Well, breakfast was sort of like that, only instead of the clothing problem, we had an unmentionable cancer problem. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door disappeared from behind my hand and the music crashed into me and I lifted my head and it’s then that I think I sort of collapsed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had a package in his hand, sort of square, wrapped in brown paper and string. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I mean, I do sort of tell my mom everything, to a degree that’s almost pathological. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was actually sort of jealous that he could cry like that and didn’t have to worry about making things worse for everyone else. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The curve 1/x has a singularity at the point x = 0—a very simple sort of singularity that mathematicians dubbed a pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“What, like tourist pamphlets, that sort of thing?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Duke and Nala are clearing some sort of invisible hurdle like champion high jumpers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” says Dad with a weird sort of pride, “he’s not. The other eye is glass.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Very true, my dear, that is exactly what I say. She is the sort of woman whom one cannot regard with too much deference.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Young, pretty, unassuming, the sort of girl that always worked at little inns like this: a Nellie. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought about how she first started drawing, how the shapes and shades sort of fell out of her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘When you use your power ... do you get some sort of, um, feedback from me?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It cooks up into the sort of tasteless mass one might induce an American child to try once, after a long round of pulled-up noses and double-dog dares. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing is, you two sort of have kids—together. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Every now and then they thought they were going to get out into the open and see what sort of country lay around the enormous palace. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I wave to prove to her that I’m nice and friendly, the sort of person you might want to give a free lei to. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d meant this simply to be a statement of fact, but it sounded sort of taunting and doesn’t seem to have made her any happier. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The solemnity that had always lent him, as a small child, a rather comic air, now seemed a sort of youthful dignity. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did most of the talking—I was still sort of translating—until Radar logged in and joined the room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How come Olga never felt the need to be out in the streets like some sort of Gypsy? She was always so comfortable here at home, spending time with her family. Bien agusto, mi niña.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the pickup just sort of steered itself back to the band shell, and there he was, lugging the kid into the baseball-equipment room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with that, he made a snorting, derisive sound, the sort of sound an eight-year-old boy would make on a playground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was a sort of Roman Pan, a rustic god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the sort of thing they say on television; it didn’t seem real. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed, wishing she’d told the whole truth about that night—about how it had all just sort of happened. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time since they announced the Quarter Quell that he’s offered me any sort of affection. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It sort of seemed like you cared mostly about the solos. But also just how the band sounded. Not how I was feeling.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d made reservations at her favorite restaurant. It was going to be some sort of fancy night out.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I needed, I suppose, was some sort of final confirmation, something to carry with me after she was gone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex had almost managed to persuade himself that this whole business was just some sort of crazy adventure...a game. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Its searches after Truth, are a sort of Hawking and Hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the Pleasure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once Copernicus had suggested that the earth was not the centre of the universe but a planet orbiting the sun, people were bound to puzzle over what sort of planet it could be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There’s a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He told Addie that there was some sort of misunderstanding, that he had thought the notes in his locker were from someone else and that was who he was expecting to meet at the flagpole. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to have the afternoon off, but I was sort of hankering to know what was going to happen with the Manchurian Fire Thrower. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We are considering sending Lucy to another school next year. It’s a sort of boarding school, and I need to know if she can handle it. In your honest opinion.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She smiled at me. It was ... it had a sort of ... it went right down into you, if you understand me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The look on her face is a mix of girlish excitement and some sort of pain. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The picture was of some sort of leprechaun wedding. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, that’s not one hundred percent true, but sort of. I mean, I’d won everything else. It was the one thing I couldn’t seem to conquer. I just felt like ... I don’t know.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her eyes blink, and her head moves left and right as if she's having some sort of conversation with someone who isn't there. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my hands, trying to collect my thoughts, but they wouldn’t fall into any sort of orderly pattern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sort of knew what he was talking about. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Does that sort of thing happen often here?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her voice wasn’t exactly strange, but she was speaking very loudly, in the sort of voice she’d use to announce something to the lot of us, and that was why we’d all gone quiet. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the time I sort of even forget to pick up my change, at restaurants and night clubs and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was some sort of mechanism on the edge of the lid—a kind of lock, Lina thought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like he was worried that they had created some sort of bond that he could never break into. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

No one heeded him, and there was running to and fro, but he dared to stop no one to ask what sort of a child had been born or even if any had been born. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

You held yourself up on your arms while your legs did most of the work, moving you in a sort of circular motion. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It — it was a sort of present,” she said lamely. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a group of haggard-looking Ministry wizards rushed past, pointing at the distant evidence of some sort of a magical fire that was sending violet sparks twenty feet into the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Taking something real and sort of stretching it out like a piece of taffy into a thing that’s true but distorted. You know. Like old lady Henley’s face-lift.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The usual brightness was gone from his eyes and he walked with a sort of glum determination like an old man. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But finally, after I was riding a while, the cab driver and I sort of struck up a conversation. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of miracle he needs now. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He realized he was sort of in a daze. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He definitely made some sort of noise in the back of his throat and shifted uncomfortably in his chair. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was even more amazed I managed to talk back to him while I scrubbed my belly button and my stomach jiggled like some sort of gelatinous non-humanoid life-form. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sophia’s husband had gotten out of the military, and he was some sort of salesman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke turned off the lights and switched the television to a cartoon, and soon the boys fell into the sort of deep sleep he hadn’t experienced in years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Susie was the sort of girl who would go in for this kind of love. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They look weird, stretched out, as if distorted through some sort of circus mirror. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a warning symbol plastered across the top, the kind that indicated the contents were some sort of biohazard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She finally grabbed him, but he didn’t want to stop, didn’t want to give her any sort of chance to explain what he’d been too stupid to see from the very beginning. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

From the point of view of a conventional seventeenth-century philosopher, this was a peculiar sort of explanation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Every time someone sort of looked her way, she eagerly tried to catch their eye by holding her hand up in a small wave. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That sort of scared me a little bit. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Blue one is sort of a cerulean, and blue two is more of a sapphire.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They remembered the very same places in Narnia—"the grasslands up above Beaversdam" and found that they were some sort of second cousins once removed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And the funny thing was, I sort of missed him after we moved, because he had a helluva good sense of humor and we had a lot of fun sometimes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Washington victory had been held up to the nation as some sort of fluke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Making us wait might be some sort of secret test. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid I have some . . . bad news to report. The worst sort of news, Mrs. Heine.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean you put her in a bad position. Making her give Peeta and the others immunity when we don’t even know what sort of damage they might cause,” Gale had said. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Day before yesterday!” she repeated, aloud; and went on thinking to herself, “day before yesterday,” in a sort of an uncomprehending way. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life imitating art, art imitating life; I really get those two confused, sort of like I can never remember if claret is Bordeaux wine or Burgundy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, oil company geologists had known for years that if you wanted to find oil you had to allow for precisely the sort of surface movements that were implied by plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My dad walked over, too, and we formed a sort of huddle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘But if all these people are disappearing every night, surely there’s some sort of an outcry?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that Oakley Street was a branch of some sort of secret service, but since all she did was interpret the alethiometer on their behalf, she knew very little more. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had seen people carrying kids in specially designed backpacks, but his family didn’t have money for that sort of stuff. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sort of worried too, but I really wasn’t afraid. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked sort of like a bumblebee, with a tiny cockpit perched way back where the vertical tail joined the fuselage. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at Nico, and some sort of silent argument happened between them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It sort of hurts, but still, I love learning about him. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A sort of high, hysterical squeal came from Sir Meliagrance, who could be seen crawling towards the King’s box and making violent gestures. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s heard stories about this sort of thing happening in the olden days, but in his lifetime the power underground never fails. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There has to be some sort of safeguard against this kind of thing. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And aloud he said, “What sort of a maid would you have, then?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I am almost impressed with the rhythm of it all, in a repulsive sort of way. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On the roof that night, Zeitoun and Todd and Nasser barbecued the remaining meat, noting that it was the first time any of them had been at any sort of social event since the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After a while I started laughing again ’cause I realized I could sort of smell the red flower a few feet away from my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The veteran couples never did anything showy in public, going about in a sensible sort of way, like a mother and father might do in a normal family. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that sort of comment isn’t recommending you either,” says Jackson. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

No natural sister should love a stranger more than a brother, I thought, and what sort of daughter prefers a teacher to her own father? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Word had arrived that in Venice someone called Galileo, using some sort of new instrument, had discovered four planets circling a distant star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was reciting some sort of incantation between questions, probably something to give Seven strength. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"All right now, line up here and let's see what sort of scrimers you are." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What was I saying? Oh, yes. Henry tells me that this particular sort of mushroom was a great favorite of the emperor Claudius. Interesting, because you remember how Claudius died.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few of Roshan’s messages are to his parents, one is to his sister, and one is a delivery receipt for some sort of gift. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I—I—I’m sort of straightening up the book shelves.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone was clean, and they all seemed to be participating in some sort of intricate social dance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It sort of sickened me to notice his nipples, hard and erect, under the thin white cotton. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

How was it that he, Ralph, had turned out the sort of person who would find the machine empty? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How helping him on?” asked Biddy, with a steady sort of glance. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of weird, but it seemed the looser things got with Faith, the tighter they got with Astelle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"I am not going to listen to that sort of rot from you, Michael." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was an ugly sort of wardrobe to his left, full of the teachers’ cloaks. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"Say, what sort of family are you used to?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of truth that leaves me wishing I’d never asked in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I remember one man named Gene-gene who was a sort of chief. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, when I got here, I was able to get a job in the palace kitchen, just scrubbing floors, washing dishes—that sort of thing.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was looking at me sort of funny. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They felt sort of human,which was a little freaky, but I couldn’t front like I wasn’t fascinated by it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It is hardly the sort of thing I like to see happen in this house.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Working at the drugstore. And I’m sort of hanging out with this guy,” he said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Along one entire wall is a giant flat screen, and my dad is planted in front of this now, enormous feet on the coffee table, watching some sort of game and shouting at the television. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’s the sort of person who only relaxes all the way when everyone has arrived or has found their seat or has turned in their part of the group project. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It only tastes mildly of something like diluted apple juice, and I don’t feel any sort of change in my emotions. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s making some sort of cake that she won’t let me have a piece of because someone more important’s coming over. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Juno has some sort of plan for us, about the Prophecy of Seven.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her face was all white and stricken and I thought she’d quit then, but she kept it together, she kept it coming, although she sounded sort of shaky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Gregor hoped Dulcet would be joining them, but after tucking Boots in a sort of high chair, she backed up several feet from the table and stood. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the Count saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eye-teeth long and pointed; but the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of lion-like disdain. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was even fond of her in a mild sort of way. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was a strange voice, deep and thick and sort of clotted, as though it had to fight its way through a can of worms before coming out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of what sort of wood would you need to make them? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They’ve formed a circle, playing some sort of game—as if this were a time for fun and games. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She always wore that jacket, or some sort of overshirt, even when it was hot outside. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hotel had these really cool elevators that sort of hang on the side of the building, with the whole car exposed. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing that I’d suffered some sort of stroke, I staggered away in midconversation, retreated to my sleeping bag, and pulled my hat over my eyes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So I sort of shrug and force a half smile and say, “I know.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was nervous, flustered even, as though it were some sort of reunion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To tell you the truth, it was sort of embarrassing, in a way, to be talking about Romeo and Juliet with her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was grinning, but it was a very odd, strained sort of grin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The plastic windows were all scratched up, and it was dark, but I could still sort of see what was inside. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was some sort of a foreign accent there, something harsh and guttural, and she seemed to have trouble pronouncing the letter w. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She’d had no trouble teaching Tony and Shawn to read, and everyone else had just sort of picked it up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had overly toned arms, thin and bulging with muscles, a pixie haircut and an air of intense anxiety; she was the sort of person whose love would suffocate. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At recess the cool kids play tetherball, which it turns out I’m sort of okay at. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’d given it careful thought and decided that most folks had a sort of clock in their heads. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Mordred went over to him with haste, with a sort of shamefaced dissimulation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there were plenty of the sort of people who probably would have tormented Dill and Lydia at Forrestville High, but they didn’t seem to enjoy any special status. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When I wake up in the morning, it’s always sort of a letdown as reality hits me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But, like the Invisible Man in H. G. Wells, I discovered that my gift had its price, which took the form of, in my case as in his, a sort of mental darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She said: “I found it at the last Sale. I just thought it’s the sort of thing you’d like.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sort of a god when it comes to claw machines.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice was thirteen, so we both thought we were too old for this sort of thing. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The builder sort of vacuumed up his coffee so it didn't burn his lips. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, nothing,” I say, which is sort of worse than explaining. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“The prince has proclaimed that he will make some sort of announcement at the hunt,” she continued, “and my stepmother and stepsisters will be there. I wish to go without them knowing.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it’s different for him now, no lazy Saturday sex or scrambled eggs, instead a different sort of joy, a little girl tucked up between him and his wife, babbling away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was turned toward me, we had some serious eye contact going on, so it sort of felt like Laura and I were the only ones in the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that’s the sort of girl she was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was prepared for some sort of archaeological dig; for a dead body; for a meteorite. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sort of medium-sized something, like a cat, but as fast as a fast car. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that I smiled afterward, but apparently I did and it looks sort of cheesy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She stomped over to it, picked up an expensive-looking ceramic dish that was holding some sort of candies, and flung it at the window. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’ve got sort of used to playing around with those explorers at the Pole.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Harry was sure it was the same sort of “no” that he himself had given Dumbledore. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a barren landscape, yet perfect; it’s the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is this sort of revolution, a revolution of unintended consequences and unforeseen outcomes, that Butterfield intended to evoke by the term ‘the Scientific Revolution’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s the sort of communication there’s no particular reason to believe in under ordinary circumstances and I’m generally not big on ghosts. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dudes in here have a way of isolating you, a sort of passive violence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This was intended to be the province of the sort of people Joe had seen on the golf course at Princeton or on the manicured lawns of estates he had glimpsed up the Hudson. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As for the dog, he’s sort of taken on his master’s stooped look, muzzle down, neck straining. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Boy,” she said, “your thinking has its points, but it is not the sort of thing I thought you might think. Did you think of this yourself?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at me as if anxious about what sort of reaction the information might provoke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At times you'd think he was some sort of Communist, then he comes out with something that makes him sound true blue Tory. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the movie was over, I started walking down to the Wicker Bar, where I was supposed to meet old Carl Luce, and while I walked I sort of thought about war and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was a strange sort of military man, easygoing and casually brilliant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some sort of rare cancer, Mom told us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A sort of...sharpening of the lines of her, as though a diaphanous veil had been lifted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Oddly, by midsummer, these sad realizations about my mother translated into a sort of talent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s the sort of belief I want. It’s called Alar: riding-crop belief. When I drop this stone it will float away, free as a bird.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Ivy and me have sort of been friendly the last few weeks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Marvelous things were piled in every window along the streets downtown, and big organ music made the sidewalks sort of tremble. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “I don’t know that I’m an expert of anything. But one thing I can say is it’s sort of interesting that the person wrote the word ‘black’ in red pen.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still he says nothing, just stares at me with a sort of pained look in his eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But Styx was talking about the sort of stuff you could buy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were no receipts from any sort of shop where a murder weapon had been newly purchased; there were no journal entries or overheard phone calls or late-night conversations. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, with a sort of silent agreement, I helped them unload the lumpy sacks from the back of the wagon and pile them to one side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lay on the mat while the man made some sort of drink for himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was breaking some sort of long-standing code that the newest member on the team wasn’t supposed to win and make her teammates look bad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ever since Billy had been thrown into shrubbery for the sake of a picture, he had been seeing Saint Elmo’s fire, a sort of electronic radiance around the heads of his companions and captors. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad sort of laughed, and Timothy saw a pulse beating time in his cheek. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to college in the United States; I guess some sort of accent stuck. My wife teases me about it, but I thought she was joking until now.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of selfhypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I began to imagine the entire town was some sort of bizarre experimental prison camp without walls—a punishment center where criminals were sentenced to living only with other criminals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He used to stand on the terrace, barking idiotically, and then dash madly to one corner of the lawn and eat grass in a sort of frenzy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't tell if this was some sort of joke, or if he just didn't like me, but I couldn't understand how he could not like me when we didn't even know each other yet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Some sort of elevator device lifts the craft slowly up through the levels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It’s because there’s a special, “what if” sort of grammar that kicks in when we talk about something that’s untrue. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's nothing special, but the wife will see to it everything's clean and comfortable enough in a basic sort of way.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the sort of stuff they liked: short and obvious. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moral certainty is thus quite different from the sort of absolute certainty one might have in mathematics or in logic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You can hear the same sort of thing if you walk through a riding-stable when the horses are being fed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Extra time on tests did sound sort of nice. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The Green Grace will accomplish nothing. She may be conspiring with the Yunkai’i even as we sit here. Arrangements, did you say? Make arrangements? What sort of arrangements?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she hung up, she mentioned casually to her husband that apparently some sort of police agent had arrived in Milagro for a meeting and she wondered vaguely why, and with whom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depends perhaps on where you are, and what sort of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no getting around it—those Orientals are very good at that sort of thing. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was sort of crunchy, because the sugar didn’t dissolve, and it was greasy and left a filmy coat in my mouth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rue contributes a big handful of some sort of starchy root to the meal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was also...well, if you wanted to put a label on this sort of thing, I guess you’d say jealous. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, all was stillness—the sort of stillness that makes you sit up and take your bearings. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You too,” Rishi said, feeling like he was in some sort of bizarre dream. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he could read it. But you need years of training....He might have tried to sort of use it for bargaining. He was a spy.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was all some sort of hallucination. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But before they did that, they wanted to know whether Reggie was the sort of person who was good at focusing and attending to information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was an irritable sort of day after that. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Woodrow Murphy, the walking fat man, had achieved this sort of fame the year before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could fix pretty much any sort of car that sputtered or was dragged by a mule up to his garage door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I tell the woman at the counter that I will pay zero dollars instead of the suggested donation, she eyeballs me as if I were some sort of criminal. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This was the part where you were supposed to say something fascinating, if you were the sort of person that had fascinating things to say. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So I was actually sort of relieved when Fang didn’t show up at all this year. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I suppose I’d had some sort of foolish notion that Bigwig would be waiting to meet us. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who would consider for a moment that the more than 3 billion of us are a sort of stupendous animal when we become linked together? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sort of old and baggy, and I was afraid they might fall off altogether. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nonnie had sort of put her hand on the younger woman’s arm in a timid embrace, but there was a huge embroidered shoulder bag between the two of them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was a thin, frail sort of woman in a long white nightgown. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

To another, he expanded on the theme with a sort of minatory thrill: “I think it really not too improbable that a ten cm cube of uranium deuteride . . . might very well blow itself to hell.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The ceremony itself seems to last forever, but it’s at least sort of nice, in a way. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was sort of funny, though, in an awful way, and I started to sort of laugh. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Frankly, Dr. Lopez, I don’t think having someone whose sole job is to clean up after the children sends the right sort of signal.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing me, she roused herself: she made a sort of effort to smile, and framed a few words of congratulation; but the smile expired, and the sentence was abandoned unfinished. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And nothing but the truth!” concluded the hunchback with a sort of triumph. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was some sort of prank, some sort of dare. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He shared his food with me and sort of adopted me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We must have sort of burst into the classroom, because everyone looked up from their silent reading to stare at us. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s coming in the windows. It has a sort of a howling feeling to it.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It might work, if I were good at this sort of thing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He opened the lid of a pot with some sort of reddish brown sauce dripping over the sides, boiling furiously. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The opponent must then hazard some sort of surmise about its nature—e.g., one or two, light or dark, rough or smooth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It can be sort of blinding,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It makes my mother into a nonmother, a sort of mutant owl. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could barely keep it together around each other—what sort of energy did they have left over for her? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The others look uncomfortable, as if this were not how they intended to break some sort of bad news to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on Thursday last he had a sort of shock.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing it’s bad news, because her face gets worried and sort of sad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to get my mind around this shocking bit of information, but the music and the girl and the insanity of the situation were sort of fracturing my thoughts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If he could not defend his own home and hearth, he was no sort of king at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Not really. Don't you see? The theatre is a sort of family and, like him or no, Nick is a part of it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s only the second day of classes. You might set some sort of record.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It often had a sort of peaceful smell—as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s passion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘The dolphin, one of its deep-down meanings is playing, sort of like being playful,” she explained. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Another, a widow, on the verge of a different sort of departure, in order to dwell, as his father does, in a separate world. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Also there were some bills and old letters and things tied up with a putrid ribbon and then—sort of funny—this little pamphlet caught my eye. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was “a sort of clarety-brown satin,” she wrote to Elizabeth, and she felt it was “very unobjectionable.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like we were both sort of curious, or at least I know I was. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You should be super excited. That’s awesome. I hope you get into Yale or Harvard or Hogwarts. Wherever you want. But school is sort of a sore subject for me right now. I’m...” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"Call it that for want of a better word, if you must. At heart it was only a different sort of knowledge." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That sort of thing only happened in stories. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her men-friends would assume a sort of forced heartiness, and ask me jocular questions about history or painting, guessing I had not long left school and that this would be my only form of conversation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then shake your head, look serious and wise — This sort of talk protects you if he dies. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I sort of opened the first page and took a look at it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Laurie looked at her a minute as if he did not quite know what to do with himself, then turned sharply away, saying in a desperate sort of tone, “You’ll be sorry some day, Jo.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I mean, compared to some of the real creeps in school—the ones who cling to Jenny Flick as if she’s some sort of rock star because she gives out—James is an angel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She said mortals like it was some sort of terrible condition, but Rachel just nodded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So...I was sort of right. Snape must have been proud of being ‘half a Prince,’ you see? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had little patience for this sort of thing, Catelyn knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was sort of annoyed at my father for choosing me to be the one for the interview. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bekah Cotter, with her long, golden hair and compact curves, comes in with a huge group of friends and they sort of camp out with fries and fountain drinks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"Why would Nergal write that? I cannot imagine what my brother-in-law is thinking. Gilgamesh wasn't the sort of hero who needed to lie about anything." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She said it as if she were sorry about it, as if it were some sort of failing in her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This sort of evidence — and no more — forms the basis of a vast amount of medical therapy in many other disorders. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For one thing, they were both very intellectual, especially Mr. Antolini except that he was more witty than intellectual when you were with him, sort of like D.B. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were trembling, not like a leaf that’s about to fall from a branch, but like some sort of rabid beast that’s legitimately trembling with excitement over tearing you apart. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It must have been some sort of miracle that these sweeps were never during his shift. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tally struggled to do the math in her head, to figure out what sort of numbers would add up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I steadied myself on Ant Little's head and sort of rode it out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But she said calmly: “Boring sort of thing to look at.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone’s parents have been singing the entirely wrong sort of songs.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I think he expects this sort of thing to happen.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead there's this busy intersection, cars whizzing by, and it all seems sort of familiar. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had that same big yard inside, that was always sort of dark, with those cages around the light bulbs so they wouldn't break if they got hit with a ball. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No one says a word to me in the huddle and I sort of fade into the background. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in your free time, if you wanted to, you could help out, take orders, fill water pitchers, that sort of thing.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s a more advanced sort of lock,” he decided. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I notice a faint smell, too, like some sort of cleaner. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And we’ve been coming here for so long, I feel like I know you guys and you’re sort of like my brothers and sisters and I know I can trust you, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her great brown eyes opened and she blinked several times in a bemused sort of way. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As it happened, there was very little she did without some sort of commentary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For what you set and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends or: what sort of person you are. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn't very good at this sort of thing. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And Hina’s right: maybe I’ll be able to share that sort of glance with my own husband one day, but on my terms. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

‘You don’t understand. He’ll give you his time for nothing. He’s coming to see you this afternoon. And I’m meeting Cilia, sort of behind her mother’s back, to make plans.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, sort of like he did to you in Erudite headquarters.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

How I used to picture it as some sort of foam insulation sprayed atop his blocky pelvis. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His voice was deeper than she'd ever realized, but sort of warm in the middle. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He strutted back toward the pond, hoping he looked awesome and not like he had some sort of nervous affliction. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You caught him on a good day. A sober day. Sometimes he’s all there. And sometimes”—she sort of shrugged—“he’s not.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she says, “but it was a different kind of loneliness. A sort of loneliness I hope you never have to understand. I didn’t leave you and your father,” she tells me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I watched the girl disappear into a room a few doors down carrying some sort of glass bottle. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I want to hang out with Victoria and Francesca and that whole crowd, I have to hang out with Hannah, too. It’s sort of a package deal.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Working backward, what sort of problem might such skills solve? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the year before there had been some sort of stationery arms race among the kids, with each trying to have the most unique pens and paper. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She focused her mind on the central skull and asked: What sort of person did this skull belong to, and why did they have those holes made in it? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each bumper sticker has the name of a college on it, which is sort of ironic, because not many of the students here will get to go. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never tried to fill people’s heads with this sort of thing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The phone was right next to me, and I started to call down and have them send up some breakfast, but I was sort of afraid they might send it up with old Maurice. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The makeshift 24th MEU base is a sort of Fort Apache, in the middle of a pretty hostile Iraqi Sunni Muslim population. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Noah, and put on a clean shirt, please. 1 don’t want you looking like some sort of juvenile delinquent.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe in some sort of weird way, she would be relieved, since she’s so afraid of men. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He guesses that she suffered some sort of a breakdown after my dad and brother died. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him take out a sort of scalpel which had a long steel handle and a small pointed blade. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and me, we’re sort of getting along again now that she likes some other boy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I'm not the sort of person normally mistaken for being fast and well-coordinated, and because of this, I found Martin's assumption to be oddly flattering. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of pitched tent dwellings made of tarps and blankets and makeshift supports, like some sort of skid row. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Although everybody, including me, made fun of him, I was pretty certain he was some sort of a genius. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker was the sort of intelligent, history-savvy person I could throw at my mother and watch him stick, but also the sort of person I’d never do that to, because I had a soul. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When someone dies, people always say they had some sort of premonition, a sinking feeling that something awful was right around the corner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The pol/'ts,” they called them, with a sort of uninterested contempt. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was being sincere at last, but I did not want that sort of honesty. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What sort of madness have you led us into?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

With the crickets chirping through the open window, Priscilla “Petey” Willis sat cross-legged on her bed in-the dark of her room, waiting for Finn to appear like some sort of magic trick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I guess I thought maybe she'd be able to recognize me, like maybe some weird sort of intuition would kick in and she'd give me this big smile and say, "Wait—you must be Bobby!" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean my mother always thought Jane and her mother were sort of snubbing her or something when they didn't say hello. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“There is one, isn’t there? Some mathematical formula which tells the proper dose to administer according to height and weight, that sort of thing?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He told me everything,” she says, “but I’d sort of like to hear it from you.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

What if her prince was in some sort of trouble? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The old storyteller didn’t seem to have any idea what sort of trouble he was in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was sadder than seeing my own father cry, because my father is the sort of person you expect might cry if he was terribly upset. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sam was a triumphant sort of a person. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I liked that man--what was his name?--with the sort of blue nose." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looked up and gave Father a quick sort of scared look. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Harry passed Quirrell these days he gave him an encouraging sort of smile, and Ron had started telling people off for laughing at Quirrell’s stutter. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Most kids had stayed inside for some sort of basketball after-party in the gym, and anyone out here was in their car and gone within minutes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The other one didn’t say anything; he just held his hands far away from his T-shirt, which only sort of worked. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sort of cretins pursuing Dark Magic now . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Any bunch of sound waves will produce some sort of noise. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Well, it’s sort of a shower—a nozzle you hold over yourself. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Do you know what Mother calls this sort of thing? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sort of furnishing was what Mr. and Mrs. Clutter liked, as did the majority of their acquaintances, whose homes, by and large, were similarly furnished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began asking his questions in a low, expressionless voice, as though this were a routine, a sort of catechism, most of whose answers were known to him already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She waltzed away, her chunky necklace clanking as she waved up at the district superintendent, who sort of half waved back. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the sort of thing to get stuck in the bottom of your shoe without your realizing it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Racial purity, political purity—Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he knew what sort of threat Nehemia posed; but why bring her to the castle? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were extraordinarily beautiful, and there was a strange brightness about them, a sort of luminous quality that made them glow and sparkle in the most wonderful way. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Folks enjoyed that sort of thing and it was politically useful given the combat with the northern states and the antislavery movement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ruth was sort of right, I would learn: A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Someone’s parents,” he said, “have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a while what he did bring was the Converse shoe box, and it had become sort of a tradition for us to dump the contents onto my bed and go through the pictures. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I sort of gave her a kiss, and she said, "Whenja get home7' She was glad as hell to see me. You could tell. "Not so loud. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Again a sort of apology arose to my lips. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Eight’s sort of an appropriate name. Considering the state of his fingers.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But how she said it was sort of chilling. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had a chip on his shoulder: it was a sort of black joke he shared with himself, a double entendre, made silently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His door was open, but I sort of knocked on it anyway, just to be polite and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And a sort of panic was beginning to break out among the firemen and the policemen on the rooftop. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dead bug, a beetle, he said, even though it sort of looked like a cockroach. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Just sort of stares off into space and won’t say much of anything.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

And he really did set off those bombs when he was a freshman, which when you stop to consider sort of shows a pattern—an actual pattern. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So, what should I call you?” he asked, giving me a formal sort of nod. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Gravitas was all fine and good, and it was important to maintain appearances, but—Gherland shifted the baby from one arm to the other—he was getting too old for this sort of thing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music. And these grand swashboggling ears of mine is able to read that music.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it was sort of a kiss by proxy. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not have fallen victim to any other sort of calamity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It must have been a trick, some sort of clever illusion. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each match began simply enough, with a ritualistic strutting around the circle, the two combatants physically taunting each other in a sort of aggressive dance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That word, plastered, on the brink of obsolescence, indicates to me what sort of an event that was. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, Jacks, but in, y’know, an ordinary boy, that sort of thing, it finds an outlet. Courtin’ girls and that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He blinks, and I feel sort of bad about what I’ve said. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In 1871, Catherine was in her mid-thirties and had never received any sort of public relief. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was very sleek, exactly the sort of phone the daughter of a goddess would have. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always before, Mama had just sort of put up with his lizard- catching. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Denna looked over her shoulder at me and gave a sort of a shrug with her eyebrows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sort of looks like Chester, only he’s got longer ears and a shorter tail. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Six years at the Academy behind her, and she was utterly unprepared for this sort of thing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It contained a blanket, a sleeping bag, several old throw pillows, and one unmarked Mason jar filled with some sort of liquid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But I was nervous too, and that made me feel like we were on a date, which we sort of were, I guess. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He stood there, reading it, and sort of stroking his bare chest and stomach, with this very stupid expression on his face. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“As ‘this sort of thing’ is rather a vague expression, would you kindly explain?” returned Amy, knowing perfectly well what he meant, but wickedly leaving him to describe what is indescribable. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these reforms were precisely the sort of things that we in the ANC someday hoped to enact. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very nice sort of feeling. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But when I first started walking it was just a thick mist that left everything sort of hazy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I may be sort of panicky,” he told Weaver, “but I am afraid of the general international situation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That agent must have had some sort of detective ESP. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sort of wished she hadn’t bothered, because I was feeling really pathetic and my forehead was still probably smacking red and I definitely didn’t have the energy to be mean anymore. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you think I would sort of know if the Lady had been hurt?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A faint, tinny sort of whistle was coming from somewhere. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was sort of quiet so Mrs. Rouse couldn’t hear, but I heard it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the strange thing was, if I looked at this kid directly for more than a moment, dark spaces sort of swallowed him up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Tell him, Black," my father said, like he was some sort of gang leader, and Black was one of his loyal goons. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She is younger than I am, tall, slim, dark-haired, pretty in a sharp-featured, vulpine sort of way. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nose was lumpy and red with broken veins, his lips thick, and he had a sort of webbing between the three middle fingers of his right hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to wonder exactly what sort of instructions Edward had given her. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chuck fully laughed this time, a squeaky sort of snort. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What sort of father would I make, I wondered. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pilgrim, a professor, a monk, and some sort of hermit all meet and hash over things. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I swore him to secrecy. It's not the sort of thing I wanted getting around.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Tom Yew got on her and sort of jiggled there and she gasped like a Chinese burn and wrapped her legs round him, froggily. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the same time, though, I remember feeling—even though they were the ones doing the talking, and Tommy and I were silent—a sort of resentment towards them on Ruth’s behalf. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park had the sort of face you painted because you didn't want history to forget it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Amara just took away my crutches so I’m sort of walking. The thing is I’m afraid to walk on my own. But I can walk if I lean against the wall.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mother tells me you have given up on the tribal art book and are pleased with this one, a sort of fictionalized travelogue? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It sort of made the rest of them feel that they had been taken advantage of. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe with its malfunction, I’m missing out on some sort of programmed routine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The rest of the school year sort of fizzles to an end for me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah? What sort of senior will you be?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She sort of wouldn't let me get to her mouth. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But since you might be a higher order of some sort of being, maybe if you try really hard, you can pull an opinion from it without your head exploding.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I realized I must be having some sort of panic attack. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was downright eerie the way he always got to the spot the kite would land before the kite did, as if he had some sort of inner compass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned and ran toward the funeral parlor in an odd dancing sort of way—skipping and clapping her hands and spinning around. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Well, he didn’t need that sort of rubbishy help — not from someone who kept walking down corridors hand in hand with Cho, anyway. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Isn't fair, and you’re correct. There was no fairness involved with this decision, only a petty sort of revenge. Even so, there will be no such displays in my school.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess not. But I felt sort of guilty almost, like if I’d kept my mouth shut none of it would’ve ever happened. Like it was my fault.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time we had developed a sort of system of communication, a simple enough thing, just passing spoken messages from one cage to the next, like passing notes in school. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff told him—and it was sort of pitiful: ‘Wendle, I don’t know what to make of it. There’s two bodies upstairs.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you wouldn’t want to meet one, Ellie. And Tally, if you do the right thing now, you probably won’t ever meet one again. That sort of business is something we can all do without.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

What sort of mother lets her children rot in darkness? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was some sort of jousting about his home state. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The study was large and comfortable in a cigar-smoke-and-leather-armchair sort of way, and seemed to be full of bookshelves, pictures, hunting trophies. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was an alternative to constructing some sort of high-pressure mechanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then he just lies there, his eyes trained on my face as I build a sort of blind out of vines to conceal the mouth of the cave. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Which is sort of what I thought Joseph would be like right now, out in the middle of it—except he would never in a million years wail. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

That had been sort of unsettling, but it was another thing we weren’t discussing, another thing coiled up in the Hunter household, biding its time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But we also say fifty and thirty and twenty, which sort of sound like five and three and two, but not really. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When they came in to remove our crucifixes, we sort of expected it because of what’s been going on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit for a while watching the lightning, keeping Wiress calm, lulled into a sort of peacefulness by the lapping of the water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a field in which the irresponsible amateur can have a continually mystifying sort of fun. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She supposed this was the sort of thing people with decorative furniture did. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We have a schedule worked out, sort of a countdown, and by early June we will be out of this cave, and out of Mr. Fitzgibbon’s barn, I hope forever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was still sort of in a daze. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Are you sort of recovering, or was it sort of an injury? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of stew that warmed a man right down to his bones, just the thing for a wet, cold night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A state of affairs like this might have been bearable in England, where people like the Pellinores did sometimes turn up, and even won a sort of tolerance from their fellow men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one doubted that it would be a bloody sort of harmony. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like, who isn’t?” he said, laughing, but in a real shaky sort of way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To me the dead body just looked like a doll, and all the flowers stuffed around here and there were sort of nice. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She laughed when she saw him, and her laughter was a sort of sharp whispering. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The ragtag congregation chimed in with every sort of word and tune. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like peeling an orange, he thought sort of. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And your sort of people never could learn to burrow—not that that'd do us much good...." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after my daddy died, I moved in with Nan, and my momma, well, she just sort of moved on. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But then his uncle’s wife was a foolish woman, fat and lazy, and forever clamoring for sweet food and for this sort of thing and that and for new shoes bought in the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And the two Poe children—Edgar and Albert—were loud and obnoxious boys with whom the Baudelaires had to share a tiny room that smelled of some sort of ghastly flower. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s managed to get his orange ringlets back in some sort of order, though. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be in some sort of storage room, with shelves along all the walls and straps or chain-link doors to keep everything in place. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible the Bahrami family vehicle could pass any sort of inspection. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as this was accomplished, she would satisfy herself that the twins were properly taken care of, and perhaps allow them some sort of compensating treat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that it comes out of space, and it lights people up, if you have a special sort of camera to see it by. Except not children. It doesn’t affect children.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So that the companies can wrap themselves in some sort of official cloak, the names are recorded in books which are registered in the Library of Congress. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you let your mind relax, all the words will flow into each other in an amiable sort of nonsense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some students thought you should be looking for a person twenty to thirty years older than yourself—the sort of age a normal parent would be. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s sort of shadowy and terrifying and he made these creepy noises...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

All I can do is sort of kick around a little, let her know where I am. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, turning concepts into numbers was a sort of anagramming to which he was unaccustomed. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Even with my head in the clouds instead of the flames—and certainly not in any sort of captain-mode—we Firebirds torch them. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He was standing on some sort of makeshift scaffolding. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took a long swig and made a big production out how refreshing it was—even though he was still sort of cringing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You know what sort of rascal he was?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man grinned a sideways sort of grin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of surreal image you’d expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then a sort of nagging guilt that I should take such pleasure in my grandmother’s discomfort. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sort of knew why I was, and it had nothing to do with math homework, or even watching my sister. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What sort of bloody?” he demanded in a whisper. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some sort of heavy, industrial curtain hangs the length of the building, forming a sizable corridor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the sort of thing people usually came out and said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A face came up from the water, wearing some sort of mask. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And as its beams shot across the land the travelers could see for the first time what sort of place they were in. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What sort of evidence do you have in mind, sir?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

While Arachne wasn’t watching, she attempted to get some sort of signal on Daedalus’s laptop to contact her friends, but of course she had no luck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Where the devil have you come by that sort of information?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe my daughters were doing this sort of thing themselves, to someone else. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was nice, and, sort of joking around, I let my head fall back and rest on her stomach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was about two feet below the top of the wall, and one reached it by climbing down a sort of rough stairway of broken brick ends. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A sort of premonitory tremor, a fear of he was not certain what, had passed through Winston as soon as he caught his first glimpse of the cage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were, of course, other questions, and all speaking at once, the children asked him to explain his “project” and why he needed children and what sort of danger they were in. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You sort of like winning, don’t you, Dad?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t talking or chewing, his mouth sort of hung open. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of endearing, and also sort of like false advertising. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For several seconds, Tommy stayed in a sort of trance, for all I know playing over in his mind one of these old fantasies of giving me back my lost tape. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nazario must have made some sort of dizzy razzmatazz nonsense about the donation being an anonymous gift but I’m sure he gave the school enough information to know it was Vera. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then what I did, I went down near the lagoon and I sort of skipped the quarters and the nickel across it, where it wasn't frozen. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s a room, sort of like the unfinished basement in my old house. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now it’s a bit hard to explain this, but some sort of understanding had definitely developed between the two of us about the way Ruth behaved in front of the veterans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I just sort of taught myself, Miss Honey." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remember seeing a pair of great, big, yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away. She looked dreamily at Harry. “And then I came back again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The sort of healthy conceit that he had when he returned from America early in the spring was gone. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We finally staged a sort of intervention one night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Norris, the skeletal gray cat who was used by the caretaker, Argus Filch, as a sort of deputy in his endless battle against students. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Coach Watts grabs his elbow and sort of gives him a push in the right direction. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma’s had this sort of headache lately, and she can’t take any noise at all.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny that he couldn't put a name to it—Silly sort of face really—fellow looked a bit of a mug. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

His reputation with women was well known in the castle—so well known that he had to seize courtiers as they arrived or go into Rifthold for a different sort of woman. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was an odd sort of clearing in the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of killing that his father would accomplish with quick efficiency. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Abby’s dad crossed his heart with the spatula and did some sort of salute. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As he walked away, he wondered whether the entire family had eaten some sort of strange medicine, taken leave of their senses perhaps? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of the ceremony, we’ll be presented with some sort of plaque, and then we can withdraw to the Justice Building, where a special dinner will be served. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I sort of wish I were back at Hogwarts this year,” said Bill, hands in his pockets, looking almost wistfully at the train. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“If I were to have one, what sort of name could I choose?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was also, strange as it is to say, a refreshing sort of female presence in a place where macho was the rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d already turned into the aisle—one with fluffy animals and big boxed jigsaws—before I realised Ruth and Chrissie were standing together at the end of it, having some sort of tête-à-tête. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she performed some sort of southern reverse psychology that Genie had never witnessed before. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

What sort of hellish assignments have my teachers e-mailed out? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“How about if he fell through ice, into a lake, say? What'd happen to him then? Would he sort of stay...deep frozen?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Our project this term was to design and make some sort of a scraper. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered a cell with a plank bed, a sort of shelf sticking out from the wall, and a tin washbasin, and meals of hot soup and bread and sometimes coffee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there’s some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Having said that, however, I do not mind confessing today - and I see nothing to be ashamed of in this - that I did at times gain a sort of incidental enjoyment from these stories. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing how my hands were occupied, my face sort of broke the fall, hitting the wall first, a millisecond before my foot slipped into the brimming trough. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to look like you did just now. You had a twist to your mouth and a flash of knowledge in your eyes. Not the right sort of knowledge.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nick became sort of a hero for kids all over town, and he quickly learned that being a hero—even if you’re only a local hero—isn’t a free ride. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trainers put young unleashed birds who are just learning to fly and hunt on a hack board, a sort of artificial nest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it sort of startled me—not the salute, but because of his eyes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Terryl’s basement office had windows, but you sort of had to crane to look out of them because the room was half underground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But in another part of her head, the dark part where her oldest fears were housed, she knew there was another sort of reason for staying at home: she was afraid to go away alone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do feel sort of independent,” Phoebe said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I will find her and send her a message in a low-key, normal sort of tone. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t let this seed of a thing between those two take root, sprout, and become some sort of full-blown love affair. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A sort of changing look on his face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of scratching or flapping at the window, but I did not mind it, and as I remember no more, I suppose I must then have fallen asleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A rocket, then, was sort of a hard balloon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m full and sort of hollow at the same time. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Someone standing outside the Great Hall might well have thought some sort of explosion had taken place, so loud was the noise that erupted from the Gryffindor table. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

That was a sort of hard candy bar made out of sugar, chocolate, and oat flour. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hey," I said, sort of confused as to why Black was in our house. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be looking at everything around him through some sort of shimmering, transparent barrier, like a heat haze, which made the enclosure and the hundreds of faces around him swim strangely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, they all die,” Otis said, “and we start the destruction of Rome. Just like Mother wants. It’ll be perfect. The crowd will love it. Roman ghosts adore this sort of thing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ma was so frustrated with me in my first semester that she confiscated the laptop until my grades improved, which they sort of did because I really needed to get back to my made-up worlds. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The Prussian, Scheiber, was smiling in a nasty sort of way. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature that was lurking somewhere in the castle, he thought, sounded like a sort of monster Voldemort — even other monsters didn’t want to name it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. It isn't the sort of thing one does. I don't think I hurt him any." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The population is suddenly split into two by some sort of geographical rift. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I know the sort of thing that goes on. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apá is still looking into his drink, as if searching for some sort of answer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My guess is if they had given us some sort of test, she would have been the smartest of all the tributes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He heard a weak sort of moan beside him and looked around to see Mrs. Weasley gazing, dumbfounded, at the poster. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, while I was putting on another clean shirt, I sort of figured this was my big chance, in a way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then they want to gush about the rest of the band and Abby, so we sort of converge into one big group. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like just the sort of thing Pan would do. Grover is right. The search is tiresome. You must start thinking for yourselves.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Travis had a pretty good idea of the sort of book he was holding. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It felt as though he was sitting on some sort of plant. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Homicide fell at a greater rate during the 1990s than any other sort of crime, and a number of reliable studies have shown virtually no link between the economy and violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Really, it was sort of refreshing to have a boy prefer her company to a girl like Isabelle’s. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Someone’s parents,” he had said, “have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The words sort of put me into a daze. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d only been at our church for a year or two and was sort of annoying and amusing at the same time. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the sort of thing she knew she was not supposed to do, that it was not quite appropriate, and yet she could not help herself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I just have to work the same sort of plane geometry to find another point not labeled on our map.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

By the time we reach the station, my whole body has turned into a sort of cloud. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was a friendly sort of confusion, and it was like that at the Finneys’. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It always pleased Little Arliss to play any sort of game, and this was a new one that he’d never heard about before. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eh, just the major ones. Wonder Woman is sort of my girl crush.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They clashed like some sort of weird Christmas combat scene—the red versus the green. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, which was sort of a lie. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Matthias was not sure what sort of a reception was in store for him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know you never liked that sort of thing, Cee. But how else do you become a doctor?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My hands are still numbed out and I can hardly walk, so all I can do is sort of fall on top of him and try to shove him loose from her. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The reconciliation took place gradually, rather than at any sort of intense heart-to-heart meeting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Before she left I had started a new assignment, nothing itself terribly significant but I will say now it was the sort of thing that can clinch a person’s career. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trailer had some sort of malfunction involving a gas leak, and they all died in their sleep. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not what you think—” “Goddammit. I told you, Carter,” Old Cob burst out with the sort of frightened anger only relatives and close friends can muster. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I half expect him to make some sort of remark about my clothes, or at least raise an eyebrow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were planning something for some sort of rally at the end of the month. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, daughter,” he rebuked her, “what sort of talk is this?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her rations were—as he’d expected—not much better than his, but he pooled them together to make a sort of meal. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We all sort of inched forward slowly when she did this, but then settled back to our places and watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

On his side of the wall, Craig lived a sort of mirror existence with his own bed pushed up against the paneling, parallel to mine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was in no mood to stand around on the courthouse steps and listen to this sort of thing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mom looked at Charlie after, but didn’t say anything or make any sort of face. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Without arms or legs—that sort of thing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My spirits were in a joyful sort of agitation, so desirous was I of activity; hazard itself seemed merely thrill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She told Etty, “It gives me a sort of companionship with him which makes me feel happy—only there are so many questions I want to ask.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point one of the remaining lads from the bus collapsed in a shivering heap and Mitraillette sort of stalled. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there are alternatives: One could peer inside using some sort of periscopelike magnifying device, for example. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was a lazy sort of autumn day, the sky clear, the leaves beginning to brighten, the air warm. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sort of wish Dad had given me a hand. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The book titles are some sort of clue. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

About attending the funeral and whether he would make some sort of statement by not paying his final respects. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

That’s not the sort of thing a light wave would do. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

So now, knowing the sort of world he lived in, he went into a stationery shop and bought a ballpoint, a pad of paper, and a clipboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the sort of thing that I would usually scream in anger, only now when I say it, I just feel tired and sad. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Think back to when you learned to play. Can you remember how old you were? Can you remember the sort of difficulties you had?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This might be some sort of roulette game in which I had to guess correctly which one Nelson would come through in order to win his freedom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Malcolm became so interested in the latter sort of conversation that he’d rest his armful of empty glasses on the table and join in, but only after having listened intently. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I got back to Fang’s, I just sort of shoved the paper at him with an awkward grunt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A visitation is sort of like a sad party, with the deceased being the center of attention. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Of course not. If this was fun, then you’d make sure to wake up the whole family and put me on some sort of mock trial at four in the morning.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well? What sort of light reprimand did our friendly spider god get? A time-out and a stern talking-to?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The dwarf had been busy building some sort of boom to close off the mouth of the river, though the fishermen differed as to whether the work had been completed or not. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘It wasn’t all just roses with you and she. But maybe that sort of makes it worse for you now.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Nope, nope, nothing like that. They just send them home with an insult. Better luck next time—that sort of thing, only ruder.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I know it’s sort of strange, but Dad is just as much my best friend as Lidia is. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Since I hope Newjack constitutes an argument against that sort of thinking, I don’t imagine I’ll ever win those people over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

For instance, Ralph realized that if he had not called Grover, if he had not remembered the number, if no one had answered, he probably would not have landed up a pondering sort of person. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate seemed to have lost interest in me and to have come to some sort of decision about my case. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing that you wouldn’t have initiated yourself, but wouldn’t have wanted to miss. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We eat them quickly, as if it’s some sort of race. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In my own house, I attempted to use a different sort of coercion, but without success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing she might have felt for a dog that had torn its paw, or a cat that had been gashed in a fight. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

What sort of man would wish to murder the president of another land? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

David Brooks, the conservative columnist at the New York Times, published a surprising sort of just-do-it plea titled “Run, Barack, Run.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Is this some sort of trick? Are you going to dump my body into the river, Cullen?” he joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bernabe likened the painted cattleguard to the sort of stickers—“Protected by Acme Burglar Alarm System”—store owners who could not afford burglar alarm systems put on prominent display in their business windows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Juniors, we were fifteen to a dorm, so didn’t tend to have the sort of long intimate conversations we did once we got to the Senior dorms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure why, but it seemed like the sort of thing you didn’t tell a vice-principal unless you absolutely had to. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I have no seniority to speak of, teaching seniors sort of rocked the boat. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he was in this sort of mood, Chacko used his Reading Aloud voice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clean this morning, but now that kitchen sparkle and smell like—umm, sort of—a cool day after a rain shower. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That was probably not the sort of detail you’d want to mention on a menu. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Phil grabs me, one arm under my legs and the other behind my back, forming a sort of chair for me in his arms. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that if a star collapsed to the sort of densities found in the core of atoms, the result would be an unimaginably compacted core. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A German measured Billy’s upper right arm with his thumb and forefinger, asked a companion what sort of an army would send a weakling like that to the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, that's why I sort of wanted to get some practice in, in case I ever get married. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

For the first time I thought I had seen in his eyes some sort of nostalgic sentiment, a weakness maybe. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The cells in a drop of blood contain a different sort of molecular factory, the mitochondrion, which combines food with oxygen to extract useful energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re dressed in fine suits and drinking the sort of whiskey that doesn’t come cheap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also being the sort of person who collected them. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, I didn’t want any sort of delay. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They felt no urge, no need, for this sort of talk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then came a sort of scuffing, thumping noise—it sounded like Jackson kicking something out of the way with his boot—and the boys were led inside. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this sort of thing happens in your town, too. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But a new and different sort of trembling came over him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“A meeting? What sort of meeting is going on at this hour?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Of course I wouldn’t trust just anyone with this sort of thing, but Henry seems to know an amazing lot about it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So, what is Salem like?” he asked, trying to get some sort of clue. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking a mile a minute and then he nodded and sort of mumbled “okay” under his breath. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A sort of breathlessness that empty houses have. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, the vibe I got from my mom was that she thought I was a dramatic, sentimental sort of teenager whose interests were cute but useless. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He supposed it wasn’t the worst sort of revenge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother—it was all a sort of glorious game to them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I eat about half my supper, then say, “I been getting this sort of full feeling at dinner, Ma, and then I’m hungry again before I go to bed.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice and her needles fell silent, and she glanced up at Bran with pale, filmy eyes and asked, "So, child. This is the sort of story you like?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“At least, for hundreds of thousands of ye; rs. Have you a different sort of sun in your work ?” “Yes, it’s smaller and yellower. And it gives a good deal more heat.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They serve eggs and salami and some sort of flat-looking bread. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"She used the word crutch as a symbol. She meant, you know, that people are so afraid of revealing their true selves, they have to hide behind some sort of prop." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s in Hampshire. My class is doing a sort of residential field trip. Kind of environmental study research skills.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxim sounded vile in it, a sort of satyr. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope my children take after their mother when it comes to organization. I’m sorry, probably not the sort of thing you want to hear from your prospective lawyer, heh?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was friendly, in a treacherous sort of way, smiling into one’s face the while he meditated some underhand trick, as, for instance, when he stole from Buck’s food at the first meal. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never dealt with Americans before, but they surely understood this general sort of freight. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked over to the boiler, and said: “I didn’t know you liked that sort of stuff.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She throws the baton in the air and does some sort of crazy spinning flip, then she lands with her back to us and catches the baton as it’s about to hit the floor. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘I’m very kindly. A helping sort of giant.’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I sort of kept looking around for those two nuns I'd met at breakfast the day before, but I didn't see them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I—I don’t think he is a wild animal,” said Digory in a dried-up sort of voice. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What sort of banquet do we have here?” she said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s sort of hard to explain why it’s funny unless you know Latin,” he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper also flooded a part of the cellar floor for an ice rink, and here the penguins often drilled like a sort of small army, in fantastic marching movements and parades around the ice. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I caught Noodles in the corner of my eye as he sort of limped down the steps. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. It's sort of complicated, but that's the way it's been." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you liked that sort of thing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of comedic wordplay Sandwich delighted in.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the side of the bed and sort of rocked him back to peace. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

None of them stepped onto it, as if doing so would have some sort of dire consequence. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It sort of makes me feel sick that she only went over to the basketball courts, like she thinks Black students are the problem. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Asked if it was in one of the parks, she said truthfully enough that she supposed it might be a sort of park. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, what sort of story do you like?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It was just the synagogue where Tateh taught Hebrew lessons and gave Bible study to children and taught cantoring to boys and that sort of thing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could get stones, and build a sort of hearth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She looked familiar some way, a solid sort of woman, with a very settled-looking hat and her neck all wrapped in a big woolly scarf. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His scratches are light and don’t seem intended to actually relieve any sort of itch. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You were right, we shouldn’ta come here. No good comes of meddling with these sort of folk.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That is the sort of foolish hope you would have,” said Agravaine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days it is reassuring to know that nature and physics, in their present meanings, have been interconnected in our minds, by a sort of hunch, for all these years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the sort of place where people want answers.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then, being in a heady, sharing sort of mood, I explain the wheelchair, the potting soil, and Rosa, like it’s all perfectly normal. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t understand that the sort of meal they took for granted, a thirty-minute production in the land of General Electric, translated here to a lifetime of travail. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe me, my first day of work was some sort of proof that everything happens for a reason. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His stomach felt a sort of queasy rumble as he stood with his sisters and Reverend Hughes, and watched as the entire church circled around them, clasped hands, and began to pray. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Constance Culmington, he reflected to himself, was exactly the sort of woman who would buy an island and surround herself with mystery! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced at Ron, who grimaced at him in a just-do-it sort of way. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And now there came a sort of sucking noise, and very quickly all the blue frothy mixture in the huge basin was sucked back into the stomach of the machine. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Hunter wouldn’t be any sort of witness, if he refused to send the game to Omi. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The handshake was quick and awkward, like maybe he was new to that sort of pleasantry. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone has some sort of a boat in Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree makes me keep it cut short, sort of a fade. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

For this, you need centralized authority, elaborately detailed time schedules, and some sort of reward system based on speed and perfection. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Dad, and they seemed to be exchanging some sort of subspace communiqués. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Others were driven to what, in retrospect, was a sort of permanent state of mourning: for our loved ones, who always seemed at risk, and for our own lives, which felt so fragile and vulnerable. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It would be a poor sort of immortality, however, because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he remembered Holly’s story rightly, she had already made some sort of attempt to leave the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, there was a sort of hilly place behind the chemistry lab from which you could see the lights of a couple of houses in New Haven. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Earlier, while he was trying to fall asleep, Lazlo’s first thought was to make an elegant sort of parlor to receive her in if she came. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Er, er, it was sort of north-west,” Sela gulped, realizing how foolish she sounded. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She sort of reminded me of Lil—which I did not tell her—and which you shouldn’t tell her I said either. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He said it in a tight sort of way, urgently, so I did. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I guess I am sort of like a pile of puzzle pieces that have been dumped on the floor. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She asked whether he could make that sort of judgment without having even seen me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I was compelled to lead this sort of life, I made a public statement in which I announced that I would not leave the country but would continue working underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson wasn’t mad at her, and she had gotten to apologize to him, sort of. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t the sort of man who gave up easily either; it might take a few more attempts, but he knew he’d get the hang of it eventually. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The images were so negative, I was sort of scared of being black. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Maya had sort of known what she was doing. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Jason wasn’t sure what Favonius wanted, but if facing the god of love meant forcing Nico into some sort of confession about which girl he liked, that didn’t seem so bad. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She studied the ghosts and noticed all of them wore some sort of badge on their toga—a raven, or a torch, or a bow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Iofur looked at her, she seemed to see a man looking out of his eyes, the sort of man she had met at Mrs. Coulter’s, a subtle politician used to power. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A strange sort of excitement was upon me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fudge dropped his voice and proceeded in a sort of low rumble. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The parrots are in trouble. Something is definitely weird over there. The nest looks different. Smaller. And sort of—disrupted.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s the sort of lie that wouldn’t cause any harm—and some people say it is not a sin to do that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This certainly was not the sort of question Reynie had expected. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Colin looked at me and grinned, causing my stomach to sort of float inside my body. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

This was the other thing teenagers in Lily did on Friday nights— Lucas and Mena were engaged in the same sort of behavior in the front seat. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even her walk changed from a safe mother-walk to another wilder sort of walk. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag was beginning to feel a bit confining, sort of tight at the bottom, having worked itself around my legs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of crazy light shining in Old Yeller’s eyes when I looked in at him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they sort of half hug in a very awkward way. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There's a little group of them outside almost every doorway, standing around, looking sort of defensive. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped the mussels in leaves and sort of steamed them in coals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hypothermia is a gradual and insidious sort of trauma. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems very unlikely, Harry,” said Hermione in a repressive sort of voice. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And then I’d get scared and mess up…sort of accidentally on purpose. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I would remember the words very often in the years that followed, and the more I considered them, the more I worried that I might be growing into the wrong sort of woman. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I take it to be some sort of positive gesture because there are no fingers involved. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I, meanwhile, was an in-your-face sort of person—brought up on Sunday dinners at Southside’s, where you sometimes had to shout to be heard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At least not the sort of sand you find at the beach. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I hated how my nipples were sort of oval, and my belly button was deeper than Krubera Cave. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be some sort of well-dressed ornament who showed up at parties and ribbon cuttings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought that sort of service came along with what you paid for your hotel room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was fearful of the smallest of creatures—a mouse, scurrying across the floor of Alyss hut, almost caused her to faint—and fascinated in a worried sort of way with birds. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That's all you like? Do you have any sort of inner life? Do you even know what that is?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

A very long hitting streak in baseball is a particularly amazing sort of record, so unlikely as to seem virtually unachievable and almost immune to probabilistic prediction. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Regina felt Bobby was fairly independent, she was worried that he was home alone too much, and she had been seeking someone to childsit for him, to be sort of a companion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and I sort of hang out by our block tables, not sure what to do next. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Sonny says he stopped by Malik’s house, and Aunt ’Chelle told him that Malik had some sort of freak accident that left him with a black eye. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No one else in the room had said anything, and it could not have been any sort of coincidence that less than twenty-four hours later Deirdre was without a job. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Angry Arms of Death passes by, giving us an I’ve-got-my-eyes-on-you sort of look before moving on. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Hooper seemed to go on and on falling, in a peculiarly graceful sort of way, one arm flung out. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I was trying for a sort of ombré thing. It didn’t work exactly.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Which possibly was their sort of blue sky. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alas, this gaggle of uncoordinated misfits was rounded up each week and made to play some sort of sport against each other. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I sort of wished we had gone to church. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of thing my dad would call “a fool’s name.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A visit to torment him—and herself, too, as she tried to imagine being the sort of child that a father could love instead of kill. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at me sort of pityingly, and I wondered if he was about to join the prayer campaign for my soul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dream children—clean, pretty, smart children who were growing up sort of ashamed that their father ran a saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really. Just sort of skipping around to see people’s different fighting techniques,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fitzgerald wrote, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, if no one does, we could do some sort of petition thing at the farmer’s market instead,” Esperanza offered. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They left the room, both smirking in a satisfied sort of way. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“She’s got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women; and—you understand—we meet in the morning at the breakfast table.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

It was not the sort of thing that was sold at the train station. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a long table with the two models for the new junior high school, each one covered with a white sheet, like they were some sort of national secret. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She asked Mr. Yang to patch the plaster and took her time finding a new tenant, the right sort of tenant. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And his eyes are sort of hazel, and I sort of like this. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One morning she had found some wild onions growing halfway down the south slope, and later that same day a leafy reddish vegetable that might have been some queer sort of cabbage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she had finished she waited, as though for a reply, and I remember blushing scarlet, stammering some sort of thanks in return, and dropping both my gloves in my confusion. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of like a centaur, with a woman’s body from the waist up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me and sort of smiled. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"What sort of master would refuse his prentice a penny to see a play?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

No disrespect to you, Ashton, but it sort of sucks that you can still go to the park with that gun and not have to worry about getting killed. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of raging yell he let out when he was in a fight to the finish. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so many things going wrong, it was nice to finally have someone on their side and, most of all, to see the Uncle alive and sort of well. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As if that sort of trick could work on her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I want to go with him, but I can’t because it’s sort of illegal that we’re staying in their rooms with them, as they would have to pay more. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I was terrified that it was the sort of place where you did not know what might happen to you if you suddenly said, ‘I don’t like America.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of strangled gasp, a geyser of water, and then a bout of choking coughs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Then it might be sort of fun. You can’t imagine how drab, drab the parties have been lately.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three other women were all wearing some nondescript sort of coarse gray stuff. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He is poetic about it, in an integral-number sort of way. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It sort of popped when it finally sprang free. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

These shelters were lined up in a sort of organized chaos; they seemed improvised and temporary, but they’d been there for years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The giant grinned a sideways sort of grin, a grin that suggested he knew more about the world than he was letting on. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was like pushing a button in me—the kind of big blinking red button you might find in some sort of nuclear facility surrounded by warning signs and evacuation maps. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing he’d have liked to mention to Alice, but the prospect of her bottomless scorn put him off. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sort of wish I had some earrings to take off. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They seem to achieve some sort of completion on that day that makes them steady enough on their feet to appear graceful even if they are not. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I sort of staggered downstairs and started tearing through my parents’ liquor cabinet, searching for an escape route. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“So, um. What was the real reason you guys came back to the States? Your mom was acting sort of weird about it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So we began to speak in a sort of code to keep our plans secret. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He is not any sort of an artist, for which I am thankful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His smile was broader and he was quicker to laugh—a sort of silent breathy laughter that showed in his eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now might come a Saxon wearing the beard and a sort of Phrygian cap, as a sign of defiance—now a knight from the Marches of the Northern border. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made of strong light and maybe a sort of relief. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in a space about eight feet square, with corridors to the right and left, and in front of her the sort of reception desk you might see in a hospital. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed a funny sort of thing, like a joke with a forgotten punch line. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"It's the sort of thing I don't like to see." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This was the sort of house only a wealthy family could afford to build. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve never thought about this before, but I can see that some sort of an answer is expected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It became a strange sort of hounding as they nudged my skull for my sexual reminiscences. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not her sort of place, is it, Polly? It’s very dull; not worth seeing, really.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kelsey: So I was thinking of maybe doing a sort of Andy Warhol thing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moby waved his liquor bottle at Nailer in a sort of toast. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe it was sort of a squishy egg shape now. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When are you guys going ‘you know where’ again?” he asked, sort of out of the corner of his mouth. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I take a shower, and Johanna sort of wipes herself down with a damp cloth, she makes a cursory inspection of the place. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The idea was sort of funny, but he wasn’t that cruel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even though he's sort of handsome now, he's still a numbers geek who wants to be a computer scientist. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he must have made some sort of mistake. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell her in a nonchalant, offhand sort of way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He nodded his head like I had passed some sort of test. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Cubans in surgical gloves bugging the DNC! I dismissed it as some sort of prank.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The field was full-sized, or pretty close at least, and the sort of vibrant green that only came from constant watering. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, Sticky found himself wondering what sort of ordeal Corliss had gone through. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But they weren’t robbers. They were sort of calm about it, as if they were allowed to do anything they wanted.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She still wouldn't look at me either, and every time I sort of put my hand on her shoulder or something, she wouldn't let me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma always said Mrs. Wishart was a different sort of white lady. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to sound very cheerful, but the words came out sort of gulpy... The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead we flew to him, for what would be a sort of attempt to have it both ways—a family day spent mostly in full view of the public. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was just the sort of notion that would appeal to Renly Baratheon; a splendid new order of knighthood, with gorgeous new raiment to proclaim it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He could hear her giving the class some sort of assignment in arithmetic before she came out and quietly closed the door behind her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I had no clear idea just what sort of form my protest might take. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Now Pinmei could see it was sticking out of some sort of dark embroidered image. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

What made it even better, the new elevator boy was sort of on the stupid side. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

If it was a star then it must be a miracle, some sort of mysterious divine sign whose meaning urgently needed to be deciphered. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“No, dear, I don’t expect so, not really. All babies do that sort of thing. It’s part of how they learn.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of look that made Cady feel lit up on the inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A plastic container of some sort of meal that he did not recognize. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Everything was sort of violet and still, the sky green paling into gold beyond the gable of the house and a plume of smoke rising from the chimney without any wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever your purpose, I’m sure we could reach some sort of arrangement. You do know who I am, don’t you?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

August started to sing then in a humming sort of way, “ ‘Mary brought forth her firstborn child and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger.’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time we’ve been in any sort of proximity since the painfully awkward crying moment in his car. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

This does seem a very plausible explanation the more I think about it; for it is true, nothing vexes me more these days than to hear this sort of nonsense being repeated. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I wrestled, I don’t know if I loved it on that sort of bone-deep level. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Looking sort of fierce, is how I remember him. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

This game of musical chairs, sort of like a reverse sports draft, was the way of DOCS. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hylla gave her the sort of cold smile that used to make Blackbeard’s pirates nervous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The thought of my dad planning some sort of hit was crazy, but I knew that's what was happening. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I tried to explain to him, Lovey and I just sort of have a thing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The way I felt sort of dizzy the whole time. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sir Urre of Hungary had long been carried from country to country—perhaps it was a sort of hemophilia—searching for the best knight who would be able to help him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he sort of frowns, sticking his lips out. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he continued, with just that sort of relentless bantering she seemed to attract from men who were married; until finally, happily, it did begin to seem almost all right, what had happened. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I gave him a sandwich today. He was sort of normal about it. Almost.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he did his elephant, which was exactly the sort of picture a kid three years younger might have done. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This did not register any sort of amazement from Miss Sadie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His body radiated its own sort of gravity, causing the other monsters to lean towards him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You spoke of terms. What sort of terms?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The twins were exactly the same age, so in Hyacinth’s mind they sort of counted as one. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But he did have a little white-haired granddaughter that I sort of liked. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the starting line to begin the last lap, Coach Quatrini looked like he was having some sort of fit. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even though Axel’s memories can be sort of fuzzy sometimes, when Aunt Nancy shares stories, when they do look at pictures, when a spark lights up the past, Axel can remember Frank being here too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was sort of a blonde, but you could tell she dyed her hair. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, him. They weren’t asking about this sort of thing, were they?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Something told him this sort of treatment would now be the norm. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was nothing at all like the sort of thing they taught you in elementary school gym classes; instead, it was a move that, like much of breakdancing, challenged the basic rules of gravity. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My Little Tomato,” Marcus said, and he made a sort of laugh, like he also couldn’t believe we were actually talking. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment, they stared at Koffi's lights with the same sort of confused wonder before one of them spoke. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“First,” Tats says, settling against the itty-bitty vent, the safest place not to be seen from below, “did you know Matt sort of waved at me today? Like this.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mom was cradling a bundle in her arms and giggling sort of guiltily, like she’d stolen a candy bar from a dime store. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when he looks at me, I feel this happy sort of ache. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“He said it wasn’t right for him to read this sort of material if I gave it to him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Well, just look at her, she say sort of impish, turning to look at the child, don’t she look like a Olivia to you? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was laying there asleep, with her face sort of on the side of the pillow. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was almost positive the smell would bring back some sort of pleasant memory, but nothing came. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the first he was attacked by phantoms and a great wind, and he had some sort of debilitating weakness on one side of his body. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“And then she sort of became normal again, and she couldn’t remember anything she’d said. Was it — was she making a real prediction?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Don’t use a or an after the expressions kind of, sort of, type of, or variety of: The beagle is some kind of a hound. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his arm around my shoulders and sort of squeezed me in. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, sort of. We got take-out and ate it in a park. But still.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This has to be some sort of mistake. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time, but only once or twice in a hundred years. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to me and gave a smile that was really just a different sort of scowl. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke and Brother Matthew between them devised a sort of chair-saddle in which Robin could ride. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Athena began by asking gently was this some sort of drinking-bout she had happened upon? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang was always sort of embarrassed, but pleased, by the gifts from my mom. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Not the sort of dress they sold at Old Navy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t like you working. I just don’t like it. You’re sort of my daughter. I don’t like my daughter working.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Chester, “but I’m not so keen on staying in a cage. I’m more used to tree stumps and holes in the ground. It makes me sort of nervous to be locked in here.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but the lost diadem,” said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, “is lost, Luna. That’s sort of the point.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I think probably most miracles are a lot smaller, and sort of still, and so quiet, you could miss them. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

We seemed to be in some sort of cargo hold, though it was too dark to tell much more than that. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Uncle Martin was the sort of person who understood things. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They lived from the late Triassic to the Cretaceous period, though technically they’re not dinosaurs,” Kavita says in a know-it-all sort of way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

"It's a—a sort of nickname, Your Majesty," I said, and the voice certainly sounded like someone else's. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“A plan? What sort of plan? Oh, please tell me, Dunwing!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Without anxiety, but with a sort of creeping affection. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I got all packed, I sort of counted my dough. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everybody was coming sort of fixed up, and he didn’t mean for nobody else’s wife to rank with her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Kilgore Trout became Billy’s favorite living author, and science fiction became the only sort of tales he could read. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She just sort of latched on to us for a couple of days.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rain drips through several holes in the ceiling, but Peeta has built a sort of canopy over my head an upper body by wedging the square of plastic into the rock above me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes I’m lulled into a sort of peace. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how quickly you can tell who’s there for you and who’s just trying to plant some sort of flag. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of a relief to not feel like I could fall off a cliff at any moment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My mom told me once that money problems sort of sneak up on you. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gogol is bored by the panelists, who keep referring to something called “marginality,” as if it were some sort of medical condition. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Which is my school-day method because it's sort of like an extra ten minutes of sleep. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” a nattily dressed new animal salesman said to him chattily as he stood gaping with a sort of glazed, meek need at the displays. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s sort of a silly present,” I said nervously. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually it became obvious when my classmates started asking me questions—the sort of questions Mom and Dad usually answered for me—and I didn’t know what to say. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“What sort of thing—what do you mean? I thought you said there was no danger?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became a sick sort of game, imagining ways to kill myself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The rocks between the rows collected heat, he said, and kept his plants warmer at night than they would otherwise have been—but to this sort of thing she made no answer. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The number of Palace Guards and city police on the streets of Erhenrang seemed to multiply every day; they were armed, and they were even developing a sort of uniform. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The top was in sort of a bun and tied tight with red rubber bands. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The others really don’t understand that sort of thing, you know.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Well, we kind of, sort of, planned to run into each other. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was only rated as a minor sort of officer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I sort of halfway listened in on everybody’s ideas of what constituted interesting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I sort of wanted to see where it was since I’m out this way. Daddy talked so much about it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He sort of lost some revenue. The Corporation posted second, third, and fourth quarter losses totaling around forty billion? So, you know, they had to make some sacrifices, let some workers go.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Nick glances at her, and his cheeks look sort of pink. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Underlying experimentation, therefore, there must be a theory of the regularity and economy of nature; the natural world has to be the sort of world that could, in principle, be interpreted through experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For a panicky moment, he wondered if Grandmother had played some sort of cruel joke on him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What sort of a net or a cage would hold it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sat down in my chair and sort of watched him for a while. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I sort of took a break from my diet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He said, “Go ask Grandfather. He knows that sort of thing.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“What sort of traveling are you talking about?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Too late she remembered that such a smile was an apology, a sort of “I didn’t mean it,” and before she could growl all five little wolves jumped on her again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie had the absurd thought that the branch with the can sort of looked like it had just finished taking a sip and was asking another branch if it wanted to have a taste. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t go in for that sort of thing. My wife takes the kids to the Greek church.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Odd sort of place, this, isn’t it? Do you live here?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

More guards followed, carrying a litter behind them—the sort of thing an ancient king might be carried around on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had often watched others building, and Kira realized that she could probably construct some sort of shelter for herself. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the sort of lordly boon they could imagine Alexander looking down upon from his godly vantage, and smiling. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Um. Still here, Scarlett. Sorry. Not the sort of thing you expect to hear. It’s an old house, I mean, you expect things to happen a long time ago. But not...well, what happened?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“She sort of looked like she could be Iranian.” Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Callie was colicky and allergic to formula, the sort of baby who hollered more than she slept. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one thing Shanti loved, but it was not the sort of achievement that wowed judges. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Joaquin was sort of a sucker for people who were nice to him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It will be harder to summarize what sort of life connects the boy to the man. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was sort of an important email. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit grinned a sideways sort of grin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Also, this sort of farming annihilates the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed glanced behind the machine, didn’t see any sort of pipes for water or power cords for electricity. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of snow that transforms the world around it into a different kind of place. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of like when I put away my winter boots because it was spring again and I got to slip back into last year’s sneakers; I grew a little bit, but they still fit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid bursting out laughing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He’s a real clean, good-looking sort of guy. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things were getting clearer, in a roundabout sort of way. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When he walks away, Yolanda sort of hisses at me, “That was rude.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“What kind of gun would you suggest for that sort of thing? Like, what kind is that one over there, in the comer?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of us said anything for a while, but we were all sort of grinning now, and looking at each other, still listening for sirens though no sirens would ever come. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The truth was, those moments after she’d eaten the strange fruit were blurriest of all, sort of like a dream, but...there was one thing...Her cheeks burned. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At least, it isn’t the sort of thing we say to each other. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Funny sort of place to choose to retire in,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Not some sort of stupid book project, I hope. I hate those.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A friend who shares this awful thing, this feeling like maybe the world sort of hates you because of the color of your skin. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Citra wondered what sort of response that might evoke from Curie. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He gave Doon a tool belt, too, in which were wrenches and hammers, spools of wire and tape, and tubes of some sort of black goop. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It shimmers in the light, and he is not entirely sure whether he should walk through it or wait for some sort of sign or notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mature and ladylike at just fourteen years old, she was a person on a mission: she seemed to know exactly where she was going in life, with a sort of inward direction driving her. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sat staring at the blue tile on the wall, wishing I had some sort of X-ray vision to see through to the other side. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I like Marge, and it’s not the sort of thing I like to get involved in. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it. Actually, if you change one element, it becomes a pretty powerful explosive. Just needs some sort of charge.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He would operate a sort of lantern, flashing signals in Morse code. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To which he smiled a sad sort of smile as he replied:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A woman artist can get admired by them only as a sideline, a sort of freaky exception. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell his hand was sort of trembling, but he never took his eyes off it. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Except right now, I’m sort of in a fight with one of my friends. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Scientific Revolution was a single transformative process, the cumulative consequence, not of one sort of change repeated many times, but of several distinct types of change overlapping and interlocking with each other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know why, but I was sort of curious about what people were doing there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It possesses in fact a sort of group mind. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And even special chickens—or maybe especially special chickens—can’t be left on their own by the side of the road for an hour without any sort of box or anything. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Near the end of our time on Pavavu, we all got together and had a sort of powwow. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure Prof. Ezeka will be able to explain it, some sort of migratory behavior. Don’t shut the window so you don’t trap them in.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was sort of afraid to stop, I think--I don't remember, to tell you the truth. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

There’s an odd sort of twitch at the corner of her mouth before she turns and walks to the front of the classroom. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The dessert was a sort of black bread pudding with hard sauce. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This sort of thing does not count among fighting rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Remus,” snarled Black, who was still watching Scab-bers with a horrible sort of hunger on his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Wayne played the narrator, who at different points in the musical just sort of appears onstage and interjects commentary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ancient-looking bronze and leather conveyor belts trundled along with stacks of weapons and armor, sort of like the Amazons’ warehouse in Seattle, except this place was obviously much older and not as well organized. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The children in the camp must go to school. We have to create some sort of school here.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

‘You is forgetting that I is doing this sort of thing for years and years and years. No human bean is ever catching even the smallest wink of me.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman, who was an inch or so shorter than she was, looked up into Gilly’s face with a sort of peculiar expression, whether frightened or hungry, Gilly couldn’t have said. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m not,” I said, though when I thought about it, it was sort of true. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If I squint my eyes, everything looks sort of bright and hazy, and I can almost catch the feeling I remember. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

April always hated to be fussed over, but it was sort of nice to open her eyes now and then and see Caroline just sitting there, quietly reading a book. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sort of shake my head and try again. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His parents were the sort of parents who really, really enjoyed reading. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go back and look at that table sort of thing in the middle of the room.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Gawaine had hardly been the sort of person you thought of as a writer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of funny, too, in a way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was bending forward and fixing some sort of a metal chain round the two door-handles. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mind; this was a sort of game they had. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We just don’t remember a lot of them. We repress them. We sort of push them away and forget them, because sometimes they’re too painful.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the sort of thing he usually had now that his dad did all the shopping. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“At first it did. But now I sort of like the taste.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sort of scenario I warned about in my new book, Get Scared, America! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We’ve sort of known each other since I was born,” he laughed, smiling at me again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We have a whole house of our own, way bigger than anyone’s apartment, and a barn too, and a place that’s sort of like a garage for tractors. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean you’ll need some sort of guide to the Greater Jungle, a map.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had time to notice quite carefully what sort of an arrow it was, and how it had driven three inches into the solid wood. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t at all difficult to find the right sort of things for the altar of Nefertiti-Isis. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the rumors, Redbeard and a man called Hatchet were mixed up in some sort of human trafficking outfit, though no witnesses had ever come forward and no one ever seemed to have proof. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then she heard them—female voices having some sort of argument—and she was instantly alert. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It made one think immediately of the sort of things that would happen below board. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sure. I mean, he won’t be playing for six weeks or something, which is sort of devastating to him. But it’s not as if he killed himself or anything.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A sort of pre-theater buffet, cold cuts and soft drinks, had been set out for Mackintosh and his traveling party in the guidance office. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was practical, in a basic sort of way, an efficient shoplifter, and occasional thug who did not care about being liked as long as the other kids, all smaller, did what he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He does not feel insulted when she tells him that for most of her life he was exactly the sort of person she had sought to avoid. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did they have some sort of tropical illness? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“They’d refine it into medicine. It’s a powerful painkiller. The price won’t be nearly as good as if we went to the other sort of people, but still, half a loaf....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But after Stan died, I sort of lost sight of that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It's also the sort of line that's gotten me in trouble before. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It looked as if she was on some sort of drug, which was beginning to be a possibility, then. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hunted around in the shed behind the inn and found a sort of mattock, and went down toward the stream to try and dig some worms for bait. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge seemed to be making some sort of snare out of kite string, a tennis racket and a hunting knife. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Consequently his letters had a certain ambiguous dignity calculated to catch at the imagination of a very special sort of reader. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom had become some sort of genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Bradford looked between the two of them, suddenly deeply relieved, because this was clearly some sort of joke. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In the presence of such dangers, avoided with such skill but with difficulty, it seems to us impossible not to fear some sort of catastrophe in the future. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember her honking like that, a little pep-in-her-step, she would have said, because it was the last time for a long time that I saw her in just that sort of mood. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

We didn't really talk about too much before he took off, or have any sort of amazing father/son lightbulb moment, but the time we spent, to me, was quality. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a fresh coat of paint on the same old problems. My father is very good at that sort of thing.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“A sort of a dumpling made from the ground crumbs of unleavened bread.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"You sort of seemed to, if you don't mind my saying so, seemed to just drift along." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were talking about the lesson, Harry thought, as though it had been some sort of spectacular show, but he hadn’t found it very entertaining — and nor, it seemed, had Hermione. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I vaguely remember Lara standing in the doorway, the room dark and the outside dark and everything mild and comfortable but sort of spinny, the world pulsing as if from a heavy bass beat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hearing this makes me feel like District 12 is some sort of safe haven. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Holmes had sent us together, possibly as some sort of joke. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wearer of the boots stood by the goats, and the goats sniffed at her skirts in a fawning sort of way that Sister Ignatia found utterly unattractive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Everything felt squishy, and the answer sheet for my test had turned soggy, sort of like how cornflakes left overnight in half a bowl of milk look, with about the same smell. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

With the same sort of reaction that sent Woody into the army, I instinctively decided I would have to prove that I wasn’t different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of a rap poem, and I thought it was pretty good. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Isn't there some sort of a last statement?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no roof overhead; they were in a sort of courtyard. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As he said long afterward, “It’s not the sort of place where things happen. The trees go on growing, that’s all.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Maybe he means it's some sort of ghost" Ralph Lifted the conch and peered into the gloom. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course! What sort of sailing master do you think he is?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hull had been commissioned two years earlier to take over the school’s disciplinary measures by their principal, who had sought out some sort of tax break that could save the school money. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard it’s some sort of a tradition round here to decorate this old Styrofoam snowman,” Mrs. Shannon continues. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the sort of way he’d think. He’s intensely romantic.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sound jostled me to my senses—sort of. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

What sort of calculation would their neighbors make, weighing all the promises of their new circumstances against the allegations and the truth of their own pasts? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He himself seldom had that sort of feeling about people—if they were nice to him, he liked them—but his dæmon’s intuitions had proved reliable many times. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Every day, you’re supposed to put down what sort of meals you want. On one of these.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! and what sort of an effect will the bequest have on you? Will it keep you in England, induce you to marry Miss Oliver, and settle down like an ordinary mortal?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some people sit in there for lunch, but it’s sort of where you sit if you don’t have friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not the sort of job he’d envisioned for himself as a student; designing and renovating private residences was what he’d wanted to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He preferred to leave that sort of thing to the foot soldiers. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Somehow she knew he was offering her some sort of gift—a cure, or an antidote. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Luke had lived in some sort of crisis for most of his life, but when was the last time he had let it burrow deep into soft places? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At his saying that, everyone around the fire broke out laughing— a sort of sardonic laughter intended to convey deep-rooted rancor and hatred. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, you guys,” said Kyle, standing near the fireplace at one end of the room, “don’t mean to interrupt your breakfasts, but we sort of need your help.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The closest I ever came was that time at the lake with Ramiro, Carlos’s cousin, who treated me like I was some sort of cheap prize. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then I feel his body sort of shiver, and his mouth’s moving just a little, like he’s trying to get his tongue out to lick my hand. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, all that sort of stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I had sort of forgot about it being Karim and Erik’s birthday, but then I figured that made sense, because of how they were triplets. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Khymm struck me as the sort of person who had always gotten by on her looks. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Basically, you sketch the same character with twenty-five different expressions, to sort of get to know your character better. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A mound of sort of fluffy mashed cattail tubers, mushrooms, and dogtooth violet bulbs, smothered in gravy thickened with acorn powder. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For the record, jumping right into trying to find the Nightbeast before doing any sort of research is bogus. But have it your way. Let’s go.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you tell anyone? It seems like the sort of thing that would constitute news. It would seem you might tell your mother, for example, or your sisters, perhaps—someone.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What sort of job have they made of the east wing?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s sort of about the boys,” I admitted, licking salsa off my hand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was sort of sagging into the couch and the remote in her hand wasn’t quite as pert. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Alas! such delightful proofs of Hartfield’s attraction, as those sort of visits conveyed, might shortly be over. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of future a rebellion could bring. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Still, Toby knew Bo from the sort of beer-riddled nostalgia that Jimmy sometimes used as a replacement for throwing his fists around. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Since she was the only one in the group who had actually died and come back to life, her observation sort of killed the mood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not the sort of thing that would bog you down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only a little experience in this sort of business, we are becoming fairly skillful at it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked sort of like an old castle, with dozens of windows and an archway entrance. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They chattered and squeaked, egging him on, and Percy got the sinking suspicion the crew was used to this sort of entertainment. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you? I didn’t know you were interested in that sort of thing.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And when they say fish, they don’t mean the sort of thing you and I get from the fishmonger. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed my arms through the duffel bag’s hand straps so it became a sort of backpack. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see anything but a little, pouty, sort of pretty face gleaming with perspiration. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of look people always got when they tried one of her perfect cakes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was a bom-and-bred Catholic and thought immediately it was some sort of writing stigmata and that I should get to a church. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ess and Sam were back under the table, playing some sort of game. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I knew that was the sort of encouragement any parent would give, so when the day to announce the Harry Potter contest prizes passed, I did not mention it to anyone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I used to do that sort of thing when I was younger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lay there like some sort of insect, maybe a slug with fresh salt poured on him, disintegrating slowly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Harry had a sudden mental image of himself in a top hat and tails, accompanied by a girl in the sort of frilly dress Aunt Petunia always wore to Uncle Vernon’s work parties. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

What sort of thing was that for his father’s son to do? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean Moran’s dad said Spooks started years ago as a sort of secret union for farmhands. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then the magical part happens, because Dell sort of puffs up and says: "You just wait and see." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Julia had come across to his side; together they gazed down with a sort of fascination at the sturdy figure below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

What sort of question might she ask a boy so frightened? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My mind was in a sort of daze, midway between daydreaming and thinking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Fidelito was anything to go by—and the little boy was at least cute in a basic sort of way—the two of them were as attractive as a pair of mangy coyotes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess for most kids, imaginary friends just sort of fade away, the way dreams do. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The three guys, who I sort of knew from classes and lunch, were all talking about going to a freak show in the back of the carnival. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is sort of mean and angry-faced, and Annabelle often feels sorry for Zach Oh, but right then, she misses his mother so much that her heart is heavy and hurting with it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of afternoon when every car in the city seemed to be having trouble with its horn. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was the Red Light District, the glow coming from up there was an eerie sort of green. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Both boys turned a sort of half left to face the incoming engine. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sound of the voices and the bells, the chanting and the chains mingled to make a sort of music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Malloy shook his head, sort of confused, but instead of making some slick comment about how strange Jamaal was, he focused back on my hands. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas waited patiently to get some sort of actual information from Chuck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And it’s not the sort of unwanted of romantic comedies, where it means they’ll end up together in the end. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Well, she thought, sort of like her father. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of stuff he was trying to get me to tell about myself when we were practicing for the interview. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The class respected what Brad had tried to do, and Ralph was struck by a sudden thought: Brad was exactly the sort of boy who could understand a mouse who rode a motorcycle. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In about five minutes, however, he began to get more and more quiet, and finally sank into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remained up to now. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what she’s in for, since there’s a sort of unwritten courtesy here that you’re not supposed to ask anyone—though a lot of the girls blurt out their stories. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting a lesson in the sort of influence a wealthy baron’s firstborn son could bring to bear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So — that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Except for the gay dressing-gown, and a sort of turban wound round his head, he was ready for bed: that is, he was naked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me in, quick,” he says, then pulls his lips together in a sort of grimace. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Turner was starting to sweat and feeling sort of weak. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I think he was in some sort of fight,” said Miss Spink. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I felt bad about how our first encounter had ended, and I waited for an opportunity to extend some sort of olive branch to the two samurai. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But this was a grown man and some sort of official, and she didn’t dare say a word. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was clear Jackson was the sort of young man who considers himself rather smarter than he is, and who is naturally cruel but thinks himself a decent fellow. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sort of sat down sideways on the chair that went with the desk in the room and started jiggling her foot up and down. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the presence of such dangers, avoided with such skill but with difficulty, it seems to us impossible not to fear some sort of catastrophe in the future. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Los Alamos, the almost insupportable tension fostered a sort of mania. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those white, knee-length clinical sort of garments that all chemist assistants seem to wear. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, sort of, but I knew what to expect.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ours had been a comfortable, steady sort of friendship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of like Kepler’s third law. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“What sort of family do you want?” she asked me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But then, of course, I hasten to add, there are many valets who would never dream of indulging in this sort of folly - who are, in fact, professionals of the highest discernment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sort of an amateur falconer,” I replied. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he seemed sort of relieved that I was carrying it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to look it up before, because I was sort of scared of what I’d find. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She sort of shrugged her shoulders, the way she did before, and then she said, very cold, "Do you mind getting me my frock? Or would it be too much trouble?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’s not wearing hers and I’m not mad about it, but I sort of wish she still had it on. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We were still sitting there, in a stunned sort of silence, when the phone started ringing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Just because it was not the sort of thing he had ever done before, or would be expected to do, Kingshaw knew that he would be taken seriously. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I sort of let them burn down till I can't hold them any more, then I drop them in the ashtray. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What sort of plan do you have in your head, Fusia?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now, with Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, moral certainty was required to give way to a new sort of temporary knowledge, a purely provisional understanding. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Aravis felt Lasaraleen grip her arm—that sort of sudden grip which is almost a pinch and which means that the person who is gripping you is very frightened indeed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But my dear Elizabeth,” she added, “what sort of girl is Miss King? I should be sorry to think our friend mercenary.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But to this sort of battle he came a maiden, nervous and afraid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was horseplay, a sort of joke like being shaved when crossing the line. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not sure, to be honest. I'm sort of here on a trial basis.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I quit lighting matches, and sort of leaned nearer to her over the table. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Earthworm stood up on his tail and did a sort of wriggle of joy all by himself. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no disabled role models for a young boy trying to work out what sort of man he could become. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The shed resembles a sort of outdoor kitchen on a concrete slab. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be setting up some sort of camp behind the high school. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s a treatment,” Mark found himself whispering, in some sort of trance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pantomimes each activity like some sort of deranged mime, and I can’t stop laughing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I know how to explain. I don’t belong to your sort of world, for one thing.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I kept holding onto the phone, sort of, so I wouldn't pass out. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In France, Mersenne received a rather garbled account of Torricelli’s experiment and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce it, but he lacked the right sort of glass tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing one didn’t ask a friend about because it might have fallen into that uncomfortable category of “being different.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I just need to — sort of fine-tune it, all right?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought it was just a corny cliché when I first heard that expression, but I think it actually applies to Coach right about now, which makes me sort of sad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Harris laughed a sort of golden laugh. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She waited until Mrs. Trotter and Miss Ellis were talking, then gave little W.E. the most fearful face in all her repertory of scary looks, sort of a cross between Count Dracula and Godzilla. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

All we knew for sure is that he took his fishing boat down to South America on some sort of job, and he never came back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And she sometimes curls her neck round the rocks, and gazes up at us in a sort of way.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked sort of cool, sort of retro. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If so, they probably didn’t know there was some sort of trick to unlocking the Third Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“That sort of rabbit doesn’t hop out of the grass.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, sir: What sort of a house is Ashton Place?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But the dementor didn’t move, so Lupin muttered something, and a silvery thing shot out of his wand at it, and it turned around and sort of glided away....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The cruel overseer had screamed and hauled the boy before a sort of agent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

What if the book was some sort of valuable Bayside Press item and he took it away? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Facing the threat of starvation, thirst, and murderous soldiers, I looked upon our long walk as a sort of grim game. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound outside on the landing, a sort of shuffle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t bring home all A’s on our report cards it was understood we’d receive some sort of punishment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I hate to disappoint you, but I’m not Duke. I’m just Fred. I know I sort of look like Duke....” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Governor Faubus was on television, giving some sort of talk about Southern pride and communists and, okay, I tried to pay attention, but it didn’t really make much sense. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I took the raincoat off of her and held her to the window and Caddy saw her and sort of jumped forward. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt rather important, since I had sort of discovered him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or the aura of a Roman leader... The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

College for them was only a way station, a sort of youthful diversion. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing that would worry a sensitive child, and she could see that he’d been badly disturbed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had not given 19 hie mistress because be was afraid of being punished by some sort of Holy Bogy, but he had been confronted by two people whom he loved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sort of tinned my back more on Samuel and whispered: You saw my stomach, I said. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last his wife was rudderless, trying to steer some sort of course on a sea of confusion, asking him for directions. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a silly sort of mousy grin on his face. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a general feeling of privilege and rejoicing, as if the daughter of Caesar were passing through a sort of initiation into the glorious state of being a full Roman citizen. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

On a sort of terrace running round the mansion were jugs of lemon and orange squash just left there, on trestle tables. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And ooh, this one sort of looks like an arrowhead! Or Oklahoma!” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One unique thing about Lily is that, for a small town in the middle of nowhere, it seems to be a very clean, well-kept sort of place. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a sort of sac, or cocoon. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And then I was sort of mad he didn’t. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Not babies, exactly. But by age two or so they had expressed who they were and what they cared about most. We just sort of—interpreted.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This included bending over a lot and sort of like playing air guitar. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

More distraught than I’d ever seen him, which surprised me, because Erma had seemed to have some sort of an evil hold over Dad, and I thought he’d be relieved to be free of it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy who’d fled from the hospital must have left the shirt on the antenna of Officer Delinko’s squad car, obviously as some sort of joke. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sort of person is a blight on good professionalism. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When new words unfold out of old ones, the original meaning usually hangs around like an unrecognizable scent, a sort of secret. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the sort of happiness I had imagined in the lonely hours. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They came around a corner and Rowan saw their destination: some sort of compound made to look like an old adobe mission, completely out of place in the cold of MidMerica. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At first I just thought she was a bit immature, but it was more than that, she was sort of absent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main space was one huge chamber with a circular rotunda, sort of like a capitol building back in the States. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most of us will be untroubled by that sort of dilemma: decorum is fitting the language to the task. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Prud’homme released his breath with a sort of amazed laugh, stared at Finny for a while, and that was all there was to it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see some sort of thick, gluey secretion from the spider’s pincers on his torn robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He laughs, sort of awkwardly—a boy who’s never awkward—and I sense an attempt to diffuse some sort of sudden moment I have yet to read. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I was sort of hankering for new stuff.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They have found her dead in a sort of boat.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's sort of tragic that we can't remember the earliest of the early years. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Colin sort of bent each slice into a pretty fan shape. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He jerked his head up and stared at me, sort of dazed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oddly, it resembled a sort of biological insurance, but double-edged. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"They don't have that sort of ward at our hospital." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Where this sort of thing doesn’t happen,” my mom adds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they have a different sort of spaceship or ray gun, but in battle—and science fiction loves to portray battles between civilizations—they and we are rather evenly matched. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be spared this sort of despair.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Colin sort of bent each slice into a pretty fan shape. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They act as if I'm some sort of devil child because I don’t like to go to church and would rather read books than socialize with them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“None of the other masters do that sort of thing, so it must be your bailiwick.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A strange creature, that one. I’ve never heard of a salvage company that would bond that sort of muscle.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. With some sort of rope.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That sounded like the sort of thing grown-ups said in the storybooks we read when we were little. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He knows we fear him, or at least his “consequences,” so he can afford to show a sort of twisted benevolence by letting us have certain freedoms in the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The wights are not the only sort of living dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I was walking in the desert one night, looking up at the sky—like,” she chuckled, “how can you not look at the sky!—and it just sort of came to me, fell onto me.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I look over at him and ask him what sort of books he likes best. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From down the hall, Muqtada moves forward as fast as he allows himself to, which isn’t very fast, sort of like a speed walk, and hands me the record. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of my body is sort of like a coat with the buttons done up in the wrong holes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Other people are born with talents like yours. You’ve heard of them, I’m sure: seers, conjurers, makers of magic weapons. Most legendary figures have some sort of ability that makes them noteworthy. ” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The house’s front room was some sort of greenhouse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But sitting on that porch with Mrs, Odom, I sort of wished I had let him help me some. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Certainly, she was not at all the sort of person one would like to take home. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Second Avenue was nice because it had semi-houses that were built when there was still some sort of formal settlement going on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He only sort of pulled it off,” I remind them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Blake found his voice it'd gone crackly and sort of hysterical. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, if you look at the stars long enough, they sort of shrink your troubles down to size.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It just sort of happened. I didn’t plan it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We begin setting the table while some sort of rumba music plays, the kind Lola and the aunties would start dancing to if they heard it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But for us this is just the sort of key detail that makes the story convincing. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She was sort of young, had brown hair and brown eyes, and loved books as much as I did. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could I run some sort of after-school program, a professionalized version of what I’d done for Czerny at Princeton? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She stares into the mirror, sort of dabbing a mascara wand against her eyelashes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Few Americans knew that a group of adults was plotting a different sort of mischief for October 30,1938. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Gogol imagines that it will be a party of hundreds filling up a vast space, the sort of party where he might arrive and leave undetected. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Coulter,” said the king, “these questions are just the sort of things a spy would want to find out.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I needed solid proof, the sort of bloody evidence that would convince a judge to deal out a death sentence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her house was decorated in a sort of European way—I especially remember all the nude wood statues from Africa she had placed in almost every room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of school you might find in a storybook, a fantasy for a public school kid. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I felt sort of bad about it; it was lying, and lying was a sin, and so was going against your father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d wait a moment, as if to receive some sort of clearance, then she’d bow her head and mumble out a vague word or two. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to afford the suit's matching top, she's been reduced to waddling the streets much like two women fused together in some sort of cruel experiment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was too intent to keep track, but, at length, a sort of pinkness invaded the translucent blue skin of her cheek. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trocar being a sheathed sort of ice pick instrument you stab into the bellies of foundering ruminants to let out the deadly gases. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were these times when Needles would sort of spaz out, but not like Noodles, who would just trip over any little thing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was a good tenant; they’d never had a late check or any sort of problem from him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It looks like nothing, like a little white stone, but inside it there’s life. That must be a sort of clue, don’t you think? If we could just figure it out.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nick was sort of a celebrity for a while. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached St. Michael’s, we underwent a sort of examination. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

And swaddled with some sort of soundproofing material. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But actually, President Snow may be arranging some sort of "accident" for me as we speak. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

This did not prepare me for the unique sort of heat that one encounters fifteen miles south of Birmingham, Alabama, at Culver Creek Preparatory School. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. The whole school heard about it. See, Kyle Keeley and his two brothers were playing some sort of wild scavenger hunt game and...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe all paranoids had a sort of sixth sense for detecting places that wanted to lock them up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She is a refined sort of person—she met me at the door when I came out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So does Velveeta, which is a cheese Jell-O that only sort of hardens. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What sort of rabbits are they? They left Bigwig to die. You all heard Cowslip in the burrow. They’re cowards. Let’s drive them out—kill them! Take the warren and live there ourselves!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very towering sort of tower and had all manner of nooks and crannies inside it where the pigeons could roost, and they were very satisfied with themselves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head, not in disappointment but in a sort of admiration. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"I didn't exactly flunk out or anything. I just quit, sort of." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her that staying to take care of us is sort of the deal you make when you have children. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve found what we’re after! There’s some sort of shape in the stone down here. Trouble is, there’s too much rubbish on top of it. I think we need Foremole’s help again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Delia patted her hip, and for the first time, I saw that she had a sort of tool belt full of odds and ends wrapped around her waist. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He couldn’t say for sure. Maybe east or west; maybe north or south. It was hard to tell. He said mostly she was sort of spinning around like a dust devil.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him Physical Science Today! and Language Arts Jot the New Century, which was sort of out of date because the new century was a dozen years old already. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I was scared about nothing. He was kind of nice to me, in an edgy and predatory sort of way.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The vuvv speak by grinding a sort of gritty fin against their body, so most of what we said, translated, sounded like sandpaper or, when we were shouting, Velcro. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She ran up towards the house, she stumbled and got to her feet and then just sort of wandered round the garden in circles. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about how she and her family sort of fell apart, but came back together again. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No one would do that sort of thing on purpose—especially at a nice Christmas party with fifty people around to witness it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though I ain’t never rode a train, what I was hearing was real familiar and sort of com-fitting to me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Leo was tempted to ask where Aphros was taking him, but the big sword strapped to the centaur’s back sort of discouraged conversation. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was this new sort of knowledge that Sprat had in mind when he defended the Royal Society from its critics, insisting that the starting point of the new knowledge, experimental evidence, was extremely reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My father says I don’t have a choice. He’s sort of the opposite of Birdie and Mae.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

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

Jack-Jack shouted some sort of command at Petey and they both shot into the woods to gather more sticks for whatever game they were playing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kahn answered in her usual chirpy hide-the-bruises sort of way, and when I asked if I could talk to Charlie, she told me he was out. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I guess it was sort of impressive, that I had a really cool best friend who likes chess. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea if crime scene investigators looked at that sort of thing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s only that sometimes Gogol wonders whether he represents some sort of capitulation or defeat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the light was on and all, I sort of looked at her for a while. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“My, ah, assistant, Chuck, made a run out for it. I understand Helen likes this sort of thing.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you sort of feel like we’re the only people in the world who are seeing this?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was the sort of boy whose name people forgot. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

‘My! you haven’t changed much. You always were sort of jumping on other people.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a natural eye for choreography, and everything he said sort of clicked for her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Now then, young Creighton, what sort of boy are you? Can you read?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was used to that sort of pressure by now. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“She sort of plays it cool a lot of the time.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ron looked up at Harry, a sort of blind horror in his face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But at other times, I think that’s wrong—that it was just to do with me and Ruth, and the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the sort of fellow that kids laughed at and dogs wanted to bite. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dri emptied the wrenches and rope and hammer from the plastic milk crate, and then she lined the crate with the patch of tarp we’d just cut to form a sort of bowl. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t any of this sort of wreckage there.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And then my plate sort of slid off the table.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

While down, I chipped the deer flap clean, and sort of swam back into my tree, listening to trees exploding all over the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not like this sort of competition. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult not to feel jealous of Ron when he thought of the Dursleys and the sort of welcome he could expect next time he turned up on Privet Drive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And I guess you do have a thing about sentence fragments, but I sort of love it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Which was the finish. I never went back. Because that summer Dad built a primitive sort of trailer, what he called a ‘house car.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s daft to assume you’ll have the same sort of life as your model. I agree with Tommy. It’s just a bit of fun. We shouldn’t get so serious about it.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go and get our stuff,” said Ron in a hopeless sort of voice. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In front of her, an arched gateway led through mossy walls into some sort of enclosure. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the first mile or so, I feel high and excited, like I just ran into a burning building and saved lives, like I’m some sort of hero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Cursed, like when a fellow doesn’t mean for bad things to happen, but they just sort of follow him around like his shadow.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t go back to him without some sort of feedback, so I agreed to go. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t do,” announced the wife of one rich rancher, “to seem curious about that sort of thing.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think something named a skunk cabbage would be ugly and stinky, and Daddy said they sort of were, but they were interesting, too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Connor made a sort of laughing gagging sound beside me, and I said, “Remind me to never eat the coleslaw here again.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She made a desperate sort of half leap, and it cost her as she slipped farther down the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted to discover what sort of work an educated Negro, nicely dressed, could find. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a muggy sort of day with a hint of thunder in the air. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He returned to Florence in triumph in June, having brought glory to the name of Tuscany by his reception in Rome, and having, as he thought, received some sort of official approval for his work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It just sort of happens, and suddenly you realize the cloud that looks like a big hand with fat fingers now looks like a catcher's mitt, or a big soft TV set? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I cut up a few Hefty-sized bags and taped them together to make a sort of tent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cluster of children sat on the pavement, playing some sort of game. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a funny way, though, I felt sort of sorry for him when he was finished. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She moved here from DC just before the beginning of the school year, and I guess we were sort of drawn to each other. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We pushed our torsos together in a sort of ballet. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed like he was moving so slow that he was sort of floating down toward the ground, like he was just gonna settle soft and light as a feather. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

‘But can you really and truly tell what sort of a dream it’s going to be simply by listening to it?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I sort of have a date with Edward Cullen tonight, and he wanted to introduce me to his parents . . . Dad?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind a cameraman, I see Haymitch give a sort of huff with relief and I know I've said the right thing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Who are you?” looking at me with surprise and a sort of alarm, but still not wildly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

That is the sort of "flow" we are talking about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She might be. Men may be fond of maidens, but women like a man who knows what he’s about in the bedchamber. It’s another sort of swordplay. Takes training to be good at it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, big baby, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. They’d been camping sort of by Yellowstone for a week and were supposed to set up at Rock Creek. They even pulled in there that afternoon.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And for a second, I thought she’d found some sort of mashed-up banana in my backpack or something, that was how disgusted her question sounded. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like being in another country, where you feel a weird sort of thrill when you find a piece of home, a person from your city, say, or even a vintage Coke sign. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took the better part of the morning for them to fashion a sort of sled for Con, for he could not walk long distances, and Kaede refused to leave him behind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

All I can do is sort of gape at him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

To demonstrate what a good, reliable, always-there sort of friend I was, I reluctantly agreed to track down Fang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

What I did, I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had seen her composed face many times over the past year and a half; surprising her felt like a weird sort of victory, a Pyrrhic one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Faraway, sort of, but right up close, too. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You’re supposed to be an expert at that sort of thing.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the preceding night and day, I had been in a sort of daze, brought on by the abrupt change in my circumstances. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everything Will could see spoke of wealth and power, the sort of informal settled superiority that some upper-class English people still took for granted. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I haven't heard the cannons fire yet, so perhaps Glimmer is in some sort of coma, her heart still struggling against the wasp venom. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to give you some sort of title,” he mused. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was the sort of fellow who started a lot of sentences with a laugh and an unnecessary apology, like I’m sorry, I'll be there at five. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But as she caught on to his meaning, a sad sort of warmth washed over her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When you have CF, you sort of get used to the idea of dying young. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And if I’m being totally honest, I’m sort of gleeful about that. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of hearth, an iron plate set on some bricks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the presence of his certainty, his notion that he could make some sort of difference in the world, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit lost by comparison. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It barely weighed anything at all, the sort of toy a little girl could carry everywhere. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was in tenth grade, like Jamie, and they were sort of friends, sort of enemies. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was obviously just that she felt some sort of kinship with him because of what had happened, Dimple told herself quickly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There is some sort of shift in the classroom—like a temperature drop on an autumn evening. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In spite of this, the Crusades had a sort of glamour that has lasted to this day. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Coo was a sort of bunny creature lying next to Ginny’s bed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe they saw me as some sort of threat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The king had vaguely hinted at some sort of issue with rebels poisoning their food stores, but the details were murky enough to suggest that the truth was buried somewhere else. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“She sort of left me this book of poems before she, uh, disappeared.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Booth hopes to create the illusion that Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of assassins, resulting in the sort of mass chaos that will make it easier for them all to escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My shadow is barely there, more like a ripple, sort of like the way light bends above a hot radiator. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it is, I study the mustache and think: That looks sort of good. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To be here without doing everything wrong requires a new agriculture, a new sort of planning, a new religion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down at her feet, my father’s wife said, “The chimes? You’re curious about the chimes. They’re so he could hear me, sort of, wherever I am in the house.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She came in and took her coat off right away and sort of chucked it on the bed. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hardly the sort of stuff that we would associate with life, and yet from this noxious stew life formed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everything stings, but it isn’t the active sort of flames. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, people have been trying to do this sort of thing for a long time, by other techniques and with varying degrees of luck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena eliminated her options one by one, seeing each weapon for what sort of damage she might do to the captain’s face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was sort of amazing that a girl like her was with Black. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Even with that little bitty voice she had, she could sort of scare you a little bit. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the back of his mind, evidently, he had anticipated such a collection; it was not surprise that he felt but more a sort of yearning. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He gave orders on every phase of life, even dictating what sort of clothes I should wear and where I should buy them,” she recalled. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s on a calm tree-lined block that looks like the sort of place nice families live. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that things work differently in the Great Wood. That people get lost, even if they have a map. That magic goes awry there; rituals go bad. That sort of thing.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This sort of burglary had seemed so daring two months before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I swam for the raft in frantic strokes, precisely the sort of wild thrash­ing that sharks find so deliciously inviting. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's the sort of thing women like to hear. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I spent the next six months quietly trying to empower myself without making any sort of abrupt change. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Who said that?” and then, “Oh, I can see you, sort of. Are you Dreamwalking?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mayhe that was because my dad had created horses out of sea foam, so the pegasi were sort of... neutral territory. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

You go out and across a sort of field, and then you come into the forest.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I leaned back against the sofa and watched him do a sort of swim-dance around the girls. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He heard some sort of commotion outside and turned back to the window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The animals and crops seem to move in circles like some sort of complicated dance. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t feel any sort of pleasure in this, but he didn’t hesitate, either. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had the impression of swimming up into this room from some quite different world, a sort of underwater world far beneath it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He could fly for a moment or two, but more often he trailed behind me in a sort of hopping run. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t in any sort of shape for jumping, so I waited impatiently. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, all I even knew about Dante Paul was that his family was from Haiti and he was supposed to be some sort of computer genius. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sort of in love with how weird he is around adults. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I sort of wrote things down in this little leather book I bought, filled with blank pages. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t really want to be talking to him, actually, but it does sort of pass the time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus and I have always sort of been extras in each other’s lives. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She wasn't speaking to him in any sort of "slow" way. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“And I had to let it just sort of slip through me hands.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And he asked about you, specifically, because you’re sort of an anomaly.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints of his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The fact that your mother chose a name for you that both Hindus and Muslims use means a lot to us. It's as if she sort of accepted us, even though we'd never met." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Quit Man sat in a wheelchair, connected to some sort of breathing machine. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Which was exactly the sort of thing that Shay would remember. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Like the fish sort of hypnotizes you into not throwing the harpoon. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were people standing about in the rows of pews, some off to the side, nearly all of them engaged in some sort of conversation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He put down his razor, and all of a sudden jerked his arms up and sort of broke my hold on him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“He was visiting his mother in a mental hospital. You’d think he’d have some sort of issues. Heaven knows the boy already seems a little...emotionally stunted. I’m half convinced he’s autistic.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said the boy, “I’ve heard of him. He’s a sort of servant, isn’t he?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Because she thinks I’m having some sort of teenage angst? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was the sort of treasure I had never expected to see. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I think I’m radiating awkwardness—like it’s some sort of gaseous substance, rolling off me in waves. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He plunged a scoop in a bucket and threw some sort of white powder at us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Plus we sort of looked the same, dark hair, eyes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But come November Hangman wakes up again, sort of like John Barleycorn in reverse. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Pet had stopped walking when they did and was watching with a patient sort of blankness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So they made a sort of cage or coop all round him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The kitchen table was still laden with breakfast: a basket of toasted bread, bowls of nuts, jars of jam, a platter of cheese, and a few slices of some sort of melon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was positive that there was nothing wrong with the Firebolt now, but what sort of state would it be in once it had been subjected to all sorts of anti-jinx tests? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I admired the immense, steppelike expanse of the lady's wool-clad bosom as she retreated a few inches from my eye, down the creaking wooden stair, a sort of Siberian bitterness on her vivid lips. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jenner was astute at that sort of thing; he could foresee problems. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was my mom who was always harping on her, but this sort of feels like maybe Lucy got the last word. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“What I cannot understand is that sort of dash. Look: ‘I—am that is.’ Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

About two hundred yards away, just across the river, was some sort of military encampment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Another is full of old datebooks, the appointments filling the days written in some sort of shorthand in Marco’s neat, delicate handwriting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was sort of funny, in a way, if you thought about it, and all of a sudden I did something I shouldn't have. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A shiny jar of some sort of medicinal cream lay on its side, the lid on the floor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That Barack was a good person with a big mind and serious faith in democracy was no longer any sort of secret. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had a big nose, and she had on those glasses with sort of iron rims that aren't too attractive, but she had a helluva kind face. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe I have some sort of condition that keeps me from thinking through what I’m going to say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked about me in the room with a sort of dumb stupidity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She’d wave her pointer over the map and say, as a sort of afterthought: “And over here, we’ve got Norfolk. Very nice there.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean I could've killed myself when I hit the floor, but all I did was sort of land on my side. it was a funny thing, though. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

This Divine Right Party is the sort of fringe-group scheme that would syphon off a large part of the fascist support. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a little fleshy knob on the center of his upper lip that drooped down over his lower lip in a sort of effeminate pout—the kind that children who suck their thumbs develop. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my siblings, myself included, had some sort of color confusion at one time or another, but Richie dealt with his in a unique way. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed greatly delighted to feel the water, and chuckled to himself, sometimes even croaking in a sort of song. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Piper went into some sort of fit and began kicking the garage door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel sort of like crying and also like punching something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I could hardly wait to see what sort of horse Papa was going to bring me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rifle protruded from the young man’s backpack, but he looked friendly enough; a hitchhiker with a Remington semiautomatic isn’t the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the forty-ninth state. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One scientist has even suggested that some sort of “zoo” should be established to preserve insects, mites, and the like, before their genetic composition is further changed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like I said, I didn’t really believe in any sort of higher power, The Picard notwithstanding. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was sort of afraid he'd get up and leave on me if I didn't shut up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, she asked, “And what sort of people are Lord and Lady Ashton? I know they are of the finest character, of course!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Private meetings among regular students were the sort of thing strictly frowned upon at the Institute, where all secrets were reserved for Messengers and Executives. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first bark was one of inquiry, a sort of “Where are you and what are you doing?” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Mr. Owen must be a very different sort of gentleman. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"What sort of reasons do you mean to give them?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The cyclotron evidently proves to be a sort of hen laying golden eggs,” Segre wrote Lawrence fulsomely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was a sort of secret intimacy with her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had half a bagel clamped in his teeth as he buttoned up his shirt, some sort of uniform. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

To me, he was sort of like a unicorn—unusual to the point of seeming almost unreal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Butterfield’s Scientific Revolution was not that sort of revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I suppose this is just the sort of thing the practice is meant to show up,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And the judge said, “Yes, fine. But we are here to judge just this sort of bad luck. Thank you.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be two figures, and some sort of shadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His role in my life, according to Doris, was to be some sort of positive male figure. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Tats 1: “Yeah, but actually, he is sort of ultra geeky. You can tell that right away. He’s on the tech crew, hello?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“No. He does other work that isn’t so noisy. Trimming, fertilizing—that sort of thing. Quiet things that won’t wake the neighborhood.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“For a while I thought I was doing okay, I thought I was sort of getting it. But then my life got so messed up, so messed up...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In a sort of trance, I walked upstairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he added, she could fashion some of his schoolwork as a sort of game, which might pique his interest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed only in cutoff pants, all of them were soaking wet They were playing some sort of three on one, where three of them ganged up on one to dunk him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

We stood watching as he walked across the tracks, a new sort of strut in his long stride. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They were able to talk to Billy by means of a computer and a sort of electric organ which made every Earthling speech sound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What sort of woman was most likely to take advantage of Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t feel particularly inclined to give out that sort of information.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His a cappella group has finally, for the first time in recorded history, by some sort of miracle, made it all the way to the biggest show in town: the finals of the Winter Sing-Off. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The open space he and G’ma are standing in appears to be some sort of campsite. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You might say I’m a sort of scientist,” he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks are sort of pink behind her freckles, and she’s making some point and getting really animated about it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This must be some sort of attic ritual I didn’t know about. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sort of thing grooms wear to get married in, here in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then from behind the workshop came, in a sort of lurching limp, a shape the size of a large dog, but hunched and heavy in the shoulders, which stood and stared at them directly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So the Beer Blast went on, and was just the sort of tasteless and incoherent event you might expect—but I am getting ahead of my story. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In his quiet way he had a sort of strength and conviction. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

What does he have to gain from this sort of pampering? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse than mud, even: It looks like the sort of primordial goo that could generate new amino acids, which would inevitably combine to initiate protein synthesis and create brand new life forms. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was some sort of freedom guys allowed themselves around each other, and I envied every moment of it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Good. Good! Well, we might as well start now. Look, here are my murder mysteries—d’you like that sort of thing?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And it was a growl, deep in his throat, the sort of growl tigers make. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Frank had obviously shared some crazy experiences when they had blacked out together, and they’d made some sort of deal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Both were three or four years older than he was, and he was sort of surprised they knew his name. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t some sort of plan, is it?” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like a picnic, sort of, except we are sitting at a round table under bright lights that buzz. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I was still standing back, sort of outside the circle, as Coach started rattling off everybody's name. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It maddens me that Carlyle refuses to commit to any sort of opinion. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I keep peeking over at her on the ride home, but she has a sort of pinched expression on her face. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The dreamer paid for them out of a silly sort of green brocade purse, and in the next instant they were gleaming at her wrist like a charm bracelet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could hardly stop myself from sort of giving her a kiss on the top of her dopey head--you know-- right where the part is, and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

August acted like this was the sort of normal behavior happening in every household in South Carolina. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was usually just the mildest sort of person. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was still angry with Trotter for bursting in on her, but she was curious to know just what sort of poetry old man Randolph fancied. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I did though on one occasion not long ago pluck up the courage to attempt the required sort of reply. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In every package there’s one oddball thing from Adah, a sort of secret message is how I think of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decided I needed some sort of support, something that would give me a closer to normal stance and provide stability. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me an amused but skeptical sort of look. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This is the sort of thing it’s my habit to know. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It began as a sad sort of thing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the Permanent Bureaus of the Internal Administration. Looks out after false registries, unauthorized travel, job-substitutions, forgeries, that sort of thing—trash. That’s what mm/means in gutter-Orgota, trash, it’s a nickname.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On a visit there, Elizebeth was shocked to find an important collection of papers “scattered higgledy-piggledy over those iron shelves....I went home and told my husband. We sort of cried on each other's shoulders.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“When someone does something good, I think you should let them know, with some sort of code.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Southside died a month later after having suffered with advanced lung cancer, his long-held view that doctors were untrustworthy having kept him from any sort of timely intervention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His hair was cropped short, his skin a deep golden brown, and he had that sort of lean muscle that came easy to some people through the gift of genetics. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They stayed at home and rested that night, but the next night they went to a show and after that they rode around on the trolley cars and sort of looked things over for themselves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“She was planning to dump it on Dylan, and I sort of lost my temper.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then she spoke, in a dreamy, contented sort of voice. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He could jury-rig the Archimedes sphere into some sort of flying device, maybe, but only if he had his tool belt—which he didn’t. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The boat had a sort of castle at each end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, even with the beer and all, it’s sort of cool, the two of us watching the same show and probably thinking the same things about it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The library is pretty reliable for that sort of thing,” I said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, they were a dull colour, a sort of greyish brown, and the mottled white tips of their fins held no special attraction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if his dad would have told him that sort of thing.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Do my mitochondria all die with me, or did my children get some of mine along with their mother’s; this sort of thing should not worry me, I know, but it does. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

High tea is fine if you like that sort of thing, but she became angry when I suggested that she might first want to change into something more appropriate. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘I just want you to help out till things sort of get started—you know.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of like this numb, weird feeling under my skin all the time. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But it was all sort of warrior stuff, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“People can sort of mess everything up even when they’re trying to help.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had been sort of a father to him since our folks split, and I know he missed me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hot dog will be ready soon,” I added, as if it were some sort of consolation. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was at least two years older than me and drove a new Chevy and looked sort of like a caramel-colored James Darren. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By golly, they are; and so are potatoes, sort of. Fish?” pondered Matt, “I suppose there are lots of fish around here.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was coming out of the can, right before I got to the door, I sort of passed out. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t walking-around money, and this wasn’t the sort of car you got from a country lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It landed with a sort of a scuttling thump. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was some sort of peace sign. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He sighed, like it was him that was in some sort of pain. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And then I look at the other Will Grayson, and he's sort of swaying like he might fall over if the wind kicks up. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“They mostly give orders. Blue Platoon report for watch. All Cadets to the armory. That sort of thing. Right now they’re ordering a sweep of the eastern tunnels.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bongo bent forward, wings spread, in a sort of bow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It would sort of be backtracking if it turned more.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And they would laugh, and she would find the strength to continue, partly out of a strange sort of logic: wasn’t it more absurd to give up? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She felt a weird sort of relief when Taryn bounced away with a promise to ask her mom about Ivy staying with them. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You need to either stop smoking pot or buy some cologne or something. And breath mints. The fact that Claire doesn’t know yet is insane. She must be in some sort of denial.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Momma chuckles, but not in a this-is-so-funny way, in a sort of sad way. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This is a different sort of crime, though. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Better yet, some sophisticated drinking establishments allow you to keep drinks as a sort of credit for future use. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever thought about the future?” he asked me, “and what this sort of thing will lead to? Supposing Mrs. Van Hopper gets tired of her ‘friend of the bosom,’ what then?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was like how Mandarin speakers can sort of understand Cantonese but not really, even though non-Chinese people assume all Chinese can communicate with one another, even though Mandarin and Cantonese are actually different. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And people have got to be put to the torch for this sort of thing. This is terrible.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The new arrivals might be a different sort of colonial society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Action will be taken, you may be sure. Some sort of action. Quite soon.” said Doon. said Lina, and they turned to leave. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I find these references to bad times vaguely threatening, vaguely insulting: I am not the sort of girl who has bad times, I have good times only. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing the sort of creatures who live on cliffs, I made myself invisible again, and in the darkness I heard voices. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was so fair—a sort of reddish yellow—that she almost looked white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But walking through the Kingdom of Death, she felt a drowsy sort of peacefulness, like balancing on the border of sleeping and waking. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was nowhere to go and nothing to do that would remind us that this sort of thing didn’t happen in the Real World. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some sort of hybrid shovel with an ax at the opposite end. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like the lightbulb, for instance, was technically invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1811, but his lightbulb sort of sucked and burned out all the time. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She looked sort of familiar, but I was pretty sure we’d never met. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Except in point of fact Colin did not whisper, because he had never quite mastered the art of whispering—he just sort of talked in a slightly softer voice directly into Hassan's eardrum. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Today we can buy just about any sort of food from anywhere in the globe, in any season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I sort of threw a tantrum when I discovered our annual mall tradition was in jeopardy. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I know it sounds strange, but when I’m out there, it’s like my dad’s with me. Maybe he can tell me what to do, give me some sort of a sign.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, she rarely took any sort of risk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if he’s the one who really said it or not, right now I sort of hate Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her tongue sticks out a little bit between her lips, and she smells sort of like vanilla extract and talcum powder. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She pronounced Hari the correct way, rolling the r and saying it sort of like Hurry. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Since sea bathing was a sort of cure-all for delicate children and invalids, Charles and Emma decided to give that a try. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around, sort of stunned, to look at Mrs. Baker, and I felt the two cages move apart. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s really sort of interesting, in a way.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had no idea who organized them, or where the revelers came from, but they always came, along with food enough to feed armies, and every sort of decadence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The sort of glow a person got when she’s found something she never knew she was searching for. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If we scratch below the surface of every great achiever, do we always find the equivalent of the Michigan Computer Center or the hockey all-star team—some sort of special opportunity for practice? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Likable. He has a sort of self-deprecating humor naturally," says Haymitch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Neither of them would confirm or deny these rumors, and no one seemed to know what sort of dispute had ended their long friendship. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As though he was next in line for some sort of inspection. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sort of money could get him out of the country, let alone the state. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There had obviously once been some sort of stairway or porch at the threshold, because the bottom of the doorway was at least four feet higher than the ground where we stood. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“A fine sort of spy I’d be, to ask you so transparently,” she replied. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before he made it, he would have said that he yearned for a larger tenure than any department could grant; to go with his professional tenure, a sort of life tenure. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some who had tried this lonely sort of life had given up and joined the crews of purse seiners or of long-line halibut schooners. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she looked up and saw what sort of person this Prince was. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“April Dawn,” April corrected with an offhand sort of smile. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You only imagined it," said Ralph shakily, "because nothing would bulge. Not any sort of creature." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some sort of challenge or puzzle, one I was almost certain had been created and placed here by Halliday. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Devil’s Tongue was a very useful knot, and when Violet tied the cloth strips together, end to end, it formed a sort of rope. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was also a little flagon of the sort of wine that is called "white" though it is really yellow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Moss knew she was much better at organizing this sort of thing; he’d lost track of how many different clubs she had joined and/or been in charge of over at Piedmont High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z