shadow shaped like a person. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had the power both of foretelling the future and of changing his shape at will. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, it referred to distinctive ways of writing—the shape of the letters as well as the choice of words. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, they were in pretty good shape. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see where he got his boxy, top-heavy shape, and I imagined my own body starting to do the same. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was work, sleep, and a fife shaped around computing, technology, and the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land must make a difference too, in the shape of the clouds. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lovely eyes they were, dark and almond shaped, with very long black lashes that swept the exquisite pallor of her cheeks. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark shape—some kind of animal—was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude—the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were in those seats, you could see the play’s set and backdrop through an increasingly translucent man shape. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At a pasta store they selected interestingly shaped noodles and asked the woman running the store the proper amount for thirteen people—the ten people Count Olaf mentioned, and the three of them. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Within the apartment he saw darkness and indistinct shapes, two of them. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

One woman had power given her to assume different shapes, power as great as Proteus had. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cookies are in the shapes of letters. You have to see how many words you can spell.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

If I had more time, I would shape little goats from the dough, and children and cows and houses and potato fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom gave him one of his presents, a brass cigarette lighter from the nineteen twenties in the shape of a Scottish terrier. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had discovered when she was seventeen that she could shape the behavior of men with her behavior and that this ability was founded on her appearance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wore skirts to just below the knees, but from there down, her legs were shaped like chicken drumsticks, rounded and full at the top, narrow at the bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I look for the shapes in my face. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We watch as drag queens every shape and size and color give it their all and leave everything they’ve got on that stage in this dingy little bar out in the middle of West Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In particular, they shaped the world around us to a much larger degree than most people realise. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to have to find funding in what was shaping up to be yet another lean year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This particular crater was lined with oil lamps the size and shape of bowling balls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And as the Captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s shaping up to be a long night. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was something tall and barrel shaped in the middle of it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But no matter what shape they took, their mouths were greasy and caked with the remnants of old meals. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the outside, the structure looks like a gigantic snail, reflecting Wright’s interest in organic shapes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips mold against mine like they’re perfectly shaped for each other. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Treasure, he thought, but the shapes were wrong to be coins, and the sound was wrong for metal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With a rising shriek, a shape dropped from the trees and knocked the hunter to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Big deal—I keep hearing the world is in klunky shape.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He’s still strong, in decent shape; his moves, still fluid. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I do not know. It is all darkness—all darkness and shape of darkness.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had cut fancy shapes of stars out to sew on the sides. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Catastrophists, as you might expect from the name, believed that the Earth was shaped by abrupt cataclysmic events–floods principally, which is why catastrophism and neptunism are often wrongly bundled together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

New truths took shape the longer she stared at them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The first thing to do was to define that shape. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, be careful,” whispered Salmakia, but Lyra’s mind was already racing ahead through the story she’d told the night before, shaping and cutting and improving and adding: parents dead; family treasure; shipwreck; escape... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sam picked up a little glass, shaped like an hour glass, only much smaller. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a fountain in the middle of it, a round fountain spraying water in the shape of a dandelion gone to seed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the trail there were small blue flowers shaped like bells. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when he looked from Naomi to the two little ones did he notice the similar shape of the eyes, a certain tilt of the upper lip. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us are squares; some are triangles; some have more complex shapes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all shapes and sizes, mottled with dust and filled with gelatinous-looking things suspended in cloudy fluid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

By the shape of her body he could tell it was the lady who’d spoke to them higher on the mountain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, I didn’t have a clue what any of the moves were called, and my form and shape definitely weren’t on point. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’d discovered that he got through the night much better if he curled up on his bunk in the shape of a bulldog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Cigarette smoke had dirtied the diamond shapes of the tin ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We saw a low ring of stones built up with cement and wondered who the mason was who knelt there and studied the shapes before fitting them to-gether. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood, then, Alexandria took shape very quickly in the waning years of the fourth century and early years of the third. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I remember how one day she showed up with bright pink tresses studded with blinking colored lights shaped like mice. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They do not, in any case, ask my brother and sisters the questions wild curiosity shapes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Henry says I need to shape up or ship out.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It would be a prunus vase—the most elegant of all the shapes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It seems likely that the shape of the smelled molecule is what matters most. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably because folk around here haven’t ever seen a real barrow, just heard about them in stories. When they find a hill with big mounds on it . . .” I pointed out the oddly shaped hillocks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brother Jack guided me down the hall to a door on which I saw a bronze door-knocker in the shape of a large-eyed owl. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his side, curled into a U shape around the bundle. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

If only we had some true friends, some who saw us as more than convenient tools for shaping their own desires! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of her eye, Hazel saw dark shapes ripple through the field. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He thought of the shape of Darkness, its tall body that was flat like a shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After the rest of a day and a half the does were in good shape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, what I would give to cat-whip his face into shape right about now. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A large, dark shape paused in front of the glass, then moved on. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd, awkward shape, as if it were wrapped around a tangle of kindling sticks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the center of the cave stood a Roman-style bed, gilded wood shaped like a curly U, with velvet cushions. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The breeze still cool, we bounce across the bridge shaped like a crescent moon where I’m not to go by myself. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Not in learning Italian or Swahili or Mandarin, but in language itself, its shape and structure, the Lego blocks of sounds that snap together to make words and sentences. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was the shape of a man, bent over low so as to clear the doorway. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Children of all shapes and sizes, from babies in long clothes upwards, were scrambling about in another cage. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Not long like a snake, it was squat like a cinder brick, its thick neck blending into a head shaped like a massive flat wedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She and Croteau remain conscious of the class differences between them, and the ways in which their lives have been shaped by different experiences. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Later Charlie taught Joe how to decipher the subtle clues of shape, texture, and color that would enable him to cleave the wood into well-formed shakes, to see hidden points of weakness or resilience. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As if we both were floating in the air, the land, buildings take shape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And yet, even as he thought of all these things, he noticed somehow that the sky was a lovely shade of blue and that one cloud had the shape of a sailing ship. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to become a full-time sculptor, his black hands stained from the pots he shapes and tries to sell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lean to the other side until I can make out the shape of someone moving through the trees, heading straight for the sycamore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The fireball continued rolling and rising, twisting itself into an enormous mushroom shape, glowing dark purple thousands of feet above the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people just walked around him, making the shape of an eye. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It has shaped him as much or more than any other cultural, social, or educational force, or combination thereof. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two or three? Usually they judge from the teeth, but hers are in bad shape because, you know, she’s probably been eating junk food all her life.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bowl was red pipestone in the shape of an otter’s head, his clan. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I can see my reflection from all angles: the gray fabric obscuring the shape of my back, my long neck, my knobby-knuckled hands, red with a blood blush. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As we make our way there, I try to take stock of what’s actually happening around us, but it’s too dark—just shapes and outlines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could see forms and shapes that resembled rivers and streams and oxbow lakes, and he could see specks that might be towns, and he could see belts of forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether someone did stand there on the low hills in the days when the earth was new and, because of its shape, called it the Island of the Blue Dolphins, I do not know. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had color and shape and even a scent if you knew to seek it out. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was pure gold, exquisitely fashioned in the shape of a lotus blossom. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Besides dictating career opportunities, the system shaped geographic destiny, with the core class allowed to live in and around Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be studying the shape they made, the way my thumb appeared to rest naturally on top of his. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then his eye focused on the enormous shape of a sea turtle struggling out of the sea and ponderously making its way up the sand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinos of all shapes and sizes should’ve been trundling down the throughway, skittering across intersections, hauling cargo along for a late delivery at some grocer or apothecary. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I figured that out from some subtle clues: the shape of the connection points, the thickness of the insulation, and the fact that it had "LiSOCl2 NON-RCHRG" written on it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His warm-hued face was square, owing its shape to the eminence of his angular jaw, which carved out two perfect hollows on either side of his chin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very soon now your shapes will settle. Look around and take this sight into your memory.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were strange bulging shapes creased with lines like the faces of the very old. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a place I used to go for dance lessons — when I was eight or nine. It was shaped just the same.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kneeling beside the bed, Bast looked down at the dark shape Chronicler made, twisted in his blankets. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In 1956, he returned to Hampton, taking a job at the post office as a mail carrier, maintaining his trim military shape through miles of walking each day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the team had been running all summer, but me being in swim shape, with what Coach Rosset called swim lungs, helped out enough to keep me with the pack, anyway. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It's shaped like the bulky water jug her mother-in-law gave her, the one Ranee always hated. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Appropriate behaviors have to be shaped—shaped through successive approximations to the desired behavior,” says Darrow. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Over the course of history, sport has played a dynamic role in shaping cultural discourse. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Different birds kept on singing, though not very near to him, and he did not see any of them, except, now and again, a darting brown shape in the branches. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Its low density makes it easy to shape, whether with a chisel, a plane, or a handsaw. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Something like this must have happened to her, once she saw the true shape of things to come. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pad of his finger traces shapes along my wrist and palm. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He took some wax, mixed it with iron filings and shaped it into a ball: when he had the mixture right it floated just below the surface of the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Smell Factor was dreaming while a fun-site with talking giraffes sang him songs and showed him wonderful things in different shapes. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard in the gathering darkness to make out shapes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And then from behind the workshop came, in a sort of lurching limp, a shape the size of a large dog, but hunched and heavy in the shoulders, which stood and stared at them directly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Already taller than Conor’s window, the monster grew wider as it brought itself together, filling out to a powerful shape, one that looked somehow strong, somehow mighty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its shape, size, and smallest detail it was like the vials of poison I had seen in Mechtild’s cabinet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, people kick you to the ground at recess because they think the shape of your eyes is funny. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that he was out of shape from the long idleness on the ship, and almost pudgy from gorging on board and in the village. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was his nightly routine, fifty push-ups to keep his body in “fighting shape,” as he put it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The only thing he saw was the bizarre ballerina sloth in his head, the one that was taking shape pencil stroke by pencil stroke on paper. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He blew out the lantern and looked back at the dim shapes of his father, of the witch, of his father again before turning to go down the mountain. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, their shape, and the roads, and the wheel trees coming together all made it possible. A lot of little chances, all coming together. When did your part of the story begin, Will?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, gentlemen. If you see or hear anything, please let us know right away. This old guy is in no shape to be out on his own.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were large but not fat, well built, with bodies in decent shape. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody attacked me. I saw shapes outlined against the fire and ran like billy-hell.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She thought that it was the wind echoing through one of the caves and was about to leave when she noticed silvery shapes on the floor of the cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a neon sign on the wall shaped like an ice-cream cone, black-and-white tiled floors, and a jukebox in the corner. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I paint a girl in a circus freak show with wide, stumpy legs and a face shaped like a perfect circle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His rondels were wrought in the shape of human heads, with open mouths that shrieked in agony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She felt her tongue shaping the syllables of the person’s name, but she did not recognize what the name was until the rower turned to face her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The stone was shaped like a beetle, flat enough to be concealed by the grass but bulky enough to catch a toe if you hit it the right way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While it was cold, baskets of all shapes and sizes, some with handles, some not, piled up in all the rooms in our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But he thought that their regular circular shape implied such a degree of order that only intelligent life could explain them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has treated his shapes much like the enclosed, flat panes of a stained-glass window to create a lively decorative pattern. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A creature of strange and changing shape has appeared from nowhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held it motionless, drunk with color and shape, speechless, and together he and the woman stared at what he held. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he produced from a pocket in his robe a small paddle that was shaped to fit over his hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There are three rows of chairs on built-in platforms that edge around the sides of the classroom in a split hexagon shape. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My eyes drank in each word, worshipping their shape until my lips started forming them and I was reading aloud for everyone and no one to hear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The white wispy shape formed the body of a man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We skirted around the helicopter and up to two large white makeshift offices the size and shape of shipping containers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of our best prizes were a baseball cap, a beat-up weather vane shaped like a chicken, and a beautiful feather that looked like it might have come from a peacock. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The andirons, shaped like enormous curling serpents, flank her, their glass eyes ready to glow with lit flames. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As he was rebuttoning his pants, there was sudden motion in the under brush as a dark shape thrashed its way free of some nearby bushes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the cave, a door took shape. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And in the vague darkness, a shape moved. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The broken pressure-ridges take queer shapes, overturned towers, legless giants, catapults. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

You had to aim the lens and get the focus just right and then you got the flame and then you moved it slowly and you could burn shapes and letters and patterns. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nathan factored into his data collection the fact that the modern corn in the square shape had two more weeks to grow than the traditional corn in the circular shape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Small tears in skirts are stitched over with embroidery in the shape of leaves and pomegranates and—on one—a cavorting fox. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Next to the glass, a small wooden bookshelf in the shape of a nautilus shell holds a curved spiral of librex. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We need to know how to shape the propellers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They froze into contorted shapes, with their chest cavities spread wide and their intestines hanging out and dripping red icicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hooks on the walls held a hammer, ax, pliers, and clubs of various shapes and sizes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She made the decorated pins herself, melting and molding malleable plastic into interesting shapes, seated at a picnic table in her backyard a few weekends ago. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

On my back, I catch my breath, my chest rising and falling, and see blue sky and clouds shaped like huge pancakes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could hear Queenie’s feet and the bright shapes went smooth and steady on both sides, the shadows of them flowing across Queenie’s back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once clasping the familiar shape of the blowpipe, Ranofer’s hands steadied and so did his nerves. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And now there was something to see: above the clouds a shape was glowing, and it was not the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The main body of the creature was a shimmering, pulsating mass of white and mauve, shaped roughly like a cone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He could almost feel the clay under his hands, rising on the wheel—his own wheel!—into a shape that was grace itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Their shiftier shapes might have held a message that in my new happiness and with a little bit of time I’d soon decipher. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to know more about him. From the way the house sets, the trees he left, the shape and proportion of the house, he must have been a kind of an artist.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The dorsal fin on a basking shark is rounded on top and convex in the back,” she said, making shapes with her hand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The lead had dried into the shape of the pan, but it was no longer lead. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cry went up as Winifred appeared, towing a still shape. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I climb the ladder up to the house, over worn wood shaped to the hands that ascend and descend every day. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the shape was inside the gate the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her at the house. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

To understand the basic outline of this technique, imagine trying to deduce the shape of a minute three-dimensional object—a cube, say. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She crept through the underbrush, finished off her chalk on a nearby tree trunk, and shaped four more spirits into the jagged lines. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I stopped a few feet away from the dark shape. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He yanked out a second case from the collection to see if perhaps it was in slightly better shape. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They could change shape and charmspeak, tricking mortals into letting down their guard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a little bit like shaping a wild, natural landscape into identifiable patterns for the benefit of the human onlooker. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Crawling over each other, fused—melted—to each other in the shape of a beast. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was not in terrific shape myself and had a hard time hauling him up the stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I rejected several drawings because I didn’t want a pair of moronic angels but faithful portraits of Rosa and Clara, with their faces, their hands, and their real shape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was painful for him to try to talk with his mouth, but his hands were always ready to shape the words he wished to say. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I picked up a clay ashtray in the shape of a lilypad, with the veinings carefully drawn in yellow on a murky green ground. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I take mine off and try them on, marveling as the room loses its shape and tilts on its ear. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The plane’s shape darkens a shifting length of ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brown points at the new notebooks, the neat lineup of pens and pencils, the eraser in the shape of the Dominican Republic. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Amari loved her tribe’s design of animal figures and bold shapes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last a plan shaped itself in his mind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it floated up and out of the shape on the floor, I smelled the scent of lemon and pine. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His leg was in bad shape, and Booth was obviously in great pain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a black shape lying against it and that was what caught Alex’s eye. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It fell open around her like a cuff, keeping the shape of a circle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it is, it’s disconnected from the other shapes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They both insisted on riding in the front of the pickup with their parents, which was some kind of a squeeze with Brenda’s shape to consider. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The streets are crowded with men and women in straw cone- shaped hats. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had some lady on there demonstrating how to cut a pineapple into the shape of an owl. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Before all was said and done, she would, in fact, become the woman in Germany who more than any other would materially shape the destiny of the Nazi movement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The building was shaped like an L around a small courtyard: three stories on the long side, the top floor, with its gabled windows, crammed under a steeply raked roof. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Augustus and Isaac were sitting on the floor in gaming chairs shaped like lazy Ls, staring up at a gargantuan television. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

What I thought were blueberries have a slightly different shape, and when I break one open the insides are bloodred. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When he stepped out the door, two shadows in the shape of an X fell across his path. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to shape words with a pen on paper and he formed the letters with as much care as if the paper had been a plate of silver. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I do not like the shape of my mother’s name in her mouth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Three strong hydrogen bonds can be drawn between guanine and cytosine. make the two types of base pairs identical in shape. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa made them in the shapes of snakes, animals, and people, and sold them at the trading post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are surrounded by small white candles that sit on the tables, making shadows and shapes on the tablecloths. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The car bed was neatly made, with a stuffed dinosaur leaning against the pillow, which was in the shape of a tire. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

At last I see her coming, a red and white shape of cloth, like a kite, walking at the steady pace we’ve all learned to keep. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for its enormous ornamental shrubs pruned into the shapes of wide-skirted maidens, it might have been the home of any not-so-prosperous merchant. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least the problem of how to get Seabiscuit in shape had been solved. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had always rippled and tensed, but now even lugging garbage cans was part of training, of getting into shape. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matters below my neck had shaped up, not that I could show off that part. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew all the colors and shapes and animals that children my age were supposed to know, plus lots more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the right corner he felt a familiar cylindrical shape. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It’s made of gold fake leather, and it’s shaped like a cat’s face, and even I have to admit it’s adorable. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She knew it was him by the sheepskin slippers, by the shape of his trousers, by the oversize threadbare sweater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The forest was full of shapes and shadows and only barely could he see the faint footprints on the ground — it was like searching for a wrinkle in a flower petal. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean . . . it’s still only a shape in the sky. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Through the abundant windows I see a strange vehicle—it’s shaped like a bird, with two wing structures and a pointed nose, but it has wheels, like a car. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Tiffany finishes with the hearts on the wall, she comes over and brings Imani a container of slime—three red globs, shaped into hearts. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They had no wish to create some fantasy shaped in their own minds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she came to the door wearing the nappy pink robe and carrying a plastic razor, we could tell that she was in better shape than the day before. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lionel sat in silence for a minute, looking at the plate in front of him, where there was a bright pool of ruby from the stained glass, shaped like an egg. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nineteen thirty-seven was shaping up as the year of the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t just take the seats out,” Axel continues, the whole thing taking shape in his mind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It is the way the shape of the land works. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure it wasn’t real—its spots were shaped like stars. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The block was poised and in position; the hole was exactly the right size and shape. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The brightness of the screen hurts my eyes, and so I dim it way down until the shapes and letters are near shadows. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a few more steps the tunnel—Mrs. Frisby could now discern, dimly, its shape and direction—took a turn to the right, and she did see for herself. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s beyond the maw of that cave. From there, I’m sure we’ll find the entrance,” Wind Being said, forming its human shape from the sands around it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It made shapes as it drifted and they reminded me of all the people who were dead and those who were gone. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel them, the actual words I wanted to say, shaping. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When baby turtles come out of their shells, which are round—about the same size as a golf ball—they are squinched up into a round shape that fits inside the eggs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rough voices, thin as an insect’s whine, were cast across the black river, the dark town, the shapes of ships on the water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s vastly preferable to assume the shape of a bird when observing humans,” she explained. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Sir, the shape of my jaw alone could furnish enough talk for a whole of your symposiums.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All the constitutional arguments against the excessive exercise of government power at the federal level then kicked in to make any effort to shape public policy more problematic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She could see the shape of the sounds very clear and she would not forget them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was not Tom; it was only a running shape with a face like silver shining in the light of the globes clustered about the plaza. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I disliked looking at her; you never knew what you were going to see, what rictus would shape her face. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached an archway carved in the shape of human skulls—or maybe they were human skulls embedded in the rock. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Each rod had a threaded end that narrowed to a point, and the other end was shaped to fit into a carpenter’s brace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The faces had almost no shape at all because of the long white hairs that covered them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She realized he meant Pantalaimon in his leopard shape, and shook her head innocently. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her leg was in horrible shape, and she had sustained some ragged slashes on her side. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now he emerged into a sort of wide circular chamber, formed by the meeting of six different tunnels, all coming together in a star shape. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Andras s own father, flung years before against rocks when a boat swung around and tipped, still held one arm locked into a curved and crooked shape. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like a pinched hockey puck. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Surely, with careful work, she could fell a mukwa tree and carve it into the shape of Crocodile Guts’s boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two Step and Magdalys ran side by side across the rooftop toward the dark cluster of shapes at the other end. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The dark shape from the woods lay flat on the ground outside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Moreover, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation, and not on the nature of the body that had collapsed to form it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the shape of peanuts, and her hair was brown with apricot-blond streaks. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was still going around, and then the shapes began. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A longsword hung from his hip, and his deep-dyed scarlet cloak was fastened at the shoulder with a heavy silver brooch in the shape of a mailed fist. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I rub my eyes, allowing them to adjust...and now I’m able to make out shapes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The professor opened a drawer in the little table and brought out a leather box, circular in shape and about the size of the palm of a man’s hand, and three fingers deep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If there is enough matter, then it has a closed shape, curved like a sphere in our three-dimensional analogy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see anything at all of its shape or size—only two shining eyes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were two bookshelves filled with binders and books of every shape and size. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To their dismay, the teenage leaders found their troops shockingly out of shape, overage, undisciplined, and less than enthusiastic. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"But we'll get you in shape soon, don't worry. Tonight, though, why don't you sleep on the ground. Just make sure the jackals don't swallow you up." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“His cloak is in better shape than mine, sir.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for the gas mask and a few magnets shaped like swastikas on the refrigerator. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was made from a hide, elk or maybe buffalo, heavy and stiff enough to stop stones and arrows; long dry years had shrunk and split the edges, and it had lost the round shape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shape is wrong, and maybe even the color. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Annabeth started considering ways to pick the lock, but as soon as she touched the pull ring, a fiery shape burned in the middle of the door: the silhouette of Athena’s owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, after I had looked at the picture and recognized it, a shape flashed on the screen under it—a sort of half circle and two straight lines, not like anything I had seen before. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’d held a pencil before and learned to shape their letters just so, but mine looked all wobbly and wrong. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The angles of her face curve into a perfect heart shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The looming shapes of animals bunched up inside: antelopes, bushbucks, broadheaded warthogs with warthog children running behind them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pondered this, as well as the oblong shape of her pond, which was caused by the flow of the ice as it moved with the wind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the strange and mysterious shapes of the letters, the sounds of the prayers as we all recited together, and the stories about how to live a life according to the teachings of Allah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Frightful could see only light and dark shapes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Stiff, crooked fingers that grappled clumsily with Krimpet wrappers curled naturally around the shape of a baseball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lump in his neck shaped like a miniature cow was removed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make out Yakov’s features through the white linen, only the shape of his form. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was oval shaped, with branches sticking out here and there like a woman who had not combed her hair. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even though it was about the same size as the first, its horrific shape made it seem larger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Aegon's carpenters had shaped it after the land of Westerns, sawing out each bay and peninsula until the table nowhere ran straight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His nose was bleeding and he had lost a tooth, but he was in better shape than his opponent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras’s doctrine became the centerpiece of Western philosophy: all the universe was governed by ratios and shapes; the planets moved in heavenly spheres that made music as they turned. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the other, three sleek black shapes ran across a field as yellow as butter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bright green — exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the same time. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It took them most of the morning and proved to Doon that the city was in even worse shape than he’d suspected. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To tell their story, we must begin with what they did—how sugar shaped their lives. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Teachers who have done this activity with their students say that most of them draw the shape of the current United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why we move our eyes when we read: we can’t pick up much information about the shape, or the color, or the structure of words unless we focus our fovea directly on them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe in knowing where your roots lie. That kind of thing shapes your identity so much. I was born right here in Shaker, did you know that?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Let them see that you have a woman's shape now." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I recall learning these laws clearer than I recall learning my colors and shapes, because these laws were essential to the security of my body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

These words, coming from the grave, as it were, from a faceless shape, filled me with terror. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hemingway wrote in the negative spaces. His stories were shaped by what he didn’t tell you.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed and groomed, clad in green velvets and an ermine half-cape, with his long red hair freshly washed and his fiery beard shaped and trimmed, the wildling looked every inch a southron lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lockers were opened and debris lined the hallway to the left, but from this end, it looked in better shape down there than here. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was no difficulty in twisting an externally situated backbone into a shape compatible with the X-ray evidence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At the front of the van, a motionless dark shape of a person—someone was belted into the driver’s seat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Until this was clear, the objection could be raised that, although our idea was aesthetically elegant, the shape of the sugar-phosphate backbone might not permit its existence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Here, now, I glimpse ancient shapes of growing trees, ferns, rolling hills and mountains. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The seeds have been shaped into a heart. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’ve never seen it like this before—with snow on it and the leaves gone. It’s lovely, isn’t it? You see the shapes of things.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Donatelli took him to a training camp in the mountains for ten days to try to get him in shape for an out-of-town fight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course the mythical monster is present in any number of shapes, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thy house came through the winter in good shape.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the clarified syrup was boiled until it turned to sugar and was molded into fancy shapes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We had nothing to eat for a long time until Abraham found a pumpkin and an amochro, a short plant with a fleshy, juicy root shaped like an onion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greater shape and clarity, of course, was what the fledgling record industry preferred to long-winded periods of virtuoso meandering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“How much worse shape could we possibly be in? I’m tired of being careful. And I’m tired of their dumb codes, and I’m tired of you all treating me like a stupid baby.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The melon’s stem and leaves were cleverly shaped to form the lid of the jug. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The shape of that dent lasts only a moment, and is as close as anyone gets to seeing wind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Dragons are able to change shape, and so must I. Do you understand?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the shape glide through the still air, passing so closely that Petey shivered. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This tube ran all the way up to the second-story balcony, where the people that worked there would keep filling it up with loose Legos, all shapes, sizes and colors. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Coraline was just wondering whether or not she ought to turn on the lights when she saw the black shape edge slowly out from beneath the sofa. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

So first we’d give Omi a birthday hug inside the O, and then we’d give her a little red pouch of chocolate pebbles—basically M&M’s, but each one a different pebbly shape and color. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was rectangular in shape and made of thick, soft, yellow plastic, with calibration marks on one side. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This struggle for survival was the shaping hand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The shape in the water remains where it is, probably because the presence of Cardan and the others makes it seem like I have friends who might defend me if I were attacked. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She could see the shapes of other tents and lean-tos and the fuzzy orange glow of the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, but not the tower itself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They’d sat there so many nights that the empty sofa cushions still held the shape of their bodies like a memory. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

No, it’s the shape of the bedroom lamp that’s the real evil in the world. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of a circle, it was shaped like a heart. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lavoisier, unlike Sprat, speaks our language because he was living through a revolution which transformed the language of politics, shaping the language we still speak. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The computer is large and oddly shaped, not like any I have ever seen, a six-inch square with two ports, both unused. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra stood shivering in the fo’c’sle and laughed with delight as her beloved Pantalaimon, sleek and powerful, leaped from the water with half a dozen other swift gray shapes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Eww,” Tally said, imagining her face suddenly softening so she could squish it around to a different shape. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The tables and facts couldn’t be shaped into what they were not. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Strange, imaginary shapes flitted about in the gloom; eerie cries pierced the still air; trees and bushes reached out their branches to catch and scratch like living things with claws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was a very slender six foot two with a bushy mustache and a neatly shaped afro. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

What stakes would I use to shape a mouth in gold? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Buildings and featureless shapes flowed by him noiselessly as though borne past immutably on the surface of some rank and timeless ride. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The glitter of silver and the glow of turquoise shone out from that crowd in the shape of necklaces and bracelets and earrings on the women, belt buckles and hat bands on the men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study the youthful parody shape in the mirror: the stomach lipped tight by muscle; the shoulders rounded by chin-ups; the arms veined strong. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can tell by its wobbly silhouette that it’s in bad shape, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, they were louder, and now she could make out dark shapes moving along the edge of her vision. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The statue wore a golden pendant in the shape of a rabbit. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were flanking a car shaped like a big boot and another one that looked like a pouncing cat. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Father once tried to explain to me just how the aeroplane was supposed to work, but I never did follow much of it, though I do remember the shape. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, timidly, as though entering a shrine, the boy’s fingers crept into it, flexed, curled the cracked leather, brought it back to shape, to life. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can already picture metal and wires, making marks, shapes against the sky. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Clear vats shaped like cradles hold floating babies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had curly hair and green eyes, a clasp shaped like a seashell on his cloak. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It's a wonderland of palace buildings with golden turrets and glittering arches, fountains full of crimson and ivory fish, topiary mazes of clipped trees, shrubs, and bushes in every possible geometric shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Me with an IV drip in my arm, the bag bursting with butterflies of different shapes and colors and sizes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My girlfriends and I used to paint our mouths like American starlets, ruby red and heart- shaped. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were beyond monstrous now, some unable to retain a single shape but melting and re-forming with every step. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A man’s dark shape appeared at the head of the alley. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The City of Sassinoth with equal liberality sent their young physician along with me, for I was not in very good shape yet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I became aware of sunlight and shadow, of shapes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I just need to cut canvas pieces to the right shapes, seal them together, then seal them to the existing canvas and flooring. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like a black flower, gilded with gold. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the stone walls and wood beams that had been shaped by human hands and tools instead of by the mind of Skathis. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I bought a dress from a vintage shop on eBay the other day, made in 1960, in perfect shape, and I wear it a lot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had both, so I figured I was in good shape. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She reads aloud to Mrs. Alducci, and then brings her favorite resident, Mr. Giancarlo, a sugar cookie in the shape of a snowman. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Molly got rid of boxes that were oddly sized or misshapen or in bad shape and replaced them with new thick cardboard boxes, uniformly rectangular. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There are shapes around you that sometimes make sense and sometimes don’t. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His arms were wrapped around a lamp of pure white glass in the shape of a naked woman. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A small dark shape flipped across the sand behind him, and I tried not to look at Gum Baby as she scrambled up John Henry’s shoulder. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We compete, for instance, over which of us is in worse shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Heavier-than-water objects, they assured him, float if they have the right shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He shaped the ends with the knife and sanded them smooth with salt and he stained them with soot until they were the color of lead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It's shaped like a black ship in the Royal Harbor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

These black deadly shapes, these black deadly forces. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It was true I was short and muscular, which meant that, unlike long, lean gymnasts, I had to pay extra attention to my extensions and body shape to achieve the most graceful lines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A master shipwright, building a cargo vessel, lays down a broad and shallow hull; just so Odysseus shaped the bottom of his craft. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor caught a glimpse of a couple of shadowy shapes scurrying along the wall and grimaced. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the cart sat a hideous blackbird, big as a man, shaped like a man, with head hung forward like a molting crow. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said as I fingered the smooth leaves interspersed with bird and fish shapes on her necklace. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually the Second helped him get all five throwing stars zipping in circles overhead, their strange dark shapes flitting like bats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He measured the distance and height; they built the shapes from mud and let it harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I asked, somewhat confused, for the two phone booths were exactly the same in all respects—colour, size and shape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clue was a second, tiny shape that bobbed alongside the first. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As a result, planting these bright yellow kernels that were uniform in shape and size didn’t take long. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He spent that afternoon teaching her how to shape the clay into pieces of kitchen crockery, and the girl forgot all about her pains. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he became enamored of Japanese interlocking puzzles and dimensional wooden puzzles shaped in the form of an automobile or an animal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The silhouettes are both shaped like the dude on the men’s bathroom sign. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Turned out, Heritage was in such bad shape that he was no longer of any use to the army, and the soldiers released him from their grip. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She even made a step stool the shape of a big red bus—stuffed with cushions so I could reach my bed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But they would talk about past failures, like the cereal in the shape of little bowling pins and balls. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A long, dark shape shot out from under the bag and disappeared into the murky water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope your new apparatus is really big,” Chadwick wrote him in April 1938, when the dream of the he-man was just taking shape. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As they approached the summit, dark shapes flitted across the sky above them, letting out occasional hoots and squawks in the night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He felt that black shapes were advancing to smother him; but when he sat up he saw nothing but the back of Strider sitting hunched up, smoking his pipe, and watching. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was monstrous, shaped like a roaring, fanged mouth, a blazing fire burning within. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Alberti had written, ‘Mathematicians measure the shapes and forms of things in the mind alone and divorced entirely from matter.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From the Truman Balcony, I could see the fullness of the garden taking shape on the southwest corner of the lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Odin transformed himself from snake shape into man shape once more, and not just a man but a huge man, giant-sized, and well formed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"He's in no shape for company, Bobby, probably won't even be really awake until tomorrow sometime." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see by her shape that indeed her confinement is imminent,” he says, frowning thoughtfully. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mariam sat in the far corner by herself, working on her heels with a pumice stone, insulated by a wall of steam from the passing shapes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the darkness of the well, then slowly, thirty feet below, I make out the shape of human figures floating on top of the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black shape of it running from dark to dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once more he placed his half-formed bowl upon the shaping stake and, raising his elbow high, gave a sharp, firm tap. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They filed through the entrance into a small room shaped like a pizza slice. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He saw a covering of brown kudzu over three winter-dead trees, twisting them into strange, almost human shapes: they could have been witches, three bent old crones ready to reveal his fortune. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Inside grew hanging rock gardens in the shapes and colors of cabbage, winter melons, turnips, and onions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shaped sort of like a fireplace, with an arched recess at the bottom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Beside his bed I could see the pad with the hourglass shapes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a coral-colored, tight-fitting mermaid shape that flares and ruffles at the bottom. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the early morning the scene below slowly took shape and color. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The assumed shape of the Jupiter bird’s toe bone, as imagined by paleontologists, the caption read. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It glittered in the lantern light, and he held it out to the two shapes that stood beside him, the shapes who called themselves angels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The coastal city was shaped like an arc that grew thinner on both ends until the tips stabbed into the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Constance resembled a wet hen—same shape, same dour crankiness, and only slightly larger—but Kate smiled when he came in, and the sight of her sunny face gave Reynie a pinprick of hope. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Putting on a hat that seemed to have long ago lost its shape, he stepped outside and peered into the cloudless sky. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s significant that the man who went on to shape the canons of Roman rhetoric did so having thoroughly digested the Attic tradition. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had to find food, build a shelter, dig a garden, cut down a tree, and carve it into the shape of Crocodile Guts’s boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his own angel shape, shimmering like a heat haze in the sunlight, he said, “You were foolish to go to her. All you want to do now is see the woman again.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It's so odd to see the tiny streams of water bounce around, see the shapes of my hands and arms and legs. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It wasn't a supper like you said. It was a letter from Robb, and we didn't eat it, but—" "The green dreams take strange shapes sometimes," Jojen admitted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The blacksmith’s shop, the mill, the church, the stores, so busy and alive in daylight, were hunched, deserted now, dark piles and shapes without a purpose or a meaning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute of staring blindly into the dark, I began to make out shapes in the room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

To be that close to her, mouth to mouth, testing the shapes of her teeth and her lips. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s because they’re stingy and have funny shaped heads and ugly looking Jew noses,” Ben said, leaning across to poke Sammy in the ribs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

About his neck he wore a chain made of linked coins of many different sizes, shapes, and metals, and his horse was one of the strange black-and-white ones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was possible that Chess’s face had shaped itself into a glare, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A tall shape was all I could see in the dim light of the alley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The oak was very hard, and took real strength to work, but swimming had given Robin good muscle in his arms, so that little by little he was able to shape the staff. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Wind chimes of all shapes and sizes lined the porch, making their lonely music in the breeze. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, the Depression was playing itself out, and with it would go the world that had been shaped by it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he is a hypocrite; that he is shaping a story for himself to tell somebody, to tell his father; naturally. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where I sat, the lump didn’t even look like the shape of a person. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Rabadash started as the immense shape of the Lion paced softly in between him and his accusers. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And as they sank down and the infused shapes of our own world began to appear, the grip of that finger and thumb grew stronger. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lying next to her, his head turned toward the window, he sees through the glass darkness taking the shape of a shoulder with a thin line of blood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some little boys in the Biafran Boys Brigade were practicing on the street, with sticks shaped like guns, doing frog jumps, calling one another captain! and adjutant! in high voices. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his eyes wondering if sleep and shadow had deceived him; but the great grey shapes moved steadily onward. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her voice held steady, but her hands did not, and the O of Olinski was the rough shape of an oil spill. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The phantom shapes, which were becoming gradually materialised from the moonbeams, were those of the three ghostly women to whom I was doomed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"The shape you in wouldn't do to leave you round here," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark shapes of the widely spaced trees across the park made her hesitate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was in better shape than she was even with my accident and though she was much younger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat around a U- shaped counter drinking coffee. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a dark shape brushed by me and I knew it was one of the Five Evils, a swimming snake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands moved back to the puzzle, but after a few moments his eyes flickered back to the shape. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some ugly patches mixed in here and there but, overall, it was shaping up to look like a mismatched jumble of better than perfect. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was shaped sort of like a subway car. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The room was very dark though I could make out the shapes of pigs all around me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sat for a long time, seeing these shapes and hearing the voices, until the sun came out and the fog vanished. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I wished on a star that someday my scrawny legs would fill out into that lovely shape and that the hair on them would be as long and straight and black. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Down on the hilltop, the dim shape was beginning to move into the circle of our firelight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our apartment building in Chesterfield was one story, shaped like a U around a courtyard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jerrie wanted to be in the best shape possible when they started the Mercury tests on her. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What they got you on was you’re way out of shape,” she told them. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At that moment, the statue shaped like Joseph’s mother began to move, startling him out of his thoughts. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her lips were red and perfectly shaped, her cheeks blushed prettily when she spoke. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Taran could make out only indistinct shapes, touched with a feeble green glow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans’s eyes, I am sure?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I want to remind her that Daniela's bones will always drift back to their original shape, and that some are more stubborn than others. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But maybe it was sort of a squishy egg shape now. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, a mass, darker than the storm, took shape and grew larger. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I notice he's clean-shaven and that his hair is newly trimmed and shaped. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The one on the left turned its crooked helmet, which was shaped like a wolf s head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ripples it made turned into flame-capped waves as a long, gnarled shape sliced up through the surface and into the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Beyond lay many more shapes; some singly as they had been hewn down or shot; others in pairs, still grappling one another, dead in the very throes of stabbing, throttling, biting. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the satchel was a black wooden box, and inside on a bed of velvet was a necklace in the shape of a diamond cobweb with a great sapphire at its center. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once or twice he caught sight of a flitting shape, in among the trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Behind the bramble, half-hidden by a swirl of mist, a gray-brown shape, a rat, shaking dirt from his ears. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His face was still gaunt, but he was definitely in better shape than when they’d left Croatia. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pink paint was drying on a nice wooden shape. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We can see in the United Nations a new world order being shaped, along color lines—an alliance among the non-white nations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blurry shapes suddenly cut through the robot’s vision. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His back ached from having been pressed so long against something solid, about the size and shape of a small ceramic bird. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I heard stomping on the back porch, and Tag came inside followed by a short man shaped like a powder keg. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their religion, their institutions, all of the things that shaped their culture came from Afrikaners. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The model was humped in the shape of a barrow, like one of those on the downs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Loki, in fly shape, decided that there was no more time for subtlety. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Next to the bed was a chest of drawers with drawer handles shaped like teardrops and a mirror attached to the top. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Up at the top of the map, distorted into odd, huge shapes, were Australia and New Zealand, also member provinces of the Region. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then the shape was there in his sideways vision. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

After months in the comparatively warm and flat English countryside, they just weren’t in shape for this kind of work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in some, the shape of the instrument — usually a tube, block, circle, or bell shape — allows the instrument to ring with a standing-wave vibration when you strike it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“There is a difference, isn’t there? You told me once that grownups’ dæmons don’t change shape. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom is shaped like an eggplant and often sports bags under her eyes of the same color. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They may want to group instruments by their color, how big or small, and their shape. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I look back on my Little Rock integration experience as ultimately a positive force that shaped the course of my life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take her rolling pin and try my best to shape the little balls into circles. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stare at the back of his head, where the shape of his skull shows through his buzzed hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds soared above, changing their shape, their size, as they passed by. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was in good shape for an older guy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Wrights had solved the problem by controlling the shape of the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I still remember certain things about the woman: she wore white rubber Korean slippers that were shaped exactly like miniature canoes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over her shoulder at the dark shape of the gallows, and shuddered. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Q—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Who else would shape us as they have? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dark shapes of the Orcs in front grew dim, and then were swallowed up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene sat cross-legged, lining up black pieces in the shape of a rear tire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He and his second wife, June, live in Wyckoff, a New Jersey suburb where he pampers fig trees and dutifully looks after a bird feeder shaped like the Parthenon. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was oval shaped, like something you would find covered by a white sheet in an old haunted house. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even so, Jim’s in pretty good shape, since he’s got two pistols against a single dagger, and Israel Hands seems about to give in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he hands me a tube-shaped nylon to put over my stump, and has me put a “stump sock” on over the nylon—it’s like a regular sock only with no heel shape or seam. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Steam rises from the surface so thick it obscures the walls, the ceiling, the dark shape in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the evening the murky shape of another coastal city, the cluster of tall buildings vaguely askew. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t see much, only the outlines of trees and the shapes of his friends lying around him on the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When I didn’t answer, he settled into a doughnut shape, tail wrapped around himself, and closed his eyes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then a massive shape about the size of a blue whale swam over the light source, creating a huge, dark shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Staring at the worms, they tried to classify the shapes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atoms and corpuscles are not machines, but their interaction is determined by size, shape and hardness, just as the interaction of the parts of a clock are. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had already solidified into the shape of a bearded man in white robes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was out of shape and too fat to catch up with her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His flesh was wrinkled and spotted, the skin so papery thin that he could see the web of veins and the shape of bones beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But try as he might, he could think of no shape, form, or object that he could carve to show healing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I see the object must be the size and shape of a magic wand. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cell was an arrangement of sand and pebbles in the shape of a cross for my mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

To his surprise he noticed that the great block was shaped like a heavy door, and was less than twice his own height. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She pulls out something shaped like a star. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the seventeenth century the meaning of key words shifted and changed, and a modern scientific—or rather metascientific—vocabulary slowly took shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You could already see ten pages taking shape in her pointy head. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hemoglobin A, the most intensively studied version of the molecule, is shaped like a four-leaf clover. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Look at the shapes on the wall next to the door. He says to look carefully.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All at once, as if by sudden vision, I understood the emptiness in the eyes of those humpbacked shapes back in the cave. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The structure of their societies, the management of their industry, agriculture, commerce, the size of their settlements, the subjects of their stories, everything is shaped to fit the somer-kemmer cycle. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The one important phase of training began one day after weeks of really hard work at the “shape recognition” that I mentioned before. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She ate until her stomach was full, and then Con poured something from a decanter shaped like a bird into the crystal goblet at her elbow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the past, they had shaped the landscape mainly with fire; the ax came out only for garden plots of marshelder and little barley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At length he gathered from Sam that they had seen nothing but the vague shadowy shapes coming towards them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were swollen shut and his nose was a funny shape. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were cut in the shape of teardrops, as if the queen were weeping blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The frigid environment of the Arctic has sculptured life into compact shapes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other was in much better shape, with smaller, hairline cracks and a newer net. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My parents had been concerned that all the moving around would disrupt my training routine, especially when I had to get back into competitive shape after my shoulder injury healed. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If you looked at each thing, you would admire that thing—the hair, the color, the shape. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plastic was soft in her hand, still warm from having been stamped into shape inside the machine a few seconds before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Many of the trucks were old and in poor shape. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table’s legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I walk back to our table with the envelope and the award, which is in the shape of an open notebook. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Much like the Gothic architecture that shaped the buildings for which it was written, isorhythm did not last as a tool in the organisation of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Of particular interest are the “effigy mounds” in the shape of animals, presumably the totems of the tribes that produced them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could see the rims of plates and what looked like the foot of a teakettle—it was shaped like a human foot, complete with painted toenails. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without large, perfectly shaped eyes, their feces couldn’t make you feel that way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had run into a tree, it must have been an oddly shaped tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the most part, my suit was still in pretty good shape. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You are met not with floor-length unadorned planes of mirrored glass, as you half expected, but hundreds of mirrors of varying sizes and shapes, each in a different frame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The shape of a boxer’s nose is not just the consequence of his genetic heritage; it is determined by the nature of his chosen profession, and the number of physical assaults on its cartilage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then he pointed to a small, round shape on the back of the dead robot’s head. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lands where trans-friendly bathrooms were the norm and mannequins weren’t seen as the ideal body shape. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen Chloe Marsh earlier in the day—very pretty, with a face shaped like a soft heart and with a delicate nose and lips like a contessa in a Renaissance portrait. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What shape is ‘the earth’? The answer to this question must seem obvious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand and made a motion toward me which was the shape of the ornament he wore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the ump—a short dude whose middle is shaped like the highlighter-hued ball that gives this game I love so much its name—hock a loogie above my head. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

My birthday cake is in the shape of a heart this year. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There’s also a mirror where you can do tongue exercises, to see if you can roll your tongue up at the sides or into a cloverleaf shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could come wordless into the house of any Marine family, but no matter how they came or what shape or appearance they assumed, their very presence was the equivalent of some form of apocalypse. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They limped about in crippled, teetering circles; on their backs they frantically scriggled paraplegic legs; on their sides, twisted into grotesque agonized shapes, they arched and jerked and quivered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I can bend and shape pieces of iron I find around the ruins of the Gribley house and barn. Eventually I’ll forge them into shovels, ladles, and even nails.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day a three-dimensional creature—shaped like an apple, say—comes upon Flatland, hovering above it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoy seeing my work, a mirror of me, tile upon tile stacked up, knowing that the shape of my knee will one day give shelter to somebody. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s busy shaping up somebody’s baby fro, and there are a few people waiting in chairs. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

A year to eighteen months of steady work might tell something more solid about the shape of the hemoglobin molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But in reality he was the son of Zeus, who had visited Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena in the shape of her husband when the general was away fighting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts his right hand, his index finger curling into the shape of a hook. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She said it once more, memorizing the order of the shapes: “This!” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The shape of his skull could be seen under his skin, and his jaw was clenched so hard Asha feared his teeth might shatter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He could make out the shapes of the furniture, and the pale sheen of the silk coverlet on the bed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

To the left, the unmistakable shape of a church rose up, the teardrop tops of its towers glowing in the sun. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He'd swapped his old, flabby shape for that of a lion the size of a rhino, fangs the length of cutlasses, and claws that could tear through tanks as if they were tin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Vali’s human shape fell from him, and where Vali had stood was a wolf, foam flecking its muzzle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The tree has been shaped to spread the cognitive load over time with the help of two kinds of topiary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The shape of the stone still stood like a doorway against the blue sky, but the entrance itself opened into a very dim corridor where a set of stone steps disappeared into the dark. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, the conversation at Jefferson’s quarters was merely one part of an ongoing and larger conversation in which the very survival and subsequent shape of the American republic seemed at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The gyptians had planned to stop and rest their dogs, repair a couple of sledges, and get all their weapons into shape for the assault on Bolvangar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every shape they take looks perfect, and the size of the sky outside the window feels perfect too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Carefully he had cut the tree down and then shaped the paddle from its trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I could see, through the long tunnels my eyes had become, his dark shape coming toward me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On top of the cars there could be seen the dark shapes of the soldiers with their emplaced machine guns. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His mind had been shaped by the prairies and ranges, and until the day he died, he would make order of the world with lessons learned from cow ponies, jagged land, and wide-open sky. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plunged ahead over the frozen ground, following the shape of the path through the snow. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I see shapes in the clouds by day and shooting stars by night. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The same turquoise couch shaped in a semicircle of nubby tweed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was of sullen brown, and he wore on it a crown of mesarthium shaped as a wreath of serpents swallowing each other by the tails. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Looking back I could just make out the blade lumpy shapes of the oxen and the cart, with Father fighting along at their heads. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time it was life I brought to Storm’s End, shaped to look like onions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, Matt saw odd shapes thrusting up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air came out of me in the shape of a cloud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They raked the front garden, set out tea tables and folded napkins into decorative shapes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over toward him, but again, he was just a shadowy shape, a large mound. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart set out on the long buffet with seventy-one candles—one for good luck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They rose upward in circles, higher and higher, until at last, slightly dizzy, Harry saw a gleaming oak door ahead, with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The term is misleading, since these mounds vary greatly in shape and purpose as well as in date, ranging from about 2000 B.C. to the time of the Europeans’ arrival. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new girl stared up, her mouth open slightly, saying nothing as she watched the sky shift and dance, a wash of shapes and colors. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were learning how to kiss now, taking their time in the darkness, savoring the taste of another mouth, the shape of other lips. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness blurred around us until finally some recognizable shapes emerged. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The idea for my art assignment takes shape. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Thyon’s boyhood bed was shaped like a war brig, complete with real sails and riggings, and even miniature cannons, so heavy it took the strength of two maids to rock him to sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No, sir, I solemnly assure you to the contrary. The shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before; the height, the contour were new to me.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Apollo 9 had called theirs Gumdrop and Spider, which I thought were neat names because the command module teas shaped like a gumdrop and the lunar module did look sort of like a spider. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he saw the dark shapes creep from the garden, he knew that he must run for it, or perish. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Claudia’s words came slowly; she was forming thoughts into the shape of words for the first time in a long time. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the shroud of weeds and rubble, geometrical shapes had appeared—a series of rectangles in a line. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the smoke-streaked sky and saw strange phantoms, dark riding shapes, and faces out of the past. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A heavy woolen cloak, dyed crimson, was clasped at one shoulder with a golden brooch in the shape of a lion’s head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boy took his truck from the pack and shaped roads in the ash with a stick. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only one you could know by touch would be the wiggly shaped one. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His throat was raw, and his tongue had forgotten how to shape the words. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And looking down from the sun, straight ahead, I saw a huge black shape come hulking out of the void towards us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each day the pieces of the cross grew smoother and better shaped, for Brother Luke would examine them and show how they were too wide here or too uneven there. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I must admit that judging by the shape, this is the most intriguing of our Dumpster planters. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And she spotted the perfect place when she looked up at the huge, rocky shape that towered above the forest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Darkness shrank and the shadows from which it had emerged returned to their normal shapes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A train roared by above us, its tiny square windows full of shapes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One last agonized glance backward as he flung it open showed him a lean, gliding shape on the top of a wall, silhouetted against the stars. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then I put a plastic Inca Kola bottle in a pan and shape the dough around it, just like in the picture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He changed shape until I was holding a sleek black seal. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were six of them, all in pretty good shape, but Bo's favorite was still the one Prosper had found at the station on the day they arrived. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Rivers Niger and Benue merge and make a Y shape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The shape was the same, but the presence hovering inside the man’s body was completely different. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now, however, the sky was very dark off to the west, and every time the lightning flashed, the dark shape of the mountains would briefly appear. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

From time to time shapes and figures can be seen, amongst the trees, in the distance. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a wild, lonesome place, down in a deep canyon that was bent in the shape of a horseshoe. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men sit down at the long table, the tall Frank and the heavy Gimp shaping the dough for the rolls that have to be baked for the evening orders. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sam Houston gave me a buttonhook, and Lamar gave me a pincushion shaped like a fat red tomato. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The day will come, Francie,” she said, “when you’re forty-five and have a shape like a bag of horses’ oats tied in the middle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manuscript copy which Malcolm X was given to review was in better shape now, and he pored through page by page, intently, and now and then his head would raise with some comment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it was revealed to her that it was Zeus who had visited her in this shape we are not told, but she knew that the child she bore was his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cardan pulls a pin from his coat, a glittering, filigree thing in the shape of an acorn with an oak leaf behind it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of her forehead, she had a birthmark in the shape of a crescent moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They wanted to shape things/design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody else’s taxes, and read somebody else’s X-rays from half a world away. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The second thing he learned about himself, as if the night in the Maze hadn’t proved it already, was that his body was in perfect shape. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A glass vial shatters on the floor, spilling thick blood that forms the shape of a grinning death’s head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’ve taken my inadequacies into account. I’m not as coldproof as you, nowhere near it. I’m no expert on skis. I’m not in good shape—though much improved from a few days ago.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the shadows dash creatures of all shapes and sizes: swift, diving bats and scurrying raccoons, fluttery moths and cunning bobcats. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yet after only three blocks it became evident that Dana was in even worse shape than Roy had anticipated. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only later did the furnace man recognize that the kiln’s peculiar shape and extreme heat made it ideal for another, very different application. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The letter psi, in Greek, is shaped like a tulip. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Turning the wheel slowly with his knee, he inspected the graceful shape for invisible faults. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The country around was beset by a frightful monster, the Sphinx, a creature shaped like a winged lion, but with the breast and face of a woman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enough so I can see the shape of the great aurochs on the pale wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The advertisement on NTA for Andrew Checking Out, which he had watched as a child, had given shape to his longings. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see it now, but I’d re- memorized the exact shape the stain was in. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then his face went the wrong sort of shape as it does if you’re trying to keep back your tears. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘It’ll be a lot of work getting the legion back in shape, repairing the damage Octavian did. Dating regulations will be the least of my worries.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw a shadow flicker across the glass—a humanlike shape. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she did let them make the rich, brown, stewed pumpkin into pretty shapes before they ate it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from this far away I can see he’s in worse shape than before. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It sat on the hill above us, a dark shape crouched against the moonlit sky, its crooked chimneys rising like broken fingers from the roof. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The room was the same size and shape as the parlor, but two of the walls had bookcases built into them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brynhild goes with him to the Giukungs, where Sigurd takes his own shape again, but without Brynhild’s knowledge. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap several sheets of tissue around my hand until it forms a thick rectangular shape. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Rad Tab called the process “snouting,” after the pig-snout shape of the tube that was to carry the beam from the vacuum chamber and out into the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Terry has a tattoo on his arm of a heart shape with a knife through the middle of it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hyena didn’t move, but behind it the shape of a man detached itself from the darkness of the building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Calder absentmindedly watched the droplets forming and re-forming in shape after shape, an idea came to mind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Passwords, things that cannot be told, people with secret identities, dark linkages: this does not seem as if it ought to be the true shape of the world. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has an unusual L shape, making it hard to navigate due to the crush of students. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the dimness her outline appeared, the rise of her breasts beneath the T-shirt, the soft hill of her belly, and then the brightness of her underpants, converging in their V shape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I twisted around as far as I could, hunting wildly for her shape on the cliffs, but there was nothing, or, rather, there was everything but my mother. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses and the stores had all the right colors and shapes, for they had been built not by demons but by the Tang people. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Any idea how come I found a plush toy shaped like a loaf of French bread in my trailer this morning?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So he found the stars that formed the shape of the whale, inhaled the deep scent of earth that surrounded him, and began, his voice falling easily into the cadence of the old stories. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was in bad shape, with bruises and cuts all over his face and neck. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I argued and fussed, trying to tell her what a bad shape Old Yeller was in and how we needed to hurry back to him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it drew near the great furnaces where, in the deeps of time, it had been shaped and forged, the Ring’s power grew, and it became more fell, untameable save by some mighty will. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I do not grant wishes,” says Salim, tasting the way the words shape themselves in his mouth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They could see it was a magic pool: instead of reflecting the tree and the sky it revealed cloudy and colored shapes moving, always moving, in its depths. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was about a visitor from outer space, shaped very much like a Tralfamadorian, by the way. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shape of its bow was becoming distinct. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a small box over his head, with a Saran Wrap-covered opening shaped like a TV screen to look out through. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, it was safer to remain in salmon shape. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Its weight, shape, and material are so different from a revolver that I have no trouble holding it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the first child closely, his wrists, the shape of his head and die temperament that showed in his eyes and said, “Well Look at Dewey. My my mymymy.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The lines on the pages were planted with words that opened up like rows of flowers, each with a different shape. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Vonetta froze, then backed away from the antenna, carefully and dramatically, her arms outstretched in the leaning V shape of the left and right antennae until she sat down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Musically, the shape of the instrument is important since the shape is directly related to sound and sound production. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She sees innocence, the untouched kingdom the great leader slain the great empty hole shaped like the child growing large and becoming grand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of telling her about that day in Wentnor when he hid from Molly and felt, for the first time, the possibility of shaping his own destiny. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stood beside her as she traced patterns in chalk on chambray and calico, and I learned to make the wide simple chain stitches to guide the emerging shape of the garment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nia put her bag down—it was shaped like a hippo. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The more I look, the more shapes I see—faces, cars, flowers, trees, babies, clowns—and then, for some reason, I start imagining Lorena as a cheetah running through a forest. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were armed with short broad-bladed swords, not with the curved scimitars usual with Orcs; and they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One main tool for shaping nature was fire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was an expression of raw pain that came from an inability of my body to express that pain in any other way, shape, or form. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A pack of guards—and three small, huddled shapes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The police investigation is beginning to take shape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like water in the shape of a cup, but with no cup. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

With each visit, Morrie seemed to be melting into his chair, his spine taking on its shape. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventh-grade Ron had a birthmark shaped like a crab, which made me think of the Crab Nebula. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was metallic and oddly shaped, but was only odd because of its location. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to divide the work or otherwise be associated with it in any way, shape, or form. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said this over and over until the vague police shapes let me alone, until I awoke to find Kevin sitting, dozing beside my bed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The footsteps trailing her hadn’t started up again yet, so she stood still, waiting, searching the darkness for some kind of monstrous shape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“She could use the exercise. It might get her into better shape.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Funny that,” Grace said, patting one of the oven mitts in the shape of a chicken. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The shapes of the buildings and the outline of the wharves soon became familiar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it really shaped the same way as mine? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mami calls, “Un segundito,” from the kitchen, and in a moment, she comes back in, carrying a birthday cake in the shape of the island, with thirteen candles flaming away on top. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The furry shape settled itself, and as they stroked, the snore—or the purr—began its rhythm. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their strange lumpy shapes looked like something soft that had frozen—like towers of mashed potatoes, Lina thought, that had hardened to stone. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If, in order to simplify our problem, we concentrate on the visual arts, we might say that a work of art must be a tangible thing shaped by human hands. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must be prepared to change everything about yourself–shape, size, color, species affiliation, everything–and to do so repeatedly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Galileo refuted that argument by pointing out that if ice is held down under water and then released, its broad, flat shape doesn’t stop it pushing upwards through the water. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

From this precarious vantage point, I can see the shape of the whole arena for the first time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her body jerks; she’s on her side, her belly; the covers change shape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He clenched his fists as the spirit masses congealed and then took shape. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As it passed his boat, Pong looked down, and the white mist swirled into the shape of a baby tucked into a basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Parents typically choose names with a goal of helping to shape their children’s character. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Fela stepped back to admire her handiwork, I saw a familiar shape leaving the Eolian through the front door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Olmsted valued plants, trees, and flowers not for their individual attributes but rather as colors and shapes on a palette. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You start tearing big chunks of clay off until the size looks okay and then you tackle the overall shape. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The color of your skin or the shape of your eyes doesn’t matter. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I mixed the moonshine into a zinc-and-sulfur compound and was rewarded with a thick gray composite that could be shaped like modeling clay. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think about my cousin Carla winning her eraser in the shape of the Dominican Republic at the children’s recitation contest last year. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The colors and shapes and words and pictures are so garish, so abundant, that they are mesmerizing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They twitched in his sleep, and sometimes he awoke to find them shaping the words in his dreams before his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had tried to bend the cage back into shape, but could not get the door to stay on. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Trey stands on the grassy area that shapes the circular roundabout. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For example, he chose the shapes D, R, b, h to represent the Cherokee syllables a, e, si, and ni, respectively, while the shape of the numeral 4 was borrowed for the syllable se. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had a drawbridge, and gardens shaped like hearts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was one of Mama Bellini’s earrings, shaped like a sea shell, with sparkling little stones all over it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed down to his boot, where a mark in the shape of the zmeyok’s teeth marred the leather. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We turned left at the hut and soon came to an open space, as long as a soccer field, but square in shape. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Smith was able to get Seabiscuit in racing shape, two months had passed since the World’s Fair Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at Charles and worried that the shape of his nose meant he was lazy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papi and Lolo have strung the patio with red and green lights in the shape of chili peppers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They kept as close as they could to the western side, and they could see the dim shapes of the low cliffs rising ever higher, shadowy walls with their feet in the hurrying river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He flips the metal he’s shaping with a pair of tongs and continues hammering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had to look for the outline instead, had to see the shape instead of the feathers or color, had to train his eyes to see the shape ... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eden sits on the floor, drawing some sort of loopy shape on the floorboards. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He noted the size and shape of the fern leaves, took photos, and made notes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could never handle the little tweezers, or solder a delicate joint, or shape the little gold leaves. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw followed, no longer running, suddenly very aware of this new place, of the different shape and colour and arrangement of it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Far above him, outlined against a vast pale moon, he thought he could see the shapes of gargoyles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the dark began to go in smooth, bright shapes, like it always does, even when Caddy says that I have been asleep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box also contained white stockings, white leather shoes, and an enormous white hair bow, already shaped and ready to be fastened on with two loose ties. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s definitely some editing you have to do. The Sarah section is in the best shape,” she’d said, and I tell Aibileen this through her fits and snorts. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had stayed so close that the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe and almost of that si£e and shape. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, Mr. Yang kept the house in impeccable shape, repairing leaky faucets, patching the front concrete, and coaxing the stamp-sized backyard into a lush garden. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The rapidly growing Space Task Group was taking shape as an autonomous unit marching out in front of the space parade. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The archway leading to the royal bedchamber was guarded by a pair of sandalwood lovers, shaped and smoothed and oiled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miles away, we could see the blocky shape of a freighter steaming south, and a few deep-sea boats trolling back and forth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They talk about face shape and skin tone, and they point out a bunch of kids who are wearing the wrong colors for their complexions. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As a result, the organisms of distant lands like Australia and Madagascar evolved in isolation for millions upon millions of years, taking on shapes and natures very different from those of their distant Afro-Asian relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can see white threads in the shape of a bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Until then, though, Connie would give me insight into Tina’s likes and dislikes so I could shape myself into perfect boyfriend material. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dumb-shows surprise at the cake in the shape of the Island. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He managed the cumbersome tableware as if it were its normal size and shape. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The gray shape swooped from side to side and disappeared through the doorway. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand up to feel the shape of my skull beneath the fuzz. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he made out Kehaar’s shape black against the light at the far end. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth was Ugly Foot because she could spread her toes out in the shape of a witch’s claw. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But doing construction helped him stay in shape. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He pointed out toward some black shapes rising from the water against the darkening horizon, then raised a spyglass. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The downstairs began to shape up at about the same time that Lillian sensed her children could take no more. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The naiad looked like a girl of about sixteen, with full lips and a profusion of golden hair swirling about a face shaped like a valentine. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I see a black oblong shape through the heat-shimmer: an open doorway that might lead out. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, shapes shimmered in the darkness below—three horses with fish tails, galloping upward faster than dolphins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cara watched as the newspaper took shape in front of her eyes on the computer monitor. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a pin on the sweater, in the shape of two birds with red glass jewels for eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was about the size and shape of, shall we say, a turkey’s egg. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked to the altar rail where the idea of God assumed a shape and a scent and a taste. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A door with glass in a big egg shape. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Great thinkers, teachers, writers, dramatists, and artists shaped its colorful past. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

There are no more magazines, no more films, no more substitutes; only me and my shadow, walking away from the two men, who stand at attention, stiffly, by a roadblock, watching our retreating shapes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She looks like me. She's got my hair and shape of the face." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Modern Indigenous nations and communities are societies shaped by their resistance to colonialism. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was in pretty good shape, I realized as I checked the binding, which is when I saw it was published by my publishing house, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The words tumble out, making a sound like the rumble of distant thunder, taking shape, depth, and substance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“They still need to be whipped into shape,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dessert consists mainly of a gargantuan tiered cake shaped to resemble circus tents and frosted in stripes, the filling within a bright shock of raspberry cream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The glory was his face — the shape of it — I don’t have the words. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

And someone sat down on the other end of the bench and it was a lady who had a black briefcase and purple shoes and a brooch shaped like a parrot. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The helm that hung from his saddle horn was black steel, fashioned in the shape of a goat's head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The charred meat and bones under the damp ash might have been anonymous save for the shapes of the skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His cloak was cloth-of-silver too, lined with vair and clasped at the collar with a brooch in the shape of the twin towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I saw it go squish, bounce back, squish, bounce back—it actually changed shape,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to smile back, but my mouth refuses to make the shape. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She looked at Harry and he was lacing his thin fingers together in different shapes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The signs floated above the ground, completely unsupported and shaped like giant ribbons with hanging tassels. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The front window has a new smash in it the shape of a sunset. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Jam glared at it, ready to snap a retort, but Pet left before her thoughts could form a shape. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We fight because we must fight if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now there is a real building, a strange, modem building, circular in shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he added: 'I can see you're in good shape for your age, sir. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shadowy shapes streaked past, and—oh, man—something slimy brushed my ankle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was changing its shape in a complicated way, thinning at the base as a vertical column rose five or six feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We kept on walking through the maze of green, brown, and orange, the weird shapes and smells, sprinklers misting over the flowers, people in green suits spraying and trimming. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His braid was black and shiny, his skin as dark as burnished copper, his eyes the shape of bitter almonds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The spittle transformed and took shape as her fingers moved, and in moments it had taken on the appearance of a man and stood naked before them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

By comparing the wattage at the same time of day in those three locations, I'll learn the shape of the storm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark shapes like mushrooms spontaneously arising, arms flailing, signaling me what to do. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Close up on the stalls he sees that the shapes are tubs, sacks, lumber, wheels, a broken plow, a butter press and a metal trunk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the economy in rough shape, Barack’s team was constantly guarding against any image coming out of the White House that might be seen as frivolous or light, given the somberness of the times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I stare into the midnight forest, with its dark, towering shapes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The handle which lifted the latch of the door, a piece of wrought iron shaped like a horse-shoe, was moving softly to the left It moved like a crab, uncertainly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the shelter collapsed with smothering finality; and the anonymous shapes fought their way out and through. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her music reminded Bridge of picking wildflowers—she started with something thin and simple and then kept adding new sounds, all different shapes and colors, until she had something explosive. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As we passed the shipyard where the loftsmen raised the shape of a hull according to the measurements of a model, he taught me the secret of numerical proportions and scale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sula was a heavy brown with large quiet eyes, one of which featured a birthmark that spread from the middle of the lid toward the eyebrow, shaped something like a stemmed rose. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t make me hear everything clearly, the way you do. I have to fit the sounds with the shape the lips make, like a puzzle,” Renee said, looking from Gen to the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Our decision to let Barack’s career proceed as it had—to give him the freedom to shape and pursue his dreams—led me to tamp down my own efforts at work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next is blue, with the Seattle Seahawks logo stenciled in stark white and silver, plus the number 12; the 1 is shaped like the Space Needle. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz remembered the shape from the alley, the way it had appeared and disappeared like a ghost. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He left it that shape for the time being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He carefully pushed them back into their original shape and put them on. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The creative process consists of a long series of leaps of the imagination and the artist’s attempts to give them form by shaping the material accordingly. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she removed her scarf, her short wavy black hair bounced into perfect shape. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Not so loud,” Alex said, ramming boxes of weirdly shaped pasta into a bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It changed shape as I watched—from a dragons head to a circle of black flames to a wreath of human bones. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The whole floor was covered with toys: bowling pins, balls, swords, a whole herd of rocking horses, dolls in every shape and size lying around with their arms and legs twisted. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made his decking fast to close-set ribs before he closed the side with longer planking, then cut a mast pole, and a proper yard, and shaped a steering oar to hold her steady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the year, the only issue they had resolved was the shape of the conference table where they would all sit for the talks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The great shape of the dog had bounded out from the roots of the Willow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"If someone wanted to change every single part of themselves—including the shape of their fingernails—could you?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the same as hers in shape and depth but his were a bright clear blue and hers a dark clear gray. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk, it seems like shapes appear in the sands, figures spinning and dancing, feeding off the wind’s ferocity. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs there’s a hat-and-umbrella stand, the bentwood kind, long rounded rungs of wood curving gently up into hooks shaped like the opening fronds of a fern. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get my men and our canoe past that spit of land—it’s shaped like a little hook and juts out into the river. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Papi supervised us every once in a while to make sure we didn’t saw off our fingers as we shaped the thick cardboard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Every adult is shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Working out was also something you did to keep your body in shape, for the man. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentina trucks into the living room space, which still has sheet-covered shapes of what I’m guessing are a couch, chair, and coffee table. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When his eyes landed on her face, she made the shape of a heart with her fingers and held it to her chest. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The boy, trained in night-sight when the lantern was dimmed so as not to alert the wood’s creatures, picked out a blurred shape in the dark. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Santos were in better shape and had been together for years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was following a phantom in my mind, whose shadowy form had taken shape at last. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They stumbled down the driveway to where the Ford was parked, a big black hulking shape in the dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom took a break from writing and had breakfast with me and Dad, and I made pancakes that were sort of shaped like chickens, if you used your imagination. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, zero shaped humanity’s view of the universe—and of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And, of course, in the shape of sermons, Christianity provided regular formal occasions for public speaking. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Crocodile Guts’s boat had been shaped to move smoothly in the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the northernmost realms of Prydain many trees were already leafless, and among the branches clung the ragged shapes of empty nests. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But first he has to train the reader in understanding and representing shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then I looked at the fire again and the bright, smooth shapes went again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was Rob, and Rob was staring down at two dark shapes—two dark sacks covered their heads, but it was obvious that one was a man and the other a woman. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The black and gold shape flew past, landed, and turned. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Meggie couldn't remember ever hearing it before, yet it sounded familiar, like a distant memory that wouldn’t take shape properly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I touched the small pillow where Abuelo’s head had rested and had an image of him deftly peeling an orange in a long ribbon to his bare feet, which were brown, calloused, and delicately shaped. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Arthur changed the subject “Gareth is shaping well,” he said, watching the boy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What empty words these were coming from my father, a man so used to fitting his form to the mold of power that he had no true shape of his own! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Children can draw simple shapes and textures to express sounds and compositions that they’ve invented, or can read the work of another child who has written in this type of notation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Large eyes, sweet face shaped like a heart, a mouth that wants to curve into a perfect little smile. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Four answers were displayed on the dome, each identified with a geometric shape. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

My back lifts from the table and all my muscles clench and my throat aches from this scream that no longer shapes itself into words and will not stop. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a big blue-and-white plastic sign in the shape of an oval, and a boomerang that said: the lbj apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large shape had appeared in it, revolving very fast. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would have gone easier and swifter as falcon or dolphin, but Ogion had advised him not to change his shape, and he knew the value of Ogion’s advice. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Venkat told me to "draw" the shape I plan to cut, but he neglected to mention how. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d lost a couple of pounds too, which Lester theoretically could have spared, but the new shape was wrong on him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Learning to look like this involved learning to isolate mathematical shapes within more complex objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I knew suddenly what I had to do, knew it even before it shaped itself completely in my mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three-quarters of the way to Camp One, Hall remarked at a rest stop that the Icefall was in better shape than he’d ever seen it: “The route’s a bloody freeway this season.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But now Emma could make out the dim shape of her little brother beyond the door, halfway up the towering stairs to the stage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After I gazed awhile and ran my fingers over his shape, I turned the page and found an entry in his journal. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though only the back of his head was visible to Poirot, the shape of it and the set of the shoulders betrayed him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa is now so thin that his face is no longer the shape of a full moon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I became aware that an adenine-thymine pair held together by two hydrogen bonds was identical in shape to a guanine-cytosine pair held together by at least two hydrogen bonds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

And repetition in larger narrative structures—as witness the shape of everything from fairytales and myths to The Gruffalo—is what makes them seem coherent, memorable, self-achieved, and, in effect, meaningful. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I began to think of all the people already up there, mostly old, and not in particularly good shape either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, we learned to recognize the shapes easily enough, and when I saw the rat picture I knew straight away what symbols would appear beneath it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And then I have to fit the sounds and the shapes with the situation, because so many words look the same when you lip-read. Like ‘mat’ and ‘mad’ or ‘pat’ and ‘pad.’ Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Before writing the letter, Clinton had placed an hourglass-shaped mask on a piece of paper and then had formed the secret message within that shape. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ubiquitous in highlands art, the Andean cross is a stepped shape that some claim is inspired by the Southern Cross constellation and others believe represents the four quarters of the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a large, grainy image of a body of water and two shapes were at the surface: a long mass like the trunk of a tree, followed by a stubby triangle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Especially in their eye shapes, those statues unmistakably depict East Asians, such as modern Japanese or Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pass by bright green lawns and ornate trees trimmed into shapes favored by the gods, flowerbeds that burst with scarlet Belle-roses and snowy lilies shimmering like blankets of red and white stardust. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If you take Alaska’s genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Murder,” he said, forming his hand into the shape of a pistol and pulling off a few rounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Massive shapes made their leisurely way through Tiamat's world, our presence too insignificant for them to notice. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was a funny- looking child who became a funny-looking youth—tall and weak, and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top part was already taking shape—a row of neat block letters, carefully drawn to look like newspaper type. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the wheel hard to the right, and I got a glimpse of a figure she’d swerved to avoid—a dark fluttering shape now lost behind us in the storm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As Bigwig led the way into the yard, he could make out the shape of the cat that he had beaten, watching from the woodpile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Skathis’s monster, shaped now not of nightmare, but grace. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I brushed off the encrusted grit and ran my fingers over the smooth wooden shape of a lion. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My story has a strange shape: a stunted beginning, an endless middle. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But they have not yet been allowed to cross the River, and Saruman does not know of this new shape in which the Ringwraiths have been clad. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Eye could have seen their hideous shapes, but Arm could feel their malevolence. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The legacy of slavery very much shaped my grandmother and the way she raised her nine children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A vast winged shape passed over the moon like a black cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We come in the door, failing to notice a dark shape in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With her chalk, she can outline a fine and voluptuous shape. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once the screen lit up with a green rectangle, the same shape as the room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Its size and shape reminded me of the lightsabers I owned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The shapes moved and she saw that it was a school of large white bass, each one as big as she was. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole animal, resewn and restuffed, had the same shape but a different bearing, the backs and necks straighter, the ears perkier; the eyes shone now with a knowing glint. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hill was shaped like a comma, large and round with a spur leading out and down: The Twentieth Maine was positioned along the spur, the other regiments curved around to the right. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were awnings over market stalls, and rows of spice shaped into cones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful building, at least seven stories high, landscaped with topiary bushes shaped like animals and a waterfall. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I pick it up, push at it to make it go back into shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All they needed was to see Matt’s long spare shape coming down the street and by the time he got to the porch they were ready for him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Its many doors were wide open, and I could see shapes moving around inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The land began to resume its daytime shape and color. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, I make out the shapes of three sea lions doing laps around the rocks, their flippers stretched out and noses pointed forward. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As casual as they strove to seem, they both felt something momentous take shape between them, and—though she didn’t for a minute question his intentions—something intimate, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I can look at their shapes and sizes, their colors, without feeling anything else about them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got the feeling I was looking at something half formed, a monster so old it was from the beginning of time, before shapes had been frilly defined. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rock that looked enough like bones to spawn a myth, with a boulder here and there in the rough shape of a skull? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With a tingle of horror, Harry saw in the distance a huge, batlike shape flying through the darkness toward the perimeter wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My eyes fall on Mango’s stiff shape on the floor, and a fresh torrent of tears flows from my eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The shape adjusted its hair, and two pale, pebble eyes regarded me through the gloom. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was free of restraint, free of the fear of consequences; it did not take the familiar shape of a relationship with a parent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A world of wildflowers blooming up through the shapes of rusty cast-off parts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Backward she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This mammoth icecap presses down so heavily that it actually distorts the shape of the earth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A stream of hooded shapes swarmed out and surrounded them all. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the rickety, old-fashioned stained- glass door, with its motifs of exotic birds, there was a bronze knocker in the shape of a woman’s hand pressing on a ball. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived on there, foretelling to the world the shape of things to come. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grey light on the terrace, I could see the shapes of the blown fireworks stands taking form on the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It took him some time to quiet his breathing, longer to stop trembling, and longer still to remember some fleeting familiarity about that gliding shape he had seen. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Still low and quiet, the boys crept past the mirror emporium’s display window, catching glimpses of their own reflections dozens of times over in mirrors of various sizes, shapes, and mounts. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I am staring at him, and his face morphs into abstract shapes, and I think, This is reality; everything is made of shapes; no one is human; language is shapes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She consulted Calpurnia, who said nobody could do anything about her shape, that’s just the way she was, which was the way all girls more or less were when they were fourteen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Took me one minute, twenty seconds. I'm out of shape." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were arranged in a rough U shape around the broad stone plaza and were connected by stone walkways and stone steps. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stole a cabin mate’s shoes, which were in better shape. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Heart shapes...symbols for love, sex, and violence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Soon they were crowding the room—an assortment of strange-looking characters of all shapes and sizes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed up on my knees and looked through the window at their dark shapes walking alongside the road. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It looks like at some point the buttons were ordered by size or color, but now they’re all mixed up—every conceivable hue, shape, and ornamentation. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Trying to read the shape of the future in its dying flames. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the gene for sable color was linked with the gene that specified the shape of a wing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The splendor before us has taken clearer shape now, forming a towering column of white-gold light that seems to stretch into a realm beyond the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The blade was engraved with a delicate silver tracery of a mountain sky; its pommel was a falcon's head, its cross-guard fashioned into the shape of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the earthworks were shaped like big cones and stepped pyramids, but some were sculpted into enormous birds, lizards, bears, long-tailed “alligators,” and, in Peebles, Ohio, a 1,330-foot-long serpent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to get a cake shaped like the Eiffel Tower, one of his favorite places in the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Do your best to keep them in decent shape, and that will be good enough.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We moved the same way as always, Miig as our leader, Chi-Boy as the scout, but now I was with them, helping to shape our path forward. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This imaginative but impractical form of early notation, attributed to a ninth-century French monk called Hucbald, had the words rise and fall according to the shape of the tune. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At first I can’t tell what the voice is saying, but as we draw closer, it takes shape. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet even more amazing is the fact that this pasture will be in better, not worse, shape. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There’s a high ceiling, with lights shaped like morning glories hanging down on chains, and a plain gold cross up at the front with a vase of white flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lived that time fully, strangely aware of a new world opening up and taking shape for me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The shape of a carpet beneath the silty ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cooking pots were made out of clay and shaped by hand. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their ruthless comments shaped my personality and turned me into a shy, insecure, quiet girl. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Towering a foot over his skull was an elaborate headdress in the shape of a bird of prey, complete with swirling plumage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rabiya props up a Little Mermaid figurine next to a lamp shaped like a shell. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Or will be, when she gets her shape back again,” put in Evy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he neared, she saw that Stannis wore a crown of red gold with points fashioned in the shape of flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This fairy was a shape- shifter, and a cruel one at that. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s making bread, throwing the loaves for the final brief kneading and then the shaping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog blew through the faceless vagueness of its head, yet it was shaped like a man, only deformed and changing, like a man’s shadow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, he was in much better shape than he had any right to be. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then I heard Bronwyn gasp and I looked up, a horror scenario I hadn’t yet imagined taking shape before my eyes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The backs of her hands were tattooed with the dark blue shapes of flying birds. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One woman sees colors and shapes whenever she eats cold food. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately, their faces and bodies were covered with hundreds of white scars—all shaped like the grains of rice that had rained upon them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

What he learned during this latest excursion into the country would doubtless shape his contribution to the big meeting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The meager light from the arena spilled around them, barely lighting the room enough to make out shapes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They also discovered, among the piles of stones at the base of a cliff, some stones whose shapes suggested the possibility of their being crude tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not given an environment that favored the development of intensive agriculture, that is, they shaped the landscape into something more suitable to their purposes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Both carried slight builds, with heads shaped more like ovals than circles. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I saw shapes huddled around the room, their silhouettes thrown on the walls by the dim light of a pair of kerosene lamps. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lift a box of highlighters, all shaped like boiled eggs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Is this really Lucy’s body, or only a demon in her shape?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tore my eyes away from the shape below and whipped my head around. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Camel is in such bad shape Walter seeks me out in the menagerie to tell me about it, but August is watching, so I can’t return to the train. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost full dark, but the moon-god Thoth’s heavenly barque, which revealed its high-prowed boat shape clearly these nights of its waning, was beginning to shed a gentle radiance over the littered pavement. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

What you need to do is force it to assume a shape that you find amusing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But each time I tried to come up with a solution I ran into the obstacle that the four bases each had a quite different shape. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Darting through the moonlight were two small hairy shapes dressed in mismatched clothes and garish hats. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Across one side of the shard ran a shallow groove, evidence of the vase’s melon shape. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She was already “in shape,” but she is starting to understand that if she wants to be strong, she needs to feed the strength. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She wore a red and gold pin shaped like a tree. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his right ear gleamed a garnet cut in the shape of a drop of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“When I couldn’t get crab apples,” Orr continued, “I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn’t matter a bit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Not more than a hundred yards away, through the tall trees in the garden, across the mown lawns and the tidy flower-beds, the massive shape of the Palace itself loomed through the darkness. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strand of plastic gold beads shaped like hexagons. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the bright moonlight, Poulsson and his men could just make out the shapes of dark rocks sticking up from the snowy ground. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to wear no jewelry except for her Camp Half-Blood bead necklace, but now she wore little silver earrings shaped like owls—the symbol of her mother, Athena. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually they discovered that an elongated teardrop shape, with the wide end oriented toward the magnet’s center, quadrupled the maximum potential acceleration to 300 steps, or 150 complete circuits. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But as time passed and the game progressed, Set’s face hardened and cracked into a wicked leer, and it became clear that his strange, sunken, formless body was the very shape of evil. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my eyes adjust to the darkness, I can make out the shapes of each object in the room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They trudged on through the sand at the upper edge of the beach, hoping to see the shape of the log where they’d camped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He lifted it up—the thing was the size and shape of a rifle—and examined it, turning it in his hands. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

People come and go, changing the composition but not the shape of the crowd. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

What was that large shape behind those bushes? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was something wrapped in gold foil—opening it, she saw it was a piece of chocolate shaped like a rosebud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In deciding which style to use in a given circumstance, it is decorum that shapes your choice. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I tried to get it off of my face, but the bright shapes were going again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could barely make out the shapes of other sleeping bonobos around me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the shape it would take—impossible, absurd, and requiring a serious chunk of cash. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of life, a fallen brother was honored by his fellow butchers with a last tribute: an elaborate funeral wreath in the shape of a broken cleaver. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was enshrined in the black carpet, and the black-and- white cabinets, and the black rug in the shape of a panther. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jump up as an idea starts to take shape. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The physical similarities were striking: same steroidally round face, same nose, same approximate overall body shape. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s eyes fell on a figure with the shape of a cat. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Any mirror that could set ships afire must be in the shape of a parabola. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the wind itself, but I could see it carried the water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exam room was the only section of the ship I’d ever seen, and its true shape and size were obscured by the darkness at the edges. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All this physical activity kept him in great shape. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Annabeth stared at the distant shape of the Argo II floating above downtown Sparta. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People with strange haircuts, things sheared into geometrical shapes. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we are done, the great room is decorated with piggy banks and patchwork quilts, stacks of children’s books, a lamp shaped like an owl. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A powerful figure in Washington, he was allowed to shape the agency as he wanted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sat up on my cot, ran a hand through my damp, tangled hair, felt bruises all over my arms in the shape of small footprints. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emmett almost fades, then I see the shape of him, more focused and bold. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She was sitting at my old child’s desk below the face- shaped window, her head down in her folded arms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few of my brother’s incisions resulted in the hot dogs assuming funny shapes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Surely the sleeper hadn’t woken already: in the dimness Ama could make out the shape of the sleeping bag, the lighter patch that was the girl’s hair, and the curve of her sleeping dæmon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t that out of shape—after all, her pickax in the mines had been heavy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She blew until she could barely see the shape of the social worker’s head through the pink bubble. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She shaped her hands like a globe around her Afro. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

By then, I was lodged in the heart of darkness, so thoroughly bent to the shape of marriage I could hardly see any other way to stand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A careful and cautious man who picked his shots, never drank while carrying a firearm, and always stayed in shape, Kyril Montana thoroughly enjoyed the outdoors with or without a gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After tea, however, a shape began to emerge which brought back our spirits. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

What if there were five genes that governed height, say, or seven genes that controlled the shape of a nose? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I became fascinated with the different shapes that I saw inside the moon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From time to time he looked through the open window at the inky Bengal night, at the vague shapes of palm trees and the simplest of homes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like an Aturan penance piece, but it gleamed silver in the moonlight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“While I am watching shriveled Jake, the blue-white light comes and soon it takes shape. I rub my eyes. It appears—now don’t get mad, Angel. “Why would I get mad? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a trapezoid- shaped casemate with slats on each side for cannons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They are every shape and color but they still share this talk, and this is the other tongue they have learned, this must be the special language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, from the bottle, a thick bluish smog spiraled to the ceiling, spread out, and gradually assumed the shape of a thick bluish smog with hands, feet, bright-yellow eyes, and a large frowning mouth. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He figured he could scoop up the mashed remains like snowballs and mold them back into shape. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was hardly room for the shape to fit between the walls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally looked up at the ancient, serpentine shape of the roller coaster, the vines crawling up its framework. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of the little boards he shaped in a lovely curve, and around its edges he carved leaves and flowers and stars, and through it he cut crescent moons and curlicues. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finds several painstaking iterations of a mold that match exactly the size and pear-cut shape of the stone in the vault at the museum, he knows he has his man. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was losing the joy she had once felt when the bright-colored threads took shape in her hands, when the patterns came to her and were her own. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crept a little closer, hiding behind a plant with leaves shaped like elephant ears. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The store has a huge wooden sign outside it, in the shape of a golden lily; Lilies of the Field, it’s called. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike was shaping up as a failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drew nearer the cliffs, I began to notice odd shapes lurking underwater. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It’s recently built, oblong in shape, flat- roofed, undecorated, unrevealing, sort of like a factory. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To distract her, Mariam arranged grains of rice on the floor, in the shape of a house or a rooster or a star, and let Aziza scatter them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She repeated and her voice shook and quavered: "It was shaped like a bear...." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I use my clothes to make a shape that looks like a person lying under the thin blanket. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would know right away the deception, the trick of shapes and light and movement, but it wouldn’t matter at all because the deception was part of it too. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I did my best taxicab whistle, and within a few minutes two dark shapes circled out of the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Silver shapes were moving in it, emerging from below and breaking the black surface of the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dad was always bragging about being in the best shape of his life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The forests were of all shapes and sizes, and many of them bordered one of the schools. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They have such varying degrees of color and shape and style. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It made golden shapes on the still surface of the pond. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Turned, the babies at once fell silent, then began to crawl towards those clusters of sleek colours, those shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Away to their left, southward, against a sky that was turning grey, the peaks and high ridges of the great range began to appear dark and black, visible shapes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I knew the moods of the storms, where they came from, their shapes and colors. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were spidery shapes made out of old desks stacked top to top. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But even though Mariela has been one of his stalwarts, she seems disengaged and in no shape to rise to the occasion and win a part. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The flocked wallpaper had a delicate floral print, the floors were covered with fine Arabian carpeting in a leaf-and-ivy pattern, and the mahogany dresser had drawer-pulls carved in the shape of mushrooms. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I could see the rough shape of a head and shoulders. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the distance Matthias could make out the shape of the Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For when it has been re-created in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version is the past, and no different past can ever have existed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

These songs were shaped by the poetic metre of their lyrics, and consequently most of the troubadour songs, even the sad ones, have a gentle, foot-tapping pulse. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The child saw a woman kneeling with her arms in the shape of a cross in an open space, mysteriously free of the stampede. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A glass chandelier shaped like a grapevine occupied most of the ceiling, spitting seeds of diamond fire onto the windows along the far side of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was invisible; I had no shape, no substance; I weighed less than nothing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black crawling shape was now three-quarters of the way down, and perhaps fifty feet or less above the cliff’s foot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Several wore cloaks fastened by brooches in the shape of silver codfish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were two padres, one sitting and talking to a man lying on his side, the other praying by a shape under a blanket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she talked about a building, she didn’t say, “You know, the big one shaped like a tube of lipstick.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He's got two long ones on his throat in the shape of New Zealand. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tayo poked a stick into the coals and watched them lose shape and collapse into white ash. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the ragged outline take shape in the mist. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room, barely six by eight, featured a single- paned window in the shape of a face that swung out to a discreet view of my father’s exquisitely landscaped garden of cut stones and flowers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal flexed and bowed under his slender weight as he wedged the toes of his sneakers into the diamond shaped gaps. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Brandy’s gift was hard to wrap because of its shape—underneath is a clown. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“You are not striking the metal true. Hold your elbow higher and bring the hammer down smartly. Then it will shape as you wish.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As you struggle to pull free, you see the black shapes ahead vanishing, and you almost cry with frustration. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My old bed, shaped like a red race car, the one I’d outgrown ages ago, was in pieces. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The shape falls with a thud on the Pit floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I'm too out of shape right now,” Mong said, shaking his head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their choice of what to write about will necessarily be shaped by their own interests and concerns. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As he stared, he puzzled at the moon’s shape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Bean shaped and smaller than a speck of sand, the fruit fly embryo begins its life in a whir of activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The real Iron Maiden was a medieval torture instrument, a sort of boiler which was shaped like a woman on the outside—and lined with spikes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the convention drawing close, I worked with a speechwriter for the first time, a gifted young woman named Sarah Hurwitz who helped shape my ideas into a tight seventeen-minute speech. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They remarked at her fine eyes, dark and glittering as the night sky, her black hair shot with gold, the birthmark on her forehead in the shape of a crescent moon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Freak nods, he's really into this story, and he's making shapes in the air with his hands. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The champagne fountain, in the shape of a merman riding a dolphin, had not been used for years. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Bran glimpsed a lean black shape watching from the undergrowth as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ghostly shapes moved through the water as it rose rapidly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each sector was divided up into many different zones that varied in size and shape. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And they’re all shaped differently, and they all layer over each other. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their lives have a size and a shape now. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace opened the front door before Joaquin could even use the huge brass door knocker that was shaped like a trophy. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Joey said, pointing at all the giant shapes in the darkness. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His craggy face looked like a mahogany stump, and on one tanned cheek was a scar in the shape of an M. Anybody could see that the guy was old—and tough. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Ged was aware that the highest tower slowly changed its shape, bulging out on one side as if it grew an arm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Well shape the boards like giant triangles to make them look like pyramids. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Until I happened to glance up and saw directly in front of us, not thirty yards away, four large black shapes in the shadows. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For the first time they used sounds along with the shapes, and pictures, real pictures we could recognize. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered at its many shades, the many shapes of black that came before his eyes. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cut boards from Bando’s barn siding into two heart shapes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses had hitching posts cast in the shape of black demons, but in such odd clothes and of such odd colors that we never could figure them out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma’s is shaped like an owl, her favorite animal. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It met every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As he spoke a tawny shape, dog-like, sprang out of the overhanging nut bushes as silently as light from behind a cloud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bed, built by Tony Bucci, is not exactly a bed; it’s just wood hammered together in the shape of a bed, with a plank where the box spring and mattress would be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They sat in the ashes by the side of the road and looked out to the east where the shape of the city was darkening into the coming night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was something about the shape of her shoulders that made me think of Esteban. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The skin was shiny and smooth, veined and mottled like green turquoise; he felt the shape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

High against the blue, three winged shapes wheeled and glided. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It smells like a closet in an old house and is in an ancient shape. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was long and oval, shaped like a great spear-head thrust deep into the northern glen; but its southern end was beyond the shadows under the sunlit sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Only a few twisted shapes of metal remained, rising above the trees like skeletal fingers grasping at the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Blanca watched them piling up in the rooms and was astonished by their shapes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face once had dark, very Indian features, but it was puffed out of shape now, sensual still, but well over there on the sad side of her early forties. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drogo tossed in the belt and watched without expression as the medallions turned red and began to lose their shape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The chocolates are shaped like mice, with almond ears and licorice tails. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She wished she wasn’t shy, that she wasn’t shaped like a lima bean, and that her left ear didn’t stick out farther than her right. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a crown of red gold with points in the shape of flames, a twin to that worn by Stannis. “... you may rise, Lord Snow. This is my daughter, Shireen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It looked incongruous, floating there in the water, so odd in its shape compared to the sleek, slippery design of fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I squint, but all I can make out is a shape, standing slightly away from everyone else in the shadows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Enrique sees men with hoes tending their corn and women inside their kitchens patting tortillas into shape. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Out of the other door came a long slim shape, and another, and another smaller, and then a whole quick row of them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The third kind were large wooden houses with broad porches that ran around the buildings; they had odd shapes, round towers, octagonal bays, balconies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was taking shape more rapidly now that she used burning coals to hollow it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shape or shadow leaned against a tree at the edge of the clearing. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watson tried to massage the model into shape, but it wouldn’t fit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A shape began to appear in front of them, something high and towering and dark. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They came together and fell apart, connecting and disconnecting to form an infinite number of shapes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Or a trick of the eye, like crouching shapes on dark, lonely streets that turn out to be trash cans up close. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I have reflected since that the letter I finally sat down to compose had been subconsciously shaping itself in my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was far; they could really only make out the shape of her, pacing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“All in bad shape. Liv and Mike found a working car and piled the ones that were scary bad into the back, to go find a hospital, but...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, magically, I see shapes emerging from the tops of the cars, from the sides, from myriad hidden places. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside lay eight antique rings, all carved or shaped like animals. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He shapes it into a narrow cylinder then rolls the paper, licking the edge with the delicacy of a preening cat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, I perceived something near to us—a dark shape upon the water but a few rods off. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed incredibly unlikely that Luna’s father was a supporter of the Dark Arts, and nobody else in the tent seemed to have recognized the triangular, runelike shape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gray shapes appeared from the line of bushes straggling over a hillock. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We stepped over and through their mangled shapes, entering that small, strange space where the greeter would have been. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the dark I could just make out white shapes like ghosts huddled in doorways and curled against buildings. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One with a size, shape, and appearance that matched the illustration from the Tomb of Horrors module. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A shape moved around the side of the house through the darkness. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The lid was shaped like a rounded-out triangle, three feet wide and two feet deep. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Splendid images drifted through his mind, golden forms and shapes, any one of which might be the destiny of this very small ingot that he, Ranofer the son of Thutra, had poured. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Our legs both stuck out in front of us, making an L shape. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Their scent, shape, and color became part of her waking hours. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They thought they could dimly guess a dark cloaked shape in the mist, a yard or two ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kilvin was little more than a dark shape across the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their shapes and sizes made it impossible to mistake them for anything else—they were obviously human remains. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But even though they’d spent the last couple of days together and things had slowly returned to a familiar shape and size, he realized he fundamentally couldn’t trust Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He also got two black sweaters he might actually wear, some Avon cologne in a bottle shaped like an electric guitar, and an empty key ring—which his dad made sure everybody noticed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Cocktails are poured at the bar in a variety of oddly shaped and colored glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The building pushes out into an L shape, and the empty section is the dark one around the back, in a patch of frozen dirt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Before he could transform himself back into giant shape he was already wounded, and as he changed from bird into giant, a blow of Thor’s hammer parted Thiazi from his life. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The crouching shape backed away, terror in its blinking eyes, and yet at the same time insatiable desire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sited there in the darkness, the frail blue shape of it looked like the pitch of some last venture at the edge of the world. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but Mo’s voice and the pictures forming in their minds from the letters on the page, like the pattern of a carpet taking shape on a loom. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The slope lengthened until a new balance point was reached, one defined by the complex interactions of countless tiny particles and their ability to maintain an angled shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them end up in weird shapes, no matter how much I try to fix them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stone walls, lighted windows, lumpy, muffled shapes of people—Lina flew by them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A dim background started to take shape behind him but at her next remark it faded away. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to leave my friends in such bad shape, but that sow was the biggest threat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the distance between buildings, I can see the bright yellow T shape of construction cranes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the year, Theo is in terrible shape emotionally and physically. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He grew adept at manipulating the shapes of cooking hot dogs and, for fun, developed an entire line of gag frankfurters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His name is Kandinsky, and the shapes he uses in his paintings look a lot like the ones I see when I hear noises. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The whole wrapped-up bundle, which was shaped like a large vitamin pill, bent slightly from side to side, then was still, then bent back and forth again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It glistened with oil, and here and there shapes struggled to the surface and were pulled down again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the smooth curved back of a turtle took shape. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The shells had to be of a precise shape and size. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like a hot dog on wheels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shape emerged from the forest, a long spine that rose and fell like a frozen wave. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

An undefined shape, larger than John Henry, swirled above the stage. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Cursed Forest was not a straight shot through the Twelve Towns; instead it made a sort of crescent shape. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Timothy said, it was shaped like a melon, or a turtle, sloped up from the sea to our ridge where the palms flapped all day and night in the light trade wind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t the men that we give honor to, the men that shaped up the Constitution of our country, didn’t they recognize slavery? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open the door, I can tell by the shape of her mouth that it’s a stormy day. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Almost shyly, the boy led them to his bench, and a steel helm shaped like a bull's head, with two great curving homs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Sacred Rock had been cut and shaped to look exactly like the Black One, which rose directly behind it. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I love the electric-blue chairs around her dining table, which are all bent in unusual shapes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ever since Miss Love started playing for preachin’, folks had sung out good, patting their feet and generally getting in shape to shout and amen during the sermon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The fluorescent lights above me were exposed, glowing in the shape of long, angry bones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Haukelid pulled the bomb out from under his long coat—nineteen pounds of plastic explosive molded into a long sausage shape. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she sits, looking out through the line of trees into the great empty parking lot, a dark shape sweeps through the nimbus of a streetlamp. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Someone who'd take a whole page and spend some time on her eyebrows and her cheeks, or maybe notice the shape of her mouth when she's concentrating on walking with her cane. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I am defined, then my name is defined and shaped around me like clothing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I see one word that I know by the shape of it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The others in the middle of the desert watched her crying grow very loud as her face squeezed itself out of shape. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked about looking at the butterflies’ bright colors and the bugs’ strange shapes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shape slipped out of the cemetery and into the darkness beyond. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My drawing takes shape under my hand: lemon for the stars, cream for the moon, pine for the trees along the fence, charcoal gray for the darkened windows, all but one. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hutton was by all accounts a man of the keenest insights and liveliest conversation, a delight in company, and without rival when it came to understanding the mysterious slow processes that shaped the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tents were spread out over an acre and a half of ground; all colors, shapes, and sizes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His strong, skilled fingers shaped the signs with loving precision. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They glimmer above our heads, leaving glowing trails above the table, until they explode with color and light, and take the shape of Sophia's royal emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The woman continued, “Are my veins shaped like a ‘T’ for ‘trouble’?” She did have some veins on her forehead. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His refrigerator was covered with magnets shaped like states, and he had an egg timer that looked like a chicken. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Ten miles? Is that all? You guys must be like really out of shape. I did fourteen-two.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching along the shore of the Detroit River, Lefty and Desdemona watched their new home take shape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From now until race day on the twenty-second there would be only light workouts, to keep in shape. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From time to time, after her breathing tube was removed, someone would see her shape her lips, as if to sigh or speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root rolled the memory latex onto his index finger, where it immediately assumed the shape and flesh tone of the host digit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Chronicler opened his eyes to a confusing mass of dark shapes and firelight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now he’s doing pictures in which all the shapes are either straight lines or perfect circles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the log could no longer be used as a canoe, Cole pulled out the knife Garvey had given him and began whittling and shaping the deep groove into an eagles head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was a worn-down pencil eraser, a pile of Q-tips, the strings of a guitar, and a shadowy shape with a shimmering silver triangle in the middle. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Through the shifting mists, she caught sight of other boats moving through the water, carrying the shapes of other Madmen, other Brides, a Mister Crimson, a Scarab Queen. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Its heavy bulbous shape billowed out as rising air currents added to its mass. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, we decided it was in good enough shape to offer us some semblance of security for the night, however pitiful it might be. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One was a little bit larger, but the other was shaped like Paganini. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It takes him a moment to recognize the contortionist, having only ever seen her upon a platform bending herself into impossible shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Valley took out a small plastic pod filled with water in the shape of an egg and put both the fish in there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The black shape went into the drawing room, and Coraline followed it a little nervously. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The second the season was over they became vague, fuzzy shapes, as indistinguishable as the thick clouds that skimmed across the sky into the horizon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was shaping up to be a good human, too. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As you proceed from one level to the next, the tunnels take on gradually more complex geometric shapes, and the number of enemies and obstacles crawling up toward you multiplies drastically. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time he looked up as her dark shape grew smaller and smaller against the stars. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The motel forms a toilet-seat shape around the parking lot, and I can see an inexplicable collection. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steam caused the cedar to relax and bend to fit itself to the shape of the frame. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to stay with us for a while, Ghalib, so we can get you into better shape. Mohammad will bring you something to eat. You can rest, build yourself up. How does that sound?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Turner’s shape and features were entirely approved by Mrs. Turner. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

To my left I see the waiting room, just like the nurse said, a huge space packed with people sporting injuries of all shapes and sizes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The massive shape of the giant loomed over him, obscured by layers of black smoke. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It only took me a little while to get back in shape, and the physical exertion required during my training kept my mind off my failing job search. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before long the hobbits could make out the shape of the land for some miles about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I knew something was wrong. But this. You are really in bad shape, Ig.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car moved away, and through a side window she saw Lola’s white shape huddled against the driver’s arm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like a cat, with a long, curled tail that twitched the seconds. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if coming from a culture shaped by the demands of growing rice also makes you better at math? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A mossy floor, almost colorless, disappears In depths of rain among the tree shapes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes shone with fevered madness, and each had a uniquely grotesque, disease-ridden shape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At noon I sneaked into the yard and walked among the aisles of damp, cleansmelling clay and came to a barrow full of wet bricks just taken from the machine that shaped them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hung off the bunk until she could see the little kids take shape in the dark. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There were three leaves rolled into the shape of a triangle at the base of a tree. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He complains he’s getting out of shape, but then just mopes around the house and watches Star Wars for the bazillionth time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Olanna’s did not, though, because she had only lightly chewed the ends and all three still had their shape. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some lucky chance in our worlds long ago must have meant that creatures with backbones had it a bit easier, so all kinds of other shapes developed, all based on the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand. I helped shape your nature.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Birds and squirrels perched in the trees and watched the new lodge take shape. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Joe was now back at that shell house every day, getting in shape for what was to come. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The hinges creaked again, and Sam, now peering over the corner of the passage-threshold, saw a flicker of light in an open doorway, and the dim shape of an orc coming out. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As her eyes adjusted to the night, she gradually began to pick out the shapes along the ground, and finally she saw it: the slight signs of the beginnings of a trail. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the blue-gray sky he could see their dusky shapes wheeling lower and lower, and he quickened his retreat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wheels in my head began to turn and my ridiculous plan began to take shape. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they took the shapes of humans, and sometimes of snakes or fish or, if they were bent on evil, crocodiles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s on our side! She is, she is,” hissed the shapes, whisking them through the door. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or to replace the lockers, most of which were too bent out of shape to be locked anymore. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A crown of red gold, Varys says, its points fashioned in the shapes of flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To his right runs a line of anti-invasion obstacles shaped like a child’s jacks, strung with razor wire, extending at least a mile down the shoreline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"The worst cases cause mutation. Some might grow boils or develop black lumps, but others suffer from warped bones and muscles—even their skulls change shape, and new limbs grow where they shouldn't." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“If the horse is not in shape, I’ll pull him out of there.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the book cover, though, he draws a map of Nigeria and traces in the Y shape of the rivers Niger and Benue in bright red. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dri seemed to be in the best shape, at least up until that point. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange shape: a small diamond with two inverted points protruding from either side. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the plump, shimmering shapes of the candle flames he saw the ghosts of ten pigeons. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A reflection of light in a rectangular shape slid across the wall. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had not entirely believed herself while with him—happy, handsome Curt, with his ability to twist life into the shapes he wanted. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They found the end of the island, quite distinct, and not magicked out of shape or sense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had more than one hundred pairs—a collection of big hoops and long dangly beads and small studs shaped either like hearts or daisies or baby animals. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wondered which lines were the most important lines of the shark’s shape—which ones made it a great white—and where did that powerful energy come from? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I told Esther about the shapes I used to see in the moon when I was much younger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The nervous, zaggedy shape of a mackerel just beneath the surface, working the chum slick. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bright yellow, not the rich gold of Renly's standards, and the device it bore was red, though she could not make out its shape. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s hatred with a particular shape, the shape of Mrs. Smeath’s one breast and no waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shapes moved around in the gloom, ceaselessly and hypnotically, in a kind of dance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then a black shape appears at a treetop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were other fish too, big and small, colourful, differently shaped. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I understood, though: August was in bad shape. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you looked there was something startling: a stuffed squirrel, a kite in the shape of a dragon, a wooden cow with a spear piercing its side. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But a hole I can control the shape and location of. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peering out the windshield, she can see that it’s in meticulous shape—no evidence of peeling or rot, which means it must have been recently painted. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I could try different kinds of faces, different shapes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept close to Ma Costa, and Pantalaimon became as big as he could and took his panther shape to reassure her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z