The girl had been rubbing at the same single pane of glass for the last few minutes, but that wasn’t why Ophie stared at her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It would have been cluttered if there had been more than the few sticks of furniture: a small desk with a wooden chair and a single shelf above it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was nearly out of stove fuel and down to a single chunk of cheese, my last package of Ramen noodles, and half a box of Cocoa Puffs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In rare cases, the results of the snake pit could swing the outcome of a contest and turn on a single ballot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Had I ever sat in a bus with my father for hours and not exchanged a single word of conversation, except for a short discussion about a passage of Talmud? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But it drew me to her to think she loved water rocks and woodpecker feathers, that she had a single picture of her mother just like I did. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t nobody touch me. Y’all make me sick. Every single one of you.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m convinced an Eggmobile would be worth it even if the chickens never laid a single egg,” Joel told me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if she was purposely meeting eyes with every single person there, the whole crew. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They camped out in a single building that was still standing among the remains of a burned-out factory complex. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Life’s impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Toiling alone and newly single in an ocean of pain so that some light may be brought into your lives ... Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Hardly off the boat and you fall for that lunatic.You shoulda stayed single, put the child up for adoption, and you’d be a free woman today. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They walked single file, Grandpa in the lead, followed by Dale pushing the wheelbarrow, and then Kendra in the rear. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

I suppose they could all be lumped into the single question: “What are Americans like today?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember the young woman with the dangling wooden leg and the single oxford? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a single sanitary pail with a loose lid and vermin- infested blankets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the summer I am ten, funk is in every single song that comes on the cool black radio stations. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I probably have my best start, getting out of the blocks fast and clean, and I don’t clip a single hurdle. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

How there could be nothing left of a fox but a single leg. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a single breath of stillness before a soldier in a black rain poncho rapped on the bus door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With husband and children now far away, her living space shrunk from a spacious house to a single room, her suitcase now her closet, Dorothy’s daily existence was reduced to its simplest elements. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Every single one of the peasants dropped to a knee as the princess passed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was horrified at the thought of not having a single cell phone between the two of us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was near the zoo and his class had visited the zoo recently, walking in a single file led by Mrs. Oguike, and he had brought up the rear because he was the tallest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, on Saturday mornings, I began carrying packages for women at the A&P, sometimes earning as much as three dollars in a single day. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She drew her sword, lightning fast, and turned into a clockwise spin, bringing its glowing blade around and down at me, all in a single blur of motion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No cry of “lights out” was ever given on Robben Island because the single mesh-covered bulb in our cell burned day and night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single word floated back into his mind, and he remembered. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that he was probably thinking he might never see me again, which he probably thought every single morning of his entire weekday life as he left for work, which probably sucked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But I knew that in a few more days a single talent wouldn’t do me a bit of good. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for me every single day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kyle pretended to laugh, but deep down, he knew the truth: No matter how hard he tried, he would never be able to win every single game he played for the rest of his life. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Which makes me wonder: If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A single phrase of Ben Kenobi's Theme, for example, can remind you of all the good things he stands for, even if he is not on the movie screen at the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

‘I think we can reach Spain this time if we’re lucky. Just let me -’ The mob of ghosts vanished, like a mass of birthday candles blown out in a single breath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Every single one—they must all be closed?” said Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The design is so perfect that we cannot move a single element without upsetting the delicate balance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the eyebrow trick, the one that gets a real-Axel-smile every single time, doesn’t work. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But some part of my brain had trapped his single word of reply and let it swim up through my dreams to taunt me now. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, he did. And it’s stood all this time and not a single scratch to it. Not until you started stoning it.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hassan’s reply was a single word, delivered in a thin, raspy voice: “Yes.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a single second, I wished that I had brought my backpack inside the store with me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Warburg theory also explains why repeated small doses of a carcinogen are more dangerous under some circumstances than a single large dose. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We walked down the narrow aisle single file, carrying the popcorn and looking for a seat, Tommy first, then Liz, then me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black administrator for the United States Employment Service echoed the concern: “There has not been a single vacant job in Chicago for a colored man.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Danger seemed to cling to it—to every single letter of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She makes the single exception of confessing her sins to a Catholic priest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single red feather fluttered down to the street. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harry suddenly noticed that every single one of the old headmasters and headmistresses in the portraits around the walls was awake and listening in on their conversation. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“And racism is something you’ll definitely have to wrestle with. But you gotta take things a single step at a time.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Every single day during those five war years he would write several pages of comment and observation about the events of the time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single male voice took up the princess’s cry. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The blankness bothers me, as does the fact that there is not a single person who can fill in that part of my story. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t heard her utter a single word in the entire time I had been with them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like a single bird across a storm-cloud sky, a tiny peace winged its way through the chaos inside his body. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In airplanes circling overhead, press photographers struggled to keep both boats in the frame of a single shot. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, the grin slipped off Brother Ugo’s—or Fedu’s—face momentarily, and for the length of a single second, he saw something else in the old god’s expression. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s like you’re mute. You refuse to say a single word.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They would climb the single track that led through Fort Misrach to the top of the Cusp, and they would get their first sight of that which lay beyond it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They wander, as we do, searching for facts to fit their sparser stock of hypotheses, but when the receptor meets its match, there is only a single thud. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it had all happened without a single dissenting vote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The sermon slouched along as sermons will when every single soul in the building is wishing that the ushers would start passing around cool glasses of lemonade. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Each of the towers rested on a single column no wider than an elevator. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even in a single season, with orchards sprayed four or more times, DDT residues may build up to peaks of 30 to 50 pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The cheap Russian boots pinch her feet as she trudges, the last of a single file of would-be guerrillas, up the intolerably fragrant mountainside. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I undo her low bun and unbraid her three single plaits. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“So I time every single one of our training sessions, no matter how small or trivial it might seem. Got that, wild card?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon they were leading their ponies in single file over the rim and down the long northward slope of the hill, down into a foggy sea. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even a single day's difference would result in missing Mars entirely. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked a million questions and Mr. Andrews answered every single one. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

We have as much time as it takes. 3RD JUROR: Everything—every single thing that came out in that courtroom, but I mean everything, says he’s guilty. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t believe in any single method for dealing with struggling kids, and freely admits that the Fugees hasn’t worked for everyone. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can precipitate acute poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not a single white person was around, even though some of the men and women had the lightest of brown skin tones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A single woodpecker can transfer a billion spores on one flight between trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But observation and historical records have failed to uncover a single case of a state’s being formed in that ethereal atmosphere of dispassionate farsightedness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Schiaparelli had reported during a close approach of Mars to Earth an intricate network of single and double straight lines crisscrossing the bright areas of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small, dark, silent space, a single square room with just three booths against one wall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had taken Dunwing a single glance to recognize had finally dawned on the King. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so that now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fifth labor was to clean the Augean stables in a single day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s spitting the rap right into it, not missing a beat, an inflection, a single word. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

To get to the top, we had to pass through a locked staircase gate on every single floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was crowned with braids and vines and what he first took for butterflies but quickly saw were orchids, with a single long white feather at a jaunty angle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That is, seeds were sown by being thrown in handfuls, resulting in a whole field devoted to a single crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not for this, nor for a single trick throughout the evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our father’s room, formerly a servant’s, had a single window that looked out over an alley where mongrels fought. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to the hidden passageway, he crawls in with only a single inscrutable glance back at me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a single long piece of heavy rope tied to the beam over the north doorway. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We managed to make it in one single long day without stopping at a hotel until we got to Phoenix. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So let’s get stinky! But first you are going to pick up every single one of those cards.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It had been established in 1973 after four members of a single Japanese trekking group succumbed to the altitude and died in the vicinity. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The World Health Organization has enlisted the aid of some 300 scientists in all parts of the world, declaring that “resistance is at present the most important single problem facing vector-control programmes.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith drives a hard bargain; he will not give away a single bead cheaply. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But he had already told them the day before what he had seen in that first column—twenty men in the back of a three-ton lorry killed with a single bomb. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Not, of course, in the present regime, whose single goal is to keep itself in power. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but all those houses on the way here. I keep thinking of people living in every single one, all crowded together like that.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I begged and pleaded and promised them I’d do the dishes every single night for the rest of my life, but they still didn’t change their minds. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was well-worn but narrow enough that we had to walk single file. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To one side there was a wooden marker with a lamb carved on it and a single word: MORGAN. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes were too big for his long, thin face, and since he had lost every single hair the pale, bald top of his head gave him a naked look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dawn’s an hour away, but I don't see a single sleepy eye. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Except for two sets of boot prints, one bearing a diamond pattern and the other a Cat’s Paw design, the slayers had left not a single clue. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With an incantation, which will work only if you are concentrating, with all your might, on a single, very happy memory.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting every single one of those dang canning jars out of your room.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Japanese warfare had previously involved single combats between samurai swordsmen, who stood in the open, made ritual speeches, and then took pride in fighting gracefully. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I never went to one single high school party until graduation,” Jesse told me once. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single letter was received by any of their families who had been left behind. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The single window has no glass, just bars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Five cars were parked in the yard when he arrived; eight men had gathered in a single group smoking and talking quietly—one man had a bottle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners trudge clockwise around the prison yard, marching single file on the worn path, their gray prison smocks billowing like the wings of birds. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Chicago, where you can go days without ever once stepping on a single patch of actual earth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Most look like fragments of things, single words or phrases that don’t make sense on their own: Night flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They’d sleep away the daylight hours, or try to sleep, then at dusk they’d put on their gear and move out single file into the dark. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single incident of violence was reported. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The room was murky again, except for the single light bulb. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was conscious every single second of her dear, abandoned Pantalaimon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officials asked for single women between the ages of 18 and 30 who had some aviation experience. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every single thing he’d done had been wrong, and his sisters’ lives were at risk because of him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Aru couldn’t remember a single story about him, but that made sense, given who he was. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frank picked a single red feather out of the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gone were the days when he had been forced to take every single one of the Dursleys’ stupid rules. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was intimidating enough to be in the presence of a single scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As an alternative to eating cake while watching television, she turned to pistachios, and then ate a pound in a single sitting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She then peeled it back up, slowly, careful not to lose a single crystal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I just lay there and thought about every single thing I could think of that had ever happened to me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the new security, every single door to the school is locked. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Plucking geese was hard work, so every single feather was precious. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing an orange headband with a single feather attached to it, and her deerskin clothing is fringed with beaded tassels. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why did Arnold single me out for his rubber- band torture? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was led into a curtained room; there was a single lamp on his desk which was shining on a chair where he had me sit while he remained standing in the shadows. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

This made her scream even louder, but her screams proved useless, as she still was unable to gain the attention of a single child. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, a meeting of all prisoners in the single cells was something that was expressly forbidden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m gonna read every single book they got in the place. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother and I shared a single blanket. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I would approach even a single stair, she would call out, “Be careful!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bo and Prosper huddled together every night on a single mattress. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, you people” —he always called us you people—“Julia-day- Burgos is so obscure it would be hard to find a single poem of hers. In any language.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All factories,” said Grandpa Joe, “have workers streaming in and out of the gates in the mornings and evenings—except Wonka’s! Have you ever seen a single person going into that place—or coming out?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had taken film from my roughly forty-minute talk and edited it down to a single ten-second clip, stripping away the context, putting the emphasis on a few words. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But I was determined to memorize the lines from the Declaration of Independence and recite them perfectly, without forgetting a single word. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

To borrow the base system from Alaska, I hadn’t hit more than five singles in my entire life, so I tried to chalk it up to inexperience. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then when there was silence, a single voice spoke and Ralph decided that it was not Jack's. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We knocked on doors in the Cabrini-Green housing project, went to community meetings, and canvassed programs that worked with single mothers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We drive all the way home, and I don’t say a single word. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Wondering why I had written nearly ninety titles, but not one single book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was a working woman and a single mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But when you wear a suit every single day, it’s hard to not wear one. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His favorite was a type of poker where the players held a single card to their own foreheads so that everyone could see what you had but you. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They left their half-eaten dinners on the table without saying a single word to us. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He took the money with an amazed expression and counted every single note. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Defeated the troll, and without a single plea for aid passing his lips. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The light from the single source threw the baroque detailing of Montana’s body into sharp relief. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a single one of us like the deal,” he said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Along the way I saw not a single sign of Brotherhood activity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, someone hoarsely called out the Poet’s name and in a single voice everyone replied, “Here! Now and forever!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty much every single PPC student was there, plus their parents. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo walked behind him, and after him, the children padded along in single file, their leather soles scuffing against the stones. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But as he stood in the apartment, he couldn’t think of a single thing he wanted to bring. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Favoured to win the tournament, they held several doubles records, and watching them play was as exciting as watching a match of singles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if finishing its attack, the Spirit Bear placed its huge paws on Cole’s chest and gave a single hard shove. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They were now only dozens of yards away, single file, charging in with a vengeance, moving surprisingly fast. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, perhaps the most important difference between almonds and acorns is that bitterness is controlled by a single dominant gene in almonds but appears to be controlled by many genes in oaks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the bell tower and uttered a single word. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To his way of thinking, the Big Bang occurred after a single ambitious person seized power, perhaps in a coup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A single pinhole in the tarp leaked moonlight, which slowly filled the lifeboat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He would not, could not, recall a single thing from the program other than what he had uttered to Willow at the end of their first session: "Female lemurs are in charge of the troop." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We move on to ping-pong and score based on who can hit the most surfaces around the room with a single shot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Luke looked up automatically, as if to remind himself that nothing lit the rafters but the single bulb over his head. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would go as a single woman who must work for her living. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

After soaking and peeling it, they arranged the long white roots into upright sprays in enamel tubs and passed single file through the village like immense lilies on slender, moving stalks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is the value of a single kiss compared to that? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A single dash can be used in place of a colon to emphatically present some piece of information: It was what Tina dreaded most—-fallen arches. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not a single porch light on, not a TV glowing behind a window, not a Town Car in a carport. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One other thing: a television set sat on the dresser across from the two single beds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were days I would happily have traded the entire future of England for a single jar of mayonnaise but unfortunately the opportunity never arose. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an extreme scenario the first settlers are pictured as having consisted of a single pregnant young woman carrying a male fetus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That we’re the figment of someone’s imagination, some crazy person or maybe spirit or god that’s just dreamed up each and every single one of us. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a millisecond, every single Sixer in the club was completely vaporized. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Osage Tribal Council was the only governing body to publicly single out and praise White and his team, including the undercover operatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her own straight black hair is gathered in a single long braid, and her nimble brown fingers are weaving Ma’s white hair into tidy cornrows. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Not a single African crop originated south of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want you to think about every single message you’ve ever sent or received. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a single word in her mind, but it was sure, repeating itself like ripples on a pond’s smooth surface. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I open it and there’s one single letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And so’s your mother-in-law. Did you know there’s not a single one of my children who could take me in?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Violet was reminded of True Belle, who entered the single room of their cabin and laughed to beat the band. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch a single drop slide down the glass and bump against my finger. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Isobel sits in a rarely occupied armchair in the corner of Marco’s flat, a rainbow of silk ribbon twisted around her fingers as she attempts in vain to form it into a single elaborate braid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not a single other person in the trolley even glanced in their direction. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

So he held her very close, and shut his loving eyes, and only whispered, “I knew it was false, believe me, every single syllabub.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I let a single one fall on Belet's cracked, blistered lips. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His brows were pulled together in a single line, his eyes intent upon my face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The nearest schoolhouse—which had one room and a single teacher for eight grades—was three miles away, and to get there, Tom and his siblings had to walk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

‘But do these disgusting giants go to every single country in the world?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single pan was suddenly high, great waves rolling at the edges. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only one single dancer with six toes on his left foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Line isn’t a single line but many, diverging and intersecting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ripred made a right turn, and they peeled off in single file behind him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The single streak of silver in his hair catches some of the light filtering in from his windows. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The smoke coiled above the treetops, a single cumulous bloom of grey far enough to the west that it looked manageable. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

While Luma was trying to find a way to get the kids to play together, she was also getting to know their parents, most of whom were single mothers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Muslim sisters, both married and single, were given an honor and respect that I’d never seen black men give to their women, and it felt wonderful to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Department of Social Services was located in a single large open room on the ground floor of the Durham County Courthouse, three floors below the jail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not since the Chicago Fire of 1871 had the city’s newspapers been so galvanized by a single event. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If a child died mysteriously, someone in the community could single out a woman and accuse her of using witchcraft to kill the child. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

No single feature was right in itself and yet, when they were taken all together, something captivating emerged. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Crime, on the other hand, isn’t a single discrete thing, but a word used to describe an almost impossibly varied and complicated set of behaviors. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was nearly nine years of age, I had not had a single, unbroken year of school, and I was not conscious of it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dauntless men, women, and children are everywhere, and there isn’t a single Candor in sight. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And there are single memories you have of people you never met. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The lawgivers of antiquity...legislated for single cities,” Adams observed, but “who can legislate for 20 or 30 states, each of which is greater than Greece or Rome at those times?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I would hear her cry in her bed every single night, and then she started throwing up. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This strategy was partly successful in Mutal—not a single dated monument was erected in the city for a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a single, firm gesture, Gwydion drew the blade and held it aloft. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It’s gray with a single black spot right in the middle of its back. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

An entire ear of teosinte has less nutritional value than a single kernel of modern maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a single sheet of iron, dark and dented, with eyeholes on top and a massive chain underneath. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We trot off silently in single file one behind the other. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the place where Capricorn sat, leaning back in his armchair with a contemptuous expression and wrapped in a silk dressing gown that shimmered like peacock feathers, was illuminated by a single lamp. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The young man’s head was wrenched sideways, not quite facing the flowers, and even in the shade a single blade of sunlight sparkled against the buckle of his ammunition belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass a small crowd standing near what looks like a bus stop—a tiny glass shelter with a single bench. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The church contained a single, open space where we villagers knelt on the rush-strewn floor to face our priest and altar during mass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

With a divergence test, obviously there isn’t a single right answer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as a result, she seemed unhooked from any single cultural identity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At lunch, the guys indulged me and looked at every single one of my fifty-eight pictures of Yuki. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Handing over the key, Maddie explained that she had had a renter there for more than ten years, a single gentleman who had died without any relatives. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He took a job as a traveler for a book publisher, assigned to sell a single book throughout northwestern Illinois. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pass every single test, and she doesn’t help me one single bit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I turn to each of the corners—the four directions—as if to bow to every single possibility around me: north, south, east, west. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Although Guiteau visited campaign headquarters frequently, his role in the election of Garfield and Arthur was limited to that single speech. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Pacific was—and is, of course—huge; it’s the largest single entity on the planet. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Would you believe that in the original Morgenstern this is the longest single chapter in the book? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open with their shoulders and the animals entered in single file, walking with the utmost care for fear of disturbing anything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If the company borrowed millions of francs and then went bust, Armand Peugeot did not owe its creditors a single franc. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m glad I have you. Every day, I thank God for you. Every single day. Sometimes, when your mother’s having one of her really dark days, I feel like you’re all I have, Laila.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With a deep breath, Sarai disengaged a moth from the ledge and spurred it forward, a single smithereen of darkness dispatched into the dim. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A fire mutt knows only a single sensation: agony. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You read every single word in that guidebook, didn’t you?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there was a single link that unified the suffrage movement’s past and present. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So instead of following Georgie, I sat in the sunshine and braided my hair into a long single plait, as thick and heavy as rope, and tied it with string. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two bunk beds are pushed against the walls in our bedroom, and Janae’s single bed is right beneath the front window. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Struggling to think through the implications of Vespucci’s claim, they needed a way of referring to what we call the Earth, or the world—the single globe formed of land and sea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thus we are not dealing with a transformation reflected in a single pair of terms—‘natural philosophy’, which, in the nineteenth century, became ‘science’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’ve skipped every single dance since we grew out of bar mitzvahs. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Beneath the spinning waters I see the single glowing red eye of the dread serpent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was that every single person had drawn a central shape—a heart, circle, square, or triangle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even climbed up Lookout Hill to ask the surfman there if he’d keep an eye out, his long glass far superior to mine, his single job to watch for ships coming through. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, as he learned too late, raising a single arm is the universally recognized signal for "all OK; assistance not necessary." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could mangle every single word of my Torah portion and I wouldn’t let down anybody’s expectations. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Leaves not a single descendant, only scattered, partial testimony, His complete works doodles in the dirt? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she blinked, and it was gone, and Sefia lay there dizzy and gasping, trying to focus on the black forms of the trees, on a single star, to stop her vision from reeling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was no mercy in the single eye. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t impose on them anymore than I already had, or risk ruining them with the invisible fingers that seemed bent on tearing apart every single connection I managed to make. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He submerged himself for as long as he could, came up only for a single breath—he could see small-arms fire flashing along the shore—then went deep again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m so angry that I don’t hear a single thing anyone says for the rest of the day. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He used to be one of the notorious single men in my town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately my mind went blank, and I could not think of a single thing I knew for sure Plotinus had written. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For nearly a decade after, she and Mama had worked every single day to pay down those debts, and they’d come so close. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was completely uninhabited, not a single bush or tree, just barren dirt to a shore of endless water. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate slowly out of bone china bowls, sitting at opposite sides of the table with a single candle burning between them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A single bead of sweat slides down my temple and I wipe it away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Swinging doors opened into a room with a single lightbulb overhead. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They all seemed to be wired together, pointing in the same direction and connected to a single bronze lever on the side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With a single finger, he nudges apart the folds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So you haven’t got a single idea what I’m talking about, do you?” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“They won’t have the time or patience to check every single person thoroughly. All we have to do is open the flaps of our bags, give them a quick peek, and they’ll pass us through.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

During a single, early week of senate business in Springfield, Barack had introduced seventeen new bills—possibly a record, and at the very least a measure of his eagerness to get something done. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The way he mangled their grace, wit, and self-esteem was the single excitement of their days. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ANC had decided to personalize the quest for our release by centering the campaign on a single figure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The single lobe looked like a very fat baby and there were several others to go. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah—but I just tried to book a hotel in Vegas. A million hotel rooms, and not a single one available.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jetta pulled a single grape out of her lunch box and dropped it in Miles’s mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The 1999 drug bust incarcerated almost 15 percent of the black population of the town, based on the uncorroborated false testimony of a single informant hired by the sheriff of Tulia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s primordial ooze! It’s brimming with microbes! Back in the Age of Mortality, this single basin could have wiped out entire populations. It was called ‘disease.’” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing number of single women in their twenties began to patronize the store. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen a single shred of anything remotely related to Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gus flopped on his face with a single movement of his body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As it moves closer, I see it is not a single drone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally she said in a low voice, “Did you notice—I didn’t see even one single person who looks like us in this big old book.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every single pancake was perfect, round and brown. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“One single hair would be enough, the man said.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That is the birth of a star. The single most important thing that can happen in space. Well, the single most positive thing, anyway.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He eventually sighted a single tent, and a group of Arabs passing by told the boy that it was a place inhabited by genies. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly a single demigod who hadn’t already been wounded ... except me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He has sixty-four knights in prison, whom he has captured in single combat, and he spends the time beating them with thorns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their breathing formed a single cloud of steam that drifted up, floating away over the banks of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone gathered in a single room, cramming through the two doorways. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I am. So what’s your plan? You’ll stay and help us fight, obviously, but where will you sleep? Not with me, my room’s a single. Exceptions rarely made.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pageant is my mother’s single greatest accomplishment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Carrie Buck was asked a single question during the inquisition: “Do you care to say anything about having the operations performed on you?” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Two or more people joining forces to sell a certain amount of goods or to work on a single project. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Far below, she saw the light of a single torch, small as the flame of a candle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

I was single- minded about it, and I later realized that it was a way to keep myself from thinking negatively. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solitary wasp, Sphex, nearing her time of eggs, travels aloft with a single theory about caterpillars. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Emma struck a single note, high or low, the worms retreated into the soil. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a boxy structure with a row of large windows fanged with broken glass and a single cupola that probably contained a bell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"Know how to get food? Know how to get from one place to another? Know a single important thing about surviving?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Just west of the village he pulled back on the single rein to stop his horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a single heartbeat that calls the storm. It’s the power of our voices joined together, demanding justice. It’s the thunder of our collective feet marching for our freedom.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun failed in its attempt to light the room through the single window, and the press of bodies and scents and sounds melted to give us an aromatic and artificial twilight. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, a single bulb cast its somber light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Selaesori Qhoran was a wallowing tub of five hundred tons, with a deep hold, high castles fore and aft, and a single mast between. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a single brutal night the Mexica utterly vanquished Cortes, killing three-quarters of his men. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The front door to the laboratory was open, but many others remained closed, like Anne Wythe Hall, a dormitory for single white women working at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Once this was settled, we sat down and mentally went through our circle of acquaintances, trying to come up with a single person who would blend in well with our extended family. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dazzled as he was, Cortes was also aware that with a single command Motecuhzoma could order his army “to obliterate all memory of us.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the houses, left soulless, died—windows glassless, doors hanging on single hinges, some of the clapboard already pruned. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then, the three girls and Cymbeline stripped down to their underclothes and crawled into the single bed, each making room for the next as they huddled close. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All this would happen in seconds, a year of training reduced to a single, desperate moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A single small light could be seen twinkling by the river. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Not a single name from I960 remains in the top ten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A single campfire burned near the center of town, where the night-watch gathered to warm up every hour or so. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He heard the single word “Stop!” called out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This did nothing to encourage the ticket buyers, whose numbers dwindled to the single digits by the second night of our weeklong run. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I didn't call them back a single time. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Coho salmon has a three-year life cycle and the runs are composed almost entirely of fish of a single age group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A single van passed me, and then the road was empty. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On her left hand she wore a ring that was as simple as it was ostentatious—a single sapphire, bright and blue and round like an egg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t miss a single one, and Wood was delighted. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When they were young and single, girls were legally bound to do whatever their fathers said; when they married, women had to obey their husbands. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although not a single white person was ever taken into custody for crimes related to the rioting, 122 blacks were arrested and scheduled for trial. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Huge piles of leaves start appearing on the sides of the road, and Boomer makes it his job to run through every single one. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed incredible that instead of a kerosene lamp, we now had a single glass bulb overhead by which we could read at night. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There’s only one way in or out of Dove Canyon: a single gate guarded by rent-a-cops. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Forced to operate on a shoestring, one black school in Durham squeezed 51 students into a single classroom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Plutos still haven’t responded to a single text or phone call. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A breeze swept through the tree’s leaves, and they all moved in unison with a single whisper. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were only a dangerous forest and a single road and a thin grip on a life that the Elders had enjoyed for generations. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I forgot to tell you before, but I wanted you to know I’ve been putting every single egg in the fridge every day, especially now that I know how important it is. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Each character she cracked revealed more patterns and clues about the encryption, but if she made a single wrong guess, it could throw off the rest of the puzzle. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually, though, a single question insisted that I ask it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The pale daylight that entered came from a single tiny window in the front wall, but there were no curtains. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

At some very high energy, called the grand unification energy, these three forces would all have the same strength and so could just be different aspects of a single force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went to my seat but I didn’t make a single circle unless I saw Miss Crofts watching me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closet is already filled with an assortment of clothes, every single one of them a high-end brand. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mama wants to keep every single thing: baby clothes, our drawings from kindergarten, our cheap Barbie doll knockoffs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That consideration dictates single authorship, despite all the difficulties that it poses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look past his eyes, it’s a single room, the bed’s made up, stripped down, military. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially instructive are cases in which a single wild plant species was variously selected for different purposes and thereby gave rise to quite different-looking crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This night is a single night; and there has never been any other. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here, they even laugh at all my dumb jokes, every single one. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But she has sat down and eaten lunch with me every single day since I started working here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In return there was a fantastic, visceral payoff—a single season of his life in which he became a prince, ogled at, treasured, bathed in the unimaginable glory of Friday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman whose wages she paid, whose rent she had subsidized, whose daughter spent hours and hours under this very roof every single day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no natural light in my cell; a single bulb burned overhead twenty-four hours a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were at least six feet tall and fifteen feet round and made from single blocks of volcanic basalt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just like before, I locked up and couldn’t think of a single thing to say. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Both live with single parents who work in the medical field, that kind of stuff.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I still wanted her to say, Yes, at school, where things will be different, where I will be your friend in public, and also decidedly single, but she just said, “Yeah, or whenever.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their guide was an Indian girl who wore a sari and whose long hair was bound into a single braid that hung down her back to well below her waist. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Kentucky they lived in a real town, ten to fifteen houses on a single street, with water piped right into the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a landmark paper written in 1897, entitled Hereditary Monstrosities, de Vries analyzed his data and inferred that each trait was governed by a single particle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

So there were twelve of us at the hotel, in the same wing on the same floor in single rooms, one after the other, and it reminded me of my dormitory at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Citra’s investigation was troubling, yet try as he might, Rowan could not find a single instance since he’d been in Goddard’s presence where Goddard did anything that was illegal by scythe law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“One of these days, you idiots will learn to watch where you step and quit knocking things over. Everyone will remain calm and escort the animals outside in single file.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“That is so cool. I mean, I don’t think I could stand to lose another friend. You know? We don’t have to worry about one of us abandoning the other. Not for a single day.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And if you tried to make individuals do something they weren’t used to doing, he said, they’d feel unfairly singled out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace shrugged, like that was something that happened to normal, average, nice people every single day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I doubt that,” Celia says as she looks at the surrounding patrons, not finding a single eye turned in their direction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In not a single instance did a white hear them out. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was in shock; she couldn’t think of a single thing to say. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On their way out, and much to my surprise, they all shook my hand— as if that night during which we hadn’t exchanged as much as a single word had somehow brought us closer together. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A faint ribbon of steam curled above the teapot and single cup of tea set before him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His single bright eye fixes on me, and he bares his teeth, trying to wrench himself away. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Too many hunters seeing a flash of white have taken it for the tail of a running deer and cured a head cold with a single shot. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his eyes, Cabot Searcy had perhaps rushed into this marriage, but did not regret it for one single moment. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’m down to single dollars at this point, and I apologize and shuffle back to the line. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The old Shaper, a man I cannot help but admire, goes out the back window with his harp at a single bound, though blind as a bat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others—single mothers for example—have nothing but their own wages to live on, no matter how many mouths there are to feed. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the fields ... and had only just got one horse harnessed to the harrow and begun to attach another when suddenly I heard what sounded like a single loud shot to the right. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Benjamin Rush looked about his neighborhood that day and found that there was not a single person ill on his block. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On the bottom was a single volume from an encyclopedia. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hector says, striking his hands together in a single sharp clap. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The new single volume by Charles Darwin, the humble and articulate guide, was a huge popular success. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not a single sailor tried to rub the head of either dwarf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Arthur chooses “What I Did for Love” from A Chorus Line, and every song we choose feels like we’re having a conversation without saying a single word. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Before I can stop him, ’80s Finch says, “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the table, my father had left a single flower in each of two juice glasses—a black-eyed susan in front of my place, and a white petunia in front of my mothers. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He did not care to know how many female holly trees a single male could bring to berry. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If true, that finding would suggest parallel evolution and multiregional origins of modern humans, rather than origins in a single Garden of Eden. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men say nothing, not even a single swear, and I take that to be because they’re still trying to put their best foot forward with the mysterious Katherine Deveraux, fine lady from the east. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She kept digging, frustration gnawing away inside her, until a single word on a folded-up parchment caught her eye. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Imagine walking past this every single day. It freaked me out the first time I saw it, too.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They emitted a slight, pulsing glow, a single, illuminated heart beating through each one. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No,” Ben disagreed silently, “no homeroom president has ever had a single good quality.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

American and European eugenicists insisted on artificial selection to promote human “good”—but in nature there was no single “good.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Early in December, in the course of a single afternoon, two of the cafe’s steadiest customers announced plans to pack up and leave not merely Finney County but the state. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here?” he asks taking a single step back. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In modern spy talk, Honeyman was a “sleeper,” an agent under cover in enemy territory and awaiting orders, usually for a single, vital mission. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the Ainu, their distinctive appearance has resulted in more being written about the origins and relationships than about any other single people on earth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every single letter belonged to one type or the other. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some of the fragments had only a single character. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ben tied and untied his shoes without a single recollection of having done so. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm Mildred stopped screaming as quickly as she started. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty-six percent of the men who post ads don’t receive even one e-mail; 21 percent of the women don’t get a single response. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After another long report about the evil of the Youns, she lines us up single file across from the dummies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single one of his gray dreadlocks is out of place, and his mouth is pulled into a stern wrinkly frown. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And beneath this, a single word had been written, in a hand Harry recognized as Hermione’s. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As it was, every single day— on the way to school, during school, and on the way home— I felt I had to get high. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never spent a single night away from our large family before. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, I noticed for the first time that the sculpture wasn’t a single piece of metal, but two, bolted together at the nape of the titan’s neck. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He overhauled ethics rules governing White House employees’ interactions with lobbyists and, most important, managed to push a major economic stimulus bill through Congress, even though not a single House Republican voted in its favor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In September 1943, Dobzhansky launched an attempt to demonstrate variation, selection, and evolution in a single experiment—to re-create the Galápagos in a carton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Penelope and I were so happy to be alive, and so happy to be alive TOGETHER, even if we were only a semi-hot item, and we danced every single dance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rents a garage— really a converted single carport. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The captain with his single bloodshot eye; the parrot, his head bobbing in anticipation of whatever nonsense I would add to this foolishness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think I’ve known every single thing that was going to happen to me. For as long as I can remember. Even the bad things. It’s weird.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Did I not tell you that every single one of your videos has over a hundred thousand views now?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how I’ll get a single night’s sleep as long as we live here. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was a shadow of the mama Ophie had grown up with, the best parts of her destroyed with a single act of violence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Kaede watched out the window as they drove past an open-air kitchen with an old woman ladling out steaming broth to a line of young men—sailors, with their hair tightly plaited in single braids. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say a single word, like if I sat quiet and still enough, I wouldn’t explode. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

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

But I know every single word in it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The young women of the Soviet Union who fought in World War II clung to their feminine identity with consistent determination, and if one single item could represent this individual battle, it’s underwear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He shook me, hard enough that I almost bit my tongue clean off, but he didn’t say a single word. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He pushed the heavy gate open with a single movement. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, not a single person from Team USA, fencers or coaching staff, inquired about me, despite my screams of pain. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“My mom has had five husbands, and every single time, it was ‘The One,’ and every single time, it was like I lost her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was a single moment when no one moved at all. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes two letters arrive in a single week. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It curved away without a window or opening except for a single gate directly in front of them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already got mine!” said Hermione brightly, pulling a tiny bottle out of her pocket and showing them the single hair inside it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he straightened and walked on with a single expulsion of breath. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Toby had gotten over his betrayal in a single night, Luke would’ve counted himself lucky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And with no more lights, Thomas couldn’t see a single thing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Would she have to hear the price of every nail that went into those boards, and every single nail the finest that money could buy? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Every mutant, they noted, was missing a single metabolic function, corresponding to the activity of a single protein enzyme. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then I wouldn’t be any fun and would spend the rest of my days selling The Watch Tower and brushing my long hair into a single braid that dangled down my back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had not told a single person in the squadron who he was inviting. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I looked around a corner of my mind and saw Jack and Norton and Emerson merge into one single white figure. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a single crush of people pressing forward. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He is dead,” the woman whispered, and a single tear began to roll down her cheek. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The AC’s off, which we already knew, since we hadn’t hit a single functioning streetlight between home and here. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t pay him a single bit of attention. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His head turned swiftly, eyes narrowing, and in what seemed like a single motion he was by her side, a hand on the back of her neck. he said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This is the single loveliest thing anyone’s ever done for me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two murders completed in a single night mark a descent I should be proud of. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Against the black of night, a single wooden cross blazed. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Boy21’s locker is right next to mine and it just so happens that he’s in every one of my classes and every single teacher has chosen to sit us together on the seating charts. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single tear fell quickly down the side of my father’s face. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And unluckily for the single flier, he found the clear air a few seconds after one of his pursuers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

Each of the two bedrooms contained two single beds, a chair, a chest of drawers, and a clothes closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She recalled that he had been singled out in some way at last year’s Ceremony. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They singled out Dr. King among the 115 blacks who had received indictments and went after him, accusing him of organizing an illegal boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She remembered the pro-Independence rallies at university; mass movements always made her feel empowered, the thought that for a thin slice of time all these people were united by a single possibility. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She didn't understand much of what the two men were saying, but she tried to memorize every single word of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Is done away with before He has a single grey hair on His head? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I listen for footsteps above me, though the fact is that I have never heard a single sound from Mr. X’s apartment. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We question him once a week and he refuses to answer a single question—says the Bureau is the enemy of all magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Fayu normally lived as single families, scattered through the swamp and coming together once or twice each year to negotiate exchanges of brides. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“False. I attended a single game at UGA five years ago.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She could hear its single hollow thud against the wall as it fell, and then silence. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is battle between nature and nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If he saw even a single soul prowling the shore, he would light out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She shivered and tried to take a single, unsteady step. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His choice was made when he was ten years old, under a different tree, bound up in acorns and dares and a single white glove. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Under a building? Please, Percy. The Labyrinth is huge. It wouldn’t fit under a single city, much less a single building.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Until about 200 million years ago Eurasia and the Americas were lashed together in a single landmass that geologists call Pangaea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this single sun-drunk stripe, Weep was as lush as Lazlo had always imagined it to be, and the rest of the city looked more dead for the contrast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Everything else—from ambition to love to despair—derives in some way from this single powerful emotion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of June 13, just after nine o’clock, another abrupt storm had struck the fairgrounds, and this one also seemed to single out the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It was very much as it was today, Jonas—the same suspense, as one Eleven had been passed over when the Assignments were given. Then the announcement, when they singled out the one—” Jonas interrupted. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t she realize that being singled out was the very last thing I wanted? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It bothered me while we were cleaning up this place that I didn't find a single thing to indicate that Cheddar had ever lived here. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Distracter showed that no single segment of the Sesame Street format should go beyond four minutes, and that three minutes was probably optimal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess we’d better go see this rubber mule,” he says, draining his glass in a single gulp. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

With a single brushstroke the image of the gypsy girl he had treasured all those years had been erased, the only love in his solitary fate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that time there had not been a single breach of personal information. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single thing he did had a specific purpose. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Within a few millennia that single ancestral Polynesian society had spawned on those diverse islands a range of diverse daughter societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to proto-empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

May fixed us bologna sandwiches nearly every single day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single candle glows at the center of the coffee table. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"That's what I like about you, beautiful. You haven't told me a single one of those vulgar jokes. Come on, beautiful," she said, "pour." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The governor of the state of California bought every single eleventh-grade Pioneer ice cream sandwiches. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Phone book. I called every name. His cousins, his business partners, people I’d never heard of. He’d written to everyone. Every single person. Some let me see their letters. Others didn’t.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every single piece of furniture was covered in pink fabric—the kitchen cabinets were painted pink, the wood floors were covered in pink patterned rugs, and the couch was worn pink velvet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In response, the Cherokee chiefdoms gradually found themselves compelled to join into a single confederacy in the course of the 18th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those fighter planes only had room for a single pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

From the Marseilles deck she draws a single card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To Watson and Crick, it was immediately clear that no single base—A, C, T, or G—could carry sufficient genetic message to build any part of a protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the next morning a telegram from southern Japan reached Tokyo: “The whole city of Hiroshima was destroyed instantly by a single bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t think of one person he knew, or recall a single conversation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The saw gave forth a single sluggish twang that ceased with lifeless alacrity, leaving the blade in a thin clean curve between Luster’s hand and the floor. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild and the dogs and the stunning joy of dancing through the wilderness with them hung over me—no, danced out ahead of me—every single waking minute of every single waking day. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They sat down without a single chair creaking. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He remembers the single wrapped gift that he had received, a toy that he’d picked out himself, his mother asking him to stand by the greeting cards while she paid for it. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if every single man, woman, and child in Texas owned a farm—and then imagine that every single one of those farms was suddenly taken away by the government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I walked all day and didn’t run into a single person on the path or in the villages that I passed through. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a blend of guilt and sadness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They have no permanent single base of residence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Rondell finally admitted he didn’t even remember Speedy, I explained every single scene from all my favorite episodes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice and I went upstairs to sort out our clothes from the single suitcase. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked at the rice Amah had washed, a drop of water rolling down the side of the bowl like a single tear. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A single clear note sounded in the shop. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, Rodney leading the way, through little backstreets hardly penetrated by the sun, the pavements so narrow we often had to shuffle along in single file. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are the single most annoying » person I have ever met!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We arrived late in the night, and the only restaurant we could find served a single platter: octopus with pureed beef liver. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Vancouver Rowing Club, hearing of their reputation in England, commissioned them to build two single sculls for one hundred dollars apiece. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Out of the tournament in both singles and doubles, and unable to visit the black ghettos of Port Elizabeth because of rioting there, I left for Cape Town two days before the week ended. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a single equation with two unknowns. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He hid from headlights when a single car drove by. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The insect pathogens are so specific that they infect only a small group of insects — sometimes a single species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At nine minutes they, too, had finished their job and were discarded, and we were left with the single engine of the third stage to see us safely into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, confinement prevents one having a single gluon on its own, because gluons also have color. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I accept your challenge. If I answer your riddle correctly, you don’t burn a single book. We take them all back to Mr. Lemoncello’s library.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

From the top of the hill, the pond looked like a single dark eye staring at Raymie. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled a single out of his billfold. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I should have known that tracing a single bushel of industrial corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it’s been poured into a river. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Usually, my mom would tell me to eat my dinner, but tonight, none of us has a single word to say. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She closed the space between them in a single stride, her palm hovering inches from the Shetani’s nose. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was a single room, lit by a naphtha lamp on the table, and clean but shabby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my long walk to school, I was late every single day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The idea that it might be difficult finding a single vine strand in a small sea of Snow Sand never bothered him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of row upon row of beauty products there was only a single rack of hygienic essentials. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be single long,” Dylan says, like he’s a Magic 8 Ball in white flesh. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“As CFers, so much is taken away from us. We live every single day according to treatments, pills.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All four of them walked through the empty basement and up the stairs in a clump, almost like a single creature—an amoeba, maybe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

David and the others were already headed down, gliding single file between two rows of rocks painted a glowing orange. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A common tenant complaint concerned invasive attempts by officials to prove that single women were living with men—a violation of both housing and welfare rules. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hair in the single braid down my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a huge place, the White House, with 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 28 fireplaces spread out over six floors, all of it stuffed with more history than any single tour could begin to cover. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bananas didn’t taste good at all, because there was no salt or any other ingredients, but we ate every single bit, just to have something in our stomachs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And at some point soon, Turner knew from his Wandsworth days, the single blow would become a cascade. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We went above; we formed; we fired a single volley with our muskets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Their flight is at dawn and so they must leave in darkness, driving through streets so empty they are unrecognizable, a tram with its small single headlight the only other thing that moves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of millions, a single tally mark, worth no more or less than any of the others. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I ain’t seen a single tree around here, just that golden grass and flat landscape. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he'd glanced at a single line. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wondered if I would be able to make it through a single day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The restrictions amuse her; she sees them as a single afternoon’s challenge, an anomaly never to be repeated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened a drawer, removed a box, then struck a single match. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The craze was for several people to sit on the grass around a single Walkman, passing the headset around. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room, winning a way past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In 1784 Jefferson also proposed a bill in the federal Congress prohibiting slavery in all the western territories; it failed to pass by a single vote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“All you have to do is get a single hit in. Just one, little brother.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A single wedge, for instance, could stand for 1; 60; 3,600; or countless others. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I make myself a place in every single one. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only rule was that we had to listen to one of his math jokes, which meant that I had to sit through two different ones every single day, which sometimes could be tough. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

So I spit in my hand, just a little drop, but Freak says it doesn't matter how much, a single molecule would work, because it's the principle of the thing. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile all the single brothers, young or old, want nineteen-year-old virgins. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His single fixed thought was that Gregor must get into his room as quickly as possible. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard for them to single out any one of us or hear what’s being said. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes singled out a chubby Japanese woman surrounded by four chubby Japanese children. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because in every single picture Ivy drew, she and that girl were holding hands. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, Judianne made out like she didn’t know what I was talking about, swearing up and down she hadn’t touched a single hair on my head. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ate carefully, taking pains not to let a single piece of lettuce or drop of sauce fall. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Among nearly forty I didn’t see a single state that hadn’t a good word to say for itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oscar Danilo Blandon, the so-called Johnny Appleseed of Crack, may have been the instigator of one ripple effect, in which by his actions a single person inadvertently causes an ocean of despair. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then the class captain would blow his whistle and we’d march in a single file to our classrooms, long­ing for winter already, greeted instead by the specter of yet another long school year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I burst out as I stared at the single sheet of paper with my name at the top. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d seen every single episode more than once, so I knew how the competition worked. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Snaking down the frozen expanse as if suspended from heaven, a single strand of nine-millimeter rope beckoned like Jack’s beanstalk. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The room whirled around him, all bare walls and dark shad-ows, with a single narrow window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cordate leaves were large and broad, and ended in a single point. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He basically swept up the street every single day, but it didn't seem to ever really get clean. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“And every single one of the guys developed a massive crush on her, including Jim; She was actually the one who gave him the nickname Anorak,’ a British slang term for an obsessive geek. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I did blow off my schedule every single day unless something suited me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I pantomime excellent health, existential angst, regret, and an enormous sense of loss, all via a single nod. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had not a single pillowcase or linen napkin that she could call her own. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That single word thundered down around me, freezing me in place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To feed my passion for reading, I checked out books at such a rate that the principal said to me, “Are you planning to read every single book in this library?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, we went to school every single day we could. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I felt like I had seen this in every single sports movie I had ever watched. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Ladies, he’s single,” the pastor had announced in church that Sunday after introducing Jim as a new member of the congregation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A single yellow electric globe dropped from the ceiling. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would, I said, in a single act, radically change her life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t kill nothing—not one single thing—and so long as you don’t make work for me, so long as you don’t deal death, you don’t die.’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Last year around the time of my birthday it was pouring down rain every single afternoon, come heck or high river, but this summer, not a drop yet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat close, handed me tissues, and didn’t say a single word. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Against another wall there was a shelf, presumably for preparing food, and there was a single cupboard above the shelf. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would weep half a dozen times in a single session. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A single fly buzzed about, sounding to me like an alarm bell of insanity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so, while waiting for him and pretending to inspect plants and small water courses, I tried to reconstruct my trip as a single piece and not as a series of incidents. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly as they were talking a single clear bell rang out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the end of that infamous week, half the men in all this world were pledged to a single war, Nathan included. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did every single thing she had seen the midwife do and even invented some of her own. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the blood clears, I can see where every stroke of the lash landed and feel it resonate in the single cut on my face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira, under a single spotlight, seemed especially alone and vulnerable as she half sang, half whispered the very last words. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

After a single week of drills, Milton realized that he had made a terrible mistake joining the Navy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were in a large bare room, very bright and sunny; for the whole of the southern wall was a single window. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single top horse in training, save War Admiral, was in the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Uzumark wasn’t a single, massive subterranean channel, but an intricate network of waterways that carved their way through the valley bedrock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Six and a half weeks since Nicole was burned, and the police hadn’t made a single arrest? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Thus far they had not met one single human being. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fold every single one of those stupid undershirts. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The thing is, it’s not like half this country suddenly became Islamophobes because of any single event. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Before he departs, he takes a single playing card from his pocket and places it on her chair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry could see them edging awkwardly along the tunnel in single file. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But since no one in their right mind was buying homes there anymore, she couldn’t make a single sale. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That was the worst of it—a single unfriendly question from a woman old enough to be Sasha’s grandmother. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Teeth bright white—so white they seemed fake, except for the single gold tooth in the back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And stuff about how hard it was to be a single parent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The single room of the hut was dim and hushed. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sohrab stopped and said something to Ali-Reza, which ended up with them shouting in Farsi so fast I couldn’t make out a single word. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

With the Jews thus singled out for us, we made them fair game for ridicule. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did, and for a moment, for that single split second, Sergio thought his father had really gotten him something. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There was hardly room to move around when it was completely full, but Abuela always made her way to every single table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

From a single smell a whole town arose. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis singled out Herbert because he was the youngest murder victim at the time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building were a single large laboratory and a smaller lab for the “professor,” a room for experimental equipment, and a lecture theater. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For me, Christianity was not so much a system of beliefs as it was the powerful creed of a single man: Reverend Matyolo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first choice was V-gallery, the single gallery on the flats that Smith once had. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several reviews singled out the quality of his writing for praise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He slid aside the door to the room where the single boat was, and they went in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want you to tell me every single word Alby said to you.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Collectively, the Bantu languages constitute only a single, low-order subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel and Adah were assigned any number of hope-chest projects to work on, but the domestic arena was never my long suit, so I was to focus on a single, big project: a cross-stitch tablecloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Every single car that comes through my hands gets the treatment," the father said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hangars were staffed by a single Bokanovsky Group, and the men were twins, identically small, black and hideous. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single one of them was ignoring him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Young single men go out for drinks, to the theater, to shows with music and dancing girls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That was the single aim of my living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to describe this year’s group and its variety of personalities, though she singled no one out by name. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A single volume wedged in the rack against the forward bulkhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Not a single magician in your family history.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I focus my eyes on a single point in the distance to keep my balance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It had seemed like more because of all the singles. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s the best way to travel the world in a single day. CountDowners speak highly of it.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It begins to look, more and more disturbingly, as if the gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from all the rest of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the plate there was a comically large red button embossed with a single word: OFF. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I look back and see the way our footsteps intermingle to form a single path. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Instead of stepping aside, he took a single step forward, and, as if punting a football, he kicked the sow squarely in her fat jowly chops so hard that she fumbled the chicken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby had to play this strange, isolated form of chess every single game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell a single reporter that I’d never gone to school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He alerted all his muscles and concentrated all his energy into a single unbelievable leap that left him standing three feet away from where my bullet landed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Abraham Portman I knew never did a single thing to help us.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

All of her thoughts poured into a single command: Let me in. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

These arose with the intensification of agriculture — the devotion of immense acreages to a single crop. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He does this every single time a teacher leaves the room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of them singled out Billy’s face for a moment, then focused at infinity again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sniffled and let a single tear slip down her cheek. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A single eye wasn’t enough to make up for what they did to him and Coach Dub. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The whole way I didn’t see a single vehicle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It gave Permian a regular season record of eight and two, and both losses had been by a single point each. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It produced every single one of your children,” Lillian reminded him, “and your wife.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is there not a single large satellite instead of a ring system around Saturn? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew each other so well that a single word could unlock many layers of meaning. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The popular theory on the message boards was that Halliday had created multiple copies of his hometown so that several avatars could search it at the same time without fighting over a single location. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We never, not for one second, thought that everything could change in the amount of time it takes for a single heart to stop beating. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"It never used to bother me before. I wasn't even nervous last night. Something just...happened. I couldn't remember a single word." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Joe put his mouth into the forms of returning such a highly elaborate answer, that I could make out nothing of it but the single word “Pip.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The engine is simple because, like Papin’s first steam engine of 1690, it consists of a single cylinder powered by atmospheric pressure only. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My pack swung from my shoulder on the single strap, causing me to slip and lose balance. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The alley grows narrower and narrower until they must walk single file, the walls close on either side, and then they stop. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Secretary of War Stanton has personally taken charge of identifying the larger conspiracy that has grown out of Booth’s single gunshot, pushing Lafayette Baker from the limelight. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every single person in Lkossa remotely close to my age seems to be obsessed with him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Armoury, where the small boy who was later to be Sir Lancelot was standing with his morion, was the largest single room in the castle of Ben wick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that means four to five stings every single second. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

TJ’s so thin, he could eat a hundred biscuits and not gain a single pound. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even know these kids, but at the moment they were all one single entity. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching to each successive level as a single unit. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Senate voted on the suffrage amendment on February 10, and it failed to pass again, but this time by only a single vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In instances like these, it’s best to say as little as possible—even just a single word if you can get away with it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You climb through that hole every single day.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take one hand out of my pocket and give him a single wave. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The horse seems to drop a fathom in a single step. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Those were the guards to this passage. We are about to enter open space. Stay against the wall, single file, for the earth is unstable and the fall immeasurable.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So incredibly close that when he looked high up on the top edge of her side he could see a single light bulb swinging on the end of a wire. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aslan threw up his shaggy head, opened his mouth, and uttered a long, single note; not very loud, but full of power. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“But who knows with this guy? He won’t tell me a single thing!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And then, barely a week later, a single rogue agent pulled a thread that threatened to unravel Stalin's carefully woven net. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because the Berlin Wall was not only blocking our way; it was blocking our sight—our ability to think about the world as a single market, a single ecosystem, and a single community. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Of the seventy-three books Democritus is said to have written, covering all of human knowledge, not a single work survives. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One would certainly assume that the colonization of Asia also permitted the simultaneous colonization of Europe, since Eurasia is a single landmass not bisected by major barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was warm and very dry, like a blotter, but near its center was a single drop of water, round and perfect. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A. without a single pretension to the character of a soldier, a perfect Quixote as a statesman. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Cardiff, the shipbroking firm of ‘Aadnesen & Dahl’ was set up and a single room in Bute Street was rented as an office. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were just gossiping about who’s going out with who in the sixth form, and playing Police singles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A change in a single DNA nucleotide causes a change in a single amino acid in the protein for which that DNA codes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see a single drop of blood, but there was no reason to inform Bull that he wasn’t really bleeding to death. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After Joe said “Gee,” he didn’t say another single word until he had eaten nine pancakes in a row. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was a small woman with curly brown hair that had one single shock of white toward the front. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He doubted anyone had ever even imagined that a single formula could predict the rise and fall of romances universally. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Far from blossoming, the economy of Midland-Odessa had fallen apart during the Reagan-Bush administration, and it was hard to think of any other single area of the country that had suffered as much. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more than that, there must be a massive surrounding sports complex to provide venues for a wide variety of competitions, a single, unified Reichssportfeld. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

As I watched him leave, I marveled at the difference a single day could make. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Afraid to discover whether there is a single Talmud left in all of France. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every single glance and tiny movement is a language of its own. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke no word but laid at her feet a black satin pillow, upon which rested a single bloodstained glove. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I didn't know a single soul in my community who had a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Last year, only one entry, and this year is already half over and I haven’t jotted down a single word. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Has she slept a single night since this happened? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And I don’t only want to feel relevant when he’s single. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Every single kid wanted to be in our gang. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is strange to be in a place that carries one single memory so completely. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As they passed Stinson Beach, he pointed inland, where a single mountain rose above the green hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was Golpalott’s Third Law, stated word for word as Hermione had recited it, but not a single illuminating note in the Prince’s hand to explain what it meant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They have watched nearly all the royal family be slaughtered in a single night. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were the dumbest kids in school, but they never missed a single day. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment the sea is infested with them, racing like a cavalry charge toward a single shining figure in the distance. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

No information had been collected, not a single idea about the whereabouts of Wes and Tony had been divulged. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But hardly had he given the globe a single spin—he hadn’t even located Stonetown Harbor on it yet—when he heard the bell clanging outside on the stairway landing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The newsfeeds are reporting that every single avatar in the sector was just killed. Over half the population of the OASIS.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, we passed around a single bowl and each boy dipped into the food with his fingers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never taken time to answer a single question; though we worked in the institute, we were as remote from the meaning of the experiments as if we lived in the moon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I simply could not keep a single opinion to myself,” she said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not a single person tripped or missed the beat, not even me! The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When the old man, helped by Bilbo and some dwarves, had finished unloading, Bilbo gave a few pennies away; but not a single squib or cracker was forthcoming, to the disappointment of the onlookers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But that single strobe of an instant caught the moment that his worry became relief. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I lean back and lift Flannery up to my face, thinking Tats would call this cosmic, me reading the line Are you married or are you single? just as Jeremy appears on the horizon. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In 1904, a single image captured under a microscope provided a unifying cause for all these seemingly disparate symptoms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We could get trashed by women as well, for singling ourselves out, putting ourselves forward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nor could she resist the opportunity to remind me every single day that I had nothing and no one. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then they could hear it coughing and whining on its single belabored engine. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And he had amassed a collection of nearly fifty ties by the time he got into junior high, ties he wore to school every single day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Check the Scoreboard. There are still twenty Sixer avatars listed there, below Parzival. And their scores indicate that every single one of them has a copy of the Crystal Key.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That many particles of airborne Ebola could easily hatch out of a single cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put me down, grinning like crazy, his single calf-brown eye full of excitement. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the practice field, boosters gently argued with one another over how many people he had knocked out on a single play. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know that? We meet here every single week because of my past. I just don’t want that for Birdie.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was all a single room, with a sleeping loft above reached by a pair of splintery ladders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Down the forest path we march, single file, to the stream for a picnic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fate had arranged, I concluded, that an example of a major evolutionary change in a single generation, the very thing Muller had said could never happen, should take place in his own laboratory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she saw him cure a dog of excessive howling by pulling a single badly rotted tooth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When she reached back in her memories, she couldn’t find a single story. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a single lamppost shines on an empty weed-infested lot. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the letters contained only a few words or a single question like, "Do you have friends?" Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “that’s not my right. Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In every single school, something creepy had happened, something unsafe, and I was forced to move. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I could tell, Wilson recited all of this without taking a single breath, speaking in the flat monotone of someone who repeats the same sentences all day long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The children pile aboard witch planes that prowl the skies at night, capable of traveling to Zambia and London in a single minute. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Should they show the plant at a moment in time, or show both flower and fruit in a single illustration? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I also watched every single film he referenced in the Almanac. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Karen Singh was in constant motion, like a badly drawn cartoon, but she had the single greatest resting poker face I’d ever seen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The commercial is nothing but a digital flyer, a single still image. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Kamen submitted the list and stood by uneasily as Cooksey, who had been known to hold lengthy conferences over requisitions worth a single dollar, scrutinized every entry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

So George took his time, carefully and meticulously handcrafting a single sculling shell from Norwegian pine and mahogany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the start of the parade, the women walked four across, but as the spectators spilled into the streets, the women narrowed their ranks to three across, then two, and finally they marched single file. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A single vertical mark represented a unit, while a heel bone represented 10, a swirly snare stood for 100, and so on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even the teenagers who worried me at first seem to have mother figures attached to them, probably single mothers I hadn’t seen before because they were at work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She told me she was a single bird.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ash relinquished it, raising her finger to her mouth, and the huntress slid the blade under the rosy skin of the apple, peeling it off in a single smooth strip. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single hour of today is a Black Magic chocolate, waiting in its box for me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not a single thing to make it sound like that rumor could be true. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Vasilisa opened her mouth, but the tsar silenced any protest with a single word. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was exhausting, hazardous work, and a single misstep could mean death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He felt a kind of pride in being allowed to touch all the delicate glassware, plates, and bowls, and he hadn’t broken a single thing. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you know, Dad, that not one of us here has ever beaten you in a single game? Not checkers, not dominoes, not softball, nothing.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a green army coat every single day, no matter what the weather was, and had a tattoo of an eagle on his neck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Thousands of trucks go up and down this interstate every single day. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And the English language dwindled to a single word, repeated over and over: “Congratulations!” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Tokyo is too large to have a single downtown district. There are two dozen wards, each with their own characteristics. We’re entering Shibuya now.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They gave themselves more power than any single being has a right to possess. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The only problem I ran into—which I thought was going to ruin everything—was that every single person wanted a chicken breast. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every single one gave Desdemona the same dire diagnosis that there was nothing wrong with her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The total number of prisoners in the single cells was usually about twenty-four. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This cycle continued for some time, until Ann couldn’t bear his treatment anymore and moved out, eventually sharing a house with a single woman. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The children of Faerie seem to be holding a single indrawn breath, waiting to see what my punishment will be for putting hands on Cardan the day before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On Election Day, the attorney carried every single precinct in that part of the county. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even if, as has sometimes happened, some of the birds and mammals and fishes are able to re-establish themselves after a single spraying, a great and real harm has been done. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The boy could feel every single beat, as they crouched there side by side, listening for sounds from above. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Covered with a fastidiously elaborate frieze, the twelve-foot gateway focuses the visitor’s eye on the image of a single deity whose figure projects from the lintel: the Staff God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A backer of Israel who called himself “A Friend of Justice” argued that if the oath were uniformly required, not a single legislator could claim to be legally elected. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They hired him when he was nine and kept him on until he was dispatched with a single note. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Keep your eye on the underlined words—those are the wolves being singled out of the pack: • Only the butler says he saw the murder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We jog in a single pack next to the car, and in waves, members and initiates alike pile into the car. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a single street with shops: a True Value and a Subway and the Preston Tire Center. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was in charge of cataloging every single item that was left behind or mailed to Shanksville. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Amazing. I thought there wasn’t a single copy left,’’ Elinor was saying. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Behind him the ululation swept across the island once more and a single voice shouted three times. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’d unraveled a life line from the raft to make single strands for the fishing line. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had clamped the jaws of the shrimp harvester on to a single wire in the fence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single construction crew stayed on the job longer than six weeks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single moment when we weren’t risking something. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had nearly achieved his goal of buying every single Hard Tack yearling on the market. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it goes, and Henry is there, in his head and his lecture notes and his cubicle, every single stupid day, no matter how many shots of espresso he puts in his coffee. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He picked one up, looked at it like he was looking at a single bullet. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tall and beautifully proportioned, rising from its base to flare gracefully and then round to the mouth, a prunus vase was designed for one purpose—to display a single branch of flowering plum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there is a single teacher here at Miss Preston’s who isn’t completely devoted to our prospects for advancement…. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Point is, all the skeletons have been women. Every single one of them.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We end up winning the game by a single run, all thanks to heavy-hitting Hennessey, who bats Laury in but gets tagged out trying to make her single into a double. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Every single hair on my neck stands in military style. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The single bullet cut a path straight down the center of the minivan, exiting out through the windshield. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If my fifteen-second engagement to Stuart is what spurred Mother’s will to live, the fact that I’m single again fueled her strength even more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A single abandoned shoe, which somehow seems creepiest of all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of twelve children raised by a single mother, my father was the third eldest of the eight boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Joe had been brought to court and adjudicated on a single occasion, when he was twelve years old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The blade was heavy enough to kill with a single blow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both books confirmed every single guess they had made. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cage is so small that a single page of a newspaper could cover the floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A few days ago, when I was communing with the orrery, I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. That’s one of the things I love about you,” Phil continues, apparently oblivious to how a single word makes me come undone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I’d made the narrow rodent eyes at everybody for a few days, and over the next week every single one of the men who had been in attendance that night bought me a drink. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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

Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Getting up again, he crossed the street, took out his keys, and opened the lone parking meter which—Que milagro!—contained a single dime. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t eaten a single thing since breakfast. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He’s watching Alex, eyes blown dark and hazy, and Alex is watching him right back, every nerve in both bodies narrowed down to a single point. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a single airplane engine cut through the rest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In 1957, Pardee, Monod, and Jacob discovered that the lactose operon was controlled by a single master switch—a protein eventually called the repressor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Isolated, segmented, and stratified, these families are cut off from the single, the gay and the gray, and, except for those tending them, anyone from lower classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A screen on the side panel came alive with a single touch, and then the machine itself lit up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Dad would kill you if you laid a single digit on his adored Mary Anne.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, seeing the look on my face I failed at hiding, he added—And I’ll be back every single Sunday to spend time with my most favorite person in the world. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In that revelry amid his throng of friends who would imagine a single foe—though a strong foe indeed— could dare to bring death’s pain on him and darkness on his eyes? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

An early benefactor was his twin brother, Monty, who had taken over the Dallas hotel empire their father built from a single Holiday Inn and who donated a three-story Victorian in a neighborhood near Brown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had an intuition for nastiness, for saying the single most devastating thing, that left Mother in tears more nights than not. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As he ran, he could feel the sweat tracing a line down his back, every single drop representing the work he’d been putting in since that very first win years ago. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ten days before the vote, Mr. de Klerk and I held our single television debate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see that, and nothing—not a single thing—brings us more joy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There are still a few left—abandoned, of course, but it shouldn’t be too hard to restore one to house a single prisoner. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It would be impossible to miss the arrival of a train, or even a single person. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The soccer fields have been set up with orange cones and extra nets for the tryouts, so I’ve had a reminder every single day that I’m not going to be on the team. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Not even a single lyric came to me as I dashed after the girls in the cart. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He counts the single dollar bills in his hands, looks at the menu, and then counts again. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Its only drawback was its single pull rope, which meant he’d have to do the dragging by himself. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Still, he couldn’t help thinking about this summer at Sitto’s when he walked with others without a single person stepping back from him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We turn down a hall, but only a single door lies at its end. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ahead, I could see a single rocky trail leading up to the black peak of the mountain. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Little tufts of sad dry grass grew between the stones, grass that had sprouted with one single rain and headed, dropped its seed, and died. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the path to the main road, I brainstormed ways to stay in school—every single solution ended with Caitlin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Black smoke billows and swirls in the morning sky, and below it, maybe fifty yards ahead, is a single car that has caught on fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I have used a single wire for igniting," he explained. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, as well as particles, which occupy a single point of space, and strings, which are lines, there were found to be other objects called p-branes, which occupied two- dimensional or higher-dimensional volumes in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor lay a soiled undergarment of cheap silk a little too pink, from a half open bureau drawer dangled a single stocking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped the side of his face with a single gray finger. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the end of the tournament, the suavely bedecked Bobby had played all eleven games without a single loss. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in single cells along a corridor and he and I were given cells at opposite ends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the constables half pushed, half carried her to the edge of the drive, she began to shout a single word so loudly that Briony could hear it from her bedroom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He asks about neighbors and members of our church, but for the life of me I can’t come up with a single name. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Henry had them walk single file in front of him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The passage originally contained a single direct quotation from Lucretius, but two more were added in 1588, and we will see in a moment that it is directly inspired by Lucretius on foedus naturae. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Over and over again, I was struck by how healthy their animals were—all without a single ounce of antibiotics or chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Looking back over the full sweep of American history, one would be hard-pressed to discover a presidency more dominated by a single foreign policy problem and simultaneously more divided domestically over how to solve it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting at a Formica table in the back of an impressively appointed RV sipping an equally impressive single malt—Laphroaig, if I’m not mistaken—and singing like a canary. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every single day I still find myself wishing I hadn’t left, reliving the moment of walking away, my legs like cement blocks, being pulled like a magnet back to her window. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The only thing out on the counter was a single coffee mug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, Mr. Stone. We use that playground every single day. From morning to night,” I assured him, even though no one used it. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait until I have enough money to buy whatever the hell I want without worrying about every single penny. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every single tree was down—thousands and thousands of trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

And soon, in the space of only a few seconds, every single one of them had gone! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you hear me? D-o-o-m-e-d. You know nothing about politics and voter persuasion. You will not carry a single ward in the nation. You won’t even carry the Quarter!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning I was constantly interrupted, and as a result I haven’t been able to finish a single thing I’ve begun. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His paws rest on the frame of her car door, and he gives her a single polite lick. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t have been surprised anymore by Mom’s absence, but I still was—every single time. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing on the walls, not a single painting or drawing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Just think of all the new words we’ll gather. I’m going to write down the names of every single fish for you to learn!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My lungs empty out in a single fierce whoosh. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The nation’s entire nuclear arsenal was dependent on only two sources: a single rapidly depleting mine in the Belgian Congo and another in Canada, near the Arctic Circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little streamed in from outside: the moon was full and I could see me lying there on my single bed, Dinah looking up at me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Weird, especially considering not a single thing about me has changed. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A single dead bolt on the fourth floor marks the locksmith’s flat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still, he sensed, from the e-mail, that she was single. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They exchanged a single, hasty glance and then, without discussion, chased after her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By now I knew that foster parents were paid for taking care of me and that they could trade troublesome kids with a single call to their worker. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a single other girl to carry what’s only his. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The single image that doomed our hopes of getting a Greek into the White House: Dukakis, wearing an oversize army helmet, bouncing along on top of an M41 Walker Bulldog. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There weren’t really that many names on it: two sheets, single spaced, three columns across, alphabetical order. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Like Tonga, Hawaii became a political entity encompassing several populous islands, but one confined to a single archipelago because of its extreme isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I had just climbed up to a sitting position on my bunk and was explaining to Basil the difference between a single whip and a six-tail when the third-floor steward came looking for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Until he and his dad were like one single unit. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Even with my background, I was astonished at the degree to which the major single image of America seemed to be discrimination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad smiled and nodded, then he leaned over to me and said, “All his teeth are fake. Every single one.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Mom comes out to make her coffee, she doesn’t say a single word. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

From a jar of fleas before him, the celebrated experimenter Van Dumholtz carefully removes a single flea, gently pulls off its back legs, and in a loud voice commands it to jump. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He performed a clever experiment in which a single drop of white liquid, like cream, was shown not to lighten perceptibly the contents of a great pitcher of dark liquid, like wine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were ten million little crystals shining on every single branch of every single tree, down to the littlest twig. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “You and your mama were a single lot. See? The girls, they’re cheaper when they’re pregnant. Masters lose some months with her coming to bed, and the baby suckling....” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d be excited just to have the five modern bathrooms, but right then I couldn’t think of a single thing to be happy about. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be no less true to say that Estraven’s acts had risen out of pure personal loyalty, a sense of responsibility and friendship towards one single human being, myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that the congregation would rather not have the bereaved say a single thing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everything I own fits in a single bag. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I only need them for a single voyage.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas doesn't question a single one of my terse responses. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It’s nice to have people who will feel guilty for you, although I could have lived without my mom crying during every single family dinner. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He thought about telling them of his own single, haunting detail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The trail was so narrow that they were riding single file. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On our way home she would not utter a single word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single breath fills me up, makes my head swim. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freckles yawns and drinks his coffee down in about a single gulp, and he giggles and points to lipstick on the rim, and we smile over that one. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t serve a single day in prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Already, she’d told us there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in a single human body, enough to circle Earth two and a half times. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Y’all make a single move other than what I tell you, and I shoot him right between the eyes.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For Mrs. John Brooke, with the maker’s congratulations and compliments. Bless you, Beth! What a refreshing spectacle you are, Jo. Amy, you are getting altogether too handsome for a single lady.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman's hand twitched on the single matchstick. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was half across the lawn, coming from the shadows, moving with such drifting ease that it was like a single solid cloud of black-grey smoke blown at him in silence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a queen-size mattress and a single cot pushed together at one end of the garage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At school, meanwhile, I knew graduate students who hadn’t received a single job offer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Nazi eyes, we Jews were a single, detested group, the exact opposite of the blond, blue-eyed, pure "Aryans." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was decidedly opposed to majority rule, or “simple majoritarianism” as he sometimes called it, because that would end white domination in a single stroke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All cancers originate from a single cell gone wrong and are categorized based on the type of cell they start from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the middle of 1942, the Air Transport Auxiliary in the United Kingdom let women ferry every single type of aircraft that the men of the Royal Air Force flew. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I got out of the service, I didn’t remember a single true thing about myself. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He put his feet down on the floor, watching as Sadna bustled around the single room, carrying his blood water out into the dark, then coming back. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ludsbury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick red momentarily and he assumed his customary sententiousness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Alacran wouldn’t put out so much as a single chili bean because he hated El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After York’s departure for the Pentagon, Lawrence had agreed to name Teller as lab director for a single year, with the proviso that Mills would then take over permanently. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And she agrees with every single little thing Hilly says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Olly comes up behind me and wraps a single arm around my waist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The various Bureaux of Propaganda and the College of Emotional Engineering were housed in a single sixty-story building in Fleet Street. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still a household run by a single mother with only a high school equivalency degree, no career skills, no assets, and no immediate prospects for independence. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The dead numbered in the thousands and there was not a single family that had not lost one of its own. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recited the alphabet for Zero, then Zero repeated it without a single mistake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They wanted to capture as many Smokies as possible in a single stroke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My help would rob me blind if I didn’t keep every single thing locked down, and punish the culprits with a firm hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by a large crowd of refugees, we line up on the pier in single file waiting to be registered. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” Natalie said, “it looks like every single one of these bills is either a one or a five. If someone robs a bank, they take twenties, at least. Probably even fifties or hundreds.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It cannot be accomplished through a landmark court decision, an executive order, or single stroke of the presidential pen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Amaka s letters are often quite as long, and she never fails to write, in every single one, how everybody is growing fat, how Chima “outfats” his clothes in a month. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

More clearly than all else there shone forth in the middle of the door a single star with many rays. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Imagine being raised without a sibling and not understanding the importance of yelling “Shotgun!” at every single opportunity. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And there wasn’t a single marshmallow in sight. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I make a vow to myself that if there is a single thing wrong, there’s no way I’m going through with the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Almost a year. I saw the whole thing. Every single day. I can imagine what it looks like on the inside. I’ll just draw you a picture if you want.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

At first it was the empty mailbox to try not to think about—not a single letter from Dorothea for Over a month. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a single room, with a fold-out bed, made up, and a kitchenette counter at the far end, and another door that must lead to the bathroom. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the island we went, single file, along a trail that meandered over the rolling moor, through the beach plum and sea heather, toward the northernmost point of the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The individual sentences are clear enough, and they obviously pertain to a single topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

You know I spoke to your father every single night Well, no, actually Dad never... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but water for miles and miles and miles, rippling only when I poke a single finger into it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The office building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: amazon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The remaining rubber plug he then threw out of sight down the field, with a single lunge ending in a powerful downward thrust of his wrist. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part is walking past them as your mom carries a box of food, knowing you can’t give a single thing away because you need it all. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the black abyss there appeared a single Eye that slowly grew, until it filled nearly all the Mirror. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the open down beyond came a single, high scream. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newscaster raised her eyebrows, but not a single wrinkle lined her forehead. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A single surgery and some injections would end the nightmare and give my parents back their daughter, their Calliope, intact. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead there was a polished table on which a single wooden bowl sat between two ornate silver candlesticks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly the same and entirely different every single time you look at it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Taking the ditch in a single leap, he darted across the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had traded nothing, not one single piece of information or guess. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I have twenty thousand men. You are besieged by land and sea. Why would I choose single combat when my eventual victory is certain?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The blind man had never traded, not one single time, and was proud of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I cycle through the things you’re supposed to say at times like these, the apologies and the sympathy, and I don’t find a single phrase that feels right to me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her hair was gathered into a single childish plait that fell from under the froth of tulle and organdy and lay along the length of her spine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or what my father thought about a Trivia Contest on the New York Yankees that didn’t have a single question about the Babe? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Strokes the gold locket with a single manicured finger. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'll bet there's not a single maple tree, much less a whole grove of them, within a mile of this miserable place. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See? I haven’t eaten a single magical jelly bean but—BOOM—I’m doing that kind of math in my head.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The diets of cornbread and sowbelly and syrup, the crowding of four and five persons to a single room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What I did not believe was that I could speak a single public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the dingiest gambling den, one with no sign and just a single lonely barker out front. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Schwartzie pitched, and he sliced one neatly over the head of the third baseman for a single. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had been so enthralled by reading the serial stories in the magazine supplement that I had not read a single issue of the newspaper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slate path that winds to the front of the gym cuts right across the quad, where there’s not a single scrawny palm tree to shield us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Billups put it on—at full volume—every single morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know. But this is the only place I have to come to every single day. Besides, it's not just her. You know how many girls' names are down here?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

These days other singers help out and do some of the songs, but Hosteen Mitchell always did every single song himself. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few single poles and blackened tree trunks stuck up from the ground, and here and there a skeleton of a building rose forlornly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d write a few entries in a single week and then lay the journal down for a month or sometimes more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A single red bulb shone over the spinning record player. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at a single paragraph for a quarter of an hour but can’t absorb it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

From the banks of Lake Carnegie, the boys, their oars, and the Husky Clipper looked like a single thing, gracefully and powerfully coiling and uncoiling itself, propelling itself forward over the surface of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A single wrinkled page spat out of the copier. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The key unsolved question was whether electromagnetic separation could produce more than a single uranium bomb core. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The room, barely six by eight, featured a single- paned window in the shape of a face that swung out to a discreet view of my father’s exquisitely landscaped garden of cut stones and flowers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the slot at the top we slip our valentines, cut from books of them you can buy at Woolworth’s, with special, single ones for the people we especially like. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We strolled past Mama Mwanza’s and a bunch of other houses where mostly old men were sitting on buckets without a single tooth in their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being singled out as a lazy kfdtinvfm, I took to spending four hours a night on my homework, putting in even more time whenever we were assigned an essay. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But beyond that single personal concern, I couldn’t have asked Allah to bless my efforts any more than he had. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single head turned in the entire platoon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t given a single thought to them wanting earthly goods, in our planning ahead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I didn’t tell my mother about every single time someone was mean to me at school, she wasn’t unaware of my feelings of isolation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It’s run by a white-haired guy named Henry who’s worked there since Stagecoach Pass opened and who never gets anyone’s order right—ask for a single strawberry cone and he gives you a triple chocolate. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This is a zeugma: the intentional juxtaposition of different senses of a single word. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He could gain hours, lose hours, or in a single day fly from winter to summer, to spring or fall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a single glass filled with emerald-green fluid from my tray and lifts the drink to her mouth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The scarcity of fresh water was the single most constant source of anxiety and suffering throughout our journey. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just a cutlery switch; the whole dinner service was altered in a single swoop. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It swivels its neck and blinks its yellow eyes and in her head roars a single thought: You’ve come for me. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When we consider cutting an apple pie, continuing down beyond a single atom, we confront an infinity of the very small. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a road or village or settlement or power line or even a single person existed in this staggering immensity. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I can move my arms but it takes such an incredible force of will to move a single inch, it doesn’t feel worth the effort. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She recognized what the stress fractures in the ceiling meant, all emanating from a single point—the top of the stone arch just above her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The world changed, and a single moment of time was filled with an hour of thought. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They’d never spent a single moment imagining a situation where they wouldn’t escape. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

High above the crowds, above the barbed wire, above the trench, a single Turkish flag flutters in the breeze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the kids began to whisper excitedly, but a single glance back from Joe shut them up real quick. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When he looks at us, his eyes linger on our faces as if absorbing every single detail so he will not forget. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a single man, and my mother was a widow only thirty-six years old. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and walk away, past the boys—without looking at a single one of them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had nightmares that he would take ten, twenty, or thirty jump shots in the first practice and not make a single one of them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I did, 1 singled those three out,” he explained when Ishmael asked about it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But you can make a brilliant Patronus!” protested Ron, when Harry arrived back at the tent empty-handed, out of breath, and mouthing the single word, dementors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think texting is the single worst technological advancement in history. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Consequently, he insisted on using one single mathematical model to account for a planet’s movement across the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not a single person breathed a word in his absence. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Here there was a single button and this had to be done up. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve looked down at the world below and experienced this same feeling at every single one. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Aureliano not only could not sleep for a single second, but he spent the next day with a fever, sobbing with rage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the morning at last, but without a single bird to sing about it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Only her hands and bare feet, wedged in the single cleft that ran spiral from the base of the tower to its tip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Through my spyglass, I saw a small sailboat rounding the near point on Penikese, coming from the harbor, a single person at the tiller. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She gazed out of the shed’s single window at the sun, which glistened bright and harsh. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the mosque was a series of attached single ­storey dwellings with small shaded porches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The money was a landmark, for no single research laboratory had ever received a grant of such magnitude; none even had shown the audacity to ask. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This helpful advice had been followed by a single, powerful word: “Act.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

They converged in the center of the city, shouting in a single voice that the people united would never be defeated. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I didn’t take a single note. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Breeding Hippogriffs build nests upon the ground into which they will lay a single large and fragile egg, which hatches within twenty-four hours. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

International economists often describe South Korea as the single most impressive example of what free markets, democratic government, and elbow grease can do to transform a small agrarian backwater into a global powerhouse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But he’s always there with me, every single place I go.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"If someone wanted to change every single part of themselves—including the shape of their fingernails—could you?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The page in front of him held a single line of incomprehensible symbols. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Carefully she carved out their ears and toes until they were running in single file, Kapu in the lead. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, this was not the old two-spheres theory, and it was now axiomatic that earth and water had a single centre, which was both the geometrical and the gravitational centre of the globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, because Rishi couldn’t think of a single thing to say. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers’ housing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Art’s smile never got very big, but it gave away every single thought in his head. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t answered a single one of Alex’s texts or calls. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is clear that this strange peep-show set-up ensured that the viewer looked at both the painting and the Baptistry with one eye—geometrical perspective depends on a single point of view. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a single massive room the size of the chapel at church, with a vaulted ceiling that rose some sixteen feet into the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Melissa was afraid to move, nervous that a single step could break the magic. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

That's every single day for the last twenty years, from my first internship out of college all the way up through the ranks to vice president of sales. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On top of the pyre, Harison’s body lay with a single red feather between his stiff fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Biologists used to entertain themselves by speculating as to what would happen if, through some unthinkable catastrophe, the natural restraints were thrown off and all the progeny of a single individual survived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was crazy, but somehow Papa could tell whenever she or Akira had lost or gained even a single pound. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Conversely, few single moments were more humbling than to have that black shirt taken away and given to someone else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a single little pearl ornament which Miss Temple gave me as a parting keepsake: I put it on, and then we went downstairs. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

One man had died at the feet of the Stranger, a single candle flickering above him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, two women carrying a single fish, for they were all of about the same size and heavy, we lifted them up the cliff and brought them home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he saw a single rider—Reyna, the praetor from Camp Jupiter—flying through a storm on the back of a light-brown pegasus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Watching Louisiana, Raymie felt her soul lifting up inside of her, even though the entire world was dark and sad and lit only by a single lightbulb. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine, a boy who had never had even a single classmate now wanting to know about more than a thousand of them. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When she opens it, there’s not a squad of Peacekeepers but a single, snow-caked figure. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This isn't just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maria soon learned that this colony in Surinam existed for a single purpose only: to grow and harvest sugar. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“This trifle? Loosing a single knot will mend it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Levittown had no Main Street or downtown, no culture, not a single thing of visual interest. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And every single one had a fat, smooshed thumbprint, right in the middle. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But after a while, we were hot and tired and hadn’t seen a single sign of Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Before European settlement, the mainland United States was home to hundreds of Native American tribes and languages and came under control of a single government only within the last hundred years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because they are not raising identical chickens or cows in giant, crowded sheds, a single illness doesn’t represent a threat to them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The single, solitary death was going rapidly out of fashion, and the Days might as well prepare themselves for it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure where, but I know he wore a suit and carried a briefcase every single day. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A single name was the only lyric to the song in my brain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to battle for my place at the top every single season, but I made it because I was stronger and fencing smarter. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Will trembled with excitement, and his mind leapt to a single point: to a new window in the air between his world and Lyra’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We crowd onto a single bench seat in the middle of the school bus. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They’ve done this every year, both of them perpetually single and affectionately drunk and happy to make everyone else intrigued and jealous. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He saw an old woman carefully lift a single, unbroken pink teacup. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not a single thing on him is moving except his mouth. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The counseling did nothing at first—I can’t think of a single session I would describe as “helpful”—but their collective power over time was undeniable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were going to design a new main store and redesign every single one of the chain stores—and there were plenty of them, one in almost every town on Long Island. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look at Coach as he slipped to the mat, feigning a single leg and then immediately spinning, ready to break his opponent down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘Mercy,’ I said to myself, ‘maybe they’ve murdered every single soul on the train.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ignore equally big differences when we lump Africa’s Egyptians and Berbers with each other and with Europe’s Swedes under the single heading of “whites.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Turner walked around to the side porch—the shutters had all been painted there, too—and he found a single window whose curtains had not been pulled. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Penelope struggled through the crowd to get to the door, her mind fixed on a single idea: She had to find the children! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They are no more than a single strand of RNA with either a linear or a closed circular geometry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need it, Pita. It’s silk,” I explained, ripping it so I could pull out a single piece of thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen his family before because they go out for pizza at the restaurant where my mom works—and they do that every single Saturday night. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He nodded at the single Violet orb hanging from the ceiling. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Not a single person was out of step. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Indians would follow his example, the peaceful coexistence of Indians and whites could follow naturally, and their gradual merger into a single American people would occur within the arc of the next century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Wash slid the watch back into his pocket and gave a single, mocking clap. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had read every single tarantula book from the Desert Ridge Middle School library, the Phoenix Library, and the box we’d found in the storage shed. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A single huge chimney dominated the distant skyline. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Won’t matter. Like I said, every single department store and grocery store—even the dollar store—has security personnel.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“The fire...the bandits...I still cannot believe that you defeated Regibald du Burgh in single combat. You were smart to lure him up into that broken glass tower.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I’ll have to go through this every single time I want to have lunch with a friend. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Legend had it that they put it up in a single day, before one of the first big gatherings, when they realized the assembled no longer fit inside Valentine’s farmhouse. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If a single strand of hair fell on any of those laser beams, a police car would come rushing to the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Internet, probably the single most important human invention since the printing press, takes the whole process a step further. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only light outside came from a single bulb which hung from a pole—high and far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives it a single knock and shouts, “Come forth, my old friend. Come forth, Vladimir!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was so distracted, I didn’t make a single one of my connections, and I wobbled through the routine like a bobblehead toy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They passed single file between the cops—six in number, Moss counted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The empty seat was in the back, and every single person turned around to continue to stare at her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And they might still be calling to this day had not a single voice separated itself from the others: “Burn ’im, Magee!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All things in the woods, from insects to fish to bears, were always, always looking for food—it was the great, single driving influence in nature, lo eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have used every single pot in the house. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Inside there was only a single printed sheet. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not a boat was in sight except a single canoe traveling parallel to a tree-wreathed shoreline, children in life jackets at the flashing paddles a quarter mile off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He it was that now rode out, and with him came only a small company of black-harnessed soldiery, and a single banner, black but bearing on it in red the Evil Eye. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Harry was ready to bet that the Dursleys hadn’t understood a single word of this. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were times at the end of the day, especially, when Tree-ear thought he could not gather a single head more. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when there was a need, another ferry came in the afternoon, and on that day a second one did, bringing another bag of mail with a single letter in it: for me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

This meant that every single night the Keepers turned into zombies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The board would fear a backlash should it grant the same sum for a project “which an unsympathetic and inaccurate critic might describe as a single instrument for one man.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was always saying things like Wow, the weather is so weird today and How was your weekend? and Hey, did you study for the quiz on Friday? and it surprised me, every single time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A single basketball game had given him a name, a face, and an identity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s hot. He’s new. He’s not going to stay single for long.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

In a single stroke, he had set the field on its modern foundations. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spoke no English, not a single word, not yes or no, hello or thank you. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The phrase ‘in model’ is extremely rare, but a single sheet published in 1651 is described in its title as a summary of Christian doctrine ‘in model’: it is a wall-chart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course, one of the four teams with a single medal could dazzle us all and sweep the final two competitions. It’s still possible that this thing could end in a three-way tie.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“A single lawyer,” Nazario continued, “can steal more money than a hundred men with guns.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t touch every single one of them with your grubby fingers!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allowing the police to use minor traffic violations as a pretext for baseless drug investigations would permit them to single out anyone for a drug investigation without any evidence of illegal drug activity whatsoever. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But try as she might, she could not picture their titles, nor remember a single clue as to their contents. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I know? I watch my mother starch and iron that stupid white uniform every single week. He’s prouder of that uniform than he is of us.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I gave them to Holly, her eyes filled, she took my hand, and said, “Hiring you might have been the single smartest thing I’ve done in a long while.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Moss sat on the single step outside the door. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And just as we’re about to get into the elevator, I look over and see that dead lobby plant, from earlier, and—you wouldn’t believe it—a single bud, popping up from a branch. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And when I finally start to ask all the questions I can think of, Roli answers every single one. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There is so much she wants, it is hard to single out one wish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She’s halfway to the parking lot before I realize that the entire payload is a single endless line of connected paper links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people walking together, carrying candles and signs but not saying one single word? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Not one of us uttered a single sound. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The room had a single, a southern, exposure. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

All that remained was a charred foundation, a few blackened timbers, and the remains of a teetering brick chimney propped up by a single two-by-four. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

However, I believe there may not be any single formulation of the fundamental theory any more than, as Godel showed, one could formulate arithmetic in terms of a single set of axioms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo's trying to teach me how to be a kid like him, but I can't even smoke a single cigarette. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the moment, however, we shall turn to the recent attempts to bring together our understanding of the other forces of nature into a single, unified quantum theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought there was something I could do within a single day that could make everything better. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But moving into the fall, with the end in sight, I wanted to squeeze as much of the four or five years it took to make a good CO into my single rookie year. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid’s cabin comprised a single room, in one corner of which was a gigantic bed covered in a patchwork quilt. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Each of these was a real and important factor in the way the fire was able to race through the city unchecked, yet none was singled out as the cause. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of it there stood a single stone, standing tall under the sun above, and at this hour casting no shadow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It is fluid, ever changing. A single drop of rain is inconsequential, but one million drops of rain creates...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And here I am with buckets of money, far more than enough to feed both our families now, and he won’t take a single coin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Committed for every single week and even brought a donation. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He walked to me, curled his arm around my neck, and gave my brow a single kiss. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the sudden disappearance, then returning without a single soul...There was something brewing, a cauldron that the king had journeyed to stir. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Besides the traitorous leaves, Stella could hear a pair of bullfrogs ba-rupping to each other, but nothing, not a single human voice, from across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just a small bank of mailboxes, a fake plant, and a single wooden chair. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This is not a subject on which we can do much experimentation as long as our investigations are limited to a single planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could only pass across it in single file. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If a single letter or digit was copied out wrong, it could waste hours of everyone’s time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And that is only Tormund’s band. Add the Weeper’s men and those at Hardhome, and they will have the strength to end the Night’s Watch in a single night.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A single sailor, slumped in the stern, tipped his cap wearily as we sailed past. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And when he finds out that Rosie likes gin and ginger ale better than anything in the world except perhaps watermelon, he ensures that she gets both, every single day. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When she came to the nearest dummy, she attacked viciously, chopping its head off with a single blow and driving her sword through its guts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At trial, the judge finds that the entire sweep was based on the testimony of a single informant who lied to the prosecution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the focus she’d poured into the single sentinel was shunted back into her physical body, and she stumbled and fell, gasping, to her knees. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Boo Boo blew a single, faulty smoke-ring at a pane of glass. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Down at street level another poster, tom at one comer, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When the doors opened, we followed Christoph single file through a long narrow hall, its walls and ceiling vibrating with a deep whirring sound that grew louder as we walked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed every single colored man, woman, and child in town was walking up the road and convening in her front yard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He is beginning to think about varieties of one single color, differences of tone, for example, in the same family of yellow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The mourners followed in single file to keep witches from following them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And apparently every single person who steps in and out of my life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He gives Asher a single nod, as if he were here only for the victory, as if he hadn’t just visited the Dark World to help bring down the entire game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They might even steal their present back she thought, and realized with a pang how quickly she had reverted to thinking of them as though they were a single unit once again. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The student may be given no more than two single lashes across the back,” Lorren recited. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You can’t stress about every single person you say bye to, right? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

From the front, the hospital was a smart, sprawling single floor complex that seemed as long as the Griffin Building was tall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And I hadn’t written to a single English department. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie insisted on going along and Neeley agreed to stay home with the baby on condition that he be told every single thing that happened. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that he is single doesn’t worry him, and yet he is conscious of the degree to which it troubles his mother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Not a single word you've read could prepare you for the real thing." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But as a single woman supporting her daughter, she had little time for such exploration. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They saw no sign of any trail to right or left, but here and there they passed single Orcs, fallen in their tracks as they ran, with grey-feathered arrows sticking in back or throat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He began muttering something about “regrettable violence—must really protest,” but at a single glance from Jadis he became speechless. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Rebeca's old friends, among them four of the Moscote sisters who were still single, once more took up the sessions of embroidery that had been interrupted years before on the porch with the begonias. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He will never again have this many people thinking of him at a single time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jason didn’t see how Apollo deserved to be singled out for punishment. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask a single question, just took notes as fast as I could. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And somehow, that single word expands like a balloon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Voxy stands in front of a single workstation in the center of a room the size of my entire house. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a sound, not even a single bird. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A single planted corn seed could yield 150 to 300 fat kernels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His warm ivory skin is free from a single imperfection, like a porcelain doll behind a glass case. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know I’m awake, doesn’t know that I know she does this every single morning—that she opens the door and just stands there and stares at me before she wakes us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were whispers that Miss Preston had taken a Sioux lover while out west and that she kept a single eagle feather in his memory, but I don’t believe any of that. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Most cells in culture grew in a single layer in a clot on a glass surface, which meant they ran out of space quickly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To make sure he didn’t miss a single piece of news coming out of Vietnam and reaching the American public, Johnson had installed three televisions in the Oval Office, side by side. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The ship was a sleek white triangle with a single dark window facing forward. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Having cleared the stable of astronomy of circles and spirals, he was left, he said, with “only a single cartful of dung,” a stretched-out circle something like an oval. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barb can probably force him to take most of his meds, but she can’t be there for every single dose. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At the end of a few minutes work we had combined all of the black, sticky pieces into a single wad the size of a sweetmelon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The shelves of plumbing equip-ment, and there seem to be acres of them, contain not a single item I can name, which gives me an idea of what it feels like to be aphasic. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks for another single malt, but is told that there is only beer and wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We would ask for a puppy for every single holiday, until one Christmas we found two huge stuffed animals under the tree, one for Adria and one for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Pinmei watched as Yanna hollered and the soldiers began to chase her, a single running figure in the night, like a rabbit being chased by wolves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Woundwort leaped forward in a single bound and landed full against Bigwig like a branch falling from a tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another year ticked by in a single hour, and dawn waiting beyond the far bank of the river. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was coarse- woven and simply made, without so much as a single bow for trimming, but it was certainly far more suited to the menial work she had to do in it. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“See, this is why I’m so glad to be single. Because I can just hang out with you and not have to run upstairs to call my boyfriend.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At the family table, this mischievous older sister handed me a plate that contained a single chicken wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t go for the double—just a single. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I want so much to end him here, to vent my anger and frustration and fear in a single swing of a rusty cavalry sword. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, I took Ginger for a walk around the golf course that borders swinging singles. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above the towns, scattered like pebbles, were single villas where ancient families had found a brook, a green spot, and laid out a tile pool, a library, and a court with a pulsing fountain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, bands and tribes always, and chiefdoms usually, consist of a single ethnic and linguistic group. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You stupid thing. Not a sound. Not a single sound. If anyone hears you, we are lost.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For days, I wasn’t able to write a single word. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“And I also prayed for you. Every single night and every single day. On my knees. Now you tell me. What harm did I do you on my knees?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help you imagine this, here are animations of a single wave reflecting back and forth and standing waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I shine the light on every inch of floor in every single room; I check every closet; I even look in the attic and basement. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a single mom too, with Meg’s dad being held prisoner halfway across the universe. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Every so often you’d see a coach from another school and, before he signed with Iowa, there would be small pockets of older men with notebooks, writing down every single thing Luke did. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

By dusk, he had finished the roof and framed in the single window. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

For a single, illusory moment of bliss, I’m there in that kitchen, my kitchen, in my home, with my parents. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Not a single piece of bread-and-butter or a lump of sugar had been left behind. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Three days went by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In 35 percent of those schools, not a single black child was included in the sample. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The old man was a famous ingcibi, a circumcision expert, from Gcalekaland, who would use his assegai to change us from boys to men with a single blow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not a single customer in the place. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she carried the line down, so that she had a double line instead of a single line. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Not only had he lost, but he’d been unable to prove to himself—and the public—that he could win a single game against Spassky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

People talk about visiting grandparents in the hospital or sending birthday cards to a niece’s husband; single mothers live with their own mothers or share apartments with a coworker or boyfriend. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made us wait at every single block for the light. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The snarky chastising rubbed every single one of my nerves the wrong way. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a single line of words running down the entire page. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She turns to fuss with the dress and make sure it doesn't get a single wrinkle while draped across the bed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“My single question,” he said, “to either one of the guards...” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A handbasin with a single tap was bolted to a brick wall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To put only in its place, make sure it goes right before the word or phrase you want to single out as the lone wolf. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone did a fine job. I value every single story and poem and drawing that was prepared by a Riverside School student, but as you know, I could only choose three to represent us.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not a single eye would meet his anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to do a single thing if you don’t want to,” I say. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could never forget Capricorn’s rabid dog for a single day even if he wanted to. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lazlo owned nothing, not one single thing, but from the first, the stories felt like his own hoard of gold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These would kill in a finger snap for one single tortilla. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, they found a single unsecured widow at the side of the building and opened it as far as it would go. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There is no single event for Iranians that has more significance than a wedding. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Just a single scoop of mint chip in a bowl, please.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The poppies reach waist-high on single green stalks and are so red they seem to bleed color. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every single sacrifice felt worth it in that beautiful moment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A single exhibit hall had enough interior volume to have housed the U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This is how he isolates the true impact of that single switch on the sprawling circuit board. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ned Stark had never needed more than a single Mow to take a man's head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As long as our inquiries are limited to one or two evolutionary lines on a single planet, we will remain forever ignorant of the possible range and brilliance of other intelligences and other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to be single for a while.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He volunteered to come to swinging singles to pick me up after Dad left for work and after the morning rush-hour traffic. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They were useless, could not keep a single thing in order. I retained only the cooks. Haven’t had a dinner in quite some time, but at least they know what they’re doing.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Louis F. Burns, the eminent historian of the Osage, observed, “I don’t know of a single Osage family which didn’t lose at least one family member because of the headrights.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve studied pages upon pages of the history of a single stone.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take far too much effort to make a single word. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had not a single chain store in it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I stayed there until the sun started to descend, hating myself every single minute. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My mother and father slept on a single mattress, our only piece of furniture, which took up a third of our space. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the war approached its peak, every single American military airplane in production was based fundamentally—and in many cases in specific detail—upon the research results and recommendations of the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Stanton reached for pen and paper and wrote a single sentence. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was tie throb and stamp of a single organism. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Bull commented on each car that flickered past like a single frame on a long roll of film. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly three feet had fallen in the last storm, so that for a week people had to walk single file, in narrow trenches. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

No single approach could be deemed right or wrong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The boy was breathing so heavily that his lips could not form a single word. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He issued a single bitter guffaw and returned to the hysterical snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A crude pair of salt-dice and a single, tatty shoe that was too small for me, but that I hoped to trade for something else. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dimple turned away, back to his sketch pad, although she wasn’t seeing a single sketch anymore. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A pool table, lit from above by a single yellow bulb, seemed to float over the sticky tile floor between the music and the liquor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She beckons me over to her table, not with a subtle head tilt or single finger hook, but with a full arm wave, drawing the entire room’s attention. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke, the motion of a single huge October leaf blowing across the lawn and away. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single cloud in the sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A single bee finally inched out on the sheet and used it as a walking bridge to the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hugged absolutely every single girl I could reach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But the change saved only one single life. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Every single one gets a little slap on the wrist and goes right back into society, like it’s all good. Black folks or poor folks get on drugs?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Twas thim same numbers had thim destroyed altogether. Who would want to be killing a mortal for what he didn’t understand, or for nothing? I took up with the single combats instead.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not hear from Mr. Barris beyond that single letter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t have wood or kindling, they curled against one another, barely touching, but by morning, they’d be pressed together, breathing in tandem, cocooned in muzzy sleep, a single crescent moon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The curious thing was that the doubleness had disappeared and everything was single again; but there was no sign of Shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then, when she had cried about her broken heart, Evan had glued every single last piece back together again. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In spite of that, before the father went into the kitchen, he came into the room and with a single bow, cap in hand, made a tour of the table. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse seemed to know her moods, as if they shared a single mind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The problem, or at least part of it, was that blacks and whites spoke two different languages, which happened to share a single vocabulary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I am the bënduka, the single word that describes me precisely: someone who is bent sideways and walks slowly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon heard the deep, throaty call of the watchman's great horn, calling out across the miles,- a single long blast that shuddered through the trees and echoed off the ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sky above burns brilliant and clean without a single cloud from horizon to horizon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m back where I was, where I stand every single afternoon, in front of the pond of a thousand dragonflies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“In the Talmud, it says, ‘Whoever destroys a single life has destroyed the entire world.’ Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He has been singled out for a life of trial, as Jesus was. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin looked up then and wiped a single bead of sweat from his tanned, scarred forehead. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

What did you think would happen when I came in here, that I would live single and alone forever? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I lie in my single bed at night, with my eyes closed, and the name floats there behind my eyes, not quite within reach, shining in the dark. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face became very solemn when Salva told him that he had not seen nor heard a single word of his family in all that time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lived in our alley for over thirty years without a single disagreement with any of the neighbors. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That vato will just do any single thing that comes in his head.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In single files they sponge-bathe and relieve themselves behind blanket curtains. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

To form the plurals of abbreviations and numbers, add s alone, but to form the plural of a single letter, add s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pure honesty: I don’t have a single, solitary clue what’s behind that door. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The floor slopes slightly downhill, and the hallway is so narrow that Beth and I have to walk single file. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of anger that comes when you feel betrayed by not just a single person, but the universe. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jason runs from the table and opens the door to let them in, and Isaac does what he does every single time he sees my brother. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the pilots and navigators of the 588th were flying a dozen bombing missions or more in a single night, far more than the men in the other Po-2 regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If tía had a hammock, I would ask to sleep here every single night. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a single night, Nina might sometimes have to lift over three tons of explosives. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In this long history of accelerating development, one can single out two especially significant jumps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The carpets were so clean I could see a single set of footprints leading to Pickett’s desk, and a single set leading away from them. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over the last few years, his lordship has probably been the single most useful pawn Herr Hitler has had in this country for his propaganda tricks. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Waltzed right through every single one of my natural defenses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He pulls up the leather string with my lucky penny on it, a single eyebrow raised. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She was a single mother with six sons, and she planned to put all of them through college using money she made cutting hair and selling chips, candy, and cigarettes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I watched the emergency lights beyond Liam’s head pass with dizzying speed, tracking together like a single beam. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Many of these trains brought single young women who had never even seen a city but now hoped to make one of the biggest and toughest their home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A single dark thought wormed into her head: What if the Sleeper was telling the truth? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a flash of the eyes and a single equivocal remark; beyond that, only his own secret imaginings, founded on a dream. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Not one single thing—not one single thing—within the entire park and for some miles around was inscribed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A single steed rests between him and the full championship,” continued Jolly Roger. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A single blue current of electricity snakes up the door closest to me before fizzling out. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But I don’t recall that I had a single thought during those first minutes of relative safety. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it finally fell, we could tell right away that the heart looked good, with not a single ant in sight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town was jammed with eager pilgrims, and though we tried at all the decent boarding houses, we could not find a single room. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha had one single goal—to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow—to let the Self die. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai had the idea that every single person and creature she saw here was but the beginning of another fantastical story, and she wanted to follow them all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Simultaneously, every single one of the white-haired people stopped what they were doing and fixed their strange pale eyes on the hut’s door flap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because of the way ESP is defined—communication without any normal sensory mechanisms—there is no way to tell the difference between a single incidence of ESP and a chance guess. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serious insults to the body, the kind of shattering or crushing injury seen in high-speed auto wrecks, are an absolute certainty for every single jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gunshots, far too many to belong to a single firearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Coming round the side of the church is a single horse. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We drove to the arboretum, and she told me about every single plant we saw, and it wasn’t even boring because she had a way of making things fascinating. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I ordered fried chicken and chocolate pudding and pecan pie, and no one said a word about me not selecting a single vegetable. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had read meaning into what was random body posture captured in a single moment of time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. “We call them terrorists because they are not representative of a single nation. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

New technologies were developed, making it possible for a single still to create as many as 130 gallons of whiskey a day. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Every single family brought just a little something. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As he walked the fence line, Curly was pleased not to come across a single cottonmouth moccasin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about all those nights Dad and I had spent never saying a single word. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But they shared a single pulsing heart, and so they could not be uncoupled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the fingers of one hand slightly and in the palm of the hand was a single slender object. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of the car brought women to the door of the ramshackle building but didn’t distract the single- minded activity of either the grubby kids or the scrawny fowls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora ran through the tall grass and cleared the fence between her yard and the Tickhams’ in a single bound. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I take down every single note until the wall is blank. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one subsection, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Belet may have had serious fighting skills, but she didn't have a single molecule of charm in her whole body. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She memorized the flight patterns of the birds as they soared above, studying them every single day. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since she had shed even a single tear and she was astonished to see how badly she had needed some sign of tenderness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See?” she said, smoothing the collar around Pearl’s neck, carefully buttoning a single button between her breasts for the minimum of modesty, the way all the senior girls were wearing them that year. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t believe in wasting nothing, so he chawed every single piece! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

However much in earnest he might be, he had nothing of the single- mindedness that belongs to a fanatic. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He nodded, then shook his head, the one following the other like a single movement. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke up again, it was dark, the only illumination coming from a single candle. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, not everybody. I don’t mean babies and children. But every single family.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bitter grin had transformed his mouth into a single line. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be foolish to assume that any single agent is responsible for damaging the chromosomes or causing their erratic behavior during cell division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She picked a single page off the top of the pile and carefully folded the top a third of the way down, then the bottom of the page up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“See, this is what we do, every single night—we gather around the fire, just like this. But now look, up there, see?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was mid-October when the teacher singled me out, saying, "Every day spent with you is like having a cesarean section." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And Powell pointed a trembling finger at the single gauge. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Chopping wood for hours without a single bite to eat had been hard enough. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Every single person in here looks like they could use a nap. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single living tree on the island, just cedar skeletons and patches of green-gray shrubs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The only person in the class who got every single question correct is . . . Melody Brooks.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They felt a little ridiculous in the oppressive summer heat, with a bouquet of wilting flowers in their hands and not a single tear for the solitary body they were laying to rest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digger, and I used to fish—and a single, bright spot of yellow. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

The test of intellectual excellence, however, had been reduced by tradition and unvoiced unanimity to a single area of study: Talmud. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The war broke out and was over before a single safe-suit was ever issued to a single soldier, much less to a civilian. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The six laws we singled out were not overturned; but we never had any illusion that they would be. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wanted to explain it every single time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I know that now because I read every single entry inside it when we return home from the hospital. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There are two of you, he had said; that might be a big advantage over a single mother. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A haze of dust hovered over the city and, across the river, a single plume of smoke rose to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A single guard stood behind him, a gun in his hand. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She pressed her hand to her stomach—still as flat as ever—and imagined a single cell pulsing and dividing deep in side, like in the videos in biology class. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went to all my best houses plus the blue camel hotel and found not a single egg. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Then you have done all you have got to do. Say another word—one single word—and Wemmick shall give you your money back.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the air temperature drops and the water continues to freeze, the pancakes mass together and harden into a single sheet, or ice field. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Clasped in his fingers was only a single strand of Nuwa's hair, a tiny drop of blood falling from it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In this moment, I am every single one of them. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Not a single one. So, technically, we’re not breaking the rules.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Omitting needless words, however, does not mean cutting out every single word that is redundant in context. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Vivian plucked a single peanut from the bowl and held it between her thumb and forefinger and studied it for a while. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eastern horizon was brightening every single second, and Nali was sure to wake up soon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He could counterattack with tears or rage or promises, and I could withstand every single one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hideo glances up, then moves his fingers in a single, subtle motion. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he was surprised to learn how certain he suddenly was of a single fact he could not prove. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we’re a messed up, dysfunctional family, I guess this can go down as our single functional moment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes stars move together in a group or cluster; other times a single star may move very rapidly with respect to its fellows. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days, Purple carried only a single, short message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you know, Strange, that to ask a Tizerkane if he fears you is to challenge him to single combat?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With Mom, that means a guilt-laden experience with many allusions to her struggles as a single mom. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We become, therefore, a mongrel unit of one under a single all powerful government... and we stand for everything ... and for nothing.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to peer through the holes in the copper plates but couldn’t see anything by the light of my single candle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If he had, however, “it would not indeed have been a single volume, but an Encyclopedia in bulk.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only, I know that I’m that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She acknowledges his presence with a single, subtle nod. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had stayed in motels, slept whole families to a single room, swum in pools that could be seen from the road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had filled the paper with tiny writing until there wasn’t space for a single word more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All I had wanted was to have every single one of us under one roof. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And they are in every single cubic centimeter you see around you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, fronting a large, overstuffed sofa, was a large brass table with mahogany legs and a single oriental letter embossed in its center. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's about us all—every single one of us! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mendeleyev’s breakthrough was to see that the two could be combined in a single table. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

More telling, the stone betrayed no delicate cracks, no pinpoints, not a single inclusion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We boasted a single punching bag and a few pairs of boxing gloves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single newsfeed seemed to be showing a screenshot of the Scoreboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A single thought occupied the minds of everyone in racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trudged single file along the path connecting our yard with Doña Ana’s. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fumbling to get my shoes on, I felt the same old grief I’d known in church every single Mother’s Day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single one, falling to order like soldiers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Not a single car moved on my street or the two avenues at either end. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even without that, Annabeth would have singled her out as the leader. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a giant, empty, decaying building which had once housed thousands, a single TV set hawked its wares to an uninhabited room. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At last, at the back of the magazine, I found a single black-and-white snapshot of Michael, but no Jackie or Tito. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few days ago just a single day outside seemed like it would be enough, but now that I’ve had one, I want more. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Theresa’s geranium they moved outside, with vows to water it every single day. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last they were going in single file along the edge of a precipice and Shasta shuddered to think that he had done the same last night without knowing it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

There is a sort-of attempt to make a distinction between figures and tropes—the former operating at the level of a phrase or sentence, and the latter being shifts in meaning for single words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was relieved I was to be whipped with a single headed whip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then a single tear rolled down my cheek. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn’t imagine it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I get there, they’re slumped on opposite sides of a booth, picking at a single shared waffle. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A group of teenagers swarms the My Crush Wants to Go Out with Me counter and don’t leave a single bottle on the shelf. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She did this quickly and skillfully without a single glance in the mirror. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single candle lit Shady’s place, and the mood was equally dark. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When any of these enzymes — even a single one of them — is destroyed or weakened, the cycle of oxidation within the cell comes to a halt. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I entered to discover the room darkened except for a single small lamp illuminating the stage of the microscope at which he was working. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All he had to go upon was the single name ‘Marvolo,’ which he knew from those who ran the orphanage had been his mother’s father’s name. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Thim bullets I was telling ye about, now: the brains didn’t be much good wid-out they were taken in single combat It was the virtue of them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I was growing up, me and Darryl would work on puzzles of my mother every single day. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We marched back, single file, with me in the lead, to where you were waiting patiently. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Working without a single hard fact, islanders drew a variety of conclusions: pilot error, pilot inexperience, misread charts, crossed signals, fog, wind, tide, ineptitude. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In 1960, 500 people left East Germany every single day; that year, more than 180,000 people made the trek from East to West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One thought Joe had never entertained, even in his most uncomfortable dreams, was that somehow he would be singled out to be a leader. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, King, not really. You always believe every single thing anyone tells you.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Not a single feather remains and Celia is once again wearing a puffed-sleeve black jacket, already buttoned over her black-and-white gown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Who could say how or why a prisoner was singled out by the kapos and guards? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Say: ‘There is not a single boy in this hallway that I could be interested in.’” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We found two clubs but couldn't find a single ball, not even in the bottomless shed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you remember what they did to us? Put our minds under a simulation and forced us to shoot people without even knowing it? Murdered every single Abnegation leader?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was built of unmortared stones, like the great wall of the keep, and the moonlight came through its single unglazed window to fall on the stone altar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was a single slice of bread for each person now, and lunch was maybe half a boiled potato. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They asked me three more times, had me write every single thing down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The brigade drew billy clubs and axes and let out a single, unified “Huzzah!” before rushing forward. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He didn't ask to have every single thing in his life smell like fingernail polish. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There are so many airmen here, and they are so sure of themselves that they give chase to single individuals, just as though they were hares. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This flower used to be one of the rarest plants in the world. A white tiger orchid. In Rusty days, a single bulb was worth more than a house.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A single tear was running down his long, pointed nose. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She asks him to draw a single card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We are not safe if a single human is nearby. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her rage should start at The Taker and extend to every single way her body is legally controlled or left unprotected. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, one can regard the pair of particles as a single particle moving on a closed loop in space-time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That theory, quantum mechanics, will be described next, before we turn to the efforts to combine the two partial theories into a single quantum theory of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He said, “I just mean right then, when you moved that single grain of sand. What would that mean?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of her getting married and moving to America was a lot easier to digest than that of her moving to Europe as a single girl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I finished my first term with three silver talents and a single jot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though it’s happened to me only once, I still worry about it every single time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After each victory, Ser Loras would remove his helm and ride slowly round the fence, and finally pluck a single white rose from the blanket and toss it to some fair maiden in the crowd. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every single part of me is aware that he’s touching me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was so lost, it didn’t seem like there was a single math fact that could save her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They seem to think we are Santa Claus, the way the children come around begging us for food and things every single day—and us as poor as church mice! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was determined to try every single inn on this side of the river before I resorted to paying for a bunk and a meal chit again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I can’t yet mourn a million people who left this world in a single day, I’ll start with one, and move from there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open them, and I see I’m in a bed that’s not my own, in a room of white walls and one single window with open curtains and a closed door. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I plead for and get a lamp to supplement the single overhead bulb. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he saw pursuit of a single truth as a symptom of an unbalanced mind, tantamount to superstition! Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

No single step separated the woman gathering wild wheat from the woman farming domesticated wheat, so it’s hard to say exactly when the decisive transition to agriculture took place. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August’s case, the doctors were able to identify one of the “single nucleotide deletion mutations” that made war on his face. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The tiny office is dark save for the pool of light spilling in from the hall and the dim haze from the streetlamps seeping in through the single window. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The origins of their language are among the most disputed questions of linguistics: for not a single other one of the world’s major languages are the affinities to other languages still in doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then an owl hooted softly, a field mouse screamed, a rabbit thumped, a dog-fox barked his deep, single lion’s cough, and a bat twittered above their heads. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a year without a sign, without any word or a single glimpse of the grey top hat, Marco decides to call on him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside is the Farmer’s Almanac and a single letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“No wonder he was so upset about a single missing book,” said Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

His mind is impressed with a single command: run. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the single, notable exception of the meerkats, there was not the least foreign matter on the island, organic or inorganic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember the name of a single public relations firm. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of it, all of it; inside all of it so that every...single...little...thing became important. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he turned, and with a single graceful bound crossed to the desk; but for once he was careless, and his hind leg knocked the glass paperweight to the floor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a single round room, and bookshelves covered every wall from floor to ceiling. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Luke feigned a single leg, and when Herrera sprawled, Luke put him in a front headlock and hooked his arm. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He knew it was coming, but Alex still winced as Nunu sang out her favorite line, just like she did every single solitary stupid night. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Unlike our village, only young men, some with wives and others single, live in the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single streetlight flashed red day and night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Were that to happen, the seedlings might all be killed by a single drought or frost, leaving no seeds to propagate the species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below the sink he finds a bottle of Windex, a box of trash bags, a single sponge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that he could describe the look and nature of an animal from a single tooth or scrap of jaw, and often name the species and genus into the bargain. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Up until that point, the creature hadn’t made a single sound. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“All I could think was: ‘I cannot let Reggie spend a single night in jail.’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They lay facedown in pools of black blood that seeped into the grass, lit by a single streetlight. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They came and they left in a single old truck. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On it is a gun and a single bullet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Then I could eat one every single day! For...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But then one day, every single one of the North Korean soldiers were gone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When it drew inside of one hundred yards he gave a single blast on his air horn. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, let ’em eat,” said Rosaleen, which floored me, since she’d been known to smack my hand sideways for pinching a single crumb off her fritters before dinner. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Star, tell this to nobody, not a single soul. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry that I blow off Jude that night and every single night that follows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For how to make plural forms of single letters, like y, see pages 27-28. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single flyer routed two companies of them for a joke, just as they came fresh from the train—before they had ever heard of such a thing as cover. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a single story, with a thin strip of yard full of sparse, scrubby grass in front. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A single bulb glowed red behind a wire mesh, adding to the heat in the cramped cabin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A single mule was hitched to one of the cages and dragged it up against the gate in the corral wall. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He went straight to the Mother, grasped the sword with his gloved hand, and wrenched it free of the burning wood with a single hard jerk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Our new home was only a single room. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Marx took this to mean that the recently single Ellsberg was dating a lot of women. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have found that few of these objections single out clarity or grace or coherence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even bring himself to say any words, express a single emotion. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Why is this Jenna Fox so strong, but I feel less powerful than a single kilowatt? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A single gunshot punctuated his order like an exclamation point, thundering across the open road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I glance over my shoulder to see my fire fade away without a single burn mark anywhere. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And that every single soldier, including the best pitcher in Fayette County, comes home safe and sound. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They clanked along, uncomplaining, the sweat pouring down their faces, in single file behind the coastguard's horse. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impossible hungry mouth of her loneliness wanted to swallow her in a single piece. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We stay there, watching the parade, and I don’t think there’s a single other place I’d rather be in the world. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There were only about fifty Web sites at the time and they were mostly just single Web pages. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I braid my hair tightly, not a single scraggly strand left behind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were herded directly into another room and made to line up single file. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass fills with an image of me—perfectly applied makeup, Belle-bun without a single hair out of place, eyes that smile. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The psychologist had conceded that the single largest group of unwell inmates—those suffering from so-called antisocial personality—was harder to pick out of the crowd. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the day comes to do the dive,” Carlyle tells me, “I gotta make sure there’s not a single brain on deck to foul things up.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“In the supermarket I can feed a cat thirty-two dinners from one of thirty-two tins, but I can never find a single fish I like, never a single.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few miles after Salcedo, my lights single it out, the ancient anacahuita tree, dripping in the rain, most of its pods gone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once saw pictures of two blonde girls, laughing and making faces at each other, and it all looked very friendly and usual, except that their two necks stemmed out of a single body. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If there’s no one else working in the building or in the neighborhood, you can hear every single step in the private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A Marriage to Seal the Alliance To seal the accord with Octavian and prove his loyalty to Rome, Mark Antony—who was newly and conveniently single— agreed to marry Octavian’s sister, Octavia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We try to shepherd as much glass from the broken Bluefin bottles as possible onto pieces of paper and then gather them into a single bag for later disposal. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The orchestra claimed that Conant’s “shortness of breath was overhearable” in her performance of the famous trombone solo in Mozart’s Requiem, even though the guest conductor of those performances had singled out Conant for praise. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about that, Matthias, my old lad. When these chaps gave up chasing me, I scooted back to my den. Spring cleaning, y’know. A bit late, but I’m only a bachelor in single quarters, what!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A year later they guided another group of seven to the top on an afternoon when forty people reached the summit in a single day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Mid-Atlantic gang devoured their pepperoni pies the fastest and then nailed every single question about When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yoshoto got up from her desk promptly at five-thirty and went upstairs to prepare dinner, and M. Yoshoto and I followed—fell into single file, as it were—at six sharp. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was winded from running, and the single breath it allowed me every few seconds wasn’t enough. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Not a single student has emerged from the barracks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Every single one of my sons’ playmates has at least one parent or grandparent who was born outside the United States; that’s true of three of my own sons’ four grandparents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single hostage balked or tried to slink away when his turn came to enter that gloomy tunnel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An innocent young man is now a criminal mind, having nightmares of murders every single time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The film focuses around one man who starts going to a single parents meeting, to meet women, one problem He doesnt have a child. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

My mom puts the glass down on the table, a single clank to spell out her annoyance, in case I couldn’t see it from the look she gives me now. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was rebelling and would have leaped over the side of the mountain, to all our destruction, in its attempt to unseat me had I relaxed control for a single second. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat rested upon the waves; and therein, slumped, was a single, cowled figure. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The cortege passed in front of a construction site and the workers dropped their tools, removed their helmets, and, with bowed heads, formed a single line. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second the idea glittered before Sefia like one of her Visions: the Five Islands working together in concert, all the warring kingdoms united, their turbulent histories smoothed over in a single decisive victory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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“Do you even know me at all? Have you looked at a single one of my drawings? Did you know there’s a girl I like? I’ll bet you didn’t.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She saw ruins—a few crumbling walls, a single column, a stone floor covered with moss and dead vines—all clustered on a grassy hillside dotted with pine trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The overall size of these environments was relatively small, usually just a single world, or a dozen or so small planets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My parents have a word for what I do—constant-talking, like that is a single word—and they explain to me that it is important to let others talk, too. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mom doesn’t let me read about zombies, but I hear the resurrection story every single year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Yard boys scared that a single gesture near the planter’s wife could leave them hanging from an oak tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The entire set of these meals is now united as a single block of text which serves as an exemplification of herons eating things other than fish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But what if real-world traits, such as height or skin color, were the result of not a single gene, with just two states—“tall” and “short,” “on” and “off”—but of multiple genes? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham had met Ogden Loring at a PTA meeting and had come home with a single remark: “Any man who teaches a girls’ course like English is bound to be a pansy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ascended the wall to meet a circular, person-sized door in the ceiling, through which shone a single gleam of light. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a metal desk and a metal filing cabinet and a single lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Earth and water together make up what looks like a single globe, although they are in fact distinct spheres with different centres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Lizzie, I swear to you, as sure as I’m standing right here—that’s a lie. Every bit of it. Every single bit.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All those differences among Polynesian societies developed, within a relatively short time and modest fraction of the Earth’s surface, as environmentally related variations on a single ancestral society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The day is quite cold, with a pale winter sun, and yet not a single gentleman has come to our cabin for an ember. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She spotted individual marks recurring again and again on a single page, and found entire clusters replicated, sometimes ten or thirty times in perfect patterns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The weak flame cut a circle of light in the shadows, but before they could take a single step the match went out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downtown consisted of two intersecting streets, Main Street and High Street, separated by a single flashing stoplight and no traffic. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Even if things hadn’t gone my way, I still wouldn’t have wished that a single moment would be different. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You think there was a single eye that wasn’t looking at me when they left? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And even the ants Raised their heads: Knowing what’s good, They dropped their bread crumbs For a single flake Of chicharron. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since Belt’s day, terms like 'Amazonia” and 'Amazon basin” are often used as if they referred to a single, homogeneous entity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My sister and I are identical twins, so how is it that from one single seed we have two such different lives? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his muzzle and bayed a single aching note. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sentences for each charge can run consecutively, so a defendant can easily face a sentence of fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred years to life arising from a single case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Literally hundreds of aphids are consumed by a single ladybug to stoke the little fires of energy which she requires to produce even a single batch of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A single white flake landed on her palm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a single modest-sized refrigerator filled with fresh sandwiches, soft drinks, cartons of juice, and perishables like cheese, and Katz and I stared into it for ages, dumbly captivated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It covered half the distance from the crest of the hill to our fire in a single, spastic burst of speed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even the light of the single swaying bulb. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The howling wind and pounding rain made a frightful noise, and yet through it all a single, chilling sound could still be heard—the awful tolling of the church bells. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But Kepler had worked with Tycho Brahe, who had devised new instruments capable of measuring with astonishing accuracy to a single minute. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Three months after her jittery first approach to the FBI office in New Haven, Bentley had launched the biggest single case in the Bureau's history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My third selection, also related to death, showcases yet another tone and style, and stands as further proof that good writing does not fit into a single formula. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As Barack often said, what we were doing wasn’t just about a single election. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And perhaps most I loved this about her, her helpless way, love it still, how she can’t hide a single thing, that she looks hurt when she is hurt, seems happy when happy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he had served these last two drinks, the governor sat down on a piano stool before a shiny black Steinway and plinked a single thoughtful note. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z