I somehow got off the floor and she chased me up to our room and I slammed the door on her and waited for my husband to get home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed somehow as though it had not been worth it after all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Diem claimed to have won a ludicrous 98.2 percent of the vote; in Saigon, he somehow received more votes than there were registered voters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Unless we somehow acquired some more gas or descended to a lower camp, I knew that my teammates and I would continue to deteriorate rapidly. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But she had somehow gotten hold of the software and was hooked. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“But look at this email,” I tell him, like that will somehow make a difference. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There’s barely room to move in here, yet somehow the crowd clears a path for us. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I know this sounds weird, but do you think Stan somehow hooked us up?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

David felt strange reading it, as if he were prying somehow, but yet he couldn’t stop reading it either. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this time, without daring to think—the Sicilian would have known it somehow—she threw the blanket aside and dove deep into Florin Channel. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No “grazing,” that is, eating from food packages that somehow become open; no “time theft.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, the moment she spoke in the language of Olympus, I somehow understood it. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But as she said it, she realized that somewhere down deep, she had hoped they’d somehow get back together. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“After today, Nico has less than two days. The fish-centaurs said we have to rescue him. He’s essential to the quest somehow.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Had I been paying attention, I might have somehow got away before Willow was—as always—successful. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roza was the sort of color that older ladies first called “dark” and then later called “olive,” as if being green was somehow nicer. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And once again, I could have stopped it…somehow. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Each tine struck a different Sixer avatar in the chest while somehow arcing harmlessly around everyone else. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But somehow, more than four weeks had passed and she had yet to do more than check in with Lenore Cole, who was Willow's social worker. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As bad as it looked, there in the Albemarle, I still think we could have patched it up somehow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I realized with amazement that somehow Dr. Chase must’ve gotten hold of celestial bronze to fashion his bullets. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Until I had to ask a question that somehow hadn’t occurred to me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel, somehow arriving here, where I live now, somehow making herself a part of my life again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I knew that what I was doing was a disqualifiable offense, but somehow I thought she might take mercy on me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself recounting his adventures to her, back at Wall, in front of a blazing parlor fire; but somehow all of his tales seemed a little flat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to the sky again, took a deep breath that somehow shuddered in him, and turned the box upside down over the stem. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow inevitable, as if things had always been this way. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I will get the porridge down somehow, because it’s required. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Could the Khoisan, too, have been originally more widespread until their more northerly populations were somehow eliminated? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom, who seemed somehow more approachable and human than before, began by talking about the most stressful scenario a CO could ever possibly face: being held hostage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he wasn’t bitten at the full moon,” said Ron, who was gazing down into his brother’s face as though he could somehow force him to mend just by staring. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Buttercup’s mother was a gnarled shrimp of a woman, thorny and worrying, who had always dreamed of somehow just once being popular, like the Countess was said to be. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I tell him the truth about the girl, somehow that might even things up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s frightening, but also somehow comforting to know that there’s one thing the Thunderhead can’t fix. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The gene molecule had to somehow look like a gene molecule. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, being back in Flushing somehow makes her feel closer to him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once she almost fell headlong down the steps, but Syrio Forel had taught her balance in another lifetime, when she was the girl called Arya, and somehow she recovered and caught herself in time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I met a dark-haired woman named Janine who somehow loved me despite my schedule and the constant absences. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a jokester. Even when things were hard, he’d somehow find some light in it. And he...” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they felt guilty, like somehow they'd failed him and brought him to this place. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Hiding ten boys in the bushes was not easy, but somehow Fadi and the others hunkered down behind the leafy branches while Ravi stood near the designated meeting spot. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I felt determined to help her somehow, to relieve her anguish and to show her she could rely on me; but, as her youngest child, I doubt my reassurances gave her much confidence. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The air between them felt suddenly charged somehow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His dad would be home soon, and so would those cagey girls who managed somehow to have all the fun and leave him and their mother with all the work. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She pushed until somehow she was in the clear and then she ran up the street. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dimple was excellent at arguing with Mamma, but when it came to confrontations with other people, her backbone somehow became jellylike. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So I decided I’d just have to work the eggs out somehow. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She’s nearsighted, but somehow she’s able to pick out the differences between the fruit vendors and the vegetable vendors, the faces of the various merchants, who has money and who doesn’t. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was no longer smiling, and yet it felt somehow as if he was. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The noise was strange, somehow more painful than receiving the blow, but Celaena thought little of it when he charged again and she met his weapon, parrying with ease. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There are different kinds of lesions, I mean, there are lesions and lesions, but somehow our lesions, in this case, seemed like kid stuff. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey takes a closer look as he walks by, wondering if the contortionist is somehow concealed in the platform, but it is solid wood and open underneath. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It must be that one of them would have saved him somehow. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even at that age, he’d known that if his father had been there, somehow the kite’s failure would have ruined the afternoon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I really wasn’t up to reading this book, but somehow I managed to pick it up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, I feel as if I’ve somehow been initiated into the victors’ circle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had just come out of the confusion of the war somehow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really. The simulations in Erudite headquarters .. . helped me, somehow. To hold on, maybe.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I failed the test somehow. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of each day Tree-ear crept away on tiptoe, as if any noise might disrupt Min’s concentration and somehow ruin the firing. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even their faces looked the same, somehow ... which was passing strange, since one had skin as dark as ebony, while the second was as pale as milk, and the third gleamed like burnished copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t just hate the other kids for being sad, for believing that the sorrow belonged to them, somehow, when you were never theirs to begin with. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Box had the highest testosterone level in the prison, and somehow smelled like it—close, musty, with an acrid whiff of perspiration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not even a wisp of Talent, that’s what they said, and yet somehow she had managed to stumble upon the world’s most perfect peanut butter recipe. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Benton, you have somehow lost sight of your mission as a Christian. I’m sorry, but we will not be sending you anywhere else.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He somehow wound up promising to take her to a play after the competition. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He reached out and grabbed his foe’s shirt, squeezed it in his fist, then growled two words that somehow calmed the storm within him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had never kissed a boy, though I would kiss a few the next school year, and somehow we didn’t label it love. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never seen anything quite so homely—he looks as though he had been squeezed into the wrong coat, somehow.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew about autopsies was what I had seen on reruns of “Quincy,” but somehow it never occurred to me that my information might be inaccurate because it came from a TV show. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They must have been clever and determined and somehow found a way to make money from nothing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at Flora, and the sight of his little whiskered face calmed her somehow. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But around her, the Air was sad, somehow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now you have to take all of the above information and somehow transmit it to the children before you sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, he somehow always managed to sound like he was reading a passage from Dickens. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to hop out of there and get into school, but somehow when we did pull up to the building, I didn’t make any move to get out. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled along, somehow moving one foot ahead of the other, not noticing the ground he walked on or the forest around him or the light in the sky. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to do something, stop him somehow, but I crouched back and watched Azar pick up a tear-gas grenade and pull the pin and stand up and throw. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of a possum—maybe it’s her teeth—but she’s still pretty somehow. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Better?" he asked, half sincere, half hoping there was one more booger left and that it was somehow making a mean face at Jasmine. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It hurt him that the heavy yoke and the two buckets which he had worn so often, to his humiliation, had somehow descended upon her thin shoulders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A royal commission was the dream of all potters, but Tree-ear sensed somehow that it was more than a dream for Min. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Chief said, looking at Obinze as though he was somehow responsible for this generosity. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Not on purpose. Doesn't seem fair somehow. I mean, we would have both been dead, too, if she hadn't eaten the berries first." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even though it is just the two of them, somehow Axel feels this hug too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I shivered and rose quickly from my place of concealment, worried that somehow the path would have disappeared with the rain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I have never understood why, after hearing as much as I did of these kinds of things, I somehow never thought, then, of the black people in Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning for him had always been hard, like catching water in his bare hands, it would all slip through, all be so near and yet somehow not useful to him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd gone on together—only, somehow, she hadn't seemed very real anymore. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

His two dimes and a penny couldn’t carry him far, but somehow he begged and borrowed enough money to open a little bicycle-repair shop on Van Ness Avenue downtown. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow didn’t feel cold or evil; it felt curious and somehow—pleased. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Every inch of his body ached and his muscles were rubber, but somehow he managed to make it on his own, falling to the floor of the cockpit in a heap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It just didn’t seem in character, somehow, for correct, law-abiding Mr. Crouch to be sneaking around somebody else’s office this late at night.... Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Harry felt as though Dumbledore’s speech at the Leaving Feast had unblocked him, somehow. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She thought Albert had somehow miscalculated, and she soon forgot. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She figured they could lose him in the forest somehow. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I noticed that his gestures were becoming tighter than before, that somehow he appeared more calm and ordered, which seemed to me unusual, given how we were drinking. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining her believing that things are different, that Justin has somehow changed. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was shorter than Stanley, but somehow gave the ap-pearance of being tall. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

That somehow it would be ruined if they caught me watching them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He heard himself talking: “If only he had come to me and talked it over before he shot anybody, we could have worked it out somehow.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, you know how you hear stories about people coming out to their parents, and the parents say they already knew somehow? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The idea makes me laugh, and somehow that gets me off worrying myself to death. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach had shrunk and the food made him feel heavy, wrong somehow, and he’d stopped overeating. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew, somehow, that she would make me feel better about it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He and his father had run toward the market and found his mother, but as they ran out of town, his mother had somehow been left behind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I scoop a nice amount of baked beans on there somehow. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There were those eight weeks to be gotten through somehow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugs her shoulders, and seeing that they’re still up by her ears, I think she’s somehow about to raise them past the top of her head. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I somehow made it to my bed and collapsed into a near-coma that lasted until I got too hungry to sleep through lunchtime. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told the German officials that he was an importer in America, hinting that Germany somehow benefited from his work. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was a clear winter night and somehow even the stars looked more welcoming here than from elsewhere on the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up at this bizarre light fixture while standing between two cracked and peeling, yet somehow still majestic, horned carousel stallions, all I can think about is watching the solar system episode in Mom’s lap. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Cain moved so quickly that she could only blink before he was behind her, her knife somehow now in his hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Did my coaches and teammates see me as so different from them, that somehow I didn’t feel pain? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He locked the back door as they left, and somehow he knew that things would never be the same. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mollers managed, somehow, in spite of their worldly goods, to live fairly simply. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed it raw before I left Clown Alley, but somehow I still don’t believe it’s clean. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Paid them off somehow, I hope: cigarettes, whiskey, or maybe they know all about it, her stud farm, maybe if this doesn’t work she’ll try them next. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had his arms wrapped around them both, looking ridiculous but somehow still radiating Teutonic stoicism in his light blue scrubs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I should be able to smuggle a good CD into one of those rooms somehow. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the house in Privet Drive would be so full of letters when they got back that he’d be able to steal one somehow. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was getting to her somehow, wearing her out, wearing her down, gazing upon her with that indulgent smile, ice-chip eyes twinkling—twinkling! Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They somehow say “I love you” and “I’ll do whatever for you” all at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Or that the government should have somehow foreseen the freak hurricane in the West Country that had caused so much damage to both people and property? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This, Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted in with the general ideology of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And somehow, I have an ominous feeling that his endgame involves much more than just messing up some Warcross tournaments. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His chain-shirt was somehow hitched up so that it was horribly tight under the arms and came half way over his face. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Director will be with them all day, smiling, glad-handing, and pretending life in the camp is somehow enviable, exceeding humanitarian requirements. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She put her arms around him, and he smelled her perfume, a warm and somehow exciting scent of carnations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed that Croy stood well back, poised to jump if the saw somehow slipped from her hands. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And yet somehow—even with everything lined up to help her—she’d failed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her friend had landed the biggest prize of her religion, an anointed one, but somehow she felt as if she was ruining someone’s life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And even if he could somehow damage the Klan in Atlanta, the hundreds of other chapters around the country would go untouched. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But now at least I knew one thing: Chapter Eleven was involved in it somehow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of Wab that day back at the Four Winds: distorted somehow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The thought was somehow exhausting and beautiful at the same time. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And yet this was somehow far more fun. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then: “But what if you were a woman, and somehow you felt exactly as you do now?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I somehow couldn’t smile, even though I wanted to. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then she wiped herself roughly between the legs over and over, as though she might somehow stop the bleeding that way. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The best anyone thought Smith could hope for was for Seabiscuit to somehow stay reasonably close to War Admiral in the early stages of the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night sky out here in Kansas is somehow plenty bright to read, and as always, a kind of pain blooms in my chest, part homesick and part grief. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed that in their bitterness towards those unfortunate little ones, they were somehow exorcizing their own fearful background. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If American and British engineers could build an underground tunnel long enough and somehow reach the cables from below, then the Soviets would have no idea that the United States was listening in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that the letter was somehow involved in British spying, they turned it over to another Patriot. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Reilly would confess to writing the letter, if somehow he could come out of this all right, he would change. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph dug through his old papers, sneezing as he explored one box after another; somehow they’d grown dusty in the move. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In arguing that Indians died at anomalously high rates from European diseases, are researchers claiming that they were somehow uniquely vulnerable? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was Mapper’s turn to concede the point, but he did so as if he’d somehow won the whole argument. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At 150, the Hutterites believe, something happens — something indefinable but very real — that somehow changes the nature of community overnight. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me Ellidyr wasn’t to blame somehow. He’s a troublemaker, I can see it. I can’t imagine what Gwydion was thinking of when he brought him along.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes flashed open again, somehow brighter than before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And with all the hurt I felt for her, I also struggled with the idea that maybe...couldn’t be...but maybe me and Lovey somehow shared that day, in different ways. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their lightheartedness made us all feel safer somehow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her inability to grasp what I had done or was trying to do somehow gratified me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d poured myself into planning this day, the elegance of the entire affair had somehow mattered to me, but I understood now that what really mattered, what I’d remember forever, was the grip. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She was itching to read it, and she really needed a distraction, but somehow, she couldn’t even stomach fun right now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Someday, somehow, George would have to tell Mom that she was a girl. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We wash Abuela’s hair and rinse it with conditioner, then we pat her dry with towels as if this could somehow heal her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched Sohrab through the doorway, he seemed younger somehow, swimming in his pajama pants with his shirt tucked in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

With the tightness surrounding her, she feels safe, secure somehow. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are the odds that the first boy, so deftly primed for success, will somehow fail? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His controllers in England even “arrested” him—but of course he always somehow managed to escape. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas didn’t say anything to that, hoping that somehow he could go through the entire day without talking about Ben and the Banishment. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She tried his phone again and again, hoping he had somehow found a way to charge it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he should have crushed some leaves of oleander, or chopped up nightshade root, and somehow found a way to sneak the poison into Trademaster’s food. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know the rest, wanted the story of Miigwans’ escape, because I thought just by knowing about it, somehow, it would make our escape seem all the more plausible. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We were dancing in her basement with a bunch of our girlfriends and somehow the CD got ruined. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I just felt sure the right opportunity would somehow come. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gives me an awkward smile, as if she somehow knows this is torture for me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I rest my hand on her shoulder knowing I should be grateful I’m still alive, but somehow I’m not. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They both managed somehow to keep the giggles buttoned in until they got out of the sacred place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A recurrent theme was of “hard-boiled, but not incorrigible inmates who somehow came around under the compassionate, but firm hand of the warden.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hear and see everything, and that first afternoon he somehow managed to talk the girl Egyptians into doing all their ceremonies and rituals over for him to watch. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed her tired body, propelled it somehow through the water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The trees were huge and dark, somehow threatening. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shedding its shell is a long and painful business for a big Jimmy, but for a she-crab, turning into a sook, it seemed somehow worse. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pondering whether or not they could sneak in somehow, when a woman in a blue-and-green Georgia Aquarium shirt came up to them, smiling brightly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

What I feel in my belly is different somehow—the hunger of someone who's suddenly remembered what fullness feels like. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I missed you, he kept saying, God, I missed you, and he kissed me again, so deeply, and my head was spinning, and he tasted, somehow, like pure heat. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s because Shad told me so much about him—I don’t know—somehow the man that interests me most is Tom Paine.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The beaver dam upstream,” said Nala, somehow keeping her cool the way she always did. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I think Grandma Caye somehow knew that it would be her last Christmas at home in Belize with my grandpa. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was my debut as a junior elite gymnast, and somehow I’d managed to win gold right out the gate! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I told my parents I was fine because somehow I knew they needed the lie even more than I did. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lyra will somehow, sometime soon, be tempted, as Eve was—that’s what they say. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What worried her most was not so much putting the powder into Dragon’s bowl, but the fear that at the last minute she might lose her nerve and bungle it somehow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were three stars, but he was gone, and it was as though everything was somehow the same for the rest of them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Leo goes next—as usual, his bad thing is somehow also a good thing—and then Ellen’s up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once, a desperado put a gun to Emmett’s head; somehow, he managed to wrestle the weapon free. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He somehow managed to talk someone into letting him in, and he showed up at their apartment door. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The words sounded odd, somehow wrong, but Koffi didn’t have time to dwell on them as Mama tore off across the Night Zoo’s lawns, pulling her in tow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But when I tried to take a sip, I couldn’t swallow it, as if the water had somehow become too thick. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even not knowing any of what she’d been thinking, going through, somehow Two Step understood. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He helps me up and holds my hand, and the room keeps lurching, but I end up in a chair somehow. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The meal was delicious, somehow better for being cooked on the old stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow I kept moving toward the star which shone in the east. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her need to keep hoping things would get better somehow. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Might she innocently expose them somehow, to the young woman’s parents perhaps? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And some states deny representation to impoverished defendants on the theory that somehow they should be able to pay for a lawyer, even though they are scarcely able to pay for food or rent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These realities suggest—if the past two decades of endless war somehow did not—that the drug war is doomed to fail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At times he wishes he could disguise it, shorten it somehow, the way the other Indian boy in his school, Jayadev, had gotten people to call him Jay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow or another, as the season went on, I became a freshman starter on a varsity basketball team. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said it like he was somehow the authority and I was the one trying to crash the party. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled Amari to a small room that held nothing but a box made of wood and a sleeping area that seemed to be elevated off the floor somehow. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came because I was forced, and believing my son lived here. Now he has gone none knows where. I must return to my youngest son, he will somehow support us.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air seemed hot and somehow breathless with the scent of ambergris and sandalwood. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The business of the witch doctor had somehow seemed unwholesome. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach was still growling when I took my first bite of the enchilada dinner, but somehow it didn’t taste nearly as delicious as I remembered. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to open it, but somehow, she didn’t scare me as much as she used to. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had imagined, as others had before her and would after, that it was somehow a matter of will. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was easily the nicest thing Anya had ever worn, and she was afraid of ruining something somehow. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because somehow, someway, they had the same face, changed by time and age, but the same still. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She’d shrugged her shoulders and said, Sometimes things just happen, and expected somehow that this would be enough. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Because if I don’t make him, he’ll never go back,” said Mama, “where you, Francie, will fight and manage to get back somehow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just a little thing, but somehow I managed to get myself up onto that counter, where Miss Doris found me trying to pry open the cookie jar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one knew what was happening, but somehow everyone now knew it was something bad. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, somehow they’ve adapted to the strange American custom of arriving when asked.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But my worry was that it would show somehow, in a kind of lack of intimacy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Miss Preston's, the building gives off the feeling that important learning is happening somewhere, somehow, someway. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He’d made a copy weeks earlier, in case he lost the original, and it had somehow gotten away from him between the copy store and Powell’s. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘And I have waited for it long enough. But somehow, when it came to it, I found I had so much to do here; and packing is such a bother.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were but eight; yet, somehow, as they flocked in, they gave the impression of a much larger number. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The goblet will still be in his room tomorrow, it must bel Let him hide it ever so well, I will find it somehow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The crazy thing is that, somehow, it works. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Marcus called in sick, like he could somehow smell how awkward tonight was guaranteed to be. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For some reason I felt ashamed looking at them, and I ended up staring at the coffin instead, which somehow seemed a whole lot easier. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Neville had somehow managed to melt Seamus’s cauldron into a twisted blob, and their potion was seeping across the stone floor, burning holes in people’s shoes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He gulped for air, gasped, and sucked but somehow he could not get enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even if I could find the terra-formers, and they could somehow get us back to the ship, I’ll be too late to help him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was wild, but somehow I could relate to the fish. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He tried to side-step, tried to parry, tried to somehow escape the doom that was now inevitable. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry,” Eleanor said; she bent down, but it did not seem possible to scoop up the fragments of tomato and cheesecake and shove them somehow back into the broken bag. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As if goblins somehow had to try to impress an elf. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He fought them all off, somehow keeping at least one hand on the wooden railing as he dodged and slapped and kicked away their attempts to stop his progress. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Now at last I could take my bearings, perceive my future, feel as if I was somehow in touch with a changing and knowable landscape. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone on board is under constant scrutiny by the captain, who is somehow familiar, and somehow not. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It ought to have felt exhilarating, but the girl’s eyes had teared up and her face was drooping, and what satisfaction Mariam found from this outburst felt meager, somehow illicit. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even if Percy somehow managed to trace her steps, the cavern of Mithras had collapsed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But the worlds did split—somehow. I’m a little fuzzy on how that could have happened. Maybe it’s like...I don’t know. Copying a picture on your phone, and editing the two versions differently?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Was Hamlet somehow begging me to leave the court of Denmark? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What if somehow, in their ceremonies and things, they’d managed to stumble on a way to do some stirring up themselves? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say the word, my sweet, and I will send you from this awful place. I will find a ship somehow and send you home. To Naath.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am very sensitive when it comes to my eyesight and somehow she sensed it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My dad started pacing again and suddenly, somehow, I knew that the fight wasn’t the thing that was bothering him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We nodded and hobbled up and somehow collected our things. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had never seen a wolf and the size threw him—not as big as a bear but somehow seeming that large. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents were trying to surprise him, he’d pushed too hard, and he’d somehow gotten into a stupid fight with his dad. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She touched her face, her eyelids, and the trem- bling movement of her eyes somehow reassured her: She was still real. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was up there alone, he was down here alone, and yet somehow they were together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And somehow, for my dad, this rule was especially true for Black boys like me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

All those years of entertaining have prepared them somehow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask if this is their business and they somehow understand and gesture for me to come down and take a look. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I walked into Annemarie’s room balancing my lemonade and an ice water for her, along with a dish of almonds that her father had somehow warmed up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But somehow God allowed me to get through it—alone with him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, when I looked into his eyes, I saw myself the way he saw me: as someone talented and capable, as someone who could do this. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Like I’m somehow going to be able to talk her into reversing the breakup and living happily ever after. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Not held up with a gun. Just...interrupted somehow.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

All right, he had a fine house and good suits, but somehow you just knew. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I somehow didn’t know him, even though his family lived in the same section as I did, just a couple of streets over. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, we fed each other with big spoons; somehow hers always tasted different from my own. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d actually deceived ourselves into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no question now that there’s something really creepy going on here, and that we’re somehow mixed up in it.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cold wind, the mix of ice and rain seemed actively hostile, and somehow familiar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He looked tired, and flabby, and somehow he reminded me of Matt sitting on his barber’s chair waiting for customers. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My sister needs a clean diaper,” said Gregor, somehow feeling embarrassed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her new roommate looked just like the snotty girls who had made high school miserable: pretty, beautifully dressed, somehow at ease with the world, and that first night she had cried herself to sleep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then: “Fredrick. This is a Christmas party. It is to be held on Christmas Day. Are you suggesting that I can somehow change the date of Christmas?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I was professional enough about it, I didn’t make mistakes, but somehow it felt as if I were gearing up to fight somebody else’s war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had shared every step of the journey that somehow brought us to this hospital room. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Except the Gran found out somehow who we truly were, and we could not be sure who that old bat told. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The everyday noises of the lunchroom are somehow muted, and everything around me becomes motionless. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In my dream I have somehow figured out that to catch a cloud means I’ll fly to heaven. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along the line, I feel like somehow I introduced myself. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But she looked the same as she always had, only calmer somehow, asleep in the hay next to Bronwyn, her small, feathered chest rising and falling softly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The apparition jumped over a fence and chased a stick that somehow landed in the middle of Ignatius’ quilt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was in with them somehow because, when Eleanor was sitting next to him, they all left her alone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The citizens of many communities might have organized, or protested, or somehow pushed back, but Clarkston wasn’t a protesting kind of place. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

His stance grew wobblier with each passing second, but somehow he managed to make eye contact with me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he discovered himself recalling an incident of almost a year ago, a casual encounter in Valley View Cemetery, which, in retrospect, had somehow for him more or less ended the Clutter case. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow as he began his prayers he felt better. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow my father did not look as though a miracle had been performed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hope that somehow he made it back home overnight. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The place, the time would either kill him outright or mark him somehow. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed was to somehow implicate Denna in all this. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he ripped open his thumbnail somehow, and after that he left smears of blood wherever he put his hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the other women with food poisoning weren’t so lucky and somehow had to find the energy to compete anyway. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Where monsters crawled out of their dark places and were found dead in northern villages, or were somehow reborn in the soft little bodies of human babies. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, somehow, she sensed that she would soon be leaving us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lie was easy enough, and it somehow made the pain of the headache ease. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And somehow it seemed that the dog helped us be a better family. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dad says Jack Croft doesn’t know what to do with the boy and probably wishes he had me for a son, but somehow I doubt that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no way in which atoms and molecules could somehow spontaneously fall together to create organisms of such awesome complexity and subtle functioning as grace every region of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how it goes. It somehow went from you slipping folks candy in the halls to you slipping folks weed in the halls.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a second, I imagine my parents telling me that Dad did get the job, and somehow, we’re able to get our house back. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her body seemed foreign somehow — too stiff in places, too firm where the softness used to be. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even glanced at himself in the mirror—and felt foolish to be concerned for his appearance, as though she would somehow see him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And we were friends now, somehow — as she must have known we would be all along. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He felt his first tickle with me, I thought, somehow pleased within my frustration and sadness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, this almost feels worse than the staring and the whispering. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

To this day, I have always marveled at how Rudy, somehow, got the word, and I know he must have caught the first thing smoking out of Boston, and he got away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, beside war, to achieve the same end. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sense of power connected with such calculations which is hard to explain but which somehow involves a mental encompassing of the world. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master snapped, as if Ugwu were somehow responsible for the tension that had settled in the room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Had she gotten herself in over her head somehow? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is in these moments that I wish for John Kwang to start speaking the other tongue we know; somehow our English can’t touch what I want to say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as soon as she’s done, somehow backhand-springing directly into line, her feet in a perfect “parallel first” position, Garret Charles makes a small notation next to her name on the clipboard. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But somehow I knew he would know only his piece of it, like Hattie Mae would know just her piece of it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrow, and somehow his perfect posture becomes even straighter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tombaugh had no formal training as an astronomer, but he was diligent and he was astute, and after a year’s patient searching he somehow spotted Pluto, a faint point of light in a glittery firmament. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If she somehow does and wants to know what happened, more than anybody she has the right to ask. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m totally scared of it, Jam! Who wouldn’t be? But it seems to like you, and you’re somehow not scared, and that makes me feel like it’s okay, you know?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Legs seemed all right, but his ribs were hurt bad—he could only take short breaths and then he had a jabbing pain—and his right shoulder seemed to be wrenched somehow. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mirror I noticed that the side of my face that had somehow been firmly planted into the wooden floor was solid red and had two creases running horizontally across it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Was he being forced somehow to pretend he was Mr. Curtain? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would see other children on the trolley with books under their arms and suspected that they were like me somehow. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The air smells good—kinda old-fashioned and safe somehow. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I tried several times, but somehow I couldn’t I wasn’t scared of him, for he never whipped me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what I’m seeing right away but it somehow does not immediately connect back to my father. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fears being discovered, having the whole charade somehow unravel, and in nightmares his files are exposed, his original name printed on the front page of the Yale Daily News. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s scowling, slightly brutish face was somehow at odds with his magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The day before we fly, I’m so excited about the trip that I somehow end up at Danny’s house. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow’s last act would be to cut Peeta’s throat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess even though things are kind of getting back to normal, I can’t stop feeling like Gram failed me somehow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He and the cop had somehow become a team; this was the fifth person they’d carried over from West Broadway. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t seem himself? His state of mind was—agitated? He seemed to you somehow . . . different?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Flames far below glared on the underside of the intention craft, still somehow hovering in the air and now turning slowly as if to look around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Still, he somehow manages to open the limo door and shake our hands when we get out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So it would feel to him that he had always known her name, and that she had always known his, that somehow, he and Pearl had known each other always. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Had he somehow escaped, in spite of the quarantine? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair was still curly, curlier than ever, but calmer somehow. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But what happens if that rapid chain of thinking gets interrupted somehow? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Our relationship remained rocky for two or three years after my failed attempt on the Eiger, but the marriage somehow survived that rough patch. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it’s someone I haven’t met yet, someone I somehow missed while I was hiding out in the ornithology stacks and they were tearing through poetry and memorizing lines. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Holding it together somehow, though I don’t know for how much longer.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Colin would hear this a lot, and yet—somehow—he could never hear it enough. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Once ahead by three months, somehow I’ve managed to almost miss my deadline. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And the fact that I’m okay somehow makes me feel much better than okay. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had taught her son the ability to be, even in the middle of a crowd, somehow comfortably inside himself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What if he said something wrong, somehow offended the goddess? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In a scramble in a women’s shoe store, somehow he’d grabbed five shoes, all of them for left feet! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So you run...for her," Sunny said, now understanding how Patty could somehow relate to his story. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But somehow I had ended up in this place called Birmingham, in a room full of machines, with only the green teddy bear at my side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If you were hell-bent on climbing the peak and could somehow come up with the dough, Adventure Consultants was the obvious choice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

What everyone agrees upon, strangely, is that somehow Luke ended up on the front lawn, his leg in a garbage can. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I fingered Mong’s tooth around my neck, and somehow I knew I wouldn’t go south today. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He says somehow the Youns have captured a Khmer Rouge soldier and are holding him there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t meant to turn the conversation to the basketball boys, but somehow here we were. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first Herbie shied away from Stephanie because she was a moody person who seldom spoke, and somehow her silence, her lack of complaints, placed her above the other VISTAs in an almost accusatory fashion. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure the wheel would collapse altogether, but we somehow kept going. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell it was beautiful, straight on target, even though he couldn’t watch its progress, because he was dumped violently to the ground by Carter who had somehow recovered after being demolished. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad glanced at my mom and for one delirious second I thought I was off the hook, that somehow I’d exonerated myself, and that we could all just go back to business as usual. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Even those who knew they were eligible to register worried that registering to vote would somehow attract attention to them—perhaps land them back in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He's biting into his second chili dog now, and somehow he eats that sloppy food like it’s gourmet. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But somehow I did feel better and gave a little laugh. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt relaxed and pleased knowing somehow I’d helped someone—or something. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well...both words have four letters,” Sticky offered, hoping somehow this was a helpful thing to point out. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now he clambered in and took the seat in back with a relaxed attitude—it all felt the same and yet different somehow. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had noticed that much somehow in the instant before I had seen Rufus. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, of course, that Dumbledore was getting on in years, but somehow he never really thought of Dumbledore as an old man. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

After all that had happened, his words should have lost their power to hurt her, yet somehow they had not. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang for lunch, I raced to my locker, but somehow Ben had beaten me there, and somehow he was talking to Lacey Pemberton. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Raymie wondered if they had maybe, somehow, journeyed to a different world, the four of them together. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The priest’s feet hardly touched the ground; he pointed his toes in an effort to support himself somehow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If we happened to somehow distinguish ourselves, we quickly snapped back into place, like rubber bands. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But somehow their differences don’t matter when they can unite in their shared hatred of Stu Papadopolis and his gang of evil trolls. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were hoping that the hyena would attack me and that somehow I would get rid of it and make the boat safe for them, no matter if it cost me my life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim’s notion that they were somehow bound together through me—until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, I felt that I had somehow committed a sin of betrayal by learning English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness was somehow denser than normal darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Doon thought they might fit across the boat somehow to make railings to brace yourself against, but he couldn’t get them to work in this way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, and somehow that broke the tension. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We assume that they must somehow relish what they do. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow this had always lightened its effect on him—even, on occasion, cheered him right up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The riverbank wasn’t more than twenty yards away, and once I was there, I could somehow get a boat and make it to my own mother. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t yell at me for “effing” neither, which makes it all somehow worse. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He slides the file across to me, as if my looking at it is somehow going to help. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow I start telling them about Martin and the emails and how he actually freaking blackmailed me, and it’s actually kind of a hilarious story, now that I think about it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what it meant, but somehow she liked the sound of it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

OK, it’s true that 3-D glasses are stupid, and Abuela would say I am destined for pink eye, but somehow it became fun to look like idiots together. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Until that instant when I saw my father beaten and bloody, I had somehow felt I was safe. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had always risen to protect Boobie and somehow make life right for him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith somehow got her pulled into a van and taken back to the barn, where she lay helpless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that night a haystack somehow caught on fire. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we have to unlock, unchain, and incapacitate six prisoners, take their places, and somehow get the wagon sealed tight again without the guards or the other prisoners being the wiser?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His legs weakened, but somehow he remained on his two feet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

But somehow, by that second summer, things were different. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d always thought of dragons as being ancient somehow, but a child dragon made sense. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Or how she thinks I’m going to embarrass myself somehow. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But Louisiana felt different from Edgar—she was somehow both heavier and lighter. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Frodo had not spoken much to him of his errand, and Sam only knew vaguely that the Ring had somehow to be put into the fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It is generally believed that aids came originally from African primates, from monkeys and apes, and that it somehow jumped out of these animals into the human race. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, somehow, it was amazing how conversations like these made her feel so other. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, it seems as if my unspoken message has somehow gotten through, because she comes and sits down near us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would never know if he followed her into the bathroom or if he had somehow not noticed her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because somehow you knew how to find me today . . . ?” I prompted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was glassy-eyed and barely able to say a word, his thoughts still fixed on what had happened on the field, on what had gone wrong and whether it was somehow his fault. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the idea of Andy, but somehow they gave me indigestion. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devine, obsessed by those repugnant crosses, could not stomach the thought that one of them, somewhere, somehow, might survive, mocking him into eternity. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that somehow they expected me to perform even those tasks for which nothing in my experience—except perhaps my imagination—had prepared me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It calmed my mother’s anxieties and somehow even my own. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m willing to help, but I feel like the circumstances have changed somehow. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten that reservations were meant to be death camps. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though every cell in my brain says do not, somehow I cannot resist telling Mother. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By the time the information lady calls out our number, “Ninety-three,” Apa has somehow managed to find an old Korea Times newspaper and is so busy reading that he does not hear her. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I felt that somehow they expected me to perform even those tasks for which nothing in my experience—except perhaps my imagination—had prepared me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were a couple of old cripples together,” Red said, “all washed up. But somehow we both had a pretty good idea that we’d be back.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d accused me of lying, but somehow, I still got the feeling that he wanted to be my friend. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt as if the sounds were inside me somehow. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost starved to death but somehow kept picking fights with me. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

But she can still be involved somehow from her handy smartphone. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But somehow, it didn’t make enough sense to give me any comfort. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kohl’s expression shot to higher horror, as if this error somehow sealed the deal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Stop teasing me,” she said, but the red string did look nice, and her wrist somehow felt less bare. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There would be trouble enough in the house now that Alice had her memory back, and somehow, it had become my job to ease troubles—first Rufus’s, now Alice’s—as best I could. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he had them heaped on the sand in a pyramid—he had never felt so rich somehow—he suddenly realized that he did not know how to eat them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt wrong somehow, being pleased by a gift from a virtual stranger. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I try to think of good things, but somehow negative thoughts creep in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I sat under the dome light of the airplane, worried that I’d somehow blown it with those fourteen stupid words. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I felt a kind of sorrow for them: a commonplace whose strangeness remained somehow hidden from my incurious fellows. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lashed onto the bottoms of their boots, the things somehow allowed them to walk on top of the snow without breaking through the crust and sinking down to their thighs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I told her, well, all right, come on then, I’d make it somehow. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep drawing your own spirit. It might not kill you,” he said, because spirit wasn’t like blood, and somehow people went on living without it, if you could call it living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’d keep my head down, my thoughts lost to whatever song was on, me somehow both in a high school in Miles City and also in some other world entirely. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Real life somehow feels different than it did a few moments ago. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was an easygoing girl, “everybody’s sweetheart”—rather too much everybody’s, for she was partial to men, though somehow she hadn’t much luck with them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s me, all right, but the girl looking back is different somehow. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At first the general opinion was that I was merely an unlucky bystander, or that I had somehow pried the wheel off the church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She tore small pieces from the loaf and chewed them delicately, somehow making the whole process look genteel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The pigeon cote was noisy, the rat cages were correctly smelly, but all were somehow wrong. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had startled Chess, and somehow, even though he was only four, he’d understood that the laugh wasn’t a happy one. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had to be that they had somehow found out. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was managing somehow to polish her fingernails, smoke a cigarette, and drink a Diet Coke all at the same time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For one horrible instant I thought that Francis was going to laugh aloud but somehow he managed to turn it into a theatrical battery of coughs, hiding his face behind his hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

McMillan spoke to Governor David B. Hill, who asked the state legislature to consider whether electricity might somehow replace hanging. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a warm breeze, like in subway tunnels, only it felt older, more dangerous somehow. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And after, when he’d gone home, Johnnie Mae made tea for him and offered it as he sat wearily in the faded, overstuffed chair they had somehow inherited from his married sister. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked out with my foot, mulelike, and somehow I pulled away. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Because Bailey did somehow look like a genius or at least a caricature of the mad scientists in old movies. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet Mariam saw that, oddly enough, the whole of these unmemorable parts made for a face that was not pretty but, somehow, not unpleasant to look at either. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had somehow turned into one big happy camping trip. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow Tick’s sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It made him wonder if some of the muck from the ocean floor had gotten inside his china head and damaged him somehow. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I somehow make it through the first month. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And if only she knew: the whole student body, led by James Madison, who can’t even tell the difference between a firecracker and a stink bomb but has somehow deduced that I’m broken. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had to leave South Africa somehow, somehow I had to get to America, the Promised Land, where I hoped to find the freedom to use whatever talents I had. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I somehow changed from being the daughter to being the helper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The feel of neglect is somehow truer to the spirit of Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have to be a short note, no names, but somehow she’d have to know who it was from. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your veins feel tighter or your pulse gets thicker somehow? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But somehow, she managed to convince the recruiter that she’d be able to work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Wondering if he could somehow see what I had done. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was desperate for any information that would rule her out as somebody somehow involved in the attack. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He studies my face, and I feel self-conscious, wondering if they’ve noticed I’ve only had two bites of meat and a quarter of a potato, and worrying I’ll somehow get in trouble. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He somehow manages to flash a cool smile, even in his most emasculated state. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His fingers clawed the bedclothes and he sucked in his breath, but somehow he managed not to scream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I started thinking maybe some sort of miracle had taken place and she’d somehow gotten cured. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t say much, not then or the next morning when Toby woke up and Luke had somehow cobbled together enough money for some frozen waffles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d somehow, inadvertently, done something that’d given the population at this school permission to put me in a different kind of box, and I didn’t know how to deal with it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I took a glass of milk but noticed that, somehow, Ashley had become awfully pretty. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At which point I experience a moment when I think my friendship with Safer is somehow meant to be. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But there in the lofty environment of the laboratory, a place that had selected them for their intellectual talents, the sign seemed especially ridiculous and somehow more offensive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Arthur somehow finds the strength to turn away, and I feel emptier with each rapid footstep he takes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I can’t see him, but somehow I still feel his eyes on me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cold water somehow suspended his whole existence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It must mean that he was safe, and they were still connected somehow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I felt like, somehow, we all were winning. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Like, somehow, in the midst of all of her anger, El might have revealed every little one of my secrets and insecurities. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That somehow he had been brought back to life and I would see him on this night of celebration. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difH- cult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

"I know how you feel. When Mo died, I couldn't believe he was gone forever. I had this idea that—somehow—he could come back. But Ishtar's dead." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

These small offerings of food, of looking out for the kid, somehow made me feel more alone than when the secretaries didn’t remember to include me at all. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I had stopped breathing, but somehow I kept on standing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In this litany, it was somehow very clear that these jobs, they were the exceptions, and that “service” had mostly been of another kind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Thought I might be escorted off the premises for anything less exciting,” Henry says, and his voice is somehow different than Alex remembers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widen, just barely, like I threw her off somehow just by saying her name. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell him there isn’t time? Or stall them somehow? I don’t think that all the monks will even get to say good-bye before Father Cham leaves us.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He somehow learnt of my being here and started writing to me, suggesting we renew our acquaintance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know all of what went down, but I know it’s somehow about race. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We have to make money somehow, brother,” he said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should’ve shut my big mouth and not said anything about the pageant, but Ellen signing up somehow felt like scoring points for the other team. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The scythe glared at him again, but this time it was somehow different. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Schmid recalled later that “for a second, I didn’t know what to do. Then I stopped Spassky’s clock, breaking the rules. But somehow I had to get that incredible situation under control.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos and Bijan and Jacobi had somehow become my friends, too, which was comforting. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The colt plunged through the rail, somehow got his hooves back under him again, and fled for the barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had happened the same way in the river: the moon had appeared and the rush of water had subsided; the world had been somehow soothed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You are some child’s toy, am I right? And you have been separated, somehow, from the child who loves you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The first one, which is embarrassingly obvious, is that ESP runs afoul of the fundamental common- sense principle that the normal senses must somehow be involved for communication to take place. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened in silence, not seeming at all surprised that his father somehow had learned of his secret visits to the library. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I used to think that we visited my mom’s grave because she was somehow there—like we were really going to spend time with her ghost or something like that. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even pray for my sisters, because somehow, I knew we were all going to be all right. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

According to them the scientific method is somehow natural, like walking, not artificial, like a watch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She’s the same height as me, but somehow, the jut of her chin makes her look taller than she is. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And somehow even this was part of the search—the physical beauty of the black body was all our beauty, historical and cultural, incarnate. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The boy drew me to him somehow when he got himself into more trouble than he could handle. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She put on an iridescent dress with nubbly flecks in the material, which somehow matched her silvery heels. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's been working for him for five years, and he always jokes that she somehow makes people want to wash even their clean clothes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At which point, Herbie Goldfarb, on whom all the cop cars outside somehow hadn’t registered, tripped gaily through a pebble barrage and into the store to buy a candy bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about time they leave, but somehow their departure made Anya sad. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that Mr. Poe must somehow have misspoken. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tally noted a bag of flour, and a few pieces of dried fruit somehow made her empty stomach growl. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed that when they won, somehow I won, too. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She’d been preparing for Redemption to be the monster’s target, as much as anyone could prepare for something like that, but hearing that it was Moss somehow made it worse. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He knew that somehow the humans had taken it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As they huddled around Gaines, there wasn’t one who didn’t think that Permian, somehow, some way, would win. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on a creepy night like this, the park’s darkness seemed welcoming somehow, its shushing leaves beckoning her from across the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This Ptolemaic Egypt is an exquisite corpse, a dead polity that is somehow still ambulatory, only waiting for a stake to be put through its heart by the legions of Augustus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The waiter, somehow intuiting the pause in Celia’s story, melted back into view. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On this score Burnham had no plan other than somehow to surpass Eiffel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He heard Alec yelling his name, but somehow he ignored it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Our current politics tell you that should you fall victim to such an assault and lose your body, it somehow must be your fault. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Reading that it was only 98 in the shade somehow made us all feel a bit cooler. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The words on the screen were small, confined to a tiny text box in the corner of the browser, but somehow they seemed to swallow the room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But let’s suppose that somehow Afghanistan gets its act together,” Omar said, crossing his arms on his protruding belly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The marketplace bustled in the background, but it seemed to be distant somehow, as if Hazel and this man were the only true things in the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He would look down at her and smile, and then they’d make out all night, and everything would somehow make sense. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Twice, when that happened, I caught a look on his face that made me sure he could somehow hear it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

With her tilted chin and dark eyebrows she seemed sharper, somehow, as if she was more in focus than other people round her, or more real. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

People awoke in the mornings to find their eyebrows caked with mud, and somehow brown crud deposits turned up on toothbrushes and in refrigerator ice cubes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He understood Juno’s plan: Unite the Roman and Greek demigods to create an elite team of heroes, then somehow convince the gods to fight alongside them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I patted him on the shoulder, and he did the same to me, and it seemed like we were cool, but I knew I still had to make it up to him somehow. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside lay what appeared to be a wax sculpture of Travis in a cheap blue suit—plastic and unreal somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“The thing is, I spend most of my time in the Underworld. So unless I met you there somehow—” Dakota belched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some dreadful thing which had lain embedded in the future had somehow been skipped over and had not happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His bones rattled in his body and his ears pulsed as if his heart had somehow jumped into them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

No pawing, no heavy breathing, none of that; it would have been out of place, somehow, for him as well as for me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the car tilt under Omar’s weight as he somehow managed to slide in behind the wheel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He would have drowned, but somehow Barry had grabbed hold of the tree. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to plunge in after her but dreaded the water, somehow. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was so amazed by all that was happening that I do not recall being handed a pencil and paper, but somehow I found them in my hands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The idea that Thirteen has somehow rebounded and the Capitol is ignoring it? That sounds like the kind of rumor desperate people cling to.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed an extraordinary coincidence now, but somehow hadn’t then. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grinned back, his eyes somehow managing to smolder, even in the dark. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He gave his whole soul to love; he allowed himself to believe that his feelings for Hatsue had been somehow preordained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were both late to our next period, but somehow it didn’t matter. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It would be in the same room as Mama, but somehow being a few feet above her seemed like such a huge thing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But this was entirely different from any of those and seemed, somehow, attractive, wholesome, propitious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are now picturing this trio and considering us together, I want you to know that while I don't in any way resemble my parents, somehow we just naturally look like a family. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to downshift, and the car made this horrible grinding sound, but somehow I recovered and before long we were coasting into the drive-thru lane. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Did I somehow miss the moment when that became an expectation? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe—somehow—she would feel that he was in trouble now. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He noticed that even though the pants were now the color of old snow, somehow, the crease held its line. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She could see the grandmother-shaped impression on her own soul, but when she tried to get a sense of where her grandmother was now, it was blurred somehow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Wes says, and then he glances at me nervously, which makes me wonder if Wes somehow found out that Russ’s parents were murdered. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a wonderful gift, Dad. Thanks a lot,” Ben said looking at his father, feeling somehow transfigured and invulnerable as he zipped up the jacket that was much too large for him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow — nobody. understood why — Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He shifted Nick's rapier, which he had somehow retained through our ducking in the river, and strode off. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It kept the initiative in his hands, somehow, and he cared about that. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When they met again two days later it was Gatsby who was breathless, who was somehow betrayed. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And somehow we have to get the children who live in this war zone to feel that life is worthwhile. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fished a small lace-edged handkerchief out of her bag and this she somehow managed to wrap around the end of my tail. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted very much to go back, yet somehow he could not bear the thought of leaving. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was still the gray-green light of a cloudy day in the forest, but it was clearer somehow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Had part of the dread always been because she knew, somehow, that she was the reason Kaede left? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You think he is mistaken? Or that I have somehow hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gone, because Baachan’s hands were somehow more powerful than her own. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sticky followed and hovered over him, wanting to help somehow, not knowing what to do. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera folded down into a valise the size of a briefcase and somehow this made it even more disappointing to her parents: all that money packed away into such a small space. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He somehow makes a fragile peace, somehow convinces the gentlemen to wait just a little longer for an east wind. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some in town, most of them black, worried about what might happen to him if it somehow didn’t work out, what the incredible effect of that absence might be. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll get the money for rent somehow, I’ll catch up in my classes and I’m even going to make time to go with everyone on a college tour with Ms. Gruwell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All of us wanted to believe the bravery of our soldiers could somehow defeat the mighty German military with all its planes and tanks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But somehow Ralph always restarted the ambulance, and eventually we hooked up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known once, but somehow he had forgotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I should know better by now, but somehow I still expect to see myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The movie is still going well, but Maddie being the lead has only led to even more distance between us somehow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I climb onto the railing of a connecting platform and somehow scrape my way up to the top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But somehow it doesn’t sound too merry to me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The metal was warm beneath her fingers—comforting, somehow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But somehow, I’m not quite “normal” in suburban Massachusetts. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I felt queasy, like somehow it was all my fault. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure why, but somehow she was entirely certain that Fate had brought it to her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When he was two days old he caught pneumonia, they gave him up for dead, somehow he recovered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like tufts of clouds that have somehow become stranded on earth. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He jiggles his marker in his fingers and mumbles words that rhyme with “middle,” and somehow that leads him to bring his pen down on Vienna. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His father had somehow managed to obtain a gift for his second son, a little horse named Forest Dawn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take time for her to work it out, but somehow, even in those first moments of learning of the Soviet accomplishment, she believed that this was her fight too. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It felt like in those two or three days I had changed, or at least part of me had changed, somehow. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But the woman, his wife, somehow crept back into my thoughts. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window and wondered why Jeffrey thought I, of all people, was somehow qualified to keep him brave. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see how this goes down—as if somehow being here will keep it from happening. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought he would somehow find a niche. It made absolutely no sense to me when he left that.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

According to historian Joel Williamson, the idea that a particularly cruel racism was somehow unique to poor white farmers and laborers was an upper-class myth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged, as if it could somehow diminish the grief he still saw in her eyes, shining so bright in the firelight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

These four pictures seemed oldest, and somehow more urgent. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Not wishing to make things worse, Curly didn’t mention that his pistol had somehow ended up submerged in a portable toilet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, somehow, sometime during those weeks, without even realizing it, I'd started thinking there was more to the madness than just everyone was going to die. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’s not dead, but her body doesn’t know it, because I think it’s already beginning to decompose—and although she still looks at me, our gazes somehow don’t connect. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Above him a sign, roped in rambler roses, read: But somehow, our float cut in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow he managed to stop wanting to kill his son’s murderers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if, somehow, it’s been Ziggy’s safe space all this time, too? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rivera didn’t say anything to that, and I wondered whether she believed my mom or whether knowing that I’d been grounded had somehow ruined her image of me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But I feel like somehow I should assert my right to do so. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I tried, thinking vainly of many names, but none seemed to fit, and yet it was as though I was somehow a part of all of them, had become submerged within them and lost. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, despite her exhaustion, somehow she still always found a smile for me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The gun clattered to the ground, and I heard Liam take two running steps in my direction, but somehow I was faster. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He thought that Hooper probably hadn’t swallowed much water, but he couldn’t be sure, and if he had, it ought to be got out of him, somehow. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The morning light seeps in, and I am somehow awake. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I know that I will somehow have to find my mother on my own. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And I have a sudden fear that somehow, some way, what he said in the dream will come true. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As if a beautiful name could somehow cloak this grotesquerie. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If only he could somehow approach Melisandre unseen . . . he needed but an instant's access to her cup. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I finished the meal somehow, though my mind wasn’t on it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And on his belt, somehow still there, the hatchet his mother had given him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get you the money somehow, by and by,” I promise. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, it changed into counting all the new people on my talking list. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The possibilities of chess somehow made his essential loneliness and insecurity less painful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he has no face, somehow I know that Ambrose is smiling. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I agreed with him that he couldn’t have done anything else, but I told him I wished he could somehow get around to talking about it with his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and—it somehow gladdened my heart to see it—the Law List. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

One pilot knows something important and somehow doesn’t tell the other pilot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Wrestling wildly with the stout bars and bolts, he managed somehow to open the small iron door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He only agreed to pay if I did something that would benefit LID, Inc., somehow. Philosophy, no matter how I stretch it, doesn’t fit the bill.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He was walking up a cobbled street of little two-story houses with battered doorways which gave straight on the pavement and which were somehow curiously suggestive of rat holes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You think you’re coasting, that somehow being in here has become normal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But there was no cover, so I hit the grass and threw my arms over my head as if somehow that would keep it attached to my body. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It’s all a muddle, but I somehow feel that if I went back to the root of our troubles, my actions would be at the heart of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I can feel it like a bass line, somehow steady and urgent at once. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Show me the runway!” the pilot cried out, hoping desperately that he was close enough to Kennedy to somehow glide his crippled plane to a safe landing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I feel oddly calm, though, tears and panic and pain somehow smoothed over. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are beyond her strength, but somehow she makes them come forth. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Over the thunder of hovercars and crackle of burning buildings and sounds of battle, the Special somehow heard her soft exhalation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The other people in the corridor—three children, two adults—were somehow too insubstantial to touch the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We all make it into the cafeteria, which is somehow quieter than the library, maybe because of the teachers patrolling the edges of the room. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His uncle’s cheeks were sunken and his whole face was cast in a gray that somehow looked even and flat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance out the window at the street dusted with snow and Mr. Sorenson’s dark green truck that I somehow hadn’t noticed earlier parked in front of the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered if he worried about Gabe now, about the frailty of the little boat he was striving to build and the dangers he would face if somehow he launched it into the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And Hazel—somehow she had come back from the Underworld. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But somehow that doesn’t seem to matter as much to my zombie-brain as grabbing that water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But somehow in all this talking, we ignored the major thing. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only way I was going to get through all the mess I’d caused, make it right somehow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Statistical mechanics tells you how the molecules of matter wiggle; the wave theory of light implied that these molecular wiggles somehow cause ripples of radiation—light waves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her bringing the chips and cookies is supposed to help somehow. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if she and her aunt shared a particular bond at those times, as if the magic was still, somehow, alive. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sorry that Bone Gap seemed to be cursed somehow, big losses salted with tiny tragedies almost too insulting to bear. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Despite the fog and violent waves rocking their rubber boat, they somehow managed to row their way to the shore. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo glances up, like he might somehow figure out how to make it stop. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

How could Stannis cross to the north bank* Belatedly he realized that the deck was turning, and somehow he had gotten spun about, so castle and battle had changed sides. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The words were on his tongue, but somehow never passed his lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I kept it all in somehow, and congratulated myself that the Bible wasn’t the only place where slaves broke free. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, he didn’t have Blink’s address, so there was nowhere to send it, but it had been comforting to write it somehow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘He thinks I need keeping in order. But it seems impossible, somehow, to feel gloomy or depressed in this place. I feel I could sing, if I knew the right song for the occasion.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And yet, somehow, Dimple found herself questioning them—and really, everything—all the time. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bragging about a drink named after her, to somehow justify working at an oyster place instead of following her acting dreams. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed somehow the proper day on which to set out and follow him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The lamplight plays across Jackson’s features, but somehow I don’t think he’s acting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was used to being stared at, too, but somehow this was different. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If I could respond to him, I’d say, Stop sniveling and die somehow already. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Wow. So, Morgan says something blatantly racist, I call her out on it, but somehow we're both equally ridiculous? Just some silly girl drama?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But somehow they made it into the air, flew to the assigned target, dropped their bombs, flew home, and landed safely. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I feel more detached from life and somehow gentler. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved, twisted myself somehow, from my stomach onto my side. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to splat paint all over the canvas and somehow it becomes exactly what he wants. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was still numb from the startling news that I had had another brother, something I remembered as a kid, but had somehow forgotten. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

While Uncle Carlos somehow keeps impossible promises, Daddy keeps it real with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere in every hallway was like that of a surprise party, with no host in evidence but everyone, somehow, as the surprised and delighted guest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"He slew the boar. His entrails were sliding from his belly, yet somehow he slew the boar." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even remembered her barrack number, but somehow they had figured out where she belonged. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

All I could do was hold on and hope that my father would somehow find a way for me to be with him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I had often been painfully beaten, but almost always I had felt that the beatings were somehow right and sensible, that I was in the wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not receive as clear an answer about his future as he had expected, but somehow the issue does not seem as heavy as it had before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne left the kitchen, her head arched proudly, yet somehow her departure had the look of retreat, of irredeemable loss. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was especially troubling for the Nurturers, like Father, who felt they had failed somehow. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor’s voice is sweet and high and effortless, and it’s somehow perfect. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Kekrops leaned away from Hazel as if she somehow offended him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sights amaze me because somehow I never realized how ginormous the world really is. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This was an insane plan and somehow it worked! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could they have somehow spread even farther since I looked in the mirror a few minutes ago? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but somehow he made my butterflies disappear and my tongue shrink. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Everybody asked that, but somehow he expected something more interesting from her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’m still me, but I feel braver somehow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And they talk about you when they think you’re not listening—as if somehow it’s your sense of hearing that’s been affected, not your mind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From up close I can see that Eden's dark eyes have somehow turned black. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And it seemed somehow too small to be important. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t know? Well find him! Double sharp! I haven’t got six legs, nor six eyes neither! Tell Bob there’s five ponies that have to be stabled. He must find room somehow.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After all that had happened Grandma was going to clean the sink, clean up after me, another mess, and it was this moment that somehow made what she had told me take hold. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And even though he knew that in a few seconds he’d be about seventeen steps to freedom, there was no way he could leave without somehow talking to Grandpop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Its foot claw was missing on one side and an eye on the other, which somehow made the thing all the more horrifying. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

John smoked a second cigarette, and then somehow we got enough nerve. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like music, somehow, all those pitches, all that rhythm, weaving in and out. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The monster was about to finish me off, but Grover somehow dug himself out of the junk pile. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure how she was going to manage without them, but she knew she’d figure it out somehow. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he could have done to prevent Ugwu’s death, but his drinking, his excessive drinking, had somehow made him complicit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the time, the ungrammatical and somehow provocative use of “like” instead of “as” created a minor sensation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed hopeful, insistently so, convinced that some part of his vision would someday, somehow, manage to prevail. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Being unable to walk is terrible. And losing my brother is terrible. But we will both have to go on somehow.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

By keeping the secret about myself, I had somehow not committed myself to Fay completely. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, in New York City, this is exactly what occurred. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow my feet carried me forward, all the way to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Could it be that they—the men who were coming—were somehow connected with Nimh? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m an expert at making deals to get what I want—my goat, warm rolls, purple lollipops—this is somehow different. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there were things going on in my head, a fantasy life, that somehow corresponded to the books I read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were up at dawn, but somehow they still seemed to have a great deal to do. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

‘If we were real orcs, we ought to be dashing back to the Tower, not running away. The first enemy we meet will know us. We must get off this road somehow.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I kept wanting to start, somehow, our own newspaper, that would be filled with Nation of Islam news. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor somehow guessed the question I was barely holding back at the tip of my tongue. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was not so much taller, but bigger somehow, foreign. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters, Ellsberg figured, following up rumors that he was somehow linked to the leak. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. It makes me uneasy somehow.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to tell about the deer, but somehow he just couldn’t. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She gently pulled out Hanako’s seedling and placed it so that it stood straight up...and somehow looked happy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps only the basic idea is known: someone has succeeded, somehow, in achieving a certain final result. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, that combined with their kindness/goodness/purity of heart and garnished with my certitude that this glorious triad I somehow finagled my way into is definitely, definitely temporary. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It had called him in some mysterious way, because it wanted to be his, because it had somehow always belonged to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Royal Brougham figured if it could somehow be shifted west, it might land squarely in Seattle and bring the city a lot of much-needed respect. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Annie seemed equally surprised by her action, because she pulled her finger back so quickly, Luke swore he’d hurt her somehow. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The storm of screams that came through the door made me think that the world was somehow coming to an end. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went through every possible clothing combination I own, but somehow none of my dozens of black rock-band T-shirts seemed to match with any of my three identical pairs of Old Navy jeans. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with these girls, somehow, I lacked the nerve. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t crude or anything, the way Grandpa flipped her, but the teasing look on his face somehow reminded me they’d been to New York together without a chaperone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible, but somehow this man was doing a dead- on impression of my middle school bus driver, Mr. Barron. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They're all just make-believe, this dream I was having for a long time, and now I'm awake again and he's still filling the room somehow, even though we're outside. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

But knowing that little piece of her story somehow made the dance and everything leading up to it that much more special. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was afraid things would stay shaky with Max, too—but somehow they didn’t. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to make a potion for them that would somehow get them to help her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And somehow, I told them each the inexpressibly horrible news that our mother and father were dead, and that it was possible they’d been murdered. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow he found it difficult to appreciate the humor of it all from sow- back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In my frenzy, I somehow believed, I don’t know why I believed it, that only a witch doctor could help me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad wipes his eyes and I do too because mine are blurry and somehow I think it’s really important to see right now. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if he had somehow chanced upon them, it’s difficult to imagine him destroying the buildings without boasting of the deed in his diary. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did they plan this somehow, or can they read each other’s minds, like they could obviously read ours? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In my US Government and History class^ Mr. Sandman somehow knew I wasn’t listening to his lecture. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore and Ludo Bagman stood beaming at Harry and Ron from the bank as they swam nearer, but Percy, who looked very white and somehow much younger than usual, came splashing out to meet them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She’d started out just trying to get the old man to talk and then somehow she couldn’t quit. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, I will somehow pull myself away from my best friend and her daughter, and I will have to go and live. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Piper looked up at the clouds and wondered if her mother, Aphrodite, was somehow influencing him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But somehow she knew that wasn't what he meant. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

The sub had dressed all in gray and had gray hair and a gray face and even a gray voice—somehow, Emma decided, that was possible. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was tense during the days I waited for Granny, and when she came I gave up, letting her handle things, answering questions automatically, obeying, knowing that somehow I had to face things alone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This view of things is compatible with the very old notion that a framework for meaning is somehow built into our minds at birth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black people somehow adapted to the blasts—the destroyed homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could almost understand them . . . not quite, not truly, but almost ... as if they were singing in a language he had once known and somehow forgotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even with all of the fear, and with all of the time passing, somehow, a new image floats into his very heavy mind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One other prejudice people have about mathematics is that its study somehow diminishes one’s feeling for nature and the “big” questions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin said: “I’m going to find out. I’m going to go to the Thorn Valley, somehow, someday.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart races, and it somehow tells me I want more and to take my time all at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A single abandoned shoe, which somehow seems creepiest of all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But somehow I’m still standing, feet like lead, knees like concrete. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That somehow, some way, she seemed to have power over this boy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There’s maybe seven buildings total in Farbranch, smaller than Prentisstown and just buildings after all but somehow so different, too, it feels like I’ve wandered right off New World into some whole other place altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

If I did, and they did somehow manage to win the contest, I’d be the one responsible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So then they would email my assignments, and I’d breeze through them, but somehow I wasn’t turning them in the right way. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then word came that an industrious youth named Zack from one of the cabins had somehow gotten to Franklin and rented a minivan and was offering to take anyone to town for $5. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Again I told him I doubted it, but I felt somehow honored to hear the off-kilter theories of this isolated autodidact, because I knew he wouldn’t tell just anyone, especially not COs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds of this, I say calmly, “Why don’t you tell me where this fear comes from. Maybe talking about it will help us .. . somehow.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hope that my first tennis shoes, stolen by thugs, somehow got this far. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We got off on the wrong foot somehow.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And Bill was sure that all three deaths were connected—somehow—to the Osage’s subterranean reservoir of black gold. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But he was strong, and canny with his pennies: somehow he saved up enough for a cow — Our Cow. not six years old, and strong enough to plow. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You know, like they have in big churches. An angel like that is probably quite valuable, but only if it has both its wings. And he has probably somehow lost one of them.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This was my first test, and somehow, I was failing. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like if you fell off a building and landed in a pillow truck, somehow. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had supposed this moment would come one day, but she had always had the irrational hope that somehow her grandfather’s influence would protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we must somehow find a way to help one another. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Holly had somehow smuggled an acorn in here, then one square centimeter of ground would be enough. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I took them off immediately, feeling that somehow they were immodest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But a round trip to the moon would take over a week, and no one was willing to guarantee that a man’s body wouldn’t somehow be damaged by being weightless that long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they talked awhile, they “broke bread”—that was what they called eating—and somehow, just by eating with him, they recognized who Jesus was. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The only thing we can do is cover up the smell somehow, and avoid the area until the thing rots completely. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Old Yeller had scented that sickness in this bull and somehow sensed how fearfully dangerous it was. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Fertile Crescent crops adapted to winter rain could somehow have crossed the Sahara, they would have been difficult to grow in the summer-rain Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing has somehow got to be found and destroyed without delay. Gwydion will plan a new search from Caer Cadarn. It would seem our work has just begun.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the doors slid closed, enveloping them in solitude in that tiny metal chamber, Dimple’s mind somehow kept reverting back to that moment in the antiques store. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I told him I'd pay him back somehow, but for now I just needed the book. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“This is Luke,” Annabeth said, and her voice sounded different somehow. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I'm vulnerable and unarmed, but I've told her the truth, and somehow that gives me a sense of strength I’ve never felt before. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Different, somehow. I’m sitting right here, and it’s just like I’m sitting in my apartment in New York. I don’t know—I feel funny.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He took two long steps, almost lost his balance, but somehow stayed on his feet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway, our little heart-to-heart was at an end and I came away feeling I hadn’t done what I’d set out to do—that I’d somehow let Ruth down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up in concern, but they were somehow unscathed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And now there was something else to contend with, something that to Don’s way of thinking was disappointing but somehow inevitable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like its ancient predecessor, whose red marble halls were now the haunt of bats and spiders, the Meereenese pyramid boasted three-and-thirty levels, that number being somehow sacred to the gods of Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rishi rubbed the back of his neck and somehow shifted subtly forward. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We...we suspected that maybe the RNC had somehow been involved with some of what happened,” his mother says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He thinks he already knew this about Henry, somehow, but it’s still kind of disarming. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He hurries out of the thicket and back into the clearing, hoping that his brother had somehow wandered back there without hearing him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I explained everything to John Henry and Miss Rose and Miss Sarah, they could somehow take the Anansesem power away and I’d be free to go. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the sight makes him feel strange, lightheaded, weightless, and somehow younger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She could not tell, yet somehow it calmed her fears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And also, I don’t know, I thought maybe you would find it really quickly somehow. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Francie and Johnny would get by somehow, but she would take no chances with the boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before that moment it had somehow been sort of easy for me to pretend like nobody else had noticed anything about me, about us. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ishmael had somehow arrived at the war moment little boys are prone to dream about. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he’d been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself, but the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Katie thought that if they did not have this faculty, they would be clearer-minded; see things as they really were, and seeing them loathe them and somehow find a way to make them better. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure of it. But there wasn’t a manhunt. A missing toddler normally would be national news. But they, um, they must have squashed it somehow.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember how, or why, he somehow happened to mention the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin had an uncomfortable feeling that most of what he had said or done was somehow known to the Lord of the City, and much was guessed of what he thought as well. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And even though I was hoping throughout the dinner that my mother would somehow see Rich’s kindness, his sense of humor and boyish charm, I knew he had failed miserably in her eyes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about rushing down-town to see if I could somehow rescue him myself. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He must have wandered up somehow from the stockyards, but many of the Tang people were convinced he was the bull who was one of the four animals who supported the world. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how she would actually pry the money out of him, but she’d figure a way, and somehow make him like it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If I could reach backward somehow to give Father just one gift, it would be the simple human relief of knowing you’ve done wrong, and living through it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything is out of sorts, somehow,” she said to herself, going downstairs. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They felt heavy when I said them, like I was taking a weight off of my tongue, but somehow, it’s as if they’re still lingering there. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I'm terrified of how it's going to happen, but I’m nervous I’ll somehow disappoint myself if I don’t get out there. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It annoys my father no end, but he rationalizes it by saying, “We live in a service economy. We all have to feed it somehow.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Estimo’s implication—that another body might have been substituted for Bobby’s and somehow placed in the grave—tested the credulity of many. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew that if they could just get outside somehow, they stood a fighting chance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But if somehow he gets to the U.S. border, he will call her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next step was to get it in the water somehow, and then get in it themselves. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because the Corcorans were Irish, maybe it was that Mr. Corcoran was born in Boston, but the whole family seemed to feel, somehow, that it had a mysterious affinity with the Kennedys. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked, hoping that she might, somehow, clear up some of the confusion that was building in my mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, he woke up wondering if the stick would somehow catch fire and burn, and he would cease to exist. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it was a subdued agony now, a sore I was somehow able to control and keep within limits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

You are above average in intelligence, but somehow your reasoning is off the beam. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, after that, he didn’t mind hiding so much anymore. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like we were all somehow related. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was different from the fights they’d had before—this was unrestrained somehow, hateful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Every time they launch something down at Cape Canaveral, it’s like...I just want to help out somehow. But I can’t. If I build my own rockets—” I stopped, not certain I was making sense. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How many of the rebels had been people that they knew—that Nehemia had somehow helped and protected? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see as how the farm had really changed, but somehow I didn't feel the same there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say it any particular way, but somehow, there was a shift in the air, like she’d been there for a moment, and all of a sudden I was losing her again. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You somehow always said it when you had to. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, somehow, he was back at school again. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s also a picture of a woman with light skin and hair who somehow looks like Jack, too—his mom. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was horribly embarrassed, feeling that my life had somehow been full of nameless wrong, an unatonable guilt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in her life her brow had ever had to furrow, and Adela gasped when she realized what she had done, horrified that she had somehow damaged it, perhaps permanently. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Shan had the air of a person who was somehow chosen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thorn pulled, and Seven tried to find purchase somehow, but there was just nothing to anchor herself to. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or when Henry Lee flooded him with apocalyptic premonitions if assumption somehow were to pass, he counseled patience and greater trust in the wisdom of Congress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Second was in motion, all curves and violent grace, striking him in the chest so hard he stumbled back into the chair she’d somehow slid out from under the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wish I could disguise myself somehow, but I don't even have a hat I can put on. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He is somehow better, but I am growing worse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This time the bat somehow made it around in time to smash into the invisible ball. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She could have blogged about Kelsey, too, this girl who somehow believed that she was miraculously neutral in how she read books, while other people read emotionally. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She smelled like roses and clean animal fur—a weird but somehow intoxicating smell. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But it pleases me somehow to cut out all these imperfect women, with their forehead wrinkles that show how worried they are, and fix them into my scrapbook. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I saw someone come outside—Garrett Miller, I thought, because I had the feeling that somehow all of this had to do with him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow he knew he was running out of time. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait I’d inherited from Dad; I wasn’t just some foundling, after all. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One does not touch the other: Should an inmate somehow escape from his cell, he’s still trapped inside the building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, I could not bring myself to admit it, it was too ridiculous—and somehow too dangerous. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last possible moment, I somehow manage to hurdle Jason and avoid a full-impact collision. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I stopped midway through building my gunpowder pile to play with, the Black Cats and somehow dropped a match into the pile. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We are in real time—I somehow know this. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would have said the name, but somehow the words caught in his throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hallyne had the complexion of a mushroom, so it was hard to see how he could turn any paler, yet somehow he managed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker, who had somehow gotten up onto her desk, looked at me, then at the cream puff, and then back at me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I imagine I’d been shoving that ice cream dish under her nose for five or six weeks before somehow it began to sink in that she wasn’t like the rest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of space, but somehow it was awkward, and she didn’t want to touch him, nice as he was. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounds somehow detached from him, like it is floating between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge, as he saw it, was to somehow convince North Vietnam to make concessions at the bargaining table. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I thought not, and somehow I thought it better not to ask him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Apatan was even shorter than Fatty Bolger, but somehow he managed to take up more space as he stepped between us to fill a sample cup of his own. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“That is not too poorly done,” he tells me, managing to retain his haughty, regal air somehow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And somehow, without saying “talk to me,” Frank picks up on this clue. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get me wrong, Graham’s a great guy. But they were too alike somehow, too intense together.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A long time afterwards I thought that if I had waited and gone to my uncles, or somehow sneaked across the bridge and warned my grandfather that things would have turned out differently. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master repeated her expression as if he somehow disapproved of it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I was somehow attuned to it all, could feel it physically. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry wiped his eyes and somehow choked out the word “yes.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The circle breaks up, and somehow I am holding Locke’s hands. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And somehow the mountains will never sound right to us; we’ll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time, and the mountains were shaped and seen under those names. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this tiny room, it was about as far away as if he'd sat right next to her on the bed, but the distinction between chair and bed somehow felt safer, less scandalous. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was never able to persuade Call to return to that old empty house with me, and somehow, I was never quite able to go there alone. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rush of excitement builds, and I’m no longer thinking about what it means to have brothers who never talk to you but somehow still know you—I want to know what’s inside the box. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The broad wings went through a final incensed salvo and then quit whipping Bernabe’s aching body, and somehow the hole in the neck, bubbling blood, released a last defiant scrawk. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we do somehow land her, the feelings begin to diminish almost immediately. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Combat Boot Lady wore a too-large Seattle Seahawks jersey and a pair of sweat shorts, which I felt somehow explained everything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

From there he would somehow find the Corporal. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Julia admitted that she would have to make a living somehow. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the dream, screams rend the air and somehow I know that the pain and suffering are my fault, that the dead have fallen by my hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When they tumbled him into the shallows of the Reaper’s Barge, he somehow found the strength to cry out. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him, somehow, as if the suggestion came to him from outside, from someone or something in the room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We just want to get the hell out of this town somehow—together—and Erin’s basketball career might be our best shot. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You consider yourself a rebel. Ignoring the rules because it somehow makes you feel in control. Am I right?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow the monster seemed to know she was there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I made sure to stay well clear of Moonface after that, but somehow I always managed to be assigned to work duty near him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Frank somehow knew this wasn’t a problem for Leo. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even manual typewriters had been banned, for fear that eavesdroppers could somehow decipher what was being typed from the sound of the keys. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gray mist creatures churned all around me, whispering rags of smoke that I somehow knew were the spirits of the dead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning he had believed that it would pass, that he and Shoba would get through it all somehow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And even though they are moving away from the nest, away from the eaglet’s cries, somehow they feel louder, sharper, sadder. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She promised Belky she would try to make it back to Honduras for the big event somehow. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I keep hoping that somehow the Devon-ness of the list will give me the answer but it doesn’t. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps real love was familial, somehow linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I know we can do with a rest, but somehow I don’t altogether like it, Hazel-rah,” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face hot pink, she somehow managed to actually speak. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It is like the world’s slowest roller coaster, but somehow it works, and minutes later we’re at the peak. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And they returned home, together, and they lived on, somehow, ever after. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Non-Catholics had souls too, of course, and somehow could get to heaven. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I look over, I catch her scrunching her eyes tight and shaking her head like that will somehow make this all go away. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sit up, feeling somehow defensive but better rested than I've been in days. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Annabeth said, which I somehow understood was Greek for ‘Go to the crows!’ though I had a feeling it was a worse curse than it sounded. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I start with the background questions and somehow we back our way into talking about Minny’s work. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And now, in a town where he’d sought to get away from it all, he had somehow backed into a showdown. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Feeling was shifting inside me, and being touched while it was happening made it harder to interpret; interrupted its development somehow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And, somehow, he gave the feeling there were a lot of other roles he could play just as well. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to somehow get a new identity. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She looked as I’d never seen her before, ugly somehow, her brows arched. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Harry wondered whether constant disappearances and reappearances had somehow diminished his substance, or whether this frail build was ideal for anyone wishing to vanish. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We found court records revealing that the D.A. and the sheriff, who are county officials, had somehow gotten city charges and fines against Hooks dismissed, even though they had no authority in city courts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The manifesto utterly rejected the notion of trusteeship, the idea that the white government somehow had African interests at heart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to open it, check to see if I had somehow picked up a stray bowling ball, but this wasn’t the time. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I know this sounds crazy, but what if somehow one of them finds out about what I saw? And...that’s not all....” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Bless you, I don’t spend it, it spends itself somehow, and is gone before I know it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took hold of her dress with one hand and bobbed a curtsey, somehow managing to make it look graceful and mocking and playful all at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I always somehow failed to get onto the page what I thought and felt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the brisk air, with a few early songbirds starting up and our eyes getting used to the darkness, I felt a little bit better, like somehow life was going on. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have grown of late, as if Bran's fall and his mother's collapse had somehow made him stronger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It had gone dull somehow, like an old coin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And somehow, suddenly, I couldn’t stop staring at his face. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All the old vulnerabilities, all the old fears of being somehow flawed gathered in her stomach and made her hands tremble. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It comforted me somehow, and I pulled it tighter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Lansing, all the white folks knew all the steps to all the dances somehow, but I never learned them, and so I never got out on the floor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attendant came bursting into my room and told me that Renfield had somehow met with some accident. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“But I suppose he’s got to refine his technique somehow. Good game, Harry.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I clutched Maribel's forearm as if somehow that would protect her in the case of an accident. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her voice carries all the fear and panic eating at my middle, and I squeeze my eyes shut like I can somehow hide from what comes next. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They see someone, and somehow they let the first impression they have about that person’s appearance drown out every other piece of information they manage to gather in that first instant. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He wets the paper with the liquid from the bucket, and somehow the paper stays in place. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He somehow lost or abandoned his surest and quickest means of escape from the city: the one-eyed horse Booth had bought. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer before seventh grade, Monday somehow started to grow a body without me. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They must have learned to act this way; they copied it, somehow. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to his father made Dill feel like he was talking to a sentient brick wall that somehow knew about Jesus. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It seems profane somehow—the world clean, the air warm—when scores of young men lay cold in their coffins, waiting to return to the earth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, somehow, in the thirty minutes of riding the Eye, in his sealed capsule, he had vanished off the face of the earth. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We begin to feel subconsciously that / is somehow more genteel than me, even in cases where me is the right choice—for instance, after a preposition. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle looked suspiciously at him, as if he might somehow help me cheat. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She listened, her ears learning how to work in this new world, and she could hear the sounds of birds chirping and trilling, and this was somehow comforting. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And when the man in black had somehow materialized to spoil his plans, the Prince came close to going insane with rage. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something about Otto, about the fact that I was protecting a bonobo infant and was therefore somehow like her, had changed our chemistry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ben asked, directing his attention away from his parents who were beginning to lose themselves in the spirit of their impromptu and somehow nakedly sensual dance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course it was always hot and steamy, but somehow . Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t all that different from hers and James’s secret code, but somehow using symbols instead of letters made it seem more foreign and intimidating. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I must not ask him, for fear I shall do more harm than good; but I must somehow learn the facts of his journey abroad. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But he survived, somehow, and he even kept his arm, though it still had bullet fragments lodged inside and dangled uselessly. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There were things I was good at in school, such as reading and spelling, but it seemed to me that my speech somehow became more important than anything else. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ekon had known what he was seeing from the moment he’d looked up, but somehow hearing it confirmed aloud made it worse. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As they came into the dining room and Joseph Ryan approached the table in the corner, Mia saw herself somehow already sitting at the table, in a neat navy dress, a cocktail in her hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mason walked over to the counter then, and when he saw Beto, his face seemed to change, to go stiff somehow, and he smiled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my current state, even his glib computer-generated voice was somehow comforting. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thunder again; words that proclaimed themselves true—truer somehow than truth itself. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you wished people dead, they heard you, somehow, and then it happened. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was a part of the image somehow, and she knew that when it was finished, the bond between her and the colorful, towering figure would literally be sealed by spirit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

That meant relying on friends to somehow get the Pentagon Papers to another newspaper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was not frightened by rumors of robberies and assaults, but, somehow, she was reluctant to go for Brigid’s sake. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This the old woman above her somehow divined, and she cried: “Yes, honey. You just let go, honey. Let Him bring you low so He can raise you up.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I almost hold my breath, waiting for her to get to me so that she can somehow enlighten me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But he had always pictured them as somehow adjoining. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one, the universe is created, somehow, ten or twenty billion years ago and expands forever, the galaxies mutually receding until the last one disappears over our cosmic horizon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind that blew in their faces was cold, yet somehow stale. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not just scared that somehow I’ll be next; it’s a quieter fear and more insidious. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Bagman looked somehow like a slightly overblown cartoon figure, standing amid all the pale-faced champions. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s not so much the pain, which she knows, somehow, she will survive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all this, the private detectives somehow failed to secure enough evidence to prosecute any of the suspects, or perhaps the private eyes were bought off. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But somehow I couldn’t infuse my voice with the proper outrage. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They sensed somehow that she lived in the penumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s her bare legs that are somehow shocking to see. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Worried that Ishtar might somehow be listening, I changed the subject. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’ll push you to limits that you don’t think you can reach, and yet somehow you do. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She looks older somehow than she did in June, when we were in the same class. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She breathes in the room like somehow she missed it too, the four walls that hold all of Axel’s most precious things. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel, Bigger, that somehow, somewhere, or sometime or other you’ll have a chance to make up for what you didn’t get here on earth?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I had thought about combat was that I would never die, that our side would win, and that we would all go home somehow satisfied. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he found her they could get her back somehow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Being online sets you apart somehow; you can just log on and leave the world.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think somehow I can protect her this way. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It somehow removed him from everything around him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, the name Sandy stuck, and that’s what everyone knows him by. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was not so much clouding up as thickening, somehow, from every direction at once, the blank blue gone to haze. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world seemed askew somehow; the shadows fell in the wrong places here, or perhaps her eyes simply weren’t accustomed to the angles in the buildings and streets. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now I am not at all sure what made me utter my next statement; all I can say is that it seemed somehow called for in the circumstances in which I found myself. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s night, but the sky is still bright somehow. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My legs—or more specifically, my calves—tingle, and somehow I have lost all of my strength. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

So we spoon out the oatmeal, and we somehow get by. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Teaching and increased fund-raising responsibilities got piled on top of my bulging litigation docket, but somehow things progressed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And others that could be similar, if what Poole hinted at is true: that the one-day limit is only for newcomers, and can be somehow bypassed. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would have another vision, and somehow obtain an answer. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was close with both his son and Princess Nehemia; would appointing her somehow be a risk? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Let’s say the greatest storyteller to ever entertain had infused it with magic somehow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I bent down and leaned forward, pushing my arms out in front of me like I was going to somehow box my way into the race. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I know Simon would want me to challenge this somehow, or at least press for details. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Merrill Bobbs, the man who sold fishing bait by the river, had somehow rolled a huge barrel of drinking water all the way from his house and was struggling to right it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, despite virtually living on the Net, the discovery that he physically could live in almost any city in the country had come as a shock, an awakening akin to joining the Geek Club. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should I have stayed there in the middle of the street, waiting for the boys to come back, somehow gotten them out of their car, and tested them blow for blow? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"CAPCOM, read your logs and see what the previous shift did. See if a massive course change was ordered and somehow nobody told us." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mars Bar stared with growing astonishment at Maniac, whose wide, unblinking eyes were fixed on the trestle, yet somehow did not seem to register what was there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He understood that Farquar somehow knew his body better than he himself did, that there was no need to rear back like a baseball pitcher and bring the whole fist. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“She’s getting better,” I said, as if by repeating it enough, I could somehow make it part of the public record, an indisputable fact. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Even though they were beat-up and had probably been discarded by some soldier, Mr. Calloway managed to keep them looking spiffy somehow. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

This theory means he must either have wanted to run away or was perhaps knocked on the head and somehow forgot about us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, somehow, some committee of scientists, prodded by footsore wives, found enough money to cover it with a layer of sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, somehow, he did not give an impression of bigness. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had somehow lost my innocence and let sin enter into my soul, and the knowledge of God, the saving grace, was far away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the path. But the bushes have somehow grown across and hidden it. Isn’t that strange? I just came through here a day and a half ago. I’m sure it wasn’t overgrown like this then.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There is a superpower that black mommas possess—they can somehow go from being gentle to firm in a matter of seconds. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But today, supposing that it could be somehow resurrected from its ashes, the photograph might not even be evidence. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But somehow our team stays with them and I’m praying that us winning with me not even playing is not my last lucky event. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow she had a feeling that love had found her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had thought, What if a soldier finds the money somehow? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His mismatched eyes looked somehow brighter in the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Might they somehow have an inkling of the long evolutionary progression from genes to brains to libraries that has occurred on the obscure planet Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie Lowry had somehow stolen the bolt cutter from the janitor’s room at school. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then she’s gone, which is what I wanted, but somehow I am as hollow as my tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted to leave behind something that might somehow benefit the next generation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I had to somehow figure out a way to survive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And somehow that was even worse than you and me arguing all the time because it was like I was invisible. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because somehow, in some way, we are alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dri and I always tried to be touching somehow, shoulder to shoulder, knee against knee, hand in hand. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Jethro’s surprise he felt his brother’s large rough hand close over his own with a heavy pressure, as if somehow the owner of that hand felt a desperate need to clutch at something. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I craned from behind my resting spot and looked at the clock above the TV; somehow it was 2:07 A.M. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She found out about this place somehow, came here to gather her supplies, spent a night or two, and then hit the road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Josiah—the tech nerd who somehow in a place like this is one of the coolest, most popular guys in the school. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The shrimp boat captains watched for the channels and markers, somehow feeling that they were the lords of all this, of all they saw and felt. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he realized that somehow, by some mystery, the man in black was making fists and jamming them into the rocks, and using them for support. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow I think I have a small part to play in this drama, and I have chosen to be the villain. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

J.T. slipped on the stairs and somehow Peaches pushed him down a little and ran past him up toward the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house looked sneaky somehow, almost as if it were up to no good. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The music, the rhythm, the vibration of light in my joints and marrow somehow continue, even here in Auschwitz. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But somehow there must be a hundred different churches that see God in their own ways. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scratches one of her cornrows, which somehow makes for calling Seven my brother and not our brother.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Something about it intensified the green of the lawn so all that vast expanse seemed unnatural, luminous somehow, and not quite of this world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Remembering my unkept promise, I pried its roots from the earth with desperate fingers and filled my basket, hoping that Elnora would somehow find them there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Vanguard was the United States’s International Geophysical Year satellite program, and von Braun, since he worked for the Army, was somehow too tainted by that association to make the first American try for orbit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Terupt stopped for a second, yet somehow we stayed quiet. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He believes that Noise can be sorted out, that if you could harness it somehow, you could put it to use. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was only saving face with the family, she knew, but she felt she had somehow failed in his eyes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It isn’t lost on me that somehow all of my wishes were granted: My mother is on island, and Kalinda is here too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Shame has somehow gone out the window,” Thomas said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tyler Crowley was impossible, following me around, obsessed with making amends to me somehow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing matched, yet somehow, it made a muddled kind of beautiful. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had only that word, she thought, but it was one word more than she had known he had, and somehow it made her feel a little better. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know who she was and if he really did know her somehow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The farmworkers she’d met all thought their families had been on the way up in the world, but she somehow didn’t think these people were on their way anywhere at all. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we hit rock bottom, Elisabet somehow discovers a little cash in her purse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Y-y-yessuh,” he whispered again; feeling that it was all a wild and intense dream that must end soon, somehow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I never really been one for surprises, because every big surprise in my life has somehow been bad. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Hawkeye had gone out to relieve himself and had somehow missed the giant gaping hole in the ground. Twisted his ankle and couldn’t climb out of the deep end.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But, yes, that seems to be the case. Ella has a perfect memory. She loves books. Somewhere, somehow, she read your Roman book of prophecies. Now she’s the only source for them.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had many powers—more than they’d guessed when they made it, far more than they know even now—and somehow, in using it, they had let the Specters into their world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it all and I knew that even the officials and the older men would despise me as though, somehow, in losing my place in Bledsoe's world I had betrayed them . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyspn had somehow given us just enough juice to keep the ship from being sucked in. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unbearable burdens that the world somehow does bear with a certain grace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dangerous as they could be to me, somehow, they did not seem as threatening as the dark shadowy woods with its strange sounds, its unknowns. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s curious and lovely in a way, but it makes everything so dark, and somehow it makes me feel shut off. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders were sunk down, and her face was red, and somehow she looked even smaller than before. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you all about it, Dana, but some other time. Now, somehow, I’ve got to fit myself back into nineteen seventy-six. If I can.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was, he wrote, “a terrifying experience that somehow cannot be blotted out.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie looked up and down the empty road, to the patch of trees that had somehow survived the farms that bordered it on both sides. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted somehow to explain this to Mrs. Croft, who was still scrutinizing Mala from top to toe with what seemed to be placid disdain. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking that maybe in the fall you could keep on working nights and go to high school in the daytime. I know it’ll be hard but it could be done somehow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the station she somehow got past their brutal laughter. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You are so obsessed with yourself that there isn't any room for anyone else's feelings. You don't care about anything unless it somehow relates back to you.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But somehow neither the words nor the tune ever seemed to the animals to come up to Beasts of England. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Frank pouted like it was somehow his fault. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Certainly I expect me to, but somehow, today, I just can’t. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even then, they squeezed together in a bunch, as though, if they allowed any space between them, Fin- sterwald might somehow pick them off, one by one. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is getting late, and I don’t like this hole: it makes my heart sink somehow.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But somehow my bar mitzvah and the project got rolled up together in people’s minds. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We must cut its head off somehow, and carry that It would be enough if we took the head. We could carry it between us.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing was certain: it was all connected with the Object somehow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But nobody wanted to stay behind when they realized Ess was missing, so somehow Jinny found herself at the head of a herd. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Not just in his head now but in his shoulder somehow, his shoulder and left arm down to his hand. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words amazed her, because somehow they felt true. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There might be some use for them, he thought, maybe work them onto the arrows somehow. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

That little word somehow put her into action. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like being inside a globe, because the round screen looks like the inside of an opened sky-blue parachute—making me feel as though I am somehow falling. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For another, I’d never hear the last of it if Pink and them somehow found out a girl was waiting for me under Blind Tillie Trestle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“If the Endurance does have to, well, get left behind, we will manage, somehow,” Worsley said, listening to the howling of the gales outside. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The only victory of the day is that somehow the power has come back on at home. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even when Ghost's teeth closed savagely around the ranger's calf, somehow Qhorin kept his feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Suppose the boy had been caught again, somehow, someway, in his travel down to the landing, running through the midnight streets between the dark houses. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron said he would wait, so Harry reentered the tent, which somehow looked quite different now: friendly and welcoming. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And somehow we end up horizontal, his hands curved up around my back. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He seemed aloof from the rest of the group, not an actual member of the coalition, somehow dismissive of it all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid that somehow the biscuits might disappear during the night, while I was sleeping. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still wearing the black sweater and old blue jeans and sneakers and gloves, and suddenly my feet hurt, and somehow I’ve made it all the way to Centerville, which is the next town over. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He threw his legs out with an aggressive confidence: the gait of a person who would not ask for directions but remained sure that he would somehow get there. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He clears his throat, and the hush already over the crowd somehow gets even quieter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

After all, these little atoms had to move around somehow; if there were no such thing as a vacuum, the atoms would be constantly pressed against one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most recently, he sent me an utter fantasy in which he faces off against a goblin knight and somehow wins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

My father, Gene, was one of those young men who somehow manage to seem both solemn and mischievous. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hana told me I had to do something, and wearing makeup to school somehow seemed like a good idea, even though it’s against Momma’s rules. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

If ‘yes,’ my captain will sail him here to you, and I will have to content myself somehow with a lesser bride.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Any noise, at all, would alert Mr. Flux, and though he’d somehow managed to climb from the Eternal Creek, he probably wouldn’t be very nice to the boys responsible for dunking him in it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It grew darker and darker, as if it somehow absorbed the sun’s dying rays. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two of the monkeys died and the third animal went into borderline shock, but somehow pulled through and survived. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leather was soft and smooth and somehow felt important. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dieter had a sixth sense that told him I was somehow out of place in the Academy, and he didn’t like things that were out of place. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men often thought that fighting in the war would somehow be a testing ground of their manhood. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It's easier for me to talk to our policeman, somehow. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It’s somehow both sweet and wrenching, and the singer sings it like she means it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Evidently, he had thought other people somehow couldn’t tell he was bald or something. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe this was a new skill that had developed somehow. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Was he more likely to text and drive than the rest of us, or, when texting and driving, to be less able somehow to juggle the tasks? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though I wasn’t doing anything wrong, it seemed to me that I was sneaking around somehow, leading a secret life which, pleasant though it was, was bound to catch up with me sooner or later. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then, somehow, I got my wits about me and I felt about with my hand and I pressed the bell for the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leo,” she said calmly, “did Octavian trick you somehow? Did he frame you, or—” “No.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For example, we were talking about blood and somehow the conversation turned to menstruation, etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow, he stayed on his feet, unharmed, and unleashed a hurricane of violence. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to join them, wanted, above all, to console Mr. Pirzada somehow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But somehow she made it all the way from the front of the room to the back, where I sat reading a comic, without my hearing her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I assumed the proper position, and somehow my left leg stepped out over the edge of the doorway. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The swim school thought I might do better if I could somehow attach a pair of flippers to my legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One of the doors somehow got locked, and now everyone is pushing and shoving as they try to get out through the only one that still opens. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

To me they were merely people like other people, yet somehow strangely different because I had never come in close touch with any of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Thomas feel off-kilter, as if the urge to sleep that grew steadily with every passing minute were somehow unnatural. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of me, looking somehow the same but different. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All those numbers now decorating the walls, those were all people, somehow. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His jaw’s been knocked off its hinge and somehow he still brings himself to his feet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But somehow he had found his way here from the shore, and along the way he’d picked up a sword and shield. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her tinkling laughter was somehow stronger than our nervous ones. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very heavy, and wedged somehow, he couldn’t move him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was different than it had been with Stan; it wasn’t as clean somehow, and it lasted longer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And after a while, they left him alone, which somehow made him feel even lonelier, but at least that was familiar. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The creature in my arms wasn’t an answer, but it did somehow make the question of how to keep going irrelevant. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, after that day in the greenhouse with Mom, I pretty much stopped writing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I thought David would be able to help me somehow, and instead he wants us to become informers? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Your name is somehow familiar, Mr. Griffin,” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got locked in once for a few hours, the panel becoming stuck somehow, and we heard his wails all the way from the kitchen in the big house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Scythe Faraday spoke up—his voice quiet and measured, but somehow carrying an intensity that was chilling. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Without eyes, but somehow directed, these airships swim below cloud foam and nobody can be turned away from the sight of them because it’s like watching a private dream. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grief is quiet and dignified, and somehow this makes it worse. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’d want to. I think you should get a secret squirt gun or something and attach it to your eyes somehow. And every time someone stares at you, you would squirt them in the face.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He looked fine to the eye, ruddy, pumping, pink, but you sensed he was somehow on the brink of death. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was awful to watch but somehow endearing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Caught by fading light, they headed back to their car but somehow became separated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked me in the eyes as he said that, and somehow it felt like he wasn’t just talking about the Midfolk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But somehow the bread and cheese—still fresh from the shop where Tess had traded a few precious Notes for it—doesn't seem tempting. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Gaea’s forces must have captured him somehow. But we don’t know exactly where they’re holding him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom’s trip is connected to the Arizona kids somehow, Emma thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Boys, I’m so glad that you two are still able to move. Thank the Lord,” Grandma said, “I think the county acting up somehow. Though it ain’t never done something like this before.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, we all nurtured the secret hope that somehow Tsalig had escaped and would be there waiting for us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I know what I’m supposed to do to solve the equations; somehow I just manage to get all mixed-up in the middle. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s more than half-full, as it had been yesterday—which means that somehow the Augurs have moved me three hundred miles from Serra in one night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even if he had somehow failed to notice these things, he knew that Cloud Pond was only a mile from Barren Mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My skull was going to split open if I didn’t lash out, if I didn’t channel that energy somehow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes were swollen and red, and somehow that made him look younger, more vulnerable. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought I could love Mama Ya-Ya more than I already do, but somehow, in this moment, I do. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She spoke about them as Jews, which made them somehow different. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Pharos had somehow been plucked off the North African shore and placed on Lake Michigan, it would have topped the Chicago skyline until the construction of the Wrigley Building in 1922. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The girl might see them and somehow that would be much worse than her just seeing us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were both looking at her without expression, but somehow their lack of expression seemed like an expression of warning to her to behave herself. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His icy blue eyes looked older, somehow—full of worry and responsibility. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think a Negro deserved the title of “Miss,” but somehow this woman seemed to require it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to make peace, somehow, with my place in all of this. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They came two months ago,” Jed said, his voice distant somehow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t do this, but somehow I can’t help myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Boobie’s loss was just the kind of news he did not want to hear, an omen that the season was tailspinning out of control, somehow jinxed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both wore the same uniform, but on Chris somehow it fit better, seemed more natural. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As an educator and a teacher, Dr. Brown loved history, and he somehow sensed that these records from the first black church in Birmingham would be significant someday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I've listened to it a few times now, and the funny thing is, it really does remind me of you somehow. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But, somehow, hearing that these strange shadows thought so too made it even worse. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And somehow, that single word expands like a balloon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Vu somehow brings home a huge can, pumping it to work out his arm muscles. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s scary, but it makes me feel stronger, somehow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her husband had left her for a Jamaican woman, with whom it turned out he had a secret four-year-old child, and she somehow managed to veer every conversation towards the subject of Jamaicans. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The head of Sayle Enterprises had been shot twice, but somehow he had disappeared. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another widespread misconception is that numbers depersonalize or somehow diminish individuality. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barely knew him, and yet, somehow, not knowing when I would see him again after tonight was anguishing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a great stone in the way, but the Orcs had got through somehow, for he could hear their voices on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The class was gone, we were alone, and somehow I felt an intimacy between us that made it not too difficult for me to say what I then said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The guard’s ordering me out, but by the shuffling that follows, I know Gale has somehow detained him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This time he said it more quietly, as if he knew somehow that he was not going to get an answer; he had been through it before. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walking through the halls at school was somehow easier; sitting alone all the time was easier. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was funny how, when you were doing the same thing as other people at the same time, you felt different somehow like part of the group instead of just yourself. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Ivy," I whisper hard, hoping it will somehow travel all the way inside. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But somehow, when I wasn’t thinking too good maybe, I took it down. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He worried that the Death Mist might cling to him forever, even if they somehow managed to survive Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Though he was down with pneumonia, Martinez somehow managed both to live through the afternoon and to win the race before wheezing his way back to the hospital. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So somehow or other we must find the Ford of Bruinen.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had seen the expression; I remember sensing that it somehow referred to my race. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t—wouldn’t—let the boys destroy my hope we’d find a better life, somehow. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And you think I might somehow be involved?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He somehow knew that she would never rise and walk that long aisle to the mercy seat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We were close—somehow related—while also distanced by careful reserve. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because Ruth was from Hailsham, somehow the whole notion came within the realms of the possible. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to catch a rat, but somehow he came nosing around and got in my trap. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some members of the audience thought I was denying racial pride, trying somehow to deny my racial identity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that he and the girl were connected somehow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t need to voice her other suspicion—that perhaps somehow Arobynn had bribed the guards in Endovier for her safety. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Still, somehow the Angel kids survived this—perhaps by a means that I might describe as... not entirely natural. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her sickly eyes looked moist and swollen but somehow excited. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Their purgatory will go on and on, and somehow they’ll always know that I could have saved them. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“But...maybe...somehow...someone by accident...someone might have heard me talking to Bradley....” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But somehow having Javier with me now makes the decision easier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d never seen him angry before, let alone wrathful, and it made him seem bigger somehow, an altogether different and more dangerous species of Strange than the one he had known all these years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But somehow, suddenly, it was like I was seeing them for the first time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Will I somehow have to explain what I hear in my head? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She wondered if the gold was poisoning their thoughts somehow, so that they’d never give her a fair trial. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hidden messages being broadcast to the world, good men and women gone missing, the authorities beyond convincing—and the children were somehow going to be involved in all this? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because even if I crack the code somehow, it doesn’t change the fact that Blue isn’t interested. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I managed somehow to land on my feet, stumble, and stay upright. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I briefly consider that Finnick could have stolen it to trick me, but somehow I know this isn’t the case. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We should avoid talking at all costs. The vocal transformation component of the spell must’ve gotten messed up somehow,” said Seven sheepishly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was afraid that I would say the wrong thing, that somehow I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from saying Megan’s name. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His friends’ faces would blur, like photographs somehow being undeveloped, then disappear entirely. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The danger was past, and somehow the excitement had helped them shed a little of their anxiety. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I can achieve that somehow, I might see a longer version of what he looks like and how he feels. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not a strange question, after what we’ve been through, but I tense up when he asks it, worried that he’ll somehow see into my mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly he quit pacing, and the look he shot at me made me sense that somehow the chance question had hit him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Jimmy looked so private, and it seemed wrong somehow to disturb that privacy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told all about the Laphams and how he somehow couldn’t seem even to thank Cilia for the food she usually got to him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to plug the holes up somehow, and sweep the floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And somehow, I feel a little bit lighter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The guard turned quickly, and somehow his gaze landed not on Henry but on Francis, who was standing staring into space. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’d never been at her house alone before, but somehow this felt right. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Yet even that number somehow feels remarkably low, and the fact that it isn’t higher is a miracle—or at least, that’s what people have been reaching for. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I feel a loosening of my throat, and somehow a new voice emerges, as deep and rich as chocolate. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And they had a strange smell—one that seemed familiar to Luna, somehow, though she could not place it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Nothing in the shack had changed, but somehow the shadows seemed pushed to the corners. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I quickly apologize and step back away from the door and run down the steps, thinking that I got turned around somehow. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I drew more and more, thinking that come spring, perhaps I might be able to send off a message somehow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I went because I know I used to like Stravinsky but somehow I no longer have the patience for it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This pity festival went on for at least another hour, with each of us pretty much just saying over and over that this was somehow our fault. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if David had somehow already figured out she was a spy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I counted so much that the counting and the stings started to seem like the same thing—as if instead of measuring the stings, I was somehow causing them. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve given up on going out on dates in the old way: somehow it’s no longer a serious thing to do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid that somehow they would all know. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cable’s work would be complete, even if a few rescued Smokies somehow managed to create another community in the wild. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Würzburg isn't a big town; somehow they must remember that we're their neighbors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like she could follow Drew into his house or somehow rummage through his backpack when he wasn’t looking. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If you were an unremarkable talent, it was almost impossible to obtain an invitation; but if you were an accomplished scientist or one of manifest promise, somehow the invitation would come to you. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There is nothing for Violet to beat or hit and when she has to, just has to strike it somehow, there is nothing left but straw or a sepia print. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to her certain that she would suffer from the consequences of it, that no one could maintain such deceit for so long without paying for it somehow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was certain that he was not going home to Mami and my sisters and brothers and that somehow I had been used. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I am vigorously carrying on the money-raising campaign, and things look very promising . . . I’ll keep at it until somehow we get the money.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And only for its duration is their grief slightly abated, the enforced absence of certain foods on their plates conjuring his father’s presence somehow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He caught her and held her while she tried to steady herself in the rocking world where the trees and the lawn seemed somehow tilted sideways and the sky turned and swung. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

His armor looked like hundreds of small metal rectangles attached to somehow make them flexible; every time he moved, his armor flowed and clicked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Here, in this microcosm, we must look for those factors that somehow shift the marvelously functioning mechanisms of the cell out of their normal patterns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The ones that somehow got suffocated inside me and made my husband wonder if I was killing them on purpose. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The king wore lambswool breeches and a quilted doublet, yet somehow he looked as stiff and uncomfortable as if he had been clad in plate and mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My feet have levitated somehow and now I’m horizontal on the bed next to her, with my hands squeezing her and my shoes—my Rockport shoes—clanking against each other. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I knew, somehow, that this had been my grandfather’s room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My aunt crawled along beside her, somehow still conscious despite the loss of blood. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Harry wanted with all his heart to say “Yes,” but somehow the simple word would not rise to his lips. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It somehow startles me to see him without a monitor or a magazine cover obstructing the view, like he’s in focus for the first time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to somehow reassure me that I could be a man, whatever that was supposed to mean. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was sort of hard to do while they walked, but they managed somehow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’d never heard that joke before, but somehow, I don’t know why, I knew the answer. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’d go to Manhattan, find Harrison Weed, and somehow get what she needed to know about her family from him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He still wasn’t happy being dragged out of bed so early, but had somehow managed to get dressed despite feeling all yawny and stiff. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kim who must have somehow managed to cajole her mother into driving downtown. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His expression was full of concern, and Luke knew, somehow, that he was trustworthy. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as polished as her later stuff, but somehow that makes me like it more. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“You will excuse me, Monsieur,” she said, “but may I ask your name? Your face is somehow familiar to me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it would be torture to sit there in the audience, but somehow it never was. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d denied myself permission to think about him, which somehow made it so that I thought about him all the time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But by the time I made it back to the ground floor, where the daylight they’d stolen had somehow returned, they had vanished from the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And I want to stand among them and somehow believe that I still belong. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I must have irked him somehow to get assigned to Katie. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words didn’t have the right proportion somehow. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press it to my chest and wish that somehow I could bring her back, like she could be remade from parchment and sinew and ink and memory. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t place the memory specifically in time; I imagine this is one of those traumatic moments that Dr. Keyes worked so hard to help me forget, but somehow it still lingers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He seemed somehow smaller than I remembered him being. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my eyes shut, as though somehow not seeing whoever is coming into the room will keep them from seeing me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They sensed somehow that in her sleep she had traveled away from them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not chilled, not safe, just somehow disconnected from everything. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beau’s love somehow stirred up all my sunken sadness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In it were some people I was surprised and somehow touched to see. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would get quiet once more, but even so, somehow I always ended up feeling a teeny bit guilty. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In so doing they had constantly played the state’s southern agribusinessmen off against the small northern farmers, and somehow they had come through. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telling on myself saved my pride somehow, but it didn’t ease the punishment. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I’m intentionally zoning out, but somehow I can’t land myself in the conversation. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I could see he wanted to end the discussion at that point, but somehow I couldn’t let go. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because somehow, the thought of him getting hurt—or worse—made her willing to risk just about anything. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When thirty foreigners were killed in Stanleyville, each one was tied somehow to a solid exchange, a gold standard like the hard Belgian franc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chewed and chewed each bite until it somehow went away. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though really we’d had no control over anything, somehow in the end it felt as if we’d timed it all perfectly. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yolanda was so embarrassed that she tried to keep her readings a secret from her mother, but somehow the mother always found out about them and appeared, first row, center. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I looked at her and saw that she was tired, and somehow she seemed older. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for once, Ophie, exhausted and somehow both happy and sad at the same time, agreed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

At once, as though somehow aware that he was their last intruder, the mambas hissed loudly in unison, their cold eyes meeting his own like onyx plucked from a starless night sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Thread must believe I somehow got under the thing, even with that deadly current running through it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like she could eat five more boxes of rice, and yet somehow it felt perfect, a perfect moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I know I did. I didn’t want to hurt your feelings. I was trying to see if we could fix it somehow. But it won’t work.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We console him and promise to get over the difficulty somehow or other. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ashtray is full: fifty stubs squashed in there, limbless, somehow gory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But somehow I made it through the rest of the day. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And somehow, even though he was playing the accordion, and no matter how quietly I crept over, the accordion-man would always hear the swoosh of the dollar bill as it fell into the accordion case. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Saying it, even to himself without a sound, somehow cleared his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They chewed willow leaves, somehow extracting the sap, then blew tough-walled bubbles. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Seeing Ucho make this small gesture of kindness and caring somehow hurt me more than any of his harsh words ever had. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she and Twill can carve out a life somehow in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We all felt a little ridiculous but somehow no less horrified, because even though the heads weren’t real, they represented something that was, hidden beneath the rubble around us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mark presses against Trina and the wall behind her, wishing they could somehow disappear into the brick. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was struggling to become someone else, and maybe felt the pressure more than the rest of us because, as I say, she’d somehow taken on the responsibility for all of us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow for the period of your existence they will answer to a single overarching impulse: to keep you you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Steel sheared through sleeve and skin and bone, yet the sound was wrong somehow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each year there was always the dream that this was finally it, the game where the juggernaut of Permian would somehow self-destruct and the sheer emotion of Odessa High would finally prevail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begins worrying that something’s wrong, that my immune system is compromised somehow. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That is, the things Toby did were just about the same but somehow the feeling was different. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor thought he was somehow mentally injured, somehow harmed, and the truth was almost the exact opposite. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he must prove to himself that he could get by, somehow, alone in this place. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He needs to get rid of it somehow. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Victarion had forbidden his men to bring any of the demonic creatures aboard ship, yet somehow half his fleet was now infested with them, even his own Iron Victory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Could he have somehow gotten the bite here, at the mayor’s estate? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My hands were feeling particularly loose, and somehow it was nice being up before anyone else, doing my own thing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I have never once entered Forest. There was no need, of course. And it always seemed frightening somehow.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I felt suddenly faint and somehow still rooted to the ground. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would swing and look at it—a breaking twig, a movement of air—and know die sound as if he somehow could move his mind back down the wave of sound to the source. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if somehow my questions, naive and unpremeditated though they were, had, nonetheless, provided him with some long-awaited opportunity to vent his pent-up frustrations and bitterness. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that somehow I had to make it happen myself. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know if it had begun with Inej’s injury or that hideous ride in the prison wagon, but somehow he’d let it happen and it had cost him dearly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Three and four both depended on us having somehow missed Salim when he got out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the noise rise to a higher, almost hysterical pitch, somehow making it possible to hear without yelling, our voices moving blurrily underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept thinking that if something happened to Milton, if he was wounded or, God forbid, if he didn’t come back—she would be somehow to blame. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Three words, yet they somehow feel as good as a hug. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded and made a silent promise to myself that I would somehow convince Papa to let Amil stay home until he could run. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even though you’d think a floor was a floor, somehow this one felt very comfortable and made Hanako feel cozy and at home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although I wanted a miracle in school, and knew full well that the miracle should somehow involve academic study, in reality I spent my time reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I kept looking for Irene on the beach, relieved, somehow, to see her there, her face shaded by a white baseball cap, her hands busy building something in the thick sand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dany found herself moving faster than she had intended, yet somehow it was exciting rather than terrifying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When he descends the stairs I follow and somehow I find myself eating a delicious meal with Coach, Boy21, and the Allens. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow there were people who found that strange ideological mosaic to be enticing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Seeing the lobby for the first time feels like I’ve somehow stepped into one of those old black-and-white movies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Spencers could have done just that and taken Lily with them and somehow forgot to tell anyone they were doing so. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow the wicked eraser managed to stay alive, managed even to crawl through the front lines, only to be greeted by the backup platoon. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That familiar relentless beat and exotic, yet somehow ominous riff fills the air. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When you listened there were only bird sounds with silence in between, and those two sounds put together somehow seemed even quieter than no sound at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was harder for my new classmates to stare at me in the back, but somehow, they managed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I saw a long shadow pass underneath me—a leviathan somehow lit from beneath—and I gulped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Char would have caught me in a moment, but Hattie must have held him somehow. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a red dress—somehow he knew that she'd have on red—that was tightened at the waistline with a shiny gold belt. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I somehow managed to make it past all of them and reach the crypt, the ultrapowerful lich could kill my avatar in seconds, just by looking at him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At first Brian couldn’t place it but knew that he somehow knew what it was—had seen it in films. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought at first that she might be trying to hide something from me, bending over the page so, to use somehow the hard fact for her own direct gain. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you somehow managed to survive all of the traps and find your way through the labyrinth, you would eventually reach the crypt of Acererak the Demi-Lich. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was as if somehow every bad thing that had happened to them was now my fault. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The music began: a breath of strings, then a whisper of voices, chanting, soft as silk, but somehow piercing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Best of all, she had Park's songs in her head—and in her chest, somehow. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I never see Pri doing any schoolwork, but somehow she doesn’t fail her classes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Hannah walked back to the ship with me, and somehow I felt bold as a lion. 1 didn’t even mind the thrashing that was waiting for me.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew with certainty what law they were breaking, but it seemed unlawful somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I sure could use a word choice that said Cool outfit, but somehow Mrs. V had overlooked that one. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

One day he’d walked by, and there they were — a girl, her parents, an assistant, looking disoriented and somehow ragged around the edges, as though they’d been torn out of a book. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Julio, don’t you hate it when people from the neighborhood who somehow manage to leave change their names? Instead of Juan, they want to be called John.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Walking home, I think about me chasing after Clem and I feel lighter somehow. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Like getting this certificate is going to make me pat myself on the back and, somehow, transform into a different person. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

But somehow the only words that stand out to me are your and fault. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But Franca, the cook, somehow managed to make a cup of coffee for them—despite the wet wood for a fire. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Then you somehow told Frankie how much I had on me.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distant sources of food are somehow sensed, and long lines, like tentacles, reach out over the ground, up over walls, behind boulders, to fetch it in. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, when Gram told her stories, they felt so real to me that it often seemed that she must have been there to see them somehow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mitt, the clean and bright one—somehow, miraculously, ours—runs off with them anyway, shouting the praises of his perfect life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into the grand jury room alone, but somehow my parents are with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He thought about what Teresa had said to him, too, the very first time—that he and she had somehow done all of this to them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He laughed, looking quite different, younger somehow and less detached. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to rush through without being overtly rude, but now the man from Bat Lady’s house was almost to the street corner, moving unhurriedly but somehow fast. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Its presence somehow comforted her in the long hours she sat up, watching her door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was so short that Alex’s first impression was that he was looking at a reflection that had somehow been distorted. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Belgian doctor who’d set Ruth May’s arm, and I decided to believe Ruth May herself was somehow involved in this gift. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This steaming ice somehow made the rocket seem alive. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we no longer belonged to the Company, we somehow had to acquire a thousand dollars worth of property, a faraway figure when you can only save nickels and dimes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fun would be all lost if somehow Francis could correctly predict what he was going to find. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a woman’s voice at all, and he wondered for a crazy moment if his dad had somehow made a surprise trip from America and arrived too late to phone and— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was strikingly obvious, and somehow too big to fit into his mind—like trying to cram the actual Cusp into his own small skull. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was using the exact same markers as me, but somehow when she drew with them, her drawings looked a million times better than mine. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We worked long and hard, and somehow loading those trucks made me feel intimately bound up with the news bulletins that I kept hearing on the radio and seeing in the papers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thinking about going back to Mom’s lab made me feel kind of sick inside, like even just the thought of it was somehow a betrayal. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No. I couldn’t explain it, but somehow I knew that something terrible had happened to him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You did warn me, though. On the hovercraft. Only when you said they’d use Peeta against me, I thought you meant like bait. To lure me into the Capitol somehow,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I somehow managed to lurch over to the door and open the window to try to get some fresh air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And somehow evening came again and he went into the cabin—which cooled instandy and felt wonderful once the sun went down because the seawater kept the hull cool—to eat and sleep. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his complete cluelessness that somehow it all comes down to how many points you can score in a tournament. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the ground beneath my feet shook from some faraway pounding and I felt that this world, despite its massiveness, was somehow dangerously fragile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, maybe I would burn, because then I’d at least have a chance to somehow escape, and even if I couldn’t, feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn’t it? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only hope, he believed, was for the United States to stop building bombs and to somehow convince the Soviet Union not to start. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I manage to work out what happened to Idunn, and if I were somehow to bring her and her apples back to Asgard safely, could we forget all about the torture and death?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But nothing sent chills up and down Thomas’s spine like the haunted, deathly moans that somehow escaped the creature when it sat still, like the sound of dying men on a battlefield. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The air wafting out smelled sickly sweet and somehow evil. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jule hit a third time and the noise was terrific, loud and somehow final. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She watched Anya with empty sockets, somehow still beautiful even without eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For three long heartbeats Quentyn was afraid that something had gone amiss, that somehow Pretty Mens and the Tattered Prince had gotten the word wrong. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And somehow, for some reason, I felt that I could. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Stripers are running, but somehow it don’t seem right, taking time off for fun. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next evening, while sitting with Kim outside on the steps of our hut, I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might be able to cushion their fall somehow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Helene peers at my blurred tracks, following them, somehow, to the crypt where I stowed my pack, to the skulls piled there. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a jumble, it was a mishmash, and somehow she pulled it all together, somehow she threaded every different thing through the voice of a solitary mockingbird singing in the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Can’t we just go, she thought, half hoping old Varney had somehow really heard her a few moments ago, half feeling like she was completely bonkers for even thinking that. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The lost Sibylline books that outlined the entire destiny of Rome. If Ella actually read a copy somehow, and memorized it—” “Then she’s the most valuable harpy in the world,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I saw in their faces what had been in Dismay’s eyes in that last moment I’d seen him—grief and fear and hope and love somehow woven together, somehow connected. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, one day, it's just there speckled black-and-white, the paper inside smelling like something I could fall right into, live there—inside those clean white pages. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was dimly aware that this beginning was somehow indicative of the rest of my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, after five cruel winters of war, I was still alive. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And the song of the bird made her sad, somehow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Rachel could somehow carry her proposal to Reyna without getting killed in the process... The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stuffed the bill into the envelope and wrote: I am enclosing some money and hope it helps somehow. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’s alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one’s arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that I would somehow have to cool the hot blood that would suddenly surge through my body and sting my eyes with a delirious joy. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I am a kid, not even seven years old, but somehow I will kill Pol Pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conor had needed it, and his need had somehow called it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave of fetterlings swarmed over the rooftop gardens, and yet somehow we held them back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In a sense these infinitesimals were infinitely small, smaller than any positive number you could name, yet still somehow greater than zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Carnage suited me; heaven put those things in me somehow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was meant as a joke but somehow made him feel even worse as the words came out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

These heroes go largely unnoticed by politicians who prefer to blame those who fail, rather than praise with admiration and awe all those who somehow manage, despite seemingly insurmountable hurdles, to survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You need to follow them and see, somehow, see who it was. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in this plain white T-shirt and gray sweats, but he still managed to look heart-stoppingly perfect somehow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Conor felt suddenly light, like he was somehow starting to float in the air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Noise from outside the house was excluded completely, and even homelier indoor sounds were muffled, and sometimes even eliminated somehow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Another bomb tossed onto Dr. King’s front yard somehow failed to go off. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It is common, among the nonpoor, to think of poverty as a sustainable condition—austere, perhaps, but they get by somehow, don’t they? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first set of test results made it look like lower-income kids were somehow failing in the classroom. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The spilled milk seemed wronger than the blood, somehow. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Wrestling to the ground, grabbing at each other in the scuffle, and somehow I’m smacking him in the chin with an uppercut and his head is snapping back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They had somehow ended up running in the same direction. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What if someone she knows walks into the bar, recognizes her, and word somehow gets back to Lourdes’s mother in Honduras? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And somehow, being on our hillside, I felt above it all now—somehow freer and purer, working toward the fulfillment of Father s dream. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face became filled with a look of sad, aching brooding, as if he was thinking about something that only he could understand and somehow resolve. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow he felt kind of bad anyway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a certain method in the Count’s inquiries, so I shall try to put them down in sequence; the knowledge may somehow or some time be useful to me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had no hooks or string but if he could somehow lure them into the shallows—and make a spear, a small fish spear—he might be able to strike fast enough to get one. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently this poor creature had been mucking around on the bottom of Long Island Sound and had somehow gotten itself tangled in the net of this sunken fishing boat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kingfisher, or another poleboat, he told himself, but somehow he knew that was not right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Magdalys wasn’t sure if that little speech was supposed to settle the matter somehow, but the officer was clearly unmoved. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, those are good choices—for the most part. What others?” she asked, and somehow, an hour flew by, carrying them on the wings of conversation. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His curly beard was green and white with lichen, and one of the prongs of his trident had broken off before Davos had been bom, yet somehow he still managed to impress. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But when I say this, I do not mean to imply the stance I took over the matter of the book that evening was somehow unwarranted. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But his mother, whom Dasch described as a "battle axe," had always managed to somehow provide food, clothing, an education, and a home. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And adding to her irritation was the suggestion—the insane proposition—that somehow Jim had been at fault. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thomas thought about what Gaily, Ben and Alby had said about him—their suspicions that he was against them somehow, was someone not to trust. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There’s nothin’ to do but wait until the tide goes out and then somehow winch it onto the cradle before it sinks again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten about the guard, somehow—guards had never been a problem when I was with Mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Now if that is her room," I said, "then I'll bet I could climb down there somehow and get in." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was a song that was somehow soaring and quiet at the same time—the way his heart felt when he was with her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe somehow they had stumbled on something, somebody—“a living witness.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the statue of Thomas Mott Osborne in the foyer of the training academy is there because, somehow, Elam Lynds won’t do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the first time I’d seen him, Ben had somehow called the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Doris sounded as if she and Ifemelu somehow shared the same plot, the same view of the world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A dingy gray that was still somehow beautiful, like clouds before rain. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And somehow, right now, that feels more important than art school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But somehow they ran to meet her halfway. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squeezed the handles of her purse tighter, as if that would somehow help, and trotted down the hallway to the girls’ bathroom. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every night since then, she was haunted by the fear that she had somehow made things worse by seeking out the Fairy Hunt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse and his council of old men decided it was better to live under the control of the whites, and stick together, and get through it somehow.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It implied that a power gymnast could not also be artistic and graceful, and also that power and grace were somehow tied to a person’s race. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure the idea of somehow upsetting Twig was his personal nightmare. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s like babies need us one hundred percent of the time, so everything we do feels like the right thing, somehow,” he says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Under and through, until they catch up to George, who somehow manages to move faster than Axel has ever seen him move before. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was somehow more disconcerting than if the haint had been solid. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She looks at me again, but her eyes are harder now, somehow, closed off and protective. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But nothing she can do or say will ever be enough, because she is somehow the wrong person. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One did not shout at Gebu without paying for it somehow, now or later. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“It is—I thought hunting would be...normal, somehow. But something has to die.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He fought against it and somehow managed to swim to the house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That harpy they brought back from the quest—Ella. I knew she was spouting prophecies! Now I understand. She—she somehow memorized a copy of the Sibylline Books.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I looked at my feet, which were somehow managing to take one step after another and promised myself I wouldn’t look at anything else until we arrived. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I moved my lips away from hers, we just looked at each other, and somehow we were not acting anymore. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Does Ana somehow think he will choose her?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great tactician answered: “You were still a child, I see, when exiled somehow from your parents’ land. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew she sat with a scrap of paper held down by pebbles—but the pictures in her mind were so real, she thought they must somehow exist. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I somehow felt the need for a special kind of last fling before I became a businessman. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way out, he frowned at Jon, as if it were somehow his fault. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it was necessary, he felt he had somehow to defend himself against all of them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now I have lots of teachers—a whole collection of people who somehow know me less. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She’d been meaning to perform it for several moons now, but somehow there just never seemed to be time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Alternatively, mathematics is sometimes endowed with a coercive character which is somehow capable of determining our future. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday that you somehow knew was going to be one of the last beautiful days of fall. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His home felt incomplete, and that was more sad than sad pictures, somehow. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As the mummy lurched into camp, Burleson realized that it was none other than Beck Weathers, somehow risen from the dead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, the young man on the other side of the room had not been part of the recruitment. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can taste salt on my tongue—I bet my tears somehow sucked back into my eyeballs and made their way down my throat. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment I really tried to play it out in my head, how it would be if I could somehow row one of our boats back to the island again, and go back home. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And somehow it had come, from this source or that; some openly, some smuggled in by the visitors he insisted he was entitled to have. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I worried that my brother was somehow keeping me away from my mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I like this little piece of evidence that Elizabeth and I are somehow similar. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After what seems like a long silence, Pa tells us that we will get through this somehow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw some young birch, and they were springy, but they lacked snap somehow, as did the willows. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice, somehow tentative and a little shrill, sounded as though it had not yet settled into maturity. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s worse, somehow, to hear all that would have been had I not killed them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think it was possible, but it got bigger somehow. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And somehow, even though he hadn’t meant to, this time he really did shout at her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But my father, when he came back from work, somehow heard of the Full Gospel Apostles’ visit, and he confronted my mother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand,” Julie persisted, as though understanding would somehow make things right. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And when it’s time for me to leave, he always knows somehow and goes back into the woods so he can keep rolling around in the grass or whatever he does when he’s alone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nine months earlier, an intruder wielding a knife had somehow managed to jump a fence and barge through this same door, running through the State Floor before being tackled by a Secret Service officer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had somehow persuaded a woman to come into the laundry room of the house, and then sit up on the gas dryer, which was running. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So was I, Herbert, when the blow first fell. Still, something must be done. He is intent upon various new expenses,—horses, and carriages, and lavish appearances of all kinds. He must be stopped somehow.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She must somehow tell him that she was starving and ask him for food. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they all made her somehow sad and excited at the same time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nick twisted in the air and somehow got the ball against the backboard. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan Dean West would have undoubtedly made a perverted comeback to that, but, somehow, I just felt different standing there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d never done this before but somehow I didn’t need a manual. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I tell my mom I need a refill, and somehow my father gets involved. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That his hurry was somehow more important than a person offering tea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Trading in her dress was somehow different from burying her shoes in a heap of sand and walking away. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were very small to look at, yet he knew, somehow, that they were huge, with a vast stretch of pinion, flying at a great height. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I really was clean, or if I was somehow involved in all of this more than I wanted to think. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You already have, but somehow I still got us to this point.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“All this. We’re so...so ready. So calm. It doesn’t work, somehow. None of it works.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe he used the force of the river somehow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The problem for me was that the cell service on my BlackBerry had somehow disconnected, never sending out my messages or downloading updates from others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to come home after school every day, and we were going to spend more Family Time together, but somehow that didn’t seem like a punishment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But somehow, after throwing a fit in the starting gate and being left flat-footed at the bell, the colt won his race that day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It now seemed impossible that Ron and Hermione would make up with each other before the holidays began, but perhaps, somehow, the break would give them time to calm down, think better of their behavior... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Anya took the rubles and slipped them into her pocket, the weight there somehow even heavier than the horseshoes from earlier. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He felt as if it were familiar somehow, like he’d seen it before. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One ridiculous accident which happened about this time is worth mentioning, not because it had any consequences or antecedents, but because it was somehow the sort of thing which happened to Lancelot. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, just maybe, there was a way to get rid of the virus somehow. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I've been in trouble before, but somehow the gun pointed at my back and the heavy irons on my wrists make me think that this is much worse than stealing a pie from the kitchens. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She felt somehow humiliated by this public revolt in her area of jurisdiction. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Harry hadn’t known that the Dursleys had no sense of humor, he might have thought so; yet somehow, even though everything Hagrid had told him so far was unbelievable, Harry couldn’t help trusting him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But somehow it still feels as though I did something wrong with the girls in my group. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I hated him—was so angry I wanted to kill him—but somehow I was not prepared to see him like that. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She trailed strands of leftover spider silk from her arms and legs like the strings of a marionette, but somehow, amazingly, none of the debris had hit her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tendai noticed, out of the corner of his eye, that one was burly like a prizefighter while the other was slender and somehow unpleasant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was awful, but somehow this was worse. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While the water swirled and jetted around him, he wondered how he might somehow be able to dump Levy' Pants in the lap of some poor buyer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything, but I’m somehow not embarrassed that I just finally said abracadabra and she’s all no, thank you. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His touch was firm and warm, his reaching out somehow unextraordinary. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ocean seemed off, somehow, and I couldn’t shake it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The hospital has somehow figured out who I am. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They’d been smiling all day, but now they somehow smiled even more brightly. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It just feels like I’m on the outside somehow. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We cannot, somehow, give up the idea that discovery, like a race, is a game in which one person wins and everyone else loses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I held on, sure we would capsize, but somehow she brought us through and spurred the horses across the finish line. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was David Ballantine, looking exhausted and bedraggled but still somehow dapper. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I still got hands ready though if Miles hurts him somehow,” I say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Queen Marie just didn’t want to think it was her fault—that somehow she had made Hazel the way she was. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Without our ever discussing it, it seemed almost as if the three of us had somehow agreed to carry one another a good long way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then a second later, he got off Roany’s horns somehow and wheeled on him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven could not remember falling asleep that night or changing out of her cloak and fighting gear, but somehow, she awoke the next day to sunlight streaming into her room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As he grappled and punched I somehow managed to twist and wriggle my way around him and slip out the door. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had never told anyone of the dream, and he did not understand why he was telling Sam now, yet somehow it felt good to talk of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She somehow managed to gather herself together enough to close the door. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face—are you prepared to do that?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Lancelot had a definite idea of what he looked like, and how he felt —and he was somehow in love with this Person. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had somehow eaten, and now he was watching Cinderella. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should resent him for what he did to me, and for taking advantage of Rose and Matt, but somehow I can’t. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of somehow going there, where no outsider had ever been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But somehow all these houses seem so ugly to me right now, even worse than Las Casitas and our patchy weeds strewn with the twins’ toys in the yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Like us competing alongside each other would somehow ruin the point I was trying to make. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The protocol will be different than previously announced,” the guard said, somehow sounding stiff and formal and angry all at once. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Poppet looks wrong, somehow, standing there on the opposite side of the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jack hasn’t told her about Molly’s new living arrangements; apparently he was hoping the situation would somehow magically resolve itself before his mother found out. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Gau told me this story, I had no difficulty at all seeing him back in Ashland, somehow convincing the seller to part with his beautiful home for a ridiculous price. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped somehow that this would provide her with legitimate occasion to be with Father Mulligan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I somehow forgot this was a thing looming on the horizon. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They weren’t in official cheerleading uniforms—they were wearing matching tracksuits—but somehow it was obvious that they were cheerleaders. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled the knife free of him somehow, raised it, and brought it down again into his back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

June had somehow convinced her mother to let Ivy and Taryn spend the night. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If they could remove her somehow, one of the others could take her place. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know somehow it must be because of Rue and Thresh. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My older brother, Nation, managed to get one somehow, and we hung it on our wall at home, using bubble gum as tape. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If, somehow, Jenny found out that Fred and Tater had disobeyed her direct commands that day, she might kick them both off the show. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As he guzzled down the antidote, she wished Brullo had somehow run out. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Throughout his employment, Parker’s one distinguishing trait was that of a troublemaker who somehow managed to get away with things. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the cop shot the monitor the explosion somehow fried the thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had sneaked down to the stables and taken out a fat little pony and somehow forced him into a gallop, chasing those boys down to the riverbank. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I should have put it back in the cigar box, but somehow it had separated itself from the rest of the items. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was alone on the reef but somehow I always felt he was sitting on the beach nearby. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt somehow relieved to know what that nail was for. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The thought of the second person, especially one as green as Derek, had not somehow hit him until just then, in late afternoon. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos: Curses—my parents have the temp control locked somehow. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the movement were the two children who were not ghosts, moving steadily on; not leading, and not following, but somehow focusing the movement into an intention of all the dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They seemed frightened and ill at ease, and somehow Jane and Michael realised that the two huge sisters were wishing that they were much smaller and less conspicuous. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were two of the Jews who had been expelled from Germany and had somehow made their way to Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The subject of my writing an article somehow never got raised, but Malcolm X proved far more cooperative when I returned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, somehow, was one of the things that made her brave. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z