Sometimes the truck was there, sometimes it wasn't, sometimes the Rottweiler was asleep on the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We sometimes even decide that we like them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s always been a cheerful, good-natured kid, with very few inhibitions, which sometimes does not lead to the best classroom behavior. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, “It be’s like that sometimes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hair was the same brown color as my sister’s, but it was long and wavy, and sometimes I still wore it in braids. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think sometimes, Holly said slowly, as though the idea was just now coming to her, life gives you stuff you don’t want, but you have to take it anyway. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mother and Grandmother sometimes took me to churches in adjoining towns for the weekday twilight services. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Phoebe had said, ‘The games are a little childish sometimes, which is why my parents don’t usually participate.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I got one and sometimes more than one, but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a jobholder. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had laughed and said something like sometimes the only way people took something seriously is if you forced them to. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He never let them see he was upset, though I think sometimes he was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Never had meditative looks come over either of them, the way they came over Old Chao, sometimes, now. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sometimes they tell me things, but of course, I have learned how to listen.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner together, sometimes in the equipment room, sometimes at a restaurant. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I look at you sometimes,” said Valencia, “and I get a funny feeling that you’re just full of secrets.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or hide your book in its birthday suit—after all, sometimes no disguise is the best disguise of all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is what Mami sometimes says to Lucinda when my older sister makes a face: “If looks could kill...” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not upset I’m adopted. I love Mom and Dad and all of that, but sometimes, I just have questions that only strangers can answer.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder if she sees me at all. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A divorced mother of two, Krause dresses stylishly, though her skirts are sometimes on the short side and her blouses a little snug. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But sometimes when Uhmma is tired of playing sleep, she stops hiding. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She mentioned that Vermeer’s Lady sometimes seemed to communicate with her. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, sometimes she didn’t even ask; she’d just raise the corner of the blanket, and he’d crawl in. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the past he had always—what would the word be?—strolled from Forest, sometimes whistling. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He called her “Mis’ Creighton” sometimes as his older brothers did when they teased her; it was just a step from the too-bold joke of addressing her by her given name. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes the gators are fast and sometimes they are slow.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all crazy. I almost get dizzy sometimes.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

At mealtimes he sometimes pinched me under the table. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ben was such a self-absorbed idiot sometimes, and I had to remind myself why I still liked him. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sasha and her friends had taken a shine to cable cooking shows and sometimes commandeered the residence kitchen to decorate cookies or whip up elaborate, multicourse meals for themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"I miss the hills of Tennessee sometimes," she said. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I saw him and his dog walking together sometimes, his right hand holding the dog’s harness and his left hand holding the accordion case. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Others are fighting too, even in the Garden, where sometimes it feels like there’s not a lot worth fighting for. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Okay, maybe sometimes my jokes are a little mean, but I only make those jokes behind someone’s back. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was a rope with barbs attached, something Anya had sometimes seen fishermen use to catch fish. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes offer Rosmerta my custom, or else visit the Hog’s Head...or I appear to. It is as good a way as any of disguising one’s true destination.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And sometimes the left foot seemed to be leading, sometimes the right, which made no logical sense at all. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His habits were much like Tar Baby’s but there were no bottles, and Plum was sometimes cheerful and animated. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It smells delicious! You know I love me some Waffle House food, but sometimes...homemade is the best.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We dared not use the main road north, but logging-roads lent their direction to us sometimes for a while, and as the forest was kept clear of fallen trees and undergrowth we got on well. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The little boys actually managed to sleep at midday, sometimes even piled atop one another like damp, steaming puppies. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Could that explain why sometimes otherwise normal people come to conclusions that are completely and catastrophically wrong? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I still miss her. Meeka. She left her iPod behind and I still listen to it sometimes. Good playlists. She wanted to be a DJ.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The boy noticed that sometimes his mother would stop singing when she put the food pan down at the edge of the porch. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the screechers had sharp curved claws on each front foot, and sometimes those left marks. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Though it’s weird in a good way sometimes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Slim. Slim comes in sometimes two, three times a night. Slim’s a real skinner. He looks out for his team.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he would often explain his reasoning to me: a glare from the constable, too many fond sighs from the young wives in town But sometimes he had no reason. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We used to come here sometimes, to go swimming on really hot days. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My chest gets tight sometimes and it’s like breathing through pudding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They are coiled around with a lattice of roots, which sometimes form the shapes of cages, sometimes balconies, and sometimes what appear more like tightropes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It challenged me and humbled me, lifted me up and shrank me down, sometimes all at once. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe everyone was right, maybe she did let her imagination run away with her, and maybe she could be a baby sometimes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. I don’t have lots of friends, so I forget how to act around people sometimes.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But he often talks to me and sometimes stops by my place for a minute, because I listen to him. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The air itself smelled burnt, the way a soup kettle sometimes smelled if it was left on the fire too long and all the soup boiled away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I won’t tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The temperatures in August consistently reached over 100 degrees for days and sometimes weeks at a time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When he had been drinking, Paul Ellis would sometimes sit with his son on their porch telling the boy stories about the glory days before the Civil War. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I could hold them in my hand sometimes,” she added, as if she thought to herself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski confessed that it was her favorite season and told Nadia that she sometimes felt guilty because she thought she ought to prefer spring, with its pledge to make the lilies bloom again. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tenderly rubbed my neck sometimes when I sat at the foot of his reclining chair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Sticky atoms are caused by love, or sometimes by hate or fear. The knackery has a hard time breaking down love and hate into anything else.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But every now and then the strap of a camera would snap, or a handful of change would fall out of someone's pocket—and sometimes even a wallet like this! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His intensity and loneliness are, and so are the gun magazines that she sometimes sees him thumbing through during boring lectures, and the way he doesn’t even seem to feel guilty for what he did. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, it's only sometimes. But still. Just stop.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“His teeth are worn off. I have to feed him warm mash with my fingers. And he has bad dreams. He shivers and cries sometimes in his sleep.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know sometimes Grammy has a hard time talking about things, but I can tell she’s not mad at me, and I’m not mad at her. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Dad was often kept late at the theater, and sometimes he did not come home until after we were in bed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is one of the training areas. We try for mostly organic materials, but this wooden set was donated, and it works; sometimes that’s the best we can do,” Dr. Martin says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Recently, she’s been using text abbreviations out loud sometimes, even though she never uses them in actual text messages. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Still, sometimes, they take the body away, so coyotes and vultures won’t eat it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was always saying things were settled, and then sometimes they were, and sometimes they weren’t. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, sometimes there’s moments in life when a body is just bound to do what it’s got to do. Sounds to me that’s what happened to Aden.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously many of them were known to one another, for as they hobbled along in ones and twos and sometimes small groups, they exchanged greetings and news. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes what he wanted most was the hug. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"When they get frightened or dizzy, sometimes they hold on to the mule too tight. They don't like that." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It builds and builds all day, tightening my throat and chest, and sometimes I feel it in my face. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I watched him sometimes, unable to stop myself — from a distance, though, in the cafeteria or parking lot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They used to forget for three, four days—sometimes a week,” the stonecutter said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And sometimes it helps even just to remember that. It helps me a lot.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We have a lot of frozen stuff. My dad grills sometimes. My grandma used to live with us and she made really good Polish food, but...” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Anyone who failed to get his message through in three minutes, as I sometimes failed to do when trying to impress him, Phineas, with my sanctity, wasn’t trying. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach roiled and heaved, yet she kept on, her face smeared with the heartsblood that sometimes seemed to explode against her lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My legs are long, so I can cover a lot of ground, even if I have to dodge people left and right and sometimes leap over their heads. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Scoob closes his eyes and takes one of the deep breaths Drake sometimes has to take when there’s too much going on and he gets overwhelmed. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don’t mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You should see, sometimes brothers come from as far away as New jersey to hear him talk.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Back in Chicago, separated again from Barack, I still sometimes went to my old happy-hour gatherings, though I rarely stayed out late. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For me, the most humbling lessons came when I visited military communities and met with soldiers' spouses—groups of mostly women, though sometimes with a few men mixed in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And, sometimes, between steps, I thought about my mom, and how she’d have no one to pull the blankets up on when they fell asleep. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mild Mrs. Dent talked with good-natured Mrs. Eshton; and the two sometimes bestowed a courteous word or smile on me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The outer regions of the star may sometimes get blown off in a tremendous explosion called a supernova, which would outshine all the other stars in its galaxy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved those children as if they were her own flesh and blood, although sometimes she would call them by the names of those long dead. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Hanako thought about how she sometimes did the wrong thing when she didn’t think her parents would find out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anansi—sometimes a smiling man, other times a large spider—strolled through a forest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it’s horrible that you can’t ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“In the stories, she also eats children sometimes.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Talking to Ben could make me feel a little claustrophobic sometimes, and I wasn’t even a hot girl. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They talk about their parts, sometimes even ad-libbing lines that are not in the script. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remembered that strangers who arrive at a place where they have no friends, and who want employment, sometimes apply to the clergyman for introduction and aid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

An angel does not need a bed, but sometimes I think the bed needs an angel. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But in centuries past, pulpit preachers, rabble-rousers at political rallies, parliamentarians, and lawyers would be expected to thunder on—sometimes literally for hours—without a shred of a note. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I have seen the way he looks at Mama sometimes, the way he helps her get out of the car, and I know he wishes he could make her whole. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At sunrise I sometimes left the house to walk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon knew no more than she did, of course, though each sometimes remembered things the other had forgotten. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It has sometimes surprised me that I’m not more of a colourist,” he’d said, “because my temperament would certainly lead one to expect that.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She always has a book or a dishrag in her hand, and sometimes both. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One classmate of Marita’s, a boy named Jose, said he sometimes wakes up at three or four a.m., finishes his homework from the night before, and then “goes back to sleep for a bit.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“They sometimes leave us the bodies of people they’ve shot,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Third years at Hog — at my school are allowed to visit the village sometimes,” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to talk about it? I know sometimes when I have a problem, I talk it out with my brother or mom. Even if I don’t find an answer, I feel better anyway.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“In case you forgot,” said Mr. Lemoncello, “Extreme Challenges are extremely challenging and sometimes extremely dangerous.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

"Well, sometimes light shines on the worthy. But sometimes it just shines on the lucky ones. And sometimes..." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When I was carrying the twins I had such desperate cravings I sometimes went out at night on my hands and knees and secretly ate dirt from the garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d say to herself sometimes, “Being his wife would have been no bargain. But to be his friend is simply wonderful.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the outbursts are sometimes held in check by the “soup eaters,” the people from the office who come up to have a cup of soup for lunch. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He scans the murky water for the green snakes that sometimes skim across the waves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes real girls are an alternative to these words and sometimes they’re an incarnation of them, and sometimes they’re just background noise. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I still clip a hurdle sometimes, but I haven’t fallen again—at least not at a meet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

That is the thing with curses—they seem like a bad thing at first, but then sometimes you realize you can’t live without them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Frank would stand for hours in the hot Saturday sun, leaning over so he could get a good look at my stance, sometimes standing in front of me, sometimes behind, sometimes beside. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I dunno. He always talked about other girls, not me. It’s weird though. I thought I was over my crush, but sometimes I don’t know.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Being out in the woods with Gale . . . sometimes I was actually happy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Lazlo, “I feel a little like him sometimes, the love and hate side by side. It’s not easy having a paradox at the core of one’s own being.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: ‘I love him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes you find a small shoot lives.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because relatives were sometimes impossible to locate, the committee began to administer the estates of the deceased who had no legal heirs or executors available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was lots of chores to do, but sometimes, shutting the door quietly, I would lean against the logs and look at the sky and take a few moments for myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, who staked ten thousand on the throw of the dice and laughed, became more hard and mean in business, and sometimes dreamt of money at night. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I sat there for an hour, sometimes two, listening to their laughter, their chatter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the days were so long that it sometimes seemed as if each one was a year. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still surprised by the lack of pain sometimes. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We use animal skins for clothing: to keep us warm, to cover our nakedness and sometimes as a hammock. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t cook much, but if his mom had to work late, he’d make dinner sometimes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sometimes have an empty fridge, yeah, but it used to be guaranteed to fill back up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Only sometimes I’d get too fast and my cards would fall between the slats of the bench onto the ground, and then we had to make the game pause while I picked them up. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Troy fell she had been given to Neoptolemus, sometimes called Pyrrhus, Achilles’ son, the man who had killed old Priam at the altar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunspots, sometimes visible to the naked eye at sunset, are cooler regions of enhanced magnetic field strength. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deen had told her he sometimes sang to Sam at night, but it felt odd to just start singing at the new girl. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When there was important area news— disasters like floods or tornadoes—or sometimes if she came across little stories that seemed cute or original, Alice would call the station news manager in Carrington. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his home-training program—spelling games, geography quizzes, and the arithmetic and languages—we sometimes were prepared to skip; but never so prepared as Dad thought we should be. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes reach out and touch her hand with mine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And even though I know I miss her, sometimes I forget I do at all because I’ve been too excited about being friends with Jamie again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or like how sometimes, the right person walks into your life and you walk into theirs just when you need each other most. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Bum is right, girl. Even worst. Read the police notices in the paper sometimes. They all a bunch of vagrants.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how baseball players sometimes talk about games when the ball seemed to be coming at their bats in slow motion, looking like a gigantic freeze-frame cantaloupe just waiting to be pounded? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia would ask me sometimes over the months that followed as we stood on one stage or another, with celebratory music blasting around us, her young mind unable to grasp anything but the larger purpose. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Like I said, though, sometimes I get angry. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Though I could not read, I sometimes opened the book and looked at the words. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings after dinner, Craig and I would sometimes beg my dad to take us out for an aimless drive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There are shapes around you that sometimes make sense and sometimes don’t. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Spending time with families, even seeing big families in SmartMart or stuffed in a minivan, sometimes did that to me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Other times I saw a man with an ax chopping wood, and sometimes a woman cradling a baby at her breast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Harlem had wonderful rooftops, and sometimes I would take the stairs to ours to sit near the edge overlooking Morningside Avenue and read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Charles was good-natured, and slow to anger, but he was sometimes so disturbed by these anti-Catholic diatribes that his very teacup would clatter upon its saucer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In truth the questions may be variable, but sometimes the answers are not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I have my ways, but sometimes we all got to change. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And sometimes no. Completely depends on the circumstance. If you want to defuse an emotional situation, use the neutral expression. If you're under attack, dominate with the eyes. All right, Mila, you’re next. Ready?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or with pain and sadness, because his father might have been killed, and sometimes grief doesn’t make much sense. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I instantly called again, because sometimes that’s what I do until Tiffany gets Mom. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama would always give him some answer, and sometimes, loud enough for me to hear him, he would say that it wasn’t right for anybody to stay in his room as much as I did. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Boys sometimes show that they like girls in strange ways. When I was your age, boys showed interest in girls by ignoring them or treating them badly.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It didn’t stop them, but it slowed them down and sometimes it confused them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luma enjoyed the calm and quiet of the mountains but sometimes felt lonely. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

If you look closely in a ruined castle even nowadays, you can sometimes find the hooks from which these flashing tapestries were hung. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s beautiful, and sometimes it fills us with terror. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Miss Charlotte Mortimer had sometimes cut them out to read to the girls. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The bus was sometimes late, so I didn’t worry, not until homeroom was almost over and Miss Taylor cleared her throat and said, “Marlee, would you step into the hall with me for a moment?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clinic is a few streets from the ocean, and in the summer sometimes Mom and I walk to the waterfront park while David has his appointment. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have always been so capable, so reliable, that I sometimes forget that you’re still a child.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Iofur threw him off, and then the two bears were at each other again, throwing up fountains of snow that sprayed in all directions and sometimes made it hard to see who had the advantage. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Riding the bikes up the incline was strenuous work, even for boys who ran everywhere and sometimes jumped for no reason at all. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was a small girl, he would sometimes let me stand beside him. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet of rope, a ten-foot plank, and some big steel barrels, what sometimes they call drums. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m a little short of breath sometimes. I guess I’m getting too stout.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Accompanying the noble few in the tombs to the world of the deceased were copper beads and bracelets, stone tablets and collars, textiles and awls, and, sometimes, stone pipes in the shape of surreal animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I recollect—oh, donkey’s years ago—I used to sometimes go to ’Yde Park of a Sunday afternoon to ’ear the blokes making speeches. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was a chore to be happy, even though sometimes, in spite of themselves, they were happy. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But the braggest thing about the feed, the thing that made it really big, is that it knows everything you want and hope for, sometimes before you even know what those things are. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they all influenced each other, sometimes by trade, sometimes by violence, each one developing new techniques, exporting unique goods, and swiping ideas from the others. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I check sometimes to make sure they still there. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The devil, Mexico. He came up in your head, like he do with me sometimes. He who made you kill your brother.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

No matter how tired Celia was—and sometimes she almost fell over with exhaustion—she never neglected this ritual. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same tone, the same piercing depth, that I heard sometimes in Abba when mourners danced past our house, holding the photograph of a dead family member, shouting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fences snapped with melodious twangs as he plowed through, the strands sometimes whizzing past his ears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would sometimes be a large animal, barely real in the dark; then she would become a mother again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it like the electric wires that one sometimes heard in the city? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more, Ralph became for them a funny set of ears that came up sometimes, a lesson about falling for foreign devils. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He circles the model sometimes beaming, sometimes frowning, all the while making weird clucking sounds. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think Ben’s a homo. I see him looking at you real funny sometimes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only form of agriculture they can practice for a long time is "slash-and-burn,” or "swidden,” as it is sometimes known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were too big, sometimes too small. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in the mist, and seem “men like trees walking.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Sometimes we are at the station, and sometimes we are wanderers.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She just sat there on her swing, rocking back and forth, staring at me, nodding sometimes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she went on; “I sometimes thought: ‘She will never come. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the boys were working on-site, sometimes I’d go along to drive the loader or forklift or crane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the winter, the manatees are all around us and sometimes dolphins swim up to the dock. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The God of Fire, sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and Hera, sometimes of Hera alone, who bore him in retaliation for Zeus’s having brought forth Athena. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very often she was unmarried or in her teens or poor, and sometimes all three. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In classical Latin, from which the phrase derives, an orbis is usually a flat disc, but sometimes it is an orb or globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Electricity,” Uri had once said, explaining why our lightbulb used to work only sometimes when we lived like kings in the cellar of the barbershop. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I was recognized by some other detectives who, like Joe Baker, sometimes dropped in at Small’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ride the El sometimes and make up stories in my head about the people. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mail call took place once a month, and sometimes six months would go by without a letter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, sometimes I hated you and mom for pretending he was dead.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were a few who were not happy with the attention I sometimes got. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

At the urging; of my father, sometimes on my lunch break, I would drive over to check up on her, make sure she was doing okay, because she was now in her eighties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In these boats were sometimes other chambermaids, the kind who went to illegal parties in people’s rooms to drink rye and ginger ale out of paper cups, and were rumored to go all the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother sometimes made chicken, but it was always out of packets or frozen, and was very dry, and it never tasted of anything. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At home, sometimes Naomi let Beto fix her hair, too, but he couldn’t ask for a turn out here. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They never say that girls are cute, though, even though I definitely notice stuff like that sometimes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dull pain in his belly never went away, but sometimes it grew better and sometimes worse, and his thoughts expanded or contracted accordingly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was terribly proud, sometimes absurdly proud, and he refused to defer to any man. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cassandra would sometimes turn up at our back door and politely ask Mom or Dad if I was home and would like to play. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The cat-o’-nine-tails was generally made of six strands of hard, waxed cord, sometimes metal-tipped, that were attached to a hickory handle about a foot and a half long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So few people I met in those years had even heard of it, and those who had knew so little about it, sometimes I imagined I had made the whole thing up, dreamed it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sometimes turned up three days in a row and then they wouldn't see him again for nearly a week. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What Daddy means is that sometimes Uncle Jack isn’t...all the way in touch with reality.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When I was little, street-corner dudes like that would sometimes lower their shades to wink, keen on getting a rise out of the white girl in the backseat passing by. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I started stopping by her apartment sometimes after school. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I can imagine, as if I were in his place, how despondent he must sometimes feel at the quarrels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The bus is loud but not as loud as sometimes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He then told them many remarkable stories, sometimes half as if speaking to himself, sometimes looking at them suddenly with a bright blue eye under his deep brows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because my mom sometimes called me her “little turtle.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If it was clear, the stars were out or sometimes the moon was up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was like a bundle all pink and screaming sometimes that I couldnt sleep. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But Nanny, Ah wants to want him sometimes. Ah don’t want him to do all de wantin’.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Over there? That’s the Scoop Sloop, where we get ice cream sometimes. I’ll get you some vanilla yogurt next time we go.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I know how most of us treat most of you. Sometimes we have a choice about that; sometimes we don’t. But I never wanted to hurt you.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tended to leave the room when religion came up in conversation because it made me uncomfortable; Deborah’s family tended toward preaching, faith healings, and sometimes voodoo. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even the boy’s own family is scared to death; sometimes fear of police intimidation makes them hesitate to acknowledge that the boy is a blood relation of theirs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad make a real team sometimes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And Barack, if he was lucky, could sometimes squeeze in a daytime round of golf on the course at Andrews Air Force Base, which left him more relaxed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was delicate, thin, with a curiosity that unnerved the adults, but unlike the inquisitive and sometimes clairvoyant look that the colonel had at his age, his look was blinking and somewhat distracted. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some of Mrs. Anderson’s circle, who recognized Bessie as her girl, sometimes even smiled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And it only sometimes made her feel like a traitor to think so. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him about the generations of workers who fought and sometimes died for the ten-hour day and then the eight, although this is very much on my mind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This woman, with whom she sometimes spent an hour or so in the afternoons, and her landlady, were the only people she saw. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hoagland, the human black cloud, had noticed this too, mentioned it sometimes as indicative of our good camaraderie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, sometimes, he’d think of the picture, and try to harness Prince Henry’s easy confidence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had these thoughts sometimes, and it gave me a kind of vertigo. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The two of them were speaking sometimes, as the words came to them, between spells of listening to the evening. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I’ve said enough, Sometimes I know what my place is and sometimes I have my doubts, but I’ll eventually get where I want to be! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ma often lamented the fact that she could not afford to buy us fruit, sometimes for weeks at a time, but we didn’t mind. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems sometimes that the old lessons are bein’ lost in the worry of new things happenin’ each day, Ma,” he said quietly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: “Fake it till you make it.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part she was able to keep it at bay and work the row, but sometimes it was all she could do to stay upright until the sun sank. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She gets bathed and groomed every other week, with bows and ribbons and sometimes even toenail glitter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This started a discussion about art theft, and about how thieves sometimes cut canvases out of frames. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako did not know if he imagined the same thing over and over, or if maybe he sometimes saw green melons and sometimes orange ones, all different colors. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what makes her come sometimes and leave others. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was unusual for daemons to speak to humans other than their own, but it happened sometimes, and she spoke now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Really, Gen was more trouble than she was worth sometimes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

You had to lean forward and sometimes catch at brushes with your hands. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think that is extramarkable and smart, and sometimes I think it is so sadful that peoples have to worry about invaders. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have never enjoyed flying much, and while this was the most frightening episode I have ever had on a plane, I am sometimes adept at appearing brave and I pretended that I was unconcerned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind closed doors, those in museums or in positions of authority in the art world were deep in complicated, sometimes angry discussions. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why in God’s name can’t you pick out somebody decent to defend sometimes? Somebody who’ll appreciate it. Why do you Reds take up with scum like this. . . ?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the kids, when they were young, sometimes couldn’t tell the difference. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her friends sometimes called her Mama Bear for this reason. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother sometimes invited my grammar school friends to stay for dinner or even to stay overnight. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fast-paced, repetitive maneuvers distracted me, and sometimes I went back at night to skate again, returning home only when it was late and I was exhausted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I shouldn’t have, but some stupid voice in my head sometimes says it will be different this time and I try. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

His hands and feet would be tied, and then, sometimes with a guard’s knee on his back, he would be sprayed directly in the face. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He wasn’t perfect or anything. He wasn’t your fairytale Prince Charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but I liked him best when that stuff fell away.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I knew the first song: Mama sang it sometimes when Jaja and I brought our report cards home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every occasion became a study situation, even the parties that sometimes followed the meetings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, “Will Ms. Min let me wear my earmuffs sometimes?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My uncle says that sometimes two people come into the world having the same fight they left the world having. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t. But I pass him in the hallway sometimes.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He sometimes looked sheepishly at his goblin host. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t enjoy it very much, though; the fight Sam had had with Father the night before still hung around me the way a bad dream does sometimes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I witnessed and was sometimes invited to join christening and baptism parties, communion and wedding lunches, graduation dinners, wakes and funeral receptions. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As far as he was concerned, mine was the slowest, most no-tips time of day, and sometimes he’d stick around most of that hour teaching me things, for he didn’t want to see me fired. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gets up and starts nodding like he sometimes does, the repetitive nodding that tells me he's convincing himself of something. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

But that is stupid too because sometimes the children from the school down the road see us in the street when we’re getting off the bus and they shout, “Special Needs! Special Needs!” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I like imagining that I am there sometimes, in a spherical metal submersible with windows that are 30 cm thick to stop them from imploding under the pressure. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, in this place where Mr. Sen has brought me, I cannot sometimes sleep in so much silence.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In Harlem hundreds of poor people invested their pennies, nickels, and sometimes dollars in the hope that they would hit it big. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A way to...I guess, sometimes even shut myself up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if there was an attack on the nest,” he says, “It happens sometimes.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ma knows me better’n I know myself sometimes, but she don’t have this straight. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Mrs. Trent, sometimes it's cookies, sometimes it's a question about how to make her VCR work, or maybe it's a piece of our junk mail that got delivered to her house. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t you think I’m to be pitied sometimes? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Hazel could see the whole conversation play out in her head—I know it’s hard, honey, but sometimes we have to do hard things in life. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Philip would sometimes hear them, blush, but silently agree. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other men sat around slumped into their own sorrows, listening to the Nigerians trade their stories, sometimes laughing, sometimes self-pitying. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She hoped, though, he would sometimes listen to advice from her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His love- making is unpredictable; sometimes he is avid, sometimes routine, sometimes absent-minded, as if doodling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I’d learned from Nan that even one shot was sometimes one too many. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In the brief periods of rest he was sometimes able to gather a little food—a few wild mushrooms here, a handful of fern sprouts there. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Going out of his way to get along sometimes paid off. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was punctilious about all court regulations, but I sometimes used unorthodox tactics with witnesses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, sometimes they watched videos in science, but today they were supposed to continue working on their theories and experiments. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes she didn’t know what she wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He does that sometimes after he’s deejayed at a big event. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We agreed on everything, and I’d say it remained that way pretty much through our marriage. He still says to me sometimes, ‘We were the best team ever.’ Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or why Mom’s “friends” sometimes spent the night. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder if any of these amazing things would have happened if I hadn’t crashed at the 2013 Secret Classic. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When parents fight they sometimes pretend the kids don’t understand or they speak in super obvious code and expect the kids to pretend with them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Each kanji was made up of separate lines, called “strokes,” and a single kanji could have more than thirty strokes—sometimes many more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So I sometimes escape to the corridor;—there I can move about more freely. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still miss my mom a lot. I try not to think about it, but sometimes it just hits me.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But the danger to me personally...the danger to me personally still walked and talked and sometimes sat with Alice in her cabin in the evening as she nursed Hagar. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

But all of a sudden, more than you know, he’s outside somewhere, sometimes even alone, crossing the streets, scaling rocks, wrestling with dogs, swimming in pits, getting into everything mechanical and combustible and toxic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same five harvesters were there, and Elvio talked and joked with them all, sometimes in English but mostly in Spanish. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“After your Grandma Luna—” He’s going for wisdom, but the real wisdom is knowing there sometimes isn’t any. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There’s also a distinction sometimes made between figures of speech and figures of thought. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They were to be identified by the maps they might sometimes consult and, on questioning, by their too-perfect English and their ignorance of common nursery rhymes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But perhaps in part because inmates cannot be “broken” as quickly as they used to be, their sentences in these segregation units now drag on and on, sometimes for years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always had at least two and sometimes four golden retrievers when her girls were little, all the way until she died. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But sometimes—when the angle is right and Shoji doesn't notice I'm looking at him—I can see our dad and none of our mom at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It had been eleven years since she died and sometimes Sefia couldn’t remember her face, but she remembered the texture of the needle-fine lines on her mother’s hands, the smell of the soil. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Inwardly he rejoiced, for his father sometimes talked to him when he smelled of brandy, sometimes even told things he had done in the wild days when he was a boy. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did worry sometimes that a person could climb over the boundary wall and jump into my room. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They both played around on the block, and sometimes they would wrestle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She got up to go visit her neighbor Edna Whaler; she had always wanted to get to know the pretty black American woman who sometimes brought her cloth-covered plates of American biscuits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Junior and I would sometimes fight for the hammock, and if he got it, I would trick him by loosening its ropes so that he would fall once he sat in it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When he wore a necktie around his neck, which was as seldom as possible, he sometimes evened up the ends by trimming the longer with a pair of scissors. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother infuriated him sometimes; but still, she was his only living family, the only person alive who loved him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Good for you. We always try to save the world. But sometimes the world doesn’t want to be saved.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But sometimes blacks would win the job with an offer to do the work for lower wages, leaving the immigrants resentful and hostile. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Not really these parts, but my pops plays ball sometimes at the court down the street." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Because of this, the businessmen and ad men liked to sit in her section, and they usually left an extra dollar—or sometimes a five—on the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They treat me very well. And I don’t know how I go about it. Sometimes I even have to rent a hall and advertise, sometimes I speak to the principal of the high school.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even liked it sometimes during the early morning workouts that were held twice a week before classes started inside the school gymnasium. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can’t get it off. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Arawak- speaking groups migrated in from the south and west, sometimes apparently driving Tupi-speaking groups north and east. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly to care very much and to sleep to wake with it sometimes morning and all that had been ttjere gone and every-thing sharp and hard and clear and sometimes a dispute about the cost. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They doubled the Horn. And sometimes they got home again. But what about all the ships that don’t come home? If ‘sailing by book’ makes men a little safer, what’s wrong with it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I would join the other widows for a dinner of curried lentils or rice, sometimes with a bit of fish or some morsels of chicken. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

While there are some memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Over the years his accent had diminished only marginally, and when they spoke, Mrs. Richardson was sometimes reduced to nodding and smiling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But my smile quickly fades as I realize that Papa Legba may open doors, but sometimes he leads you through a labyrinth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Luke and I used to walk together, sometimes, along these streets. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Adults can’t see them. Most other kids don’t, but sometimes they can hear.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The world is sometimes just, and I spent the next eighteen months sick in bed with a mysterious illness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sometimes necessary to kill people, for example; and it was so much less troubling for the assassin if he could do so in a state of grace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s similar to the way Adah will sometimes turn up knowing some entire, difficult thing like French or the square root of pi when I’d been taking for granted I knew everything she did. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he does make up his own rules sometimes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

People say it's bad, and sometimes it is, but I like to focus on the positives. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sometimes. A child takes us out and puts us in a pen on the grass.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were together constantly, it seemed; they finished each other’s sentences, they talked in a patois of inside jokes and shared references that sometimes she barely understood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the final days before the Poughkeepsie Regatta, another big sports story dominated the headlines on sports pages and sometimes on front pages around the country—the story of a heavyweight boxing match. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They knew him like they knew that Old Charlie Valentine preferred his chickens to his great-grandchildren, and sometimes let them roost in the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were simply abbreviated versions of longer commands he sometimes called out in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Only sometimes as he lifted the ropes of creeper aside and chose his direction from the trend of the land, he mouthed words that did not reach the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I have scenes in my mind sometimes where I ask him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to live in reality sometimes,” her mother continued. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Shawn said no teenage girl was trustworthy, and that in his experience those who seemed pious were sometimes the worst of all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We sometimes look through our collection nostalgically, the way other families look through old photos. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The real news. evenings, as we lay on our cots, we sometimes tried to sing a few Hasidic melodies. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Always,” Amari promised again, even though she knew that keeping promises was sometimes impossible in life. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes glazed with illness and her whole body was hot although she trembled sometimes with cold. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes unlock the smokehouse so Teenie could choose a smoked meat if nothing fresh was available. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We all go to the White Plastic Kitchen sometimes,” the navigator says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I see you and him together sometimes when you think nobody’s looking. You can make him do just about anything you want him to do.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even after her mother married Henry, sometimes Naomi slept next to her when he was away working in an oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had never felt the comfortable silence we shared as we cleaned the rice, carefully, because the grains were stunted and sometimes looked like the glassy stones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would read to her at her bedside as her condition worsened, and he prayed, sometimes blaming himself like he’d done when he was abused. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Carol has another best friend, who is sometimes her best friend and sometimes not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus and I waved hello to each other, and we sometimes talked a little, except when he didn’t notice I was there, which was about half the time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Such, as Rochester had sometimes pointed out, was the advice of God. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However, strong drink sometimes tempts men to wicked actions.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a number of years California rice growers have been treating seed with DDT as protection against tadpole shrimp and scavenger beetles which sometimes damage seedling rice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They do laugh at him sometimes, but Stefan is the one with the saddest eyes of all. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The spelling,” a fellow German said of Fuchs’s name, “sometimes caused people to pronounce it in a somewhat embarrassing way.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t let yourself go to the sad place for too long. Folks sometimes plop themselves right in the middle of it and get real comfortable.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Members of those chiefly lineages did not intermarry with commoners but only with each other, sometimes even with siblings or half-siblings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, when we share our own stories, they do all three at once. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Even David, my old high school boyfriend, sometimes dropped in to seek his counsel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Them kids is sweet, but sometimes I just don’t know. Charmaine! Get the hell outside and go play on your bike before I come slap your face off. Hold the line, Irene.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how I sometimes stepped aside for them instead. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“They sometimes kill,” said Ron, who looked unusually grave now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes Shin sees himself through the eyes of his new self, and sometimes he sees himself through the eyes of the guards in the camp,” said Andy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, I would be sent to a neighbor’s house to ask for help. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Nina Yegorova-Arefjeva, an armorer for the 46th Guards, said that “sometimes, when our planes were throttled back gliding in over the target, the Germans would cry out, ‘Night witches!’, and our crews could hear them.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But on the edges of the plans he made other drawings, sometimes trees, sometimes faces or animals or bugs, sometimes just figures that you couldn’t make out at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"In Maine the barns are attached to the houses sometimes," said Sarah. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Being dyslexic is one mark of a demigod, but sometimes I really hate it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My dad shows me tricks sometimes. There are a lot of tricks to drawing. I can show you.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lapham’s selections for his boys were sometimes designed to point out some fault in a member of his household, especially in the reader. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs Boland made him drinks, and meals, and brought him toffees, sometimes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I could never stay awake when I was that little, and I wish I could, because my brother and sister talk about those moments sometimes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wet clothes froze solid when you tried to dry them anywhere but right next to the fireplace—but when you dried them there, they sometimes ended up burned. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I knew that people sometimes died climbing mountains. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way teachers sometimes look at the end of a really long day right before spring break. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But it would be nice to be direct for a change, I sometimes wonder if any of us remember how. Why did you leave London?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Lyanna might have carried a sword, if my lord father had allowed it. You remind me of her sometimes. You even look like her." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Garfield stayed good-natured, sometimes showing his sense of humor. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although my mother—having a master’s degree in psychology and working on her doctorate—is a trained listener, she sometimes over-listens, especially when it comes to me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get like this sometimes when I think about how big the universe could be. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

So sometimes, when it rained, the woman would ask for a ride home from a colleague. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But sometimes Smitty'd get to asking questions about Mama dying—stuff I didn't care to talk about. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“These storms will dig them up sometimes. Just replant them is all.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, downloading software and MP3s was sometimes agonizingly slow; even worse, they’d gotten their butts kicked when they went online to play Quake or Half-Life against geeks who did have cable modems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could change into a small dog or a cat, and sometimes he would make himself look like a very tiny version of Papa. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I kept in touch with Farmer by email—he wrote almost every day—and sometimes in person. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For very big or very small numbers, so-called scientific notation is often clearer and easier to work with than standard notation and I’ll therefore sometimes use it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama always packed a lunch for me, but after such a breakfast, sometimes I was not hungry, so I would give my food away to some of the poor children who attended our school.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane’s attractions. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

If the club is not crowded—which it rarely is downstairs anymore—Flora will sometimes give Mr. Go her company for three or four songs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He often weighed no less than twenty-two stone, and sometimes as much as twenty-five. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, White sometimes met with his team in the countryside, the men huddling in the dark like fugitives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What’s more, they doubted that he had ever taken a woman into the back seat, because rumor was that he went to “bad houses” or lay, sometimes, with a slack or lonely female tenant. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mira, honey, sometimes we have to do things we don’t like.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I was a child, sometimes Madoc would have to stop in the middle of a game of Nine Men’s Morris. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At night, sometimes teenagers would park there on dates or sneak off to drink beer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes she won’t do at all—like right now when she is pushing me to stay with my original choice of law. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even when two people really, really love each other, like your dad and me, sometimes life gets in the way.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe sometimes the strongest thing of all is knowing that one day you’ll be all right again, and waiting and waiting until you can come out into the sun. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Although integration is a worthy goal, it is sometimes not feasible. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He shrugged, and we’d keep going like that for hours sometimes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I sometimes saw him pausing before walking up a flight of stairs, as if needing to think through the maneuver before actually attempting it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Not only was I not recognized, I was sometimes snubbed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I might forget to be on the lookout. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Though she applauds their self-confidence, Letitia Lundeen, the antiques dealer, says she is sometimes appalled by what she considers the cavalier ignorance of some women who are suddenly rich. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had been on crutches for about a year, and sometimes he cried because he wasn’t able to play football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time at after-school we studied and learned things, but sometimes they gave us classes on how to be more healthy. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She cheered on these newly arrived fugitives, working herself, finding work for them, finding food for them, praying for them, sometimes begging for them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a hard time getting into other people’s heads sometimes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When the weather was warmer I sometimes paused beneath the juniper tree and looked at the stained ground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all the risk I’d taken, risking Mother finding out about her coming down here once or twice a year sometimes, and me having to tell Mother lies about it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irene and I called it summer snow, and sometimes we’d squint into the dry glare and try to catch cotton on our tongues. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help wondering if they were sometimes laughing at me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She never does tell me what the point is but Devon says sometimes you just have to do what a teacher or librarian says even if you think it’s stupid. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The "shell" of an atom isn’t some hard shiny casing, as illustrations sometimes encourage us to suppose, but simply the outermost of these fuzzy electron clouds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The members whoop and pump their fists and form a line, sometimes shoving one another out of the way to get a better place. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The colors appear in geometric shapes like spirals or balls or zigzags, that sort of thing. Or sometimes just a hazy patch of colored air.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t every day that the arrest came to him, but late at night it was sometimes difficult to send away his anger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That sometimes we let the world make it hard. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They are subtle and complex and surprisingly common, and what happened on Wheeler Avenue is a powerful example of how mind reading works—and how it sometimes goes terribly awry. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You are merely a child, and children are sometimes the cruelest of all. You have taken everything from me. For that, I curse you, daughter of Indra,” said Shukra. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom said that sometimes what she drew when she let her hand take over helped her understand herself better. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of losing Lucinda to the United States of America, hard as she sometimes is on me, is too sad to think about. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The cooking and baking become a group effort, with Siunek and Max and even Schillinger sometimes lending a hand, since he had always been the one to peel the potatoes for his wife. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There is no television to watch in the evenings, just an old stereo on which they sometimes play a symphony or jazz. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then I wanted her to tell me that it was OK, because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is because, sometimes, when Uncle was giving her a good clout to the ear, he missed his mark and delivered a good clout to Mig’s nose instead. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

We still sometimes do that today: For example, gingerbread mixes sugar with spices such as ginger, clove, and nutmeg. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Not that boy. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. All them Odoms are like that. Good-hearted. Kinda wild sometimes, those brothers of his. But good-hearted.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you sometimes mistake icicles for carrots? Or wagons for outhouses?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All about, the forest spoke, sometimes sounds of animals, sometimes the white whirr of insect wings, sometimes only the trees shifting gently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was going on seven, and she worshiped him, which was OK sometimes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the moustache twitches first, followed by the raising of both eyebrows, but sometimes the brows go up first and the moustache twitch follows. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes there seems to be almost deliberate deception. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a funny feeling that traveled down Bridge’s legs sometimes—a zinging rush to her feet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Conversion from the old religions to Christianity took several forms across Europe: sometimes through peaceful persuasion, sometimes through conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He is sometimes called the Edison of the Internet. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I chose—I like the Psalms and Ecclesiastes—and sometimes I just opened it at random. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Viola doted on her, which was odd since she barely tolerated the other cats—the Outside Cats—and sometimes swept them off the back porch with her broom. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But sometimes life doesn’t give you all that many chances at being good. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You probably know that, but I still mix them up sometimes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Folks didn’t travel much then, and anyone from somewhere else sometimes had to prove himself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rough weather sometimes. But I’ll say this for it—I was never becalmed!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he sometimes felt the temptation and although Nigromanta herself might have seemed to him as the natural culmination of a shared nostalgia, he did not go to bed with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Amy’s face was full of trouble, but she only said, “Don’t people put sort of postscripts to their wills, sometimes?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So apart from the very occasional town or ski resort, New Hampshire is primarily, sometimes rather dauntingly, wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice, she knew, was an old person’s voice now, too soft sometimes, too tentative. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On business trips, Jack was sometimes able to see Moniek, who moved to the United States in 1950, settled in New York State, and worked in the construction business. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs barked at his heels wherever his long-legged stride carried him, and he snarled back at them, sometimes even spitting, which only made the flea-bitten mongrels yap more hysterically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And remember: sometimes life’s answers are hidden in poetry. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Hummed so that girls in his apartment building sometimes put their babies up on top of the machines and let the vibrations lull them into sleep. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But other aspects of her job continued to be dangerous, and sometimes the peril came from an unexpected direction. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If you look at some of the Internet servers that store songs, you can sometimes find his music in the alternative section and sometimes in the electronica section and sometimes in the unclassified section. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Is this really the sun? I thought Helios and Selene were the sun and moon gods. How come sometimes it’s them and sometimes it’s you and Artemis?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You push things too far, sometimes, Ryan Dean. Just your luck.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s just—sometimes what you wear doesn’t really match, you know? It’s a little confusing.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I actually wondered sometimes if Ellie hadn’t gotten into that popular group because of her hair, which was just the right color and length to fit in. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

During training it had sometimes seemed as if I was going off to fight monsters, not human beings. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he kept working on the book, veering away from it sometimes to help Frank with his beetles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goldstein himself, it was said, had sometimes been seen there, years and decades ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“But you are very young, child. You don’t understand how sometimes evil can seem innocent and harmless. ’Tis dangerous for you to see that woman. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Viola are both faster than Ben and sometimes we have to slow down to let him catch up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nelson sometimes found oranges and manioc and even meat in our kitchen house when nothing was there the night before. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Jack tried not to think about his family, thoughts of them sometimes sneaked up on him. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I begged and practiced my catechism, Mother would sometimes let me go home with Constantine on Friday afternoons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The people ahead of us had made a path in the grass with their running, so we followed that, but sometimes we had to scramble through thorny bushes that scratched as we passed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beetle endured their anger and their taunts in silence and complained only to the cat, who listened and sometimes rubbed his head on her legs in sympathy. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The gods are busy. They have a lot of kids and they don’t always ... Well, sometimes they don’t care about us, Percy. They ignore us.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

How sometimes when Moms falls asleep in front of the TV we’ll sneak out of the apartment and walk around the neighborhood, looking into other people’s windows, watching them sleep. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is sometimes difficult to discern performer from patron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All day long, and sometimes all night, he turned the problem around and around in his mind. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Moral of the story here: Bad news is sometimes best not broadcast. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then sometimes at home he would stare at Hanako—or even just at a wall—in a way that was strange. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In milder cases, he sometimes counseled that a soldier be discharged from his normal duties and given desk work instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The onlookers in the square will gasp and shriek— sometimes in delight—when the shooting happens. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When it rains the tires hiss on the street and when there’s a real rain with the wind blowing sometimes you can hear it against the tin sign over Billy’s bicycle shop. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Padre Leo is so disheveled that visitors sometimes mistake him for one of the poor, dirty migrants sitting outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They found that if they cleaned an infected wound with chemicals such as carbolic acid, bromine, nitric acid, and iodine, they could sometimes heal it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Or sometimes he lets you bring one?” she said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But sometimes there is a team that wants it more. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We took a lot of the same electives, we were nice to each other in class, and sometimes we talked about hanging out, but we never did. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The line for water was always crowded, and sometimes the water would run out after we waited in line all day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His embarrassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It happened so long ago, sometimes it feels like I’m just telling someone else’s story. Another person’s life that I've memorized.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Nor can we leave success out of the history of parliamentary democracy or the novel; but democracies sometimes fail, and sometimes the novels get worse not better. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You hev hedged Ma’s question, Cousin Wilse. What about the right and wrong of one man ownin’ the body— and sometimes it looks as if the soul, too—of another man?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this new life is sometimes hard for my brothers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had played his junior year with a kind of seething emotion that sometimes dissolved into quick frustration and dis-couragement. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Carla’s letters to me, a messy censor must read them because the envelopes come torn and taped, with whole sentences sometimes blocked out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, sometimes it seems to be getting fainter, and then it comes back. Don’t you think it’s darker today?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The storage room, Harmonee, working on our two cities...it helps. I still think about doing bad things sometimes. I’m not completely better, but I feel like I could be better.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Kelly emphasized some of the wrong words, and she still sometimes flubbed Charlotte’s first line by saying “SalutaTAtions” instead of “Salutations.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the jolting hurt Old Yeller till sometimes he couldn’t hold back his whinings. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I don’t really...I sometimes say too much. Or want to say too much. I didn’t mean to be insensitive.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Jesse spends much of his time on Hotline, talking to friends all over the country and around the world about music, software, sometimes actual news. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing that made my heart race was how Sahil could be so adorkable around me sometimes, tripping over his shoes and stuff, and other times, he was so smoothly, dashingly confident. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There is no such position officially, but it sometimes came into existence through necessity, and was the opposite of a sinecure. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, sometimes at night I still cry about them, I’m not ashamed to admit it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy says that houses this old sometimes tend to stretch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was an inspired hunch—what she and William sometimes called a “Golden Guess.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d noticed that colors sometimes left their shapes when things flashed by so fast. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I know. I stuck my head into my job, raising you and Charlie. And Charlie, I don't know. He went somewhere inside himself. You see it. See the way he sits there staring off sometimes." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But sometimes he would suddenly sprint, furious ten- or twenty-second bursts, as though trying to leave him self behind. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is because people who break codes can sometimes do so by hearing or seeing the same sound or symbol appearing many times. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same way I felt sometimes, being friendless in a new town and not having a mama to comfort me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Two steps forward sometimes requires one step back.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, sometimes referred to as the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, developed in what is now the northeastern part of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that Mr. Beach wanted to quiet him down, too, before he and Father got into a real fight the way they sometimes did. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her she could hear the murmur of their voices, edged sometimes with malice, sometimes rising in mockery, sometimes touched with a laughter almost of kinship, and she walked on dreamily, hearing them come behind. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurt happens here just like everywhere else. Sometimes you can deal with it, sometimes you just got to get some help.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It depended, sir, on his mood. Sometimes he’d get up for breakfast, sometimes he wouldn’t get up till just on lunch time.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria was noisy with kids laughing and talking sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in a combination bouncing back and forth between languages. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later I received a letter from him that said, in effect, that when he, too, sometimes had doubts, he relied on his faith to carry him through. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sometimes worked with Sonny, driving a truck. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was black and long, almost down to his ankles, like the old cowboy coats you see in the movies sometimes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

You could win in checkers like that, sometimes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, he knew it, but that was what warriors sometimes had to do. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They worked as fast as they could, yanking pods off sometimes two at a time because they didn’t want to be out there all day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jam rubbed her upper arm as they stepped outside after the movie; the theater had been chilly, and sometimes the hormone implant in her arm ached when she got cold. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The clinic treated hundreds of people every day, who came sometimes from great distances, by foot, on donkey, or on the overcrowded passenger trucks on Highway 3. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In Britain, “corn” can mean the principal cereal crop in a region—oats in Scotland, for example, are sometimes referred to by the term. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about maps, like the way sometimes when I was a kid I would look at atlases, and just the looking was kind of like being somewhere else. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’s so tall that sometimes she has to duck her head just to walk in through a doorway, but she’s so quiet that if she had a superpower, it’d be invisibility. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, rat beard wigs will do that sometimes,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, sometimes five, rarely ten, the door opens again. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every few miles the states provided places of rest off the roads, sheltered places sometimes near dark streams. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colton might be stingy with words sometimes, but he sure chose the right ones when it counted. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

You can see how confusing it was when you realize that sometimes Sam’s side was called Patriots and sometimes they were called Rebels. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every class, an Executive first presented the day’s material, then the material was reviewed—and sometimes the review was reviewed—and then the students were given a quiz over the previous day’s lesson. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She said, ‘The rich gets richer and the poor gets children and sometimes the rich gets the poor’s children.’ Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I work twelve, sometimes fourteen hours a day and when I come home I just want to go to sleep,” she said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was getting, he judged, three meals in the twenty-four hours; sometimes he wondered dimly whether he was getting them by night or by day. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The rumble of the big guns started as soon as it was light enough to see and sometimes lasted far into the night. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One word, over and over again. They love to repeat themselves. I’ve had one word go on to cover a whole page sometimes.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama treats our special family dinners as if they're a block party—she invites the whole building, and sometimes even all of Jefferson and Bushwick Avenues too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we use wishful language to talk about the past, we sometimes make it more complicated than it needs to be. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d have never known that you knew anything about airplanes if we didn’t just hang out sometimes.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evans recounted, “I had no idea that I was talking to a future world’s champion, just a very young master with great intensity. It was the beginning of a long and sometimes turbulent friendship.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was talking to him because she had no one else to talk to, like his mother did sometimes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What would he be doing here? He sometimes works Saturdays, but on the other side of campus.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It starts to rain suddenly, the way it does sometimes in the spring—kind of warm until it’s dark and cold and not warm at all anymore. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He would spend years interviewing Klan leaders and sympathizers, sometimes taking advantage of his own background and lineage to pretend that he was on their side of the issues. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He went to the country of the Amazons, the women warriors, some say with Hercules, some say alone, and brought away one of them, whose name is given sometimes as Antiope, sometimes as Hippolyta. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of a year he never spoke at all, unless he was forced to it or found himself alone with the foul old old peasant he met in the woods sometimes, his counselor. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the boys played among themselves, but we sometimes allowed our sisters to join us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cadillac passed small, smoke-filled clubs with loud music and black people spilling out of open doors and sometimes overflowing into the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rambled round the hamlet, going sometimes to a little distance and returning again, for an hour or more. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The salt pork box was in the back of the store and during the walk Mrs. Tony was so eager she sometimes stepped on Joe’s heels, sometimes she was a little before him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Since Henri had no money, it sometimes took him months to find a plank or a piece of iron or a dozen brass screws. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern planetary scientists sometimes argue that the collision of a comet with a planet might make a significant contribution to the planetary atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because it revved like Aunty Ifeoma’s car sometimes did, and it reminded me that very soon, I would not see her or her car anymore. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. So, sorry if I come across callous sometimes. Or, I don’t know, defensive. Most of the time I’m just confused.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it depends on the buyer. I accept payments in coin, of course, but sometimes I get offers for a barter.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Daniel is the single nicest person at school, but even kind people sometimes have to get angry and let it out. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But sometimes there are truly bad ones, too, who just want to be bad, who hurt and steal just for fun. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Scarlett couldn’t see anything but a blackness that sometimes erupted in flashes inside her eyeballs, but she could hear the delight in Jack’s voice. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When she was alone, she sometimes drove as the princess, but she didn’t dare choose her in front of Scott. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We both appreciate simplicity, and if we are sometimes bored—well, boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She lets the class act out parts of stories, and sometimes she even turns books into games. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

If they aren’t, you throw out the assumption, sometimes provisionally accepting an alternative hypothesis. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since math is my favorite subject, sometimes I talk in class, but only if the answer’s a number. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes Wang Lung saw him come creeping home at dawn, panting and spent, and his great knotty shoulders drooping. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And they stop only occasionally to talk to the rest of us, sometimes in Cantonese, sometimes in English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think of them too often, yet sometimes the memories came unbidden, and then it was hard to hold back the tears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, he’s taken over by a dark mood, an unusually acerbic wit, strange and vitrified. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s true you might not get to control your funeral, but sometimes you do get to choose your death. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good letter could get you a position in the better cohorts, sometimes even special jobs like legion messenger, which made you exempt from the grunt work like digging ditches or conjugating Latin verbs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In Paris they keep vigil over the body for three, sometimes four days. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles sometimes, but not like she used to. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She sometimes forgot what a handsome man he was, in that fair-haired blue-eyed sort of way. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For hours, and sometimes for days, I fell without realizing it into the private explanation of the world. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she sipped the buttered tea, she would sometimes tell about the Underground Railroad, and that first trip she made to Canada, and how all of them were ragged, hungry, dirty, cold and afraid. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had learned that sometimes when I was in trouble with Mom, the best thing to do was to adopt the complete-idiot strategy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, when I get mad, it clears my head. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caitlin thought you were trying to hurt me because sometimes you pull people off the monkey bars. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you work your way in far enough, you will find a girl, or sometimes two, lying on a riser carpeted in foam rubber. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My after-school at the St. Nick community center would sometimes take us on skate outings to Wollman Rink. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Yeah, sometimes I don’t even want to get out of bed. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home Akira ran ahead, sometimes leaping up to slap hard at low branches. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was hard to explain—sometimes he just found himself in a playful mood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was El Jefe’s probing eyes, sometimes it was the Virgin’s pretty face I couldn’t stand to look at. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We begin to talk seriously sometimes, after class, when the room has emptied. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just look at her sometimes, and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. Alarm clock that goes off sometimes. Just turning it off.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There is a phrase which you sometimes come across in country districts even nowadays, which sums up a good deal of what he might have tried to say. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She means the trouble he has sometimes catching his breath, because of the way his insides keep growing faster than his outside, which hasn't really grown at all. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the hunters who went there sometimes wondered in private if maybe the white farmer was right after all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sometimes reads articles to me or tells me about the latest hurricane or uprising or explosion in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Heather: “I knew you would take this the wrong way. You are just so weird sometimes.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Young men sometimes took me out to dinner or to a theater. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Matthias, for a mouse that claims affinity with Martin the Warrior, you can be singularly foolish sometimes.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The air-conditioning and heating were unreliable, and pungent smells sometimes wafted toward us unexpectedly. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He sometimes fell asleep before he got drunk; sometimes spent whole days looking at the river and the sky; and more and more he relinquished the military habits of cleanliness in his shack. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then she named the good entries, sometimes telling whole long passages she knew by heart. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flames here were both tame and mutinous, strange, silent beasts that sometimes bit the hand that fed them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wondered, too, whether he was suffering inside, whether he sometimes cried, as I did, for reasons unknown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will explain all of this to me. If you’ve lied to me before, admit it and all will be well. I know boys tell foolish stories sometimes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well. I might be. I wish my mother were here sometimes. It would be nice to have another dragon to talk to.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He began striding up and down again, praying and prophesying, with his words sometimes shifting to an unknown, yet strangely powerful, tongue. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d noticed that he was holding his mir-ror out on the gallery to keep track of my approaches and also that, against the rules, he sometimes left it balanced up on his bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you can’t change what people think of you, but sometimes what people think changes you, whether you want it to or not. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

So many Biblical names sound backward, like Rahab, I wonder sometimes if the whole thing was written by a mental freak like me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am so tired by the end of each day that sometimes I fall into bed without bothering to take off my shoes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother loves her and she loves her mother—honestly, she’d have never gotten through what she has without her—but sometimes you wish even the people you love would go away. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In a single night, Nina might sometimes have to lift over three tons of explosives. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“He was burning. Constantly. Sometimes just smoke and sparks, sometimes engulfed in flames. The way you are now.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

While the roosters shrieked, the hens scrambled helter-skelter, commenting shrilly on the action: they clucked hysterically; they cackled obscenely; sometimes their alarmed voices were like machine guns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was tough as nails, pushing his way past offensive linemen who sometimes weighed ninety more pounds than he did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of midday the men would head for the shade, lazing away the long afternoons, and after sundown there were movies and card games and sometimes all-night drinking sessions. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She just gets like this sometimes. My mom calls it the terrible twos. Sometimes she throws a fit for no reason.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“True,” Ma says, “although sometimes you just got to go with your gut.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even as we passed, I saw house shutters opened and muck heaved out on the street, sometimes dousing passersby, to the hilarity of those watching, arousing fury from the victims. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many that were released wrongly came hurtling back down into the ditch, sometimes slaying the very creatures that had hurled them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Thirsty for information about friends and family and folks from all around, everyone loved Spoon Man’s visits—sometimes he even carried mail and packages, saving folks the cost of stamps. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It aggravated me sometimes no end, but it was also what I could never disavow in Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I don’t know what I’m drawing until I draw it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nora is like Henry sometimes, in that she can cut right down to the truth of things, but Henry deals in heart and Nora deals in facts. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You think sometimes you use them like they are?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thought about that sometimes, about his hands on this keyboard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Jewel thieves, or second-story men as they are sometimes called, are good at climbing up fire escapes and crawling through partially open windows,” added Agent Tillman. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It is like being in a restaurant like when Father takes me out to a Berni Inn sometimes and you look at the menu and you have to choose what you are going to have. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered, but did not feel, the stirring he sometimes got at church meetings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Steeling herself, she turned toward the Wood and her mother’s grave, and just beyond it was the track she and her mother had sometimes taken to gather mushrooms or wild plants. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drums had begun to beat, the fire was blazing fiercely, great long orange tongues consuming the fuel and thrusting upwards and sometimes outwards as if to engulf the watchers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

These tentacles they are rubbery and sometimes slip out of my hand. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes surprise myself with the things I suddenly know.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. A certain amount of intelligence sometimes accompanies a strong sense of self-preservation. I’m glad you decided to help us.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Unlike football coaches, who often try to key their players up for a big game, rowing coaches sometimes take the opposite tack. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, sometimes I hear voices in other rooms, and footsteps, and a bird ...” “A bird?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t care that you write your Ns backward and that you sometimes read nap instead of pan, which means you have to go to summer school this year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

God, I see us there, throwing down the lines, hoping, sometimes laughing. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had heard other sailors talk often of girls, sometimes in graphic detail. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The truth is, sometimes I want to just forget about everything that’s happened and return to the way we were before either of us chose a faction. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hot-water corn bread—cornmeal, water, flour, sometimes an egg—plopped into sizzling grease. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I spoke to one, and sometimes I didn’t. Sometimes when I spoke to one they didn’t speak.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Other times, he hums, and when the boys hear him, they sometimes smack his head. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to her before that beneath their robes Klansmen might sometimes be quaking. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know how when you start laughing sometimes and your eyes start to water and you just can’t stop? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They swallowed their complaints, sometimes because they too were swept up in the excitement of pushing the technical capabilities of the cyclotron further and further. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I found beautiful pieces of coral and elaborate shells, which I sometimes brought back to my cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be weird sometimes, but you get used to it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Besides, a small part of her appreciates me, respects me even, a part she tries to hide but that springs out sometimes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a slob, but his hair was greasy sometimes, and if it was, it was because he wanted it to be. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he would lean over sometimes to get his hair wet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And assuming Leo’s doomsday candles didn’t go off by accident - Leo’s inventions sometimes did that - in which case the weather would get much hotter, with a ninety percent chance of fiery apocalypse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Whatever the exact cause, Galileo suffered from repeated bouts of an arthritic ailment for the rest of his life, which sometimes confined him to bed for several weeks at a time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Axel sometimes goes in there to think on evenings after dinners at George and Emmett’s house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A teacher can also sometimes not know,” he said softly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Ares has strength. That’s all he has. Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For example, sometimes when a supermarket wants to increase sales of a given product, they’ll put a promotion sticker in front of it, saying something like “Everyday Low Price!” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear your imagination plays funny tricks on you sometimes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a polka, sometimes a Highland Fling and sometimes a special dance that she made up out of her own head. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She must have seen his anxiety because she winked at him across Bill and Judy just as he sometimes winked at May Belle over Joyce Ann’s head. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was snow from time to time, always a treat, and hail, less of a treat, and sometimes sultry, muggy vapors that smelled of growth and decay. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Always at least two of us per house, sometimes three or four. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“That and sometimes I say and do things without thinking. People don’t like that.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes alone, sometimes with my brother and sisters, I would find myself near the altar amid two or three hundred children, many of them dressed like Mexican cowboys and cowgirls. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sped toward the sound, tripping over ruts and roots but always scrambling ahead, sometimes on all fours, pushing against the ground with my knuckles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was an EM club with beer and movies, sometimes even live floor shows, the whole blurry slow motion of the rear. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and I used to try her recipes sometimes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first secret I had ever kept from Bailey and sometimes I thought he should be able to read it on my face, but he noticed nothing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell, by the way the ribbon had struck a letter sometimes half-red and half-black, that it had been written on the typewriter in the all-night study room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She fantasized about it sometimes—the drink itself, but this, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The spoils of the chase he brought always home to his beloved, whose name is sometimes said to be Aero, sometimes Merope. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she pretended to take no notice of my work, even complaining that I was neglecting my tasks, I would sometimes come upon her looking to see what I had stitched. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl had started at new schools often enough, sometimes two or three times a year, to have lost her fear about it, but this time she was deeply apprehensive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not really. She used to have lunch with this girl sometimes. Denise, I think. But I don’t know her last name.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That particular bitterness was Minya’s, but sometimes he fell prey to wistfulness, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were shared trips to Yosemite National Park or down to the shore at Carmel, sometimes in Lawrence’s sedan, graciously loaned out if he was staying home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s so slow sometimes, so terribly so sometimes, but progress is being made. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But sometimes it broke out in other ways, this danger, these pent-up things, as from an overheated boiler. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swimming ones sometimes ducked their heads and shook them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sometimes content to sweep floors, sort boxes, and carry furniture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The man pushed back his hood, still holding his rifle warily, because a witch was an enemy sometimes, and she saw an elderly man, long-jawed and grizzled and steady-eyed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the unprepossessing farmer with his filthy coveralls is actually an enormously rich man with a four-thousand-acre spread, and sometimes the teenager is coming back later with Mom and Dad. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I get in trouble at school sometimes because I can’t stop doodling in the edges of my notebook and homework. Even quizzes sometimes. I can’t help myself.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Okay, so period five was a stretch, and sometimes I wouldn’t get there until after you’d left, but periods one and four were at least in the same hall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“And sometimes the dead are luckier,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because I know so many people who work hard but still don’t get the things they deserve, sometimes not even the things they need. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Holmesy, I shouldn’t say that. It’s just frustrating sometimes.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But most days she’d be in her getup, the lip metal, the jet-black hair, or sometimes it was green or red. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She can tell if I’m really sick or simply faking it, because sometimes I do pretend I don’t feel good just so I can stay home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were no street vendors here, nor prosperous merchants, only sullen wives emptying their slop jars into the street, sometimes missing the scrawny, shoeless children playing there, sometimes not. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I guess sometimes all grandparents can be embarrassing, or maybe we’re just getting too old for Grands Day, after all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And sometimes it’s not even a gang-banger in the vacant apartments—you get kids who use the vacant apartments as their clubhouse, like kids in the suburbs would use a tree house. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how weird he looks, the absolutely weirdest thing about Mr. P is that sometimes he forgets to come to school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His parents’ eyes often met, and sometimes they reached out to touch each other’s hands. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But here, finding themselves in an even more open place, they settled into a kind of static panic, like that which sometimes comes upon inexperienced climbers exposed on a sheer face. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Anyway, the staff was mostly nice, but had rules we broke sometimes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And sometimes we had to stop, just because we were raw and exhausted and still humming humming humming with something we didn’t even have the strength left to do anything about. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try a few other names, kids I ask about homework sometimes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the truth were known, he liked the man as much as his own father, but sometimes— often, actually—he had trouble remembering exacdy what the Mellower had said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I like it when Momma calls me her baby, and sometimes, like right now, it makes me feel like I’m about two. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I ignore the whole truth, because it's easier to pretend I'm making decisions for rational reasons. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had his head to one side the way he did sometimes and narrowed his eyes. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red-faced, like all the Lees, white-bearded, dressed in an old gray coat and a gray felt hat, without insignia, so that he is mistaken sometimes for an elderly major of dignity. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And I waited for her to tell me the stuff she usually told me when Grandpa Park came over, about him not really meaning all the stuff he said sometimes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He got a few issues of the Chicago Defender every month or so from his cousin Lewis, who sometimes worked as a porter on trains from Chicago to Dallas and was something of a radical. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A woman was often referred to by her husband's name—as Jacob's wife, for example—while children were sometimes known according to who their parents or grandparents were. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like them, Luma had left home for a new and sometimes strange place. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The basement in their North Logan home was an electronics graveyard that included Keith’s first Atari, an ancient model he’d sometimes pull out, disassemble, then solder back together as an improved version. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That had been six years ago, so long now that Conor sometimes couldn’t remember what it was like having a dad in the house. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

However, during the days the villagers held animal fights there, and sometimes even weddings and funerals. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Even Cora and her sisters can only bother us for a little while before they get called home to supper. sometimes, no words are needed Deep winter and the night air is cold. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I still had one more year at Maplewood Middle School, and sometimes I couldn’t help but wish I could skip the last year of middle school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“But you said sometimes it means getting rid of somebody. Why can’t we learn that?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, sometimes it is, but other times it's about other things, like our mom just being stressed out from work. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I think about the circles kid sometimes, because I can sort of understand him. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A small bird must have had a nest behind one of the racks, as it sometimes zipped in or out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Traveled by night, hide by day, found food wherever it presented itself, sometimes going without for days. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But he has lost something along with the leg that a soldier sometimes loses with the big wounds. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her laugh is sometimes tinkly like a bell and sometimes snorty like the funniest thing ever. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes you have to do things you don't want to.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even if it sometimes made me think of sad things. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"I declare, Frank Gilbreth,” she told him, "sometimes I think you’re more trouble than all of your children. Red ink! And you think it’s a joke to scare a body half to death. Red ink!” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to come easing into bed sometimes, not too drunk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to occupy Eliot she supplied him with the comics section of the newspaper, and crackers spread with peanut butter, and sometimes a Popsicle, or carrot sticks sculpted with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She gets prettier every day, and I’m in love with her sometimes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea...So peaceful today—sometimes so cruel...The sea that dragged you down to its depths. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t always work, but sometimes it does.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The title was largely honorific, but it enabled him to carry a badge and to lead posses, and he sometimes kept one pistol in his side pocket and another strapped to his hip. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Go back where you came from,” kids say to me sometimes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I wonder if we are the only two happy people in this town. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mum threatens us with weird punishments sometimes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bogert shrugged, “I suppose Dr. Calvin will tell us when she gets here. Probably with a horribly pessimistic interpretation, too. She is sometimes a bit annoying.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

After Hiatt began the meeting with a keynote speech, Farmer listened to the experts argue, sometimes in heated voices, about MDR and other TB issues. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him looking out there, sometimes at sunset, his eyes sad and clear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She even sends us sometimes to bring back meat from the butcher marché, a place where Rachel will not set foot on account of the intestines and neatly stacked heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his frequent visits, he could be spotted chatting amiably with workers or engineers, sometimes in the company of less patient companions, such as Groves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We want warm biscuits and tag and jacks on the porch, our too-long sweater sleeves getting in the way sometimes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

You come across clumps of ’em floated together sometimes, or caught snagged on a bramble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

This “compartmenting,” as modern intelligence officers call it, can sometimes produce problems. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world slows down and stretches out as if I’m looking through a fish-eye lens or sometimes a kaleidoscope, everything hyper-colorful. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was a good thing and sometimes not. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were stiff and upright and sometimes lax and sagging. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear, sometimes it was like he’d inhaled Essence of Dad and was breathing it back out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

People sometimes assumed I had been playing a sport when I was “injured,” which seemed unfair—even cruel—when I wanted to play so badly and wasn’t able to. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

While they had sometimes let me and Jay write out labels and such, Doc had never let us spend much time in the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head and sometimes adds a thunk on my head for good measure. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long shot, but at this point it was a shot, and sometimes you had to make the Hail Mary play. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mark sometimes realized that Joaquin could say a lot more without using words. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England, and even on this dismal afternoon its power was asserted. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He comes from the streets and smells like garbage sometimes.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted individual marks recurring again and again on a single page, and found entire clusters replicated, sometimes ten or thirty times in perfect patterns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He’s an accountant, and because he sometimes works really late hours during tax season, he had the walls filled with extra insulation for warmth and soundproofing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That old sourpuss. You’d think the man had a very unhappy childhood with the way he behaves sometimes.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered if my mama, wherever she was, had a tree full of bottles; and I wondered if I was a ghost to her, the same way she sometimes seemed like a ghost to me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I KNOW, I told him because he said it a lot lot lot and sometimes I don’t want to hear the same thing over and over and over. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Electricity was rationed from six PM to six AM, though sometimes it did not come on at all. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even when she fastened the beads on, sometimes they looked odd or crooked, and she had to take them off. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Usually something happens: the criminal's resolve starts breaking down, and he begs and pleads with the guards or tries to cut a deal or an extension, or sometimes even tries to break out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We ate lunch out at least once a week and sometimes more often than that, always, of course, billing Sidley & Austin for the pleasure. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d never feel as passionately about another candidate as I did about my own husband, which made campaigning for others sometimes difficult for me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I mean, said it sometimes cost him ten thousand dollars a week to run his operation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always hands over three dollars, sometimes five. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She drank to extremes and sometimes acted ugly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I come here when I feel like I’m losing my mind sometimes.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was eight centimeters taller than me, but he could move so silently sometimes, like he wasn’t walking on the same cheap, groaning floorboards as the rest of us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had read that letters were sometimes steamed open, but I had no steam. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I mean . . . lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes -’ ‘Anyway,’ Hazel interrupted, ‘King Kekrops, what brings you here? How did you know we’d arrived?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Almost every day and sometimes all day, the mass meetings at Old South Church went on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

How sometimes I didn’t understand why I’d been drawn to it, how some days it seemed as if the instrument had chosen me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that sometimes he wonders why I take such painstaking care. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I’d never admit it to her, but she was smarter than me, even if she was annoying sometimes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in that glare I sometimes detected a flicker of approval, as if this streak of independence, this refusal to be shaped by him reflected his own obstinance. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a weird way he reminded me of Chiron sometimes, how he could look at you and actually see your thoughts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Miss Mae’s dog. I see him outside or in the elevator sometimes when she takes him out. He’s the nicest dog. He pauses. “ A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, sometimes I’ve felt I ought to jump down off that stand and get physical with some of those brainwashed white man’s tools, parrots, puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes the class, as beaten down by the heat as he was, wouldn’t react either. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can be a total jerk sometimes,” she said regretfully. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We sometimes copied each other, but one time I thought she had gone too far, when my favorite possession—my only toy, a pink plastic cell phone my father had given me—went missing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sometimes slept there when it was too late to catch the last train back to Orlando. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to flick on the bathroom lights fast so that no small shadow would take a baby shape, sometimes seated on the edge of the bathtub, its hopes for a bowel movement so exaggerated. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a candle in his room; there was some ink and an old pen that Bill had sometimes used. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters were similarly affected: Rachel became hollow-eyed and careworn, sometimes combing her hair only once per day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So it’s even called ‘liverwort,’ sometimes,” he said, “that pretty flower! But it’s got more names than you can shake a stick at. Some say it’s a ‘herb-trinity’ because of the three leaves. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d become paralyzed sometimes; I could not move any part of my body, not even my fingers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But maybe, I suggested, technology was also keeping him from a broader life, preventing his getting out and doing the sometimes hard work that goes into building friendships and relationships. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it reminds me of a line from a Walt Whitman poem my dad sometimes whispers to my mom: There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I sometimes felt as if I were floating through a strange universe, waving at strangers who acted as if they knew me, boarding planes that lifted me out of my normal world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I do sometimes wonder what happened to the hotel’s furnishings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I sometimes held as still as a statue and pretended I couldn’t hear or see when my grandpa squabbled with Adele and called her mean names. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures—the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes, sometimes bloody, roll up into the head. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not demanding work, but every span Kilvin gave me a copper jot, sometimes two. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked up at Hagrid — perhaps he had to go into the lake sometimes, to deal with the creatures in it? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The leap of the imagination is sometimes experienced as a flash of inspiration, but only rarely does a new idea emerge full-blown like Athena from the head of Zeus. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I said again, because sometimes, after someone has seen the truest parts of you, little words are enough. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He was irresponsible sometimes, and Mama and I paid for it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had a clear vision of my future in space, but the life I led in Coalwood sometimes seemed to blur. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Mrs. DiAngelo hadn’t sent me that e-mail the next day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The way I looked at her sometimes, when I woke up in the morning, frightened her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This bit of common sense, sometimes termed the pigeonhole or Dirichlet drawer principle, can occasionally be used to derive claims that are not so obvious. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he got her down and sometimes she got him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I gave more talks at our performances, sometimes with Princesse, sometimes on my own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Our lives trail around us, sometimes broken and sometimes beautiful, but all puzzled and tangled up into the lump that is us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ophelia worked on gathering data, which meant walking from village to village, sometimes with Farmer, other times with local youths he’d recruited. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"We do need to be careful, Tara. Families are trying to reclaim land lost at Partition. And Muslims are angry because the courts sometimes side with Hindus." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they called out the fire truck to accidents because they were afraid of fuel catching fire, or sometimes because they needed the crew to help carry someone on the backboard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first is the law of large numbers, one of the most significant though often misunderstood theorems in probability theory, and one which people sometimes invoke to justify all sorts of bizarre conclusions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would become so choked up that sometimes I would walk in the streets until late into the night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just telling you how it sometimes ... it feels.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it takes a whole lot of energy to do something, and sometimes it takes even more energy to do nothing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The little graveyards, with handmade crosses and sometimes a stone marker pleading for remembrance in careful block letters, never stood a chance. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very much a tease, sometimes accommodating his appetites, sometimes refusing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bridge we were suspended above an area of perfect lawn, such as you sometimes see in an old moat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Will you look in on her sometimes and make sure things are all right?” she asked. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, I’ll tell you. No. I didn’t. Sometimes he scared me. Sometimes—yes, sometimes I admired him, but most of the time I hated him. Now tell me why you want to know.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor usually preached too long, and the hallelujahs sometimes got too loud. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Decca, sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Like the young men, the women talked about classes and sometimes about baseball too. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the ability to omit an agent comes in handy because the minor characters in the story are a distraction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Restorative justice is sometimes used in Alameda County as an alternative to criminal court for juveniles accused of felonies, a process known as diversion because the accused is diverted away from criminal court. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Abilene’s parents found it charming that Abilene considered Edward real, and that she sometimes requested that a phrase or story be repeated because Edward had not heard it. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was like beagling in a way, except that it was beagling in a forest where it was sometimes difficult even to move. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would listen to opera sometimes at night, closing his eyes, riding along with the magnificent voices as they dipped and soared. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of hard for me sometimes,” he went on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us the ocean hummed and sometimes crashed onto itself with a slapping sound like if a long line of people all hit their knees at the same time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s up when I’m up, sometimes. Do you see him?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

These were colobus monkeys, and sometimes one would come down from a tree and scuttle across the meadow near the tent, watching them with alert, intelligent eyes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met with them almost every week for a few months, and then the meetings occurred at irregular intervals, sometimes not for a month, and then suddenly every week. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not squeamish, though, and deftly caught spewings that were sometimes babies, sometimes monsters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wished I were my little brother, Conrad, because she never lectured him. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tony’s not very bright, but he has a sort of clumsy tenderness that sometimes prompts him to give his mother a rough hug and plant a sticky kiss on her cheeks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And words can sometimes be awkward, even when you’ve known someone for eight years. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She socked away a dollar, sometimes two, from each week’s grocery money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only sometimes, I thought, when I know he’s got a leftover ham sandwich in his drawer. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

My twin gets on my nerves sometimes, but I would never dream of trading her in for anything in the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Magic always leaves traces,” said Dumbledore, as the boat hit the bank with a gentle bump, “sometimes very distinctive traces. I taught Tom Riddle. I know his style.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But even now I thought about it sometimes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first people called them "crustal blocks" or sometimes "paving stones." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I do that sometimes, open my mouth before thinking. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“And she wouldn’t accept it. Well, that happens sometimes. Sometimes we have to grovel to show we really mean it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes people find this out too late. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, maybe it wasn’t such a terrible thing to be a dang fool sometimes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I miss Khalid so much that sometimes I have to pretend he’s still here, still in the first body he was born to, just so the pain won’t hurt as bad. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Emilika still slept in my room, though during the week she often stayed late at the photography shop, developing the film, sometimes breezing in only just before curfew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was all so real that sometimes we could see the tall masted ships coming over the horizon. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to worry, but sometimes I couldn’t help it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And if he was still laughed at he sometimes fought. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It has been found that animals, both wild herbivores and livestock, are sometimes strangely attracted to a plant that has been sprayed, even though it is not one of their natural foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The creatures flew around Will’s head, sometimes only a foot or so away, but they always swerved aside or upward at the last moment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I do ask questions I know the answers to—Mom calls it stalling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then he would sleep outside, sometimes lucky enough to be near the walnut tree; swinging in the tarp they kept there for when they needed it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor made a little sad speech, his face sometimes looking like the mayor, sometimes looking like something else. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they want to, and sometimes they don’t. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As good as everyone else was, she sometimes seemed to achieve a superior level of intelligence and sophistication as an actor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Little fine drops fell sometimes from the ceiling. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back after twenty years, I sometimes wonder if the events of that summer didn’t happen in some other dimension, a place where your life exists before you’ve lived it, and where it goes afterward. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Father Masego annoys me sometimes, but the truth is...I do want him to be proud of me, just like I want my parents to be proud of me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I mean, you know how he gets sometimes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t notice the way you look at me sometimes? Why’d you think I was asking you those questions earlier, huh?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever just get a feeling sometimes?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was scared sometimes, and I didn’t have to do everything Mama did. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The effect didn’t last long, but sometimes just the illusion of happiness was enough to make her clients feel like they could face another day. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry," I started, and in that moment realized sometimes a real apology can go a long way. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He doesn't say a word, but I just know, the way you know things sometimes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Events and activities I didn't know about would sometimes show up on my calendar. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When we’re young, it sometimes seems as if the world doesn’t exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I sometimes thought of this bit of mountain as the tip of the iceberg of the rest of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes he achieved his ends by engaging in a dialogue instead of simply saying no. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I mess up sometimes, I know I can be a sarcastic jerk, I know I’m not the daughter my parents wanted, but Amá treats me like I’m a degenerate. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The challenges the Fugees faced—subpar gear, no cheering section, and the hostility they sometimes felt from opposing teams of American kids who resented the newcomers—only brought the boys closer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I do tend to get straight to business sometimes, don’t I? Though I have a lot of wiggle room before I get as grumpy as Alec.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were not as active as the small yellow flies that sometimes flew away from the lamp and too close to my eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger hurried to the high wall behind which Capricorn's garden lay: vegetable beds, fruit trees, and herbs, protected by the wall from the cold wind that sometimes blew from the nearby mountains. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And what it was about Lelia that I desired and feared came partly through his bloodline running through her, the openness and exuberance and all that hard focus she could sometimes call up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cady Stanton sometimes joked that they published “weekly, not weakly.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a path, muddy and rutted and potholed, so people did sometimes come this way; but the flat horizon was so far away on every side that he had little sense of making progress. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

French has also acquired the word expérimentation, which is now sometimes used as if it were equivalent to ‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I sometimes went out to sit with him, even though Mother held it against me, saying he needed his solitude. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two lifts, or cages as they were sometimes called, side by side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t talk on my tape every night like I used to, just sometimes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I think it is very pretty, though sometimes I worry that my skirt is too short. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the state Welfare people began coming to our house, we would come from school sometimes and find them talking with our mother, asking a thousand questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often she encountered them, and usually the man stopped to chat, though sometimes he was rushed and had to hurry on. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“People say things to be polite sometimes,” she told me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A bad spirit sometimes remains around the corpse. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I found myself, on any given day, traveling through several New Yorks at once—dynamic, brutal, moneyed, sometimes all of those at once. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The children were excited by the request and quickly conferred with one another in that private, guttural code they sometimes used among themselves. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Maybe my mom will be running late. She runs late sometimes.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the way Annabeth sometimes talked about Luke. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was never enough soap, and sometimes not even enough water. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They have long, loud, and sometimes serious conversations during my appointments. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have to admit I'm curious about you sometimes, too. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps she will lend it to me sometimes.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

So Hazel took it, and she kept it on her bookshelf, and sometimes she looked at it and said to herself, That is a Joe Mauer signed baseball, and she understood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon, gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed to dine with him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our supplies come from the French Catholic Relief, and sometimes just thin air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of each opera they are cropping up at an astonishing rate, sometimes several in every bar. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

With a last affectionate glance at the beanfield, the santo carver pushed on, walking, sometimes stumbling, erratically along the dusty road, leaving rattled grasshoppers and nervous little butterflies in his wake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange, but you know how sometimes when you get what you think you always wanted, it turns out to be nothing like you expected? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, sometimes your friend has to tell you the truth,” Rafe said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It helps, that feeling of your feet on firm ground; it helps sometimes when you need to find the right words. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This was something Mom said sometimes; it was amazing that Emma could speak the words without starting to cry. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“When we need more people, Mwari sends them to us. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not. Myanda did fine, except she doesn’t have any children.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Margo’s parents just said this morning that she sometimes leaves clues,” I said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think about all this sometimes when I’m watching a football game with Patrick and Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A related chemical, pentachlorophenol, sometimes known as “penta,” is used as a weed killer as well as an insecticide, often being sprayed along railroad tracks and in waste areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bullet was too hot to touch, but it shone so temptingly that sometimes Laura or Mary could not help touching it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes into the water supply, sometimes just directly into a few specific homes to see how it spreads. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t yield much, but sometimes Osh painted a single yellow flower in a pale green marsh, and it was all the better for being just one. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Later on, as a middle-aged optometrist, he would weep quietly and privately sometimes, but never make loud boohooing noises. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went the other way around sometimes; they always wanted to know what it would be like to touch a black man’s skin, or what my hair felt like. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seems a little silly to me, but sometimes adults just can't stand saying nothing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But we sometimes did fun things like go on trips or learn to make things like homemade windmills or different types of recipes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Even though the dog was nearly half his size, Alex carried him the entire way, moving so fast that Nunu sometimes had to run to keep up. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The truth was, sometimes she, Chess, and Mom all acted like Mrs. Rabinsky. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even though some of my friends had come to the new school as well, sometimes it felt like the loneliest place in the world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Michael had a way of walking quiet sometimes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving him alone in the Treaty Room at night, I wondered sometimes if they had any sense of how lucky they were. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Rich people sometimes paid extra money to ride in a clean rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I always tried to find a new one, but sometimes there was no choice. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember too much about his father, only the way he had heard his father sing sometimes when he came home and sang to his mother. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had plenty of experience of change, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, but he had no notion of irreversible change, and he had no notion of progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course we can. Just drop a note in the Box, and there she goes. Doesn’t mean we always get what we want from the Creators. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His positions were firm, so thought-through and fully realized in his own mind that he sometimes seemed surprised that she, too, had not arrived at them herself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, and you could almost tell when you walked in the door, the answer was different. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we did fall, they’d make a really big deal out of it, staggering around laughing, and sometimes calling us names that made our hearts beat fast the rest of the way home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It is lonesome to work in the fields without you to talk to and to make me laugh sometimes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s tough. But I feel sorry for him sometimes,” Marcus said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I decided sometimes you just need to nurse something, that’s all. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living in the twenty-first century gives a person a much better prognosis for treatment, but sometimes I wish I’d lived in an age before technology. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The Wall was weeping copiously, had been weeping for days, and sometimes Jon even imagined it was shrinking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kuhn’s distinction between two types of science was too neat, but his basic approach was sound: sometimes, as we have seen, one discovery leads to another in a way which is, with hindsight, entirely inevitable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Women and children were rarely killed, though they were sometimes abducted and forced to join the winning group. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He used to ask me sneeringly sometimes why I hadn’t been an officer, as though I’d done something wrong. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it sang, sometimes it did not, but from then on I always called it the singing tree. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They stuck up at intervals in every direction, strangely sharpening the loneliness and desolation, sometimes the only sign of human presence in an acre or two of sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they ignored each other, sometimes played catch. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d practice his singing around the house sometimes, singing “do re mi fa sol,” and all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did this every second or third day, depending on the weather; sometimes it was hunting, others it was shelter-building. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can’t. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or how sometimes he’d put on a playlist while we lay on the floor, joking and talking about how we were going to take over the world one day. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was hard to breathe in there sometimes, especially on a hot day like that one. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as she took her seat, all the ushers would move to her side of the church because it took three women and sometimes a man or two to hold her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being an American is hard enough; being a Nisei among these occupying forces is sometimes agony. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The initials are sometimes in two sets, joined by the word loves. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he whispered, “Professional partiers sometimes have to...do things you might not be up for. I know; I’ve seen it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I felt a tingling in my limbs, a sensation I sometimes felt when my mom talked about my dad. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes can’t breathe real well when this happens, but I have to because I need to screech and scream and jerk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And she said, “I know. I can see you sitting at your computer in your bedroom sometimes when I look across the street.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She told me about the scales on butterflies, and the way animals lived in ducts, sometimes whole herds. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These clunkers are sometimes used as alternatives to because or since-. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swans were a bit scary, especially when they had a nest or babies, because then they are sometimes aggressive. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I used to listen to them online sometimes late at night. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I combed my long hair and sometimes stole my mother’s mascara to do my eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was sometimes possessed of strange rages and would strike out with his walking stick and even smash the furniture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get me wrong—I’d rather be here than dead—but sometimes I feel that everything that, like, makes me up has gone away.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Trainer George Mohr remembered that Woolf sometimes rode while appearing strangely ashen, while Woolf’s friend Sonny Greenberg recalled incidents in which he found the rider slumped in the jockeys’ room, too ill to speak. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma says that sometimes I have to look pretty so everyone will see what a nice girl I can be. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

People getting beaten, and sometimes killed, by the cops, and then there’s all this fuss about it, only to build up to a big heartbreak when nothing happens. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We used to wake each other up sometimes in the middle of the night and say what was on our minds. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe when I’m losing I cheat sometimes—hide a card under my leg or something—but most of the time I just win. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Took me a long time to puzzle out what that could mean—until one morning, while we were eating cereal, he told me that, sometimes, he thinks there isn’t such a thing as time. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Lorena is ghetto, loud, and acts ignorant as hell sometimes, but I love her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It touched on so much of what he faced: crime, rehabilitation, the role of the system for good and sometimes ill. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We had to climb or go the long way around, sometimes doubling back before we found a way through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a tool bag of coarse brown canvas, such as he had sometimes seen her carrying to and fro at the Ministry. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Louver says that sometimes, even now, he catches a shadowy glimpse of that figure going hither and yon, especially during a full moon.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His very best friend was a Negro abstractionist, he said, who made magnificent smears of protest and defiance across the canvas, sometimes slashing the canvas to shreds with a knife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them would grab a cat or a poodle—the wolves sometimes taking pets as large as Labs and collies, not to mention livestock and now and then a human. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought Ice looked tired, sometimes I thought he just didn’t care what Brothers had done. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled often, stood close to her husband, and sometimes even touched his arm in public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dicey sometimes forgot to eat because she was so interested, as if this was a story that had happened to somebody else. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver and I had encountered a recurring difficulty in our travels: one African leader after another had ques-tioned us about our relations with white and Indian communists, sometimes suggesting that they controlled the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often silent, sometimes swearing, always pointedly looking at me, neck feathers ruffled, wings half out, beak extended. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And sometimes you couldn’t get anything like a dial tone for hours at a time and in the end it was easier just to give up and read a book. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Echoes of this sort of thing are to be found, as we have seen, widely scattered throughout medical literature, sometimes involving the chlorinated hydrocarbons, sometimes the organic phosphates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We even travel sometimes and get to take special workshops with Broadway actors. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

This sometimes went back and forth for days. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I couldn’t help the people on the road when the shamblers came. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys loved the Palace and they even cleaned it a little sometimes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet sometimes she couldn’t help but be infected with a bit of Ralph and Theresa’s enormous enthusiasm for their new arrangement. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lovey pressed her hand against my chest softly, just for a second, then said, “Just water it sometimes. Think you can handle that?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lifeguards at Heron Hills, where the young men were working this summer, said of Mr. Halloway, “he was too nice sometimes” and “too good to be true.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made rather a curious noise sometimes, when Mrs. Popper was working in the kitchen, but she got used to it, as she had got used to so many other strange things this winter. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The punishments for such acts are grave, but our hunger does not allow this to stop us from sometimes stealing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned that his teammates would sometimes slack off, knowing that Kanue would step in to make up for their lack of effort. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad hardly left me with anybody at first, but sometimes their work schedules overlapped, and they needed a third person to help out. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I get this vibe sometimes that Garrett likes me. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Those who knew the Friedmans sometimes wondered who was the better code breaker. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The press was sometimes negative enough to cause those around Bobby to revise their opinion of him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he jokingly said sometimes, he thought Red Rabbit would try to live up to his name; but so far the shameless beast had not. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Neville looked startled, but said, “Well...always the same hat. A tall one with a stuffed vulture on top. And a long dress...green, normally...and sometimes a fox-fur scarf.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But mostly what they did was run up and down the sidewalks and sometimes into the street, where the town cops yelled at them for creating a safety hazard. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mother sometimes allowed Naima to visit a cousin on the other side of the village, and Naima had forgotten to ask for permission once or twice before heading out. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sound was usually dissonant and sometimes even worse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had never gone out of his way to see my father, only to avoid him, though he sometimes sent us messages through Anatole, his own sons, or other minor ambassadors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That winter was long and dark, and I wondered if sometimes Mother was staying in bed even when she didn’t have a migraine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and then it was a destroyer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness he and his dad sometimes watched reruns of old TV shows from the 1960s. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t expect any miracles as a result, but even so, it was hard sometimes not to get discouraged. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because sometimes it’s easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Scientists sometimes also call it vacuum energy or, more exotically, quintessence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although a widow would sometimes manage her late husband’s affairs, Matthäus’s sons from his previous marriage were grown men and quickly took charge of the family business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She’d teased them about needing wives and girlfriends, and sometimes helped them find good ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The dunes were covered with mats of sand flowers, which are red and have tiny eyes that are sometimes pink and sometimes white. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He sometimes whistled, like he was happy to be with me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This sometimes caused him pain and always caused him embarrassment. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ken and Bob both talked so fast—their conversation filled with references to people I’d never heard of, like Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen—that it was sometimes hard to follow them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no question but what she was well enough to work, though she sometimes had severe headaches, especially if she got very tired. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they play loud music at night and they make me scared sometimes when I see them in the street. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I even tell her how sometimes Maxine makes me feel like I am better than my friends at Northside, better than Lee Lee. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"I tried my best to work with you and the others, but sometimes a person’s best just isn't good enough." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was from these seeds and others, and from the flowers and roots beneath them, that Mr. Ages made the draughts and powders that could sometimes save the sick from dying. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She really does love them, only sometimes they are rude. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I can see people’s souls sometimes when I draw them, I know the following: Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I hate to say this, but sometimes I wonder about Henry,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My mom’s smile drives me up the wall sometimes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But sometimes there were public beatings, lashings of soles and palms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though they smelled like death and were covered in matted, sometimes bloody fur, I fell completely in love with them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s disgusting. I don’t know what to do, Dr. Guarino. Even at home he forgets—and sometimes when we have people in the house. I’m so ashamed when he does that.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was the person—sometimes the only person—who made them think and listened to their ideas. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can be a little intense sometimes when he’s talking about art.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was scared at first, because by then I’d learned in school about how slaves were sometimes dumped off of slave ships before they could even make it to the island. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The other children sometimes laughed at her when she made mistakes, or grew impatient with her because she was forever losing things; but Timothy never did. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Waitresses chafed at managers’ stinginess toward the customers; housecleaners resented the time constraints that sometimes made them cut corners; retail workers wanted the floor to be beautiful, not cluttered with excess stock as management required. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard not to feel lonely sometimes, and sad. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Caruthers talks about her sometimes in her sleep. Maybe she would be open to the idea of hiring more work if they were like Clara. She seems to have really liked her.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I also really like Wendy’s ’cause they put bacon on the burger on the dollar menu, and sometimes Mom lets me get a Frosty if she has a coupon. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Francesca was smart and beautiful and sometimes let me brush her long hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The machine had gone balky as an old donkey, losing Mr. Curtain’s train of thought and sometimes misunderstanding him altogether. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some were already drunk, and the women's flushed bosoms drew their lovers' eager eyes and sometimes an unrestrained hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Daddy had jumped the way he did sometimes and said, “You mean it’s going to fix me up!” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now, there are some things that never die, so even though I’m in my nineties my sap sometimes rises. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was a senior officer with a reputation for being tough; he sometimes came over to B-block on an assignment like this. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although kestrels seldom prey on anything bigger than a rat, they will sometimes attack young rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He likes being talked to, and sometimes patting his back helps.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Reading is hard for me sometimes, that’s all. It’s not that I don’t like it.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s also this pride they have, so I kind of feel like I can’t let them down. And sometimes it’s just all too much. So, yeah, I get feeling bad.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Imagine what these vandals have reduced us to. Pamela and I sometimes sleep here when they bomb us,” Mrs. Ezeka said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They make it seem so easy, but for me, finding the good is sometimes hard and I worry that no matter how much good we find, there will always be more bad. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mama had sometimes worked in the garment center, and so did my sister Geraldine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I would never tell anyone, but my mind sometimes wanders when Mama is giving thanks for our food/life/health/family, etc. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Bera-Bera talked too much, laughed too loudly, and sometimes sassed me, but still I loved him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The guards would poke in rifles the way Yoyo sometimes pokes Felicidad with sticks when no one in the big house is looking. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear no, Sir. You are rather too kind sometimes, and then just a trifle hasty when he tries your patience. Don’t you think you are?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps himself shaven, but sometimes leaves a stubbly goatee, which he’s done today. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though he sometimes made up his own vocabulary, Dad never spoke baby talk to me like my mother did. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And he’s got this thing for little girls with yellow hair—yeah, I worry about the kid sometimes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know, at least I think I do, maybe, sometimes, definitely, what I’m worth. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

African-American traditions are so basic to popular music that they are generally not included in World music, but other North American traditions, such as Native American and Cajun traditions, sometimes are. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, the use of these traditional rules for Western music is now so widespread that it is sometimes called common practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“My dad fries up a bunch of leftovers. Occasionally, it’s awesome. Usually, it’s so-so. And sometimes, it’s so bad we have to order pizza.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It seemed that sometimes Oakley Street and other secret services had to use blackmail in order to turn an agent on the other side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But sometimes an outside force just shows up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Papi would lift his hat when he came to the door, like the men who sometimes showed up on Sunday mornings selling religious magazines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I asked if I could see just one drawing, she said, “Albie, sometimes people need their own private space to think.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You would often see him? He would visit the school sometimes?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If we are quiet and watchful, we can sometimes come close to an animal and stick it with the spear. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours, it sometimes seemed, to get healthy, because the kids were pure and I was dirty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many aristocrats and wealthy merchants themselves played viols at home, too, sometimes combined in a duet with a plucked lute. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They did not talk for talking’s sake, in the artificial manner that human beings—and sometimes even their dogs and cats—do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But—much as he sometimes had after a hard row on Lake Washington back home— he also felt cleansed by the work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the late blue light, he can watch the people in the streets below, hurrying home, and sometimes gulls soar past, white against the dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I never remember my dreams, although I sometimes awaken with my fists clenched and my heart hammering. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The boy had a hand on her braid, and in a flash Henry remembered how Naomi had sometimes slept like that against Estella. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes when I’m doing that, I think, Maybe these aren't losses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie, the only child of the house, never went there, though she sometimes stood inside the fence, carelessly banging a stick against the iron bars, and looked at it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I wondered how many people in that one hallway felt the same. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the father came home and sometimes he did not. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

As he explained,“In the day-time I was uneasy. In the night I had little rest. I sometimes never closed my eye-lids for grief.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes when a bad thing happens to somebody, it forces the person to make a change in his or her life that wouldn’t have been made otherwise. And sometimes that change is for the better.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her moodiness had annoyed me, too, sometimes, but not that night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For me to pass near was to invite his scorn, his kicks, and sometimes, his blows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning sunlight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I get to smell them and sit real close to them, and sometimes while they lean in and concentrate, I can see right down their shirts. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He talked to him sometimes at Zach’s baseball games, which Volpe regularly attended, along with the athletic events of his other theater kids who were on teams. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You know, boy, sometimes it’s best to leave things be.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“So it became public, what they were trading for . . .” “Yes, and sometimes the crowd called out in a scornful way. They jeered. I think that’s the right word.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He could smell only the reek of other unhappy, confined creatures, and sometimes—when the circus was in progress above him—the strong scent of blood, that nearly drove Brute mad. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

So Alyce learned about the sometimes mighty distance between what one imagines and what is. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a younger child, whenever Charlie got very scared or anxious, he would sometimes start trembling and shaking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He sometimes came to school with no lunch pail and I’d share what I had. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth’s curvature on their concave undersides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bunks, stacked three high, hold at least one and sometimes two men, as do the spaces beneath them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I wish I could see what she looks like sometimes, whether shes pretty or what. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never met up with any trouble going over to Verplancks, but people he knew had sometimes been held up and robbed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happy he’d brought me into a competition, made me part of a team, showed me that it could sometimes be just as much fun losing as winning. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They sometimes called these children the “missing millions.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And sometimes we went swimming after we drank. And nothing bad ever happened.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“There was this rescue dog I knew about; she was a real scrapper. And I know a guy who sets up fights sometimes. He has a couple pit bulls. It wasn’t, like, an organized thing.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was decidedly opposed to majority rule, or “simple majoritarianism” as he sometimes called it, because that would end white domination in a single stroke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s been going on for a good while now. Sometimes the ground seems to tremble, sometimes it seems to be the heavy air throbbing in your ears.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The boy gazed at him with eyes full of astonishment—eyes that sometimes looked as if they had seen too much already. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though we sometimes have to “stretch a dollar,” I’ve never been hungry. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And it means that sometimes things are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if it was okay to rest sometimes, to not always act, think, perform. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer—it’s a question. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes our efforts seemed to forestall the next wave, sometimes hot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or sometimes people see a teenager and they blow him off. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. And we know how these things sometimes are. Relationships are always tricky.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place we sometimes used to go, if we hadn’t got a room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the children were sometimes seated between adults, giving the look had its dangers—making faces at table could bring down disgrace and an early bedtime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But sometimes it’s as dangerous not to speak. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I even managed to fall back into an uneasy slumber. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mother retired at midday with her wind machine, and all our lives got better, especially Father’s, whom she sometimes invited to retire with her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Horses who lose their riders during races almost always try to win anyway, charging to the lead and sometimes bucking with pleasure as they pass the last opponent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In order to diffuse a bad situation, sometimes it is necessary to look at both sides of a problem.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I bathed her more and more often, sometimes three or four times a day in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was very sad to see my father cry, but I understood it, because sometimes a man has to cry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This scene played every day, sometimes several times a day, for the rest of the trip. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The reason for the simplicity isn’t disdain for uniqueness, as the other factions have sometimes interpreted it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I have read that its pungence can sometimes restore memory and speech. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They strutted around the neighborhood in groups, joking, laughing loudly, sometimes even calling after girls, with identical stupid, self-satisfied grins on their faces. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He smiled at us kids a lot and squeezed our shoulders, sometimes leaning on us to steady himself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or sometimes a black-painted van, with the winged Eye in white on the side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That word evoked fear ever since the immigration raid in Tent City, a labor camp in Santa Maria where we sometimes lived. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to conjure Ali’s frozen face, to really see his tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals all the details for itself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Akira was deeply involved, concentrating for several minutes sometimes before deciding what card to ask her for. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Link pointed at his face and was like, “Hey, what about my lesion? Look at this puppy. It bleeds sometimes. You like this?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a nice town, Bartlett. We go there sometimes to the Gaslight Restaurant.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. It just feels like I can’t win sometimes.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At my old school, teachers were either really old with wrinkles and graying hair or else young with ponytails and, sometimes, pimples. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgiven Tessie for breaking off' their engagement years ago, but it was always there in the air between them, like the talcum powder that sometimes puffed out of his clerical collar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The old knight was a good man, but sometimes very literal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They may sometimes be emitted when matter particles interact with each other by exchanging virtual force-carrying particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he sometimes found himself looking at Olu with curious amusement; you could never tell with people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gina lives only a mile from your high school, and sometimes she walks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t had a chance to talk with him yet, but sometimes I would see him drift off into his own daydreams and be embarrassed when we caught him at it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes reassign me from easy jobs that Holmes had given me to hard ones, and in the beginning, especially, she had a low opinion of me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Jon, “sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Let’s give her a few more days. She seems to have adjusted.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I liked to listen to them talk sometimes and fight my way through their accents to find out more about how they survived lives of slavery. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And the women tip-tapping their heels on the pavement tripped sometimes on the sidewalk cracks because they were glancing at the trees to see where that pure, soft but steady light was coming from. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t there, but sometimes you just know. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, we talk about words, but it’s not the same as other teachers. Like we never use paper. Ever. He has me write letters in blue or pink sand. Or sometimes in shaving cream.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Despite her dosing him with the cherry pectoral every few hours, and rubbing his chest with camphor oil, he had still hacked most of the night, sometimes having trouble catching his breath. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Like my mom says, sometimes we hear what we want to hear and see what we want to see.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Small animals in the water, microscopic organisms, sometimes phosphoresced—gave off light almost like lightning bugs—when disturbed. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You really are scary sometimes, you know that?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Gino was a patriot, so he said things that separated us sometimes, but he was also a fine boy and 1 understood his being a patriot. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The first time it happened, my brother didn’t understand what the cow was up to, but he is smart, he knows that sometimes cows can have a sense of danger, an instinct. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They work together, along railroads and in the desert, taking turns tracking on foot and driving ahead in the Bronco, sometimes for days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I think that I once saw Mister Lochana on one of those postcards, and sometimes Oprah the donkey is featured too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And maybe he has been fooled sometimes; maybe he thought it was a mirage. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

So I began to complete every quest I could find, sometimes jumping five or six levels in one day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Goofc. I sometimes hear it from the students. I thought it was meant for Southeast Asians. I don’t get it.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I crawled into bed sometimes I would lie there and try to remember what had happened. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Having grown up in a place I was dying to escape, then landing in one where I sometimes feel like an imposter, hardly makes me unique. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I envy my mother her Spanish curses sometimes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes have to stop and ask myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would find an apartment for rent: usually a studio, sometimes an efficiency, whatever they could afford and wherever they could go month to month, for Mia did not like to be tied down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, I sometimes catch Madge backward writing again in class. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“And if you like,” he said enthusiastically, “we can sometimes play at Ellis Park or other tennis courts in the city.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not only do they stick them in,” he says, “but sometimes they twist them around or attach an electrical current to the ends of them. It’s a little uncomfortable, but it doesn’t really hurt. Why?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

If a family member was able to plan a visit in advance, the authorities would sometimes deliberately delay issuing a permit until after the plane had departed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Human minds, for all we’re learning about them, sometimes remain mysterious, human acts inexplicable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know this, because there’s a battery-powered clock on your bedroom wall that ticks so loudly you sometimes have to smother it with a pillow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In the autumn towering brown dust storms sometimes blew in from the rolling wheat country to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He stood there with the sunshine dappling him over and sometimes his hooves struck a spark from the stones as he pawed the ground. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes we play too hard with our toys. And then they break.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My girlfriend Olga and I will sometimes get together for supper at a restaurant. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she was there, she could speak to Mary, and she did so with the instant easy affection that we sometimes feel for people we meet in dreams. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You pick the strangest things to get upset about sometimes, Laur.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The voyage past the last edges of the universe is frightening and impossible but sometimes astonishing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That sometimes the best thing you can do is forget about your own battle for a while and help someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At last she reached a barrier, sometimes it was a fence, sometimes a river, and she couldn’t fly over it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We met Patrick outside because they didn’t like to go to class sometimes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Confidence, I’d learned then, sometimes needs to be called from within. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

More friends visited on weekends, and when Ugwu came out to serve their drinks Master would sometimes introduce him—in English, of course. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes land. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My heart beat so loud all the time that sometimes I thought I should faint. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it had to do with that song “Witch Doctor” that came on the radio sometimes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My father used to say that sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’d mostly say things that made no sense, or speak so low I couldn’t hear what he was telling me—but sometimes he’d whisper secrets about the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“You know, he’s a good man. Just a little confused sometimes.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was what he usually said, and sometimes it was true. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even Gabriel listened, and would call out, “Plane! Plane!” sometimes before Jonas had heard the terrifying noise. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes quit what she was doing and stroll over to watch what I was building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After embarrassing himself at breakfast, Genie had come to the conclusion that the truth could sometimes make things weird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I get nervous, sometimes I clown around because I’m not sure what else to do. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I’ve just run into a wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, late at night, Charlie would just start talking, telling me stories about how things were before I was born—memories of him and our older brother, Ty'ree, and my mama and daddy together. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Dear Header, Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of man’s own making. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes me shiver, but the man I sometimes see him with is worse. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

On Sundays after church, Linda sometimes drove us over to her house for a visit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes I wish you hadn’t asked me them questions,” Bigger said in a voice that had as much reproach in it for Max as it had for himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer and Jim were, among other things, pragmatists who understood that even with Tom White’s generosity and PIH’s fund-raising efforts, the organization was overextended and sometimes close to being broke. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I write it down and Mango says goodbye sometimes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a long time to admit that I could no longer feel his presence and sometimes I lay awake until dawn listening desperately to the silence and trying to remember his face. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then sometimes the meaning just slips away. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining brightly, but even so the moon was clearly visible, the way it sometimes was in daylight. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I never expected justice in court, however much I fought for it, and though I sometimes received it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew, anyway, that Carl’s mother had nothing but ill feelings for all the Miyamotos; she sometimes spoke of them at the dinner table on Sundays, rattling on obsessively. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kaede looks slowly around the circle, shaking her head or sometimes tilting it to one side. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was only later that I saw how rheumatic Uncle’s hands were, when he could sometimes barely grip his chopsticks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all a mistake; Aunty got mixed up on her facts sometimes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Again and again they heard parts of the great palace collapsing, sometimes quite close to them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He says sometimes they have three or four corpses in the cooler at the same time. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad girl,” my mother yelled, and sometimes that made me gloat rather than cry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a man was an enemy, sometimes they’d cut off his head and stick it up on a pole as a warning to others. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could walk to school, cutting through a field where he would sometimes filch a ripe melon for an after-school snack. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I never used soap except when I showered, usually once or twice a week, and sometimes I didn’t use it even then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I think it's because sometimes when he plays, he sounds like the kind of guy that won't talk to you unless you're a big shot. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Peanut butter sandwiches—sometimes with, sometimes without jelly— were typical; cheese sandwiches were a treat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was stupid to feel guilty, Maya told herself sometimes when the clock crept past three a.m. toward four a.m., and the lights from the cars hadn’t slowed down. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Manchee wanders in and out the back doors as I sweep, sometimes chasing the pink moths I stir from faint corners. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They didn’t move, except sometimes to toss their heads as if they were angry at her for being in a place where she didn’t belong. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The screen is just boring because the cells are so small, even with a microscope you can’t see them sometimes.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I sense in him none of the animosity I used to sense in men, even in Luke sometimes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am sometimes melancholy, too, Vincent tells his brother, and I, too, think of disappearing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last year or so of the war they started giving us something new called K-rations that had a lot more in them, sometimes even fruit drinks, toilet paper, peanuts, and chewing gum. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all know how our imagination sometimes makes us see all sorts of images in chance formations such as clouds or blots. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rader said, in a voice that was both sonorous and emphatic, sometimes aggressive, that Fischer would like to announce that he will soon be back at the 64 squares and 32 pieces again...quite soon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor, watching, thought wryly that it might sometimes be oppressive to be for long around one so immediately in tune, so perceptive, as Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'm passing by the bagel store where my mother sometimes gets us breakfast. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He went on them sometimes because everybody would think he was a chicken if he didn’t, but they weren’t fun. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And I can’t anymore. And sometimes that sucks. Maybe I’m just stubborn, and I didn’t want them to be right.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even DeShon sometimes leaves off his headphones to listen to birds, breezes rumbling through the trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed to work sometimes but that was probably because we were thinking the same thing anyway. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a pied crow, a black-and-white bird that people in Africa sometimes make into a pet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom worked from home, designing websites, and sometimes she lost track of time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She loved her parents, though, with a desperation that sometimes scared her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No wonder she sometimes clung to me, and just as oft thrust me away. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. People are stupid sometimes. You’d be surprised at all the ridiculous reasons people give when they want to dump their pets.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But two lines came between her eyebrows, and she had a frightening eye sometimes, which glittered like a diamond. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s important to stand up for what’s right,” Mr. Eberhardt had said, “but sometimes there’s a fine line between courage and stupidity.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If people weren’t interested in buying the petrol, the kids would sometimes snap at them, telling them to drink it: “Kunywa ayo!” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were in our religion class and sometimes sat with the Colonel and me at lunch, but I didn’t know them well. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He still sometimes observes them even now, though he is over eighty years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before turning three, Sasha was matching sounds with letters—sometimes in unusual ways. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I swear, sometimes I just really felt like pinning a medal on that girl. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep and eat and ^leep again, and sometimes talk a little . . . but not too much, and only in whispers, just to be safe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even if I get confused about God sometimes, Heaven is a pretty cool idea. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That was the car that let Corinthians off near the house sometimes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the 1980s, at the same time crack was making headlines, a broad-based, grassroots movement was under way to address the widespread and sometimes fatal problem of drunk driving. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even with magic, sometimes it took the hawk a few weeks to get to Papa and back again. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the harsh Russian winter, sometimes the pilots moved into dugouts, because it was warmer underground! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Afternoons we swam in the creek or sometimes in the surf, then wound down before a dinner of steak with steamed carrots and peas one night and chicken with steamed carrots and peas the next. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I guess sometimes you can’t see things that are right in front of you,” she replies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood was plagued with crime, and sometimes the police would come in their cruisers, sirens blasting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think bout the apples and the dogs, sometimes I don’t. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Free blacks carried proof of manumission or risked being conveyed into the clutches of slavery; sometimes they were smuggled to the auction block anyway. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes heard her giggling through the hallway and, I gotta be honest, it was kind of embarrassing. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You know, sometimes you are the most self-centered man I know,” Rahim Khan said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I explain to Jaimito that snakes are cold-blooded reptiles, that they need the sun to warm them, which is why sometimes you come across them sunbathing on rocks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, ladies, sometimes...young ladies...Sometimes an old priest or bishop, maybe. I think they come here for a rest.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“About the prairie fires? About how sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sometimes muttered things and always looked like he had just woken up. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would wait until everyone was asleep, then take out Michael’s gold saxophone, and start blowing, sometimes for hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I guess me and Jay could be difficult sometimes, but I didn’t think we were trouble as babies. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I know that sometimes math isn’t as terrible as you might think, especially if it has to do with cup stacking. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Japan’s rising dominance and its sometimes touchy relations with its neighbors make it more important than ever to strip away persistent myths and to find answers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His wink or pleasant expression sometimes came just at the moment I needed to know I was alive and valuable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still feel guilty for having fun sometimes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe Jack or G.H. was hanging out and had not gone home, as they sometimes did. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up around them, I could sometimes spook who was who. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But instead of saying any of this, she kissed him again, because sometimes that was easier than trying to come up with the words. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had to read measuring markings on my machine, and sometimes I simply couldn't; the fine lines on the instruments looked like tiny wiggly worms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Bailey is sometimes allowed to join them, but always kept in his place. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I brought books home from the library, I would sometimes run into older kids who would tease me about my reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I rushed past a churchyard, where the security officers sometimes buried the bodies of old régime people. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I can, sometimes. If it’s big enough. If the surface is just right. And do you know what I heard about human hands?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The whole process seemed to stretch out over a long, indefinite time—weeks, possibly— and the intervals between the sessions might sometimes have been days, sometimes only an hour or two. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But sometimes this queer feeling would come to her and she knew that she was doing wrong. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They stared up at the greenish-blue moon, and scuffled for the best places by the fire, insulting each other, sometimes clawing or biting. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She sometimes removes her sign early, or for periods of time when she is tired from reading or in need of a respite. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I did have a pouch of dried potatoes that I kept stored by the rock, because sometimes I didn’t feel like leaving to eat with the others. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I'll sometimes have dinner with a group of happily cured cancer patients, but for the most part I tend to keep to myself, ignoring the great mound of social invitations heaped upon my desk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like, sometimes I totally find myself looking at Jupiter’s mouth and wondering what it would be like to kiss her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She followed him home from work and sometimes even when he took walks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I swear, sometimes I think you still play with dolls.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By the end of his life, the mules would be more or less dragging him across the field from shortly after dawn till evening, sometimes six days a week during planting season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Was that snake real every time I saw it, or only sometimes? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder sometimes, “Why am I alive? What is my purpose?” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a word that came in handy on the days when you hated white people like Mr. Best—the Tule Lake director—or Mr. Taylor, both of whom sometimes seemed like demons who smiled. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Just about. Mares are a little more sensitive. Sometimes you have to be there to help the mare. And sometimes if it’s wrong you have to—” he paused. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started asking questions and he gave single-word answers, sometimes just grunting out a yes or no. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then we got older and Twig’s parents got “amicably separated” and we learned which topics to avoid, because sometimes that’s what best friends do, too. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

See, even though TJ was ridiculous and annoying and sometimes gross, she appreciated the fact that he always made her laugh whether she wanted to or not. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She has been taught what is sometimes called tic-tac-toe math, a different way of figuring algebra and other higher-level math for learning-disabled students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She and my mother became friendly and sometimes shared the cooking duties. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The deep ruts in the road were frozen and glazed with ice; the wind had a clean sweep across the prairies, a sweep that sometimes seemed about to carry Jethro before it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next twenty days we sometimes followed roads, sometimes only paths. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The closest they came to him was when the police rode by, sometimes stopping to ask if anyone had seen this or that person. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe me, if you’ve been shut up for a year and a half, it can get to be too much for you sometimes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I sometimes thought Hudson may have been into Danny from math class, but Hudson swears Danny isn’t his type—too muscular, too obsessed with cars. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I was starting to be less dependent on the vine rope, and sometimes it seemed to me that Timothy was trying hard to make me independent of him. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might keep him for years in solitary confinement; they might send him to a labor camp; they might release him for a while, as they sometimes did. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

What he didn’t know was that on those rare occasions when there were no adults around, my brothers would sometimes boost each other over the transom. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Excuse the poor manners, miss, but we’ve not eaten for three days. Hungry men are sometimes rude.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I work mostly with Ron, but sometimes Lydia. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

An enormous eagle-owl who was sometimes used as a decoy, but who was at present standing on a perch in the shade of the cloister, opened his eyes when the bells rang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reynaud purposely fastened hit tilting helm—the huge straw-padded drum which sometimes fitted over the helmet proper—so that it was loose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without valuables of our own, my family's only hope to fend off starvation was work, since work meant food, maybe soup at lunchtime and sometimes a small chunk of bread to take home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Sure, sometimes they argued over how much time Aimee’s mother was working, who didn’t do the dishes, who left the milk out all night. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

One was the so- called wave-particle duality of nature at the infinitesimal scale: experiments sometimes showed light and electrons behaving like particles, and other times as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, he sometimes looked up and to the side through his glasses, as if searching for what he wanted to say. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I amaze myself sometimes at what I have personally been through and still remain in one piece. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Sam, like her, had been betrayed—and sometimes the absence of him hit her so hard that she forgot how to breathe. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If Moon Orchid fell asleep on the sofa, Brave Orchid sat up through the night, sometimes dozing in a chair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redcaps and dining-car attendants who wouldn’t think of moving out of the City sometimes go on at great length about country skies they have seen from the windows of trains. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my dad would sometimes shake his head at her melodrama and other times would just stay quiet, like he’d fallen into the haze of a particular memory himself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Tata was sometimes dependable, but just as often she was incoherent, or laid up with aches and pains. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cutting cane could get frenzied sometimes when young men got the feeling she was just yonder, hiding, and probably looking at them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes when you’re that hungry you just get on these stupid topics and talk about ’em for days and days. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She’d empathized with him, and even said she sometimes heard things coming from the jungle too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But me, I slept restlessly a lot, and sometimes it seemed I barely slept at all. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And as more and more women stopped drinking secretly at home and took to drinking openly in speakeasies, the “speaks,” as they were sometimes called, underwent changes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It’s calmer and clearer and tho you can’t see Noise, if Cillian’s always seems reddish, then Ben’s seems blue or sometimes green. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was snowing; sometimes the long light of early day lay wonderfully gold and blue across the miles of ice; most often it was gray. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He admitted he sometimes had to run laps and squat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They’d been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her—a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Girls and boys who wore matching cardigans walked down the halls hand in hand, sometimes stopping behind lockers to kiss and fondle each other. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Their high sonic calls were audible; and sometimes they flew so close to his head that he could hear their leathery wingbeats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sorceress had the same bitterness and hatred in her eyes that Hazel’s mother sometimes had. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We had a group family chat going at all times—mostly for fun and sometimes to call meetings. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“He happens to be Joe Mondragon’s lawyer, and he also sometimes writes articles for a small monthly paper published in the capital here, The Voice of the People. Maybe you’ve read it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed sometimes, watching Barack pull the same dark suit out of his closet and head off to work without even needing a comb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s why picking the right candidate for a job is so difficult and why, on more occasions than we may care to admit, utter mediocrities sometimes end up in positions of enormous responsibility. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It happens sometimes in families: one child who doesn’t fit, whose rhythm is off, whose meter is set to the wrong tune. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She also makes sure they follow the rules, which is especially good because sometimes people say they know the rules of a game, but knowing them and following them are two very different things. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

How can you always be welcome if sometimes you cannot stay? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the only way to change something was to break it first. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“People sub out O for zero when they talk sometimes, right?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But they don't expect me to talk beyond showing them where things are sometimes. At work I'm just a cashier. They don't expect me to be—” I let out a breath. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think bout the apples and the dogs, sometimes I don’t Look like to me only a fool would want you to talk in a way that feel peculiar to your mind. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know they have a real chef there? He comes in sometimes.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Anything Johnny picked up he usually reported to Paul Revere, but sometimes to Doctor Warren. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, sometimes you talk too much,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She’d dreamed of her little girl, sometimes crying because she missed her so much. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s always doing that. Molasses makes noise. It boils up sometimes.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

For the most part, Pax respectfully flanked the older fox, but sometimes he broke away to race at full speed for long glorious minutes before circling back. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

People sometimes think I’m stupid because I’m so quiet. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Byrd, too, is a creature of habit sometimes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I saw in those early months how, just as I’d predicted, politics would be a fight, and the fight would be wearying, involving standoffs and betrayals, dirty-deal makers and compromises that sometimes felt painful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My injured leg throbs to the beat of my heart, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes so hard that I think I'm going to pass out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just takes us longer sometimes to get it together in the morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Humans can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Even though, sometimes, I found myself attracted to someone who only wanted to get with me because of what they’d heard. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The gelatin sometimes proved tricky, depending on how and when it had been mixed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They’re usually either complete fabrications or lines fed from their press team, but sometimes it’s just funny. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And, I have to admit, sometimes not that many. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even went through hell and high water trying to get an authentic advertising poster from the fight, but sometimes you just have to make do with what you have. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. P sometimes teaches class in his pajamas. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were good friends, even though they sometimes said bad words, and that day I became a part of their gang. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom will get to write about poultry shows too one day, and she’ll take me with her when she goes to cover the story, like she used to sometimes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But Pascal is always more interested in poking through the flour sacks, and he sometimes takes small handfuls of Carnation milk powder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had to stop and work the fields sometimes to get some food for the body. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured she was just disappointed in the outcome of the meet, and sometimes, when you’re not in a good place, you can say the exact wrong thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was blue when the sun hit it one way, and purple when the sun hit it another way, and sometimes yellow or green. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the warning was not heeded, and when that happened the trolley car would add one more ghost to the horde that prowled the Steel City. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear a lot, and sometimes I wasn’t sure if no one was talking or if I just wasn’t hearing what they were saying. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All through the second half of fifth grade, Mom had invited Jenna to our house for dinner and sometimes to sleep over. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

In it was some barley, a little sand for grit, bread crumbs, cornmeal, diced apple peels, and sometimes even bugs or worms. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The British soldiers at the Neck were asking more and more questions of any known Whig, and sometimes, for a whim, would refuse to let him pass and often again delay the trip. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it must be hard living the Lily Maid, the Goddess-Virgin, and the other all at once. Humans just do smell bad sometimes.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I make a joke and they don’t get it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stealing had been so much a part of his previous existence that he sometimes still, even after years, forgot that it was not acceptable behavior in Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He sometimes wore a doctor’s face mask instead of a diaper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So I tell her I’m sorry, it won’t happen again, then head off to my next class.Gym class is supposed to be about balls: volleyballs, basketballs, softballs, soccer balls—sometimes sit-ups and always sweat. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that weird buzz that the air sometimes takes on when you’re sitting alone in silence, or the faint hum of a computer monitor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I too had inherited Mamou’s eyelashes, which sometimes got me teased at school. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Momma gave her small gifts of food to take to her aunt, and on Saturdays Uncle Willie would sometimes give her a dime for “show fare.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water was sometimes plentiful but more often nonexistent for long stretches so that we were never sure how much we could prudently swallow without leaving ourselves short later on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some residents invite strangers to stay in their homes, sometimes for months at a time. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Matty was very fond of his friend but sometimes suspected that his true name might eventually turn out to be Boaster. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

"Silence is how people get on sometimes. I don't expect you to understand." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She sometimes heard what we either weren’t supposed to know at all or know yet. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Their older siblings and aunts would sometimes provide temporary shelter, but the living situation would get disrupted by violence or death, and so Trina would find herself wandering the streets again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And sometimes his father would be player two in his video games. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I cringed and rolled around on the floor by my bed or sometimes on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Though they sometimes teased and tricked me, they could be kind as well. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed trees and tried to catch birds and sometimes played tricks on Fyrian, making him cry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So, yeah—sometimes I wish I could sing. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Obinze sometimes wondered if she bowed while putting it down or whether the bowing was merely in her demeanor, in the slump of her shoulders and curve of her neck. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, she did spot the tape in the end, much later, and it was probably a much worse time for her to find it, but that’s the way your luck sometimes goes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining life, sometimes ridiculously, lived long-term in one place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We pass a bookstore, closed for the night, whose owner I find coffee for sometimes, and an optometrist, and a cobbler who is willing to trade shoes for beer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or sometimes they needed information from people for reasons she could only guess at. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

On especially black days I sometimes tell myself that if I’d loaded up with degrees when I was able, I might not now be teaching anything quite so collegiate and hopeless as Advanced Writing 24-A. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, strangely, she dreamed of Mrs. Derby, whose face sometimes replaced her mother’s in her dreams. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like what this did to my interactions, the way my presence sometimes caused people to stammer or go silent, unsure of how to be themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Aside from hanging out together at Sad Camp, Davis and I would also sometimes see each other during the school year, because he lived just down the river from me, but on the opposite bank. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, Signora Mondopoco is very big and she loves dollies. She is like a little girl in her mind sometimes.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, sometimes I yell “I hate you!” at my mom and my dad, and some days I feel like I hate everybody. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of “Natural and Revealed Religion,” successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many a night his sister’s pack gorged on the flesh of sheep and cows and horses, the prey of men, and sometimes even on the flesh of man himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But, Mr. Dawson, sometimes people need advice and they’ve got real problems to solve.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, maybe Coyote makes you laugh sometimes,” I told him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only thing I miss sometimes is that rainbow. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she went to work, but sometimes she just slept all day. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that’s wrong in my head, but it feels that way sometimes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With friends like them, sometimes I wondered why I would ever need enemies. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, look, Mom, it’s, well, Dante, he’s like you. I mean, he hovers sometimes.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Through rain, and sleet, and snow, and sometimes some pretty hot days with no air-conditioning.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Day would sometimes look out his bedroom window and see his son lying on the concrete, but when he invited him in, Zakariyya snarled and said the ground was better. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since Central America was lost to the Libertheos, oranges have been hard to get: sometimes they are there, sometimes not. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t tell her of the difficulties they sometimes had in making reservations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But I know how they talk and pray and sometimes cry about the way some white folks mistreat us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When it wasn’t clear, he liked the fog that folded into the city like a blanket, curling itself over the hills and freeways, so thick that sometimes Joaquin could touch it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The educated Englishman was our model; what we aspired to be were “black Englishmen,” as we were sometimes derisively called. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, Maya would see Joaquin in her features, and then Grace, and sometimes herself. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, I wished they wouldn’t call on me in class. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to tell him that being friends with him could be hard for me sometimes, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We wrote the message on walls all over town, sometimes just part of it before we heard somebody coming. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s just another hallway; sometimes it looks just like your junior high school. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was afraid we’d have to read these out loud, or Mr. Browne would put them up on the bulletin board like he does sometimes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he saw her, he stopped and grinned, showing a mouthful of crooked brown teeth under the leather flap he wore sometimes to cover the hole in his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then slowly, like the priest who sometimes visits this place, she moves one dry brown arm in a widening gesture to point out the dry brown landscape before us. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gunfire popped, sometimes pistols, sometimes the spurt of a machine gun, and then, at the end of the line, I saw that people were being pushed onto the trains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

PS I was talking to Gregory, our mailman, yesterday about how I write you letters sometimes because I miss you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Our mother sometimes threw a tablecloth over his cage in frustration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And though I’ve never had a pair of my own, sometimes I feel the lack of them.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“At the Jewish Community Center day school, I sometimes see preschoolers lined up with their teacher. I tremble, remembering that the Germans marched little ones just like that to the gas chambers.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or, sometimes, we would enter by windows from a fire-escape, or a roof. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought Mitchell a new pair of sneakers, sometimes a toy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He liked it, as a king of swagger stick, such as military officers sometimes use. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

On days when his job was near the main tunnel, he sometimes walked along the river after he’d finished working. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was back when Baltimore County was filthy with shamblers, and sometimes I would hunt them in the dark, just another monster slinking through the deep shadows. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Soon the lights were much larger, and sometimes they blinked out as though someone had walked past a window for a moment. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the punishment for talking back to a PSF or camp controller was the same, only you also weren’t given food and, sometimes, not even water. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He would hold up Ernest as an example to his other students— sometimes to an embarrassing degree. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, they are, sometimes,” said Mrs. Corry gleefully, “and very good they taste, too. I often nibble ’em myself, if I can’t sleep at night. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

During the day the line for the bathroom sometimes stretched down the hall. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Bobo was three years older than Perry, and she adored him; he was her only toy, a doll she scrubbed and combed and kissed and sometimes spanked. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I would protest through the proper channels, and sometimes get it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want my opinion. Yes. I think sometimes they do.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I did not miss church, but sometimes I wished I might pray. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curious strangers stopped by to see—and sometimes buy—her trays of pinned butterflies and preserved pupae. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ess wanted to show him her bracelet, her mama, and point out her own shoes, which she sometimes liked to visit. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This incapacity fretted him badly and he would sometimes take it out on Rab... Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mix in the good and the bad and sometimes, I admit, when there’s not much good to report, I make some things up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And sometimes he said again, “I am too old for you, and my fires are ashes.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This set of values is sometimes referred to by the acronym CUDOS. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought about that thing Mom sometimes says, something about a tangled web and lying. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He verified that Haitian army soldiers were shooting armed demonstrators, entering urban hospitals and threatening staff, sometimes executing patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And I tell myself that in real life, things get messed up, and sometimes they stay that way. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spells of passing out, and sometimes I would hemhor- rage at the nose and left ear. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the city, at night, there was sometimes danger. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I wonder about sometimes, though, is why some rich kids like him complain about their lives so much. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Most likely she is having a vision of the Lord. They come upon her and sometimes she loses her senses. She will recover without our aid.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The voice seemed far away and immeasurably dreary, sometimes high in the air and thin, sometimes like a low moan from the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I know. I know that. It's just sometimes I can’t stand it anymore. To the point where...I’m not sure what I’ll do.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I had a girl friend once and I got your father through her. So you see, a girl friend comes in handy sometimes.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire ran ahead at times, and sometimes flagged, as if growing tired like the rest of us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burglary would be pulled; sometimes it took no more than ten minutes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rocket wasn’t curled up in the chair where Mom piled clothes sometimes when even she was too lazy to put things away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Time slowed down sometimes and sped up others. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He sidled up to her, so close that it was sometimes difficult to see what she was doing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ms. Taggart looked so young, it was sometimes hard to remember she had a child of her own—a little boy I'd seen running around campus like a Jack Russell terrier. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His small eyes were imbedded in pale flesh, eyes that seldom smiled despite the giggle and the grin that sometimes flashed across his face, especially when he knew he was reaching people. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cancer may sometimes require the complementary action of two chemicals, one of which sensitizes the cell or tissue so that it may later, under the action of another or promoting agent, develop true malignancy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were probably brown, but people with dark hair sometimes had blue eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I sometimes prayed they would get back together. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A mother will sometimes leave her pup on the beach while she hunts. The baby is left here on the sand. Safe. Away from the great whites who hunt them each summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Remember how we sometimes talk about things that are not about you?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And sometimes there were swirling eddies of warmth, a bit of sun-drenched water ribboning around her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even a year ago the boy might sometimes pick up something and carry it with him for a while but he didnt do that any more. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because life sometimes isn’t all that predictable and because the human body is oftentimes the same way, Alma Ember and her husband Cabot Searcy did not have a baby as they’d planned. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“He worked all right. And the hands would work hard for him—mostly without the cowhide. But sometimes he didn’t show much sense.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though obvious in principle, the consequences are sometimes resisted, as they were by the student of mine who maintained that human hair just didn’t grow in miles per hour. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Divine light, for example, is sometimes indicated by golden rays, at other times by a halo or aura. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cicero writes of the orbis he sometimes means the habitable dry land, a disk rising above the waves, and sometimes the whole globe of land and ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Link and Marty were completely hitting on Violet for it, but she didn’t pay them any attention, and sometimes she would stand there with one hand on my shoulder. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

White men eat you up, but sometimes colored folk eat you up, too. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He works as a carpenter, making desks and tables, and sometimes he makes license plates. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His salty neck that smelled sometimes of sweat and sometimes of soap. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once the skeleton was picked clean, it would begin, often, to float, like seaweed in a quiet tide, shifting this way and that, sometimes surfacing, more often just journeying through the Snow Sand for eternity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Around and around he galloped, and sometimes he jumped forward and landed on stiff legs. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She claims that some people who work with numbers sometimes get creative.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He smoked all the time, a cigarette between his lips as he added up the figures, and sometimes left burning on the counter while he went to look for stock. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The officers were scrutinizing every one in the column, sometimes speaking to each other, going forward to flash a light in some one’s face. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It reminded Aru of how sometimes in winter it hurt to breathe because the air had become overly sharp and thin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I would sometimes steal a bite of the sweet, soft mixture, and my mom would shoo me away. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen her talking to Sandy sometimes, eating together at lunch when she isn’t eating with me and Camille and all the others. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I would make café con leche and we would talk, sometimes for only a few minutes, sometimes for hours. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I took my mother’s place in line for our rations, and sometimes my father and I were pulled off the street to work outside the ghetto. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would sometimes joke that Mr. McCracken lived a double life, working as a dentist by day and preparing for the end of the world by night. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Derby described the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don’t want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth any more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, through reluctance or obtuseness, they seemed to have a hard time figuring out which seat was theirs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if sometimes she noticed the way the neighborhood kids avoided Vivi or the way their parents talked about her in low, worried voices, Jude didn’t think it was anything important. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In all his dreams he hunted her, sometimes through the new green meadows of spring, but usually through the ice fields, dodging boulders and crevasses with unerring steps. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Janina spoke to her dead dolly for hours, sometimes yelling or laughing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I have to get my mind focused and stop listening to myself— because I send myself the wrong way sometimes. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t the same for him when our mom died. I don’t know how true it is, but sometimes I think I absorbed more of the blow than he did.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve been trading, collecting things to sell in the secondhand shops and sometimes in the rubbish bins outside the nicer houses, washing and sewing and repairing what I find. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, on slow nights, she would sit in my chair and tell me to close the door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The hopeful question is sometimes asked, “If insects can become resistant to chemicals, could human beings do the same thing?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Mellower sometimes said that, but more often he ended with “and they lived happily ever after.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so when he was on a dangerous bureau assignment, he sometimes tucked a six-shooter in his belt. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then—I kept watching carefully—she pulled herself together, smiled and said: “It’s just as well the fences at Hailsham aren’t electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the sleeves of my sweatshirt, I had two cuffs around my wrists, just like the superheroes sometimes wore in the comics. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, as humans we can and sometimes should learn to rise above our instincts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

From then on the gentleman had a band of musicians play beside the window of Remedios the Beauty, sometimes until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, sometimes, the day’s watch commander, a lieutenant, will step up and say a few words, often a rundown of notable happenings from the shifts before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd needed my help so much in those early years that I sometimes forget just how much I rely on her now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I feel my eyes getting rounder and rounder, the pupils enlarging like an owl’s: for an hour I’ve been looking at slides, yellowy, sometimes unfocused slides of white marble women with flat-topped heads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took the large pan of potatoes that she was handing me and a knife and a wooden bowl, and I worked silently, sometimes peeling, and sometimes driving away the bothersome flies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I do that sometimes when I get very depressed. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Angela drove down from New Jersey to visit sometimes, but she was juggling both a toddler and a job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Attention is naturally drawn to high notes, so a part that is higher than the melody is sometimes given a special name such as "descant." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My thoughts kept flitting around all over the place, sometimes thinking about Wishbone and sometimes thinking about Mama being up there at Gus and Bertha’s. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But sometimes he thinks he’s funny, and he plays little games with me. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had learned through experience that delay and heartfelt remorse were powerful tools with which he could fend off creditors for months and years, sometimes forever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know that even cool kids wish they weren’t cool sometimes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z