First my shirts, then my pants, all varying shades of blue. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You mean we’re stuck with this ash for a few weeks. Great. All my shirts will end up gray. Father Mulrooney will love that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He wore one of his nice polo shirts today. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was conscious of Zach’s breathing, his shirt pulled across his chest, one arm draped on the steering wheel. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Paso Austin was held to six yards in three plays, the hapless Austin running backs suffocating under a pile of five or six raging dogs in black shirts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strings holding them in place sometimes slipped outside the short sleeves of her well-pressed white shirts, and she had to turn her back to us in order to adjust them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His jacket was Armani, and he wore a white shirt that was open at the neck and hanging out over his dark trousers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the shirt and jeans as Clarissa held the bag open for me to dump them in. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as I took a step toward him to grab it, he slipped it back in his shirt pocket, shook his head, and cracked a joke. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I washed the wound and dressed it, and then I hid the shirt with the bullet hole in it inside my mattress. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large daisy was stuck into his shirt pocket, and a purple bow tie with very thin white stripes lay against his throat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He wore a yellow shirt tucked into white pants, and something about the way he moved reminded me of Jorge Negrete, the Mexican movie star. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking myself that very question when the girl took her shirt off,” Colin said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Diego arrived to pick me up wearing a tacky Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts, and didn’t look embarrassed by either. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Others put a bit in their shoes, a bit in their shirts, and a coin or two in their mouths. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ernie had run upstairs to get a shirt on, and then he had to go to the bathroom, and now Genie, Grandpop, and Crab were all outside waiting on him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Through my shirt, her fingers felt light and warm. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, Zoe had me outfitted in a ragged flannel shirt and jeans three sizes too big, bright red sneakers, and a floppy rainbow hat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’d almost forgotten, he still carried numerous deadly weapons under that clean white shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the sack of clothing Horatio brought, I pulled on an embroidered shirt that belonged to my father and a pair of worn breeches whose loose fit would hide the roundness of my hips. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The bearded gravedigger, dressed in a filthy plaid shirt, turns to me and then back to my mother’s plot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the man’s shirt and yanked him upward, tore the Transvice from his grasp and threw it to the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Let's not,” Danny said, rolling up his shirt sleeves, "put your theory to test.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She took off her shirt while the tub filled, waiting until the last possible moment to take off her pants and underwear. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I took his shirts and his underwear, his socks and undershirts, and stuffed them all into plastic trash bags. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

On just one side — Helen and Theresa, huddled in long-sleeved shirts and polka-dot sun hats under the additional shade of a beach umbrella, laughed at him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sets the jeans gently down under the shirt and begins to walk in a slow circle around the outfit, chanting and holding her hands up in the air. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He puts on dry jeans, a dry shirt, and his two left shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head sadly, bending over the ironing board to inspect a shirt with the tip of the iron she holds in her hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked away from the mirror, unbuttoning his shirt, guilty at what he had had in his mind, as he was always guilty. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The shirt with the silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If getting Mama to agree on the shirt I’m wearing right now was a challenge, picking out something to wear to a school dance will be a nightmare. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I could feel the outline of his body under his shirt and it made me a little dizzy. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry’s shirt was stuck to his back with sweat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His armpits were sweating, and parts of his shirt stuck to his shoulder and stomach. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I scoot back under the fence, too fast this time, and rip the back of my shirt. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected from this some little remembrance—a plate of cherry tarts or a good shirt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

An inky blue tattoo that snaked up the side of his neck from beneath the collar of his shirt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He took off his shirt and pants, which left him standing there in his Star Wars: Episode I underwear. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dress in a dark green shirt and pants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She tucked the fabric into Ned’s shirt pocket like a handkerchief. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Iraq, the sounds of the national bird, the chucker partridge, play over the speakers discreetly hidden behind the merchant carts offering beautiful silk scarves and shirts. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have a shirt on,” Lark says, suddenly at his side. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I turned to Art, a black kid who was a foot and a half taller than me and whose pecs were about to burst out of his shirt and eat someone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I stretched out on the floor, balled up a One Drum shirt and stuck it under my head. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Frank took the quickest possible shower, put on the clothes Hazel had set out—an olive-green shirt with beige cargo pants, really?—then grabbed his spare bow and quiver and bounded up the attic stairs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mom said he'd have dresses and shirts and pants, and whatever he couldn't sell, he would bring home to her. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’d seen her shirt knotted up at the waist like the others’. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He emerged from behind a door, wearing a bright-blue suit with a pink shirt and sunglasses. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We had made tie-dye shirts in art class in preparation for this field trip. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I watch as Trub pulls two thin metal rods from his shirt pocket. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The boys were -well dressed, their pants ironed and shirts tucked in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Butterfly-collar shirt only halfway buttoned, and peeking out from beneath it was a small drawstring pouch hanging from a cord around his neck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed in a perfectly tailored white collar shirt rolled up to his elbows and with two of the top buttons casually undone, a pair of lean, dark trousers, and deep scarlet oxford shoes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fur sprouted on my face, under my shirt, in every uncomfortable place you can imagine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pale blue eyes worked their way down to Alfred's hands, twisting and wringing the tennis shirt. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Left with the class’s emblematic cars, Lilly Pulitzer skirts and Ralph Lauren shirts, their golf, tennis, and soccer, and, most conspicuously, their houses, they have staked out their place and inflated the American dream. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I gently touch my side, lifting my shirt to unhook the tube, surprised that the skin around it is even redder and more inflamed than it was before. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The pride—and survival—of an eight-year-old boy depended on a flannel shirt and pair of man’s wool pants. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wears a nice shirt and a pair of trousers and a big smile. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A blue-blooded American prince, who wore his black polo shirt with the collar popped under a matching cable-knit sweater. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He wore the same kind of brown shirt and trousers any farmer around Redding wore, and he spoke pretty good English. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw some fully covered with nothing but their eyes revealed, while others wore short-sleeved shirts. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Garvey, still wearing his rumpled jeans and faded wool shirt, hurried to his bedside. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She dressed in Mary’s loose shirt again and, seeing some flat stones by the bank, went to fetch her own clothes to wash them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There are more notebooks, a worn leather wallet with his driver’s license inside, more shirts and jackets, CDs or DVDs, hard to tell which. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He went to a doll’s shop, where they had things which were the right size for him, and outfitted himself completely, with new luggage, suits, shirts, and accessories. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Seanie, JP, and Joey were standing just inside the door, dressed in their shirts and ties, like they had just come from dinner at the mess hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She turns away as I take off my skirt and shirt and fold them up, and slip on the blouse. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle coughed politely, and when he saw him, Father jumped to his feet and began to brush some of the dirt from his shirt. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe he dropped something down my shirt. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He fumbled in his shirt and grabbed his dog tags, hanging on a chain around his neck. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She peeled my sticky shirt from the mass of congealed blood. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled the shirt over his head and pushed his arms through the sleeves as he heard a parade of feet charging up the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The starched white sleeves of his shirt, rolled up to the elbows, glimmered eerily in the half dark and his tan skin seemed almost black. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

These clothes are usually the shirts, pants, shoes, and jackets the members of the church’s eight study groups have given the priest for his birthday, to tide him over for the year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Huddled next to it was a dejected-looking boy in tattered jeans, a black shirt, and an old aviator jacket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She jerked at my shirt, trying to pull it up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep the Ace of Hearts in my shirt pocket. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He's wearing a loose white shirt and a half smile, like he's in on a joke that nobody else seems to realize. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A man in a striped shirt and bow tie smiled a crocodile smile. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, the shirt was up and over my head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now I had something to wear with my new USA shirt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya picked up another shirt and started folding it with way more intensity than necessary. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She wore snow boots and waders and a stained white shirt from the diner. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing my corduroy pants and plaid shirt. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Snack-sized bags of pretzels and chips were spilling out from her pockets and beneath her shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mrs. Dodds was sure poor little Nancy was okay, promising to get her a new shirt at the museum gift shop, etc., etc., The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Matt borrowed his friends football jersey, and his friend wore Matts soccer shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Old jeans littered the floor and shirts hung lopsided from hangers. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, I removed my dirty, too-short shirt and pants, and added them to a pile. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I put on the red shirt I was wearing before. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her arm, and for a moment she was afraid of him, afraid of his hard hands pressing the fabric of her shirt, thin and weak as he was. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Well, it's worked so far," I say, pinning the mockingjay back on my shirt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake was spending and doing out of his own pocket, so Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’d just gotten my clean shirt on, my book bag still needed to be packed with my lunch and Catherine’s card, and I had to go to the bathroom. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Oh my God, Mouse? He's the craziest of them all. He's always got a hammer or a jackrabbit or something stuck in his back pocket, and he refuses to wear a shirt." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He's wearing a gray and red shirt with a University of Nebraska logo printed on the front and oversized glasses, even though the lenses aren't prescription. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He drove up and down Highway One in a black Cadillac SUV, and he wore bright flowered shirts and smoked real Cuban cigars, just to let the world know what a big shot he was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Valley was silent, and Thorn worried the hem of her oversized black-and-red-polka-dotted dress shirt. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He pulls out ten or so round beads from his shirt pocket and lays them in a row in the dirt. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A guy in jeans with a plaid work shirt got out and walked over to Theresa. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank you very much for the best present, the lovely beautiful high quality shirt I have ever received. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t even notice that his shirt is on inside out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In her black shirt that hangs below her bottom and pants that are frayed at the hem, she looks smaller than the rest of the group. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Fadi’s shirt from the side and yanked him back. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I pumped up one of my arms and thought surely the muscle was going to pop right through my thin blue shirt. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His orange counselor’s shirt was dripping with sweat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sohrab couldn’t tell I was blushing all over as I pulled off my own sticky shirt, wrapped the towel around my waist, and pulled my borrowed shorts and not-borrowed boxers out from underneath. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This is how a stuffed shirt says “happen” or “occur” or “take place.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We’d just passed the fire alarm on the corner of Frances and Fleming Streets when a towheaded kid in overalls, with no shirt on underneath, waved to us from the front step of his house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is wearing jeans and a shirt, but somehow she still looks stylish. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I thought Uncle Willie sinfully vain, especially when I had to iron seven stiff starched shirts and not leave a cat’s face anywhere. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four shirts and four pairs of pants hang in the first closet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

This old man wore a blue denim coat buttoned to the throat with brass buttons, as all men do who wear no shirts. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa’s white shirt, with its perfectly tailored lines, did little to minimize the mound of flesh that was his stomach. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look at our joined fingers, at the fraying cuff of his gray shirt and the worn knee of his jeans. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Take off those I’ve Been Bad shirts, and put on these clean ones,” Mr. Trepid ordered. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our table was tall with shirts when the first concertgoers started arriving around ten. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then the wind died and his shirt settled, and she asked him to come in and sit in the front room; she would go, she said, to find her husband. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sohrab had reappeared in the doorway, dressed in real pants and a white polo shirt. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I pulled forward again, heard the shirt rip and felt his fingernails tearing the skin of my back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

His hair was combed and slicked down and he was wearing a fancy button-down shirt instead of the Patriots T-shirts he usually has on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Blood drips down the back of my shirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She pins a pair of overalls to a shirt on the line. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The shirt showed his belly button, and the pants bulged around his hips and barely covered his knees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

While the other boys draped their shirts over the blueberry bushes, Turner stepped to the edge and looked down at the blue-black rocks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He hooks his finger in my shirt collar and makes me duck down until the car goes by. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed practically for traveling, pants and shirt, and was just young enough for it not to seem improper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were each hiding portions of the manuscript in our shirts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I screamed out, recalling I had left it in my shirt on the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my favorite shirt, causing kitty litter and potato chip crumbs to shoot off in multiple directions. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I just want to ask her where she got the paint on her hand that she transferred to your shirt.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I had money to spare for luxuries such as soap and a second shirt to replace the one I’d lost. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I forgot about my tattoos, but the shirt hides them well enough. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled the fire and placed my right hand over my shirt pocket. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think that,” she said, and kissed me on the side of the face, then began to straighten my shirt and push back my hair as if looking better would mean I was better. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re going to have to bleach this thing,” she says and hands over the shirt as well. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Walton picks out some shirts: a red silk blouse with black buttons, an off-the-shoulder sweatshirt, and an argyle polo shirt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I see the front of his shirt is saturated with it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pretty and shirt was all I could come up with using my lame board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

His coat and shirt were unfastened, his skin bloodied and bruised to a deep purple. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had bright red hair and wore a man’s shirt over tight blue jeans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he dropped Ralph into his pocket, Ryan said, “And another thing. Don’t chew any more holes in my pockets. Mom didn’t Eke it when she saw holes in the new shirt I wore yesterday.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sweating from every pore as I walk, my socks squishy and my shirt sticking to my back. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The white man whose tan shirt had a star fixed on its pocket stood in front of JimmyTrotter and us and didn’t move. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But instead I stand there holding on to Finch’s shirt, and he looks down at me and shakes his head, and in a moment he starts singing Dr. Seuss again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I found a piece of a shirt at the crime scene—a shirt that’s way too small to fit the Matherson boy.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How much for that green Statue of Liberty shirt, please?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I finally found out what the heck your shirt means. I googled ‘Flint’ and you know what I found?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Pearl had bundled the shirts into her bag. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be taking my Zoloft in line behind Bobby, who is dressed in my shirt for his interview. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His clothes, on the bank, folded neatly and stacked, collared shirt on top of jeans on top of leather jacket on top of black boots. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We gather in the chapel, Ann in her burgundy Sunday petticoat and yellow bodice, and John in his just-washed shirt with a blue doublet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I managed to get myself dressed: gray socks, tan pants, white long-sleeved shirt, black and royal blue striped school tie, dark navy sweater vest, black shoes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had on his old black trousers and an old white shirt and string tie, and he was mad as heck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As we ran, they threw the clothes at us: pants, jackets, shirts . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into the pocket of the man’s shirt she wore and pulled out a pouch of tobacco. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My dad loves them. Sometimes he walks around with his shirt off, singing, acting like he’s Roger Daltrey, but he’s so my dad, and he looks like a scrawny lawyer from Boston,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked up at a couple wearing matching khaki shorts and Polo shirts with the collars at preppy salute. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was taller, but so was I. She had on a blue polo shirt, a sweater honest-to-God tied around her neck, diamond studs that glinted even under the bad fluorescent hallway lights. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing khaki shorts and a blue polo shirt, like a camp counselor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Old-fashioned velvet jackets and white shirts hung from silk hangers, and formal trousers and more shirts were folded neatly in drawers. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His shirt was unironed and his shirttails were out; and though his eyes were red, I didn’t know if he was stoned or just tired. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Underneath, he wore common clothes—a buttoned shirt, a cravat, and a waistcoat draped with a silver chain and fob—and uncommon adornments. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

John Mark, in his favorite blue bowling shirt, walks on the other side of me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Chronicler unbuttoned his shirt, revealing a dull ring of metal hanging from a leather cord. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On this night he wore a polo shirt, brown corduroy slacks—even though it was August—and battered black-and-white, $5 sneakers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders stretch broad and muscular beneath his shirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the mail there was a shirt of soft leather, but at one point the rings had been driven through it into the flesh. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I flop onto my bed in my shirt and underwear and call her back. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I yanked my braid out of the back of my shirt and let it fall over my shoulder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He’s replaced the leather bags with the black shirt and brace of knives he was wearing the first time I met him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

The count stood up, unbuttoned his vest, and opened his shirt. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I put my hand to my chest and realized that the pendant had popped out from inside my shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Having discarded his work uniform, he wore gray khakis, a matching shirt, and, like Perry, ankle-high black boots. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sends Enrique an orange polo shirt, a pair of blue pants, a radio cassette player. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I grabbed any old black shirt off of the floor, stalked past my mom as I pulled it on, and went downstairs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart beats so hard it shakes my shirt. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others wear American-style buttoned shirts and shorts in drab, stained colors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marty couldn’t think of anything he wanted, so he ordered this really null shirt. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still gets Malachy and me out of bed to stand in our shirts promising to die for Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His shirt buttons were cold against her cheek, but she could feel the fierce beating of his heart and the warmth of his skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man comes down the stairs wearing an extremely white shirt. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I take another peek at the dude in the Human Torch shirt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That afternoon I was delivered a new suit, tie, shirt, and shoes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in a brown shirt and maroon sarong, she lies on the ground with her arms at her side and her head propped up by a small bundle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding none, he took off his coat and shirt dicky, pulled his undershirt off over his head and dramatically ripped a strip of cloth from it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black shirts had torn down another hut to make way for a sound booth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Blood seeped into her shirt, around her hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the strange, shadowed lighting of my small room Dutchy takes off his belt and dress shirt and hangs them over the only chair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But they're kind of perfect too, with their smooth skin and cute sandals and layers of shirts and vests that I'm guessing is what Asian hipsters wear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before the soccer match ended, he grabbed his shirt and slipped away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their steel caps and shirts of mail must have been sweltering, yet they said no word of complaint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The smuggler says he will be wearing a red shirt and blue jeans. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She made me put on one of her long-sleeved white shirts, then placed one of the white helmets on my head and adjusted the netting. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His white Terylene shirt was unbuttoned to where the swell of his belly began. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a dark purple suit, and a starched white shirt with matching purple buttons. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he dropped the bag to reach for the bottle, it was hard to miss the ragged knuckles or the big, dusty footprint stamped on the front of his new shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kabuo turned to take in the snowfall, and she noticed the thick sinews in the left side of his neck above where his shirt was buttoned. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tad started to unbutton his shirt to use as a bandage, but Rashid was already tearing a piece of his own shirt away and pressing it to his head. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He slips his hands under her shirt and strokes her ribs with his fingers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In her hand was a butcher knife, which she raised high over her head and brought down heavily toward the smooth neck flesh that showed above his shirt collar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theo has a habit of writing lists and notes to himself on his disposable shirt cuffs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Their polo shirts were partially covered with zip-front windbreakers one shade lighter than their shorts. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Tim Miller’s brother actually took off his shirt, twirled it around and flung it, and then started unbuttoning his pants until the bus driver told him to stop. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

What Emily had decided to do was take a picture of herself in her new jeans, with no shirt on. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were constantly scraping together enough money to pay for gas, to get me lunch money, to buy me a new pair of jeans and a few new shirts. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I left my jacket at home because I wanted everyone to see my new shirt. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A shirt, pants, and what seemed to be underwear. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Black polo shirts and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball caps.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out one of Harvey’s shirts, loaded it with the cans and bags and candles, then tied the sleeves together. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This morning, she left the house in a floor-length black satin skirt and matching bolero jacket with a frilly white poet’s shirt. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The pigeon’s eye is like a polished shirt button. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A few days into this, he brought me a new gym shirt so that I didn’t have to wear my undershirt anymore. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wore a white-and-yellow Hawaiian shirt with lotus designs, shorts, and flip-flops. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy came back downstairs, buttoning a clean shirt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Henry dropped the key back down his shirt and sighed, scrubbing a hand over his face. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I leapt over the remains of a sentry fire, bumped into a gray- bearded soldier wearing a homespun shirt, and startled a man carrying two live hens by the feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolls up his shirt sleeve, revealing the tattoo of my baby picture on his upper arm. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even realized it, but I was wearing the white cotton shirt Calypso had given me on Ogygia. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She glanced at Slopper, whose shirt hem didn’t quite connect with the waistband on his jogging pants. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He’s down to the shirt; then, under it, sadly, a little belly. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They approached New Haven and Dicey took out the map, which she carried under her shirt, where the cloth and her arm would protect it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he opens his own trunk and selects a white cotton shirt and flannel waistcoat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was issued the standard prison uniform for Africans: a pair of short trousers, a rough khaki shirt, a canvas jacket, socks, sandals, and a cloth cap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily rolled shirts and pants and skirts into tight tubes and placed them back into her largest case. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His jacket and shirt hang open, his cravat is a loose tangle, and his sailor pants are worn at the knees. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He dresses for the party as he normally does, in Levi’s and boat shoes and a checkered flannel shirt. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My shirt was ruined, but when I stripped it off I was relieved by what I saw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One dressed in a striped red shirt, matching knit hat, and round black glasses raised his hand in greeting, and the woman dressed as a mad scientist added, “Morning!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He favored joke ties and Converse with his khakis and button-down shirts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His hands were wet, and his palms were so callused I could feel them through the cotton of my shirt. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I'm angry with Mouse Girl for tearing my shirt and being so whiny. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her astonishment was almost greater than her fear of him, which was real enough, and she pulled herself up, dazed, and seized his shirt in supplication. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed similar to the last time I’d seen him: beach shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and sandals. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Silence, please!” the blonde casting assistant screams, bellowing over the buzz of mothers putting makeup on their girls; of boys singing scales; of every other child nervously retucking-in his or her shirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They finally brought Walter into the courtroom wearing the black suit and white shirt I'd brought him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a tear in his shirt in the center of his back and blood was soaking through the cloth, but sweat was running off his pale face and he was breathing hard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my shirt and showed her my patch. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my satchel that dropped, pull down my shirt, and head home to wait alone for Daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby wrestled with my shirt one more time, then stood on my lap, both hands on her hips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the still air, the room turns hot, nearly suffocating; perspiration trickles down the migrants’ faces and soaks their shirts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The front of his work shirt was crusty with vomit, and he was sweating profusely, even in the cold. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He wore a plain canvas jacket and a checked shirt, like many gyptian men; there was nothing to mark him out but the air of strength and authority he had. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He took a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket, tapped one out, then put away the pack and rebuttoned the pocket flap. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She crosses the landing and opens the wardrobe and, with the tip of her cane, reaches through the hanging shirts and raps three times on the false back wall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His shirt is filthy and untucked, puffing out from behind his suspenders. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The other men were dressed more simply—in breeches and stained white shirts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, much to the scribe’s dismay, he picked up the shirt Chronicler had bought back in Linwood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once she pulls away I sneak in the rear entrance and run straight to the basement and strip off her clothes and change back into a regular shirt and skirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the front of his shirt and showed me where a big square with a letter T in the middle of it was branded into him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That was easy to do because Rufus only had two shirts and two pairs of pants and Cody only had three shirts and two pairs of pants. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suit, the tie, the shirt he liked best. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me, I feel a light tug as Safaa holds my shirt. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully folded, a silk shirt, faded pale and creamy—except at the seams. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could see was a tiny patch of Otto in front of my eyes, his wiry hair and a few fingers of his good hand where they curled on my shirt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture of Grandpa Ted and me wearing matching flannel shirts, getting ready to hike. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Then, flicking at the rest of the crumbs on his shirt, he said, “Must be off,” and on down the sidewalk he scurried. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken on a ghoulish quality; Taylor had affixed several black shirts to poles outside her cave and lit them to make torches. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As he told me about his upcoming work day, I fished under the neck of my shirt and brought out the silver chain that he’d given me for my fourteenth birthday. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sasha stood in the hallway outside Department 11, wearing a vest, button-up shirt, and bow tie paired with a long skirt and ballet flats. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Armin let the shirt drop and put an arm under Falconer's head as he sighed heavily and lay back. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

While I stood debating, my mother went into the bedroom and came out with a stained white shirt and a pair of faded black shorts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whipped off his shirt, ran a fingertip up his spine. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The girl set the cup on the floor and put her hands out for the shirts, palms up. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He's in a simple black shirt and pants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My new school, Our Lady of Mercy, was a polite and proper private Catholic school, with girls in plaid skirts and navy polo shirts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He reached over to his shirt lying crumpled at the foot of his bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s on you,” he said, closing his notebook and putting it into the pocket of his shirt. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was dressed casually—in blue jeans and a denim shirt and hiking boots—but something about the . woman radiated power. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And every day is mopping, washing clothes and ironing shirts so they don’t go getting out of hand, and generally keeping things clean. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The masked figure grabbed the front of Goober’s shirt and twisted hard, pulling him forward. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us start down the sidewalk and pull our shirts over our mouths and noses. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In what must have been an excruciating effort, he had pulled a neat white dress shirt and tie over his ravaged chest. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Blunt was getting into the Rolls-Royce, the driver leaned down to open the back door and his jacket fell open, revealing a stark white shirt underneath. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My shirt creeps up my body, and I don’t pull it down, even when I feel cool air on my stomach. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That man is wearing three shirts,” Tyson said, like he was just realizing this. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I tugged at the front of my own shirt to make my point clear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I found myself another shirt, made by one of the fancy brands. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Apa sits in the passenger seat, shaven and clean, wearing a white shirt and the only tie he owns, the one he wore on the plane from Korea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Funny thing is I knew what the shirt said because of the two Os in the middle. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I look down and see that I'm wearing jeans, a green polo shirt, and gray sneakers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Meggie stroked his arm where his shirt hid the long, pale scar. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

I’m wearing a blue plaid button-down shirt, half tucked in like a J.Crew model. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They spent another half an hour cleaning up all the mess, hanging up shirts and dresses, and refolding pants, and then they went down to make dinner together. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

You don’t remember growing too big for your shirt, but sure enough, there’s your belly button, sticking out for the whole wide world to see. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Adele had arrived at that point, and as we looked at the shelves of musty clothes, arranged by category—shirts, jeans, shoes—we couldn’t help but giggle. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Billy’s jacket and shirt and undershirt had been hauled up around his shoulders by the violence, so his back was naked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie stands clutching and pulling at his red checkered shirt as they argue over him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her shirt is stuck to her back from sweat. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She nods her head and puts her hand up my shirt and leans into my neck. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kira looked at the stone pendant that rested against his blue shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her new jeans and her cowboy shirt were in a dark pile in the bowl, and her shoes were crammed under the lip. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Nita grabbed him under his arm, yanked at his shirt, dragging him higher. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twirling it between his fingers for a moment, he tucked it into the top buttonhole of his shirt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was in shorts and a button-up shirt, his jacket charred from smothering the flames. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw a heavily built man, probably in his late sixties, wearing a rather tired tweed jacket, his shirt open at the neck. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t a Sunday shirt, and I wasn’t planning to.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Eleanor slouched down and put Park's T-shirt on underneath her own, then pulled the dirty shirt off. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I bail after a mile again, and I have to resist the temptation to take off my shirt so the cold water can sizzle off my ribs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Our school uniforms were white shirts and dark blue pants or skirts. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his usual leopard-pattem Hawaiian shirt, walking shorts, and tennis shoes with black socks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The skin beneath his eyes is puffy from too much sleep, and he's wearing a blue and gray plaid shirt and jeans that fit him way too good. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sliced the tip of his spear down Jason’s chest, ripping his purple shirt into a vest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Frank’s old centurion badge was pinned to his shirt, despite the fact that the demigods of the Argo II were now Public Enemies Numbers 1 through 7 back at Camp Jupiter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One son was in a cap and gown; the other son and the father were wearing shirts and ties, while the mother had on a striped suit and a floppy hat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They wore their hair long on the side and sometimes wore shirts that seemed too big. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And Chester’s work shirt, and that calico I gave you.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His shirtsleeves are rolled up and he’s sweating; his shirt’s armpits are brown. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He dropped his shirt back down before I could examine it further. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After the letter arrived, my father made a decision: The boys at the Khushal School would no longer wear the uniform of shirt and trousers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The spike of a helmet projected from the middle of his silken turban and he wore a shirt of chain mail. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

As he gasped for air, the hot sauce splattered his face and ran down his shirt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Piggy came with it, in shorts and shirt, laboring cautiously out of the forest with the evening sunlight gleaming from his glasses. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Eventually they had a stack of shirts, jeans, a denim jacket lined with sheepskin, and a pair of boots. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The wind’s billowing his shirt against his chest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She’s ashamed of the way we look with the dirty old torn shirts, raggedy ganseys, broken shoes, holes in our stockings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to drip blood on my clean white shirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he reached the little cleft where the road came through, the afternoon wind struck him and blew up his hair and ruffled his shirt. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole clawed his way out of the sleeping bag and fumbled into his shirt and pants. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, Albert? You bought the same shirt five times?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She saw that he was wearing his one Sunday suit and that underneath his shirt he bore the rash of the banana company. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She, by contrast, was leaning into his side, nestling her head on his shoulder and holding on to his shirt at the elbow awkwardly with both hands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And can you please put on a clean shirt? You’ve been wearing the same one for days now.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

How good it felt to drop his heavy satchel, unbutton the starched white shirt, tear off those stiff school shorts, and jump into the refreshing water! Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She put one hand protectively on her denim shirt, like she was about to say the Pledge of Allegiance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"And do you usually put your lunch on the front of your shirt, Nigel? Is that what this famous doctor father of yours has taught you to do?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth thought about wearing his Hitler Youth uniform, but settled upon wearing good brown trousers and a white shirt. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The red cloaks wore mail shirts over boiled leather and steel caps with lion crests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mark had ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of his shirt to wrap around his nose and mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I could pull one on over my torn shirt; I could sit at the entrance and keep watch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sleeves of his fading black shirt and pants are rolled up, showing us muscular calves and forearms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts up his shirt, flashing his piece. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But the angel was equal to that: he became a mouse and crept into Will’s shirt as if he were shy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clothes were padded with tissue, and atop the dress shirt was a stuffed pillowcase with lipstick features. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Doha looked at his sister, who clutched at the neckline of her shirt, her eyes worried. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I put my shirt back down, trying not to let the fabric rub against the area. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I watched as he bent over his new gray shirts, pushing his glasses up on his nose while applying a precise military crease to the middle of each breast pocket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was packing, a playmate came to tell me that one of my shirts was hanging damp upon the clothesline. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched him walk away, a thickly built man in khaki trousers and a short-sleeved shirt that looked crisp from ironing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned my back to him and raised my shirt a little. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had barely noticed him until after the bombing, when he said, “The mud will stain your dress,” and helped her up, Okeoma’s shirt still wrapped around her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Standing with his back to us is a boy in jeans and a fitted polo shirt—white, taller than me, hair totally covered by a backward baseball cap. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I put the can back in the fridge and tuck my shirt in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a green surgeon’s shirt with jeans and flip-flops, which was probably not standard hospital protocol. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I balled up my shirt and stuffed it into my backpack. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He then produced a large chunk of bread from inside his shirt along with a slice of meat wrapped in paper. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s white shirt walking out of the kitchen? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I blew up at dinner tonight. And then Mr. Patterson told me that Fred had wanted to give me the necklace,” I said, pulling it out from inside my shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The two officers on the sides wore brown shirts and pants, but the man in the middle wore the black of a senior officer. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed at the coffee stain on my white shirt. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He tends to sport black jeans that are on the tight side, and a silk shirt. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He turned and pulled up his shirt so that I could see the crisscross of long red welts. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were twigs in his hair, an arresting new tear on his flannel shirt, and a trickle of dried blood on his forehead. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Stripping off his shirt, he jumped from the ledge. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I agreed, and took off my shirt, stood on a scale, and she checked my tongue, used a flashlight to look into my eyes ... A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The trader took a picture from his shirt pocket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait in the hall until they come out again, Papi patting his shirt pocket, a gun handle visible under his belt. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He’d just stood there, doing nothing, red juice soaking through his shirt like blood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when it was my birthday she got me this necklace, I say and pull out from under my shirt collar my half of the friends forever heart necklace. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He sucked his mouth full of water and then spat the water out forcefully in one large explosion, so that the entire shirt was sprayed with water. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I spot her, a teenage girl in a simple white shirt and blue skirt, pacing back and forth on the street, watching our house, waiting patiently. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the bottom of my shirt in my hands and try to ignore the pounding in my chest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I waved nonchalantly at Tina with my free hand and hoped she wouldn’t notice the sweat stains spreading down my shirt. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arm goes around me, and I bury my face in his rib cage, tears and snot wetting his shirt. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“If you splash me again, I won’t help you get that blood off your shirt.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One or the other was always pressing pants, smoothing out a tie or ironing a shirt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night our family and Eang’s sister with another friend remove the gold nuggets from their bras, waistlines, and the hems of their shirts and pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was given a yellow Amity shirt and black Candor pants earlier as a result of that particular edict. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sanctuary had trapped the sticky heat of the past several days, which came close to stifling anyone wearing a starched white shirt with a starched white collar. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Just then we heard a car driving up, and from it stepped a figure wearing a shirt and trousers, carrying a small black bag. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a shelf in his cubicle Gabe found a clean, folded shirt and put it on. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re coming back. That island is going to be full of them,” he said, spitting on my shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He wore a clean blue shirt, overalls, and a leather apron. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We think the shirts are a little too splashy,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Harry watched, horrified, as she tore open Ron’s shirt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Thank you very much for the Nike shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a blue shirt and suntans and white socks and black shoes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled on my jeans, shirt, and sweater and hurried downstairs to the kitchen, where Mom already had the radio tuned to WELC. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know she’s right, so I pull off the red shirt I was wearing and put on the blue one instead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a red silk waistcoat under a snuff-colored coat with silver buttons, a starched linen shirt, and black breeches. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably because I didn't have no shirt on, and my pants were rolled to my knees, and my belt was yanked so tight that it made the denim bunch around my waist like genie pants. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Only once I realized I was looking around for Ruth May, wondering whether she was warm enough or needed my extra shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly lifted my shirt and revealed the massive gash. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And this magician does not hide handkerchiefs within his lace shirt cuffs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He is tall, with shaggy brown hair, and is wearing a flannel shirt and tight, dark jeans. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

These Latin women, even when the bullets are flying and the bombs are falling, they want to make sure you have a full stomach, your shirt is ironed, your handkerchief is fresh. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The background was sky blue, like her shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Erik pulled his shirt up to his nose and sniffed, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sport brown shirts and swastika armbands, shiny belts and buckles, and best of all, daggers inscribed with the words Blood and Honor that glint from leather sheaths. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze has a bite and my damp shirt is chill against my skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand was stinging, and the blood had started dripping off her palm and onto her shirt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I took off my shirt as I was told and knelt in the sand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we left, Cade Hernandez threw what was left of his bloody shirt down in the trash at Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the questions asked were, “Who’s wearing a green shirt?” or “Does anybody know what they want to do in the future?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I fished the Polaroid from the pocket of my shirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

First there was a white shirt with a detachable white collar. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sass led me to the government office, where there was an official wearing a suit, shirt, tie, and jacket. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Here," he says, tossing a brand-new shirt and pair of shorts at me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any clothes near my size? I seem to be going through a lot of shirts lately.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The street and sidewalks are packed with people, and we’re all sweating and wiping our faces with the bottoms of our shirts and fanning ourselves with anything we can find. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Stuart tucked his skates into his shirt, stepped gingerly onto a tuft of lettuce, and took a firm grip on Margalo’s ankles. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sharp thing seemed to be protruding and snagging on his shirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I never met him,” said Sir Bliant “It was proved that Lancelot ran mad in his shirt and breeches, until he got gored by a wild boar and died in a hermitage.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red plaid flannel shirt, faded from too many washes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found a nearly dry shirt and a pair of Levi’s that were wet only at the ankles. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She still had on the sweat shirt she'd worn to school. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

James’s hand is under my shirt, around my waist, and part of me hates myself for making him stop. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tayo watched his belly and the way the shirt stuck to it with sweat; he watched the belly quiver when Emo laughed at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They took off his shirt and bound him with wire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So I went into his bedroom and opened up the cupboard and lifted the toolbox off the top of the shirt box and opened the shirt box. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then he would spit again and try to wipe the inside of his mouth on the sleeve of his shirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him did he really love New York or was he just wearing the shirt. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing jeans, a blue-collared shirt, and what appears to be a leather vest. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was loading Hueys up on the helipad, and when the last bird took off, while I was putting on my shirt, I looked over and saw him leaning against my jeep, waiting for me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing some kind of white pullover tennis shirt. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s the trouble?” inquired Colonel Kom, moving leisurely across the briefing room with his hands in his pockets and his tan shirt baggy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dad puts on his cubicle blazer and a dress shirt with his jeans. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He wrapped up his underwear and shirt inside his shorts and put the bundle of clothes on the end of Jack's bed next to all the other guys' piled-up clothes. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I made a dash into the back of the wagon and drew on a fresh shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are too many distractions, and so I talk over the noise to Ryan, but he’s more interested in sneaking his hand up my shirt. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With timidity, I placed the three volumes of Locke upon the heap of clothes, which little library rested there rocking atop the frock-coats and shirts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All he had on underneath was a phony shirt collar, but no shirt or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She pushed it to the bottom of her laundry basket and was pulling on a clean shirt when she heard the front door open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I lifted up my shirt and showed her the bruises on my belly and ribs and back. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shirt I was putting on had just been wrapped around the gun. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some of them stare at me—I may be wearing a red shirt, but the tattoos along my collarbone are clear as ever, even from a distance. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had on his usual conservative suit, but Russo, as if expecting something special, was sporting a blue shirt with a bright red and white striped tie. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He walked quickly ahead of his siblings, hoping that nobody would notice the book-shaped lump in his shirt. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

They allowed him to change his shirt before they took him away. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Byrd slips out of the shirt, lays the collar over the hook on the back of the door, and runs a hand down it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Private Draper’s child, who hath for several days been quartered with us upon the Crepuscule, would not remove his shirt for washing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the first ones he looked happy, with his sport shirt which looked like a hospital jacket and his snowy mane, in an October Caribbean filled with whitecaps. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like a ghost shirt,” Sam said, a grim smile on his face. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up, blotting at the mess on the front of my shirt. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

This time the voice came from so close that Milo jumped with surprise, for. sitting on his right shoulder, so lightly that he hardly noticed, was a small creature exactly the color of his shirt. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had placed himself a bit to one side, and the captain’s bars on the tab of his shirt collar were all the insignia Yossarian could see. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But before I let him drink I poured water all over him and on my hair and shoulders and shirt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had softened to a mist, and his wet shirt felt cool against his skin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the tailored waistcoat was gone and his shirt was dirty with sweat and mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my clean white shirts in road maps and tied the carton with fishing line. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dress up every different way in the world: some have long shirts made from the same flowery African cloth that is attired by the women. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He catches Henry up by the front of his shirt. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We would distract the warders’ attention, pluck the papers out of the garbage, and slide them into our shirts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Neel extended the new lure, tied to the end of the sundari stick, the cub sucked hungrily at the milk-drenched shirt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now Kira found herself alone with the stranger in the blue shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new man opened the door, a square-faced Finn, dressed in shirt and trousers; red silk armbands held up his full sleeves. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the bangle inside his pocket and fastened the button Mother had sewn on his shirt to keep his earnings safe. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I just pinned him down and tried to not get his blood all over my dwindling supply of school shirts, and Chas caught up to us and kicked the kid twice in the ribs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘Down, down!’ he gasped, clutching his hand to his breast, so that beneath the cover of his leather shirt he clasped the Ring. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She has her sleeves rolled up, and I see the hint of a tattoo peeking out from under the white cotton of her button-down shirt. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a short lungi, a kurta shirt, and a cap. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Father stepped away from the podium and grabbed my shirt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Guys in black slacks, white shirts, and ties are at the table or standing against the wall, shoveling food in their mouths. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Chloe put on special skirts; I put on a special shirt. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The meaning of my shirt is not any of those things.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She no longer wore the tow-linen shirt, the one garment worn by the children. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tariq liked to wear pleated trousers, black shiny loafers, and short-sleeve shirts that showed off his newly muscular arms— compliments of an old, rusty set of barbells that he lifted daily in his yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I found the photo again under the blotter and slipped it into my shirt pocket. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a pair of blue suit pants and a crisply pressed white shirt and a red tie. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vine tattoo snakes down her neck and disappears into her corseted shirt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In my bespoke suit, my checked shirt, I smoked my medium-fat cigar until the fire in my blood subsided. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t bring himself to wrinkle his shirt by rolling up the sleeves. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It’s the shirt for football, for climbing walls, for robbings orchards. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And he looked at the white man’s bloody shirt and thought, he told Elizabeth, at the bottom of his heart: “I wish to God they’d killed you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Before World War II the factory made heavy cotton pants and shirts for farmers and coal miners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I rub the sleeve of my shirt across my lips. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I let my hair hang loose and abandon my uniform of loose shirts in favor of one that cuts across my shoulders, revealing my tattoos. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Tiara sat on the cot, her fingers worrying the hem of her new MermaidTopia shirt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A scrawny guy wearing a flannel shirt over his sweatpants counts my cash and pushes the bass at me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blushed at the thought of taking off his shirt, though he knew she’d seen him sleeping that way before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon changed from a goldfinch to a mouse and ran up Lyra’s arm to the pocket of her shirt. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I ran upstairs and I grabbed my schoolbag and I put some food for Toby in it and some of my maths books and some clean pants and a vest and a clean shirt. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pull on my own set of trousers, tucking my sleep shirt in the waistband. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He let the blanket fall and his blue denim shirt spot, while the rain took on more solid drops. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeff grumbled, wrung out his shirt, and put on the T-shirt she had given him. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Seven and Chris cough and cover their noses with their shirts. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His sweatshirt says Property of Seattle Seahawks and looks like he used it as a shirt/apron combo. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he couldn’t find anything big enough, he unbuttoned his shirt, shrugged it off, and rolled it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By now, seeing me stripped shouldn’t cause her to do anything more than roll her eyes and throw me a shirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I tuck in my shirt, sit on the cot, and reach for the top one. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was now decently clothed in a "sport shirt" open at the neck, sneakers and duck trousers of a nebulous hue. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t have any tools here, so if you could unbutton your shirt a little, I’ll need to press my ear against your chest.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I check to make sure I've tucked my pendant beneath my shirt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On big game days, we were allowed to wear Granger sports gear instead of our usual school uniform of khaki pants, white shirts, ties, and boat shoes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I can tell it’s him because of the shirt and underpants, not because of the belly button. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly hid the wrappers on the windowsill behind the curtain, pulled my shirt down over my belly, and took my seat. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shirts drag across her face as she crawls through. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Case in point: today’s skinny jeans and a navy plaid shirt, under a fitted gray sweater, rolled up at the elbows. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Behind her stands a skinny indigenous man in jeans and a white button-down shirt, his hair in a long braid. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she turns around to show off the back of her shirt. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The front of her thin cotton shirt was cold, damp with the tears that streamed from my eyes until, red and sore, they ran dry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I heard him move toward me, saw a blur of gray pants and blue shirt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The top button of my shirt is missing from where Charlie grabbed me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost to the door when a hand suddenly slammed against his shoulder, gripping his shirt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Mother, he’s got my shirt. Make him give it to me.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needles was heavier than he looked, and I could feel his blood seep through my shirt as I took the steps, one by one. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’m already dressed, wearing one of Donna’s uniforms: a gray skirt, a plain button-down white shirt, and a navy V-neck sweater. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Me: stocky, intense, short hair, stud earrings, wearing a man's shirt and baggy jeans—the girl with the dead dad, friends with only one person after two and a half years in this town. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He came out soon in his black suit and his hard shiny shirt and collar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a small knife, the old woman cut a sleeve of the boy's shirt and pulled a delicate red thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he would compliment her strawberry shirt, which he found irresistibly becoming. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I've got black dungarees," I say, "but no black shirts. Can I just wear a dirty shirt?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding a crisp-ironed white button-down church shirt and a comb. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mark gripped the man’s shirt and kicked out viciously with his left foot at the woman. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Alexandra, you need to put your shirt on right side out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew, I had Ria grabbing at my hair and shirt, and Cliff trying to pry me off. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He got into his pants and shirt and then his socks and boots. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warren pulls on my shirt as a way of asking me to finish what I started. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were dressed in ordinary clothing—brown shirts and trousers and muddy boots. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom pours dribbles of the ice-cold Coke into my mouth, one sip at a time, making sure I don’t spill on my shirt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The gas station shirt is gigantic—more garbage bag than shirt. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls’ shirts and stuff. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The wrinkled coverall was gone; he was dressed in a whole new outfit; khaki drill slacks, very neat; a blue work shirt; even new work shoes and a straw cap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our pants, our shirts get wet, but we don’t care. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tim and El drive me home and wait for me to change into my Chili Bowl uniform shirt. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All the kids changed into shorts and T- shirts with no shoes. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my new school here, I wear a British schoolgirl’s uniform: a green sweater, striped button-down shirt, and tights and a blue skirt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were crowds in the domes at night, spraying Gatorade from hoses, and all these college guys without shirts lifting their arms. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside is a casual black suit and an ocean blue shirt. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were about sixteen years old and they wore white duck trousers and fancy rayon polo shirts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was a True Persian by the density of his luxurious chest hair, which stuck out of the collar of his shirt. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I stretched and noticed my shirt was off. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dad went out into the hall to see who it was and I heard voices and then in walked a tall Indian man in jeans and a green shirt. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had put the money in his shirt pocket he left for home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cut free a sleeve from my shirt, wrap it twice around his leg just under his knee, and tie a half knot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were only two pairs of pants and three shirts in his closet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a dark suit, a white shirt open at the collar, and a dark skullcap. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We hid the manuscript in our shirts as we walked back to our cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they rolled around so Becca was on top of Jason, and she was sighing as she kissed him, and she was reaching down for her shirt. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

You want to tell her about this morning at the copy shop: the man in the suede shirt walking away, checking his phone. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wore blue jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a black, unbuttoned vest and a black coat. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the lady points to me and says, “They’ll love your orange shirt.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

His shirt was torn open and his clothes half pulled off. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to find my black jeans and figure out which shirts I’d pack. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freckles is working himself up a little, the top button of his white shirt straining. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, to avoid blowing smoke on Daddy’s clean shirt, she’d draw her lips to the side to exhale. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I found Danny on the third floor against the far wall, partly hidden by a bookcase, wearing a black suit, a tieless shirt, and a skullcap. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The thread led to a piece of cloth wrapped around one of the arms of the root—the remaining part of the boy's unraveled shirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They wore white shirts and little round doilies on their heads. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’s near about big, like my sisters, but doesn’t wear a thing on God’s green earth but an old gray shirt without any buttons and baggy gray underpants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shirt had been ripped down the front. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alex reaches down into the front of his dress shirt and finds the chain with his fingers, pulls it out carefully. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I must’ve had some modicum of talent, because I kept getting hired, but I wore my shirt and tie like an imposter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well—” Jen waved her hand in a way that made Luke even more aware of the contrast between his ragged flannel shirt and patched jeans, and Jen's perfect house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are still bullet holes in her shirt; through them I can see her wounded skin, red but no longer bleeding, like she’s frozen in time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“On the upside, I got pants. And a new T-shirt. Where’s the shirt, Q?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Morrie was in his wheelchair by the kitchen table, wearing a loose cotton shirt and even looser black sweatpants. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was relieved by an-other officer so that he could change into a clean shirt and wipe off his glasses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom would have made note of her good posture and lack of makeup, but my eyes wandered to her shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She tried to remember the way his crisp shirt collar stood up against his neck. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he opened the letter and read it again and folded it again and put it in his blue shirt pocket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the shirt—one of my favorites—I did not like what I saw when I looked at Hank. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The day begged for work outside—cloudy, crisp enough that you needed a longsleeve shirt but not a jacket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a white shirt and white shorts, and I could see the outlines of her white bra and white panties. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the stifling heat of the room, he wears a long-sleeved shirt that buttons at the wrists—he must have been distracted when he dressed this morning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my shirt dampen all under my arms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sweating into his wet shirt and just beginning to feel the result of sharp stones on his feet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he put the shirt over his head, I got a quick glimpse of bruising along his spine, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This shirt was thick and smelled sweet, like ripe fruit. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I squint my eyes so that everything looks blurry, I can almost believe that the skirt is fancy leather and the shirt has sequins and my skin is fair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not so fast, Joey,” she said, and snagged the back of my shirt collar as I ran by. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carried the note pad in my shirt pocket and, while I worked in the fields, memorized the information I had written in it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the shirt and held it close to his face. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ben-Ben’s dressed as Smalls in blue jeans and a white shirt, and Luis is Squints, with his thick glasses, his black cap on backward, and his striped shirt. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I use my shirt to wipe my face. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The small red gravel roads are swarmed body to body with people in their black shirts and pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her other issue is shirts that fit tight. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He stood before her in his dark blue double-breasted suit, fresh white shirt with the soft turned-down collar and a polka-dot bow tie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack pulls a small photo out of his shirt pocket. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I gave my suit and jacket and striped shirts and club ties and wing tips to a young guy who was looking for work. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then I see the number stamped on the back of his denim shirt: 105. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama gave each of them a pair of long woolen drawers, drop-seat style, and a woolen shirt with long sleeves and itchy insides. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put him in front of the fluoroscope without his shirt. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She wore jeans, a cream-colored jacket, and a white shirt that made her skin look as warm as cocoa. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a patched shirt that had faded from blue to gray. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his shirt and splashed his face and upper body with cold water, then sprayed himself with Sploosh. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was accustomed to the scratchy feel of the tow- linen shirt she wore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after this advertising was finished he waited in the front room dressed in a clean shirt and a tie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wept when he took off my shirt and saw the scar- words on my back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point the gun at the bird on my shoulder, and it detaches from my shirt in an explosion of blood and feathers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Beowulf had put his arms through the pant legs and had a shirt tied loosely around his waist. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We found two dresses I didn’t hate, and we picked out some other things I really liked: overall shorts, striped shirts in several colors, and a pair of designer jeans. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The chain I always notice peeking out from beneath his work shirt carries a patron saint pendant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a pastel polo shirt and pleated dress pants. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The rats scampered up him, burrowing into his pockets, into his shirt, up his trouser legs, down his neck. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Then she would safety-pin the card to the front of your shirt, and you’d have to wear it for the rest of the school day. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took it out from under his shirt and gestured for me to hide it quickly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen him in anything but those tan khaki pants and a tan shirt with a number on the pocket. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When her hands move to my shirt, I open my eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He handed us his shirt, his pants, his socks, and his underwear, and then he turned, bent over, and spread his cheeks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore black breeches tucked into tall black boots and a full white shirt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the dark suit, the dark skullcap, the white shirt open at the collar, and the fringes showing below his jacket. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In my closet, on the top shelf behind stacks of books and shirts, I find Dad’s dollhouse. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But before I could run, a man grabbed me by the shirt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As Prince sang about controversy, Moss began to pull out shirts and flannels. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Britain stops in the middle of putting on his shirt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The soldiers made us run, beating us with clubs if we took too long to find new pants and a shirt, so we took whatever we could as fast as we could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Armin forced Julian's hands away and pulled at the neck of the shirt, laying Julian's torso bare. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see one of my old shirts peeking out of a box, a faded red-and-blue button-down from the thrift store I was always too embarrassed to wear. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When we met for our first trip, Deborah got out of her car wearing a black ankle-length skirt, black sandals with heels, and a black shirt covered with an open black cardigan. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As the crowds thicken, I grasp Baba’s shirt so I don’t lose him. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fabric of Yishan’s shirt was still clenched in her fingers, and she swayed with the gentle motion of BaiMa’s walking. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I took off my shirt and tore it into strips. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oscar who was on the football team before he graduated from high school grabs Charlie’s shirt and tears off two buttons. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rosemary guides my arms into my good shirt, and few minutes later leans over me, tugging the edges of my bow tie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his classroom outfit: slacks with a button-down shirt and tie. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Max tugs at the hem of my shirt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Others are wearing shirts declaring their favorite professional players. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Above his unadorned white shirt was a fine cobalt-blue jerkin trimmed with gold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had a thicket of dark hair and wore a worn flannel shirt, rough brown canvas pants, and heavy black boots. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We have to go downstairs to Ireland to wash our faces in the basin under the tap and try to dry ourselves in the old damp shirt that hangs over the back of a chair. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I take her hand out of my shirt and place it on my hip. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wynn wore dark jeans and a white Western shirt with bright yellow panels surrounded by brown piping, paired with matching brown leather boots. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A crimson stain on the back of his white shirt spread from neck to waist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They try to ignore a Mother’s Day party downstairs, where 150 women from Nuevo Laredo laugh, shout, and whisde as their sons dance, pillows stuffed under their shirts to make them look pregnant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see the kids, change his shirt, pick up some paperwork. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He wore blue jeans and no shirt, and his chest was brown and muscular. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His bow tie trails from either side of his collar and the first few buttons of his shirt are undone. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Digger wore a nice polo shirt tucked into a pair of clean, belted jeans. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Takumi wore a starched white shirt with a red tie with a black paisley print; the Colonel wore his wrinkled pink button-down and flamingo tie. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Finally he tightens the bandage, tugs my shirt back into place, and pulls away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to change into it, you need to cut the tracker out of that shirt.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The other boys remained calm, adjusting their ties and shirts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We got into the lobby and there was a guy standing there with no shirt on and blood dripping down the front of his chest and onto his stomach and the front of his pants. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed her away and went back to the man, whose arm he was tying up with his shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Winnie remembered then that he worked sometimes as a blacksmith, and indeed his shoulders, under his threadbare shirt, were broad and muscled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leah took it all—bones, teeth, scalp—and knitted herself something like a hair shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's about this tall, wearing jeans and a green polo shirt." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some with no shirts, a couple with no pants, like that soldier on the train. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A cameraman asked if he should be getting this, and a black shirt answered by bashing in his camera. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“How do you do this every day?” he asked as I disentangled my shirt from the tubes. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Qybum was in attendance, and dour Walton in his mail shirt and greaves, plus a dozen Freys, all brothers, half brothers, and cousins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Webb looked down at his own shirt, probably seeing it for the first time in his life. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I gathered my shirt and cloak, laid them carefully over one arm, and left the courtyard, ignoring the silent crowd around me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He told them the names of each item in English as he gave it to them—“shirt,” “shift,” “apron”—then pointed out other words they would need, like “massa,” “yes’m,” and “yessir.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma chose two patterns of calico to make shirts for Pa, and a piece of brown denim to make him a jumper. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom made me wear this tie,” Connor complains as he rolls his finger inside his shirt collar to loosen it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her tears went right into my shirt; they cool and chafe now on my shoulder. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wears a white shirt, a blue sweater, light makeup on her brown skin, a simple wedding ring, and an endless smile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Using the business end of the rake, she snagged the man’s ooze- covered shirt and rolled him onto his back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She used plain white labels and cut out dots and dashes for Morse code and then stuck them on a black shirt like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She wears a sleep shirt and her hair is piled on top of her head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I check out the shirts because maybe there’s actually a winner in here. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For several days Aureliano carried a small bottle of pills in his shirt pocket. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He finally turned to her, grabbed the shirt, threw it to the side of the road, thick with decomposing leaf mold, and ground it in with his foot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tom Draper was changed into a wide, long shirt that trailed upon the ground. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I could feel it soaking the shoulder of my shirt, hear it dripping on the wood below. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lying there beneath him, his shirt opened to reveal the broad expanse of his chest, the ripples of muscle across his stomach, she wanted him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They both wear black pants and white shirts, typical Candor outfits, and his father speaks so loudly I can almost hear him from where I stand. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came my shirt, swatting it out of the tight ball it had been in for the previous five days, the wrinkles deep and seemingly permanent. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He began to scratch himself as if his shirt were crawling with fleas, which, Jemmy thought, it probably was. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers fumbled endlessly with his own shirt, with undoing his belt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he might laugh, since he doesn’t have a shirt on anyway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The man in the shirt and tie hands me his dampened handkerchief. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The great pearl was wrapped in an old soft piece of deerskin and placed in a little leather bag, and the leather bag was in a pocket in Kino’s shirt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentry let him by, but the next moment an officer, half-shaved and in shirt sleeves, was shouting at him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now wearing a dark blue jacket, with matching trousers, a blue knit tie, a thick blue sweater, a white shirt, and black shoes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Frank jogged toward them, wearing his jeans, purple camp shirt, and denim jacket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was a roly-poly man, his stomach hanging amply over the bright purple shirt he wore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rosewood handle was charred and scorched, but Will wrapped his hand in several folds of a shirt and did as Iorek told him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His dad had his “after-work look,” as his mom called it—no tie, dress shirt unbuttoned at the collar, black slacks. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Wearing the traditional crisp white barong shirt and often sporting a lei of flowers, he looked fit and handsome and was always smiling. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing me peering in, he left it firmly clamped to the table and walked to meet me, wiping his hands on his shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk away, quizzing myself: twenty-eight stools in the room, ten buttons on Mr. Landau’s shirt, four pencils and two pens in the cup on his desk. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his Lakeside Elementary Safety Patrol shirt over his pajama bottoms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Comrade Pillai took off his shirt, rolled it into a ball and wiped his armpits with it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not undress to swim in a river or even wash my shirt without fearing that my true sex would be discovered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to buy the orange one, but it wouldn’t have matched my shirt. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He took a pen from his shirt pocket but there was nothing to write on. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers have a thorn at each knuckle, and thorns ridge his arm, running up under the cuffs of his shirt, visible when he and Dain urge Madoc over. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A woman in front of us kneels in prayer, touching her head to the ground while her baby tugs on her shirt. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘Last night, just before bedtime, Colonel Smith, he sent for me ’cause he says I sent up a shirt as wasn’t his. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes—new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wears plain T-shirts or unfashionable shirts that he shares with his old man. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t feel his cell phone shoot out of his shirt pocket, didn’t hear it smash on the concrete and skitter in pieces into the gutter. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I sported baggy jeans, a sweatshirt with no shirt underneath, and a bad case of bedhead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom simply shrugged her shoulders and yanked off my shirt in one swift motion. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He told me to tuck my shirt in. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I shut the closet door and tugged my shirt over my head. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a pair of trousers and an old shirt that Osh had given her until her clothes dried out. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sohrab followed me back to my room as I put away my shirt and money. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He glanced down at his shirt and shook his head. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Immediately he rose and walked over, wiping his hands on his shirt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing blue jeans, a pink-checkered button-down shirt, and a blue hijab. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That when they take off their shirts, you can see their lungs moving inside their chests. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Someone, likely Bill again, steps close to me, and I jerk in surprise as the back of my shirt is grabbed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He sobbed into my shirt and I let him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the cub stayed at the back of the cave, sucking the milk only when the shirt came close to her. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wore no makeup, and her loose flannel shirt gave her a lumpy appearance. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I slipped my arms into the sleeves of Stick's green shirt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ray grabbed me by the poncho and shirt and chest skin, and pulled me down so I wasn’t such a big target. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But it came—like a hot iron across my back, burning into me through my light shirt, searing my skin... Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A redheaded white man in a sports shirt stood up, faced the rear and called out to the Negro, “Didn’t you hear the driver? Move out, man.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unbuttoned my waistcoat and the first two buttons of my shirt to provide some relief. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chaol tossed his cape on top of hers, his toned body flexing through the dark threads of his shirt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sees her in her baby blue shirt and big hat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even in the sun, I shivered in my light khaki shirt. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember the shirt I am wearing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Grandma believes in God, but she doesn’t believe in taxis, so I bled on my shirt on the bus. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she doesn’t sell a billion shirts and twelve million belts on Black Friday, the world will end. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He owns one shirt, polka-dotted, which he wears rolled up to his elbows, and a greasy pair of trousers too long in the seat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a small bag with an extra pair of pants, some underwear, an extra shirt, and a notebook. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

You will find a shirt in this package, too. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When we stopped at various points to discuss the state of the sanctuary, Otto would quickly lose interest, pressing his face against me and play-biting my shirt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I walk back to my car, get in, turn on the heat, and wipe my face on my shirt. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My laptop is getting wet, so I tuck it beneath my shirt, as soon as I step out onto the sidewalk. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So we made our own shirts to go with his. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t prepared for the mass of black shirts coming at him in a crazy blur, like hungry rats jumping over each other’s backs to get to a speck of food. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just take it from one of the huts,” Agent Jones shot back, and the black shirts tore the walls from Tiara’s home. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Welcome, guys” were the words Coach Gary Gaines used to begin the 1988 season, and hfty-hve boys dressed in identical gray shirts and gray shorts, sitting on identical wooden benches, stared into his eyes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the gentlemen, a man in a beaver hat and frilled shirt, turned to hand a woman down the coach step. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

That he seemed incapable of buttoning up his shirt, knotting his tie and tying his shoelaces before presenting himself for a job interview. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed for batde in an armored shirt made from tree bark and twist ties, with his wooden cudgel and his reed pipes hanging from his belt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“She must be hot. She probably doesn’t wear her grandfather’s plaid shirt.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

As Miss Duncan and Katherine resume their conversation, I reach into my shirt and touch my penny. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Fang pushed the moldy shower curtain to one end of the tub and started unbuttoning his new shirt, already ragged after a couple hours on my buddy’s back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But at least in the past I’d go trick-or-treating with her—even if my costume was random: some ripped-up jeans, one of Daddy’s work shirts, and some powder thrown on my face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing my best jeans, my boots, and an old red shirt that’s faded to orange. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A man with black curls and a short-sleeved white shirt slams him against the wall. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He concealed it under the shirts in his bureau and went to bed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the house across the street and fold my arms across my chest, as if I just opened up my shirt to reveal my sports bra too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Since when do gangsters wear GUESS? shirts with Levi pants at the waist? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eleanor, today, was wearing her sharkskin suit jacket and an old plaid cowboy shirt. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The gaoler was a scarecrow of a man with a rat's face and frayed beard, clad in a mail shirt and a leather half cape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had thought that shirt might conceal something like innocence or a kind heart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a fistful of his shirt, pushed it up to his chin, forced his head back. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

For a moment, there was a fleeting memory of those shirts, but it was gone with the realization that they had been rescued at last. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Alec pulled a shirt over his head, then peered down at Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For a week he had been carrying an old-fashioned pistol under his shirt. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As we entered, the latter eyed me suspiciously on account of my school uniform: long grey flannels, white shirt, shiny black shoes, a blue-and-gold blazer with a matching tie. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the idea of him seeing me in the shirt makes me really self-conscious for some reason. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Afterward, as I wiped my mouth on the hem of my shirt, I heard a sound break through the darkness, a cry so piercing it made the bottom of my heart drop. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All are wearing beautiful black shirts and pants, not the faded, gray-black I have on, but shiny and new, with bright red scarves around their waists. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too fast for her to block, he grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and hurled her back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I felt Beau paddling beside me, his teeth still holding on to my shirt. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His shirt, tie, and shoes were color- coordinated, evidence that Vera had dressed him for the occasion. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then Cora caught sight of it—the single drop of wine staining the cuff of his lovely white shirt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe today I’m wearing the true lucky shirt. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Okay, so you guys, pick anything you want on the menu," Coach unbuttoned the top button of his shirt. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

What a landing party we were as we stalked about, identically dressed in saddle oxfords, long-tailed shirts, and pastel cotton pants, but all so different. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has olive skin and wears a brown shirt—he is the only transfer from Amity. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you’ll be able to last the afternoon without bleeding over your shirt, Turner?” his father asked. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Salvadoran stripped off his shirt and used it to wrap a tourniquet around the leg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Blood wicked into his shirt and smeared over his neck and jaw. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He put on a pair of clean cotton pants, and the blue tennis shirt with the little alligator on the pocket that Mrs. Elversen had given him for Christmas. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Monkeyman took off his shirt and just stood there in his bare skin and held his hands out and his head to one side. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of one of the drawers he lifted a finely woven broadcloth shirt, carefully cut, and very pink. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want to put your shirt on, you can. You will stay with me tonight, keep us warm as two, yes?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I start slipping the tails of my white shirt back under my skirt. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Only the shirt beneath it was black, and he had a black feather in his buttonhole. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He tugged at the collar of his shirt as if it choked him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the striped shirt slowed and then stopped the roller coaster as it pulled into the station. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then, without saying a word, she pushed up the sleeve of her shirt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He felt Miss Hennepin’s bony fingers turn down the collar of his shirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a black vest over the white shirt now, and a gold watch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing this shirt that was clingy and shiny and maybe a little bit see-through, with a skirt that just wasn’t quite doing its whole job. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt Spider crawl underneath his shirt at the base of his neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The calico slipped out of its knot; I pushed back the layers of muslin and uncovered a rainbow of patches—ticking and shirt cloth, gingham and calico, in faded blues and greens and yellows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She pulls me toward her by the front of my shirt and kisses me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The General grabbed him by the shirt and lifted him right off the floor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One man remembered seeing a man’s burning shirt sail into the sky, its sleeves outstretched. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She suggests I change my shirt and offers to curl my hair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was amazingly well dressed, in a light-pink jacket with a ruffled shirt underneath. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Once back in the lobby, she sat down on a bench and picked tiny bits of popcorn off her shirt. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My half-sleeve collared shirt came from a thrift emporium at the border between Lake and Winter. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When I walked into his living room he was standing on a plastic folding chair in a bright turquoise shirt, changing a lightbulb. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jonas smiled at her in admiration and affection, but his own clothing, even on Feast Night, was simple: a homespun shirt over coarse trousers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few steps away, an abandoned satchel still packed with clean shirts lay open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she returns, I have managed to undo three buttons on my other shirt. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Lord will provide, he chants, then he takes off his shirt and begins to beat back the flames. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I glanced at Jenna, who was staring at the hole in her shirt. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A short, sturdy brown man in a bow tie and a starched white jacket over his white shirt came to the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her work uniform—navy pants, navy shirt with a name tag, offset by her fuzzy, dingy pink house slippers. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She put her arms around his waist and snuggled into his shirt. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Then we Navajos tore off our shirts and began dancing around. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one big blue light that made peoples white shirts especially beautiful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Before I even think about it, that big, green slimy stuff comes flying my way, landing right on my shirt. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m a human being,” I said as I unbuttoned my dress shirt. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She stretched out the piece of white cloth she was carrying, held it by two corners, flipped it front to back a couple of times before I even recognized my shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The boys in their ducktails were mostly wearing plaid shirts underneath their open jackets, still looking like they weren’t scared of anything in the world. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I laid out the yellow shorts and the striped shirt at the bottom of my bed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She handed me something, it felt like a shirt. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He gave Omakayas two smooth sticks to clack together to frighten the flocks, and Angeline his tattered old shirt to flap in the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I banged on the car window, pulled Mom’s shirt, hit her head. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I wiped at my face with the sleeve of my shirt, and my avatar mimicked this motion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Popcorn spilled down his shirt and gathered in the folds of his trousers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was David, the red-bearded guy wearing the vest and no shirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call her that,” I said to the skateboard shirt boy. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A boy can take ofp his shirt to swim, but not his shorts. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave up quickly on choosing an outfit — throwing on an old flannel shirt and jeans — knowing I would be in my raincoat all night anyway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She kept fussing with his clothes, straightening his rasta cap and brushing goat fur off his shirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spew the berries from my mouth, wiping my tongue with the end of my shirt to make sure no juice remains. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. A good old ball-bearing cosh stuffed down his shirt.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Dark blood stains his shirt, his shoulder, his hands, the grooves of the knife hilt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The boys were neatly dressed in snow-white shirts, blazers with badges, preppy caps with badges, ties matching the badges, shiny black and brown shoes, worsted knee-high socks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is your shirt supposed to match your shoes or is that your purse? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have also received a tie, a white shirt, shoes, and an old belt. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After ’bout five or six big gulps of air I pulled my shirt up to see if any bones were poking through. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Although I'm shaking in the biting wind, I rip off my jacket, remove my shirt, and zip back into the jacket as swiftly as possible. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Preston lifted my shirt his face got really worried and he lowered my shirt again. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the corporals caught up, he had tucked his shirt back in and was pretending to study the map. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Get on. Your shirts are hanging in the kitchen.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I set her down and drop the bag and slip my shirt off my back, crumpling it up and holding it against the bullet hole. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I waited until he closed the door and backed away, mopping sweat off his forehead with the sleeve of his shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Klaus looked distastefully at each ugly shirt Mrs. Poe had bought for him as he folded them and put them into a small suitcase. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I scratched at the collar of my shirt, wishing it had tassels on it, because the silence between us had grown suddenly heavy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I slipped off my pajamas and put on pants and a shirt. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny had a black eye, a lame shoulder, a tom shirt, a bite in his wrist—that was the butcher’s wife’s mother; she had good teeth for seventy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom wants me to wear this really ugly shirt.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He turned his face away, pulled his shirt over his mouth, and dropped the pellet into the bucket. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He extricated two whole books and wiped the covers on his shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I wait in line for the bathroom, I ask the cute guy in front of me who the funny-looking man on his shirt is, and he just mumbles something and walks away. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I cannot believe this!” the mother squeals, her fingers picking up Ma’s shirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light-blue cloth a shirt, perhaps jumbled up with something dirty white. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He straightened out his wet, dirty shirt, marched stiffly to the road, and vanished around the trees. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mamá picked up one of my shirts and began folding it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like she was more comfortable out of her shirt than in it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Who cares,” Pork Chop said, tugging at the collar of his shirt. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he can be mad about anything—coffee too cold, rain or no rain, wind, too little or too much, even paint on a shirt. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The officer who’d been lecturing us reached in and grabbed me by the shirt until he could get a good grip on my shoulder and pull me out of the vehicle. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My shirt was in his fists and I was hoisted high in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The farther they went in, though, the tighter Grandpop’s grip got, and soon sweat was coming from his hands, sogging up Genie’s shirt. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was shaking even before his fingers worked her shirt buttons, tugged at the drawstring of her trousers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One Saturday afternoon, following one of our clandestine tennis lessons, he gave me fifty rands and a bag full of tennis clothes: sweaters, shorts, socks, shirts, dresses and warm-ups. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every member of the household had a clean shirt or petticoat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid into the back seat and announced, "He didn't have his shirt on and I heard a girl's voice inside the house." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday morning, their grandmother started another batch of bread, then told them to take baths and put on fresh shorts and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts her shirt and slips a gun from under the waistband of her pants, offering it to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I wish l could press my mind as flat and smooth as I press my shirt. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that maybe I was underdressed, with my nice jeans and polo shirt, but my mom insisted I looked fine. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a white button-up shirt and slacks and reciting the lines. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cardan is lying on a blanket, his head tipped back and his loose white shirt unbuttoned. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I pull my shirt away from my neck. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Years and years and years ago she had guided the tip of the iron into the seams of a man’s white shirt. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly pulled his shirt down to hide his belly, which pushed uncomfortably against the waistband of his stretchy shorts. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I realized in the silence that followed that I hadn’t spoken since answering Davis’s compliment about my shirt. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stuffed my bloody shirt into the wine pot and made it watertight with a piece of sympathy wax. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few spots of blood clung to the collar of his white dress shirt. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Martin was round all over; his cheeks drooped and his uniform shirt might have been a size too small, but he hadn’t started growing like the other kids in his cabin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She just leaped onto me and I fell down backwards and she was lying on top of me, trying to wrestle her hands down inside of my shirt. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abraham was wearing a nice shirt, and the men ordered him to give it up. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed, changed my shirt, and went out in the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a pale blue, long-sleeved shirt and faded blue jeans. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A man with a shirt frayed at the cuffs, without a jacket and wearing broken shoes, marched along reciting the Poet’s most revolutionary poems, his grief streaming down his face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, in fact, she looked exactly like Mon Mothma from Star Wars Episode IV: haircut kind of like a boy’s, and a big white shirt kind of like a tunic. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Marigold picked her way down the stairs, her arms piled so high with shirts and pants and things for her father that she practically tumbled to her death three times. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was hot on my chin and on my shirt. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This information comes from the laundry strips from several shirts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So then Mummy looks up at my shirt and smiles and goes, “Oh. Princess Diana. Very nice.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Silenus tugged his yellow polo shirt over his belly and adjusted himself on his rosebush throne. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As we get into Coach’s truck, I see sweat beads on his forehead and dark spots on his shirt where he has sweated through the fabric. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in short pants and khaki shirts and neckerchiefs, looking for all the world like Boy Scouts with swastikas on their armbands, they ranged in age from eighteen down to ten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was the only shirt he wore these days. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air had no trouble working its way through Hazel’s shirt, and she felt the bite of cold on her bare hands. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I always wear my hair down now to cover the spots on my neck and long-sleeve shirts and sneakers to cover my other ones. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I clear my throat and catch a quick look at myself in the mirror: that new red shirt and those jeans, my boring new slip-on shoes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eliu turned the pack upside down and kicked through the things that fell out, the dehydrated food packages, socks, extra shirt, matches, and the posse’s picnic garbage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a small smear of blood stains my shirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Whipped his way through the dress shirts and slacks. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Reverend and Mrs. Price and your children!” cried the younger man in the yellow shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out, toyed with a button of his shirt; in slow, facile twists she began unbuttoning it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He stands over me and takes off his shirt, momentarily blocking my sun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She raised her shirt over her abdomen and peeked under the bandage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He stops, then rolls up the sleeve of his denim shirt. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He took off his baseball cap and wiped the sweat from his face with his shirt. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was dressed more formally than I could remember seeing him: a gray business suit, a blue dress shirt open at the collar, polished black loafers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Take me out of here,” she moaned with her face buried in Tom’s shirt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank’s blue shirt is covered in plenty of soil, and her plants no longer take up the special spot behind the driver’s seat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a white shirt worn buttoned to the throat and gray, neatly pressed trousers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Johnny gravely pinned a couple of shirts on the line, his mouth, like Lydia’s, full of wooden clothespins. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to look at Hassan, but his head was downcast, his shoulders slumped, his finger twirling a loose string on the hem of his shirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like the type of shirt you see parents wear to their kids’ big games. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I kept him under my shirt, so he was both blinded and close to my body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she still doesn’t bite, I lean forward a little so she can see down my shirt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A second representative distributes uniforms: white shirts, white shorts, white socks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They hired him anyway and six sheep disappeared right after that, during a dust storm, Pinkie said, but he had a new harmonica and a blue pearl-button cowboy shirt they’d never seen before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will take off my shirt and my shoes when they try to board me. I will seek asylum,” he told Obinze. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The nails from one of the bear-fighting dog’s front paws had disappeared into the front of my shirt and my blood was starting to leak out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I am wiping my forehead with the hem of my shirt, standing on a branch, when I hear the sound. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I notice that his shirt’s buttons are in the wrong buttonholes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He walked over and read it while he was unbuttoning his shirt. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was warm in the tent; he opened his shirt. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I shuffled in, with my shirt collar pulled up over my nose and my hands held out in front of me, and hoped for the best. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s an Elliott Smith shirt. Did you know he stabbed himself when we were five? That’s why I never made it to his shows.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

His big, loose hand was on my shirt. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a very primitive hairdo and wears mostly the same three shirts and blue jeans or one skirt over and over. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at my black button-up shirt, black pants, and black boots and said, “You always wear black, so I figured I should dress like you so I blend in.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of wheeling your cart out to the parking lot, a cart boy in a pressed poplin shirt hung a number on it and handed you a matching red-and-white tag. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Roused by the activity, Otto crawled out from under my shirt, hopped to the ground, and approached the other bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a flannel shirt and brown work pants. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me the turquoise shirt and white shorts without saying anything more. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Seconds after I stand up outside the car and straighten my shirt, Juan arrives at the deliveries door and says something to me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She’ll be riding the float with some of the other cheerleaders, wearing short denim skirts and flannel shirts knotted up to show their midriffs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He held the bottom of his shirt up to his nose, using it to plug his left nostril to stop blood from pouring from it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Uncle Arthur had grown a grizzly beard and was wearing a plaid flannel work shirt with paint-splattered jeans. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The wounds at his neck had not yet clotted, which made him seem animate even in death, the blood still spreading out across his shirt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of men approached, eating up the walk with long jaunty strides that caused their heavy silk sport shirts to flounce rhythmically upon their bodies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drops off his shirts at the dry cleaner around the corner from her place. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a black sweater instead of green and a gray shirt instead of white, but Miss Throckmorton never once did him up for it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She wore shorts and sneakers, and a tight white shirt that displayed the bumps on her chest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His shirt was open and a gold medal on a chain hung at his throat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back to his desk, he slapped hands with one of the black shirts. he said, laughing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Matt appeared in the doorway, damphaired and barefoot with crumbs on his chin, jam on the edges of his mouth, and wearing a too-large woven shirt belonging to Thomas. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Duchess helps me to pull on a clean shirt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Tight suits with his shirt always unbuttoned down to the middle of his chest like we live on some island or something. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos, clear-eyed as a god, awoke, put on his shirt and belted on his sword, bound rawhide sandals under his smooth feet, and took his bronze-shod lance. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were both dressed in dark suits, white shirts, and muted ties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He pulled off his shirt, threw it down, and stomped on it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I took a shoe box from the closet and stuffed the gun and shirt inside, then glanced around the room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mama was strong enough to hold me by the corner of my shirt at the shoulder and lift me so that I could not get a firm footing on the ground. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His hands fidgeted with the hem of his shirt, but considering the way he studied the Romans, noting their positions and their weapons, Jason figured this satyr had been in combat before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He came with Momma at Christmas, dressed in embroidered Western shirts and pointy-toed leather boots. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Jacob Black, not in a tux, but in a long-sleeved white shirt and tie, his hair smoothed back into his usual ponytail, was crossing the floor toward us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is the last shirt that Gabriel Witter was seen wearing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It’s not even noon, and I’m so covered in sweat that I’ve given up and taken off my shirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I opened a dresser drawer to the shirts I'd washed and folded for him a couple days before. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And while she sprinkles the collar of a white shirt her mind is at the bottom of the bed where the leg, broken clean away from the frame, is too split to nail back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hickock, too, was sharply dressed in clothes provided by his parents: trim blue-serge trousers, a white shirt, a narrow dark-blue tie. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill accepted the dollar and tucked it in his shirt pocket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Billy was still stuffing his shirt into his blue jeans as he stood on the porch. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a load a Mister Leefolt’s shirts to iron and after this I’m on get a pot roast going. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ugwu opened the door before she knocked, his shirt unbuttoned, slight sweat patches under his arms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time he had on sweatpants that were way too small, and a pink shirt with a red tie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I got back to my room, I pulled the bloodstained shirt I was wearing when Casey punched me from my school pack and held it to my face. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had been sleeping in his shirt to keep warm, so he only had to pull on his overalls as he went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of sitting next to me, he lingers at the foot of my bed, his fingers fumbling over the hem of his shirt. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And all the company laughed with them; for most were drunk; and we who were sober—we still wore shirts on which it said, Liberty to Slaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She shed her boots, jeans, her cotton underwear, her shirt and bra, and slipped naked into the luxurious foam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A pair of spearmen attended them, clad in polished helms and shirts of silver mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Really she did not look like someone who could teach you how to button your shirt on straight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my room I peel off my damp bathing suit and put on the first clothes I pull from my bureau, an old shirt and shorts that don’t match. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m your daddy, girl. I’ll look at your rash if I want to! How can I tell if you’re getting better? Now take off that shirt!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all wore camouflage pants, long-sleeved camouflage shirts, and bright orange vests. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He was about two or three years older than I was, and he was dressed in a gray shirt without a collar. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore white breeches and boots and a white shirt with white lace at the throat, and the fabric of his clothes gleamed as if there were light trapped within its threads. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dabbed his forehead with his shirt sleeve. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting my shirt, I stuffed a few tissues in my brassiere. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He unwound several folds of old cloth, and held up a small shirt of mail. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before I know it, I’m on my back and he’s looking down at me, and I am pulling off his shirt. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once in his possession-choked apartment, Dell peeled off his stinky shirt and poured himself a tall glass of red wine. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t bother picking out any tank tops or sleeveless shirts since Mama doesn’t let me wear those. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Both wore shirts of worn leather beneath cloaks of dark brown wool, but their swords were sheathed and the fat man did not look to be in danger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The stranger, a young man wearing a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie, set his briefcase on the bar and asked Shady for a glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My shirt has dropped from her wound and I use one hand to hold it in place. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The boys wore baggy jeans, puffy basketball sneakers, and huge shirts. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His skin is slippery with water and he smells like sweat and my shirt sticks to his arms when he slides them around me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cop pulled Moss’s shirt down and then knelt next to him, running hands down each of his legs, starting at the top, just inches from his crotch, and squeezing every so often. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a white shirt, black pants, and a tallis on his shirtsleeve, and that was like his uniform. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am wondering if he has always worn this or only since Addie’s refusing to say the Pledge, when I further notice that his tie does not go with his shirt. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And George is already pulling off his shirt, ripping it away from his body, and Axel is taking his off too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I saw that he had a substantial belly under his loose-fitting shirt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tendai looked at his little brother, who was dressed in his best shorts and shirt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lily ran to catch him, her fingers barely brushing his shirt. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was wrapping a shirt around the man’s wound. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wipes his hands on his shirt and sends a fastball. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me a second to realize that it’s Hideo, with the sleeves of his tuxedo shirt rolled up to his elbows and his blazer slung over one shoulder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I walk I wipe the screen with the hem of my shirt, trying to get rid of some of my fingerprints. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Benji rubbed his fingernails on his shirt and then blew on them. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Padre Leo emerges one night from his bedroom to say Mass. His flannel shirt is inside out and buttoned incorrectly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Foolishly, the black shirts charged and fell deep into the hole. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But you fellows lost your shirts,” Zack gloated, “when the John went down!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as she yanks off her coat to cover a wailing child, I notice the duck tail formed by her untucked shirt. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His belly was large; it must have been a struggle to button up his shirt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I poke the comers of the clothes in between the wringers and they are grabbed and dragged through, the arms of the shirts ballooning with trapped air, suds dripping from the cuffs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All along, Byrd had secrets locked away beneath her blue shirt, under her canvas hat and gloves, tucked into her cold, stone bones. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was on the shirt that stayed with you all night. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What color shirt was the boy wearing when he ran off?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father hugged her tight to him, and she pressed her face into his shirt. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

High John noticed my eyes and smiled, then tucked the pouch back inside his shirt. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As he labored up the Norvelt road incline and past us I saw that he had a police badge pinned to his khaki shirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She stares at me and I stare at her; my heart’s probably thumping hard enough to make my shirt move. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Once they were seen at a beer parlor, Ojiugo wearing Nicholas’s large white shirt and nothing below, and Nicholas wearing a pair of jeans and nothing above. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he had seized my shirt to save me from falling, the front two tassels of my tzitzis had slipped from my pants. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took off my coat and my tie and unbuttoned my shirt collar; and then I put on this hat that I'd bought in New York that morning. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

This morning I put on the clean clothes I am given: black pants—too loose, but who cares?—and a long-sleeved black shirt. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She stretches out her hand and, with her index finger, pulls back the collar of his shirt to see his tattoo. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know how long the girl had been standing there, but, when she picked up a shirt and turned around, she found her standing by the doorway, hands cupped around a glassful of tea. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Aunt Anne jerked him out, a piece of string connecting a buttonhole in his shirt with a buttonhole in the front of his trousers suddenly broke. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, louder this time: “He’s going to be so sick if he ruins that shirt.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore skinny jeans and a long white gauzy shirt cinched around her tiny waist with a wide leather belt. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then he reaches to his chest and examines the blue phosphorescent ooze on his shirt. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was wiping his hands on his shirt. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elbows of the brown flannel shirt were worn thin, as if his elbow bone might poke through anytime. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t changed out of his work clothes, and his shirt and the knees and cuffs of his pants were stained with the slick juice of spoiled vegetables. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shirt in her hand was covered in blood. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a white polo shirt that emphasized the natural glow of his skin, and pressed khaki pants casually rolled at the ankle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Despite the small crowd, a young man rushed into the train car, promptly dumping half of his drink on Javier’s shirt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I took a shower, reviewed material for the social studies exam I had missed, and hung a clean shirt on the drawer pull of my bureau. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Malachy goes to Eugene and tries to make him laugh even more but Eugene turns away and hides his face in Pa Keating’s shirt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My shirt is twisted around his arm, and our kisses become desperate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just then I spot two women with name tags clipped to their shirt pockets. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The only thing about my buddy that wasn’t completely messed was his shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I start sucking my shirt cuff that’s sticking out of my jacket sleeve. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a red and blue short-sleeved rugby shirt that matched his blue and red jeans and sneakers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I have on new jeans and a long- sleeved shirt with flowers embroidered on the sleeves that I borrowed from Julia. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She spread the last bit of milk on the top of his head and across his shirt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hands, softer than he had been expecting, touched Harry’s face, pulled back an eyelid, crept beneath his shirt, down to his chest, and felt his heart. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I would touch the tur­ban I had made with the remnants of my shirt and I would say aloud, “THIS IS GOD’S HAT!” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took him by the shirt collar to the school director’s office, where he got a scolding he didn’t think he deserved. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your shirt,” Frank says, handing Axel the T-shirt that now smells just like Ray. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even through his shirt, he could feel the comforting calluses on her palms and fingers. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“So everyone is scared to get in the water, and suddenly you kick off your shoes, Amir agha, and take off your shirt. ‘There’s no monster,’ you say. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She yanked her shirt off and used a clean corner of it to wipe her hands and face. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He hastily unpinned it from the inside of his shirt and gave it to Shadrach. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students wore navy blue uniforms with pale blue shirts, navy knee socks, and blue loafers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At least three of the thousand or so ads I scanned promised “fun, casual” workplace environments, and I pictured flannel- shirted teams bantering on their afternoon cider-and-doughnut breaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can feel the entirety of the circus as easily as feeling his shirt against his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Am I the only one who chose a quirky, cool, liberal shirt to kick off the year?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

But I took off my jacket and my shirt. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I said: “Tommy, your nice shirt. You’ll get it all messed up,” there was no sign of him having heard me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodora was wearing a vivid yellow shirt, and Eleanor laughed and said, “You bring more light into this room than the window.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t wear my shirt today because I only have two shirts, and it has been a long time since I have had as many as that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe one day, he would meet them all, tour their ship, see the gangplank and the cannons for himself, wear the white, poufy shirt of the captain, shake hands with Casanova. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We left the fruit on the floor in a shady corner of the room, near a girl with cropped blond hair and a midriff-baring black shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She slowed to a walk as soon as she hit the main road in San José del Cabo and checked her shirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The top was soft, softer than any boys’ shirt she had ever worn. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a man’s shirt, much too large for her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wash bowed and then ducked behind a tree, pulling off his shirt and buttoning himself into the new one. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Santiago wears white pants, a white shirt, blue poncho, and a stiff new sombrero. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a bright yellow-and-purple striped shirt hurried in and closed the door behind him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then I patted my shirt pocket and felt a small lump. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Horace Danver got up to speak, and I saw a flash of skin as he sauntered down the aisle in his blue flannel shirt. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing more agreeable, more pleasantly summery, than to stroll along railroad tracks in a new shirt. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The feel of his skin under my fingers sent little jolts of fire up my arms, and when he carefully peeled my shirt off, I thought I would combust. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He rolled up the sleeves of his shirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bren said, pulling at the collar of his shirt, which opened into an embarrassingly deep V. “Too formal?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He put on a clean shirt at two o’clock, another at three o’clock, and another at quarter past four. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson was sitting on the porch, in a pair of pants with no wrinkles and a collared shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Katz went to get a shirt from the line and reported that our six friends were sleeping heavily. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He took his hat off and wiped his forehead on his shirt sleeve. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sighed and rested her head on the shoulder of Tee’s designer polo shirt. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He stood, socked in grime, without a shirt upon him, in his wet pit. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had ever seen him wear a shirt and tie. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Yet even in his tattered black pajama shirt and pants, with his weathered face and sad eyes, I still see the brother I knew in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the coat off and slung it over my knee, rolled my shirt cuffs up my arm, loosened my tie, and freed my neck from the top button. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t waste your time,” “You aren’t wasting it yet,” he said as he climbed down the ladder, wiping his hands on his shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He seemed more likely to strip the wheels from a patrol car than to paint the windshield black or hang his shirt like a pennant from the antenna. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take people too long before they counted how many pairs of pants and shirts Rufus and Cody had. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized him immediately in that flowered Hawaiian shirt, but just the stink from his cigar would have given him away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I take the shirt off and inspect it, but I don’t find anything unusual. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, Gabriel, dressed in an old white shirt and short linen pants, stood on the edge of the water. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Plutarch pulls a key attached to a thin chain from under his shirt and inserts it into a slot I hadn’t noticed before. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The registrar turned away to the light to study the notes scribbled on the label he had pulled away from the man's shirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Our backs were protected from the sun by our shirts, but the sun’s rays would be reflected into our eyes by the lime itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This freak pukes. I like this shirt, and my mom still can’t get his stink out of the last one.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was cropped short and straight around her head, and she wore riding leathers and a light shirt of silvered ringmail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bryce is sobbing so hard that I feel his wet tears through my shirt, and I hug him harder. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His shirt rippled over his torso in smooth, expensive rolls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Cyclops in ragged jeans and a flannel shirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was even one of somebody in a T-shirt, I couldn’t see the face, but written on the front of the shirt was i’m marching, and then the back said are you? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Here he comes,” Margo whispered, and I didn’t know what she meant until, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a shirt- less Jason Worthington wiggling out of the basement window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some were tighter than others, but all of us kids were scrawny and sunburned and wore faded shorts and raggedy shirts and sneakers with holes or no shoes at all. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The referee wiped Becker's gloves on his gray shirt and stepped aside, signaling the two men to continue boxing. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His blue shirt clung to his back in a crumpled mess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He picked up Annabeth by her shirt and said, “You stay here.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Goldberg took off his glasses, untucked his shirt from his pants, and cleaned his lenses with his shirttail. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He liked to talk like that, adopting a slight shift in his voice, as if he was a gangster in a movie and wearing a three-piece suit, not a windbreaker over a shirt and tie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother was wearing a neon green exercise shirt when she dropped us off at our house this morning,” Emma said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But you have lint on your—” her mom interrupted him, reaching for his shirt. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He looks smooth with a little bit of edge—crisp shirt, jeans, and almost-new sneakers. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She went to the market with him, and after they bought the household items, she bought him a comb and a shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I must remember to buy some more shirts and socks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Men in straw hats and ragged pants and shirts, with torn sneakers or flip-flops or leather shoes without laces, were gathered around a cockfighting pit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He leaped up, flung on his clothes and went out of the door still buttoning his shirt. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The guy in the red shirt. Yeah, that’s him—Jack looked a lot like him.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Later that day, Ira was cleaning up the station yard when he found a green bathing suit, a pair of white sneakers, a pair of white socks, and a shirt in the hedges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He grasped onto the front of my shirt and pulled me closer, his hot breath reeking of flyblown meat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His right hand went into his shirt and felt his knife: his eyes were wide; he stood up and walked to the doorway. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like Stella on The Voice, I could transform from a skinny, shy girl in a plaid shirt and jeans into a glamorous star in a sequined gown. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Papi kept his back to her as he tucked a blue shirt into his pants. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing black slacks and a dress shirt, and he smells like he’s been attacked by a cologne squirter. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I let her have the couch, while I laid out my shirt as a pillow and tried to get comfortable on the pavement. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now and then she straightened up to ease her back, wipe the sweat from her eyes with her shirt sleeve, and take a long drink from the bottle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was getting dark outside, and his snow-white shirt shone in the gathering twilight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I ran up to him and clenched the front of his shirt in my blistered hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all wore white shorts and white collared shirts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I washed the traces off me and then put on a pair of chocolate brown slacks, a pair which Phineas had been particularly critical of when he wasn’t wearing them, and a blue flannel shirt. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a dark wool topcoat over his suit and white shirt and tie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore my new shirt to school that Monday beneath my uniform, with the tag sticking up out of my collar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“An extra phone or one of the shirts.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Héctor and Raymond were buttoned into their school assembly shirts, and us girls put on our good dresses, while Mami combed our hair into tight braids held at the nape with modest white ribbons. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They ripped off his shirt and pants, dipped a brush in green paint, and slapped the dripping bristles against his bony body. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood welled through his white shirt, muddying the fabric. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Crumbs dotted his chin and the front of his shirt. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank’s Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt was inside out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Derrick’s big hands bunched up my shirt near the shoulders. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just a baby, drowning in an oversized Indy 500 shirt, complete with checkered flags and a bright green race car. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Inside the traditional Dracula waistcoat, he wore a pink Lacoste shirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He wears a pressed white oxford shirt, new blue jeans, loafers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not worn and familiar like all the shirts I’d starched and ironed for him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how ten seconds ago, he was tiny Simon Spier in a wolf shirt—and suddenly, out of nowhere, he’s this dapper guy in a tux. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I turned to the group behind us, which had grown to include a uniformed Secret Service officer in a white shirt and a black tie. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most days at their restaurant, he had worn a simple shirt and slacks with an apron and spent all day in the kitchen. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many of the men wore baggy short-sleeved white shirts, a few had on ties. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bright eyes, dark brown skin, Caesar cut, a shirt with the Human Torch on it. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I slip the blue shirt on top of my clothes and follow the team onto the stage. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But in his absence Chris Comer had come to own the black shirt at fullback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the house, made sure he always had a supply of clean shirts, cooked him his favorite dishes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I notice the way his dress shirt stretches across his chest as he does his disco moves. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had a vague theory that the heat came from something he used in place of starch in the shirts and collars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m doing the shirts for the One Drum festival.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I tuck my shirt in my jeans and, combing my hair with a teasel-weed head I found near the corncrib, I walk up the steps to the house. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you let Cynthia know that I paid for her cap and shirt? I gave them both to her mom. And tell her I miss her and I’m sorry I didn’t get to say good-bye.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Father spread a shirt out on the ironing board. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was equally fearless off the field too, getting into frequent fights and once showing up for practice in a shirt covered with blood after an altercation with some kids over at Odessa High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warden redirected him, then cut a hole in the back of Kemmler’s shirt, near the base of his spine, where an electrode would go. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She appears at the door, perfectly healthy, in a white linen shirt rolled to her elbows with a red striped shirt underneath and black jeans. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He rolls his shirt up and hands it to Piper, who is busy talking to Scout, sign in hand. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On every page were women, beautiful women, who wore no shirts, no trousers, no socks or underpants. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If little Alphie gets tired and cranky and cries Uncle Pa pulls his shirt back from his chest and tells him, Here, have a suck of diddy momma. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Moses pulled X-Ray’s glasses out of his front shirt pocket, held them a moment, then dropped them on the lawn. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

By ten o’clock my shirt was soaking wet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That shirt was beyond salvation at this point anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema points to her own jeans, ripped at the knees, and her red flannel shirt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Especially when she’s standing in your kitchen in her underpants and a shirt, yawning. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His grey shirt hung in loose tatters except where it was stuck to his body, stained a dark, sullen red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We found an opening where the sun had begun penetrating, and we squeezed and spread our shirts on the tops of the bushes and sat in the sun to dry ourselves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our hearts pounded under our navy blue shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Man, as soon as I said that, they got even more serious, chests all poked out, hands reaching under their shirts, thinking I came to bring the heat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ralph dug his claws into the flannel shirt as Miss K said, “Ryan, why don’t you come to the front of the room and let us see what it is?” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The crowds that pressed around the cars were so dense there was no space between people and they blended into one another, wrappers blended into T-shirts, trousers into skirts, dresses into shirts. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The new Mag- nar of Therm was a younger, shorter version of his father- lean, balding, clad in bronze greaves and a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he came out, he had on the same sweaty shirt. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The oldest, in his thirties, wore red slacks, red suspenders, a black shirt, and a driving cap. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He woke up the next morning when something light fell on his shirt—he opened his eyes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Sinita looked over at her brother, and the front of his white shirt was covered with blood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I answered and finished buttoning my shirt. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lili asked, tucking the boy’s shirt down deep into his short pants. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The sleeve of my shirt gets dusty when I wipe the sweat from my cheek. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny’s triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of the guys are wearing these long-sleeved spandex shirts under their soccer shirts, and a few of them are wearing shin guards. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Total perv. Dude was always looking down my shirt. Besides, he quit.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Percy battled the giant twins, Otis and Ephialtes, while at his side fought a bearded man with a trident and a loud Hawaiian shirt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Audrey smoothed her hands over her white shirt, then patted the back pocket of her pink shorts to check for her phone. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When he lets me go I see the mark on his shirt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid tugged at the first shirt for half an hour, and she folded it crooked, the buttonholes not lined up with the buttons at all. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shirt tore away, the stones cut his skin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped the tears from my eyes with my shirt sleeves and made myself think what to do. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chas was still in his uniform shirt from dinner, but without the tie, and Joey and Kevin wore loose sweatpants and T-shirts. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boys rowed into the wind dressed in sweat shirts, their legs slathered in goose grease. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And finally, I’m settled in a pair of tight black pants and an even tighter denim shirt that makes my breasts look much bigger than they really are. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His shirt still has the sour smell from the paper plant. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I heard that!” she said, her voice muffled against his shirt. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny was already in his leather breeches, pulling on his coarse shirt, tucking in the tails. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His finger caught the stretched-out collar of my shirt and gave it a tug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The rest of the dressing is easy, the shirt I wore to bed is the shirt I wear to school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His tailcoat has been tossed lazily over a velvet armchair, and his waistcoat hangs unbuttoned over his lace-edged shirt. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wipe my palms off on the hem of my shirt. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their white trousers and shirts were as clean as the laundry girls’ hands could make them, and the orange glow made the men look like ghosts emerging from the dark. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wipe my hands on the hem of my shirt as I inch toward the dresser. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took one of his black-smudged hands and made like he was going to press it onto my white shirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn as a joke and I make eye contact with the cute guy in the Human Torch shirt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I have never been able to pick up a shirt, hold it up to my body, and know it can fit. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You made your first free throw—all net, may I add—with that shirt on. It’s got basketball mojo. Just like my coveralls have Mr. Fix-It mojo.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The man reached out quicker than Moss expected and wrapped the front of Moss’s shirt inside a fist, and he lifted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She opens the soap container and dips my shirt in it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They too were dressed in their courtroom best: a purple jersey dress for Debbie; pleated slacks, a pink checkered shirt, and a tie for Karl. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A long-haired dude in a scruffy shirt hiding behind cutouts of the letters “P” and “B.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His navy-blue school pants weren’t new either, but he wore one of his newest shirts. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Dante was there. He had a fat friend in a plaid shirt who yelled at us.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a somber taffeta suit, a shirt with a round and hard collar, and a thin silk ribbon tied in a bow in place of a necktie. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wears a rough-spun shirt and trousers for a change, shedding his flashy attire for something a little more sensible. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I figure I am doomed to go through the rest of my life noticing whether ties and shirts go together and being bothered if they don’t. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She went to him, placing her damp toweled arms about his neck, sobbing into his chest, soaking his shirt. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he awoke, it was as though he were a feverish, frightened ten-year-old; his hair was wet, his shirt cold-damp and clinging. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the band took a break, Bull slipped the opened can of mushroom soup into his uniform shirt pocket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to swat him off, but he dug into my shirt with his fingernails. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We came back to the house and showered and shaved, and because it was Thanksgiving we put on white shirts and jackets and ties. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell it was Cade’s shirt; I could smell his atoms on it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every night after supper, I practiced in front of the dresser mirror—without my shirt, because I could look more menacing that way. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A long time ago he had given me his green shirt. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Eleanor put her T-shirt on over her head, then wriggled out of her gym suit, using the shirt as cover. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She let go of my shirt with one hand and slapped me as hard as she could across my free. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Choking for breath, I pressed my shirt over my mouth and nose and eased away from the second glow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After all, he was wearing a camouflage shirt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She inspects George’s right shirt pocket for the treat he brings her every night without fail. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Skinnier. Your hair is longer. And your shirt isn’t so loud.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man wore a black shirt like the others she’d taken out, five by her last count. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’m actually holding my bookbag so tight, it probably looks like an extension of my shirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He shows her the things he’s bought, a tie for his father-in-law, soaps for their mothers, a shirt for Samrat, a silk scarf for Sonia, sketchbooks for himself, bottles of ink, a pen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the warmth of it through my shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Piggy took off his glasses and blinked at the assembly while he wiped them on his shirt. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had sparse, snowy hair and wore a brown batik shirt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An SS guard comes to us and pins a piece of colored paper on our shirts. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Back near his post, he took off his shirt and wrapped it around his waist, then spread his trousers and underwear on the ground. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tore off his shirt and threw it down the bathroom hole. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He's as tall as the Tribesman but twice as broad, with a paunch that strains the buttons of his gold brocade shirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He let go of Thomas’s shirt and took a step back, then crept up to the corner around which he’d seen the Griever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Before anyone could witness what had happened I shoved the loaves up under my shirt, wrapped the hunting jacket tightly about me, and walked swiftly away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As I drew nearer I recognized the loose gray shirts and pants worn by the veterans. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shirts were hanging where Mama's dresses used to hang. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

All I know is, there’s a suspicious-looking shirt hanging in my closet. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My father, white shirt sleeves rolled up, smiles in front of a wall of clean laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I put one of Dad's sports coats over the Wildkit shirt, fix my hair, and feel ready. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The collar of his silk shirt stuck out over his breastplate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I eased the shirt up over his chest and he sat up to let me pull it off. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I snake out of his grip, he grabs me by the shirt. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They all wore black coats over white shirts, a word stitched on their right breast—he couldn’t quite make out what it said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her black pants and a white shirt with a faded soy-sauce stain on the cuff, and from this Mia knew she was headed in to work. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That even if his father hadn’t taught him himself, some crotchety old nanny had waxed poetic on the value of tucking your shirt in, polishing your shoes, and combing your hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the shirts, much like today’s pizza, are not in the budget. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I peel the Merrimack Gazette out from under my shirt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I duck into a nearby room to change, and hand off the gray shirt to Caleb when I get to the hallway. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wore black pants that were too short for me and a white shirt that was too tight. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A plain white shirt, a pair of jeans, a belt, and a zip-up hoodie. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t gnawing on the fingers of his left hand, he began biting his shirt, actually chomping pieces out of it and leaving holes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My all-too-small shirt has risen up yet again, and my stomachs are spilling out of my jeans. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All the little Hupfers were jumping up and down, too, and Danny was still waving his shirt, and Meryl Lee was waving her rose—which was losing its petals—and Mrs. Baker was screaming. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Papa-Nnukwu wore a loose print shirt and a pair of knee-length khaki shorts. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie slipped his shirt back on, then took her hand again and placed his other hand on her hip. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With my saved-up money, I bought Cynthia’s gold cap and shirt. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing the white shirt he and Mamou had gotten me for Nowruz, and my one pair of khaki dress pants. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Erin’s watching the Sixers game with Dad, and Pop’s shirt is all wet, which lets me know that she really threw a snowball at the old man. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a basket full of clean laundry next to me, and I handed Mom shirts to fold. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His chain-mail shirt beneath the armor was more of a long, hooded tunic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He reaches down the front of my shirt, and I jerk away from him, fearful that he's reaching for my bosoms. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I head up the stairs, Nat scuffing along behind me, pulling at her sweater like her shirt sleeve is caught up inside. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he slapped the cuffs on me, the metal cutting into my wrists, he yanked at my shirt and pants, searching me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the market, Lazlo bought himself a shirt and jacket in the local style, neither of them gray. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Stuart’s sunburned beneath his white shirt, the back wrinkled from driving, the sleeves rolled up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was still snowing outside, and I was wearing summer dress pants and a long-sleeved shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I must have torn my shirt against the rocks in my rush to get the waterskin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman wore blue jeans and a loose-fitting white shirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He told me to take my shirt off. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Basta wore a snow-white shirt, just as Dustfinger had said, with a red flower in the buttonhole of his jacket, a red flower like a warning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Watchmen were much in evidence, moving in pairs through the alleys in their gold cloaks and shirts of black ringmail, iron cudgels never far from their hands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was something under my shirt, against my skin. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“They said ... I have to wear this stupid sweatshirt. It’s from the lost and found. They said”—she wiped her face with a fist—“my shirt was too revealing!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

With his worn plaid shirt and brown pants that had been stitched and patched, he looked the part. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next to him was a young man she had never seen before, pale as the moon, his shirt stained with blood and his eyes drunk with love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An American, she wore a blue shirt and black pants, and she spoke in a no-nonsense tone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I want to see the stitches. Take off your shirt,” she said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Ancestors had sent him home dressed in a navy blue blazer, a white shirt with a button-down collar, and a necktie. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grips the iron railing with his left hand and lunges forward with his right, grasping the sleeve of Alec’s shirt before he’s swept out of reach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He could repel people if he chose by wearing to class a short-sleeved shirt that revealed the scar tissue on his stump. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think of that shirt he made me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He clutched Mark’s upper arms, gripping his shirt to keep himself from plunging to the earth below. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lolo comes out of the house, buttoning his shirt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He nods to me as Piper hands a neatly folded shirt to the fat kid, Deekman. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

W hen the old house had closed its bleary eyes and settled into sleep, Ammu, wearing one of Chacko’s old shirts over a long white petticoat, walked out onto the front verandah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman in black pants and a loose-fitting white shirt answers the door and then calls for her husband. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When we get to shore, he is holding our shirts and three wide-brimmed straw hats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I put the lantern down on the floor and then put on my layers of shirts and my pants, now warm and almost completely dry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The conflict attracted a lot more attention now that it was no longer just the occasional kid with water down the back of his shirt. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed her off as best I could, being gentle with her sore places, combed her hair, and let her wrap up in one of Mama’s leftover shirts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I clip the pin I bought onto the collar of my shirt and fall asleep, picturing the Miss America crown being placed on my head. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Its rough surface tore his shirt and grazed his skin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was one mass of yellow shirts dancing up and down in the crowd. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Milkman decided to give him one of his shirts, and asked him to stop by the bus station to pick up the suitcase he’d left there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tve got a warrant,” replied the sheriff, and took it out of his shirt pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The voice, an unfamiliar mixture of Australian and Dutch inflections, came from the tall and thin but muscular man now walking toward me in khaki shorts and a Bahama shirt. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When he wasn't wearing a shirt, you could see all his muscles. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The men were a colorful lot in jeans and bright plaid shirts, but the women were dressed in somber colors. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was too old, but I snuggled close to Dad anyway and breathed deep into his shirt, trying to memorize his familiar smell of laundry detergent, peppermint gum, and sweat. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They clink together gently as he tucks them both under his shirt, two homes side by side. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Black garbage collectors, without shirts on, dangled from the sides. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hank made his way down the aisle and I could see right away his shirt had a message. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He wore a short-sleeve dress shirt that probably fit a few years ago, but now it worked like a tourniquet around his neck and torso. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The skipper pulled his chronometer out from beneath his shirt. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed in indigo jeans, a navy blazer, and a light blue collared shirt, the top two buttons unbuttoned. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She pulled the wagon into the shade by the side of the new house and took from her shirt pocket a blue-colored jelly bean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The walkie-talkie squawked with a voice, and the man in the black shirt answered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After Master broke the kola nut and passed the saucer around, Dr. Patel always took a lobe and put it into his shirt pocket; Ugwu had never seen him eat one. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Charlie pointed at the jeans ripped in both knees, the white shirt so stained with blood and dirt it would have to be tossed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wore high leather boots, leather breeches, and a pirate-style shirt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t mention the rumpled shirt, the dirty jeans, the unbrushed hair, the unbrushed teeth, the crazy eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He smudged a few more in Max’s shirt, did a backward somersault, and pressed himself up to his feet quickly. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The spit caught Edwin squarely and dragged across his faded shirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A button-down shirt without a single wrinkle and black pants with a sharp crease. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held up his left arm, the shirt sleeve knotted as usual just below the elbow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But when I touched my own shirt, it felt perfectly dry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I remember now taking it off my mother's dress, pinning it to the shirt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the surprise register on his face that I should know about his feelings for the polo shirt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That shirt is a thing of beauty, isn’t she?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Finny and I went along the Boardwalk in our sneakers and white slacks, Finny in a light blue polo shirt and I in a T-shirt. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That square of light opens up again when the shirt hits the basket in the kitchen below. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He reached into his shirt, drew forth a money-bag, and paid out the sum. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His tail drooped into my front shirt pocket. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He bounded down, and I rummaged through the duffel for a few moist shirts to use as a mattress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed me by my shirt and threw me across the room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I twist the cloth of my shirt in my hands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Milo’s voice splintered into fragments, and he clutched at Yossarian’s shirt front as though drowning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I always prayed to be on the Shirts because I’m real skinny and I don’t like taking my shirt off in front of other people. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They even produced a dark suit, white shirt, and tie for Cholly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sigh, draw up my knees, and pull the collar of my shirt into my mouth. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This shirt is wholly holey, more than it has any right to be.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pulled the shirt on and ran down to the goal just as the coach was leading Shandra away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared from Laura, to the shirt, to the front door and back again. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I draw his shirt into my fists, tugging him closer, and sigh his name against his mouth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She folded the shirt in so many intricate ways and stashed it inside the pants, they too having been folded several times at the waist. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief sat on the sofa, dressed in a crisp shirt and nice trousers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He’s eight years old and dressed in a white dress shirt and black dress slacks that are both too big for him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His shirt was torn and covered with dried blood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His other hand groped forward and caught the back of my shirt. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When we got home, we quickly took off our shirts. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Four dresses, two shirts, a pair of jeans, a silk sweater. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If he had had more time, Moss would have begged his mother to take him to get a larger shirt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re the sort of girl who should get married,” he says one day, when I appear with a pile of folded shirts and jeans. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The morning sun was getting hot and he took his shirt off. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina also persuaded me to purchase a shirt that exposes my shoulders and collarbone, and to line my eyes with black pencil again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Armpit felt the fabric, which was as soft as Kaira’s flannel shirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I stole a pair of Rufus’s old trousers and a worn shirt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing a baggy shirt and orange-tinted glasses, Hart was fitted with a wireless sensor on his head that fed his brain waves into a computer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His face was blackened with blood and there were great black stains on his shirt. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The woman wore a fashionable wrap, high shiny boots, and tapered pants; the man lounged in a rumpled shirt and stained trousers, giving an air of almost deliberate vulgarity. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back, far away from the speechmakers, wearing big shirts to cover my growing stomach. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Her shirt says I’m watching you, and it’s got a picture of an owl with giant eyes—and it fits her perfectly, like all of her clothes do. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He straightened with a jolt, and some of it trickled into his shirt, which was already wet from rain. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next step was the supply depot for our standard issue of boots, socks, shirts, and pants. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he’d recovered his composure, he added, “I would cut the bit about seeing through girls’ shirts.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He fished out a dogtag suspended on a chain under his shirt and held it up to my nose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went back to my room and put on another pair of jeans, an undershirt, and a thick flannel shirt over it, two pairs of socks, my galoshes, and a heavy wool coat. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other immigrant kids got picked on too, especially Muslim girls who wore modest clothing, such as long skirts and baggy shirts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Yakov emerged, dressed in the same handsome evening suit and white shirt he had worn the night he died, a bronze watch chain draped across his pinstriped waistcoat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. More than once, too. Cops wanting me to lift my shirt so they could see if I had weapons on me. Pat-downs and all that.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She considered saving the shirt for Christmas, going to Rizzoli and buying him an architecture book instead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down the hall in #28, Pattie debated what to wear and settled on a white silk shirt with two embroidered doves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Timothy took the shelter down, and we both pulled our shirts and pants back on. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a white shirt and mundu with angry veins in his neck. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His little glasses were crooked on his face as he smoothed his blue button-down shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She changed its shirt and band three times during the day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my coat, then my shirt, and poured the alcohol down my side. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My green-and-purple Wimbledon shirt hangs over the waist of my jeans. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Papi would never have threatened to starve a child, no matter how dirty his shirts might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Waiting just inside the door, Jonathan kept his eyes on the far end of the large, dim room, where the white glow of the keeper’s shirt moved behind the grill. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I fiddle with the end of my shirt, trying to gather the courage to ask a question. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wanted to look down at her son and tell him that it wasn’t his father, but she immediately recognized the spindly arms, in a bright flowered shirt that she had made, gripping the cables. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Casting his shirt aside, Seth sprang into the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She knelt down before him and unbuttoned his shirt to suck the soft-firm flesh of his belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I look ridiculous! These pants are absurd, and this shirt is awful.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were dressed alike in khaki trousers, work shirts, visored caps, and brown boots. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a long way, but the sun is out, it's in the mid-fifties, and I am wearing a shirt, some jeans, a jacket, Nikes—everything. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite all the indications that she’s a machine, her shirt isn’t made of that fancy sweat-wicking technical fabric that would be on par with the rest of her gear. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He picks up his glasses, begins cleaning them with his clay-splattered shirt, making them dirtier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Minho abruptly jumped at Thomas and grabbed him by the shirt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They’ve both dressed up for the occasion—when she emerges from the bathroom she sees that he is wearing the shirt she’s given him, moss-colored with a velvet Nehru collar of slightly darker green. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I may buy ten more of this exact shirt. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Armin yanked the doublet open, I could see the red stain on Julian's linen shirt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my stomach, walked slow to make sure nothing jiggled, and tugged down on my shirt, like I could really hide my extra pounds under there. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Extra points were awarded if you could squirt water over someone’s shirt just before class resumed so they’d have to sit there, soaking wet, looking stupid. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I undo the buttons of my gray Abnegation shirt, exposing my arms, revealing more of my body than anyone else has ever seen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Enough to buy a shirt and a dress and to send some to Mamá. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Black political activists were from time to time found dangling from belts, shirts, pants, blankets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghost was just coming off the track, wiping his face with the bottom of his shirt. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In the clothing section of the store—it is on the rear right as you come in—I picked out a pair of sneakers my size and two shirts, one cotton, one flannel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her white shirt is buttoned all the way up to her neck and hangs loose over her shoulders. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They each have a cloth square with their District number on it pinned to their shirts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My shirt was wet where she had drooled a little bit. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the past, he’d had the necklace tucked into his shirt, but now it swung freely. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I laughed off the compliment, but I had to admit the shirts did look pretty awesome. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The shirt under his overalls was dark blue with fancy red and yellow flowers printed all over it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tats says I wear too many layers, so I choose my thinnest shirt made out of T-shirt material. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But why, if he was so afraid, would he remove his shirt beforehand?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone, including the black shirts, turned to stare at her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dusty was wearing a baggy, fruit-colored shirt that was decorated with palm trees. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wish the collar of his shirt were higher. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wore only his purple camp shirt, jeans and running shoes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When she looked up again from her watch, a man with a button-up shirt stretched over his belly stood in front of her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When they dropped me off, I was faceup on the ground, the front of my shirt wet with my tears, and it was much, much later than I thought it was. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took four fifties out of his shirt pocket and laid them on the table. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote the poems on notecards and attached them to the broom handle or placed them in my shirt pocket and memorized them as I cleaned the offices after school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Because I had no doubt, not one single wisp of uncertainty, that if he knew what I had just seen, Cate would spend the next few days bleaching my blood out of his shirt, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

So I, too, ran to my mom, and she scooped me up and carried me away from the park, allowing my tears and snot to soak her shirt. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

An older white man in a polo shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap meets Supreme at the doorway with a handshake. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Button-up shirt and dress pants are the bare minimum; maybe a suit jacket, depending on the crowd. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Saint Francis couldn’t wait to strip off his shirt and sandals whenever he saw a poor person without them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching the shirt, my gaze roamed past my phone and settled on the lone picture on the dresser. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She wore green Army slacks with a black stripe down the leg, a green Army shirt, and in the cold before sunrise she put on a black military sweater. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain ran down his hair into his shirt; it had grown below his ears and touched his neck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I doubt you can really understand how embarrassing it is to only own two shirts, to cut your own hair as best you can because you can’t afford a barber. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Other waiters wore soiled white shirts or clean shirts indifferently ironed, and celluloid collars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mira Bro was a line of really sparkly men’s jewelry, tight patterned shirts and jeans, and most famously, a really, really potent men’s deodorant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They swarmed inside my shirt and panties, into my hair, under my arms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before emerging from cover, I made sure my shirttails and tzitzis were tucked in and smoothed down my shirt and waistcoat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma homed and waved at two balding men in tie- dye shirts standing at a comer as she turned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to buy a shirt? I got some shirts.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever met a demigod like us before? A guy in a purple shirt, with marks on his arm—” “Hazel.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I pressed clothes—baskets of giants’ BVD’s, long underwear even in summertime, T-shirts, sweat shirts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet said, “He knew how to fight, Jackson did. A. P. Hill is good too. He wears a red shirt when he’s going into battle. It’s an interesting army. You’ve met George Pickett?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke looked at Ricky, he realized he was wearing a pair of pressed blue jeans and a button-up cowboy shirt, complete with bolo tie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I bandage the wound in the rest of my shirt and lay down with him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He got his shirt back,” Frank calls, but Emmett’s already inside the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He picked at the clay and grime streaked across his shirt and tie. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Mr. Trepid said, stuffing the card in his shirt pocket and glancing at his watch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bono picked up the shirt and put it in my hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning I picked up the shirt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You can wear cat ears all day, but I can’t wear my own shirt.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her sister could do the hand-finishing on the shirts when they came off the machines. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the shirt on; it was grossly loose-fitting. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cry into his shirt, and he holds me tighter. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Like his fellows, he wore his uniform of black trousers and white shirt of thick cloth, his neck swimming in the collar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You can wear my white shirt and tie,” I said happily, thinking that he was giving in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The lock clicks, and suddenly Jamie is there in his shorts and shirt, and his hair is everywhere—literally everywhere—and his blue eyes look as panicked as my heart feels. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Digger grabbed the front of my shirt. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The slogan underneath says, “I recycle—I wore this shirt yesterday!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But these blue-and-gray-striped pants and shirt take from me the last distinction. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The helping hands didn’t stop swarming around him until Thomas stood up straight and had the dust brushed from his shirt and pants. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She bit him again and pulled at his shirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I accidentally make eye contact with a hot guy wearing a tight V-neck shirt, and I look away quickly, but my heart pounds. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Kvothe closed the window’s shutters while Chronicler removed his shirt; there were bandages stripping the backs of his arms from where he had been wounded by the scrael three nights ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I want to touch her shirt, but I am scared. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I could climb up trees just like the boys to hunt guavas and eat them till the juice runs down and stains my shirt, forever. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he stripped off his shirt, helped her into a boat, and paddled briskly across the Cut. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Henry by the front of the shirt. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I unpacked my nice dresses, hung them in the closet, and placed some shorts and shirts on a shelf. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The uniform he wore had creases ironed into the shirt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

You know that shirt you have that says, “I am my ancestor’s wildest dream”? That’s what I’m trying to do here; I’m changing the narrative. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In fact he looked just as a man looks if you catch him in the very act of getting into a stiff shirt that is a little too small for him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He took his dark suit out of the clothespress and laid it over the back of a chair, and he put a white shirt and a black tie on the seat of the chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the color of his sleeve of his shirt, and felt the dry lava pebbles pressing into his raw hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then Dad himself was in my face, grabbing me by my shirt and screaming, “I oughta kill you for that! Are you crazy?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how light the suit is, it feels as though I had nothing on but a shirt and underpants. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he walked slowly, wiping his wet face with the greasy sleeve of his shirt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Put on a shirt and get in the car!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Go for God’s sake, and my father is pulling on his trousers over his shirt, no jacket, shoes, no socks on this bitter day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few of them glanced up, and one or two actually made a lame grab for my shirt. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Using Nick's dagger, I cut off the sleeve of his linen shirt and pressed it into a ball over the wound. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Traynor himself followed the FBI's dress code; he was sporting a white shirt and dark suit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He had only the two shirts and pairs of trousers that Ugwu had hurriedly packed, and she smiled, thinking of how she knew what he would wear each morning before he dressed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kiss him back so hard it hurts, and twist my fingers into his shirt. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was thinking this over when Mama came up to me and started tucking my shirt in. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had removed his belt and shoes and unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his white undershirt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t make them out clearly through all this dirt,” the prince said, inspecting what skin showed through the scraps of her shirt. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was a big man with a crew cut, a black leather biker’s jacket, black jeans, a white muscle shirt, and combat boots. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I began to claw at my throat, ripping my shirt open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I shook her hand, and she opened an envelope of name tags and placed one on my shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She stood and looked around for a minute, and I held my breath in the shadow behind the barn, and was glad I was wearing a brown shirt and muddy jeans. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“As for Moss’s shirt,” they began, “I declare that school is now in session for Moss’s sense of style.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly having difficulty getting the buttons of his shirt through the buttonholes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then they take away my bundle and examine it, shaking out the two shirts and the two sets of curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Most days he worked without a shirt or hat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jay stood in the doorway, a slight sweat stain ringing the neck and underarms of his shirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I practice the art of ‘pull his shirt over his head and punch till you see blood.’” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My shirt has risen up and I look at myself, at my body spread flat on the asphalt, at my bra and faded underwear. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled on shorts and a shirt and looked into three empty bedrooms before she came downstairs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a flannel shirt open over a dirty t-shirt, cut-off jeans, and sandals. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Apa walks out of the bedroom changed into jeans and an old button-down shirt. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Your brother is very angry with me right now,” Father said, tugging at his shirt buttons. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a plaid shirt, two pairs of socks, and a new baseball. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Your call, of course. Blanket, shirt, brand, and three jots.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Force me to wash the table linens or starch the master’s shirts? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, I own only my shoes, pants, shirt, and tie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The dog struggles, strains its head away from the reeking smell of the shirt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Don Berto was in the middle of the living room, dressed in a clean white shirt buttoned all the way up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He showered, groped around in the dark for his brown pants, a beige shirt, and his new Old Navy baseball cap. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a collarless shirt opened the door. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their bus-driving leader left the Gladers in the hands of a small staff—nine or ten men and women dressed in pressed black pants and white shirts, their hair immaculate, their faces and hands clean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Emergency vehicles race up the road to Mobius, and protestors cover their mouths and noses with bandannas or tuck their faces into their shirts to avoid the billowing clouds of dirt. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She almost sensed the black shirts before she saw them on their way to the beach and the other girls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Under his arm he carried his suit and shirt, carefully folded so that they would stay fresh. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don’t have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Burton was short and pale, and his striped black-and-yellow shirt made him look like an unfortunate bumblebee. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kendra unconsciously twisted the sleeve of her shirt, a pained expression on her face. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Richard envisaged somebody young and alert like their houseboy, Ugwu, but Harrison turned out to be a small stooped stick of a man, middle-aged, wearing an oversize white shirt that stopped below his knees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The skirt's too short and the shirt's too tight," she says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I will also look for a Fila shirt for you. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pop pulls two bucks from his shirt pocket, holds the money out to me, and says, “Buy Erin some flowers, will ya? Tell her I’m looking forward to the next game of War.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was wearing my Brooklyn shirt," I whispered. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“A good start might be not wearing your camouflage shirt every time you go exploring.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Sohrab tossed the towels onto the wooden bench between us and pulled off his shirt, peeling the wet fabric away from his flat chest and stomach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I looked out over the field at the black men, the backs of their shirts stained with sweat, bent over their hoes chopping weeds among the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Starching the shirts for the next day’s pressing was probably my mother’s time to ride off with the people in her own mind. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trip going up the steps and have to brush myself off and tuck my shirt in again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clung to him, hard, as if she were drowning, fumbling with his shirt, with his britches. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He runs his finger around the collar of his dim white shirt—he’s back to his old, well-worn brown suit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Like, I’m pretty sure he stripped off that final wolf shirt one day, and then Bram moved to Shady Creek two hours later. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He went on examining his shirt, then said grumpily: “It’s nothing to do with you anyway.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand moves down Noelle’s body, down the seam of the frilly white shirt to the skirt, which has a slightly different grain to the fabric. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The shirts were still flapping on the line. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if it was too late to write team leo on his shirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He stood there wearing nothing but a shirt in a room filled with dead giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My shirt billowed and pulled like a sail. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gone were the overalls, the big plaid work shirts, the muddied boots, the chaps, the cap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on a clean blue shirt and overalls washed until they were soft and pale blue and lighter blue at the knees where the wear came. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was mixing oils in the kitchen, and she said nothing as I passed by with my dripping shirts and jeans. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When she leaned toward me again, I saw there were splatters of blood across the front of her shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was tall and slender, bearded, wearing an open-collared shirt and a modest gray coat with missing buttons. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hung my one extra shirt and my cloak in the wardrobe and put my travel- sack in the trunk at the foot of my bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I put it on, without a shirt, shoes, or socks, and walked out through the patio doors, into the backyard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got her red tights from a box on the shelf, slipped into a warm shirt, and put on her wedding parka and pants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when the bus lurched forward I fell against his hand and felt his tiny sharp finger-nails scratching at my shirt. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His socks were slightly rolled at their tops, and he had on what looked like a sailor's shirt. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pinkie dropped something into the coals and the fire sprang up; it was Harley’s red-and-white Hawaiian print shirt, but in a moment the fire turned the white print bloody red. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I described how in Brooklyn we didn’t have to wear uniforms to school, but on Fridays there was a class called assembly in a big auditorium, and all the kids had to wear white shirts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his typical school uniform: khaki slacks, blue blazer, button-down shirt, and tastefully striped tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Phlegm and blood on a shirt couldn’t be any more contagious. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He tucks in his shirt and straightens his tie. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were waiting for the elevator when two black shirts passed them by. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He slept flat on his back, his hands resting against the soft flannel of his shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

An attractive but boorish man sits sprawled on the sofa, his shirt untucked, a beer in his hand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Singleton wore a dark shirt and a tie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I look down and discover I’m holding a bundle of two shirts and what appear to be curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Babou had changed into a plain white shirt and loose white pants with a drawstring waist, and he had hitched them halfway up his torso. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The photograph was that of a very muscular man wearing no shirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a shirt with a video game logo that Nathan immediately recognized. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The way it hangs over his checkered blue shirt makes him look like a tourist. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put it down beside him, and he opened it and began to look through the extra underwear and shirts and socks I had packed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thick hair is tied back in a knot, and she wears a gray shirt with a factionless armband over it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The covers pooled around his waist; he wasn’t wearing a shirt. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She wore cowboy boots with a long white ruffled skirt and a denim shirt and waved like a beauty queen—a perfect combination of folksy and classy. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A shirt was warm and soft and had a good view of the classroom if a hole was nipped in the pocket. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Both Kalinda and I dive through the hole, scratching ourselves up on the rocks and getting my shirt and skirt caked with dirt. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When my shirt is open she pulls it free of my trousers and looks me in the eye. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tried hard to do what I believed a wife ought, things like washing white shirts and black socks separately in rooming-house sinks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the light-pen into the pocket of his shirt and removed his black-framed reading glasses, which hung in front of his chest on a thick cord. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I changed out of my Tea Haven shirt and joined my family at the dinner table. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He hooks a finger in my shirt and slows me up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I want to add some of my clothes, but then I see Bryce’s favorite Star Wars shirt that he spilled ketchup down the front of, and I grab that instead. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had expected someone much more elegant; this man wore black riding leathers and a black shirt that looked as if it had seen better days. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father helps me guide my right arm through the shirt sleeve, and I pull the rest over my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I slipped it under my shirt; but when I got upstairs, Charles’s head had rolled back against the wall where the headboard should have been and he was snoring. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was excited to send him my next package with Richies shirt, so I could do the same. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Peach was wearing his perfectly pleated pants and a white button-down shirt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My uniform consists of a white shirt with puffy, short sleeves and a short, blue pleated skirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleeve of his shirt was rolled up above the elbow. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they left, Genie and Ernie washed their hands and changed their shirts—Grandma’s rules—and Genie took the red truck from the dresser and slid it gingerly into his pocket. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

While Archer lay on the cabin’s long table with the tattered remains of his shirt sheared away, Sefia watched Doc tend to his wounds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We would dance until cockcrow, then take off our sweaty shirts, enjoying the cool morning breeze as we walked back to our dorms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bus we take to get to the Choosing Ceremony is full of people in gray shirts and gray slacks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Theo’s all the way on the left, dressed like Benny, wearing a Dodgers cap, an open flannel shirt, and his baseball glove. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The cop grabbed the farm boy by the shirt collar and marched him from the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Island was the hair-and-nails crowd, chaperones, and icky boys with all their macho strutting and unbuttoned shirts and hairy chests with gold chains and teensy gold crucifixes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I took off my trousers and wrung them too, then my shirt and under clothing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wore a pale yellow shirt, spotless and clean, with gray slacks and suspenders and polished black shoes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everything is torn, shirt, gansey, short pants, stockings, and my shoes are ready to fall off my feet entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His hand had bled a lot, his shirt was ripped and filthy, his hair was stiff with dust and sweat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jacob has leaves in his shirt—that’s what he was collecting. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, Finch breezes in, same black shirt, same black jeans, backpack over one shoulder, books and notebooks and thrashed leather jacket under his arm. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Next I grab a silver, shimmery shirt and a black wraparound skirt. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I turned around, my shirt pulled off the seat with a sucking smack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I waited quietly for him to make whatever fantastic connection there might be between this and his shirt. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I told her to make sure that when she ironed my green shirt, she didn't put any starch in it. I didn't like starch in that shirt for some reason." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He pushes the knife in farther, slow, and blood stains the hem of his shirt. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They made me wear a white shirt,” he said afterward. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got Black Dog’s hat and shirt and joined Father, who had already started to walk toward the alley mouth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang folded his jeans, then set them on top of his shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She gathered her bag, leaving my shirt open. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I peeled my shirt and jeans off and put on my pajamas. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He winked at the twins and then pulled out the shirt. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, when he knew visitors were expected, he would sit on the verandah and sew buttons that weren’t missing onto his shirts, to create the impression that Mammachi neglected him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip the pistol into my belt and cover it with my shirt. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Unlike the strict clothes rationing in Germany, the men cheerfully bought more shirts, pants, underwear, socks, and a suitcase. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

This was not the same as greasy hair or ripped-up flannel shirts. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stood up and smoothed out his shirt. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore collared white shirts, too, the kind Grandma calls “blouses.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when I came out for dinner, Nan looked like herself again, unmussed and dressed to impress in black leggings and a long red shirt with lipstick to match. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He peeled off his socks and unbuttoned his shirt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Matthew nearly collided with a college-aged guy, who did a double take of Matthew’s shirt—the one with five diamond playing cards on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jules wrapped me up from behind, her arms squeezing at my ribs, her tiny hands on my chest—I could feel how cold they were through my shirt—and Aileen pressed in from the side. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The minute she started taking piles of the shirts into her arms, I ran to her side, and so did the other kids, almost seventy of us crowding around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At home I followed Kazi into the kitchen and tugged on his shirt so he’d turn around and look at me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Afraid that he might lose it, he had bought a second one to keep in his shirt pocket, and then a third one, with ivory beads, to hang on Theresa’s headboard. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like us, they have all changed from their city clothing into their black pajama pants and shirts, the only clothes we will wear from now on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am surprised to see that he is wearing a linen shirt. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When he arrived in the middle of November, he had his Jamaican wardrobe: shorts, short-sleeve shirts, and a few pairs of slacks for fancy occasions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Miles leaned against the truck’s side, looking familiar in an old baseball shirt and bomber jacket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The building has fake balconies and street lamps, and the ushers dress in black berets and striped shirts. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I dry my face on the shoulder of my shirt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday her shirt had a cat playing with a ball of yarn with the words “String Theory” underneath. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Reaching out for the wall to keep myself oriented, I touched an inmate’s shirt and recoiled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His favorite clothes are the flannel shirts and blue jeans that he has had for twenty years. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was searching for a big guy with a good tan and a black beard, wearing Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I ended up with pants that were too short and a shirt that was too big, but I was lucky to get a pair of wooden shoes that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He bent and put his lips to the spurt, drinking noiselessly, and then he sat up again and drew his shirt sleeve across his mouth. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man usually lives where he has his shirts laundered. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his shirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I should have been glad my father had a spring in his step and took his new shirts to the cleaners. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had taken off his suit and shirt and was wearing a simple kurta pajama. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin studied Tom’s earnest face for a moment and then loosened his grip on the boy’s shirt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trucker, wearing a welcoming smile, the standard-issue baseball hat and a plaid shirt, was pint-sized behind the wheel. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was chubby around the cheeks, dark-haired and Asian-looking, although it was hard to see him properly as he wore the hood of his sweat- shirt over his head and part of his face. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving more quickly than I had ever seen before, Ben grabbed me by the tatters of my shirt and sprang from the seat of the wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dad will wear a shirt without a collar, and even jeans on weekends, but he sends them to the cleaner’s, so there’s a crease down the center of each leg, like Sunday pants. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Bast managed to look amused and annoyed at the same time as he daubed a bead of liquid from the front of his shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sure, I could just turn my head or shield it with my shirt—pretend to wipe sweat—and nobody would know it was me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his red shirt unbuttoned, which seemed normal given the warm Indian-summer day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z