But even when all these are added in, "two-thirds of the universe is still missing from the balance sheet," as one commentator has put it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Draw something,” Her mother passed her a sheet of paper and a ballpoint pen. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” Ma Charles said, “no secret who’s underneath them hoods and sheets.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Madam came down the stairs, one hand on the railing, the other holding a sheet of paper, half-covered with writing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is here that the story of the score sheet becomes cloudy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath that page is another, then another, thirty or forty spirals, each taking up a whole sheet, all in the same severe lead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It's near the top of the sheet: 4:57 p.m. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m closer to the white sheet—to the body. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was a framed sign, bolted to the stone, a printed sheet behind a piece of glass. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the chaplain had finished, the colonel took the pad back and held it up alongside a sheet of paper he removed from a folder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Forget the sheets and blankets and comforters and duvet covers! Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

During the ceremony, many of the married female guests are invited to the altar to hold up a lace sheet over the couple and take turns grinding giant sugar cubes atop the sheet. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I lay back and closed my eyes, thankful for the cool white comfort of clean sheets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

First she tried using the lacquer sheet simply as a mirror, but for lack of a silvered back, all she could see was a doubled reflection faintly in the wood. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair was mussed and I could only see her from the shoulders up; she seemed to be naked behind the sheet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Woven carbon thread ran slowly through the press, which sandwiched it between polymer sheets. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes an argument ensued in the living area that was as audible to me as if the separating walls were muslin sheets. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched out on the bed, dust sifting from his clothes and hair onto the white sheets. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

From the center was the chandelier, and from the chandelier a twisted strip of sheet was hanging down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unfold a sheet of paper with the Monroe Poland China Farm crest on it and see it is dated this morning. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lightning, great sheets and lances of brilliance, flared and cracked above and around the machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the dead were decently sewn into their winding sheets, but most were buried in the clothes they died in. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he opened another drawer and found an empty photo album, undid the binding, and pulled out a sheet of rough black paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sheet after sheet, article after article, each da-zi-bao was a bitter accusation. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the cookies were done, she would talk in what we called her gingerbread voice and pretend to be the characters on the cookie sheet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I found a relatively rubble-free patch of ground and spread out our sheet. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled the cover back and told me to get up and hold him while she put rubber sheets on my bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures of her from the tattlers, the scandal sheets, the newspapers, and the beauty magazines. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It made her eyes narrow and her forehead smooth like a pulled sheet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In bed that night, I became more and more uncomfortable as the moonlight crept up my sheet. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

His wife’s name was on a sheet of paper beside the door at the far end of the corridor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air?conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy to move, but if you’re not using it, could I just take that sheet of bronze?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Teenage boys build a shelter from sticks and sheets of plastic. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dill’s efforts to disentangle himself with dignity were only moderately successful: he rose from the pool like a small fantastical water monster, covered with green slime and dripping sheet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Everything felt squishy, and the answer sheet for my test had turned soggy, sort of like how cornflakes left overnight in half a bowl of milk look, with about the same smell. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A twin-size bed with ratty gray sheets is pressed against the wall. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were soft beds for them with fat fluffed-up pillows and clean, crisp sheets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A blinding sheet of white flame sprang up. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When we ran out to the car, the rain was coming down in sheets, and the wind was blowing so hard that umbrellas were useless. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he was a huge island of sheets, and his skin looked strangely white. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wipes his chin and sets a sheet of paper in front of him and he takes his pencil and begins to draw. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a blinding sheet, mingled with hail, it drove against the cliff, bitter cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

People lying down on single sheets of newspaper or sitting on the bare ground staring at nothing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Fiona says, signaling me to get out my English assignments sheet. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Garrett snuck into his mother’s office and copied the address off the master enrollment sheet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sustained, though, by seeing her once more reel in laundry— elegant hand over elegant hand—drop the clothespins in a bucket on the railing, then fold shirts, sheets, and towels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dropped the foot, patted Vernon’s flank, then stepped aside to stare up at the sky—as blue and clear as Ma’s wedding sheets hung out to dry. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He says we must dig faster,” said Mother, raising her voice as the rain poured down in sheets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The surgeons covered Lincoln’s body with a sheet and blankets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the blankness of the hospital sheets spread over me, covering my world with white. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Recall that Siberia has always been cold, and that a continuous ice sheet stretched as an impassable barrier across the whole width of Canada during much of the Pleistocene Ice Ages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into this little room with just a number 2 pencil, the test, and an answer sheet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He tinkered with his draft for a further quarter of an hour, then threaded in new sheets and typed up a fair copy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He could have opened his big fat trunk; removed one of the two hand-embroidered sheets, or even his dressing gown, and covered the girl. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had flannelette sheets, like children’s, and army-issue blankets, old ones that still said U.S. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night he cut his wrists with his razor and he was found in the morning by his landlady, his eyes staring upward with no light, dead among the scarlet sheets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then I turned back hesitantly to the bedroom, and there he was, lying in bed, under the sheet. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rummaged in my schoolbag, pushing aside books and pencils and half-squished bananas I hadn’t gotten around to eating, and pulled out a sheet of paper. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He moved quickly to throw back the sheet but stopped with a hiss at the creak or scratch of his shoulder, which he had forgotten in bis sleep. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed the book as it would look when it was published, with the pages printed side by side on each rectangular sheet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The truth was that I had turned off the big highway 104 and into the smaller roads because the traffic was heavy and passing vehicles threw sheets of water on my windshield. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a delicate process, and the sheet could only remain in the solution a minute; too long a soak resulted in the paper breaking down. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

One other feature of the Clovis phenomenon fits our expectations for the first human presence south of the Canadian ice sheet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She snaps a sheet open wide in her hands and takes the center with her teeth to fold it in half. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She motioned me to help her stretch the second sheet across the roof of the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was a slackened O, and her hands, those long fingers with a man’s hard nails, having done their laying by, could now be dainty on the sheet. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is aware of their sleep sounds: a rustle of sheets, the sleeping bag Luke prefers, unzipping to let the cool air in. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I look at the sheet that says Race, and I write: a social construct with real disadvantages and advantages. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Mama made me a sling out of the same bolt of cloth she brought over to make the bed sheets and baptizing dresses for the African girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would look up and there would be nothing but the empty white sheet lying over the fields and hills. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a sheet, which struck Jackie, but a comforter, light-colored with a flower print. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You like it, Mother?” said Jo, as they laid down the closely written sheets and looked at one another. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as they drew back the sheet and looked at Gatsby with unmoved eyes, his protest continued in my brain. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looked again through the hanging coats and through the folded sheets and clothes on the lower shelves. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Gross. You’re all sweaty and now your sheets are going to smell like sweat.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I would have to ask for another sheet of graph paper, which always made Jay Stringer sigh and roll his eyes, because he brought it from home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I sat, cross-legged, shirtless, and barefoot, with my sheet wrapped around my waist. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” he replied, and handed him a sheet of paper. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a motel in Hiawassee—clean sheets! shower! color TV!—and a reputed choice of restaurants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We believed Miss Geraldine was the best guardian in Hailsham, and we worked on presents to give her—a large sheet with pressed flowers glued over it comes to mind. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is why my desire has been so great for you to see these sheets,” he said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand over his books lined on the shelf and then began to search for the sheets where he had written notes for his piece about ogbunigwe, the fantastic Biafran-made land mines. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Spacetime is usually explained by asking you to imagine something flat but pliant–a mattress, say, or a sheet of stretched rubber–on which is resting a heavy round object, such as an iron ball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He definitely does not recall Star Wars on the fact sheet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Abraham and Aunt Fela had covered every window and door with towels, sheets, blankets, anything that would block out the light—and the smell. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that he ripped the sheet from his writing pad, crumpled it, and threw it into the sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Genie was thinking he could maybe hide under that blue sheet, and he could tel! that Ernie probably wanted to do the same. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His bed was still unmade; she wondered if her mother would ever make it again, or if she’d simply strip the sheets, strip the room, paint it white, and pretend nothing had ever happened there. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, my mom works to scrape the burned bits of bacon off the baking sheet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He eventually lets you up, and that’s when, upon tossing the covers off, you notice the little bloom of crimson on Coop’s light blue sheet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The moon was a wisp in the sky and the bees were sleepy and hushed, the hives wrapped in their own sheets of shadow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She hands me 4 sheets that are stapled together. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Others had nailed sheets of plywood or metal in place of missing windows. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kin the blacksmith had his back to her, hammering out a sheet of glowing red metal on his anvil. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The strafing had started—pellets raining down from above—as Odenigbo held the zinc sheet open while they all crawled down into the bunker. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At night, Estha would stand on his bed with his sheet wrapped around him and say “ lEt tu, Brute?—Then fall, Caesar!’ ” and crash into bed without bending his knees, like a stabbed corpse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bed is a huge mess of paints, sheets of paper, and brushes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mom is at my bed, taking sheets out of my suitcase. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I lifted the covers, and for a moment, I couldn’t make sense of the dark stains on the bottom sheet. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spreading sheets and blankets on the floor, we filled them with clothes, shoes, books, and kitchen items. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One clean sheet under my wrist and a pen in my fingers, I pour it all out to Philbert instead: the music, the dancing, the snap of my rag. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made it to the common room just in time to sign off on our check-in sheet with Mr. Farrow. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Is that this sheet of paper by the phone?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She imagined me, I expect, sitting down on a wet day and looking solemnly at the illustrations, and perhaps getting a sheet of drawing-paper and a paint-box and copying one of the pictures. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Mrs. Danvers did put the flowers on the mantelpiece and the sheets upon the bed, they would not bring her back. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the sheet with Sheila's address and stuff it into the back pocket of my jeans. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched his side of the bed, ran her hand over it, savored the last of the rumpled warmth that lingered on the sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If a bird pooped on a clean white sheet while flying over the clothesline, that meant bad luck. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, mama, but you can—and will,” pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool; where till now she had sat silent, apparently examining sundry sheets of music. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The missives piled up—handmade cards, store-bought cards, folded sheets of notebook paper, e-mails. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was a faint sheet of fog settled low to the ground. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Just to be sure, she pulled a sheet of paper from her pocket and forced it into my hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of dinner, Joseph had slid a folded sheet of paper across the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Massaging the Monroe calculator and filling out the data sheets, which grew longer and wider as the work became more intricate, would still be part of her daily duties. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I start to give him the code sheet, but Roli puts up his hand to stop me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He avoided looking at the sheeted figure lying on the bed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Lana Lee dumped a pile of nickels into the cash register and wrote down a figure on a sheet of paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I tape four sheets of typing paper together end to end and lay all the information out on a time line, hour by hour. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mechanically, I took the sheet of paper from him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Luma watched intently, making notes next to the players’ names on the sheet of paper she held. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Before the coldest weeks set in, we had the shutters of the storage room repaired and attached a sheet of tin to the doorframe, so that she would at least have some privacy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he tapped the pestle on the ringing edge of the mortar, dislodging the final grains, and took a brush and ink and wrote some characters on a sheet of paper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dudley and Harry shared a room with twin beds and damp, musty sheets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheeting on the roof rose here and there, tugged by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

After stowing the rugelach in the icebox, I ran my hand over the sheet to smooth out the wrinkles, thinking of the night Yakov had come to live with us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was rust-red, and crudely riveted together: great sheets and plates of dented discolored metal that scraped and screeched as they rode over one another. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The figure beneath the sheet joined him and flapped its arms wildly. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Fern had only two sheets of homework and both sheets looked easy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

With that cheerful remark, she went upstairs to count sheets and towels in the linen room. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He drew a map on a sheet of paper. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out a sheet of the stationery—it was fancy white paper with one dark purple line going around the perimeter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

You could easily memorize a short pattern of correct answers, and it would be a lot faster to erase and change that pattern than to go through each student’s answer sheet individually. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Liyana wanted to bring a sheet out from the house to cover him, but they only owned the sheets for their beds and one set extra. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I picked my sheet up from the floor where Chas had thrown it and wrapped it around me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s some kind of sheeting, the kind they put down when they paint. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alice had finished the sheets and begun the first shirtwaist when Violet knocked on her door. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia fingers the sheet of onion parchment in her pocket, reads the words again, one by one, like a blind woman. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max helps me set the painting up in the bakery the night before the grand opening, and we drape it with sewn-together sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The map was beautiful, painted by a master’s hand on a sheet of the finest vellum, so large it covered the table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was coughing again and the boy was shivering, the two of them side by side under the sheet of plastic, pushing the grocery cart through the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A small hand fumbled under the sheet to find hers. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The men spread a sheet on the cellar floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then she and Blanca set about the task of covering all the furniture in sheets and blanketing the house with mothballs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone tacked another sheet of paper next to it, and more than a hundred kids put their names down. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She went to bed early and that part she did enjoy: it was so nice to have pillows and sheets again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

As each sheet was passed to him, he scattered fine sand across the signature to drink up excess ink, shook it off, and set the note aside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hauptmann accepts his bucket and throws a sheet of water and doesn’t linger to watch it land. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gradually the wood softened and came free, and Mary was left with the single sheet of clear brown-yellow lacquer, about the size of a page from a paperback book. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She gathered the sheets up to her neck and scrambled backward so fast that her shoulder blades hit the headboard with a crack. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then she got some white cloth to make sheets and underwear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Removing the piece of string that hung from his finger, he dug into the drawer again and found a sheet of paper with a Levy Pants letterhead. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll get money some day for a house or a flat with electric light and a lavatory and beds with sheets blankets pillows like the rest of the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The one wrapped in fabric so it looks like a flat red sheet on top of the board I pulled away?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Dennis used to sit around with stacks of sheet music when I first met him, scribbling at it and scoring it out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luma gathered the newcomers, asked their names, and wrote them down on a sheet of paper. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

No one could confidently say, for instance, when the last ice sheets had retreated or at what time in the past the Cro-Magnon people had decorated the caves of Lascaux in France. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mike laughed again, giving Chubs’s shoulder a squeeze before he hopped up the steps, ducking under a white sheet that had been strung up over the building’s small porch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She heard an unfamiliar noise, and she looked up to see a flock of white birds flying low over the field, their wings making a noise like sheets flapping in a hard breeze. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That evening the sky darkened and thick sheets of rain blanketed our small town. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Make it to the bedroom, he urged himself, undress, curl into cool sheets, tell him I came home sick, must be a virus, twenty-four hour flu, and keep my face hidden. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the instrument sheet, I write one word: bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He probably can’t hear you,” the nurse said, stripping an empty cot of its sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

—Watney The employees carefully folded the sheet and placed it in an argon- filled airtight shipping container. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d dreamed I was in a hospital, lying on crisp white sheets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now I notice that he’s wearing contacts, too—with mine on, I can see a faint, glittering sheet of colors against his pupils. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the envelope and handed it to Ms. Bethune, who was passing around sheets of paper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A thin pile of handwritten sheets of paper lay on the table in the light of the flickering candle. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I started to think that maybe I was still dreaming, but my mother was changing the sheets on my bed so I knew that everything was real. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She popped each blister and let the liquid soak into the soft white hotel sheet. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was at its highest point, which meant the sheets were dry. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a long table with the two models for the new junior high school, each one covered with a white sheet, like they were some sort of national secret. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had to be a huge meeting or a celebration; there were a lot of people there, and they were all wearing the Klan’s sheets and masks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He would print until he had not a sheet of paper left to print on, or until the very day the gallows was set up for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother taught me the words sheet and towel and soap, señor,” Lupita volunteered. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Liza lifted the pale sheet of it and laid it over one of the pie tins and trimmed the edges with a knife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, which was black, was spread out on a tiny little white pillow and her body was covered with a sheet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to have difficult nights in which the blankets seemed excessively heavy to him, the sheets too light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain, thick sheets of it, was still coming down. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instantly, his whole body was wrapped in a sheet of fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had held onto the violin and bow in her limp hands for a littie while and had continued to look at the sheet music as if she was still playing. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It covered the valley every morning, like a large, gray sheet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing on the side of the sheet with the numbers.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cook was going to show Ophie how to wash the sheets, but she’d been busy setting up a menu for a dinner party Richard had decided to hold at the last minute. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I asked, shifting out from under the sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rains came then, pouring down in strong sheets that made it impossible to see the garages across the yard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A great sheet of white paper was pinned on the wall, covered with curious lines, and little coloured dots, in blocks, together. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I find a patch with as few dandelions as I can and skim the grass with the shovel, carefully removing a sheet of dirt and sand and grass. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I overturn my hamper and riffle through dirty clothes and sheets, looking for the pants I wore four days ago. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But though the sheets were roughly the same size, they didn’t all match. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She would push and push and probably show up at my school and sign my name on the sheet for me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Teresa was leaning against a stack of shelves, reading a single sheet of paper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Rain fell in such sheets that the whole heaven seemed falling into the sea and the sea seemed leaping up into the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see myself lying in a tomb beside my father’s sheeted body where the worms feed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The telegram was a single sheet of paper folded once upon itself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Soon Hannah's side of the room looked like she'd already lived there for months and mine was bare except for some red striped sheets, a soft pillow, and a cream-colored blanket. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pressed white linen over a scarred table, a crisp clean sheet over a stained mattress. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Mamá would permit her to help lift the big mattress and tuck the white sheet under it or polish the mirror in the glittering bathroom. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It smells like she hasn’t washed her sheets in a few weeks, and the floor is covered with clothes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His mother washed his pillowcase and sheet every week, just like she did for the people who lived in the big house down the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said Werfel, flapping his arms, “to think I shall die wearing these stupid doll-print sheets!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We watch movies outdoors with images projected onto a white sheet. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She flips through the sheets of silent bids. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His dad bought him a bunch of supplies the week school ended—lengths of two-by-four, pulleys and screws, and sheets of weather-treated plywood—but Charlie didn’t choose a tree for three whole weeks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had cassettes and letters written by my father, his words crunched between the lines of aging sheets of ruled loose-leaf paper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t surprised to learn my great-aunt, like her sister, preferred her cotton sheets lightly starched and didn’t trust the feel of permanent press fabric. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ignatius asked Mr. Gonzalez, rearranging the two ladies so that the office manager could see the lettering on the other side of the sheet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyons reached into the safe and pulled out a document that was sealed inside a thick plastic sheet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“This sheet says his favorite food is mutton pie. I literally cannot think of a more boring food. He’s like a cardboard cutout of a person.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I heard Mr. Huffer pull the sheet back up over her, so I stuck my head around the corner. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When Molly plucks them off the line, the sheets are stiff and sweet-smelling. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Despite her care, Javier’s skin turns sallow and thins until it looks as if she could strip it away in papery sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put them on beneath the sheet, kicked the sheet back, and stretched her legs. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled myself into the bed and yanked the sheets up, my face and side burning with pain. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There were sheets of unlined paper and old magazines Dad had given me, an uncapped purple glue stick, and a folder so fat with clip art that papers spilled out of the opening. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They consist of twelve sheets of gray paper with narrow lines that slant across the page. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I clutch at the sheets, my fingers interlacing with the fabric. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they're in love and the tattlers and scandal sheets are wrong about his countless mistresses and affairs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"Excellent” said Kamaswami, "and will you write something for me on this sheet?” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romero busted up an orange crate and used the wooden slats for a splint that he tied up with strips of old bed sheet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a sheet of paper out of her folder and placed it on her desk where I could see it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the counter next to the printing machine was a newly inked sheet of paper with the words'printed in the right direction. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Schooler did this experiment with a whole sheet of insight puzzles, he found that people who were asked to explain themselves ended up solving 30 percent fewer problems than those who weren’t. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dana was the prize catch, the one with the rap sheet and the bad attitude. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the plain sheet of paper over the Instructions and put the box on top. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back when JPL's Nerd Brigade hacked the rover and Pathfinder to be a poor man's IM client, they sent me a cheat sheet for troubleshooting. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she felt him go soft, Shae slid down under the sheets and took him in her mouth, but even that could not rouse him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rain fell in sheets and in columns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the sheet away, revealing a collection of levers and knobs almost as complicated-looking as Leo’s control panel on the Argo II. “This button?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now he fills the length of the hospital cot, his ribs visible under the white sheet. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and lifted a corner of my pillow, and underneath it, on the snow-white sheet, there lay a beautiful golden sovereign with the head of King George V on its uppermost side. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

These masses of ice form glaciers that reach the edge of the continent, where every year 5,000 to 10,000 icebergs “calve,” or break off, from the ice sheets into the surrounding ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Five if you counted Yakov, who waited for us on a table, under a sheet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On top of the magazine were several sheets of writing paper. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Find a pool of water with a sheet of ice across the top, still fresh and new and clear as glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ms. Lafontaine passed out an information sheet about the art show. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He turned over and over between his sheets at night, attacked by the horrifying dreams, and then, when he woke, by the recollection of the truth, that waking was no better than sleeping. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Metal was the building’s bones,” I say, imagining metal sheets and beams buckling, glowing red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I squeal my happy surprise and point to the lucky number on my sheet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The man bent low, holding a sheet of cardboard as a dustpan for her. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Umm-hmm,” Angel says, using markers to write words on a sheet of paper. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the bedsheet he was rinsing, and slowly he took the dripping sheet out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mornings spent listless in silence and in fear of confronting the blank sheet of paper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stays in his apartment, which is no longer neat and empty but is filling up with disorganized parts of his life: take-out Chinese food containers, unwashed sheets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day after I won an important regional tournament, the window encased a fresh sheet cake with whipped- cream frosting and red script saying, “Congratulations, Waverly Jong, Chinatown Chess Champion.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, they gave me this letter for you,” I said, placing the sheet of paper on the kitchen counter. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I exhale, shake my head, and stare at the lump that is my sister beneath the old Dora the Explorer sheets. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The wall of faded paper took a beating as the wind blew through the fences, ripping some of the more decrepit sheets free and making others flutter like hummingbird wings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She pulls the covers off and threatens to yank down the sheet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her father’s body was convulsing out of control, and red spittle dotted his cheeks and the snow-white sheets that were pulled up to his chin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grip at the sheets as a different kind of pain takes over. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The sheet of paper had a short paragraph at the top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Over the sheets was spilled the earth and leaves and the poor little pink spring beauty. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse crossed to the motionless woman and pulled back her sheets. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I took a few sheets of paper from my desk and sat down to design the most fitting, most luxurious mausoleum in the world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were duffel bags and what looked like a yellow-and-blue-striped sheet wrapped and tied around some belongings. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They like to collect these sheets every time you come in, to see how you’re doing,” Dr. Barney continued, “but on yours right now there’s one item of concern that we should discuss.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pulled the sheets off the bed with the idea that I could gather up the imprint of him and save it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The sheet of paper he thrust into my hand was similar to the schedule pasted above my study desk upstairs, except he had penciled in two hours of “time with your cousins” each day. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

George knew her lines and didn’t need to look at the sheet once as she spoke, but her heart thumped heavily and she spoke too quickly, swallowing the final words of each line. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

At least I know what to expect—hard mattresses, rough sheets, strict matrons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, as she ate, she kept a sheet of paper, a quill, and an ink bottle by the side of her plate and would from time to time jot down a word or two. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, may I be assured Father will study that sheet?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At one meeting, Kennedy scrawled “coup” four times on a sheet of paper. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She laid a thin stick under the score line and pushed sharply down on the lacquer, as she’d seen a glazier cutting glass, and it worked: now she had two sheets. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It reminded him now of Saturday mornings when his father would read to him under the sheets with the clock thundering in the background. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed and think of the hospital where the white sheets were changed every day and there wasn’t a sign of a flea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I am more likely to want time than courage, Elizabeth. But it ought to be done, and if you will give me a sheet of paper, it shall be done directly.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Kmoch, the arbiter, sensing that Bobby was a champion in the making, had already begun collecting the prodigy’s original score sheets as if they were early Rembrandt sketches. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

James turned restlessly, uneasily, and the sheets rustled around him. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the Adantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and setde forever in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Staring at the table of familiar faces, Jinny felt like she was watching everyone else through a sheet of water or a thin fog. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Weeds grew out of the tennis court; the tile roof of the house was patched with sheets of tin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Buttercup threw back the sheets, opened her door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It cannot be prearranged in any precise way; the minds cannot be lined up in tidy rows and given directions from printed sheets. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes, terrified, my hands clutching at the sheets. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blood of Lancelot’s cut hand was all over the sheets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed and got up and kissed him and made sure the sheet was snug around him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I find him at one of the lab tables with Bilal, hunched over stacks of bubbled answer sheets, sorted by class hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I was inert, still in my school clothes, lying on top of my sheets, dozing in a transitory space between asleep and awake. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman—dark tangled hair, sea green eyes — runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And as they flipped through the wide sheets of newsprint, kids kept finding all the other odds and ends that fill up a big city newspaper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I put my headphones back on and grabbed a blank sheet of paper. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She shakes out the fitted sheet and we put it on together, tuck in the sides because the mattress is so thin. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“And I changed the sheets on the bed.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They landed like a pile of tangled sheets on the bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I feel all around the sheet just to be sure his chest is underneath. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Alex could see that he was reading from a sheet of paper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I pull away the sheet from my left side, so she can have a look at how the cast stretches from my toes to my waist. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She clutches Uriah’s hand, which stays limp on the sheets. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now I’m camping all by myself under the sheet of my bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He crushed some sheets of newspaper lying on the hearth and picked up a few sticks of kindling. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She pressed her fingertips to the damp headline, examined her inked fingertips, then made fingerprints on a sheet of white paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five, six people, all different sizes, waving white sheets. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I huddled down more deeply in the bed and pulled the sheet up over my head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In today’s market, the estimated auction price for the original score sheet is $100,000. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A rap sheet, dude. Dana’s been busted before, is what the cops told my mom.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The answer sheet to the upcoming State Quiz Bowl questions,” Dr. Lopez replied, a hint of disappointment in her voice. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The outside is brown brick, and the inside has light brown cement floors, white walls, and white sheets on the beds. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lanning flipped a sheet of paper out of his vest pocket and unfolded it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She lost concentration for a moment, and the back of the board dipped low, sending a sheet of water up behind them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They dragged sleds, drove carts with mules, and walked with belongings slung over their backs in sheets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He who had been my benefactor within the College of Lucidity now lay in his sheets looking as vulnerable as a child, blinking at me suddenly in fear; yet he did not speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She took the sheet of paper from Tab’s hand. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The nightmare woke him up later that night, his sheets and T-shirt damp with sweat, his blood pulsing so hard through his skin that it felt like something was shaking him from the outside. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was a sheet of hotel stationery, engraved, at the top, with the address and letterhead of the Excelsior: the hotel where Bunny and Henry had stayed in Rome. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna’s breathing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the wind began to hum, slapping us with sheets of cool rain. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her in a pillowcase and then quickly spiraled a sheet around her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Shae had kicked off her blankets and sheets as she slept. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chronicler was surprised to see the sheets had been changed sometime during the day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what kind of bushes they were, but the leaves had a rich smell like sandalwood, and there’s nothing I like better than scented sheets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he wore a white sheet when he wasn’t wearing his badge. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even this woman is not entirely naked, as she has a sheet draped over her left thigh and tucked in between her legs: no hair shows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the candle to the wall, and there I saw that he had tacked sheets of music all over the plaster, high and low, affixing other pages with paste. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The pets scattered, except Franz, who didn’t flinch, despite now being covered in sheet music. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t iron sheets at home. Not even Pa’s shirts.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I punch the pillow and pull the sheet up to my neck. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Millard set the falcon down and held the sheet in front, screening the bird from the audience. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He saw the squat, buglike printing press, the trays of type, the strings on which printed sheets were hung to dry like clothes on a line. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I would be, once I found where my sheet had gone off to in the dark. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Through the windshield I saw the rain coming down in sheets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The sleeves fitted tightly, but she had no difficulty in pushing the sheet of paper up inside one of them; it was as thin as a dragonfly’s leg. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The report she wrote took up four sheets of the special India paper she used, even cramming her writing as tightly as she could and using a super-sharp hard pencil. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Between the alley and the stair well a strong draught came up, the curtains on the window flew around, the newspapers on the table swished, and individual sheets fluttered down over the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

All sheets are white, all milk comes from horses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mel tied a sheet around the tree branch right under the bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For water they made a sheet of plastic into a dew-gathering device and for food they ate lizards. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preheat the oven to 275°F. Line two cookie sheets with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Our teacher had told us to write down our favorite animal on a sheet of paper, and then we had to go around the room until we found someone with a matching animal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once we got up, she stripped the sheets from the beds and washed them too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She wrapped a long black nightgown around her legs as she sat up on a pile of dirty sheets. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Back she went to her pencil and pad, scribbling and tsking and tearing off sheets, finally giving up, and taking up her New York Times. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” she goes on, taking the sheet out of Alex’s hands. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the door took her place like a sheet of blank paper, and then a larger sheet of paper took the place of the door, and I drifted toward it and smiled myself to sleep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We arrived around noon and found a handful of people taking cover under a large rectangular plastic sheet mounted on six poles spiked to the ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wrapped around me like sheets of lead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After that there was a review paper about cursive writing, and then there was a sample sheet showing how the heading should look on every assignment. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I turned, there was only the sheet thrown back, the mattress still depressed from where he had last lain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

On winter evenings it roared in sheets against the pavements and made Amity Harbor invisible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My hand shaking, I grabbed the single sheet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When Matthew came back, he carried a roll of toilet paper and sheets of newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sheet has tiny teacups covering it in all shades of blue. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I imagined that I was coloring inside the lines of a coloring book, but the pencil was waxy and smudgy and an eye is nothing like a flat sheet of paper. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My mother helped me adjust, fluffing the pillow behind my head and pulling the sheet over me, up to my chin, which was way too far. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There are chunks of paint off the wall around the door and strands of duct tape on the windowsill. And you left the drop sheets in a heap in the garage.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then he folded the sheet and pushed it aside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“High peaks, impassable cliffs, steep snow-slopes, and sharply descending glaciers could be seen in all directions, with stretches of snow-plain overlaying the ice sheet of the interior.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And then the rain comes down hard, slapping sheets of it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slides his hand across the sheet, over to Henry’s side of the bed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But here, there is only one white sheet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Moments later, a loud boom erupted and instead of ripples, small waves lapped the edges of the ice sheet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We squared off the first sheet, holding its corners the way we did to make the big bed in Mama’s room, and then pulled it across the hood of the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he takes the battery, two rectangles of sheet metal, some penny nails, and the instrument hammer from his box. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her second sheet was drawn tight over her very probably nude body, enclosing her, arms and all, up to the chin. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She fell to the floor with the sheet wrapped around her and tried to crawl away on her hands and knees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson cleared his throat, noisily folded his paper, and stood up, still holding the rumpled sheets. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Their sheets and blankets woe on the floor, and their nightclothes were bunched under their arms, as if they’d tried to take them off. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He turned his back to her to put the sheet of paper into the locked drawer where he kept his poetry. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Martin lifts the thin sheet covering the eaglet, his body stirs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The air was now dusky rose and cool enough for a sheet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped the kitchen table, rinsed out the spit cup, put clean sheets on Grandpa’s bed, picked up clothes and newspapers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sheets and duvet covers were a bright, blinding white, too, and the only other piece of furniture was an oak cabinet big enough to have lunch in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then she thought that what she really needed was the lacquer without the wood, but she quailed at the idea of making another sheet; how could she make it flat without a backing anyway? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Now we work,” Catherine said to Princesse as the girl reclined on a white sheet that Catherine had laid out for her on the floor of the veranda. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Look at that. And it’s big enough for bundles of sheets and everything. You could put me down that thing.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When I was done, I pulled out my zine supplies and a sheet of paper that I folded into eighths. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

So the sheets were still downstairs somewhere in the laundry, unwashed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I stop by the kitchen and get a garbage bag from under the sink, then head upstairs and stuff my clothes and the blanket and sheets in the bag, not bothering to fold anything. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the blanket and sheet down and emptied the jar. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In my imagination the doctor used the same corrugated sheets of tin that Dad used to roof hay sheds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He nods, and with that, she pulls out a printout of a sign-in sheet and lays it down in front of me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When the OIC called out, “Law library,” for example, I would check the sheet to see if anyone had put down law library when the officer doing the go-round came by his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In great haste Gregor had drawn the sheet down even further and wrinkled it more. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Richard Wright, here’s your speech,” he said with smooth bluntness and shoved a stack of stapled sheets across his desk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman plucked at Ignatius’ bag of sheet music. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot Baba’s car pulling up outside the music school building and stuff my song sheets into my folder. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When I gripped it, the iron bands that reinforced the wheel crumbled in my hand, flaking away in gritty sheets of brown rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when it came time to put new sheets on, Ophie found the shelf in the hallway linen closet empty. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They looked over the schedule sheet for the week and decided it would be the perfect closing story for the CBS evening news for the next day, Thursday. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Extra sheets of paper may be attached if necessary. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and a child was standing there in a white sheet with holes cut out for her eyes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to reach that sheet and it blew above me in the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Curled up under the sheets, she watched her mother complete her nightly ritual and climb into bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a sheet of fancy blue stationery. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore now became very interested in a bird out on the windowsill, which gave Harry time to dry his eyes on the sheet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

All the Tang people stared as we made our way among the tents to the sheet tent of the Company. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rumble echoed from the alley, like someone had banged on a sheet of metal. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When the alpine sun filled Awkaypata, with its boldly delineated horizontal plain of white sand and sloping sheets of gold, the space became an amphitheater for the exaltation of fight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Is that the kind that eats fully grown men for breakfast?” the Head of the Fire Department asked, going white as a sheet. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up, and a gossamer sheet floated away. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He clomped forward, dragging a large rhododendron branch that was caught in his sheet. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It sprayed a blinding sheet of rainwater that washed over Cade’s windshield and nearly swept us from the road. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I disappeared into my room the minute the air tensed and wrapped myself in a thin sheet that didn’t silence their insults but made me invisible to the hate that clouded their eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Beck stretched the sheet tight to the seal-strips on the airlock's exterior. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a copy of the sheet that each guest had been given. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to use those smelly old sheets, anyway. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Splendid falls these professional chaps do manage. Why, what’s the matter, Kay? You look as white as a sheet” “Do you remember that sword which the King of England would pull out?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I read down the list of names on the sheet I saw that Mr. Huffer was the last man to sign it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Wilson came back with a duffel bag and stuffed in the scrapbook, the kimono, the sheet music, and finally the bamboo flute. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I stood still for a moment in the backyard between hanging up sheets to notice the damp grass tingling under my bare feet, His eyes observed my idleness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yakov’s body had been returned to the table and was covered by a clean sheet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She puts her glasses back on and lifts her DAR sheet to her eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hugged the backpack to my chest and looked at the rain sheeting on the window. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hornet felt the cold white sheets and imagined that she was holding Bo’s little hand, so warm... The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I flipped the sheet over, looking for any actual news. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A great wind blew upon us in the early part of night, which forced us to remove the sheets from the ship’s railings before they should blow away. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He gives the 1st person in each row a few sheets to pass back. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Willard...I had knocked on DeeDee's door that morning, wanting to borrow some two-part sheet music. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blanket off, rumpled the sheets, and punched the pillow until it looked slept on. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Twelve hundred metres,’ I said, ‘and it is sheet lightning, which means—’ ‘Shut up, Ted,’ Kat said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spotlight shines brightly on the single sheet of paper he holds in his left hand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then she began to cut our mosquito netting into long sheets and stitch the layers together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gary went back into class, and as it turned out he really didn’t need the answer sheet anyway, looking at it once or twice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the backyard he found Mrs. Reilly hanging a spotted and yellowed sheet on a line that ran through the bare fig trees. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a sheet of paper from her desk and quickly drew a cartoon. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

O’Dell had delivered a thin aluminum sheet he’d found in the garbage, so I used some tin shears to cut some rough triangles out of it for fins. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at her house I quickly went into the basement to get a load of sheets going. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Multiple sheets were then glued together at the edges into documents some ten to twenty feet long, which were then rolled. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The sheet bellied out like a sail when Lydia let go. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones walked around to the front of the wagon and studied the sheet of Big Chief paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand it,” she says, shaking her head at the rumpled sheet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She met him at the door with the sheet of his calculations in her hand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Each time, the sheet was lifted only high enough to expose the area we were washing, making it feel as though there wasn’t a whole person beneath the linen, just a puzzle of disembodied parts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he turned off the steam and removed the blankets three days later, the cedar sheets held their new shape perfectly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In my room, I pulled the green sheet out of my backpack and finally got to read it again. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was a pigsty, with roaches crawling over the bunched-up sheets and garbage on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing by herself, wrapped in a sheet, and very alone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even remember getting undressed and getting between the sheets. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The place was packed with lopsided row houses patched with tin sheets and scrap wood and cardboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you can help me make me a couple cool signs to put up with sign-up sheets on the bulletin boards?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She drops the sheet and grabs the wooden spoon, grabs Byrd’s hand too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at the sheet of paper again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nathan got to his hands and knees and crawled to the edge of the ice sheet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A torn sheet offers privacy in the bathroom, which has no door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Fleetfoot licked her face as she hid in the darkness of the sheets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But then he got something else that no one else got: the answer sheet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was knocking sheets of water high in the bright sun, charging with her fur up and her long teeth bared, filling the canyon with that awful coughing roar. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A puff of wind came and the sheet tore out of my hands, went twisting round the mast. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to argue again, so I just nod and throw the remaining sheets into the chasm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Picking up a blank sheet of paper, I said, “Let’s start with the logo.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

This analogy explains the orbits of the planets; Earth is simply rolling around in the dimple that the sun makes in the rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then I lifted a corner of the sheet and peered out. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Returning to the table, Thomas found that Minho had cut twenty sheets already, making a messy pile to his right as he threw each new piece on top. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We feel the same sheets against us, the same night. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All chemical reactions complete, the sheet was sterilized and moved to a clean room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must always check it,” she whispered hoarsely, as though phlegnl was an Arithmetic answer sheet that had to be revised before it was handed in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheet is lifted from my skin, a draft pimples me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m kind of on my way to lunch and—” Ms. Faraci picked up a Scantron sheet and set it on the edge of her desk. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was full of junk and scrap dealers, men and women selling tools, sheets of metal, rolls of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He crumpled a sheet of newspaper with one hand and gestured for the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He crumpled a sheet of newspaper with one hand and gestured for the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He crouches over his table, a single pool of light from a swinging metal lamp illuminating the large sheet of paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phineas lay among pillows and sheets, his left leg, enormous in its white bindings, suspended a little above the bed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to her linen closet and got a sheet for the kitchen table. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“AlbieMom said slowly, pulling a sheet out of the folder, “is this your reading log?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was white—the walls and sheets and nurses’ uniforms—or silver—the beds and trays and medical instruments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I picked the sheet up and studied it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every day for two months the line of bullock carts came in laden with bricks and stones and cement, sheets of tin and corrugated iron, coils of rope and hemp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know we don’t change the sheets but once a month. You’ll have to sleep in that bed as your punishment.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Viciously, with more of a whimper than a sigh, he foot-pushed his top sheet clear of his ankles, as though any kind of coverlet was suddenly too much for his sunburned, debilitated-looking body to bear. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Cecile’s gaze roamed from the hanging sheets, up the broken pecan tree, to the animals, the garden, and then out beyond the pines until I was sure she was staring off into her mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to comfort her in the off-white tiles of the floor, the off-white panels of the ceiling, the white sheets tucked tightly into the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Together Armstrong and Lombard had carried the inert body of Anthony Marston to his bedroom and had laid him there covered over with a sheet. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“When you have been lying out there in the trenches, surely we can wash a sheet,” she goes on. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On “one” I heard the unmistakable flap of wings and then saw Miss Peregrine’s head—her human head—pop up from behind the sheet to even more uproarious applause. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I almost forgot. Here is your math exercise notebook. I put the assignment sheet in it. Don’t forget the meeting tomorrow. Four o’clock in the auditorium.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A few indifferent ones simply draped a dirty sheet over themselves and called it a costume. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask hoarsely, pulling their attention from the sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I grew to hate the sight of white sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I hastily tore open the envelope and slipped out the thin rice-paper sheet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked the sheet clear of her legs and turned the pillow to find a cooler patch for her cheeks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

You would think hospital sheets would be white, but these were blue. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Carol says she’s seen a wet spot on the sheet of her mother’s twin bed, in the morning, before the bed was made. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Mel, “we wait for the queen. It’s easier to see her against the white sheet.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I go skidding forward like I’m on a sheet of ice. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He pulled the sheet over his head as he tried to remember it better. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up getting 100 on my driver’s test, even though the tester covered my backup camera with a sheet of paper during parallel parking. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The week before he went to get his children, Henry mopped the floors of the house with vinegar and water and laid out the sheets and blankets he’d bought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets on the old woman’s bed were stripped and replaced every Wednesday morning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I flick on the projector and flood the dark blue sheet with a spectacular swirled sea of stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

So even with the white sheet covering her whole body and her face, I already know. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I slumped down on the sofa and stared at the window, sheeted with rain. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I borrow Ben’s pencil and tear a sheet from Sabeen’s notebook. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But there was the empty sheet of white cardboard, propped up on the easel, the table-top clear of papers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But after a few tugs on the sheet, I figured, why bother? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"It seemed crazy that I have to still read my books like nothing happened," she says, folding and unfolding a sheet of paper towel. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nor why they called the ropes that held the sails “sheets” and not ropes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, Oliver was surrounded by his basketball buddies, who signed their own names and made up additional names and addresses to fill up the sheets. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Leon had walked to the shallow end and stood facing her across the gently rocking sheet of oily blue water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The coroner rapped for order, then rose and stepped to the table and with one sweep of his arm flung the sheet back from Bessie’s body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I removed the folded sheet of paper from my interior coat pocket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They lowered the TV into the hole by each clutching one end of the plastic sheet in which it was wrapped. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The nurse lectures me as she pulls off the wet sheets. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the bedroom, three old mattresses without sheets are laid across the floor, a carpet of bony springs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, he turned around and deliberately faced a sheet of what had once been snow-white beaverboard that was nailed uncompromisingly to the back of the door. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We find a spot on the third level, ride an elevator to the lobby, and sign our names on a sheet at the front desk. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As a child, when I looked at it, sometimes I imagined a tall doctor in a white coat banging on a sheet of metal with a hammer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Poirot proffered a sheet of paper and pencil, but the Princess waved them aside. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheet of paper was folded over once, and lying on the floor just beyond the edge of the door. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her only roll was already half-gone, and she rationed it strictly now, counting the sheets. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I folded the blanket and sheet and set them back on the mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I sit straight up, throwing off the sheeting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the bedroom, took out the green leather writing case, and handed her the sheets of airmail paper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lark asks, peeking out from the sheet she’s wrapped around her entire body, now only her yellow boots and round brown face are visible. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then the shortened sheet was copied again, producing a full-sized page with blank white space where the “Top Secret” stamps had been. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Malloran . . . the roll call went on, the voices shouting out their sales and the teacher checking the names off on the sheet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sheets on some of the furniture and dust balls on the hardwood floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The empty sheets sting my eyes and claw at my throat. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then Miss Wren said, “No, this can’t be,” and Althea stumbled, faint, letting the sheet drop. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The next week—maybe—she returned with a poem written on a cream-colored sheet of paper. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I went to bed and rolled over between the cool sheets with my face turned toward the wall so I could make everything invisible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

If sold individually—there were thousands of games, according to Bobby—or as one large cache to a collector, the value of these score sheets alone would have totaled somewhere around $100,000. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the doctor put the sheet over Papa’s face. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He slid back toward the head of the bed and got under the flat sheet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We watched her unfold it and carefully unwind the sheet of paper, which took up the entire width and length of the lunch table. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was stapling some mimeographed sheets of paper together. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes, wet towels, orange peel, torn-up pieces of a comic arranged around a sheet of paper, upended chairs partly covered by blankets and the mattresses at a slew. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Armstrong moved over to the bed and, lifting the sheet, looked down on the peaceful face of the dead woman. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The whole place was a sheet of red-hot lava. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“While you in there, I’m on go head and change these sheets.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The room itself smelled faintly musty, as if it was too infrequently aired, and the sheets of the bed seemed faintly damp when he touched them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When Bridge got to the light board at the back of the auditorium, breathing hard, Mr. Partridge was standing in front of it, scowling at the cue sheet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He reached into his breast pocket and took out a sheet of paper covered with numbers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I found the sheet and placed it in her outstretched palm. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I wished I could iron it all between sheets of wax paper like I’d done with the bright red maple leaf I’d mailed to Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the walls were big sheets of lined-ruled paper written in teacher’s neat handwriting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay the sheet face down on one side of the folder and picked up a second page from the other side. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was holding a large sheet of paper which was blowing about in the wind. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Of course the sheets weren’t on the furniture when Granny had lain in state in there, but even then, because of her being dead and all, the blinds were closed and the draperies drawn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Finally she puts clean sheets on the bed, stretching the cloth tightly at the four corners. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

At Cari’s body, still draped in the sheet, waiting for the undertakers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope had not gotten a clear-enough look to see if this ghost was, in fact, wearing a sheet, or some other ghostly garb more suitable to the weather. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I did tell her she better close the blinds every mornin’ and keep the sheets on the loveseat and all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He then offhandedly placed his score sheet on the table so that Tal could see it, and while the clock remained running, he watched Tal to gauge his reaction. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bookman paused, lighting a cigarette, slightly rearranged the single sheet of eight by eleven typing paper that lay in front of him, and continued. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he found the sheet and the sail filled and he brought the skiff onto her course. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stoke the fire and set a pot of water to boil. Then come up here and fetch these dirty sheets.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that he didn’t have to change the sheets in the apartment’s beds so often, and to give himself a different perspective, he rotated where he slept. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My God,” he said, still looking at the sheet music on the stand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

So when I got to school, I went straight to the band room, hoping to find an extra copy of the sheet music. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They retreat to their three rooms, to their three separate beds, to their thick mattresses and pillows and fitted sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Off to the left, clad in a white sheet, was something that resembled a snow-covered Alp. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt stretched out under the sheet and let a delicious sense of ease sweep over him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a nurse standing near us, folding sheets. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In an instant, sheets of water crash on the tin roofs of the clubhouse and flood across lawns and cement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In front of me, Matt is writing notes back and forth with Calvin Umbatoor on a single sheet of paper that’s sitting on the floor between them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She tore up a sheet and wrapped it around and around, clamping it down over the wounds as tight as she could. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled three sheets of paper from the pile in front of him. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my sheet and began to lead the way again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, a sheet of ice silently calved off the side of the glacier and crashed into the sea, spraying water and frozen shrapnel several stories high. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The idea of the genes’ being immortal smelled right, and so on the wall above my desk I taped up a paper sheet saying DNA RNA protein. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room there’s a bloodstained sheet, bundled and tossed there, from when the waters broke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared down at my body under the sheet, the huge lump that was my leg. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sheet from the Excelsior wasn’t quite so heavy, or fine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles had her own peculiarities and didn’t sleep on wrinkled sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her words fell in between the sheets of rain like downed planes: defeated, useless. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She taught her to tuck the sheet neatly under the mattress. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t remembered to make it that morning so I got up and tucked the sheets in and fluffed up the pillow like Momma does. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you added lots of fold-out pages to your textbooks or used a really long sheet of poster paper, you wouldn’t come close. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wind caressed her face and swept her hair behind her in a billowing sheet of gold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Its heart, visible beneath skin more fine than the thinnest sheet of vellum, was no longer beating. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I put in a load with all the towels and sheets, including the bloody ones from the other night. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some plywood sheets covered a pit and a metal scaffold supported a cracked archway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Next, I tear open the bedding package and make up the bottom bunk, saving the other set of sheets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But there was no doubt the metal was a sheet of hammered Celestial bronze, roughly circular, about five feet in diameter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel was at the top of the crater, running away as fast as she could while lugging a large sheet of bronze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes darted from me to Frank and back again before settling on the sheet of pink paper. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

‘Mary! You’ve gone as white as a sheet! Are you feeling ill?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rolled him up in an old sheet and put him to bed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night came and the ice still lay in sheets. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumps onto the couch, which is covered with a white sheet, like he’s a prince and that is his throne. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She ate it at the kitchen table, while Taylor sat nearby writing in his homework sheet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That night in bed, I laid on top of the cool sheets with Wishbone’s soft, warm body next to me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The guy pulled back the sheets and held me while I tried to urinate. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was maybe forty feet wide but only a few inches deep, a silver sheet of water racing over a smooth bed of stones. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It can’t be much later than dusk but the softness of the cushions and the softness of the sheet and the too-warm of the fire and I’m already pretty much closing my eyes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The door was too damaged to be reattached, so Curly covered the opening with two sheets of plywood. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother used to throw the sheets away when Frederick wasn’t looking, but lately she has given up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wrote other names down, erased them, and wrote them down again at other positions until the sheet of paper was a jumble of names and smudges. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The beds had pillows, clean sheets, and blankets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Harry looked down at the sheet Ron was holding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A blond sophomore girl steps out with a violin and sheet music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I asked myself that question every time I printed the words onto a new sheet of paper. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The wood was a dark charcoal color with a black grain, heavy as a sheet of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I came fully awake, I felt the damp sheet under me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the sheets of polar ice locked up huge amounts of water, sea levels around the world fell about three hundred feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fischer signed his score sheet and left the stage without another word. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled up a sheet of music and began sweeping off the inner wall, more for something to do than from any real curiosity. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They float close above me in thick, solid folds of billowy white sheets. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She pulled a ball off one side and stretched it out into a thin sheet. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize that everything is on the floor: the top sheet, the covers, the pillow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And a sheet of paper with two columns: “Likes” and “Doesn’t Like.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

James pulled another sheet from his binder—the answer key, Emily presumed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, he removed a key from his pocket, unlocked the top drawer of his desk, and took out a single sheet of yellow stationery and a matching envelope. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Matthew came back, he carried a roll of toilet paper and sheets of newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pop a few grapes in my mouth and hold out a study sheet dissecting the branches of the government. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And that for mere sheets of printed paper! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I check the numbers against the sheet in my hand. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But he didn't slip into my room and under my sheets and hold me tight against the empty, endless night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They high-fived, and Dimple grabbed the sheet of paper and sat on the bed to look at it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She’s drawn her costume ideas on a torn sheet of pattern paper and taped it to the wall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Their square sails danced before the wind like sheets of paper. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bony ribs of the wing stood out as high as a hill, and the arteries and veins gleamed like wires of fine-spun ruby and turquoise pressed into a thin sheet of jade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sends another gift: A ragged old sheet comes floating down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then a bed covered in white sheets that shone in the sun, her children rolling on it with her, the husband’s body half visible at the edges. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Seven thousand three hundred tons of sheet metal were being welded together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Learn to control yourself, missy. I don’t have time to be changing your sheets all day. Next time you have an accident I’ll let you lie in it and you’ll see what’s good for you.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Deftly he reversed the sheets in all possible ways, putting the top one on the bottom, and turning them over and upside down. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I eased Perilee off the mattress and slipped several layers of newspapers under the sheets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first she tried to draw a picture on the front, wasting five or six precious sheets of paper in the attempt. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A line of clothes flapped in the wind—white sheets, Ralph’s blue dress, a red blouse and nightgowns—wet and fresh and blowing out in different shapes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a shuffle in the back of the room, a hand thrust up in the air, a white sheet of paper in it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Little by little, they fell into place on a fresh sheet of paper about eighteen inches wide. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I peeled off my top and my underwear and lay on the damp sheets. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many sheets that the walls around the bulletin board had been drafted into service as well. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As she raised her comforter and slipped under the sheets, she looked as if she were all alone in the world, as lonely as a woman with two grown daughters could be. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Joey handed Cara the sheets, still warm from the printer. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She’s talking about the carved wood details on the legs and on the ledge where the sheet music goes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tally looked at the entrance of the cave, the sheet of water a solid curtain against the night “I hope so. Where’s everybody else?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Lady Camellia is not to have any newspapers or tattlers or scandal sheets brought to the apartments. Beauty pamphlets and beauty-scopes only." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But that sheet of paper has probably been stuck up there for months. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A pillow molded itself under my head, and my body floated, without pressure, between thin sheets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They checked each others work and put red dots on the data sheets when they found errors—and there were very, very few red dots. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I only have time to tell you one thing tonight because my eyelids are heavier than wet sheets. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When no one is looking, we run through the sheets, breathe in all the wonderful smells the air adds to them. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And it was the first time I'd ever slept on silk sheets. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were three large blank sheets of paper on the glass display case. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We couldn't see a thing but sheets of water rushing over us as if we were a sinking ship. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but darkness and sheets of rain and the awe of our silence. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Curveballs and bus fumes and dreams, dreams of the Majors — clean sheets and an umpire at every base. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, because a pleasant breeze was blowing, I spread my sheets to dry on some low bushes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself writing longhand, an old-fashioned dip pen stabbing furiously into a bottle of black ink and then scratching with amazing precision across sheets of white paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The patients were also packed and wrapped in wet sheets. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the window wide open and the sheets and blankets thrown back Mrs Helena Kingshaw drew the curtains across, the bracelets slipping and chinking down her arm, from elbow to wrist. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

In some spots there were nothing but holes in the ground, the bottom lined with plastic sheets, a few logs lashed together to cover it when the rains came. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For the moment, he’d totally forgotten about the pond, and Leo could see the sheet of bronze sinking into the sand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The silk sheets were cool and slippery beneath her, and when she shifted, her skin slid across them with a whispering noise that sounded abnormally loud in the hush of her chamber. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was lit up by gigantic sheets of brilliant lightning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Two custodians are perched on the stairs, working furiously behind the billowing sheet with long-handled mops. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled back the soiled blanket and set the cat on the clean sheet underneath. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I stared at the large sheet of paper spread out in front of me, wondering what to write. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing to you while drawing and I’m in a hurry to get back to it, so good-night, and send the sheets as soon as possible.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If they’re in a hurry the shop owners will give me the chips and a sheet of paper for wrapping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cabot set it down on the floor next to the bed and continued to fold the sheets, stacking them neatly into the last box. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I tossed in my sheets and stared at the ceiling, dismayed at the thought of six laborious, interminable nights of yelda until I saw her again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was scribbling furiously upon my yellow sheets of paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped his brow with a handkerchief and opened his briefcase, rummaged in it for a notepad and apolo­gized for the sheets of paper that spilled on the bed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bed was covered in a yellowed sheet and Amala lay on it with her face to the wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That circular seal with the tyrannosaurus glared out from almost every sheet of paper. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I have to get more wire and sheet metal first, and it's not exactly easy to come by.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He turned as Eliza came down the steps carrying filthy sheets. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote and wrote without stopping, filling sheet after sheet of paper, tearing up what he'd written, beginning again, putting one sheet aside and starting another, frowning, crumpling up the paper—and starting once more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I can’t get far enough away from him and find myself clinging to the edge of the bed, sheets thrown back. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I awake in a soft bed with clean sheets. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was lying in a bed under blue sheets. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Rather than go downstairs to the instructors’ room for drawing paper, I drew the sketches on my personal notepaper, using both sides of the sheet. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Commander Jameson halts in front of the white sheet, then bends down and throws it aside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Naomi pointed out a sunny patch just off the path in the woods, and they spread an old sheet over the pine needles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the other four questions on the sheet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He accepted the sheets held out to him and gazed at them unseeingly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

For privacy, they draped a sheet from the hatchback over the headrests of the front seats to make a little tent. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Mutiny on the Bounty, when people died at sea, they were wrapped in white sheets and thrown overboard with millstones around their necks so that the corpses wouldn’t float. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squirmed away in honor, kicking at the sheets and falling to the floor, breathing raggedly, naked, bloodied, and afraid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I wake up my eyes are dry—my eyes are always dry—but my sheets are twisted around my body and drenched with sweat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, she opened her eyes and saw these blue-green sheets and that painting of the sea. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the Abbot had departed, Chickenhound snuggled his filthy body down against the clean white sheets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The dentist needs a runner,” she said to me, kicking herself over to a desk, where she picked up a sheet of paper. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The first Saturday it was warm enough, he walked in circles around the base of the tree with a calculator and a cheat sheet of geometry equations. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, upon request, he’d take out of his pocket the folded and slightly worn sheet and show it to admirers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Go ahead—take out a sheet of paper and try it! An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sighing, I stripped the blanket and sheet from the bed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As well as taking up half the tent, the long-time family has extended outside their area with a makeshift shelter of plastic sheeting and bamboo. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nor, in all likelihood, would you have enough time, because the answer sheets have to be turned in soon after the test is over. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Pong became a bat, sleeping all day with a sheet wrapped tight around his face like wings. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“A record? But I got out of Namwon with a clean sheet. You told him that, right?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Harry tucked the photograph into his pocket with Lily’s letter and continued to look for the second sheet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“How’s school?” his mom asked as she formed the meatballs and lined them up on a cookie sheet. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But their Christmas ended in late afternoon on Christmas Eve—I saw department store clerks working against time to replace a holiday window display with deathly white piles of towels and sheets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy around my age was sprawled across the floor, drawing on a large sheet of paper. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ma goes away and comes back with a bunch of paper sheets in her hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lockton pushed a sheet of paper, a quill, and the inkstand across the desk to the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up the road, white sheets ballooned like parachutes from neighbors’ rooftop clotheslines. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spread out our sheet and bunched up the raincoat for you to have as a pillow. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some roofs had clotheslines with white sheets flapping in the summer breeze. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Now, fill that giant sheet with foam and let’s get started.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma laughed some more before she held out her hand and asked for the sheet of paper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I watched JimmyTrotter milk Sophie three years ago, he didn’t seem to like milking any more than I liked ironing white sheets in the heat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker expects us to practice twenty minutes times five days each week and prove it with a signed-by-a-parent sheet marked with Xs for every day we play. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Auntie An-mei is holding a sheet of paper as thin as wrapping tissue. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first week at Miss Celia’s, I scrub the house until there isn’t a dust rag or a stripped sheet or even a run stocking left to wipe with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few young Dauntless men cut the sheet away from the door, screaming something about Eric. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sheet had a bunch of questions about emotions you had felt over the past two weeks and four checkboxes for each one. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“How can you breathe? Take that sheet off right now, or do you want me to take it off?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They would sit in the alcoves of each floor reading to each other and eating sheets from the book of fruit leather. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She put down a book and got out of bed with a sheet wrapped around her shoulders. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pulled on some clothes, went over to the table, and took out a sheet of plain paper. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She picked a sheet of paper off the coffee table and shook out its folds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ezeka’s crabbed handwriting had listed all he had sent on the front of the sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get on with the test,” he said, getting out the sheets of questions. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It whirs a little, then, like a tongue sticking out, a thin sheet of paper erupts from the side of it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I kept going, faster and faster, until I finished not only that homework sheet but every problem in my textbook. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun is out today, but the rain fell in sheets as soon as we pulled into the parking lot of Williamson. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Comic books and magazines are strewn next to the bed, which doesn't have sheets or a mattress pad. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

With jittery fingers, I blew my nose into a Kleenex and sat on the bed, careful not to disturb the disturbed sheets. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He returned a few minutes later and laid down two sheets of rather dirty notepaper before Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caruthers no longer tried to balance his bank sheets; instead he stared out the study window and murmured about climbing a tree. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Marcus stands on the platform, white as a sheet but unharmed. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then I just lay curled up on the bed, stroking the silken sheets, watching the sun set over the artificial candy Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m just sitting here, waiting to take the sheets out of the tumble dryer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the sheet up to my nose. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Also I want Hoyt to read some verses I am going to copy on another sheet and put in with this letter. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A Ranger report noted clinically, “One wagon sheet, one bed sheet, one pillow, used in shipping Ranger White’s body.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Spoon opened his briefcase, and pulled out some sheets of mimeographed paper. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still hear it after we are in the bed and under the sheets and other songs are playing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He folded the newspaper sheet exactly in half, put it into the file folder, and tucked it into the drawer. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I tore off a sheet, then dug around until I found my pencil. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I reached into my suitcase and pulled out a sheet of paper. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The walls of the restaurant are papered with legal-sized sheets with the house specials in Korean characters. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had white walls, a white chair, a white, glass-enclosed cabinet, and a tall metal table with a white sheet over the mattress. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is no calculator, and so they add up the figures on numerous sheets of the hotel stationery. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a white sheet, which I spread on the mattress and tuck around the edges, and a moth-eaten quilt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bradley pulls out the sheet with our assignment for the day and starts reading the instructions aloud, his eyes intense with concentration. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mariam snapped the clean sheet and let it settle on the bed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was pouring, rain coming down in sheets, a gale blowing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Soon the father came with the music stand, the mother with the sheet music, and the sister with the violin. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called, my voice muffled by the sheets. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stepped squarely on a sheet of the paper, trapping one foot. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She handed Penelope a folded sheet of heavy notepaper, monogrammed with a large, decorative A. Penelope opened it and read. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In one hand he held a paste pot, in the other a brush and a bulletin sheet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One with a pot and the other a sheet. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As soon as he saw what the photograph was, and what it meant, he had covered it up with another sheet of paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Max eats a second ham sandwich and rereads a comic book, and sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Did they cover him up with a sheet the way you see in the movies? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everything about him, from the stubble of hair down to the folded line of sheet, was bleached and greyish white. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was single-spaced, on five or six small sheets of paper, some of which looked not unlike some writing paper which Bunny used to have. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Francie, here’s a penny. Run down to the candy store and get a sheet of writing paper and an envelope.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman says tell your aunt I’d like that rubber sheet back for the next child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The trailing edge of the main was luffing a bit and he sheeted it in to clean the line up. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sheets of paper between the Old and New Testaments. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It brought ice and freezing sleet and sheeted the highways with dark ice. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved Ma Charles as much as I could love her without having been around her much, but I couldn’t slave over those white sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She boils water on the stove and spends a day at a great tin tub washing our shirts and socks, diapers for the twins, our two sheets, our three towels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Under the chintz counterpane the sheets would be starchily pure. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A big sheet of metal was torn off the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had a sudden picture of schools in every one of the forty-eight states grinding out millions and millions of sheets of paper covered with leaning letters exactly alike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panicked, she dug through the paper, searching for clues, tearing faster and faster through the sheets until paper cuts crossed her fingertips and whorls of blood smeared the corners. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I turned off my light and rolled over onto my side, pulling my sheet with me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So he did that with the tiller under his arm and the sheet of the sail under his foot. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Write her a letter,” Celina Aunty said, laying a sheet of paper on the desk. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Aunt Aggie says, Twelve years ago that child died and she still keeps the rubber sheet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jinny wriggled her hand under the makeshift bed for the envelope, slid the single sheet of paper free, unfolded it, and held it up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the top of the project sheet, it says: Science/Language Arts Cross-Curricular Project Broad topic—Florida agriculture Narrow topic—an agricultural product that is native to this area of Florida Your topic—?????? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like they might do a magic trick, Dr. Martin hidden behind the sheet with her black bag in her hands. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So, after the game I go home and pull out my study sheet with all the words we’ve been studying and my clues to remember them. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Harry read the first sheet again, this time looking for clues as to what might have made the second sheet valuable. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The plain white sheets that we usually covered the bed with had been replaced by a large piece of purple cloth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Catherine reads me the questions, and I point to the answers on the sheets she places on my tray. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once Yakov’s right side was clean, we covered it with the sheet once more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As he came into the bedroom, he saw Sula lying on fresh white sheets, wrapped in the deadly odor of freshly applied cologne. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our catalogue is a couple of mimeographed sheets stapled together at the top comer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She held out her hand and, reluctantly, he passed her the sheets. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I'll give you a sheet of tin and a bundle of copper wire if you can fix it.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Directly below him, one floor away, through a window without shades, he saw a room in which were two small iron beds with sheets dirty and crumpled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the sheet was a story in Spanish about a young Chinese boy, Yu Li. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“One sheet. That’s two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I came closer, I saw he was actually fixated on the wrinkled sheet of paper in his hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Xenocrates nodded, and Mandela pulled out from his robe a sheet of paper, putting it in one of Citra’s cuffed hands. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I give the work sheet back to Lee Lee. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Now," he said, looking at his roll sheet, "let's see what we can do with you newbies. Lu, Patina, Sunny, on the line!" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“We just got the projected expenses work sheet. By the time we pay them, they’ll be able to build one.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inspector Bryant, as he spoke, flicked briefly through a clipboard of onionskin typed sheets. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly exhausted, I sat on the bed—his bed, maybe—and for reasons I can’t quite explain, I stretched out on those filthy sheets and stared at the ceiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For a second, I think I can still smell Olga in the sheets, but it’s probably all in my head. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My brother’s face was as white as a sheet. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Still entangled in Feral’s sheets, she went full Bonfire, lighting up like a torch and taking the whole bed with her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She took a second sheet to begin a letter to him, then hesitated, suddenly shy. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sheet was twisted around her, half on the sofa and half on the floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She brought several sheets to the counter to show me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He set the first sheet facedown on the glass and pressed “Copy.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the narrow bed had clean sheets, and there was a trunk with a lock where I could keep my meager possessions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bolted to the back of each seat, behind a square sheet of Plexiglas, is a map of all the city’s bus routes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He began to pass out sheets of paper with enumerated lists on them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I ran down to our front door, I discovered that icy rain was falling in sheets. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The silky sheet outlined the angular thinness of her naked body. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I could be sure that I had the correct structures when I drew tiny pictures of the bases on sheets of Cavendish notepaper. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The rain came down in sheets, still dark and acidic. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was tucked in like a child, the white sheet folded at waist level, his arms resting on either side of him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wore nothing but shorts, his whiter-than- white skin stretched across his bones like a sheet wrapped tightly around a bundle of sticks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He would never have been happy with her—life would be gossamer, all his days merging into one long sheer sheet of nothingness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Holding the two sheets together, he held them up to the light. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the end she darted to one side and pulled me after her, both of us ducking under a line of sheets and hopping a chicken-wire fence into the yard of a little cottage. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It has a striped mattress with a thin, nearly see-through cotton sheet thrown over it; an Army-green cotton blanket is folded under the single pillow at the head. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Shortly after nine o’clock, Esther of Providence, Rhode Island, switched off her radio and rolled a sheet of paper into her typewriter. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He told us he had an excellent memory and proved it by taking roll and then calling each one of us by name without looking at his roll sheet. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stare fixedly at the little black specks on the sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The sheets rose up, trying hard to accommodate the occupant. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had been struck from his mind when, turning the irregular sheet over, the two of us saw, with horror, what was on the back of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Kind of. I mean, not exactly. But Ms. Holly pushed me to start composing, and she gave me blank sheet music last year. I still have it.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He patted May Belles hair and yanked the twisted sheet up to her small chin. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sheets had drooped from their hospital corners; they wilted onto the floor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He released the right jib sheet, frantically pulled in the left, felt the sail fill and begin to draw, pulling, pulling the Frog away from shore. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though she might have to have these sheets burned in the morning, and possibly have to bathe in lye herself, it was nice to have a friend. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All the top contestants were given a sheet of paper with the following paragraph printed on it: Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

My sister and I battle the breeze to fold sheets, stepping together to make the corners meet, backing up less and less each time to form the shrinking rectangle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would gladly have hung out her sheets for everyone to see. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the tin on the floor, so I could peel away the sheets of tissue. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her face was partially hidden behind the linen sheet she was hanging; she fixed it firmly to the line before she answered. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She put it on top of her desk and picked up the Scantron attendance sheet for the day. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Arthur and I turn off the lights and rest on top of the sheets, face-to-face. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He needs a clean sheet of paper, no extraneous marks. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bryant reached for a sheet of onionskin paper, a blurred third or fourth carbon. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She stood in her gray garden and watched a sheet of ice slowly form on the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Here, however, I sweat without replacement or pause, not in individual drops but in continuous sheets of fluid soaking through my polo shirt, pouring down the backs of my legs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trip glanced toward the bedroom, where through the open door he could see Pearl’s bed, stripped of its sheets and blankets, reduced now to a bare mattress and frame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We closed up the windows with shutters and laid sheets upon the furniture, the house being prepared for dormancy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The resulting thick sheet was then coated with soft resin and taken to the hot-room to set. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We screw the sledge along amongst great lumps and chunks of ice, immense debris pushed up by the straining of the great plastic sheet of ice against and among the Fire-Hills. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we can make the posters about this. And have sign-up sheets.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She sits a step above me and gets out a bright yellow sheet of paper. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“So after the firecracker incident, the principal searched James Madison’s locker, and he found, like, a raccoon cap and a bunch of stolen answer sheets and other minor-deal stuff.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The universe of general relativity is a smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On this occasion, Gregor held back from spying out from under the sheet. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at a large clock that was perched awkwardly on top of a pile of sheets in the washing basket at the end of the table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I loaded it with a sheet of paper and tried typing on it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They came home to find him at the dining table, bent over loose sheets of paper, writing letters to newspapers and magazines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They showed her the “apartment,” gave her some threadbare sheets for the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Amaka spread newspaper sheets on the floor to slice the tuber; it was easier than picking it up and placing it on the counter. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s too hard,” she said, shaking her head no and scribbling something down on the attendance sheet. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then he folded a sheet of Kleenex, tucked it in the box, and put the cricket in. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a body under a sheet, not even dust, but an absence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I go around by the pool, which is drained and covered with plastic sheeting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the air temperature drops and the water continues to freeze, the pancakes mass together and harden into a single sheet, or ice field. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

For the first time in several weeks, I had clean sheets, enough to eat, and natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter looked up from the table where she was spooning cookie dough onto a baking sheet and gave her the eye. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Man and horse were down; they had slipped on the sheet of ice which glazed the causeway. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We still have the old couch, but there is a new blue sheet covering the cigarette burns. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle Drum has put a sheet of plywood over those joists. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A brand-new case to hold my sheet music! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted as the girl who so resembled a veela got gracefully to her feet, shook back her sheet of silvery blonde hair, and swept up between the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tables. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The baby was asleep in his hanging cradle, but Mami took him out, bundled him in flannel sheets, and handed him to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She reads off my sheet in a tray to the right of the monitor, where I wrote “want to kill myself” as my reason for admission. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her apron, improvised from an old sheet, was wet where she had been leaning over the scrubbing-board. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A pair of small, bloody feet poke out from under the sheet and I see that the big toenail on the left foot is chipped. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nguyen took the sheet of paper from me and nodded. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully tore the sheet from the pad. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth even granted them a monopoly on the printing of sheet music, such was the favour she showed towards them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Finally she stacks the croquettes on a large circular tray, a sheet of wax paper between each layer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To give you one small example, Mrs. van D. has removed all but three of her sheets from our communal linen closet. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that people slept in sheets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Draping my rawness in new sheets of skin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There’s the sheet of stick-on mustaches Micah gave me for Purim, looking like a set of hairy lip-caterpillars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We looked out and saw a gray sheet of snow. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was like a sheet of smooth grey slate, without the barest hint of inflection or emotion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon a sheet of yellow lit the room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho pulled several sheets from the trunk, the Maps from the last few days. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Back inside, the Doctorita shows me how to make the bed, how many times to fold back the sheet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have his name sheet and hadn’t learned my name. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He pulled the rip cord of Snowden’s parachute and covered his body with the white nylon sheets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every teacher had watched the newspaper grow from one sheet to two, then to three and four. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The air from the heat pump is making the sheet lift up just a bit. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gape like a fish as Cook, as silent-footed as her mistress, materializes from behind the sheet I've just hung up. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She stretched the sheet from the tree branch to the hive in the same way Petey had done back at the Chat ’n’ Chew. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He said something like, all I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with and I can turn the world upside down.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the 1990s geologists laid out data indicating that the ice sheets were bigger and longer lasting than had been thought, and that even when the ice-free corridor existed it was utterly inhospitable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We’ve stepped over the bodies in the hallways, seen strong guys turn weak and cops spread sheets over brothers in the gutter. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma sighs and sits down on the couch, absent-mindedly tucking in the corners of the yellow sheet that covers the cushions. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Why on earth would a cheating teacher go to the trouble of erasing a student’s test sheet and then fill in the wrong answer? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Cut with cookie cutters and transfer to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She handed me a piece of sheet music. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For everything we did, I put a check mark on a sheet I kept in my letter-writing pad. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had his own army cot up there in Dublin with sheets and blankets and a pillow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Josef’s is of a voluptuous but not overweight woman, sitting on a stool with a sheet draped between her legs, her breasts exposed; her face is Pre-Raphaelite, brooding, consciously mysterious. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s usual summer remedy of sprinkling the sheets with refreshing cologne lasted only a minute. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Powell grunted and shifted from one sheet to the other mechanically until his blurred sight focused upon a thin red line that wobbled its way across the ruled paper. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They put me in a bed with white sheets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had sheets, a pillow, and a pillow slip. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to and opened my eyes, I first saw nothing but a huge expanse of white, my sheets, then I saw my doctor’s face above me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the wall,” said Andrew, pointing to the sheet of paneling sporting a framed portrait of two bluebirds. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicker down to Alex’s hip, where it’s bared above the sheet, and he says as much to himself as to Alex, “I am very, very gay.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each year at the New Year Wang Lung’s father bought sheets of red paper and carefully cut and pasted new robes for the pair. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled a crumpled sheet of newspaper from a packing case, flattened it out as best he could, then pushed it underneath the door, leaving only a corner on his side of the doorway. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She lay down and covered her face again with the sheet, wishing she didn’t ever have to take it off. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wait for my pencil to move quickly through the too-easy math problems on the mimeographed sheet. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I turned my head and peeked out from under the sheet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Holly also gave me blank sheet music and encouraged me to compose original songs on the piano. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She stopped by a CVS and bought costumes—matching ninja outfits that were more or less black plastic sheets with hoods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now the cabin was ready for galvanized roofing sheets. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The sheet of plastic has been laid on the ground where the sun can reach the single layer of berries that covers it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The mirror is little more than a sheet of metal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets feel cool now, and the breeze through the window feels good on my damp forehead. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He got up, ruefully looked at his white breeches, shrugged, and walked over to where Johnny was diligently pinning up sheets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her crimson nails clawed my sheet off its board and crumpled it into a ball. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

An Yi’s grandma lay on a cart, silent under the white sheet. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Repeatedly I took stabs at writing, but the results were so poor that I would tear up the sheets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers and fathers walk among sheeted bodies, stop, move on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took down the chart, and peeled off the Sellotape from around the edges, so that the sheet of paper came away from its cardboard backing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He tried it three more times and three more sheets of paper did the very same thing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a while they rushed along almost silently, the river having become nearly as smooth as a sheet of glass. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were four proper beds, with sheets, and towels, a great luxury for men who had spent much of the last eighteen years sleeping on thin mats on a stone floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs are sticking out of her sheets, and I can see the plaid boxer shorts she wears for pajamas. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

However, I could turn it end over end, and by doing that get it onto a sheet of masonite I found in my father’s workshop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo bashed the snake with a stick and told her he would make sure the zinc sheet at the entrance of the bunker was more secure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sheet of rippling blue water brimmed to every horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Turning back to look directly at Cara, he held up the sheet and shook it “THIS,” he shouted, “is INappropriate!” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I went in and found the major sitting at a table in the bare room with maps and typed sheets of paper on the wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

MaWee pulled off the white sheet that said the jungles of Sweden!!! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

David let loose the ropes—sheets—that held the boom so the mainsail could luff easily and went below for the jib. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enters the room and whips the dirty sheets off the bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Lark grabs at the end of the sheet and spins herself inside the teacups. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’m standing in an open-air courtyard surrounded by enormous sheets of glass panels. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me,” he said, tugging at the man’s sleeve and holding the sheet of figures up for him to see, “but it’s going to take eight hundred and thirty-seven years to do these jobs.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma is in my bedroom, lying on my bed with orange basketball sheets. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She put down the lilac sheet of paper and ruffled the top of my head, a thing she does sometimes which makes my hand shake itself out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, he had begun lining some of his grain bins with sheet metal. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I crumple it into a ball and take out another sheet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteen were single beds, but the other nine were very large, so large that Lupita had to keep circling them and lifting the great mattresses to tuck in the sheets and blankets. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was struggling with something beneath the sheets, and I realized he was trying to move his hands toward the opening. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man scribbled some marks on a flat sheet he carried and gave it to the captain. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the kitchen linoleum was scrubbed and the stove and fridge were clean, the carpet was spotless, Mia’s mattress bed was made with crisp striped sheets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pasted sheets of poetry or Scripture in the window frames, the geraniums on the sill, those must be some other girl’s way, she decided. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He has made up a sheet with pictures of the pieces and arrows to show how they move. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, hi,” I say, looking up from a work sheet. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He quickly picked up the handwritten sheets and put them on her lap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the dark, I tore another sheet of paper out of my notebook and started to fold again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Painstakingly, she put a dot of glue on each of the scraps and pressed each one into its place on one of her precious few remaining whole sheets of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One is cluttered with newspapers and tattlers and scandal sheets, another with petit-hourglasses and abaci. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then he put the sheet over the chest and now he never even looks in that corner. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob read the letter quickly, though he pretended to read it slowly, stumbling over the words, repeating some of them, using his finger as a guide, back and forth across the sheet of paper. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse was with Catherine who lay on the table, big under the sheet, looking very pale and tired. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then they stocked up on ammo, and Joe gleefully affixed his signature to the charge sheet while Nick fumed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climb a dune, and a black sheet of sea spreads before us, its ripples silver-bright in the moonlight. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the women had to share the bathhouse with the men of their regiment, so they hung a sheet between them for a little privacy! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I waited for the sheet to reach my desk. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not writing on stationery anymore, though, even though I do have one sheet of paper left. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gerald relaxed finally, letting himself enjoy the coolness of the sheets and the warmth of her smile. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who do you think puts the hems in all their white sheets?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anh had stapled a bunch of sheets about him together, including a bunch of his pictures. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But he looked terrible lying there on the damp wooden floor of my boat, his face pale as a sheet, his eyes half shut and his lips as blue as a fresh bruise. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sand lay in a pale sheet without any crocodiles floating over it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps Terry make the beds, stretching the clean white sheets over mattresses that have never been used. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the front cover a sheet of music was pasted, handwritten. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was just rumpled sheets and a blanket. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His breath is so shallow the sheet drawn across his chest does not rise or fall: no sign of life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets had already begun to sag on top, and the water ran down into the tent, spattering inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I simply wrote textbook examples of our workaday narrative, veritable style sheets that Hoagland even used to remind the other analysts of how it ought to be done. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I smoothed my hand over the rippled sheet, tears burning in my eyes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She would listen to them till their words blended into a soft sheet of sleep gently spreading over her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, girls, if you haven’t signed your name on the tryout sheet, please do so now,” she said, pointing to the clipboard on the table next to her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stoker hands us each a sheet with our locations and combinations. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Holding her hand, I attempt to lead Geak to sit on the sheets, but she pulls out of my hand and toddles over to Pa. He picks her up and holds her to his chest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you figure out the answers while I write them down on the sheet?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were records and info sheets full of scratched-out numbers and random words that didn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It fell not in drops but in sheets, and the ground was running with it, so that you couldn't see anything solid: just flowing fields of bitter cold water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The next evening, I’m upstairs making the bed, folding the sheet back one, two, three times, when I hear music blaring on the street. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Photocopy machines were a lot slower in 1969—each sheet had to be set on the glass by hand, and it took several seconds to copy a single page. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He took one of the tiny keys off his waistcoat chain, opened the locked drawer to his desk, and pulled out some sheets of thick, cream-colored writing paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His job is to focus on keeping the sheet high, keeping the nest concealed so that Dr. Martin can assess the situation. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He walked us over to a wall with stacked trays, all neatly organized, and pulled out two sheets of rough paper, handing them over to me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She pretended to be still working on her work sheet. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“One summer when I was about nine, my dad went off to rehab for his dryer sheet addiction. He used to huff ’em down in the basement, box after box. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I fold back the sheet, get carefully up, on silent bare feet, in my nightgown, go to the window, like a child, I want to see. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then he pulls sheet music from his case, but mostly he seems to play from memory or by ear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I flipped the sheets aside, jumped out of bed, and ran into the adjoining bathroom. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had just finished saying it when Fernanda felt a delicate wind of light pull the sheets out of her hands and open them up wide. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He took a sheet of paper from inside the black notebook. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She drops four sheets of paper in front of me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the eighty bunks the women snored and shifted under their sheets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In exchange the sergeant-major covers us over with a waterproof sheet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final designs were drawn on two sheets of plaster and presented to the bishop and the chapter. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The rally was held in Freedom Square, in the center of the campus, lecturers and students shouting and singing, an endless sheet of heads and placards held high. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stack of adoption papers on the desk is only 4 sheets tall. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, their activities were said to be harmless midnight pranks—for instance, riding horses through the countryside while draped in white sheets and pillowcase hoods. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment Kvothe tensed as if he would leap up and tear this sheet away from Chronicler as well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I walked around the field with shovels, making sure the plastic sheets were completely sealed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the door opened, she hurriedly stuffed the note under her sheet and sat on it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually, upon Lawson’s death, the score sheet was purchased by a collector, sold again, and for the last number of years it has rested with yet another collector. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As I lean over to pick them up, I can smell his sheets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her bed is a high four-poster with white sheets and yellow quilt. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sierra asked an elderly lady with a handcart full of freshly laundered sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Hidden under the sheet, I do feel better. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the bathrooms already, got the sheets changed, the rugs vacuumed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ishmael watched Hatsue pull sheets from the line, standing in a pool of muted porch light with her arms illuminated and elegant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I finally stretch out again and slide my bare feet between the sheets, I huddle against myself, trying to get warm. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not far ahead is an object covered in a white sheet. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The other end she tied around the door handle of the diner, the sheet slung between box and door like a hammock. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They brought two sheets from the linen closet in Henry’s house and draped them over the scarecrows before moving them out into the garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stands up, reaches for her box of fabric-softener sheets, and looks my way. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She knows, for instance, that I smuggle sheets to the Yearlings so they don’t get whipped for wetting their beds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a pile of dusty ragged sheets that Granny had kept draped over the upholstered parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Washing her, feeding her, changing the sheets when she wet herself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The more massive the object that is sitting on the sheet, the more the sheet gets distorted, and the larger the dimple around that object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I walk-trotted back to my own street, where, hiding behind Mrs. Steck’s sheets hanging on her clothesline next door, I made sure Zed was nowhere in sight. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Churchmouse and Mrs. Vole were making bandages from old clean sheets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most peddlers sold song sheets, two for a penny, and families would buy them and gather about their pianos to sing songs such as "Cherry Ripe" and "In My Father's Garden." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The kimono, the sheet music—you must take those things?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I get to work on Monday, Miss Celia’s still laid up in bed with her face buried under the sheets. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The pages of calculations before him increased microscopically and the crumpled sheets at his feet mounted into a hill of scribbled paper. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He and George lift the sheet over the back of the nest, let it drop down in front of the open side. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she led the way to where Miss Marburn was writing something on a sheet of paper attached to a clipboard. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But his “displays” are only ever pyramids of canned pears, and the plastic sheets make the inside of his shop feel like a photograph from Victorian times. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the dirt road unrolled through fields that were like leaden sheets under the gray sky and disappeared behind a line of bowl-shaped hills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mother waited until the very last minute to cross over to Ghetto A, rushing back to our building one last time for a cooking pot, which she wrapped in a sheet. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, sheets of rain were sweeping in, the steady hiss of falling water swelling in my ears. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to her regularly and Rosa sometimes replied, sending him lines of poetry and drawings of flowers she had copied out on sheets of parchment paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slopper ran around the table and pulled the sheet off the second one, getting tangled pretty good in voluminous folds and coughing from dust. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It would be so easy— He came out of the oil like a whale surfacing, oil sheeting off his face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some guy or girl put a whole bunch of words on a sheet of magnet and then cut the words into separate pieces. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took a sheet from the paper stack and held it from end to end so it would go in even. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe this bed and his sheets and his room dissolve into nothing. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a blank sheet of paper on the bulletin board next to it calling for volunteers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought, I can unfurl the sheets on our old bed at home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We raced out of town in the spitting dark, vague blue outlines of cottages giving way to sloping fields, then charged up the ridge, sheets of water streaming over our feet, making the path treacherous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped, like mountain peaks in the sky, rays emanating downward like an illustration in a children’s bible. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He twisted his end of the sheet to his right while she twisted to her right, and they watched as the water was squeezed out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were no sheets, but the blanket they lay on was threadbare and smooth, and the size and springiness of the bed astonished both of them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We cheered our little victory, but Vonetta and Fern had drifted off on our mountain of pillows and sheets spread out on the floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He licked the point of his pencil and poised it over a blank sheet of paper. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the bed sheets couldn't hold all their weight and snapped. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The sails themselves were not canvas at all, but solar sheets, designed to feed electricity into the system and add to the power available already from roof skin solar cells. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were sheets of ice binding the aspens to earth and cementing the tops of the hemlocks in arches. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the towel into the cabin, then slammed the tiller over to the side and held it with his leg while he pulled in on the main sheet and cleated it off. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me 30 hours, 50 sheets of paper, 2 yards of ribbon for the binding, a pack of 12 markers, 100 stickers, and 1 ruler. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I threw off the sheets and lay there as the heat poured in through my open window. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Remedios the Beauty ascended to heaven in body and soul than the inconsiderate Fernanda was going about mumbling to herself because her sheets had been carried off. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After removing the chicken from the oven, I spread the crinkled leaves of kale on a cookie sheet, sprinkled them with olive oil and salt, and slid them into the hot oven to roast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dad covered it with the gray sheet so I can’t see it, but I know it’s there. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the courtyard of our school stood a five-foot sheet of plywood in the shape of a roadrunner. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He kept his eyes on the quivering sheet of paper. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And it was covered, with thin sheets of something that looked like plywood. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s face was white as a bed sheet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made it to the shelter just as the clouds completely opened and the rain roared down in sheets. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to put it on and crawl under the white knobbly blanket and white sheets in one of those high-off-the-ground beds and sleep. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the pen that was hanging on a string next to the sign-up sheet and wrote my name on a blank line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He put his sheets of paper down in the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We pushed them together and then put a sheet over them for a tablecloth, and Jackie set out mason jars filled with wildflowers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A lap weld was where the two ends of the sheet were overlapped and then welded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That night the rain came down in sheets. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

All of the sheets were ironed and folded. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They would hum and then either slam or gently bob their thunderous tails on the sheets of water, causing ripples. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When Turner looked over the river, he saw an iron sheet of rain coming toward him, lit up from behind through a rip in the dark purple of the clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Hannibal’s Rest because of the dark sheeting rain, but I knew when we passed my street because the phoenix sat atop the stop sign, its feathers flaming red in the rain. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

White sheets with bright red spots float as our sail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“We know your scar hurt downstairs, and you’re white as a sheet.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With terrible deliberateness Kvothe lifted a blank sheet and lay it carefully in front of the stunned scribe. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of explaining, James pulled a sheet of paper from his binder and slid it over to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I pause to pull out another sheet of music, she asks, “You don’t mind that I sit here and listen, do you? I love hearing you play.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Long, rectangular sheets made up the other stack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He pulled the sheet off the bed and fumbled one-handed with their belongings. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The candle stood in front of a sheet of polished brass, which served as a minor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women were stonily displaying the back of the stained sheet to a confused Mr. Gonzalez. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He retrieved the sheets, studied them, wondering which part had upset Rachael. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I kicked my legs and could tell I was under the covers with one sheet underneath me and one sheet on top of me and my pants were off too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A slim sheet with my answers emerges from the side. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I still have the sheet of stick-on furry mustaches he gave me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He walks to another tombstone, less than a foot tall, and presses another sheet of paper to its surface. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled their gags, they both shouted questions but I paid no attention, unrolling them from the wet sheets and unbinding their wrists and ankles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

My foot lands on a sheet of bubble wrap. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“What’s that?” the guy says, craning his neck to look at my sheet of paper. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

So is Gaines, who spends most of halftime staring at his play sheet, knowing that without the sloppiness Permian would have twenty-one points instead of just three. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe Dad had taken the information sheets about the blanket to work with him, but they're on the piano bench. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been tearful confrontations in the laundry room, over the folded sheets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scandal sheets and tattlers call her icy and passionless. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She picked up the attendance sheet off her desk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes later, Werfel followed, huffing and puffing and dragging his sheets. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Students spread large sheets of paper on desks and gathered around, eagerly shouting suggestions. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ducked behind the curtain and emerged a moment later, a folded sheet draped over one arm and a peregrine falcon perched on the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Panting, I reached across the bed and grasped a fistful of sheet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Papá lay in bed, white as the sheets. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A sheet was draped over the kitchen table. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of crawling in between the bed sheets and trying to sleep, but that appealed to me about as much as stuffing a dirty, scrawled-over letter into a fresh, clean envelope. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He crossed out his move on the score sheet, made another move, and checked Tal's king instead. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the sheet off my head, a long, slow pull. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the sheets up to my neck and look around my room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, standing there alone in her coat and underwear, the rain falling as hard as she’d ever seen it fall, falling almost in sheets, she burst into tears. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What time is it?” whispered Katie after she had taken a tremendous tug on the sheet; a tug that made the sweat stand out on her face again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m writing it on my last sheet of stationery. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She threw off her sheet and cracked her door just in time to see Matthew careening toward her on his skateboard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I got a school rap sheet, but in school they call it a "file." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Fear swept over him in a cold rush; beneath the sheets he could feel his bladder letting go. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Alex made sure they were okay, asked if they needed anything in particular, and then had them sign the sheet showing he’d actually been there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A single bee finally inched out on the sheet and used it as a walking bridge to the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She did not stir, but now she began again to breathe deeply, so that her breast rose and fell beneath the white linen of the sheet . The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And a sheet of note-paper in the first volume saying: “I hope this is the sort of thing you like,” and signed, “Love from Beatrice.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t had time to clean up the tent Monday and I made with a bunch of old sheets and throw pillows during our last sleepover before I left. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers.When you look at pictures ofjesus He’s always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the plate-glass windows there are heaps of bath towels, overstuffed sofas and chairs, sheets in modern prints. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She got him the last clean underwear, which was short and wouldn’t be as warm, and changed his sheets. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Beezle was hardly over a hundred pounds, and his enormous, unwieldy bundle of sheets and towels had to weigh fifty or sixty pounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angry air from Sheed’s nostrils puffed the sheet over his face into a tent. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Old newspapers were spread over the sheets to keep off paint but I’d been using them as a blanket. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, I recall overhearing at dinner one evening, when a particular newspaper had been mentioned, his lordship remarking: 'Oh, you mean that Jewish propaganda sheet.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blood is dripping on the white sheet, and the fibers of the silk are so delicately painted that it’s hard to believe they aren’t real. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He knew she wanted him to get out of the bed while she changed the sheets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sentences came out clearer for an instant before a sheet blackened and crumbled. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not sell apples or song sheets, or shine shoes? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My word!” a woman said, startled by the sight before her: a pack of small, dark-skinned faces and white eyes peering out from behind black plastic sheeting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The dreadful word was stamped on his mind as if by a printing press on a sheet of paper, and the ink was red. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I lift the sheet and she looks down with a questioning expression. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Fernanda, burning with envy, finally accepted the miracle, and for a long time she kept on praying to God to send her back her sheets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes he would leave his place by the radio to pull back a corner of one of these sheets and peer out into the strawberry fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you were a bit more conscientious about doing the laundry, the description of that sheet would be somewhat different.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand numbly as my mother and sister battle over my quilt in a fierce, silent echo of the sheet folding they'd done the day before. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Normally, he’d make his move on the board, punch his clock, and record the move on the score sheet. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a shame Henry here was too busy signing papers with Auntie Pezza all week to learn some sheet music or we could have fired our pianist.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then came curtains, a rag rug, Mrs. Soldano’s white slips, sheets, and a small, worn stuffed bear that I knew was my best pal’s. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the sheet to look at the writing more carefully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside she went straight to her mat and pulled the sheet over her head. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain, or the sheet or whatever it was, didn't move. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We return to the tree, where Rani converts the sheet I sleep on into a kind of sling and bundles our few things into it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At one point she reached for a sheet of felt and blew her nose. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He scratched the sheets with his paws like he wanted to bury it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a sheets- and-towels day, and the loads were heavy; four porters really weren’t enough to carry it all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kia nodded at a sheet of cloth covering the doorway to the other room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

From January on, she was wrapped in a wet sheet and rubbed vigorously for five minutes every morning, which was supposed to stimulate her nervous system and circulation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out a few sheets and began separating them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The evidence was sealed between two sheets of glass. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He marked through my name on his sheet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Skirts and pencils and toothbrushes and underwear and probably sheets and pillowcases. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pull the second sheet, the cloth one, up over my body. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women dropped the sheet disgustedly on the floor and followed the choir, which was already beginning to file through the door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filled all three sheets of paper, front and back. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I passed it back to him and watched him tear that sheet of paper out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Near morning, I print out what I have done in one long continuous sheet, the way he prefers to read the thick stack of names. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held up the sheet of paper, with the first page of A Brief History of Time in Japanese, which I got the translation of from Amazon.co.jp. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius said grandly and lifted the arm that was not holding the sheet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean to let it go, but my grip around the sheet of paper only tightens. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The smell of fake lemon cleaner and bleach assaulted my nostrils as the sheet settled around me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

While the foreman draped a sheet over Guy’s corpse, his son began to recite the lines from his play. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When Bridge walked into first period the next morning, there was a sheet of paper face-up on every desk. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was always sand in the sheets and spiders in the cabinets, and most of the time the sea was too cold to swim in. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s barely after dusk, but already I can see more stars than I’ve ever seen in my life, blanketing the sky in a sheet of light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I crawl in between the sheets like a five-year-old and let her tuck me in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She put him in his bed and pulled the sheet up to his whiskers. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“And a bed with, like, sheets and a pillow?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I saw them in the hallway, covered with sheets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The moon was brilliant, the water one sheet of fast-flowing glass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hauptmann takes a sheet of paper from a drawer and writes on it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From where she was sitting she could see part of the room, and the company was asleep on the bed with a sheet pulled over him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Davenport asks Gogol if he’s ready, and then the sheet is replaced, and he is led from the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Mrs. Salinger went on, “And I have already chosen the pairs, so don’t bother begging. In fact, don’t ask. The pairs are listed at the top of this sheet.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Twenty or so people were pacing around and around, carrying big signs painted on old planks and on big banners made of sheets. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois fluffed my pillows and tightened the sheet at the bottom of my bed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her lying partway on the bed, partway on the floor, tangled in her sheets, her eyes open but not blinking. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the sheet with the eight theories and read the last one out loud, about Salim hiding in somebody else’s clothes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week after she left his bed, he dreamt again of Rosa and awakened on wet sheets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something sordid about the tumbled sheets, the sprawling blankets and the thumped pillows, and that bedside table dusty with powder, spilt scent, and melting liquid rouge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the flat desert edged by craggy mountains, the land rolled and dipped like a sheet when you shook it clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each one was only a sheet of canvas, maybe two feet above the one below. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A sheet of paper was tacked up, listing the names of die children expected to attend practice. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ultimately the Inka ended up with strong sheets of metal that glittered in the sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bed had two sheets on it, just like Toddy boy’s! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He gathers up the sheet of blue plastic, careful to trap the berries inside, and goes to toss them into the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s strange to think of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell lying in them at night, with different heads—his with a mustache, hers without—but nevertheless twinlike, identical, under the sheets and blankets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fronts and backs of all four sheets are covered with Dad's tiny, precise handwriting. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t even know where to look for an answer sheet.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Since we both want to get out of here, how about I make the copies while you get the sign-up sheet ready? Divide and conquer.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Zahra’s eyes do a quick sweep of the room—the sheets on the floor, the two pillows that have been slept on, the two phones on the nightstand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The heavier feather quilts were spread out on clean sheets in the sun, and we took turns shooing the inquisitive dogs and cats and chickens away from them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets, when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father’s arm went back and forth rhythmically across the sheet, smoothing out the wrinkles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was surrounded by dozens of stacks of sheet music stretching across the room, both loose and bound into books. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She pulled out several torn and faded sheets and a whole bunch of safety pins. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I can see a dark blue night and the glittering sheet of the Milky Way. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the other side, where everyone was standing, was a small cot covered with an eyelet-embroidered white sheet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Long, rectangular sheets made up the other stack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A black fist rose from the bottom of each sheet and called for justice. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to be told to go and pull the sheets down off of the line. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The force of the blow knocks me sideways on the couch, the coolness of the yellow sheet pressing against my face. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ugwu took the sheets of paper from Mr. Richard and, as he turned to make Baby’s dinner, he sang under his breath. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time, when Bridge had kicked her sheet and covers to the floor and taken her third deep breath, it was Jamie in the room with her, standing uncertainly near the door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had the same feeling he got when he rubbed his face against the sheets that hung on the clothesline every Monday. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheet of ice melted, and everyone crawled into the hole that would lead them to the glittering walls of the Fourth World, wherein we, their descendants, now reside. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Red dashes are scribbled all over the top sheet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I held my breath, praying that neither of Jesse’s parents needed clean sheets or towels. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Nate,” Rex Rollins says, “is this cell phone number, here, on your application sheet—is this the best number to call you?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then 1 saw the nurse sitting by the bed and Catherine’s head on a pillow, and she was all flat under the sheet. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The words were the same on the hundredth reading as they'd been on the first, when Sansa had discovered die folded sheet of parchment beneath her pillow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I walked to the front of my classroom with a stack of papers and several sheets of poster board. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Another sheet of paper flew from the sheaf and landed on her hands. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I take a blank sheet of paper and scrawl Madoc on one side, then seal the other with wax. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His usual dress, of a grey winding sheet, was, he knew, quite wrong. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where Ms. Fender keeps extra sheet music?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could see his hand peeking out from beneath the sheets. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She expects to see someone in a wheelchair, is starded to see a body covered by a sheet, being carried out on a stretcher. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi leaned over the table, shielding the sheets from the group of kids that had wandered in. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In the honey house, August waited till I crawled under the sheets, then bent over and kissed my forehead. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dipped my fingers in the bowl, swirled them around, and flung the drops of starchy water onto the sheet laid out on the ironing board. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Granny sagged down weak against the pillows, exhausted, her fingers plucking the sheet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I stand there looking at her, all mummified in the sheets. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They found the sheets in one of the front bedrooms and made up the beds together, folding hospital corners, plumping up the pillows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max takes a clean sheet of paper from the drawing table and starts to fold. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She walks me back to my room and makes my bed for me, shaking out the crumpled sheets and smoothing the duvet. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had sacks tied around their legs with string and ground sheets with holes in the middle for rain capes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He goes o’er and, without as much as a “Howdy do,” pult aside the sheet that divides the cabin in two at night. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He sat up and kicked off his sheet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It still lurked in dark, unclean corners, still clung to dirty sheets and curtains. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I responded that it was merely a fancy head, and hurried it beneath the other sheets. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he is known to have a rap sheet that includes convictions for assault, including one with a deadly weapon. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I start sketching my experiment on a sheet of paper. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

One night the gutters overflowed; water sheeted over the front of the house. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We discovered large sheets of mica that you could pound into powder and then rub all over your body so you’d shimmer under the Nevada sun as if you were coated with diamonds. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A streak of coconut pomade melting in Princesse’s hair fell onto the white sheet stretched out on the veranda floor beneath her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

On top of the oven was a stack of cookie sheets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She printed the sign-up sheet and picked up the backpack resting near her feet. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The first thing I see is a white sheet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The room has Harold’s minimalist look to it: the twin bed with plain white sheets and white blanket, polished wood floors, a bleached oakwood chair, and nothing on the slanted gray walls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said at one point she had hoarded 39 sheets, 42 towels, 93 English muffins—and she was wearing 8 bathrobes. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He carries the sheet of paper in a daze to the alley where Frau Elena boils sheets amid billows of steam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sheet felt crisp and smooth, and there were tiny flowers in each corner. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sheets are twisted and turned around the wrong way. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I pulled two sheets of paper from my back pocket and handed them over. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Newsies have filled their papers, tattlers, and scandal sheets with Alfred's exploits—gambling losses and several marriages and expensive tastes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Javier’s bag was on the bed, its contents spilled across the top sheet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Glassmakers became adept at turning out ever larger sheets of plate glass. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The sharp peaks of her stiff knees and elbows made the sheet take on the shape of a small iceberg. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The raft was sheet steel with large buoyancy floats on each end. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But by the time I’d gotten my pants off and pulled back the sheets, the fan had danced itself around to face me once more, shaking and shimmying inexorably toward my bed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was as if, he said, he had fired a fifteen-inch shell at a sheet of paper and it rebounded into his lap. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She pulls a sheet of paper from her stack and walks over to the witness stand. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

An hour later it starts, sheets of rain pouring down and wind that ripples across the surface of the striped tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Pet opened its mouth and roared, thick smoke sheeting out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Soulzeren raised the sail and sheeted it, bringing the bow around and aiming for the meadows outside the city walls. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, we were handed “dream sheets,” the requests for transfer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good grief, baby, people don’t agree with the Klan, but they certainly don’t try to prevent them from puttin’ on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The wind shrieks, blows stinging sheets of snow into my eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Powell was quiet; then he got out a sheet of paper. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He went to the cabinet and got a sheet of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I crammed a sheet, some towels, and a change of clothes for each of us into our school backpacks. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then everything went amiss when he discovered that his memorabilia had been auctioned off; it was as if he’d lost not just old letters and score sheets, but a part of his inner being. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He lies, unkempt and unwashed, in a tangle of sheets on the bed, passed out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Going to therapy made me realize my thoughts were like scribbles—like a messy black cloud of lines drawn all over a clean sheet of paper. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The paper peeled off in a whole sheet, slowly, with a long fffffft sound, as the ancient dried paste reluctantly turned to dust. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He and Bono sat by my side, though clearly their senses were assaulted by the noisome sheets and the breath of myself and those around me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She brought her towels, sheets, and pillowcases, not new, but still “decent looking.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The number to call back is written right on it, and it’s on your sheet too, if you need people to call back. If someone calls for you, don’t worry, someone’ll find you.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a great silvery sheet of water and Dad said it was Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland, the lake where Cuchulain used to swim after his great battles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Axel will have to sleep in the teacup room, without the teacup sheet, tonight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They stay tucked under the sheets on the Castro convertible, in no rush to do anything, giggling with each other. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The top of the elf’s head barely reached the seat of Hepzibah’s chair, and her papery skin hung off her frame just like the crisp linen sheet she wore draped like a toga. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She went to her desk and slipped out a sheet of paper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He held Maddie’s cipher sheet in front of him as they walked:“I’ll be able to crack this in no time,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I came out from behind the sheet in the doorway to listen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is small, sunken into sheets and pillows, like she is already half swallowed up by another world. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The “information” in the sheets of paper remains discrete. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Remedios the Beauty, who was clutching the sheet by the other end, gave a pitying smile. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She left the door and went to put the sheets away in the linen closet next to the bathroom. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I lay my sheet of plastic over my upper body and position my backpack to block the wind. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the guests arrived, they were handed sheets of paper by Dad. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His old set of white sheets was stained in revealing places, not very romantic. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the living room furniture covered with sheets, as though waiting for the walls to be painted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Both girls were writing on their work sheets. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I attempted to convey to her what a genial employer Mr Farraday is; and I described the changes to the house itself, the alterations and the dust- sheetings, as well as the present staffing arrangements. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A cold breeze blows by, making me shiver, and I turn my eyes back to the sky, where the sheet of stars still hangs in my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One long finger stabbed at the torn sheet, smearing the still-wet ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wilfred slipped out from between the sheets and went to the door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs kicked a desk drawer free and sheets of paper spilled to the floor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes don't leave the diagram, and he taps the sheet and says, "Get a reading on this rheostat, David. If the dial's out of alignment, that could double or triple the current getting past." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I hear birds beginning to chirp, I get so angry, I tug at the sheets and arrange the pillow over and over again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You ever pull fourteen days straight and come home to a sweet woman, clean sheets, and a fifth of Wild Turkey? Eh?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I found the answer sheet under a grocery list. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more fun to rub your face against the curtains than on the clean sheets every Monday. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sterile and weightless texture of a sheet enfolded me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped between the sheets, snuggled down, closed her eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, they had big patches of metallic sheets—the “flypaper”—unspooled and placed at various points throughout the yard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Around the room students riffled through their sheet music. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the sunset, the light was bouncing off a large flat sheet of Celestial bronze that lay at the bottom of the pond, washing Mr. Handsome’s features in a warm glow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the very first morning after our arrival, the chambermaid was making my bed when one of my mice poked its head out from under the sheets. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had a curtain—it looked like an old sheet that had been sewn—slid across a pole nailed in a corner of the room for privacy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If this sheet was not necessary as far as she was concerned, then she could remove it, for it was clear enough that Gregor could not derive any pleasure from isolating himself away so completely. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys cut through the stitching along the edges and separated the blanket into two thinner sheets. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood on the pillow and on the sheets and even on the enameled metal of the bed frame. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her hair was loose and fell like a shiny silver sheet to her waist. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The important thing is that in two hours all of the rock is gone, and so is the ripped black plastic sheeting underneath. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She was as white as a sheet, and her teeth were chattering. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine organized herself immediately at her desk, growing phone- book-thick stacks of data sheets a number at a time, blocking out everything except the labyrinth of trajectory equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘You flapped that sheet on purpose—just for the fun of seeing me sit in a puddle and ...’ ‘And to keep my horse out of the army.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hands once and a single sheet of clean white paper fluttered to the floor. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs me when I’m not looking and rubs a sheet of paper on my forehead like he’s giving me a noogie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The thatch roof and cracked unpainted walls bothered Ugwu, but not as much as the cavernous pit latrine in the outhouse with a rusting zinc sheet drawn across it to keep flies out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"And you will run his messages, keep a fire burning in his chambers, change his sheets and blankets daily, and do all else that the Lord Commander might require of you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The king stumbled into her arms, a sheet of blood creeping down the front of his armor, a dark red tide that drowned his green and gold. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As long as he didn’t leave spots of ink on the sheets, the Dursleys need never know that he was studying magic by night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The twins were curled up on the double bed on towels spread over a spare sheet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I turned my head to the side, my ear brushed against a wet spot; tears, I realized, were running down my face and soaking the sheets. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a sheet of paper out of one of the cardboard folders and held it up for the giant to see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the next-to-last sheet—which was of a slightly different color than the rest—and idly turned it over. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I found some sheets and made up his bed for him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like I saw you do in the tea-candle flame, she grabbed the corner of her white sheet and wiped her tears. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of this book,” he whispered, “but I never thought…” He was talking like you would talk just before Mass. He opened the front page, looked at the sheet of music pasted in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A police officer brought a sheet of yellow plastic from the squad car—the kind usually used for covering corpses. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The water felt good, warm and good, and when Laura came close I could smell clean sheets or spring flowers or something that fresh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Multiplying by infinity is like sticking a needle in the south pole; the rubber sheet all flings upward toward the north pole: anything times infinity is infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had gotten a Blauschein, a "blue sheet" or Gestapo-issued permit, added to his identification card, which we hoped would again exempt all of us from deportation. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Lola announced that for her death she wanted a FUNeral and for all the guests to sing Michael Jackson songs and eat a mango sheet cake with her face on it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning Coraline said to her mother, “I’m going to have a picnic with my dolls today. Can I borrow a sheet—an old one, one you don’t need any longer—as a tablecloth?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We were lying in bed, between new purple sheets I had just bought for him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was even thinner than usual and hardly made a lump under the threadbare sheet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Toy had turned white as a sheet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Someone has put a sheet over my father. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometime recently it must have leaked because the curators constructed a second roof of plastic sheeting over the top. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I would wet my pants trying to steal answer sheets, but I know what Libby means. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The black backpack that Rob and Cate had given me had been thrown into the backseat, covered in a few loose sheets of newspaper and an empty bottle of Windex. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Miss Rachel flailed relentlessly at a heaving tangle of lily pads, bed sheet, legs and arms, and twining ivy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m always on the bottom,” Arthur says, fitting new sheets onto the mattress. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Max lays down two sheets of paper, and although she cannot hear them, she can see the huge man talking Max through a set of steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dust clouds settled slowly, depositing a pale sheet on the Tunisian rug. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

For all that, when he fed a sheet of paper into the typewriter he did not forget the carbon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why?” she said, watching the emaciated chest rise and fall beneath his sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Leo and Hazel stumbled to a stop in the doorway, carrying a large sheet of hammered bronze between them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Up in the attic I carefully peeled apart the sheets of paper that were stuck together and then hung them on the clothesline to dry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It poured every day, the rain coming down in long, dreary sheets that made Luke feel worse as he watched from the attic vents. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just this same sheet that has been here for as long as we have. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I wrap several sheets of tissue around my hand until it forms a thick rectangular shape. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a mixture of anger and disappointment as I swiftly turned and marched into the cafeteria to find the sign-up sheet. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I know old Spizz. But you still have to sign this sheet saying you bought some—it’s a new law.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We had huge sheets of poster board, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The ground rose in a rippling sheet, thrusting Nina and the others back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But tonight I have my own room, the bed neatly made up with crisp white sheets and two clean quilts. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We stripped off the sheets and folded the bed back into the sofa. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She lay in bed looking at the sky, listening to the footsteps below, the voices muffled by walls and the sheets of rain punishing the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lying on top of the sheets, I touched my eyelids. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crack open the top, and between sheets of wax paper are cookies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She balls up a sheet of paper and tosses it at Michael’s table. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The side of the sheet opened just a sliver, but he couldn't see in. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dr. Barnes flipped through the stack of performance review sheets he had filled out for Mr. Larson—one for each of the last seven years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A square sheet of cardboard lies in the center of the pillow. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He shoved everything into the sheet and tied it in a bundle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I roll the dirty clothes and sheets into a wicker basket and walk down to the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure your name is on your paper, then cover it with the cover sheet and pass it up to me.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The room has been stripped bare, down to the sheets on the bed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He scooches over as I climb under Gram’s sheets, still unmade from the last night she slept here before she went to the hospital. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Aru thought that if she were to reach out, her fingers would meet a thin sheet of glass. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mitt would dash past us to the king-sized mattress in the center of the open space and tumble on the neatly sheeted bed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he pulled off the soiled sheets he dislodged the panties I had put under the mattress. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick plastic sheets hang from rafters, creating transparent, temporary corridors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the sheets up to my chin and tucked my head between my arms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She read through it and explained the disaster to my father and then they fought, a mudslide of an argument that spewed across the antiseptic sheets and out into the hall. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And there it was: like a sheet of glass hanging unsupported in the air, but glass with no attention-catching reflections in it: just a square patch of difference. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Celia awakes to an ominous pattern of moonlight on her sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon and the children looked at her curiously as she waved the sheet of paper and the string before them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Social niceties done with, he ran his forefinger down the sheet of paper stapled to the inside-left of the folder. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His hands were huge and very brown against the white sheet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He jammed the tiller, made the sheet fast and reached under the stem for the club. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some groups have fashioned shelters with rugs and sheets of plastic draped over sticks poked in the ground. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far as I know, no man has signed that sheet once. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He scribbles on the sheet he’s been quizzing me from and says, “From now on we’ll be seeing her at the rehab facility.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was nothing written on the sheet of paper aside from Chubs’s parents’ name and their address, and there had never been. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Agents were now expected to standardize the way they filed their case reports, on single sheets of paper. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She looked back down at the sheet of paper, dipped her pen again, and continued. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Take each cookie and roll it in the powdered sugar. Then place it on the cookie sheet.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Zooey sat down on the bench, tentatively, then looked with very apparent interest at the sheet music on the stand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged woman handed out tests and strange pink sheets I’d never seen before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We’ve made the walls out of huge sheets of cardboard and painted on the bamboo patterns. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A conductor gives them their bedding, heavy white cotton sheets and thin woolen blankets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

White hospital sheets, white walls, white lab coats, all running together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All this was paid for with money that should have gone into repairing the roof or replacing the dry palm fronds enclosing the latrine with corrugated steel sheets. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had heard all about her, and he had seen fifth graders in the library last year, noses stuck in their dictionaries, frantically trying to finish their vocabulary sheets before English class. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and looked out, but the glass was covered with a sheet of thin ice, and the only thing I could see was the crazed pattern of the streetlight outside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

James slid over a sheet of paper filled with various hash marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the bed, bury my face in the sheets, and let out a groan. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Helen lay with Grover in the dark, on the sheets of the folded- out love seat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends tucked a sheet over him and went on with the party. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning there was a new item on the plywood road- runner, a sheet of white paper. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But I grabbed a sheet of paper and wrote down my worries anyway. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I moved the sheets over and looked down at the Arctic Tern. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The morning light had broadened, gained greater depth, and lay in a clean sheet across the bay, giving it a silver tincture. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Under the board were some sheets of newsprint I had saved, the lead piece from the statue of King George, my seeds, and the book given me by the stationer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands twisted against the pale bed sheets. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her recent letter, on a blue air-letter sheet, didn’t say so. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll Holy Ghost you, Charles Baker Harris! Rip the sheets off my best bed, will you? Cut holes in ’em, will you? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as the office manager went through the door, Ignatius rolled a sheet of Levy stationery into Mr. Gonzalez’ high black typewriter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her own hands clenched the sheets in fistfuls. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Three guys had ripped bed sheets into strips and then braided them into a rope. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I stuff the stapled sheets deeper inside my book bag, wincing as the papers crumple. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pieces of a sheet of a paper are taped to the door, but someone’s ripped it off so nothing’s left but the corners. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A fireplace had been blocked up with a metal sheet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kelly’s dad gave a firm nod and returned his attention to the next piece of sheet music on the pile in front of him. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘We’ve got seventeen officers staying with us. We got sheets by the dozen.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my tender skin has toughened enough to withstand the pressure of sheets, more visitors arrive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was a sound familiar to all of them, its thunder rumbling across them as though they were long sheets of glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crisp blue-and-white-striped sheets were drying on the clothesline, snapping in the wind. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The children took the blankets and sheets down from the doorjambs and came back into the living room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only about two-thirds of the little boxes on his sheets of paper had been checked. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Much better than seeing it covered by a gray sheet in the corner. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to start using the second bedroom, creating a private corner with a sheet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All Scoob knows is every time she moves, it sounds like somebody’s ripping a sheet of paper. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

When my father brought me there each month, Mister Iponga would drape me in a tattered sheet and say, “What will it be?” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I take the box, trot down to the parlor, scoop up all Dad's notes and diagrams plus the information sheets about the electric blanket, and toss them into the box. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pop, tangled in sheets, sleeps on his back, both arms crossed over his eyes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

There’d be no nosy neighbors watching, no motorcycles and cars, no sheets and towels and laundry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slips the sheet onto a clipboard and hands it over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Their feet pounded and thundered on the ground and left a great sheet of dust behind them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, Ugwu wanted to ask them to stop, so he could explain what kwashiorkor was—perhaps he could read out to them how he described kwashiorkor on his writing sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I...I was going to get some more sheets,” Ophie said, one hand on the door handle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As he struggled to lift the awkward sheets onto the roof, wind caught at them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to see but rain, sheets of it, and muddy water pooling at the bottom of the garden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table were white sheets of paper fastened together by a metal clasp; it was his signed confession. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wrinkles in Bullet's forehead smoothed out like a sheet pulled tight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was a very beautiful thing, this Golden Ticket, having been made, so it seemed, from a sheet of pure gold hammered out almost to the thinness of paper. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

White sheets of water, knocked high in the moonlight by his churning feet, gleamed like thousands of tiny white stars. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved his legs under the sheet, then his arms. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear music coming from the truck radio, Sam Cooke singing “Another Saturday Night,” then May calling across the yard to Rosaleen, something about getting the sheets off the clothesline. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I briskly made it up using the one set of sheets I’d brought. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When I’m naked I lie down on the examining table, on the sheet of chilly crackling disposable paper. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding a long sheet of paper dense with writing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid filled her sister’s thin hands with carrot candy, melon candy, and sheets of beef jerky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I toss the note back onto the bed, eyeing the sheets before giving them a quick whiff to be safe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The sheet had been pulled over Bessie’s body and he could not see her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But often there were sheets and towels hanging to dry through the bars of windows, and this touch of domesticity always gave them hope. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though the sheets have little dollies on them.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Above them hung a sign, a sheet stretched between clothesline poles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia carries her son upstairs and gently places him on the fresh sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked on the path together, a small girl in a bright orange anorak and a small boy in a grey winding sheet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Wall would be flowing off to the south, the melting ice mingling with warm rain to wash down in sheets and rivers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chronicler shook his head as if to clear it, set out a new sheet of paper, and nodded. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The men were not given sheets, blankets, or pillows. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash can and together we walk toward the training room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There weren’t really that many names on it: two sheets, single spaced, three columns across, alphabetical order. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Would you be Jon, then?” he inquired in a lilting New Zealand accent, glancing at a sheet of photocopied passport photos depicting Rob Hall’s clients. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And there on the small screen was the burnt house, and the crowd, and something with a sheet over it and out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berosty took up the great table of red stone as if it had been a sheet of tin and brought it down on Herbor’s head. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I led Diego to the bed, and we eased under my sheets, letting instinct and hormones take control. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a white inspector came to our school and filled out a report sheet, or I might see white department store clerks when we bought various items. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We help her put down sheets, Viola still scowling, my Noise a buzzy red. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pong's fingers gripped the edge of a sheet of plywood. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Like most families, Becca’s parents had nailed sheets of plywood over their windows and glass doors to protect against the storm. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lark pulls the sheet back across her face. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After they’d been cleaned, my brother Tyler chose one and set it on a sheet of black plastic, which he folded over the rifle, sealing it with yards of silvery duct tape. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I made some notes on a sheet of yellow paper on the nature and quality of being alone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily flipped to a clean sheet of notebook paper and, in their secret code, wrote, Raven hid forty-nine copies of Maltese Falcon around San Francisco. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The lower windows were all boarded up on either side of the hallway, done professionally with sheets of reinforced plywood, backed with crossed two-by-fours. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But just like hiding under covers, you know if something bad wants to get you, the sheets will offer no real protection. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hefted the sheet, groaning at the cumbersome load. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A young boy lay on his stomach, the sheet drawn up to his waist, so that he appeared to be cut in two. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They peer into taxidermists’ drawers full of feathers and talons and glass eyeballs; they flip through two-hundred-year-old herbarium sheets bedecked with orchids and daisies and herbs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Oh, how I do wish I had a nice house of my own to live in, a house with beds in it and real pillow and sheets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With more people under one roof, laundry day began early and clean sheets were a priority. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth covers Dad’s skinny body with a new sheet. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t paper, but sheets of thin mesarthium, etched all in symbols. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The baker at El Caribe brought in a huge sheet cake on his shoulder. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She tapped the green sheet and smiled, tossing Ivy a thumbs-up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was something about those sheets that made me grown enough to take the whipping I had coming to me for the disrespect I was about to show my grandmother and great-grandmother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was silent, occupied with some plans for the foundation which she was writing on a sheet of paper held against the undulating front section of the board. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she ran from the room, I grabbed the sheet and bundled it around my hand to form a compact, pressing it over the wound in Haskel’s side in an effort to stop the bleeding. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lourdes pulls a sheet of tissue paper from a metal dispenser and places it on the scale with a cookie. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still wasn’t tired, so I stripped the sheets off my bed and went over to the pink house and got a set of clean ones, careful to tiptoe around and not wake anybody up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside is the part that looks like the bird’s broken wing because the sheet hangs off of it loosely. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a writing quill in one hand and a big metal sheet of parchment in the other. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The one Jessie loved the most was the cartoon demonstrating a sheet music turner. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bennie yelled at the phantoms, stepping out into the center of the room with a plastic sheet wound up like a whip. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

That's where Dad sticks the information sheets and the instruction booklets and the warranty information whenever we buy something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants to work again on the human body and asks Theo to send him a book so he can copy the sheets of nude figures, as he had done back in the beginning. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her hand fumbled along the mucky sheet until it found the small book of Psalms I had dropped. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked back slowly, rereading the thick sheet of paper in his hand. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, he found Mr. Richard reading the sheets of paper he had left on the countertop. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was always getting him to sign Dr. Roland’s name to my time sheets. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was sitting behind the counter of the store one afternoon and a car full of men wearing white sheets drove past. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “I can take one side of George’s sheet. Together we can spread out and hide the nest from the adults.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She drew five lines across a big sheet of test paper—the lines about an inch apart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tore a strip of my winding sheet and wrapped it around my bosom to flatten my breasts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mom replaces Abuela’s bedding with fresh sheets and a lamb’s wool blanket we brought from home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second sheet was added to this letter, evidently days after the first had been written. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am feeling the sheets around my legs. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He thought he could get into just as much trouble for getting blood on that sheet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t, wouldn’t waste another minute dreading wash day and ironing the white sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"You help me most here, between the sheets," he told her one night after their loving as he lay beside her, his head pillowed against her breast, his groin aching with a sweet soreness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Francie bought a sheet of writing paper and an envelope for a penny and carefully wrote an application and addressed it to the ad’s box number. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see my Vocab notebook and I take the study sheet out and browse the words, and every single one seems fitting. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you may find this more to your taste,” said Poirot with a slight smile as he handed him a second sheet of paper. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Father opened it, there was only one single sheet and a second, smaller envelope. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I gathered in the sheets, I watched the gate, waiting for the rebels to arrive to arrest the Locktons and reward me with our liberty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I return to the sheet of math equations in front of me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Strapped to the back of the carriage is his trunk: large and crammed with beautiful shirts, linen, and embroidered sheets and pillow slips; a cigar case and silver toilet articles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not enough; I saw the blank windows; and that was more terrible than the specters of memory with their piercing gaze; that absence; those sheets of glass that held no image but transmission. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The boy and girl on the couch switched to blank sheets on their pads. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon a small hole the size of a dime appears in the sheet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

White had to constantly fill out Efficiency Rating sheets, grading agents, on a scale of 0 to 100, in such categories as “knowledge,” “judgment,” “personal appearance,” “paper work,” and “loyalty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Armbrust led the detectives into the kitchen, where she lifted a sheet of oilcloth from the floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He regarded her with a concerned shake of his head, the jowly folds under his chin waving back and forth, his clawlike hands clutching the sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

During the last ice age it experienced what geologists call a periglacial climate—a zone at the edge of an ice sheet characterized by frequent freeze-thaw cycles that fractured the rock. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kropp wrapped his in his waterproof sheet and put it under his head, but he cannot sleep because they run over his face to get at it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled another long sheet of paper from the roll and had me lie down on it so he could draw the outside of me, life-sized. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He thought suddenly of Lizzie on the shore and flung out his arms and opened his mouth as the sheet came upon him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The scientists and librarians still collect their keys in the mornings, still study their ancient elephants’ teeth, their exotic jellyfish, their herbarium sheets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So we remained outside until the sun finally went to sleep, tucking itself under the thin sheet of the horizon. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a pencil and ripped a sheet of paper from my exercise book. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They went into the woods and the man squatted and looked at the gray and wasted figure under the tilted sheet of plywood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The light was dimming, the road was straight, with neither house nor human being in view—nothing but land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kamal gets to his feet, goes to the kitchen and comes back with a sheet of kitchen roll for me to wipe my eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night the carpenter came again to put some sheets of iron over the door panels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once the waves began, huge sheets of ice shoved against each other, pushing towers into the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

All the kids in the Thursday resource room celebrated their birthdays with a sheet cake, and he had made a specific note when it was Valencia’s turn. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Every ten seconds or so, a new sheet of cold seawater comes flowing in. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her fingers had been shaking as she took the sheet of paper out of her sleeve, but no one noticed anything when she slipped it into the pages of the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just across the street is the New York Times building, a towering sheet of metal, and—my God, it’s like nirvana—to my left, an Applebee’s. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, he removes a sheet of paper from his briefcase. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

George had even seen sheet music peeking out of the freezer a few times. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She’d said it wasn’t anything personal and after I had proved myself for two or three months I could get a proper cloth sheet, but until then she had to protect her mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see the big deal over ironing sheets,” he said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Writ out underneath the sheet in letters di-rect on the board was: half a hour on Sunday morning wondering where everyone was at. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The nurses brought me delicious meals three times a day, with fruit cocktail or Jell-O for dessert, and changed the sheets even if they still looked clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping inside, I saw a white bedroom set with cream sheets. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, they have looting’ on his arrest sheet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Out of some perverse pride, Uncle had told them to use those sheets for the tent. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other sheets dropped to the floor, unheeded. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The ceiling looks like a night sky covered by a sheet of stars, with green and red streaks of what look like Northern Lights dancing from one end to the other. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was note-paper also in the drawer, thick white sheets, for rough writing, and the note-paper of the house, with the crest, and the address, and visiting cards, ivory-white, in little boxes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the next hour, I sit and fill this sheet with palm trees along an imaginary shoreline. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Radar was furiously swinging Alex’s backpack in his mouth, shaking it like a rag doll, spilling notebook paper and sheets of homework everywhere. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The kitchens are a row of gas burners and open grills set on a concrete slab beneath a sheet of corrugated metal. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a few moments in front of each cell, checking whether an inmate was breathing by the rise and fall of sheets and blankets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” she said, gathering up the sheets of paper. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He swung it backward with both hands and connected with Newt’s head, sent him sprawling across the bed as a small spray of blood sprinkled the sheets. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself from the tangle of sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She shivered; the silk sheets held no warmth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every night Mami pulls open the sofa and makes the bed, tucking the sheets into the wire frame that scratches her hands. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the next shelf are paint bottles and stacks of paper, everything from thick watercolor paper to filmy sheets of jewel-colored tissue paper. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he tears off a sheet of paper, folds it once, and slides it over to me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I lie, then, inside the room, under the plaster eye in the ceiling, behind the white curtains, between the sheets, neatly as they, and step sideways out of my own time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies the sheet like he needs glasses. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

During the last ice age, this was about as far as the ice sheets got. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luma held up a stack of papers—contracts she expected her players to sign—and passed a sheet to each boy. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of it all was the sign-up sheet for the Fall Fiesta talent show auditions. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I hug my knees, covered by the sheet, and watch him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are sheets of paper taped to the door, a collection of finger-painting projects. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He drew a clean white sheet up to her chin and raised her to slip a fresh pillow under her head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Bosun’s mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn’t confess his sins double quick,’ said the British captain. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a particularly dazzling one of bright purple silk sheets. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had arranged the slices on a metal cookie sheet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes straight to my bed and pulls away the sheet that’s spread over me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The sheets are made of soft, silky fabric. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s possible. We’ll know pretty soon. Best to be sure about these critical matters. Best not to leave it to chance. This info sheet about me.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Staining the white sheet, running off the sidewalk, spilling over the curb, screaming its redness into the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The day broke, humid and overcast, with the wind warm and the sky a dense blanket of grey clouds that looked like bunched-up, dirty cot­ton sheets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have answer sheets for every single subject at school?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A frayed scandal sheet called Madam Solaina's Secrets is tucked between two pages. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I whisper, “Hush. Sleep,” and tuck the sheet beneath her chin. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She begins to scratch something down on her score sheet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was a standard sheet, apparently, that they gave all the new recruits at the Anthem Mental Health Center, the building in downtown Brooklyn where this brain evaluation was taking place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He chewed the end of his ballpoint pen, then turned over the sheet of paper. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The sheets go up and down, revealing her face, exhausted, euphoric, resigned, impatient. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the other end, sitting on his little seat, the conductor was entering up figures on large sheets of paper. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked in, he saw sheets laid eerily over all the furniture and even on the carpet, as if an arctic landscape had lifted itself and dropped into a parlor in Phippsburg. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That distortion—the curvature caused by objects sitting on the sheet—is gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Slowly, tearing each sheet to ribbons, he fed them to the fire upon the hearth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the doctor came and pulled a sheet over Joey’s head and took him away. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

When it started down in sheets, I said, “Why don’t I tell about Raw Head and Bloody Bones?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There be many such sheets on the lines of Cite Soleil—yellow, pink, and blue. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had laid her arms outside of the sheets. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the counter, right by the microwave, lay a sheet of torn-out notebook paper. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The girl held off fitting three sheets of paper between the planes of her stapler. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The silk sheets, clenched in Ruby’s fists, burst into flame, and an instant later the cloud burst forth rain, severing the dove-and-violin sigh and dousing her before the rest of her bonfire could kindle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Just as zero punches a hole in the smooth sheet of general relativity, zero smooths and spreads out the sharp point charge of the electron, covering it in a fog. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, I spot some sheet lightning in the distance, which is one of my favorite kinds. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The sheets came off her assembly line, one after another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Here, now there’s a fresh sheet. What do you remember?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a huge sheet cake shaped like an open book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Beto’s sheet caught on the scarecrow’s pointing finger, and he blushed as he tugged it carefully off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My sheet came unraveled and fell to my feet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pet’s mouth stretched in amusement, and a sheet of smoke dripped out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I take off my shoes and get myself under the sheet on one of Hildy’s “settees” which seems to be just a fancy word for couch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He might need a warmer sheet. He can’t tell us if he’s cold.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I look to where the window is, hoping to see either sky or stars, but the window’s covered by a sheet of metal. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z