As soon as we are out on the sidewalk, we both lower our shoulders at the same time and notice and laugh. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He went along the sidewalk with his head down, fingering the quarter in his pocket. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us stand on the sidewalk, laughing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We shuffled down the sidewalk to the bus stop. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I make sure to go around the bumpy parts of the sidewalk, giving a wide berth so that the wheelchair is easy to maneuver. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I ease out of the restaurant onto the sidewalk, gun in my pocket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep on stepping and counting cracks in the sidewalk while I walk. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I walk past the snow-covered trees on the corner of the sidewalk. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There were windows just above the sidewalk at foot level, and more at head level, too. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But when I tried to spit it out on the sidewalk, nothing came out. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I seen eleven of them, not counting the man and the woman,” someone would shout from the sidewalk. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that I should be back on the sidewalks playing handball or enjoying the games I had been given when I was sick. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plants were right there by the sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I headed for the front door, then down the stoop to the sidewalk. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They laugh and talk behind me as we head down the sidewalk. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No. But I was watching the police car coming up the road so I wasn’t watching where I was going and I went off the sidewalk and fell off my bike. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jammed my hands in my pockets and stamped my feet on the sidewalk a couple times. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But as she stepped out onto the hot sidewalk, she thought about her blue silk dress with the pink flowers. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But then a triangular wedge cuts away from the sidewalk, its walls and marble floor the same colors as the neon sign, pointing in to the lobby. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The last few nights he had had the most uncertain feelings about the sidewalk just around the corner here, moving in the starlight toward his house. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face was pressed to the sidewalk, but they heard me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he were marching down the middle of a broad boulevard with crowds of people cheering from the sidewalks. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We were still standing on the sidewalk, talking. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boys went through the neighborhood, venturing deep into culs-de-sac and up dark sidewalks to houses that many other kids avoided. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then he started up the path to the sidewalk and headed downtown. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m looking down, at the sidewalk, mesmerized by the women’s feet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to the sidewalk he tried to run but it was like sloshing through the shallows of an endless lake. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the sidewalks seemed better dressed than the people of Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scurried down the sidewalk, bumping into people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we reach the sidewalk, Boomer leaps toward a squirrel, which scampers up a nearby oak tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the sidewalk, his back against the ripped wall of a bombed-out building. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He nodded and we looked down the ice-covered sidewalk of the bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

James pushed past Matthew when they hit the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a warm night, so the old Caribbean men are sitting on the sidewalks in dinner chairs, breathing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After one especially robust night of drinking with Will, I stumbled home, crawled up the sidewalk, stabbed my key in the front door, let myself in, and power barfed all over the living room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The steel clattered on the sidewalk as the whirlwind rose into the night sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With his wife waiting in the passenger seat, he had jumped out of the van and begun to jog down the sidewalk to the building’s front door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets and sidewalks lie littered with white paper. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s not much of a crowd, because not that many people live around here and some of them have probably gone farther downtown, to where there are sidewalks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Abby and I started off walking and ended up racing down the sidewalk before busting into the store in a fit of giggles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

One of the others turns aside, spits on the sidewalk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

With him were two bad women, and one of them tipped off the cops, who filled him full of lead on the sidewalk. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I came down the sidewalk, the sky was clearing and two trucks were blocking the road in front of my building, furniture piled in the backs like a house had been turned upside down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In a month, those leaves would shut out the sky, but now the sun came through and brushed streaks of gold across the sidewalks, the street, the talking women, and the playing children. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I knew I had no musical talent, still I took a couple steps up the sidewalk to check it out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And the houses was right up to the sidewalks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the sidewalks burn hot all summer long. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I leaned my bike against the tall tree shading over the building and walked up the cracked cement sidewalk. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Could I sleep in the park or on the sidewalk like some of the people I've passed by? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He picked me up and swung me down to the sidewalk. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my desk I watched the fine powder dust the sidewalk and parked cars below. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They cross the street to where she sits on the sidewalk with her back to a cool north wall. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people walking on the sidewalks are dressed well, and the sounds of the traffic and the commotion make everything seem alive and important. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks teem with people just narrowly missing each other, as if their movements were choreographed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My knees started to ache from stomping on the sidewalk like it was Conner’s face. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow carried the heavier bottom end of the gurney down the stairs and out onto the street, then he wheeled it along the icy sidewalk to the hearse. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Weeds pushing up through a crack in the sidewalk are in the distance somewhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining through our big sidewalk windows, and there was a line at the counter. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She kept her gaze fixed on the sidewalk and turned her head away when Erin tried to catch her attention. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

You don’t see the Commanders’ Wives on the sidewalks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was maneuvering it to and fro, trying to back it onto the sidewalk so that they could get to us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was crossing the street, and the light from the streetlamps elongated his shadow against the wide sidewalk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They ran along uneven sidewalks in front of stores, then houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hank sat down on the narrow windowsill and stretched his legs halfway across the sidewalk, apparently oblivious to the cold. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her patient notes flutter out to the sidewalk. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk across the way the tobacconist brought out a chair, set it in front of his door, and straddled it, resting his arms on the back. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Black kids, white kids, and everything in between play on the sidewalks and in yards. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Pattie, without explanation, heads straight out the glass door to the sidewalk, leaving Dell to complete the transaction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I lowered the telescope down to the street and watched people walk up and down the sidewalks. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s still standing on the sidewalk when we peel off. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t until I got out onto the sidewalk near the gym that I remembered that, in fact, not everyone was going to the march. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stand on the sidewalk, trying to look hip. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Joe sang, dogs sat on their haunches on the wooden sidewalks watching him idly, scratching their fleas in the rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Liyana might never see the cherry trees or tulip beds or gray pebbles or cracked sidewalks again. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The massive pink pork monster landed with a thud, cracking the sidewalk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I push past him, walking away from the mirror cave and the sculpture, and start down the sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was walking in the street, instead of on the sidewalk, but right next to the curb. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The streetlamps outside of Asher’s home cast a lattice of light on the sidewalks, and I decide to concentrate on that, forcing myself to clear my mind and find a moment of peace. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What sidewalk preachers stop them in their tracks? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left the Diamants on the sidewalk and walked across the street to the bank. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The two of them started down the sidewalk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks filled with men and women leaving work. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of people on the sidewalks by the time I start walking through the suburban neighborhood my school is in. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The guy laying on the sidewalk was about forty or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I named the newspaper Muhammad Speaks and Muslim brothers sold it on the ghetto sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there they were, walking down the sidewalk, holding hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They both remembered meeting as soon as they could after school, at the top of the subway stairs, and the excitement they felt, one waiting on the sidewalk, one sprinting up the steps. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

According to a Chicago Tribune report, when the Illinois group lined up to begin the march, “Suddenly from the crowd on the sidewalk Miss Barnett walked calmly out to the delegation and assumed her place.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Moss paused, his gaze focused on the sidewalk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Others were painted blue or purple or polka-dotted, with big banners out front and colorful menu boards and tables like do-it-yourself sidewalk cafes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As you can see, the Taurus has been pushed up onto the sidewalk by the force of the multiple impacts. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the car moves forward, and we continue inside, parking at a spot near the front sidewalk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lush green lawns, wide streets, and clean, new sidewalks lead to a small downtown area with a library for Sunny and a record shop for me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of volunteers tell all these people on the sidewalk to leave. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And there was a little girl running as hard as she could down the sidewalk, straight to me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were carnival rides lining the Pier, palm trees lining the sidewalks, homeless guys sleeping in the sand dunes, and surfer dudes waiting for the perfect wave. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look, and this is what I see: Farther down the sidewalk, a shop clerk with an apron on comes running out of the convenience store, waving his arms in the air. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The street was crowded: parked cars lined both sides, while moving vehicles crawled bumper to bumper uphill and the sidewalks were crowded with people. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She strains her neck to read the tiny writing as we bump along the sidewalk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I dropped my backpack in a room with my dad that smelled like furniture polish and lemon candies and decided to hike down the sidewalk for a side-by-side comparison of the accommodations. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The streets fill with rainwater at the corners of every block, and even though it doesn’t look too deep, if you step off the sidewalk in the wrong spot, it’ll swallow up your whole sneaker. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Cheer up,” she calls as I make my way to the sidewalk. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She follows cables and pipes, railings and ropes, hedges and sidewalks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m asking for a slap in the face, but Dad don’t say anything, just gets out and goes up the boards Judd has laid out in place of a sidewalk. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia hesitated outside the glass lobby for a few minutes, watching the reflections of the people on the sidewalk glide over, and past, the shadows of the people within. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Skates would go well over this sidewalk—old it was, and smooth; it made the wheels glide evenly, with a mild whirr. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I showed him the porch and the big crack in the sidewalk where I chipped my tooth, and I pointed to my old bedroom window and told him about my fire escape. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The boy in the biker gear is so slow, taking up sidewalk space with the bike he’s walking beside—bikes are meant to be ridden! They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lakeview Trail was one of those half-and-half subdivisions—half pretty new houses like Downing Heights, half run-down hovels with crumbling sidewalks, like mine. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I tripped several times, once falling, catching myself with my hands, scraping them on the sidewalk, and then lurching up to plunge forward again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the last Friday in July, the sidewalks were still soaking up summer heat, and the house on Tower Hill Road felt stuffy—unused—when they got there. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll just call—" But she's already standing on the edge of the sidewalk, the toes of her Chucks off the curb, her hand raised. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Jean Graham Finch had brought to the family the heart that killed her son twenty-two years later on the sidewalk in front of his father’s office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He hosed down the sidewalk outside the diner and kept the windows spotless. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The worst part is, instead of being with her parents or in a hospital surrounded by doctors and nurses who can help her, she's having a seizure on a concrete sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Our shadows toppled over the sidewalk’s wooden slates, long and black, like soot marks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I turned around and peeked out at the sidewalk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It flew straight down from the sky in drops the size of coffee saucers and hit the hot sidewalks with a hiss that sent clouds of steam writhing up from the gleaming, dark concrete. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Approaching the corner, I can’t believe how ordinary the bus stop looks in the summer, only another bend of sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would run ahead and become new sidewalk trees, making her detour around them time after time, all the way home. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a huge log, with a nice, flat top almost as wide as a sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I remember how mad I got when I saw a man reach through someone's fence by the sidewalk and try to grab a tomato. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly grabs me and points down at the sidewalk. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was that sort of feeling in your head when you think about how the air feels on your skin and how the sidewalk sounds tinder your feet. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out on the sidewalk, he stood it on end. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A slight breeze set a pile of feather-light leaves dancing and rolling down the sidewalk. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Upstairs and out on the sidewalk Clem asks which way I’m walking. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Walking back toward our house, climbing the steps from the sidewalk, when the front door was open in summer, I’d hear voices beyond the screen door talking in Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old man Malloy was being wheeled down the sidewalk by little Joe. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Max stopped talking, staring straight ahead, and I stepped out of line and stood in the traffic of the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remembered his trip to the city two years before, his delight in the pedestrian pigeons strolling, nodding up and down the sidewalks right along with the people. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her house sat eighty feet from the sidewalk and was backed by four huge pine trees, from which she got the needles she stuck into her mattress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few trees left around here have shed their leaves, but because no one in our neighborhood bothers to rake, we crunch our way down the sidewalks. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sort of walked on one side of the sidewalk and I walked on the other side. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They exited through the back door and jumped to the sidewalk, and the bus whirred away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jalil guided her, one palm cupped around each of her shoulders, through the same gates outside of which, two days before, Mariam had slept on the sidewalk waiting for him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Trees pop up along the sidewalks and the run-down apartments turn into houses with nice cars parked in front and fresh-painted trim around the windows. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

With my glasses, I see cracks lining sidewalks, the petals on dandelions, the iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons on Danielle’s blouse, and all the words and sentences and math problems that Mrs. Margolis writes on the blackboard. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They made their way up and down Unter den Linden, where the sidewalks were jammed with foreign visitors and provincial Germans, more than a million of whom had poured into the city in recent days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There are more people on the sidewalks this afternoon than usual: the warm weather must have brought them out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was walking down the driveway, I spooked Ronnie Remington, who had just come out of his house and was walking his path to the sidewalk with his head down. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like a party had somehow sprung up right in the middle of the hot concrete sidewalk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

A rough, jagged poem, like the steps on this stoop, like the sidewalk in front of this building. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Across the street a girl new in the neighborhood skated up and down the sidewalk on one roller skate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I race down the sidewalk, up the bus steps, and find an empty seat near the middle. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I knew others must have felt the same, for charpoys and mattresses began to appear on the sidewalks. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pedestrians were lying on the sidewalks, or curled up in doorways. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Just got my life threatened, while lying flat on the sidewalk. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She watched from the window as they trudged along the long sidewalk back into the main school building. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long I held Caroline in my arms on the sidewalk in front of our house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they simply stood in front of her in the middle of the sidewalk, like human trees, forcing her to walk around them. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But since sidewalks don’t usually get paved in this part of the hood, initials carved into the concrete are something I don’t usually see. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ronnie looked terrified when he recognized R.C., and he wobbled as quickly as he could to the sidewalk while R.C. whooped and catcalled. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I grab my satchel and make my way fast down the stairs, through the school yard, past block after block of the cracked sidewalks of Chicago’s South Side. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Come on," she says, and reaches out for my coat and pulls me down the sidewalk. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He walked quickly down the unpaved sidewalks, his eyes on the ground to avoid stepping in puddles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf-shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do a little Lindy move, right there on the sidewalk, and spin her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we, and others, emerged from the bushes, we saw a man run from the driver’s seat to the sidewalk, where he vomited blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were cars parked bumper to bumper along the sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I head down the hot sidewalk at eight thirty in the morning wondering what I’m on do with the rest a my day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It even seemed like the sidewalks were bigger, even though I knew they probably weren’t. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

James crowed as they trudged up the sidewalk after school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Eyes up, which is why Fatima tripped on one of the six big cracks where the sidewalk split—a lightning bolt of a separation—one part lifted just enough to be annoying. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I left there and cried openly on the sidewalk. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preoccupied with that revelation, she trips on the sidewalk crack. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beau came bounding out, his claws clattering on the wet sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Hello, my friends, come in, come in,” the pizza man said to the three small faces staring in from the sidewalk. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

James crowed as they trudged up the sidewalk after school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the wet sidewalk covered with drips of mustard and cheesy nacho crumbs. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I almost tripped over a crack in the sidewalk, and to catch my balance, I grabbed on to her arm. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walk eight more sidewalk lines, noticing city sounds more than before: the beeping of a backing-up truck, the one-sided cell phone conversations, the rattling of tires over potholes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Two carefully watches the bushes along the sidewalk for a lurking bogeyman or worse. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

There's ice, usually, lots of it, that shellacs the sidewalks and windshields that then need to be scraped. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They hurry over to him, clearing the sidewalk in front of Ma and me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We get closer to my old building, and I notice that the crumbling sidewalk has been repaved. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A pin on the sidewalk, one, two, three, while the other boys threw their hands up and cheered like audience members and taped the whole thing on their phones. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then you run over to the window, and outside everything is covered in white: the sidewalks, the trees, the cars on the street, your windowpanes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever she’s listening to must be amazing to cause her to lose herself right there in the middle of the sidewalk in New York City. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the group had paused on the sidewalk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Most women on the sidewalks wore dresses and large hats. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just row after row of nice-looking houses with trees standing at the edges of sidewalks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He lowers himself onto the sidewalk, twists the bottle of water open, and pulls out a chocolate chip cookie from the package. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I laid into him as soon as we hit the sidewalk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could offer to shovel the snow off the sidewalk and steps again. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I walk, one sidewalk line, two lines, three. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Old men and women walked carefully along the slick sidewalks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one bright spot in the day had occurred in the afternoon, when Sammy spied a dime on the sidewalk outside of the supermarket where Dicey bought the doughnuts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the sidewalk, sat on a bench, took out pencil and paper and tried to jot down notes for the argument I wanted to make in defense of the John Reed Clubs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds on the sidewalk, the police holding them back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was straddling his bike out on the sidewalk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the point that I’ve somehow moved from the sidewalk near the street, up the cracked walkway, to the base of the porch steps. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

At the Tiburon post office I left Rosaleen on the sidewalk and stepped inside to where the post office boxes and the Sunday newspapers were kept. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they walked out of the courthouse in the November sunshine and stopped for coffee at a nearby sidewalk cafe. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I walked out onto the street so that no one on the sidewalk would notice as I made my way down the line of buses waiting—headlight to taillight—by the curb. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I just started running down the sidewalk after the rock, which I had kicked as hard as I could in front of me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And my heart totally melts all over the sidewalk. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were no cars and the street lights were on, now that darkness had come, but the sidewalk on the other side of the street was completely empty. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were all sorts of rumors flying,” Ruth says, tapping her cane against the sidewalk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stop on the sidewalk for a sec, my throat aching in the cold. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We step around younger boys playing marbles on the sidewalk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

One directs me to a throwaway apartment directory available in boxes on the sidewalk, but its offerings all include hot tubs and on-site gyms and go for over $1,000 a month. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved off the sidewalk, and as soon as the way was clear, Ronnie moved past me, still talking as he walked. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rain was thinning away and the girl was walking in the centre of the sidewalk with her head up and the few drops falling on her face. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gazing up at her from the sidewalk was a tiny, sad-eyed Yorkshire terrier. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The lack of physical distance between our bodies as we stood on an unimportant sidewalk in the middle of an unimportant town. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw bodies wrapped in newspaper floating above the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I've been thinking about Max since I left her on the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Police sirens were wailing, and cops were not paying one bit of attention to all the black teenagers loitering outside the school, running down the sidewalks and the middle of the street. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She starts chanting again as passersby jostle along the crowded sidewalk. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I trudged through the still unshoveled sidewalks with the song energizing my every step. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They still had the tin roofs out over the sidewalk, and hitching rails. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She just took it as part of the unspoken rules of life, the same as don’t back-talk elders and clear off the sidewalk for white folks to get by. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to get bitten or run over, I moved over to the edge of the sidewalk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were on the sidewalk in front of her house, in full view. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Too late to jump off while the go-kart rolled, its steel skate wheels hitting every bump and pebble on the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And look at their possessions all strewn there on the sidewalk. Just look at their possessions in the snow. How old are you, sir?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual when we got to Aunt Loma’s, the dog plopped down on the dirt sidewalk in front of her house to wait. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We walk down the sidewalk in the dark. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Above the cricket cage, through a grate in the sidewalk, the chirping rose up to the street. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down on them so ferociously that it was easy to imagine the sidewalk cracking open and swallowing them whole. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We head down the sidewalk, just walking with no particular place to go. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Leaving our sidewalk to walk in the street, I must leap to get over the expanse. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Sullivan ambled down the stretch of land between the O’Learys’ and their neighbor, crossed the street, and sat down on the wooden sidewalk in front of Thomas White’s house. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

That is his coat, and he is fleeing, running from the house and down the sidewalk, and he is carrying a rifle. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Singer was in the middle and he left them on the sidewalk twice while he went into stores to shop. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I would have welcomed dropping down on a bit of sidewalk, but I didn’t know what was allowed or what bit of sidewalk was spoken for. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scooted across the wooden sidewalk until I struck a lamppost. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I continued farther and chose a spot far from the sidewalk and hidden from view by a rusty refrigerator. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare out the window, eyes tracing the curve of the sidewalk. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The museum couldn’t spare Morris until after the police had sent help for the sidewalk traffic. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Fifth Avenue, their old block looked much different from the car than it had from the sidewalk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines the sidewalks jammed with revelers sporting swastika armbands and waving red, white, and black flags. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the sidewalk before the house, too dazzled at first by the sunlight to see very clearly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Isa’s face quickly matched Benny’s in color, and after a few minutes of quiet, Benny stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We would be strolling along, pickle juice from Uri’s chin spattering the sidewalk, when I would see something and take it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A window broke, sending glass across the sidewalk. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone move up onto the sidewalk!” she ordered, waving people out of the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He rolled across the sidewalk and into the hedge as Mary continued driving. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can see him all the way at the end of the sidewalk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Way down Carpenter’s Road, where the concrete sidewalks started, children hurried to the sliding places before shopkeepers and old women sprinkled stove ashes, like ancient onyx, onto the new-minted silver. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I walked back to the Land Cruiser parked along the sidewalk. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think about what it would be like to fall from the top of one of these mile-high skyscrapers here, down toward these hard concrete sidewalks below. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I see her crouching before me on the sidewalk in front of our house, brushing tears from my face after I scraped my knee. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people were on the sidewalks, going home from work. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first flakes of fresh snow lay on the street and sidewalk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barkers on the sidewalks collared passersby: “Gentlemen! Come in and see the show! Just have a look. Doesn’t cost anything to have a look.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He always walks like the sidewalk was put there just for his feet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the people were on the front porch and the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stopped the driver and Catherine got out, walked across the sidewalk and went inside. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She strolled along over the occasional sidewalks with the preacher’s stovepipe hat in a grocery bag. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This she followed with a string of language that would have set fire to the sidewalk. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Once they touch down on the sidewalk and the RV door clicks closed, G’ma’s the speechless one. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

There was a strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, and when Baby reached it she stood still for a second and then turned a handspring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what else to do, so I ran practically the whole way home, gripping Aaron’s photo and nearly slipping several times on the icy sidewalk. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We run down the clean, even sidewalks on Madison Avenue, passing State Street, toward Michigan Avenue. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lift my head, and see Uriah and Christina on the sidewalk, comparing revolvers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita took hold of her brother’s hand and held it tightly as they stepped off the sidewalk’s high curb and waited in the street for the traffic light to change. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And how could they leave Cedar, where every crack in the sidewalk reminded them of Dad? I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He walked along the water's edge, where it felt like a spongy sidewalk under his feet. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He saw the foot grinding the ball, the name into the sidewalk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

To him it was a detail that you stepped over, like a crack in the sidewalk. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Julie managed to position herself to break his fall, and the three of them tumbled onto the sidewalk together. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Step, step, step, on hard concrete sidewalks that made their feet hurt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, before we get to the car, I take her shoulders in my hands. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Chess could have sworn every street in their neighborhood had sidewalks, but there wasn’t one here. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I see a hummingbird in a bottlebrush tree that is planted in the space between the sidewalk and the street. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Raymie stood for a long time on the sidewalk in front of the Golden Glen, flexing her toes and isolating her objectives. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The gray of the roof, the gray of cigarette ashes, matches the pavement of the sidewalk and the street. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the years passed and his coal company prospered, Mr. Carter had concrete sidewalks poured, the streets paved, and the town fenced to keep cows from roaming the streets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Connor, Zion, and I walked down the crowded sidewalk at school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As the car lurched over the snow he lifted his eyes and saw black people upon the snow-covered sidewalks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all over, several buildings had been wholly or partially burned—including another house belonging to Abe Greenberg—and the windows of dozens of businesses lay in shards on the sidewalks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She hurried along the sidewalk and found her own bus, number fifteen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Cracks appeared in the road, the sidewalks, the sides of the buildings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We’re on the sidewalk now and it’s not safe to talk, we’re too close to the others and the protective whispering of the crowd is gone. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok now hurried along the clean sidewalks, turning to take the shortcut through the botanical gardens to her house. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Neighbors are running toward their buildings, and puddles are starting to pool along the edges of the sidewalk. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We were still jammed in twenty yards or so from the car by all the people on the wide sidewalk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had waited nearly an hour on the sidewalk for their table and then feasted on flowering chives and salted squid and the clams in black bean sauce that Maxine loved best. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway up the block she saw the three Incorrigibles gathered in a tight circle on the sidewalk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She handed me the bouquet once I stopped, and I sprinted down a sidewalk, placed the flowers on Karin’s doorstep, and sprinted back. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Makeshift stalls stocked with fireworks had sprung up along the sidewalks, and seeing them, I realized the Divali festival was coming up. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach House No. 8, I have stepped over only six cracks in the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and rolled my eyes but followed him down the sidewalk, past the pay phone, and into her room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was the first day of school, and the sidewalks were full of children with books and satchels, on their way home from a half day. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Bando,” I say as soon as we step on the sidewalk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right now they’re both wavers, flagging me out to the sidewalk. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He stares at the commuters who cling precariously to trams and buses, threatening at any moment to spill onto the street, and at the families who boil rice and shampoo their hair on the sidewalk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put the chair just inside if it was cold, and out on the sidewalk if it was summer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We walked all the way to Old Main and I turned us right, down the sidewalk. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But we desert the coaches of Little League, Ben thought, leaving the river’s edge and returning to the sidewalk beneath the huge water oaks of River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles stood alone on the dark sidewalk, his hand brushing the spot on his chest where my tears had stained his green robe. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She lay crumpled down on the dirty sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The clerk looks through the glass door at Dutchy, standing on the sidewalk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They sat on the wooden benches that ran along the outside of the cable car, facing the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At quarter to eight Sunday mornings, I saw the O’Briens and the Van Hoyts walking down the empty sidewalk past our house and I knew. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Broken bottles and fast-food wrappers litter the sidewalks, a few houses are boarded up, and just about every building is tagged with graffiti curse words, but the Allens’ place is actually pretty nice. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner was our place, a narrow single-story building with a wooden zebra’s head projecting over the sidewalk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ordinary working people wouldn’t walk on the sidewalks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We was walking down the sidewalk, heading to meet Noodle, when T come up the other way. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He stood farther down the sidewalk, where it was dark, holding his paper cup and looking at everybody in a dreamy way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Someone innocent of the mess on the sidewalk ahead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I see Liz and her mother walking down the sidewalk along with Officer Khan and a woman in baggy blue jeans and a dark-orange sweater. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When he came to, he was lying on the sidewalk in a circle of concerned bystanders, his head and face aching. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Four doors are draining straight at me with about three hundred kids streaming down the steps and across the lawns, headed for the cars and buses and sidewalks that take them home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was halfway down a main street, walking along the same stretch of sidewalk I followed home every day, but I’d been lost in my head; I hadn’t been paying attention to the road. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sits on a sidewalk one block north of the station. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The dog set its paws on the rim, tipping the can and sending the garbage across the sidewalk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they reached the sidewalk, Jamie made his first decision as treasurer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ann left the room and walked out of the building and down the limestone steps to the sidewalk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

An ambulance is parked on the sidewalk, the doors at the back flung open. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Must've been a good speech,” I said when we walked out of a restaurant in Chicago to find that a crowd had gathered on the sidewalk to wait for him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Boy21 waits on the sidewalk when I walk Erin up to her door and give her a kiss good-bye. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver staggered to the sidewalk and made his way over. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Kuba went sprawling, and the pure white naked woman shattered on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And the policeman takes off at a fast clip down the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Brooklyn doesn’t do oceans, just sidewalks, buildings, and boring rivers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They rode their bikes back and forth on the sidewalk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We were a proud pair, dropping by the pool hall, playing a quick game of eight ball, and then, as the sky darkened, swaggering down the sidewalk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A dog, an old beagle with an age-white face, wandered out of the auto-parts store and began to sniff at something on the sidewalk. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the early hour, hundreds more well-wishers joined the procession behind the president or stood along the sidewalk silently paying tribute to him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the faces of the people along the sidewalk in front of us and I did not feel alone. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I kept my face pulled back into my hood as I walked to the sidewalk, crowded with teenagers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Silently they ambled down Tenth Street until they reached a stone bench that jutted from the sidewalk near the curb. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunt paced the dark sidewalk in front of Dr. Fielding’s apartment building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But then Georgie joined him on the sidewalk, still dressed in her uniform from Downtown Donuts. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm back on my feet and heading down the sidewalk as if I'm a block from home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The snow goddess stepped lightly around Jason, examining him as if he were sidewalk art. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smoky aroma hits us on the sidewalk, and a blues song pours outside. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Our travel companions, my mom, my brother, and I march through the small sidewalks almost in a perfect single file. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He stood in the V of the open car door, watching as I went up on the sidewalk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A train was coming into the station, and I pushed through the crowd trying to get to it, all of us blocked by the people standing on the sidewalk, watching the Jews go by. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She called out to the people on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of seconds before the cop had thrown the guy to the sidewalk and pressed him face-first into the concrete. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The deserted sidewalk rose steeply and continuously for several blocks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They get in and out of cars, whisde at friends, and glide along the sidewalk on shoes with heels as loud fast music blares from speakers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk I’ll feel her girlish walk take over, and die movement brings back a kind of emotion, a desolate and gossipy sympathy for the girls I see coming home from school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I watched as he grew smaller and smaller, along with the sidewalk, the parking lot, the school, and the oversized stadium. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The Stingers rush to the edge of the sidewalk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Boo hopped along the sidewalk, gathered a pebble in his beak, flew up, and dropped it on Mini’s head. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if I were standing on the sidewalk on the main drag of my existence, looking through the glass at all of life’s goodies, but could not find an open door. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I reach the sidewalk something else dawns on me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One-Fifteen sits on the sidewalk with his face buried in his hands. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She stops abruptly when she sees that her mother and I are face-to-face, a few squares of concrete sidewalk separating us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were walking down the block, coming from the corner store, Noodles ripping paper off cheap dime candy and tossing it on the sidewalk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They stood side by side on the sidewalk across the street from the courthouse. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Krystal pushed forward while I stayed about fifteen steps behind her, passing Lu and Ghost, who'd pulled over on the sidewalk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

My heart wants to explode like red confetti all over the sidewalk. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had no huge parking lots, just a row of parking places right up against the sidewalk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

From some of the glares I got walking up the board sidewalk, I figured these folks would rather suffer through hard times on their own than have a stranger come in to witness their misery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

He gives me a wink, and just as quickly as he appeared, he fades back into the crowd of respectable folk moving down the sidewalks, anxious to finish their business and get inside before dark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But the sidewalk below my building is deserted, the windows across the street rows of dead eyes, dark with curtains and dresses and rugs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I staggered along sideways across the wet sidewalk until we reached the Volvo. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was out of sight of the bookshop window, she rested her parcels on the sidewalk and opened the dictionary. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The old Vega had been left behind on that sidewalk in front of Manny’s bodega. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He'd heard church bells ringing in Manhattan and seen reporters converging on the sidewalk outside his house. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we pull up to the gate, reporters and fans cluster on the sidewalks, flying little drones in the sky to take as much video as they can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg stood on the sidewalk outside of a Philadelphia courthouse, feeling like an absolute fool. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Firemen turned high-pressure water hoses on the children, rolling them down the street like dolls, and throwing others against sidewalks, buildings, and parked cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They throw them out anywhere: on doorsteps, in garbage cans, at gas pumps, sidewalks. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I looked at the three walls surrounding the lot, then at a garden coming up beautiful, planted there close to the sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it is better—better than counting sidewalk lines alone or trailing behind Jax and Deb. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Cars had splashed ice water onto the sidewalk and overnight it had frozen solid. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go out, into the sidewalk twilight, outside the gallery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And on the sidewalk Mrs. Wilson had to whip her to make her behave. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dauntless soldiers with blue armbands stand on the sidewalk outside, carrying guns I’ve never seen before, guns with narrow, blue beams of light streaming from above their barrels. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit whipped the rope over the side of the basket, where it unfurled to the sidewalk below with a loud fwop! A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the passengers had dispersed by now, but a few lingered with the driver on the sidewalk beside the empty bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He is older than the others, with deep creases in his dark skin and gray hair at his temples, and he stands on the ledge like it’s a sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And I go out the front instead, down the steps, and down the sidewalk toward the bench. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As I was going down the sidewalk, I heard the door open. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down, addressing the sidewalk under our feet, he said, “Yeah, we were.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman waited on the sidewalk, staring at the curtained window of the beauty shop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the club and pulled the Flop over backward to the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I jog on the curb to prevent pedestrians on the sidewalk from slowing me down. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like, if it was a bottle on the sidewalk, he would rap about it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He saw peddlers and fruit sellers and sidewalks crammed with pushcarts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Like they were completely alone instead of in the middle of the sidewalk while students streamed around them, hurrying to class. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We walked along together, along the sidewalk past the wine shops, then across the market square and up the street and through the archway to the cathedral square. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A mother tugging a toddler along the sidewalk froze in place when she saw my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A short sidewalk led over to the blacktopped driveway, and both the sidewalk and the blacktop were just as crumbly as the porch, with large patches of rocks and dirt showing through. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Soon’s she walked on by the alley he give me a shove and I was on the sidewalk behind the woman. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was a sunken sidewalk area near the train entrance, next to the Cambridge Information Center and another newsstand. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ignatius was waving to his mother from the brick sidewalk, his earring catching the rays of the streetlight. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chose a spot not too far from the sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sack the woman had been toting fell when she got hit and everything in it was spreading out willy-nilly on the sidewalk. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She’d seen the way they screamed at the living, their fits of impotent rage on the sidewalks and in the train stations. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

People are stopping on the sidewalk to stare. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Like it? She got spitting mad. She can get mad sometimes. She took Aron’s fountain pen and threw it on the sidewalk and tramped on it. She said she’d wasted half her life on Aron.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That boy was on fire, wasn’t he?” a man remarks as Sasha pushes through the back doors to the sidewalk. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As I followed Margo’s directions through the maze of oneway streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And even after she did, she kept the door open, one foot still on the sidewalk, so she could jump back out if she needed to. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As I walked through the shadows of the trees that lined the sidewalk, I felt like I was leaving the worries about R.C. and the trial behind. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A bright spot of pink caught his eye—a Hello Kitty lunch box sitting on the sidewalk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

People on the sidewalks were holding newspapers over their heads, like little roofs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We enter the courtyard, and as Fiona pushes me along the sidewalk, I see the first signs that she’s been a busy bee. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were windows just above the sidewalk at foot level, and more at head level, too. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wore suspenders with T-shirts and gave them dirty looks when he was sweeping his sidewalk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A man store owners and landlords liked because he set the children’s toys in a neat row when they left them scattered on the sidewalk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were streets and sidewalks and the sounds of a city beyond the walls. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some, when their hatch was raised, simply walked out, head bobbing, as if this were nothing more than a stroll on a city sidewalk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. Kolbinsky waits where the sidewalk starts, brilliant in her yellow, black, and orange sheath dress. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We stand on the sidewalk for a few minutes before I say, “Where is she?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my feet hit the sidewalk, I feel a tingle in my right knee, but I ignore it and move faster. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before we get back to the tree, Rani stops again to buy some dried fish and some other food from vendors sitting on the sidewalk, selling things in baskets. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The town gave no indication of quieting for the night, shops open, citizens a-prowl on the wooden sidewalks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after that, Sima was in a market buying pomegranates, and tea, and saffron, when a black van pulled up onto the sidewalk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There aren’t pigeons cluttering the sidewalk as I go to school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He nodded good-bye to Biff and they started off together down the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And if you try to run me and my sisters off the sidewalk with that skateboard, I'm going to stomp on you good.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain General Taheri had spoken about at the flea market was a few weeks late, but when we stepped out of Dr. Amani’s office, passing cars sprayed grimy water onto the sidewalks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We didn't have to step off the sidewalks for them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I belonged in a city with a constant stream of traffic noise, busy pedestrians, and musicians busking on the sidewalk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Running so fast, I fly above the sidewalk. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He tapped his toes a couple of times on the sidewalk and then stepped forward and curled up in the duffel. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I started jogging up the sidewalk to the school entrance. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He continued on his way, through the stream of pedestrians, whistling and tapping his cane on the brick sidewalk, completely unaware of the two men who’d stepped into his wake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

No one pulls out a barbecue grill on the sidewalk, or a small table for a game of dominoes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had started kicking a rock between my feet like it was a soccer ball, chasing it back and forth across the sidewalk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

No crowds of hysterical, suicidal people running down the sidewalks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

No one questioned her, even though it was thirty-five degrees and the trees lining the sidewalk bent against the strain of the wind. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was five- fifteen and about a dozen people, all told, were walking on the sidewalks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was running an errand in downtown Durham one day not long after the trial when he spotted a city councilman walking briskly toward him on the sidewalk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there I was, on the sidewalk, watching them file past, unable to move. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slumped over on my side, putting my cheek against the freezing, damp cement of the sidewalk, closing my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They wheeled me across the sidewalk into the hospital doors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Blue Spot has always looked grimy from the sidewalk, so I’ve never actually gone inside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There’s a little indie bookstore with tall, arched windows, a grocery co-op on the corner, and two guys walking down the sidewalk, holding hands. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was a breeze blowing down the hill and the men had gathered outside, standing on the sidewalks, their hands behind their backs, talking amiably. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that people were not pouring out of the buildings, mobbing the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Council left the mortally wounded soldier lying on the sidewalk, returned to his bus, and completed his route. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He's convinced that they are jostling and pushing for a place on the sidewalk outside City Hall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stop my bicycle on the sidewalk across from your house. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If officers stood on the sidewalk as he walked by, he bowed ingratiatingly at them. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It pained them to watch me advance across the sidewalk toward the hospital entrance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Down the sidewalk, two little boys tore after a rolling ball. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We walk down the sidewalk, across the street from the housing projects. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The trees along the sidewalk near the school—so recently a burning orange and red and yellow—are losing their last leaves. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Snow spilled from its doorways, collecting in giant heaps on the sidewalk. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

No one is on the comer, which is good, because I probably look pretty strange lying faceup on the sidewalk and inching myself under the mailbox. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Alvarez brothers waited out on the sidewalk until she and Anthony were inside. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m scared some of the hijabi girls I know will get their scarves pulled off while they’re walking down a sidewalk—or worse. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The street was full of bicycles and pedicabs and trolleys, and the sidewalks were so crowded with shoppers, they spilled off the sidewalk into the street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Margaret’s house, like all the others in Old Town, has a front porch, and the street itself has sidewalks on both sides of the road. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty nice having a New Yorker to help keep me in check on the sidewalks. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In nothing but her swimsuit, she jogs down the sidewalk with my dress and bag in her arms. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Neighbors huddled in small groups on the sidewalk. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She continues to stare as she hands me her keys and follows me to the door and down the sidewalk. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could see boots and the little tunnel of the pistol coming down the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I duck into the record store, hoping to avoid the stares of anyone who saw me acting unbalanced on the sidewalk. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And before Dolores knew what was happening, she found herself chasing a ferret down the New York City sidewalk. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

People were yelling and running on the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Ha! I think he was a SmartMart scout,” she said and began sweeping the sidewalk in front of the store. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We shook hands and I watched him walk quickly away, tall, lean, bent forward with eagerness and hungry for the future, his metal-capped shoes tapping against the sidewalk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He stepped out onto the flagstone sidewalk and tacked the card to the bottom of one of the black patent leather shutters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were outside and I locked up and we were heading down the sidewalk, I threw my arm over his shoulder. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But there were no sidewalks here in North Hill, Virginia. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Manny stood on the sidewalk with a wooden baseball bat, waving it after them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Friday is tethered to a signpost and looks at me as soon as my foot hits the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We spend the next couple of hours cleaning the rest of the house and bringing out bags of garbage onto the sidewalk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even noticed them, but now I think about the random passerby on the sidewalk, the gardener working on the hedge. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the downtown streets of Kilgore, people milled about on the narrow sidewalks, looking at shop displays and admiring the strands of lights that decorated the businesses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I flew down the sidewalk and found him standing in front of a vacant lot, making gestures to a man with a shovel. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abandoned pieces of furniture on the street and sidewalk were fiery torches, while shadowy figures darted through the night seeking a safe escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they sailed along the sidewalks of Brooklyn lesser creatures stepped aside, respect was shown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We dodged across the street holding hands, avoiding cars, people, and stray dogs sunning themselves on the sidewalk. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on the curb instead, the straight, narrow sidewalk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

C.P. watched dumbfounded as the councilman waded through traffic like a man crossing a fast-flowing river, finally emerging on the other side and then hurrying down the sidewalk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was the Flop holding his head, wobbling about the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I sat with Zion out on the sidewalk at lunchtime the next day. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ivy couldn’t even hear her own footsteps as she ghosted over the sidewalk. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks turned to tunnels; cars were lost for the season. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brownstone row houses lined both sides of the street, and long, wide, stone stairways led from the sidewalks to the frosted-glass double doors of the entrances. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The little beanbag animals on the sidewalk seemed to grin at us as we passed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On March 30, twenty-five-year-old John Hinckley stepped from a group of reporters on the sidewalk outside a Washington hotel and shot six times at President Ronald Reagan. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dolores’s eyes flicked to the sign just outside on the sidewalk. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Max blinks twice and kicks away a chunk of concrete that's come loose off the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A volleyball is pushed up the sidewalk by the wind. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So we ran, pushing through mobs of dazed mortals that clogged the sidewalks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He rarely stayed on the sidewalk, veering onto neighbors’ lawns to hurdle bushes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a storm in the air, and as I hurried down the sidewalk, the first patter of rain came, and in the distance, I saw lightning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I recovered my composure, I had to leap onto the sidewalk at the risk of breaking all my bones, and run toward the street down which she had already turned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One back wheel jolted up over the sidewalk and back down to the street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steps back and watches Henry take it all in—the butter-yellow siding, the big bay window, the handprints in the sidewalk. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I walk to the sidewalk, look left, then right. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I walk, or just stand on the sidewalk and watch people go by. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But they hung around anyway, walking up and down the sidewalk across the street. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I nod and glance at the harmless pigeons strutting along the sidewalk. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Without thinking where she was going, she began to walk: down the sidewalk and around the corner and out to the main road, paths she’d driven often but seldom walked before. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a big sweatshirt and sweatpants and as he moved up the sidewalk to the door his step was amazingly light for someone his size. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

But he lost his balance, and he and his bike fell to the sidewalk. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The broad streets and sidewalks that had impressed me so on the first day we had arrived had become as familiar as the dirt road from Macún to the highway. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The street lamps came on suddenly, lighting up the snow-covered sidewalks with a yellow sheen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they roamed in a tight pack up the sidewalk, people started recognizing them. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her heart raced even faster than the patter of her shoes on the sidewalk. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

At 3:30 each afternoon, I would watch out the window until I saw Lynn walking down the street—there were no sidewalks in our small town. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Already a solidly packed crowd stood all over the sidewalks, the streets, on lawns, and behind the lines of the policemen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or I saw them lost in conversation with each other, mother and father, while their sons commanded entire sidewalks with their tricycles. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

People from other blocks sit on lawn chairs all up and down the sidewalk. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, everything is far away and there aren’t any sidewalks or buses. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Everything's closed now, and the tourists who flood the wide sidewalks during the day have gone back to their hotels, towering fifty stories above us. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I look down at the sidewalk, shake my head for no. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the leaves were falling from grand old trees, people with scarf-bundled necks hurried along the sidewalk holding paper cups, the women, particularly the Asian women, pretty in slender skirts and high-heeled boots. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then they both stand there on the sidewalk and stare at each other, the dog in terror, the man in hatred. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A young Mexican who started his shift ten hours earlier climbed out with a bag of garbage and heaved it onto the sidewalk. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was not even on the edge of the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And still here I am with Daniel in the middle of the sidewalk, on what is almost certainly my last day in America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred and kicked up dried leaves, making them skitter across the sidewalk in front of us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ball coming off the steps had to clear the sidewalk and land in the street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Out on the sidewalk in front of the building, a knot of activists waved signs and shouted chants, though I can’t remember what it was they were angry about. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I went out of the door and walked briskly down the sidewalk, praying that the gang would not molest me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks, if you took your shoes off, burned. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Anu, it was awful! She sped on surface streets, drove onto the sidewalk, tailgated, and yelled at other drivers." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks of 141st Street were wide, but the street was narrow. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

An even bigger crowd waited outside on the courtroom steps and on the sidewalk below—more supporters, more reporters aiming microphones and cameras. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bubber got out when they came to the corner and helped her lift the wagon down the curb and get it up on the next sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks and streets up ahead were filled with people holding signs. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I maneuver the stroller across the street, tilting Leda back to get the wheels onto the sidewalk. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a Friday night, and the sidewalks were full of people going in and out of restaurants and cafés. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I leave Darius on the sidewalk and make my way into the brownstone, where the smell of alcohol smacks me in the face and the music is really good. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Iron streetlamps line the sidewalks, and I see Uncle Carlos from a few houses down, sitting on his front steps in the dark. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He imagined her walking along the sidewalk, carrying grocery bags from the supermarket that was on the next corner, in love with another man. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tension radiated from the surface of the photograph like heat off a summer sidewalk. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Which is why, when she saw Drew heading down the sidewalk toward downtown, Ivy decided right then and there to follow him. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my bag from the bench and started down the sidewalk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The entire family gathers on the sidewalk and looks as if they've stepped into a different country. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He led them to the corner of Main and Swede, to where the platform of the P & W trolley terminal hung high above the sidewalk. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could hear our big, heavy snow boots thumping down the sidewalk until we turned the corner and dashed out onto the field. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

People can be thrown away too, like last night’s trash left out on sidewalks or pushed to the edge of wherever all broken things go. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually he appears on the sidewalk and heads over to me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Whipping up the opposite sidewalk from behind the parked cars, it's a boy, and he's kicking along on a little silver scooter. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scan each person who passes on the sidewalk behind the sliding glass doors, seeking a familiar face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to die, right there on the sidewalk in a city that didn’t care. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Instead of proceeding to the restaurant, they decide to wander up the sidewalk for a while; there are still twenty minutes before their reservation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him around, hanging out alone behind the school, scratching at the sidewalk with a rock, flicking pebbles at the tires of the buses as they lined up to take everyone home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A young, slickhaired man screamed loud obscenities to an older woman on the sidewalk. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our left side, there's a stack of empty milk crates on the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Many people from Century Village walked the beach where there was a sidewalk with markers for every half mile. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She jammed her heels into the sidewalk and screamed and kicked me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sun had baked a slick ice over patches of sidewalks, so we tried to step on only the snowy, crunchy parts. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I saw it on the floor plan. People can walk up to it on the sidewalk and return their books. I figured it had to lead down here.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Lana Lee was out on the sidewalk giving the jig some directions about a poster he was putting up in the glass case on the front of the bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college didn't want a farm, so it sold all the surrounding land to a developer who put in roads, sidewalks, and sewers, divided it up into lots, and sold it to builders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't care who they are, they got no business putting these old folks out on the sidewalk." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep to the avenues. Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t accept any rides. If there are too many people milling around a sidewalk, cross the street and walk on the other side.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The water on the roads and sidewalks reflected light with a silvery sheen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered up my papers, which the cop had scattered all over the car and onto the sidewalk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She and Harry walked fast along the dark sidewalk, and when they came to the end of the street they turned down another block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A man climbed the stairs from the sidewalk up to the park. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His partner was waiting on the sidewalk, opposite their patrol car, double-parked with its radio going. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man standing and watching from the sidewalk and a girl looking down out a window. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then shame was replaced by guilty anger as he recalled Jan’s confronting him upon the sidewalk in the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hit the ground so hard his shoes cracked the sidewalk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Adam was out of the post office and across the sidewalk to his Ford before he had done all of these things. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the intersection of a busy, four-lane street and soon found themselves standing under a neon sign that jutted over the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, a crowd watched in silence. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The little girl looked at the animals, she looked up at Shadow, and then she ran off, her feet pounding the sidewalk as if all the powers of hell were after her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He picked it up and dashed it to the sidewalk and stomped on it some more. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cole jumped on him again and started smashing his head against the sidewalk. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Spectators were asked to help and many responded by chopping up fences and sidewalks, hoping to deprive the fire of fuel. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Petra grabbed a snow shovel from her front hall and headed out to the sidewalk. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As they reach Frederick’s block, a woman in a dress, leaning against a building, bends over and vomits on the sidewalk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

No neighbor had seen him strolling along the sidewalk. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man's eyes scan the sidewalk as if to find an adult to assign us to. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like the way Ma told me to cross the street to the other side of the sidewalk if I was walking home alone and I saw a group of guys walking toward me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But then lining the sidewalk outside the station, blocking the entrance to the turnstiles, was a row of cops in riot gear. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wynn carried three folded lawn chairs with his free arm and set them up on the sidewalk in front of the Fabric Barn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They milled around, casting quick glances up and down the sidewalk, like they were waiting for someone, all of them so nicely dressed, wearing ties with clips on them like store clerks and bank tellers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Across the street from us, a pair of women walked down the sidewalk. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I walk out of the house and back down the front steps onto the sidewalk. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ashima has been consuming this concoction throughout her pregnancy, a humble approximation of the snack sold for pennies on Calcutta sidewalks and on railway platforms throughout India, spilling from newspaper cones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But one night I asked a guy on the sidewalk outside if he’d buy us a twelve-pack of tall boys, he agreed, and that had become our weekly routine. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jack carries me away, his strides long and brisk as he steps onto the sidewalk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I step onto the sidewalk and see cars streaming down yet another busy avenue. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, a massive wolf paced restlessly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I start to wonder how many sidewalk cracks I’ve stepped on. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He swung open his door with a creak and jumped to the pavement, joining the rest of their family on the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just a short walk from Hell, people were going about their business, striding down sidewalks, living in buildings that still had electricity and windows and walls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Umm, Dad, I just had to sneak out of a girl’s house,” he says to himself as he walks down the sidewalk and past a house with plastic lawn ornaments of geese and deer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Squat houses in pastel colors lined the road like rows of sidewalk chalk. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He suddenly became very lively, almost dancing a jig on the sidewalk. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he kept walking, without a backward glance, until he reached the sidewalk, where he turned to the right and headed for the activity down the road. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until she was out on the sidewalk that she remembered what Caroline had said about reporting to Mrs. Ross before she left the building. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, beyond the covered sidewalk that ran like a moat around the huge building, lay the huge, gray parking lot, a no-man’s-land of empty cars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It clanked on the sidewalk, and even in the midst of the noise of the crowd, it got the attention of people surrounding him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Okay, I got one. Would you rather live every day for the rest of your life with stinky breath, or lick the sidewalk for five minutes?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My mattress back in our tiny studio had been salvaged for free off the sidewalk, a ratty old spring pad that squeaked like hell every time I moved on it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel moved to the edge of the sidewalk and concentrated on the odd effects of her wraith-poisoned heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were on the sidewalk, facing each other, and there wasn’t much space between us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He tapped the toe of one shoe on the sidewalk. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The kid shouts " 'Hey' yourself, lady!" and flips us the bird as he zooms off along the sidewalk. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of me there’s a body lying on the sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jason and I are looking at some big plastic balls in a wire bin on the sidewalk by the front doors. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The parasol trees lining the sidewalks were straight and tall and seemed to smile at us in the bright sunshine. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped her candy box to the sidewalk. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were on a bright, cold, gray Manhattan sidewalk. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She set Olive on the sidewalk and was about to chastise her further when tears began streaming down the little girl’s face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a large ring of keys, and with Dell now on the sidewalk, she went back into the salon and began locking the heavy door at the bottom. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Where else does the sidewalk tremble under your feet from the rumble of subways underground, and trucks and city buses up top? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anticipation, in a way—that same awkward feeling as when I’d walked up the sidewalk to ring her doorbell on our first date. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was heavy with grief and anger, and he allowed the world to pull him down onto the sidewalk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

People hung in clumps around the doorways, children playing on the sidewalks and in the gutters. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The Nazis won’t be so bad,” an old Polish woman on the sidewalk next to me said as I watched them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he caught you throwing candy wrappers on the sidewalk, he would give you a whack with his open hand on the bottom hard enough to lift you off the ground. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Carmel was mildly startling after Centralia—a busy little town, nicely old-fashioned, with traffic on Main Street and sidewalks full of shoppers and other townsfolk going about their business. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the sidewalk, Blue Spot looks like a posting board for cigarette and alcohol ads. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I think about the spit you sometimes see, downtown, on the sidewalk; or cow’s tongues in butcher’s shops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We followed the other kids and their nannies and parents out to the sidewalk, and Mom still didn’t answer. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe while strolling through the sidewalks of the Jordan district that she loved to visit, I would meet a woman like you. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dashing around a corner, I tripped over a body half hidden in the snow and went sprawling on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Thank you so much,” Ignatius replied and wheeled the big tin hot dog out onto the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed out of the minivan and staggered up the sidewalk to his house, and when he was standing on the front porch, he turned around, smiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Joseph walked down the aisle like he was walking on a sidewalk. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I take the phone and speed walk back up the sidewalk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We all walk outside and pause at the edge of the sidewalk. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was Lidewij, her eyeliner running down her cheeks, duly horrified, chasing us up the sidewalk. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You can get yourself arrested for pushing one of them things on the sidewalk.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment I had my costume on and was stumbling up the sidewalk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was already starting down the sidewalk when I heard the toot of a horn and the buzz of an electric window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s strange: the sidewalks look brand-new, and the redbrick street makes him wonder if the road will lead him to a wizard who can send him back home. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema yanked her back to the sidewalk just in time. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Bessie greeted the other residents as they crossed each other on the sidewalk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Deborah and Cheetah first met, he threw a bowling ball at her on the sidewalk in front of her house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I reach the sidewalk and stop, blinded by the sun. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I may have never been to Tokyo before, but even I can tell that this is in an upper-class neighborhood, with perfectly clean sidewalks and neat rows of cherry trees not yet in bloom. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For every foot of sidewalk I put between Tyler’s house, Marcus, and me, the muscles in my shoulders relax a little more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then a familiar silhouette walked down the sidewalk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We followed the dock toward the shore, where the pipes, now joined by many others, disappeared under the cement sidewalks leading to San Juan. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, he was still hungry- We picked up our pace as we walked in the shadows of the tree- lined sidewalks, now avoiding the center of the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I hopped on my board, pulled my hoodie up against the raw morning and, avoiding the bloodstained sidewalk in front of the 7-Eleven, I headed downtown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My mother fell on the sidewalk in front of our house and broke her arm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I picked up a brick from the sidewalk and flung it through the store window, then I rushed at the building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I reach the sidewalk, I start jogging again. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You big crazy fruit,” George snarled more loudly and slouched away, the taps on his heels scraping the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For migrant children, there are few options: shining shoes, selling gum or candy on the sidewalk, or washing cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As she came home from grammar school, little boys came up behind her and pushed her down to the sidewalk. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waved at us and started pulling things out of the car and plopping them on the sidewalk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She walked along the sidewalk with him, her breast brushing his arm, setting him on fire. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was halfway to the edge when the sidewalk below started to get wavy. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back of my skull bounced off the sidewalk’s rocky concrete. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I steered with one hand and pedaled like a demon up the sidewalk. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Strolling slowly along the sidewalk, I watch men crowd around the stands with the pretty young girls at them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible not to think about this as Paul slamming that black kid into the sidewalk the night before replayed in my mind. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cats scrambled through the garbage cans that stood in front of some of the houses, and the sidewalks were strewn with old newspapers, ice cream and candy wrappers, worn cardboard cartons, and torn paper bags. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She could feel it all through the room and on the porch and the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even though we’re blocking the sidewalk and people have to step on the grass to go around us, I take a blank card from my pocket and write ‘more than words’ across the top. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This corn is struggling to grow through a crack in the sidewalk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything looked old about it, old and tended, the smooth brick sidewalks, the many-paned windows, the little dome on top of the main building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would run up and down the sidewalk and I’d go up and down the road on a skateboard, artificial legs off, propelling myself forward with my arms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The boys lined up, became a wall on the sidewalk, and Pia thought about hopping the curb to go around them but knew better than to skate into oncoming traffic. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

We walk the cracked sidewalk side by side, our clothes smeared with Edward’s blood, now dry. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The emptiness was very deep inside him, and after a while he glanced up at the window once more and started down the dark sidewalk where they had walked together so many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’d draw chalk horses on the sidewalk in front of her house. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A shape moves along the sidewalk behind us, slippery in my periphery. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was dusk, and Edward was walking down a sidewalk. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Annabelle started counting things then—ceiling tiles, sidewalk squares, and consonants in words. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the day the fire started, over 55 miles of pine- block streets and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks bound the 23,000 acres of the city in a highly combustible knot. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I heard sirens coming up the street, and I swear I would have stayed staring if it hadn’t been for the cop car that pulled up onto the sidewalk between us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Just rolling out down the sidewalk, all six foot four inches of me, turning heads and looking fly. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big three-by-nine-foot painted canvas banners hung on the buses’ sides, to be read by the highway traffic and thousands of people at home and on the sidewalks of the towns the buses passed through. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no sidewalks, only wide, flat shale steppingstones arranged in the same curving path from the pale concrete driveways to the whitewashed porch steps. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And if she shut her eyes tight, she could feel Amy’s hand in her hand and hear Amy’s big feet tap the sidewalk. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Swann looks both ways, then pulls his hat a bit lower over his forehead before stepping out onto the sidewalk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

So Mary Alice was apt to stop cold on a sidewalk and run through a tap routine in her regular sandals. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lay on the sidewalk coughing, swallowing blood and feeling all the different hurts in my body. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People were getting out of them and walking along the roadway and sidewalks. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We stand on the steps of the church for a moment and, confirming that the coast is clear, make our way back to the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We were standing on the sidewalk, next to a sort of busy road, where I was having one of the most personal conversations I’d ever had with a boy. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

From time to time, a relative or friend of one of the boys called out a greeting from the sidewalk or ran out into the street for a quick handshake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I looked at the little cotton fluffs that were building up along the sidewalk and swirling erratically past my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Right there on the sidewalk, in front of everybody. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the town had enough navigable sidewalks to qualify as pedestrian-friendly—important for a large group of people who couldn’t afford automobiles. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The door opened half an hour later and the team huddled on the sidewalk in a lantern’s circle, consulting a ledger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at the end of the block, Brannon was watching from the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He locked my bag in a closet and I stepped to the sidewalk wondering where Harlem was, wondering where I would sleep that night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later he got off again and walked back to where Sasha now paced the sidewalk on bare, charred legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She stood on the sidewalk and wept as they drove away. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stayed right where I was on the sidewalk, not wanting to get too close. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The 1946 Plymouth was parked in the front yard, its bumper pressed against the porch, its taillights blocking the brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd was packed on the sidewalks and many of the shops were shuttered, and I could not find it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Uhmma and I remove our shoes and step off the sidewalk. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk in front of our building has been crumbling for years, and no one has ever bothered to fix it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even in the evening, the sidewalk outside is crawling with people. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stayed exactly where he was, trying to find the best angle, right until the sidewalk opened next to his feet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The grass and the sidewalks are already covered. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Men who seemed to rise up out of the sidewalks were rushing into the store fronts above me, their voices rising excitedly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jogged off down the sidewalk, then slowed to wave at three guys coming out of the mini grocery across the street carrying bottles of soda. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was hardly any snow on the sidewalks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The streets are fenced off, so that no cars other than ours can come through, and a red carpet lines the sidewalk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk sprouted trees; the bars on windows were replaced with flower boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We were making the rounds when we saw one of the horseless carriages stranded by the sidewalk and a demon in a big overcoat standing beside it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute the passengers had forgotten us as they stared at the excitement on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I walk along the sidewalk in front of Hannah’s old house. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There’s new magic in every sidewalk crack, in the traffic rush, in the lurch of beggars on the corner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks, the buildings, the lights—they all seem to sparkle with excitement. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In July the streets and sidewalks were too hot to touch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp clap of Russian boots passed and faded on the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“How gentlemanly of you,” I said as we hurried onto the sidewalk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’s standing at the edge of the sidewalk with his wife, Minnie, looking at a dog lying in the gutter.There is blood all around the dog’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I had done that before, walked barefoot on a wet sidewalk, knew I had felt the breeze against my face. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The day was bright and hot, and the first dead leaves of the new autumn scraped on the sidewalks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At a US embassy party in Bogotá, Colombia, he drank so much that he stumbled through the gardens and woke up the next morning on the sidewalk next to his apartment. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Laid right on that sidewalk and cried. Been acting like a baby ever since.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I notice passersby wrinkling their noses as they try to avoid getting close to me on the crowded sidewalk. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Day eventually stopped inviting him in, even though it sometimes meant walking past Zakariyya sleeping on the sidewalk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All the kids were hanging so deep in front of our school that we couldn’t move on the sidewalk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He only stopped at the comer to pick up his flying T, carry it across the street, and lay it back down on the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to the easy and usually obscene give-and- take between Joe and men of the quarter who passed the sidewalk. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we were going in Phoebe’s house, we saw Ben lift something off the sidewalk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Really? Now?” he asks, pausing on the sidewalk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

She walks her down the sidewalk by Pizza Hut, crowded with carts piled with potatoes, plantains, and avocados. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I ate in a restaurant, caught a streetcar and rode south, rode until I could see no more black faces on the sidewalks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streetlight cast puddles of light on the wet sidewalks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and right off got jerked up into the air and slammed down hard onto the sidewalk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Below, on the overcrowded sidewalks, more than two and a half million people, armed with beach chairs, picnic baskets, and thermoses, solemnly watched hundreds of floats pass by. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He turned off the sidewalk and walked up the Dalton driveway, went into the basement and looked through the bright cracks of the furnace door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks were lined with white columns covered in graffiti. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the rush and panic, a number of people either lost their footing or were accidentally pushed from the sidewalk and into the busy street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes are torn and his nose is bleeding and one of his teeth is broken, and after Gus and Oscar go away he sits on the sidewalk and cries. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their Dad flipped his cigarette down to the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"No school," he mutters and taps his cane angrily on the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As we pass by, people on the sidewalks wave at each of our cars, their faces lit with excitement. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the sidewalk cafés, European teenagers were hanging out, speaking a dozen different languages and enjoying the sunny afternoon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“However, now that Mr. Lemoncello is relinquishing control, we should take back that book I borrowed. Maybe I can drop it off in the sidewalk book-return slot when no one is watching.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He drove us into a wide street with fairly clean sidewalks and walled homes on either side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of blocks, the number of people on the sidewalk has swelled. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Ann and other protesters showed up at Stith’s home that afternoon and began marching up and down his sidewalk, Stith lost his temper and had his handyman hose them down. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and crossed the slush-covered sidewalk, feeling a strange combination of dread and excitement. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The dog raced down the sidewalk after the bus. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Heading to the City Lights bookstore, the Cranes walked a weaving path around cafe tables that packed the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A fine-looking middle-aged Negro woman, dressed in a white uniform, stepped out onto the sidewalk a few doors away and stared at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she takes out a black one and lays them both on the sidewalk. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I saw a woman sitting on the sidewalk, leaning against a building. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the streets was so steep the sidewalk had been shaped to form stairs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A shape, red with white wings around the face, a shape like mine, a nondescript woman in red carrying a basket, comes along the brick sidewalk towards me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was headed away from him on the plank sidewalk, a basket in one hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taking the delicious-smelling hotteoks, the group of friends dashed through the crowded road and sat on the curb of the sidewalk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Two strikers were shot dead and more than one hundred wounded by police on a sidewalk in San Francisco on July 5. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I looked at the sidewalk, grateful that he didn’t seem to be able to know what I was thinking. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you little kids ought to keep up with the group better,” Toby said, as he started off up the sidewalk. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked back out toward the sidewalk together, Dimple feeling confused and frustrated and all manner of things she couldn’t even begin to untangle. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then I sit down on the sidewalk and wait, whipping pebbles at the asphalt. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And there’s Dylan on the sidewalk, holding his phone, a pair of headphones, and a giant thermos of coffee. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the lobby door, ninety-six sidewalk lines away, is the first day of fifth grade. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

So he walked from the sidewalk, straight across the yard, up to my window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She dumped a pile of lumpy bags on the sidewalk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was dark when Jam started walking home, but she hopped through the large patches of yellow streetlight on the sidewalk, her steps soft and hopeful. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We came to another crowd of people, gathered around something on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

So tired I was almost dreaming, I walked back to the square—past the post office, past the hardware store, past the movie theater with its dead marquee: plate glass, cracked sidewalks, stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was weird, seeing real-life Iranians walking down the sidewalks, popping in and out of the stores, carrying plastic bags of groceries or whatever. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Get him!” someone yelled, and the sidewalk people converged on Kuba. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A colorful bouquet of flowers abandoned on the sidewalk stopped Emily in her tracks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The second we pass the sidewalk, he goes back to fanning himself and watching his handheld TV. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cameraman set up his tripod on the sidewalk. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk around the truck to the sidewalk to figure out what street I'm on and which way I need to go to get to 174th Street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Each time he passes a restaurant he considers turning off the road, but then he finds himself in a residential section, blocks of Victorian mansions on snow-covered lawns, sidewalks covered with lacy patches of ice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the outside, Starlight Cottage looked like a two-story townhome, covered in ivy and surrounded by flowers and a cobblestone sidewalk. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woman who lived across the street from us threw rocks at my Jewish pals and me just for walking on the sidewalk in front of her house. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her toe catches on the tipped edge of the sidewalk, and down she goes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He knew he should run home, and he listened to his footsteps hitting the sidewalk pavement, loud thumping, one after the other, in rhythm with his breathing, like he was inside of a wind tunnel. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I felt myself naked and fragile, an intruder, and my eyes, searching for anything but the bearded faces to look at, settled, finally, upon the sidewalk at my feet. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We climbed out of the Marriott basement and stood on the sidewalk in the bright summer daylight, squinting at the traffic and crowds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom was standing by the sidewalk, a half horrified, half admiring expression on her face. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Go, play, and come right back!” were the orders I heard as I began to dribble my basketball up the concrete sidewalks toward the courts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Wednesday stood there on the sidewalk for a moment, scratching his beard meditatively. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And the other man and the laughing soldiers with the scissors—snip snip—and the hair falling to the sidewalk, black hair falling... Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, honey,” Mrs. Reilly said breathlessly when they met by the rear bumper of the Plymouth, which blocked all sidewalk traffic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lungs still sore, Clayton got up off the sidewalk and trotted after them. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Earlier that morning, the police had strung half-inch steel cables along the sidewalks to restrain the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I walked down the sidewalk as a toddler, if you didn’t have my arm in a death grip, I was off, running full-speed toward the traffic. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We’re both quiet for a few moments as we walk, the rain making pitter-patter sounds against our umbrellas, and our shoes squeaking on the wet sidewalk. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Go downstairs and check the sidewalk under the nest. See if there are any sticks down there.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She stepped over a thick hose draped across the sidewalk that ran from a truck parked at the curb to the inside of the building next to Hollister’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The promise of glittering sidewalks feels a long time behind us now, no diamonds anywhere to be found. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Out on the sidewalk, the Man in the White Shirt opened the bottle of water and drank deeply. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The guys standing on the sidewalk are all covered with thick, dark coats and baseball caps that shield their eyes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Carla spied them in the playground, looking through the chain link fence and talking about the cars parked on the sidewalk. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As we walked east on the sidewalk, I turned to Vega beside me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The only fat doll I had was a white baby doll that I got from a sidewalk sale. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

A cold drizzle has dampened the sidewalk, and as I step outside, I’m hit with a blast of chilly night air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she reached the sidewalk, the policeman met her, grabbed her, accused her of being drunk, called a patrol wagon and carted her away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks right through me, the way passersby usually do, as if I'm no bigger than the beetle crawling in a crack in the sidewalk. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He kicked a white stone off the sidewalk. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I set the grocery bag full of dye bottles on the sidewalk. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She got outside and kept running to the end of the sidewalk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I go out the back door toward my table, and then I walk around the side of the house and stand on the sidewalk. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A tuft of grass had forced its way up through a crack in the sidewalk, only to meet a raw October wind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stevie looked like he was two seconds from vomiting the bones out of his body, leaving him as nothing but a skin suit lying on the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ahead was a lone streetlight, casting a yellow circle of light onto the cracked sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was dipping his beard into the water and scrubbing the sidewalk with the beard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Civilians began to vomit on the sidewalks and bleed through their noses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid placed an apple crate on the sidewalk in front of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was to make the roads and sidewalks out of wood and elevate them above the waterline, in some places by several feet. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few kids came up when the bus stopped, and a customs officer for the town made all the people getting down from the bus open their bundles on the sidewalk. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I sat with the boys on the sidewalk by the office as Zion said, “I think I might audition for The Wizard of Oz.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Max is staring into the cracks of the concrete sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Cameron, this is too much,” she called after me, but then I was out of the store, back on the sidewalk, free from her generosity or pity or kindness, all of it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks in the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lorena is pacing back and forth on the sidewalk and rubbing her hands together. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I sat as far from the other travelers as possible, and watched out the window as first the sidewalk, and then the airport, drifted away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here you have Flint and a sidewalk, you take one baby step, and here you have country and a dirt path. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The two of them lay on the sidewalk like salamanders in the sun. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beans cursed and stomped on the ball with both feet, flattening it, grinding it into the sidewalk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Most people just stop in the middle of the sidewalk. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for pointing that out,” I said, and went on down the white-hot sidewalk, wishing that I wasn’t squishing so much. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was standing on the sidewalk in torn-up jeans and a sweater, her dark hair falling to one side, so long it grazed her elbow. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Others knelt down on the sidewalks and began praying aloud. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dayi Jamsheed parked the SUV under the shade of a gigantic walnut tree that hung over the street and thrust its roots beneath the cracking sidewalk. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had begun to rain and a cat at the corner turned and crossed the sidewalk and sat beneath the cafe awning. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sit on the sidewalk, try to breathe, just breathe. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I shout, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk’s pavement is aglow with a kaleidoscope of bright, swirling colors. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She holds my shoulders and helps me lie on the sidewalk. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw Ziggy, and also some scenery, like grass, a sidewalk, and a tree. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In addition to the baseball and sprinkler incidents, Oliver felt the Beiderman had a particular dislike for him because he used to practice dribbling on the sidewalk in front of the brownstone. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a bench along the sidewalk in front of the court. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If a German soldier approached, Jews had to get off the sidewalk until he passed by. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Shirley’s ponytail bobs in time to the ropes hitting the sidewalk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Between the rows of old houses and the canals, the sidewalks were already too narrow for the crowds jostling one another and stopping to take pictures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Lovely, lovely cement,” said Rita, lying down to press her cheek on the cool sidewalk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were tangles of abandoned cars and the sidewalks narrow paths between high shoveled walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the business block, people were still just getting up off the sidewalk. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down the length of rope once more to the sidewalk, where Marigold was waving at him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nate loved the sidewalk puppet shows and jugglers who spun torches on the street corners. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He continued on his way, through the stream of pedestrians, whistling and tapping his cane on the brick sidewalk, completely unaware of the two men who’d stepped into his wake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A gasp came up from some housewives who had stopped to gossip on the sidewalk while going to and fro about their shopping. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we near the heart of Tokyo, the streets turn crowded, until the sea of people jamming the sidewalks makes Times Square look empty by comparison. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were too many people on the sidewalk blocking his line of sight. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I try to skirt around them, but they're all over the sidewalk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I could never enjoy the room without worrying about Mom and Dad huddled on a sidewalk grate somewhere. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we see the bird lying on the sidewalk. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Instead she squats on her heels on the sidewalk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the long summer afternoon, or at the beginning of the long summer evening, the street gradually filled up with traffic, and the sidewalk became crowded with people. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A burst of laughter reached us from the sidewalk, still teeming with people. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be upstairs in a few minutes. I have to finish shoveling the sidewalk.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the old ladies with the big hats and mustaches came stepping out like the sidewalk was a runway. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then, as soon as his hand reached his center stomach area, he dropped the gun right on the sidewalk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Majestic street lamps were staggered on both sides of the sidewalk, spaced fifty paces apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The wagon bounced crazily along the uneven sidewalk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I want to know whose baby girl I'll be when my mother's new baby comes, born where the sidewalks sparkle and me just a regular girl. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He almost ran into me when we reached the sidewalk at the same time. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I walked around the back of the van onto the sidewalk on the passenger's side. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He showed up on the sidewalk when I started the third yard of the day. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Frank Sinatra appears, a disembodied voice, sliding around on the tune like someone slipping on a muddy sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beans, hoisting the muskrat carcass like a flag, blared, “Back to Fishface’s!” and led them out to the sidewalk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She glides away along the sidewalk and I go up the walk towards the house. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, Brandon received it when his head hit the sidewalk, not when Milo punched him, but Candice was sure Milo would say the opposite when school started. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They turned into a dark side street and sat on the edge of the sidewalk with their feet in the gutter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we walked to Jimmy’s, the snow had stopped and the sidewalk was just slushy enough to make my sneakers uncomfortably wet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She has to scrub the sidewalk with bleach to get rid of the stench. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The straw was curled and mangled as if Mr. Munch had been cleaning the sidewalk for, like, twenty years with it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

More people spilled out the doorway and onto the sidewalk to listen on loudspeakers set up outside. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Another was the use of so much wood in the construction of homes, offices, sidewalks, and roads. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I retreat back into the alley and get ambushed or I jump onto the sidewalk and make a run for it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I will paint my cousins, turning the sidewalk into a dance floor when salsa or la bamba spills from the third-floor window. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw people on the sidewalk, watching something. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And indeed the limb was almost as wide as a sidewalk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them a grocer sprayed down the sidewalk in front of his corner market. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Meg cries out when they seize him, and they knock her to the sidewalk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stopped walking and, for what seemed like several minutes, just watched from the sidewalk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The line of people waiting to stare at the empty body snakes out the front door of the church and down the steps to the sidewalk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

These little kids, Ryan and Vanessa, are building with big plastic blocks on the sidewalk. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A door of the van slides open, and four white men in sandstone-colored uniforms step out and flank the sidewalk leading to our house. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Two pigeons flew down to the sidewalk at our feet. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Brownsville and East New York, the sidewalks filled up again, the bicycles came back, and old folks reappeared on the stoops. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stepped out to the sidewalk, the librarians were waiting with balloons and cake. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost dark outside, and I could barely make out the people on the sidewalk below. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The man began filling the order while Felix stared at the ground like there were secret codes written on the sidewalk. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We take a seat at the small table set up on the sidewalk and eat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We walked up Gloria’s sidewalk and around back, through her yard and into her kitchen. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw four other people on the sidewalks, cross-armed, shoulders into the wind—they were too bundled up for me to see their faces, but none of them was Joseph-shaped. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad said that lots of girls had given Henry ultimatums, tried to force him to settle down, and lots of girls had been left crying on the sidewalk. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the sidewalk in amazement—the night, the stars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

People on the sidewalk stepped back into doorways to watch us, not knowing what they were looking at. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I can see the cracks in the sidewalk, I drop, and my body slams into the ground, feet first. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I like my umbrella. It’s the only one I’ve ever found that’s big enough to protect all of us from the rain," she said as Frankie jumped over the puddles lining the sidewalk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, don't step on any quacks in the sidewalk! blessing in the skies. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I watch from the sidewalk as he gets into the front passenger seat. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Do you remember on the sidewalk when I began to tell you of them? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He panned a faded striped sofa on the sidewalk with a free sign, a Giants pennant fluttering on a rooftop deck. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Trepid didn’t hear him because he was already on the sidewalk, lunging down the street. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks are cracked, tufts of weeds forcing their way through, and sometimes there aren’t any sidewalks at all but dirt paths along the black pavement of the street. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Cracks in the sidewalk, ants on the sidewalk, shadows, anything. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They exited through the back door and jumped to the sidewalk, and the bus whirred away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walk the full length of the sidewalk in front of Tyler’s house without looking at the window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It flailed awkwardly and crashed to the sidewalk, hellhound and serpent twisting and thrashing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled Tyson and me off the sidewalk just as a fire truck screamed past, heading for Meriwether Prep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She dumps six big bags of used clothes onto the narrow sidewalk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Hugo wanted to fall over, to just lie down on the sidewalk and disappear. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Or did you let him down on the sidewalk, and he walked along with the people?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether the realization of living on the streets will hit her when we finally end up standing on the sidewalk with all of our belongings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk is flush with the curb, and Diallo’s apartment building is flush with the sidewalk, separated by just a four-step stoop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Kerosene had been splashed on the sidewalk and door and set afire. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ought to stop right here in the middle of the sidewalk and shout out what this was. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vendors shuffled along in the dusty streets because the sidewalks were too crowded. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little grunt, and a rock whistled over my shoulder and bounced down the sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Doon shoved his hands into the pockets of his jacket and scowled at the sidewalk. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Baba put the paint can down on the sidewalk. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would feel so good to get away from the heat, but on the other hand, when I hit the sidewalk I would die, obviously. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She holds her head up and finally opens her eyes to take Dray’s arm, but she still stumbles forward on the sidewalk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We drove down Broadway, passing students who filled the sidewalks like colorful ants in a parade. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He walks with me back down the sidewalk until I am safely at the next corner, then he shoves me again, just a little, moving me the other way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even with my bad ankle I was pretty quick and I turned and ran down the sidewalk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there on the icy sidewalk waiting for Tuma to finish selling some hats to these white people. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

This one had picked up the shovel handle from the sidewalk and was jabbing it in the air in the boys’ direction every time they moved. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene asked, the second we hit the sidewalk, carrying the tube of rust remover. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The lobby was hushed as a library, but beyond those doors, she knew, were the cracked concrete sidewalks and the rush and clamor and ruthlessness of the city. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He strolled along the sidewalk, pausing once to knock an orange peel into the gutter with the side of his foot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Jam opened her eyes, they were outside Redemption’s house, sitting on the sidewalk. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

No cracked sidewalk There, just flat, Smooth sidewalk. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad’s old Chevy truck backfired I showered blood across the sidewalk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was wary of what the sight of them crying there on the sidewalk was making me begin to feel. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children in colorful T-shirts and shorts kick soccer balls on sidewalks with their bare feet, ignoring the grunts and screams of the food cart owners. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing to do but watch the gray sidewalk grow darker, watch the drops slide down the glass pane, watch people below me move fast, heads bent. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, we stop for a coffee in a sidewalk café. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead he turned around and saw Kevin lying on the sidewalk, an ice-laden tree limb across his neck, pinning him down. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if anything I said made sense, but somewhere between the gray sidewalk and the gray sky, a laugh burbles out of me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The insides of the stores seemed even more exotic and mysterious than the vegetables displayed on the sidewalk, but he couldn’t get her to go in one with him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I am thirty sidewalk lines away from school when I remember I have to bring home my trombone every night. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk, were suddenly elevated in status by this man’s misery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cannons are supposed to be loud, that's their claim to fame, and—like it or not—the moving sidewalk is bound to end sooner or later. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She hoisted the bike to the sidewalk and walked it over. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tester hadn’t arrived yet, so I rolled down the window in a panic and called out to my dad, who was waiting on the sidewalk. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, standing there on the sidewalk was Otis. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they came to the center of town, Salvador said crossly, “Walk beside me on the sidewalk. Act like a pocho with nothing to fear.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She waves back and watches from the sidewalk as he slides into the driver's seat and pulls his door shut. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It began to amble along the sidewalk, beside the man in the gold-rimmed glasses, and, after a moment’s hesitation, Shadow followed them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The lampshade fell off, but he kept running, weaving in and out of sidewalk people. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

People gathered on sidewalks and roofs to cheer for their kids. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would stop, teetering shakily, catching herself just before the bike collapsed onto the sidewalk. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the sidewalk, beneath a streetlamp, is a dark green metal bench. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At a yellow house on Tipperary I stepped on a couple of those white snap-pops that somebody had scattered all over the sidewalk. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Paul was hitting the other guy, again, and again, smashing his face into the sidewalk. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The vivid green of the trees along the sidewalk seemed to steal into the atmosphere so that there was a strange greenish glow over the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sees a young couple standing in a patch of sunlight on the sidewalk, feeding each other pastries from a bag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A reporter from the neighborhood newspaper was waiting on the sidewalk, interviewing people as they walked by. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I noticed some of our neighbors standing on the sidewalk, many more than were usually out this time of day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day I stopped at a sidewalk shoeshine stand near the French Market. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Mavor, My brother Danny Chipped his tooth On the cracked sidewalk, His fault really Because he was on His skateboard With his eyes closed And his fat mouth open. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Chiltington was outside, as usual, walking back and forth on the sidewalk, carrying a protest sign that said “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Is Execrable.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I'm walking down the street toward the car when I see a black plastic bag on the sidewalk, fluttering in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And then, that morning, rolling along the sidewalk, suddenly his arm came up. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cut through what was left of the crowd and stepped onto the icy sidewalk. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph was so astounded he couldn’t talk, so astounded that in springing up to welcome her, he knocked her over, so that she fell to the sidewalk and sprained her ankle. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We must have arrived late because there were only a few people waiting for us on the sidewalk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park put his hands on his knees and shook his head, splattering the sidewalk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My friend Derrick remembers white students refusing to yield the sidewalk when he walked in their path. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The mower seemed to give a happy leap forward off the sidewalk and I was mowing the lawn. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Then we stampeded down the sidewalk until the end of the building. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

If there was a place like this back in Haiti, everyone would come out and gather on the sidewalk to exchange meals and gossip. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard the lawn-sprinkling system jump up, filling the dark air with rain that fell gently and then with a steady pour all about, washing on the sidewalks, and draining into the alley. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what he is. He just better watch out when he’s riding that skateboard on the sidewalk.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot two boys on the sidewalk; everyone is trying to move out of their way. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Beaming parents and curious townspeople stood on the sidewalks, watching. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I bump over cracks in the sidewalk before I pull into her driveway. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around one last time to be sure no one was Watching, the girls grabbed Marshall out of his tailspin and started down the sidewalk in the direction that they had come. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few cars stop in front of the building and teenagers spill out onto the sidewalk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The truck is parked along a sidewalk, with a car a few feet behind it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The aunts in Hong Kong said to send money quickly; their children were begging on the sidewalks, and mean people put dirt in their bowls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather guy on TV called it a “scorcher” and said you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He took two steps onto the sidewalk and asked himself what the hell he thought he was doing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He first heard the people on the sidewalk screaming. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m remembering my feet on these sidewalks, in the time before, and what I used to wear on them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they pulled up, Redemption was standing on the sidewalk, waiting, tall and whipcord lean. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

With people stopping, looking, they patted me down there on the sidewalk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and there’s nothing behind me but sidewalk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The three of us march up the clean white sidewalk. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They sat on the wooden benches that ran along the outside of the cable car, facing the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The streets are wider, with tall elm trees like back home running along the sidewalks, their branches stretching over me like umbrellas. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now he realized, as his wheels bumped over the joints between the big sandstone slabs that made up the sidewalks, that he had never been inside. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went to the sidewalk and stood studying the faces of the people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crunch over the glass covering the sidewalk. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk was lined with those little stuffed beanbag animals you see in gift shops. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As usual, I was so disappointed in Mother and Grandmother for not standing up and saying something as the white people waited, expecting us to give in and step off the sidewalk. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly down the sidewalk opposite the house where she lived. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Striding along the sidewalks, he bathed all whom he met in the boyish grin, and his conversation with any who came up was quiet and pleasant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk they were on went beside a playground, then up to the front door of the school. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had found a broom out back and was sweeping the board sidewalk in front of the store when they walked up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was baking the sidewalk and it was so hot I sat down on the steps, placing my tape recorder and notebook next to me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they were, all alone on the dimly lit sidewalk, and it was suddenly very quiet. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

People gave us looks as we climbed out of the rubble and onto the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I’m on another planet,” I said, pushing my foot harder against the sidewalk to gather speed. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She imagines her footprints sinking invisibly through the streets and the sidewalks, below the condensed archaeology of the city to underground plains of rich alluvial clay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the sidewalk, the Jackboots marched us down the middle of the streets. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I'd like to just walk along and talk with her, but there are other people on the sidewalks, too much else to deal with. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think someone should smash Cole’s head against a sidewalk so he knows how it feels.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I assumed that we could keep walking, but her feet were planted on the sidewalk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The traffic should’ve been heavy by now, but there were no cars honking, no crowds bustling along the sidewalks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was midday, and pushcart vendors and beggars crammed the sidewalks of the Levee District. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Drowning out all other noise is the music that blares from many sidewalk shops of the cassette vendors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds as if giant speakers are suddenly on the sidewalk directly outside the café. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I could sink to the ground right here on the sidewalk. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the fall of 1917, more than 500 suffragists had been arrested and 168 had spent time in jail, most for “obstructing sidewalk traffic.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They run after him, across the sidewalk and up the steps. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If she got money from tourists, she would claim that she had found it in the park or on the sidewalks. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The sun had not yet blistered the sidewalks of Maycomb, but it soon would. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

All the houses crowded up onto the sidewalk, close to one another. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's what he asked himself as he walked back down the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was piling in heaps on sidewalks, on roofs, gathering in patches on the bark of straggly trees. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That electric cord looped out our window, seven stories above the sidewalks, and right into the window of the Jenkinses’ apartment next door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Reckon somebody’s painted swastikas on the sidewalk?” said a third. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Staining the white sheet, running off the sidewalk, spilling over the curb, screaming its redness into the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks, shops, taverns, churches, and theaters once again filled with people and buzzed with talk and prayer and gossip. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

People stood around in small groups on the sidewalks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mitch: No. I found it on the sidewalk when I was walking home from school one day. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the sidewalk I say, “Ever make you mad when people call you country?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think you took the bus,” he said as they started walking down the long, long sidewalk toward the street. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I slide my backpack off my shoulders and down to the sidewalk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A clump of grass poked out from a crack in the sidewalk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The moon lights the sidewalks, and the night air feels good on my face. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without another hesitation, he starts running home, scanning the sidewalks wildly, looking for the back of a small boy wearing a bright blue scarf. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like they picked the worst parts—the drug addicts roaming the streets, the broken-down Cedar Grove projects, gangbangers flashing signs, bodies on the sidewalks with white sheets over them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, they walked two abreast along the sidewalk, not bunching up but keeping a wide space between pairs, as though they were out for a casual afternoon stroll. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Headlights suddenly flew around the corner, the car almost hitting the stocky one, forcing him to jump back toward the sidewalk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She took my arm in hers, and we walked down the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At least the heat had less bite and the humidity had dropped to tolerable levels, so I was able to hang out on the sidewalk and think about all my predicaments. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Little girls waltzed with each other, round and round on the warm summer sidewalks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved through the crowd on the narrow sidewalk, his hips swinging each way free and slamming people aside. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you jump over the cracks in the sidewalk.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel heard her say as the two got out onto the sidewalk. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Three teenaged colored boys stood on the sidewalk, drinking R.C. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The willow trees drop yellow catkins over the bridge; the maple keys fall twirling to the sidewalks and we split the sticky seed part and pinch the keys onto our noses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually no cars pass us; the sidewalks are empty, and the homes, which were built many years ago, stand gray or paint-chipped behind walls of lilacs and groves of stately trees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trent from next door stops them on the sidewalk by their squad car. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No bodega gates rolling up, and shopping-cart wheels on jagged sidewalks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"These old folks had all their stuff cluttering up the sidewalk and we cleared the street . . ." "You mean you're interfering with an eviction," he called, starting through the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he picked up his pace and headed for the sidewalk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It shattered against the sidewalk, leaving a pool of red next to my shoes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Housewives swept the granules from porches and sidewalks, where they are said to have “looked like snow.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Glad to be sitting on sidewalk concrete and not on the ledge in the tunnel. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was waiting for me on the sidewalk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I step off the sidewalk, near the entrance to a post office—and wow. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As we got to the sidewalk, lit by the purplish glow from the streetlights, he disappeared around the corner. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia and I are elated, we racket along the sidewalk through the twilight while the cars drift past us, hushed and slowed by the snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we had to trot down the middle of the street because the walls of buildings had crumpled and spilled over the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The entire side of the art building is glass—you can see everything that's going on right from the sidewalk. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m staggering down the sidewalk, sun blinding my eyes, careening from car to telephone pole, trying to get away from the truth, from the frenzy of emotions chasing me down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She could not endure the heat, and after a while she had to go out on the sidewalk and sit on her apple crate. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the karate kickers were on the sidewalk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped on the sidewalk, circled behind my parked car, and came up behind me while the other officer continued to point the gun at me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I puked on the sidewalk in response, and immediately felt less woozy. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bike courier hops onto the sidewalk a little too close to us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Do they walk right through the boys kicking cans along the sidewalk or holler at them to quit? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single pedestrian wanders down the sidewalk, and a gardener is carefully trimming a nearby hedge—but aside from the faint clip-clip-clip sound of his shears, it’s quiet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would have a tingling sensation in my stomach as I remembered walking on a moving sidewalk in the Amsterdam airport. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Park stood at the end of the sidewalk and hated everything the house stood for. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Half our block is out on the sidewalk, saying goodbye to my sisters, Mama, and Papi. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His back and head bounced against the sidewalk with a loud crack. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rufino came in the store from the sidewalk where he was parked. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has seen these graceless birds on windowsills and sidewalks, but never in trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are sidewalks most of the way home, I thought. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A car from out of town backfired in the vicinity of the bank, and everybody on the sidewalk dropped down and grabbed gravel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In front of each house was a tiny square of grass, and in front of that was a thin gray sidewalk running alongside a gray road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But as we pass the sidewalk where we used to play hopscotch, I grow sad. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then she walked in and left me frozen on the sidewalk for several seconds before following her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I stop running when I reach the sidewalk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They exchanged a quick smile and set off down the sidewalk, Redemption whistling, his arms loose by his sides. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When she arrived, casserole in hand, she’d found the lovely librarian pacing the sidewalk in front of my place. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay? That sidewalk! I’ve called the city three times.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At noon, when the temperature inside reached one hundred and eleven degrees, Brave Orchid went out to the sidewalk and said, “Let’s eat.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He proved that last night on the sidewalk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He dove in, yelped with pain, and burst out on the sidewalk just ahead of Petra. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes on the concrete squares of sidewalk and plod onward, making my way back down from Eighty-Sixth Street to Seventy-Fourth Street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stood on the sidewalk and let the perfumed breeze blow over me, free of construction dust and exhaust fumes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, trying to smile, searching the sidewalks for Eddie, Snap, and Mike. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

When the coast was clear, she started to run across the sidewalk. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even after he could no longer see the man, C.P. remained standing on the sidewalk, replaying in his mind what had just happened. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Johanna arrived a couple of minutes later, her heels clicking on the sidewalk, her hands raised in a defensive position. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Meet me on the sidewalk,” said Mother over her shoulder before she disappeared through the door. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I yelled out to the sidewalk before I had time to think. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys held up while Candace pumped the lotion into her hand, jamming the plunger down over and over again until she had enough to turn sidewalk to Slip 'N Slide. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the conveyor is moving along at roughly the speed of a moving sidewalk. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I get to the sidewalk, I turn left instead of our usual right. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks are packed with students striding, skipping, slouching toward school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So in the warm summer days the lonesome child sat on her stoop and pretended disdain for the group of children playing on the sidewalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following Dad, we walked down the front porch steps and stood on the sidewalk like a little parade. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s that weird elevated sidewalk thing along one side.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He eyed the throngs of shoppers marching down the sidewalk, arms overflowing with packages. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I returned to the club and saw a few of the white comrades standing about the sidewalk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat alone on the edge of the sidewalk. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A boy was running along the sidewalk at the same speed as us. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Then I got jobs to do shrub trimming and pool cleanup and sidewalk edging and garage cleaning, and there were more and more people working away. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Foreign newspapers relayed stories of “Jew hunts,” where Hitler Youth and Storm Troopers plunged into nightclubs, theaters, and cafes, dragging out every customer who looked like a Jew and beating them bloody on the sidewalk. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They helped us find books they thought we’d like, and we filled up the wire baskets on our bicycles and pedaled home right down the middle of the sidewalks, as if we owned the place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the intersection of a busy, four-lane street and soon found themselves standing under a neon sign that jutted over the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Or I could fall on the sidewalk and attract attention. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pace along the sidewalk, away from the demolished school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she stood there in the middle of the sidewalk, with her head tilted up at us, and that quizzical look on her face, she looked like a mischievous child. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There's a long way to go from here to the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had sidewalks, front lawns, and beautiful flower gardens. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He lets her pull him down the sidewalk. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If we get our heads bashed in and that lunatic leaves us here on the sidewalk—” she said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I have a sudden urge to run again, out of that shop, down the sidewalk. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Helmuth nearly passes by a small, stooped figure shuffling down the sidewalk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I lean past the lobby door so I can see up and down the empty sidewalk. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted all the squares on the sidewalk up to the steps of the church, then I counted the steps, twenty-seven. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Children played games, rolling hazelnuts on the sidewalks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got one other gift, and at first I wasn’t sure if it was really a gift or a misplaced piece of sidewalk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I suppose I was aware that someone was coming along the sidewalk in our direction, but it wasn’t until the person was about three feet away that I really took notice. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The ankle twisted under him and he went to his knees, but he got up and plunged into the crowd on the sidewalk, pushing through. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not from the second story, which was technically three stories up from the sidewalk because of the school’s design. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He goes to the door of the bus and calls to Sasha, who roams the sidewalk with a cell phone, charred legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He cranes his neck and looks behind Hideo at the sidewalk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was half-turned in anticipation; I had to hurriedly correct and dash across the narrow drive, back to the sidewalk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I snapped my umbrella closed, shaking the excess rainwater onto the sidewalk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There were no green patches and few sidewalks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sprouted from the cracks in the sidewalk, leaned against rusty fence posts, sneaked into well-manicured lawns. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a man coming up the opposite sidewalk with a package in his hand. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The woman said good-by and we went out onto the sidewalk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The line to get into the boxing gym is stretched out to the sidewalk, but as always we head straight for the doors. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I used to Walk along this sidewalk, behind or in front of the others. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She catches my elbow as I almost stumble into a hole in the sidewalk. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Bridge was paved in sidewalks and traffic roads like the streets of Broadway and the tracks were the same tracks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why he runs up on the sidewalk to meet me and sticks his head in the feedbag before I can lift it up, even. Does he let me,” she murmured indignantly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole hobbled slowly but without help down the sidewalk leading away from the hospital. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Street vendors push food carts piled with steamed dumplings, smoked beef teriyaki sticks, and roasted peanuts along the sidewalks and begin to set up for another day of business. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until a year ago when a little blue ball went bouncing off the sidewalk into the street. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gay eased across the sidewalk and down off the curb gently because the front tires showed fabric all the way around. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has infected law enforcement activities on roads, sidewalks, highways, train stations, airports, and the nation’s border. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Slimy pink earthworms covered the sidewalk and the road, and we tried avoiding them as we walked, but you noticed one get squashed beneath a cyclist’s tire. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Along the docks, the sidewalks were mobbed with tourists shopping at the T-shirt kiosks, overflowing from stores, and lounging across acres of outdoor café tables, like pods of sea lions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps of the front porch and she laid down on the sidewalk looking up at me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She and the other suffragists argued that they were being jailed because they had opposed the government and not because they had blocked traffic or stood too long on the sidewalks or city streets. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He and Tucker padded along beside Chester up to the sidewalk. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tropical, stale heat the sidewalks had been sucking up all day hit me in the face like a last insult. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She lets out a scream, and the squirrel bounces onto the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every so often, there is an isolated square of sidewalk with weeds forcing their way through the concrete, or a pile of rotting wood, a collapsed dwelling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The man kept arching his foot as if the pebbles on the sidewalk hurt him. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tugged on my hair with both hands, turned in a full circle to make sure there were no cameras on the houses or the lampposts, and set off down the sidewalk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Small boys and girls had been released from school and were lining the sidewalks in new clothes, waving tiny flags. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They passed a lady unloading grocery bags from the trunk of a car parked on the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I see that the movers have left a dolly on the sidewalk, so I leap across the street and grab it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Racks of fruits and vegetables had been set out in front of small grocery stores, further blocking the already crowded sidewalks. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Walking down the sidewalk, under the canopy of tall trees, I’d warily notice the—suddenly— silent neighborhood kids who stood warily watching me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He write this on paper and nail paper to post close to sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk down an empty sidewalk, the streetlights over our heads making the icy patches shine. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Floss posed them on the edge of the sidewalk and snapped the picture, unaware that a trolley lumbered by at the instant of exposure. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks outside to the popcorn machine on the sidewalk where he’ll be handing out complimentary bags of popcorn. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And Tobias is five foot ten and probably like two hundred pounds, so he could pummel anyone’s opinions into the sidewalk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There actually are a bunch of little sticks on the sidewalk across the street, and one green feather. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She dashes between a couple of slow walkers and skirts along the outside of sidewalk scaffolding to avoid having to slow down for people. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The south side of the street had no sidewalk, only a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire protecting some kind of engine parts storage yard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But when we went by The Coffee Pot Cafe, there were faces at the window, and a loafer or two paused on the sidewalk to see us pass. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Get off the sidewalk! Filthy urchins,” he muttered. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I follow the sidewalk until I get to the security gate, then I dart into the bushes. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In my mind I saw the man in black scrubbing the sidewalk with his beard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She was all over the sidewalk, swerving and yanking every which way, the plastic bag handles flapping in the wind like white flags. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Going home after practice, they waved good-bye to their coach as they slid their spikes on the sidewalk, astonished at the fire that sprang from their feet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not Greenville but it's not diamond sidewalks either. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I swept the sidewalk, pausing when a white person was twenty feet away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue and pink chalk in hand, I claim the sidewalk in front of our building for my hopscotch board. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

No one said the word to me directly, but I kept hearing it since I arrived at school one day, several days after the kiss on the sidewalk. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Garbage bags lined the curb waiting for collection and the concrete was uneven in places, but she moved right down the center of the sidewalk, never taking her eyes off me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At that corner, there was a sidewalk of cement. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone startled like a flock of birds on a sidewalk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One of them took out a bit of chalk from his pocket and drew a wavy line on the sidewalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of cracks in the sidewalks and she has to be careful not to trip in her high heels. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The stores, the signs, the sidewalks, the cars were all covered with a film of black coal dust, giving the town an almost monochromatic look, like an old hand-tinted photograph. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walk home on the cracked sidewalks, thinking about what I’ve done. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could hear the caps of his shoes clearly against the stone of the stairway, and then against the cement pavement of the sidewalk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her front wheel turns and she pedals past me on the sidewalk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I watched the men take the stretcher down the steps; then I stood on the sidewalk and watched them lift my mother into the ambulance and drive away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I wasn’t allowed to go over to Monday’s without an adult, I pedaled my purple bike down the sidewalk—not brave enough to ride in the busy street. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Like an ice cream cone you were really excited about eating, but after one lick, it fell onto the sidewalk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The music was loud and quick in her mind, and she ran faster and faster on the sidewalks leading to the home block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We scooped vanilla filling and cherry goop from the sidewalk and what we didn’t eat we flung at each other, and in between we fell onto our backs and laughed. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She was still standing there on the sidewalk, but she turned her back on me when I came up to her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As hard as I can down the sidewalk and around the next corner, leaning flat against the building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A minute earlier, walking along the sidewalk, we noticed the sign on the door that read part-time help WANTED. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I rounded the corner, I nearly tripped over a boy sitting on the sidewalk up against the wall. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he moved, she walked down the steps and dragged him through their basement onto the sidewalk outside. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Upon the sidewalks, to the front and rear of him, were long lines of policemen with drawn guns. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He with-drew a package from his pocket, discovered it was empty and tossed it away, watching the breeze move it along on the sidewalk. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than seek refuge from the cold inside the White House, the women paced back and forth on wooden planks to get their feet off the icy-cold sidewalks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The trolley stop was on a quiet block with a few stores, lots of trees, and freshly cleared sidewalks, but it was another twenty minutes to the Carutherses’ family mansion. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He turned around to grin shyly at Gilly and then, as though carrying the crown of England, came down Mr. Randolph’s walk, the sidewalk, and into Trotter’s gate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Old women sit on sidewalks and extend their weathered hands, seeking a coin or two. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk has risen up and I’m sliding down it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, as Fuchs approached the designated spot, there was a man with four gloves, pacing the sidewalk to keep warm. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled his bike up to a rack on the sidewalk and locked it up with his U-lock. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There are enough reporters and cameramen on the narrow sidewalk that the police have set up barricades to keep them from flowing out into the street and obstructing traffic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us people were settling down on the sidewalks. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm at least ten feet off the hard sidewalk, but this is no time to be afraid. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dicey just followed in the direction the majority took, turning left down a sidewalk, away from the bus station. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slatted steel grille rattled down thunderously and slammed on the sidewalk. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What were those little white patches dotting every sidewalk? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went “fishing” fast and furiously when those little evangelical storefront churches each let out their thirty to fifty people on the sidewalk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands lifted me bodily from the sidewalk; I felt myself being pitched headlong through the air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned left and headed down the sidewalk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I actually breathe until I step onto the sidewalk. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I found myself on a sidewalk leading past the backs of several somber-colored warehouses, each with large bay doors for unloading trucks, padlocked for the night. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My friend Sterling Williams sat on an empty box on the sidewalk. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that's where there is money falling from the sky, diamonds speckling the sidewalks. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She mumbled her good-bye and hopped out onto the sidewalk before her mom could cancel any more of her pretend plans. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how long I crouched on that strip of sidewalk, freezing my sac off, waiting for that bird to croak. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the oddball vendor wheeled his wagon out onto the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving in Jersey City after midnight, he walked down slushy sidewalks to Tom Black’s apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan watched as drops of sweat fell off his face and landed on the hot sidewalk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I walk outside into the cold, dark night and follow the sidewalk to the office. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Okay, guys,” said the handler when they were outside on the sidewalk. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

An orange crate with a picture of clasping hands pasted on its side was upended on the sidewalk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie stood on the sidewalk for an hour before he went inside. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and James crouched on the sidewalk to write a note and sign it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She walked back along the docks to the sidewalk and entered a grocery store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German policeman walked behind me, his gun pointed at my back while I followed the rest of the patrol down the sidewalk in a slow parade. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes fell on the trees that lined the sidewalk. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

After a while of filming my front door—brown, wooden, three rectangular windows at the top, nothing special, really—they went and did their spiel on the sidewalk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I step backward across the sidewalk and lean against the brick wall between Frenchy's and a closed sushi restaurant. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

From a passing car radio, the news blared out and echoed between the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I, meanwhile, stayed home on Euclid Avenue, living upstairs from my mother as another leaden Chicago winter descended, shellacking the trees and sidewalks with ice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He bolted down the steps and up the sidewalk, hoping his mother would not call him back. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I felt like dancing right there on the sidewalk. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They’d get tattoos in the parlors or propose to their sweethearts right on the sidewalk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By the time we finished eating, about a hundred people had gathered on the sidewalk outside the restaurant, the commotion only breeding more commotion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I grab my bike and run with it down the sidewalk, hopping onto the seat once I get enough momentum. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here I am now, holding my bag, standing on the sidewalk just past Houston on Lafayette. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Penzias and Wilson’s finding pushed our acquaintance with the visible universe to within half an inch of the sidewalk. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of them diving for the sidewalk as we straightened out and sped toward the harbor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

People stood on the sidewalk in the snow. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Eighth Avenue had been plowed and the sidewalks shoveled, which meant the sled could no longer be used. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I tumble off onto the sidewalk and explode into the street, my hands on the door of the police car before my mother can figure out what's happening. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But mostly what they did was run up and down the sidewalks and sometimes into the street, where the town cops yelled at them for creating a safety hazard. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After he climbed back down and jumped to the sidewalk, he handed the bird to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I put it right there in front of the plants, facing the sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to melt and disappear into the sidewalk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind and rain ripped at the palm trees along the sidewalk. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bodies are pressed up against one another just like they do on the narrow, crumbled sidewalks of Delmas. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

You pointed at the muddy earth surrounding a tree whose trunk had busted right through the sidewalk. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I tag walls and windows, mailboxes, manhole covers, sidewalks, doors, poles—anything that doesn't move, plus buses and boxcars, which do. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Go sweep the sidewalk. You’ll be a man in no time.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie and Johnny kept the cellar, halls, the roof, and the sidewalk before the house spotlessly clean in return for their rent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if Freddie checked people off* the sidewalks with the force he used to smash the Hodges players into the boards? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I combed the sidewalks and alleys looking for a crust of bread or anything else edible in the attempt to combat my constant hunger. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He walked to the end of the alley and turned onto the sidewalk, joining the passing stream of people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fire, in addition to consuming buildings, sidewalks, and trees, had also taken a human toll. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The vehicles pulled up to our driveway and we jumped out and stood on the sidewalk waiting for Mamá to come in with us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was thinking this when behind us crept a rumbling against concrete, like a barrel rolling, the rolling broken by the cracks in the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I look down at the sidewalk, like a tracker. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each day at the shine stand we had the same kind of customers; each day we cooked food and ate on the sidewalk; each day we fed the beggar and the pigeons. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were standing together on the sidewalk while the men were clearing the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy standing over him put a bullet in him, right there on the sidewalk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Joanna carried her baby into the house not caring that the carriage stood in the middle of the sidewalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera will show blood and broken glass on the sidewalk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The movers are back on the sidewalk, looking at him curiously. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As soon as my foot hits the red sidewalk leading into Seaside, I hear Brandy. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I arrived in Memphis on a cold November Sunday morning, in 1925, and lugged my suitcase down quiet, empty sidewalks through winter sunshine. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, I walk faster, and see that the fire rises from large, man-sized metal bowls set up on the sidewalks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And why no kid on a snow day would ever shovel that sidewalk, not for a zillion dollars. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t see stop signs, fences, or sidewalks that I know must be there. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I lean over the windowsill and watch a policeman pushing an elderly woman off the sidewalk. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We pulled up to a big old brick house and a kid was standing on the sidewalk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just stopped, dead in her tracks in the middle of the sidewalk, her face becoming loose, sloshy. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He left the doorway to come meet us halfway up the sidewalk, and Mamá, looking beautiful in her blue Sunday dress with the ruffled neckline, seemed surprised to see him there. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I grab my bag from the sidewalk, pop to my feet, and take the handle from Webb. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She stepped over a thick hose draped across the sidewalk that ran from a truck parked at the curb to the inside of the building next to Hollister’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were big shops on botfi sides of the street, and vendors crowded the tiny sidewalks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Leaving his friend Gully still dazed on the sidewalk, Harp took off running east on 124th Street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Many of them were already frustrated with the boys playing football in the street—lost in their game, the players would curse, run through flower gardens, and scatter their quarter-water bottles across the sidewalks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He and Liyana sat behind a bush next to their house in the thinnest, softest grass watching customers travel up the sidewalk. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Water cascaded off roofs, splashed loudly onto the sidewalks, and ran in burbling rivers through the streets. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We drove by the house fifty times the week of her funeral, and one time we stopped the car and Mom got out and talked to a person walking down the sidewalk. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She is there waiting for him behind a glassed-in partition on the sidewalk, wearing a dark red lipstick, sipping a glass of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped at a sidewalk cafe and had some excellent grilled salmon sandwiches. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mam lets me sit on the sidewalk with my back against the wall. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m about to tell him I do, but already he is yanking me to the front of the store and out the opening door to the sidewalk. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They walked through the long halls of the airport, past moving sidewalks, ads, stands of strange-looking food, and people who all seemed to know exactly where they wanted to go. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And he took me under both arms and lifted me and deposited me back on the sidewalk, at the front of the crowd. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She looked around and tried to recall the way to her apartment, then set out haltingly along the sidewalk. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Despite not having enough parking space, Margaret loves the house, the location, the alley behind it, and every brick in the sidewalk in front. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw people walking on the sidewalks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She pulled the cart away from the tree and started pushing it down the sidewalk. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even a stain on the sidewalk. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As I was standing at the bus stop with Renee, a massive gust whipped that sucker right off my head and down the sidewalk. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frito and me walked along the sidewalk for a minute, not saying nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When I reached the gate with Goddess Lakshmi’s name on it, I knelt on the wet sidewalk and hugged Kutti close. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We take the subway to parts of the city we’ve never been to and walk the neighborhoods for hours, combing through the sidewalk clearance bins for important pieces, amulets, future totems of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sets a stool on the sidewalk and throws a mostly clean towel over Bernd’s shoulders and snips away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Felix motioned to a police officer waving kids off the sidewalk and into the park. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I'll stay on the sidewalk—see?—just like a path in front of the stores. Then maybe later we can all go into the mall and look in the stores. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t turn around, just push down the hallway, through the door, then down the path, landing on the sidewalk, panting, sick to my stomach. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was carrying her suitcase to the car when she saw the town’s one white taxi drive up and deposit Dr. Finch on the sidewalk. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

None of the other Trace Middle kids had arrived yet, so Roy ran to Beatrice’s house and waited on the front sidewalk. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The circle of light with my shadow was changing shape, lengthening while footsteps backed away down the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A gauntlet of guards lines the sidewalks to the entrance, some at the curb, others with their backs to the stone building. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The cars reach the edge of the throng and then slowly pull their way through the crowd, the lead car trying to move everyone to the sidewalks with sharp barks of its siren. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked slowly down the sidewalk, coming closer to the gang of boys, holding the stick tightly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we are crossing the grass between the sidewalk and the street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He stood on the sidewalk, awkward and humiliated, trouser legs flapping around his ankles, socks falling down. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the sidewalk, Moody had nodded at it almost bashfully. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she turned and ran, out of the house, down the steps, and along the cracked sidewalk. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No words, no looks, just the rhythmic slapping of their sneaker soles upon the sidewalk and the pulsing duet of their breathings. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk was still warm from the day’s sun. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

An elderly couple swept up broken glass and debris along the sidewalk in front of their barbershop/beauty parlor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We are standing in the middle of a white sidewalk, next to a white street crowded with white cars, with white columned buildings towering all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s standing at the edge of the sidewalk a few feet away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Marvelous things were piled in every window along the streets downtown, and big organ music made the sidewalks sort of tremble. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the people fell asleep immediately, as if their square of sidewalk were as much a shelter as a house would be. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scampered down the stairs from the sidewalk to the street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He walked down the broken blocks past clusters of abandoned buildings, the glass from shattered windows on the sidewalk, junkies on the steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It had nothing to do with France itself, with wearing hats or writing tortured letters from a sidewalk cafe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The tanned-looking skin around her brown eyes is red and puffy, her long black and gray hair is splayed across the sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t seeing him, so after I buried the last pansy I hopped onto my bicycle and headed down the sidewalk. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Sheets of water rolled down the cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill, and the sidewalks were filled with people holding umbrellas. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A child wheeled his tricycle down the sidewalk, sending the pigeons into the sunlight like water-splash. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Any bad odor was noticeable here, where the sidewalks were swept hourly and lotus blossoms floated in the clear water below. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It is no longer growing in a city sidewalk, but instead sprouts up from a field near our pueblito. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bees and butterflies zigzag through the air, the trees lining the sidewalk are leafy and full, and the cars throughout the lot are idling and dusted in pollen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white, unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a nighttime rally at a black church in the town square, four hundred people filed out the church doors and moved down a sidewalk lined by helmeted state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With April, a walk to the library could become an exploration of a forbidden land, or a shiny pebble on the sidewalk could be a magic token from an invisible power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about two seconds of this, the dickweed cameraman zoomed in on the bloody sidewalk while the reporter blabbed offscreen, building up the suspense as to why this wasn’t just another “tragic traffic accident.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We walk two more sidewalk lines before he asks, “Do you like the earmuffs?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Because just beyond the ivy the sidewalk curves, following the outside of the school parking lot. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to vomit right here on the sidewalk.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe this isn't such a good idea," says Rudi, firmly rooted on the sidewalk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The strong odor of the colored lacquers can be smelled out on the sidewalk, even with the door shut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We dart out of the coal yard with barely a word and walk fast down the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She kicked at the mulch that lined the sidewalk. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I turned around and Drew rushed me, knocking me to the sidewalk. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When they got down to where the sidewalk started, some of them stopped and decided to turn back, too embarrassed to enter the white part of town whooping like banshees. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

How else could it rise and shine with the energy I can feel buzzing from the sidewalks and into the hospital's walls before the sun is even up? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He and his friends hadn’t done that in a long time, driving along in someone’s souped-up car and splattering whatever jigs were stupid enough to be standing out on the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tiger General and some of the brothers had stepped onto the sidewalk. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the crowd was sitting or lying on the sidewalk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The singer is hard to miss, sitting, as he does on a fruit crate in the center of the sidewalk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It crunched lightly into the sidewalk as he twisted the toe of his boot over it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like a majorette before the ever-shifting sidewalk crowd, I smiled during performances, and in Japanese dancing that is equivalent to a concert violinist walking onstage in a bathing suit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image of Bucky’s face pressed against the sidewalk flashed in front of me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Dell pulled his car away, he could see neighbors coming out onto the sidewalk. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They continued pulling Lana across the yard until they reached the sidewalk, where they threw her legs down violently. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about jumping out of the car, especially on Fridays, when the sidewalks and streets were busy and one could get lost in a crowd. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis sweeps the sidewalk in front of his shop. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She was standing in front of the synagogue entrance, staring up at the doorway from the sidewalk, lost in thought, the rain billowing into puddles around her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rockey Street was the main strip, and its sidewalks were filled with street vendors and restaurants and bars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Clusters of people stand near the shops and the brick sidewalks look too bumpy and uneven for a wheelchair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Does your father scrub the sidewalk with his beard?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Katie and Jean called, already climbing down over the side of the truck and running for the sidewalk in front of Montgomery Ward. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front steps of the building are slippery, and Bobbie and Clay carefully carry me down to the sidewalk where I used to play hopscotch in the old days. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He kicked a pebble on the sidewalk in frustration and stubbed his toe. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He wipes the tear away and stares down at the sidewalk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They passed a lady unloading grocery bags from the trunk of a car parked on the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We reach a shallow puddle in a dip in the sidewalk, and Ziggy sniffs at it but then stands there. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Outside the streetlights had already been turned off, so that the light from the café made a sharp, yellow rectangle on the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We dragged him off the scooter and laid him on the sidewalk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Papi gave him hell if he left any snow on the sidewalk, even though scores of people would walk over it and it would melt before noon. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When he walked out of the CBS studio, a young reporter was waiting for him on the sidewalk. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she was scrambling across the sidewalk, the street, shoving people’s legs *It turned out to be four and a half blocks long. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the sidewalk around a corner, away from the residential streets, on my way to Blue Spot. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The minute Papa was on the sidewalk, they darted towards him and dug the mints out of his pockets. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uneven banks of snow still lined the sidewalks, though it was warm enough for people to walk about without hats or gloves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mabel was on the sidewalk, her dark hair spilling from under a knit cap, her hands in fingerless gloves clasped together. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I asked Grandma once more when God would make it our turn to stay on the sidewalk and touch what we wanted to in the store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Max and I are on the sidewalk, sneakers hitting the concrete with a steady rhythm. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Down a side street, he saw a boy about his age burst out his front door, sprint down the sidewalk, and jump into the arms of a man getting out of a car. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A shopkeeper was vigorously sweeping the sidewalk in front of his store. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For a hustler in our sidewalk jungle world, “face” and “honor” were important. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large steps led from the sidewalk to a front door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Why do you eat out here on the sidewalk by yourself?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After he climbed back down and jumped to the sidewalk, he handed the bird to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All I’ve seen of the city are concrete buildings, cement sidewalks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Paris, our cab let us off in the Marais district, a place of narrow streets and sidewalks, of bistros, shops, and small hotels. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My running had caused the beautiful cake to crack like a bombed sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I arrived when all the sidewalks had been pulled up, rendering the only refuge from the city’s murderous traffic a shambling crater-scape. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I stand across from them on the sidewalk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear,” he said when he saw who was out on the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores are full, the windows decorated, the sidewalks crammed with shoppers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him, and toss the Frisbee a straight, controlled distance down the sidewalk. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The town filled the sidewalk and the street, jostling each other for a view of this new entertainment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When the bus pulls up to Ruby’s stop, she’s standing on the sidewalk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The children managed to take their coats and were dumped outside on the wet sidewalk in front of the theater. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

How many people—on the street, in church, on the sidewalks, in shops like this one—knew who we were? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the sidewalk, his back to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I watch her ride down a long stretch of sidewalk, passing trees, parked cars, and houses. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I ran out onto the sidewalk as they were taking you away. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were gangs, whose slogans and names were painted in bold letters on the sides of buildings or on sidewalks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I took the inside of the sidewalk, running closer to the shop doors, while Krystal smoothly slid to the outside, skimming the curb. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She pulled it from there, while Alex tried to maintain his balance on the icy sidewalk. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

West End — East End — they had poured from their houses onto the cool, damp sidewalks, and if they gave the worms any notice, it was only when they squashed one underfoot. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the mornings it was a little cool and their shadows stretched out tall on the sidewalk in front of them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I scooted as far to the inside of the sidewalk as I could to give them room, walking swiftly, looking past them to the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Police deputies kept order, pushing back the crowds as they spilled off the sidewalks. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Max and I take the steps two at a time until we're out of the station and back on the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As I’m digging through my bag, looking for my keys, I notice Millie Michalchuk waddling down the sidewalk and through the parking lot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We've made it about two blocks when the sidewalk traffic thickens even more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The curbs and sidewalks were crushed in many places, showing where the National Guard tanks and halftracks had been. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined people jumping out the windows, raining down onto the broad sidewalks and cement basketball courts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A blustery March wind whipped the steam coming out of the manholes, and people hurried along the sidewalks with their collars turned up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they are moving past the gate onto the rue Cuvier, brushing through what might be sandbags or silent police officers or something else newly planted in the middle of the sidewalk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He puts the radio on the sidewalk and turns up the music. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He panned a faded striped sofa on the sidewalk with a free sign, a Giants pennant fluttering on a rooftop deck. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the women tip-tapping their heels on the pavement tripped sometimes on the sidewalk cracks because they were glancing at the trees to see where that pure, soft but steady light was coming from. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked back to the docks so deep in thought that I nearly fell through an open cellar hatch in the sidewalk. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the children, the sidewalk in front of the three-story brownstone at the end of the block was deserted. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He takes a look around at all the people gathered on the sidewalk in front of our building and the people walking down from Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And I was waiting for Max as he was marched to work the next morning, barely able to stand still on the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“According to the ambulance report, you fell and hit your head pretty hard when you were shot. You were knocked out. Not from the bullet, but from the sidewalk. You have a pretty bad concussion.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I stood there on the sidewalk as the kids poured into the buses, my soccer bag hanging around my neck, still hoping I might see Connor. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dallas and Florida were standing on the sidewalk outside Grace’s Diner when the door opened, and out shuffled Mr. Trepid. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We started searching the gutter and sidewalk and the walls of people’s houses. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when they came to a certain fruit and candy store they paused for a moment on the sidewalk outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I put my hands in my pockets and walk in one big circle, weaving in and out of traffic, switching sidewalks, until we’re standing in the exact same spot we started from. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She turns her palm up and flakes of glue fall between her fingers, disappearing onto the sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I watch till they disappear over the rise, then I heft my old bones down onto the sidewalk at the gates, close at hand but out of kicking range. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hannelore’s heart always seemed to soften when I brought her sweets or swept the sidewalk. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He turned off the sidewalk to take a shortcut over the front lawn to the steps into the school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A handful of other kids trailed him down the sidewalk. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw her turn the corner on Queen Street about five houses down I just kept throwing the ball harder and harder until she started up the sidewalk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk single file underneath more sidewalk scaffolding. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She took in the sights and sounds with great curiosity as they strolled down the busy sidewalks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When there was no snow on Dorothy Gruzik’s sidewalk, they brought their own chalk and drew funny faces in her hopscotch squares. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Numbered squares were marked off on the sidewalk and the game was turned over to the girls who hopped on one foot pushing the potsy from square to square. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s voice rose in pitch and she separated her legs, securing her position on the sidewalk. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one is staring at the spot on the sidewalk where my body could have been. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t take your eyes off the sidewalk when you’re riding that thing,” Mom warned. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them a grocer sprayed down the sidewalk in front of his corner market. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the sidewalk with his jaws clamped tight; he wanted to strike something with his fist. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he was already off the stoop and moving fast, his sneakers slapping on the sidewalk. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, because the way I saw it, putting my body back on the sidewalk wasn’t my idea of a protest. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When my dad found out I kept the blinds open—even a crack—he walked out to the sidewalk to make sure no one could see me from the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After the boy and the blue slush, after the strappy heeled shoe and the blood on the sidewalk, after that boy had fallen, Julietta West Williams had disappeared from the state of Alabama. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pick up my pace a little more, let a delivery truck rumble by, and make a quick dash to the opposite sidewalk, walking back the way I came. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My mother keeps on walking as though she owns the sidewalk under her feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We found her pigging out at an overturned hot dog stand while the owner was curled up on the sidewalk, sucking his thumb. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were always stealing our stuff, and one time, after Brian’s pogo stick had disappeared, he saw one of the old Gypsy women bouncing down the sidewalk on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all I could do to come out of the shadows, to make my feet walk down the sidewalk, to wait for the right moment and lift the fence post out of its hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Under the Black Jesus mural at the clinic, grass grows up through the cracks in the sidewalk. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Shoe stores with windows chock-full of the latest fashions, with people clustered on the sidewalks peering in to see what’s new. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agape, we’d stood on the sidewalk with our sodas while he waved and dashed into the store. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Standing on the sidewalk was this dude in a navy-blue suit and holding a leather bag. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We passed a few older adults pedaling away on their bikes, balancing precariously on two wheels with their briefcases or bags, their heads bent toward the sidewalk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was a red-faced Chinese man, wobbling down the sidewalk as if he were lost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yasmeen Smith-Snyder was running around the circular room with her floor plan in front of her face, like someone frantically checking their text messages while racing down a crowded sidewalk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Like the sidewalks, it’s red brick, and must once have been plain but handsome. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers on the sidewalk right outside an old folks’ home. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was then, squinting through the smudged glass, that Roy spotted the strange boy running along the sidewalk. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was barely nine, tourists were just beginning to clog the sidewalks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the bus stop, Hazel took her spot at the edge of the sidewalk, a few feet away from the twins. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mom and I leave; I hug the stack of books against my chest as I follow her down the sidewalk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Along the edge of the sidewalk and in the dark street there was a bunch of neighborhood kids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Together they canvassed the sidewalk outside their building on 141st Street, equipped with clipboards and pens. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dante got up from the step of the porch and stood on the sidewalk. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our cousin Daniel waves at him from down the sidewalk with some other boys, and they’re all on their bikes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Heading to the City Lights bookstore, the Cranes walked a weaving path around cafe tables that packed the sidewalk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Children, separated from their parents, wailed on the sidewalks, frantic and freezing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, there’s just the same little buckles in the sidewalk that we’ve been riding over every Sunday for as long as I can remember. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On a summer day in 1971, two men in wigs and glasses strolled along a sunny sidewalk in Los Angeles. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was the sidewalk crack shaped like a Y, and the other one that lifted the concrete up from the dirt floor. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate closes and I continue to walk down the sidewalk. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I follow a sidewalk that traces the outer edge of the school parking lot. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I squat, right on the sidewalk, feeling crazy, overcome. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wind ruffled the shadow of trees on the sidewalk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Where kids rode their scooters on the sidewalk and sold lousy lemonade for a quarter a cup. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Yet he drove away with no idea of his link to me, the girl on the sidewalk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Fatima crashed onto the sidewalk, the skin on her knees scraping off into stinging red strips. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness—no sign of Gerald doing a terrible Romeo imitation on the sidewalk below. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two or three other migrants set up their buckets along the same sidewalk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As they were passing a funeral parlor, Santa stopped to talk to one of the mourners standing out on the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a week painting dirty coins on the sidewalk, sweating to get them just right. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Canals branched out from the main river, just like on the East Side, but here, the sidewalks weren't nearly so crowded. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I just stand on the sidewalk all afternoon, waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Quinn to come home, so that I can ask them where Erin is, but I don’t see them for days. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rare icy cold winter day as Connor, Zion, and I sat outside the office on the sidewalk eating our lunches. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The tap-tap-tap sound doesn’t stop, though, and soon Ma is standing before me on the sidewalk. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sidewalk was splotched purple, as was the grass itself, and the rocks in the flower beds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d seen the girl too, as she moved along the sidewalk in front of Crane’s Drug Store. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flings his arms as his feet pound the sidewalk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its curbstones, offering you melons and green apples on the comer. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It’s not even nine, but the sidewalks are jammed with commuters. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Here people of different races pass on the sidewalk without seeming to even notice each other. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1999, he was twenty-two and working as a peddler in lower Manhattan, selling videotapes and socks and gloves from the sidewalk along Fourteenth Street. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The people on the sidewalk part and pass me like I’m a stone in a stream. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Roy leaned his bike against the mailbox post and hurried up the sidewalk. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tillermans stood on the sidewalk, separated by a briar hedge from this scene. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chris looked down, now tapping the stupid umbrella on the sidewalk as if he were smashing an ant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then both of them looked up and saw Moody, astride his bicycle on the sidewalk, and froze. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They hurdled flowers and stuffed animals, pounding down the brick-laid sidewalk until they reached a wall of people lining up to board a bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Back on the sidewalk, I move fast, weaving in and out of the strolling people, barely noticing them. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets are paved, but the sidewalks are mostly dirt. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

White tented booths for a farmers’ market lined the sidewalk in front and wrapped around the corner. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, before we get to the car, I take her shoulders in my hands. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are some girls drawing squares for hopscotch on the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She jumps up and meets me halfway down the sidewalk, then immediately glances past me like she’s looking for someone or something. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were ashamed of sitting on the sidewalk, people mistaking them for beggars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man climbed the stairs from the sidewalk up to the park. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every day, every hour, thousands of people poured into the city, crowding the sidewalks, looking for places to live. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd on the sidewalk thins, and I look up to see why. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks were crowded with people; the foolhardy and curious stood in clumps watching the advancing flames, while others hurried along to escape them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we're back on the sidewalk, Max points to a cluster of trees on the other side of the avenue. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Father sat down on the sidewalk and got his boots on right. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got off the suitcase and opened it up right there on the sidewalk. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother, Daddy, JT, Mrs. Dalton and I were left standing awkwardly on the sidewalk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On sidewalks turned to satin figures move shoulder first, the crowns of their heads angled shields against the light buckshot that the raindrops are. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He photographs the narrow sidewalks, the dark cobblestone streets, the mansard roofs, the ancient, shuttered buildings of pale beige stone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just past the Abnegation sector of the city is the stretch of building skeletons and broken sidewalks that I now walk through. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At times he would meet people on the sidewalk whose faces did not please him, and he would bump into these persons and push at them with his elbows and stomach. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Here the sidewalks were shot through with arterial cracks and studded with menacing weeds that had evolved to survive torrential rain and the lack of pollinators. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The green bullet in which Faber's voice whispered and cried, fell to the sidewalk. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bubber was barefooted and the sidewalk was so hot it burned his feet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sides facing the sidewalk have wide windows where people can place orders and pick up food. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She walked down the sidewalk as a free woman. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Rosa’s mother is waiting on the sidewalk when we return, and Rosa is ecstatic, bubbling about how much fun it is. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She came down the steps with another load and stopped on the brick sidewalk, turning to look at the house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chose a fat crayon the color of elephant skin or a rainy sidewalk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk is full of people working their way in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of saying anything, Ophie just bit her lip and followed her mother along the sidewalk, up the hill, in the direction of Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I lugged my bike out of the garage and sped down the sidewalk, whipped by the breeze in the blistering sun. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The driver finally pulls over, practically running over someone on the sidewalk. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As we started down the sidewalk, I was surprised to see Crenshaw walking ahead of us. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The chirrup of crosswalk signals, the shrieking of sirens, the hissing of air brakes, even the hushed chatter of people strolling on the sidewalk—I heard every sound individually. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks were brick as were many of the houses and public buildings. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached Cleveland Avenue, the street on which Halliday had grown up, I sprinted down the cracked sidewalk to the front steps of his childhood home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Outside the hotel, it was drizzling and Augustus and I stood on the brick sidewalk slowly getting wet. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Striding along the sidewalk under the Martian sun, tall, smiling, eyes amazingly clear and blue, came a young man of some twenty-six years. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he would be eating out here on the hot sidewalk by himself. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Come see. There’s a man cleaning the sidewalk with his beard!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk sprouted trees; the bars on windows were replaced with flower boxes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She and James crouched on the sidewalk to write a note and sign it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dicey led them to the front of the bus and down the steps, one after another, onto the sidewalk before the doors. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid her spirit vision along the streets till she found hers, watched in horror as María Santiago and Uncle Neville came tearing out of the brownstone and ran down the dark sidewalk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The double doors to the town community center are propped wide open, a rectangle of yellow light spread on the sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know by “here” he doesn’t mean this sidewalk. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jack burst through the aisle as if he’d been shot from a cannon and was off the bus and down the sidewalk in a blink. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Leaving his bags on the sidewalk, he stepped inside, calling out in a loud voice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk we draw hopscotch games that we play using chipped pieces of slate, chalk Maria & Jackie Best Friends Forever wherever there is smooth stone. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Finally he swung the car into a driveway up ahead and blocked the sidewalk and as much as he could of the road. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kids play on the sidewalks and in the big yards. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I flick my hand a few times, dripping dark spots of blood onto the sidewalk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Now she stepped down to street level and turned east, moving down the exact middle of the sidewalk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road is clear and slick; the sidewalks are crusted in snow. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On weak days you notice bodies on the sidewalk, and you are visible to Panhandler Ghosts and Mugger Ghosts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he pushes his cart down the sidewalk but comes to an abrupt stop again. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I staked out a spot right by the sidewalk, where she could look down and see it. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

White tented booths for a farmers’ market lined the sidewalk in front and wrapped around the corner. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Wishes made their way onto the porches, the railings, the sidewalk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after running into the boy, I’m on my way to the store to buy eggs, walking quickly, weaving around slower people crowding the sidewalk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things I had heard always made it sound like a big, noisy place with a lot of pollution and mobs of people in suits elbowing one another on the sidewalks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A carpet on the sidewalk led into the reception foyer, from which they could see into a large room of tables dressed up with white tablecloths and napkins folded to look like bishops' hats. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, they block off a section of the sidewalk and put out wooden folding chairs, tables covered with white cloth, fancy plates, and wineglasses. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I know every brick and every tree trunk and every crack in the sidewalk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She can run in them if she has to, jump curbs, traverse the buckled, faulted sidewalks of Brooklyn without twisting an ankle. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, as my entire family stood on the sidewalk across the street, the fire department and paramedics showed up while flames shot through our roof. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As they jogged to their right and entered the shopping district on Fourth Avenue, people stopped on the sidewalk or rushed out of storefronts to watch them pass— staring, snickering, and applauding. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All movement, all laughter on the sidewalks stopped. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Firemen were instantly summoned by the four policemen who had been guarding the sidewalk entrance to the mosque. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, they broke away from each other as soon as they hit the sidewalk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All you have to do is spit on the sidewalk, and the whole town figures you’re the kind of guy who might commit homicide, and everyone in your family is likely just the same. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he spotted the president, Guiteau followed him to the Blaine house, hanging several yards back on the opposite sidewalk so that Garfield didn't see him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the man I’d watched grind a kid into the sidewalk—I don’t know—was like someone else. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He just stands there on the sidewalk, with his arms crossed, acting like he's too good for all this. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Look at the kid limping along the sidewalk,” the smile would say. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I made sure to check before I rounded any corners, and turned real wide along the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I straighten up, I see not only is everyone in the waiting room standing at the clinic windows watching us, but a family on the sidewalk is staring, shopping bags in hand. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands stood on the sidewalks to watch it pass. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A colorful bouquet of flowers abandoned on the sidewalk stopped Emily in her tracks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walked up our cracked sidewalk and in the front door to find Dadi sitting there in her white cotton sari on the couch, with her hands on Oso’s cheeks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mam and the boys and I waited on the sidewalk while Da went inside. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They walked up Newbury Street and went to a Greek restaurant with tables on the sidewalk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the middle of the sidewalk and cried. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter, when the first snow was too delicate to last on the sidewalks, it clung to the rough surface of the brick and was like fairy lace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next block over, they found a big open parking lot with tree-lined sidewalks and rows of food trucks facing the streets on all four sides. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I opened them again, there was glass sprayed across the sidewalk. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall your deep sighs of admiration as I swept your sidewalk. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

And three blocks behind me, bobbing through the people on the sidewalk, is the police hat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever see a little kid’s face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?” she said. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was the end of winter, and the garbage-filled snow that had been banked along the edges of sidewalks was melting now and filling the gutters. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

From the sidewalk it seems only a door, tucked between two downtown shops, but behind the door and up a musty-smelling staircase is a sign: ELLIOT’S ANTIQUES. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crowds of people with heavy bags pushed past us on the sidewalk, bumping into first one shoulder, then another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she stalked off down the sidewalk we did not look at each other. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stops panting and stares out at the sidewalk too, so I hold on to his collar, afraid that he’ll bolt off the porch. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I see a man sleeping on the sidewalk. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z