I find it hard to specify when to not split an infinitive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Within a few days, Joe had mastered the froe and the mallet and could size up a log and split shakes from it nearly as quickly and decisively as Charlie could. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A horn’s brassy trumpeting split the air without warning, its summons rising from the distant Temple of Lkossa to reverberate across the Night Zoo’s lawns in long, sonorous notes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then right in the middle of the K’s camel walk, Ellis Carter did, a James Brown slide and split out in the center of the floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In a matter of seconds the wounded neck split into two necks, each of which grew a full-size head. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cockpit canopy popped off, and I jumped free of the falling mech a split second before it impacted on the castle steps, killing several dozen of the avatars crowded there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Marian and Billy earned $100 for an appearance, which they split between them. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

This logic may seem like splitting hairs, like an argument as mystical as Newton's “ghosts,” but in reality it’s not. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“My parents split up—it didn’t ruin my life.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Just there was the big rock, and the three stones there, that split rock, and there beyond was a gap just there. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It grew around him as he stood holding the empty ceramic cup; the cupboards of the kitchen creaked and split and he felt the floor beneath his feet give. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They've split into two groups at the sides of the horn and are using those powerful hindquarters to launch themselves at us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the item passes from an account into the game and is used, there’s a split second when it is vulnerable. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His upper lip is bluish purple, split like a grilled sausage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux’s smile grew to a width that threatened to split his head in two. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The night Charlie hit me, I became Mrs. Kahn for a split second, in a vicarious body switch I had always feared. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Alexander died in 323 BC, his squabbling generals split his empire into pieces. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He danced out of her reach easily as she swiped at him again, his lips splitting into a wicked smile. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If her parents split up, who would they pick? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He forced them open and felt the raw palms split. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Immediately, his splitting headache returned, along with the voices. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Harry wondered if he had been knocked silly by his fall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, fierce man and would drive his bowl down the other end of the green so fast that when it connected with another ball it sounded like it was splitting an atom. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I was talking about back then: about how after Ruth and Tommy split, all my plans got confused. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had he used me as a go-between to deliver packages to her, undercharging her so that later they could split the difference? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Poland was split right down the middle, and the Germans and Russians had promised not to fight each other. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The spore expanded, split, and burst within the corrupted steel and shards of concrete that had formerly been walls. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Poor whites from west Texas, her family was so badly off sometimes she’d come to school with no lunch and no money and we would split whatever I had brought along. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're joined by others along the way, but they split off once we grow to fifteen or so. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Estraven’s smile was an ugly split in a peeling, cracked brown mask, thatched with black fur and set with two flecks of black rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their throwing arms were made from the trunks of old oaks, and banded with iron to keep them from splitting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thump my chest like an ape and smile so big, it feels like my face is splitting in two. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, there was no need for Ginny and Dean to split up over it,” said Harry, still trying to sound casual. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In a split second, I’d have to think, Is it valuable? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She loaded wood on wagons, split rails, and knew more about mules and hoes and plows than she did about the interior of a house. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the capsule doors closed and we went up and we split our sides. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plucked what looked like a four-foot version of a string bean from a branch, split it lengthwise, and showed me flattened, shiny seeds arrayed along its length like teeth in a jaw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Joe pictured his father and mother on snowy mornings out in the yard, splitting wood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the anthill split in half to reveal an elderly gentleman sitting cross-legged on the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Don’t use this phrase all at once; split it up; Otis loves bourbon as much as rye, or more. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lip is split wide open, and it’s dripping blood to his cheek and shirt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They knew they could bombard a uranium atom with neutrons and cause its nucleus to split. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piercing, bloodcurdling shriek split the silence — the book was screaming! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“And maybe his whole country will split into pieces. He doesn’t have any idea what’s going to happen to him.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His head throbs where he’s clocked it against the linoleum floor, but he can feel his lips split into a smile. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Nope. Only four pints. My mom was white. My dad was a real reservation Indian. He came out this way, eventually married my mom, had me, then when they split he went back to Oklahoma.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He leaped again instantly, bringing both legs up to either side in a split, touching his fingers to his toes before landing again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree split in four directions, each branch thicker than both of Emily’s legs put together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What if you were able to get all those atoms to split and release energy at the same moment? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, my bladder was about to split, and that makes you less cautious. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a split second that seemed much longer than it really was, Carlisle deliberated. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Porch had been leaning for twenty years, and then just fell down, split clean away from the foundation. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He split while Charlie and I were at school, and we haven’t seen him since. I don’t think he’s ever paid child support.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

For a split second she was in a good mood and everything was fine. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So get off the split shift. Get your dad up there. They’re afraid of him. Believe me, they’ll do anything he says.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Bridgeport, there would be boys’ schools and girls’ schools, and they’d all be split up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firm would handle their loan applications, and then take a commission, which it would split with the real estate agent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing he would have to come out somewhere, my dogs split up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second Frank thought he’d be crushed under the weight of the massive assault rifle, but the gun changed in midair, becoming smaller and thinner. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alter a while, as soon as I saw her coming in, I’d start making up a banana split. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was also developing a splitting headache, anxious about Julie, and wondering why they didn’t just set the dratted plane on fire and get it over with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His mouth was stiff and sore, as if a punch had split his lip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her second stride seemed longer; she hovered in the air for a split second before landing and then hurtling toward the sea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We split up. Caleb and I will run to the lab, and Matthew, cause some kind of diversion.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Another man was a day from home when he espied the slave patrol approaching upon the road; and he repaired into a yard and split wood until they passed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The sky changed from the split colors of daytime and nighttime. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wolf raised die axe above his head to split her head in two. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he stood up soo and brained the boar with split oak from the woodpile. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second I thought we were still on the train on our way to California. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For one split second his heart stalled—the bunk was empty. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The spear split in two, showering the floor with splinters. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His mahogany top split into four pie slices, which elongated into wooden blades. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Dan was only split through the head with the pig-shaped weather vane that flew off a barn. Now let me see that police report.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was broken on one side, as if it had been split by an axe. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And in that split second Nate could see she understood exactly what had happened. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I went upstairs and he came up a little later, smelling from the sweat and with his pants split up the back. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My butt slaps against the wood so hard that I swear it might split in half. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I’m frozen, unable to move. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about thirty feet long, fifteen wide, with duct tape and plywood boards covering up scattered holes and split seams. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He recognized a dead pine tree that had been split by lightning in a nearby clearing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Peewee said that the mosquitoes ran patrols for the rats and afterward they split up their catch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered his gavel and a split second later bellowed, "Next!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Deftly waving his knife, the hare split the lion’s skin from one end to the other and pushed him out of it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

These atoms would also split, releasing still more neutrons, which would hit more uranium atoms, causing more fission, more free-flying neutrons, more fission, more neutrons, and so on. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two bags of rice, six cans of red beans, two of black beans, four of spinach, two of split pea soup, one of lentil, one of carrots, three of mixed vegetables, and one of sardines. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Instantly, the world splintered, split by the strands of hair in front of my eye. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Beans scattered, a turnip rolled into a mud puddle, a sack of flour split and spilled its precious contents in the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The split in the earth widened, became immense. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad split a long time ago. My mom got cancer when I was seventeen,” said Scott. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His satisfied grin lengthened to a point where it might split his head in half as he peered through the viewfinder and pointed the camera at Sheed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So maybe, before the worlds split, your mom and the other woman were totally, one hundred percent the same person,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was always that split second — something almost felt rather than seen — when the parents’ faces would register a tiny shock, a palpable discomfort with Nicole’s “otherness.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

No moon, but the stars were so lit up, we didn’t even need to turn the porch light on to stack splits for the kitchen wood stove. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Their western pants were splitting out at the seams; there were stains around the crotch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tons of foot traffic keeps splitting us up, but we always make our way back to each other, not letting strollers or group selfies keep us apart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And yet there was a problem, one I discovered in the split second it took to lift my little fingers to the keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A shower of sparks swirled up the chimney as one log split open, revealing an interior of glowing embers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The top splits and from below rises a second tabletop that holds our lunch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Again she caught my eye and held her finger to her thin lips, just for a split second, before they curled back in a mischievous smile. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

One white union man accused a black laborer of threatening to split him open with a meat cleaver. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ideas ricocheted off ideas, like atoms splitting atoms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Harry thought he was going to throttle her as his hand flew to her throat; next moment, he was dragging her toward Ogden by a gold chain around her neck. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There’s me split in half—Japanese and white—stitching myself together again because I am whole only when I’ve embraced the true beauty of my heritage. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And when that happens, the two worlds split apart. i’m using the example of tossing a coin to make it clearer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moment is split with a half scream from the hallway outside of his bedroom, and he and Nora both run to the door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had a splitting headache and a false smile plastered on my face and managed to give a mediocre performance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When he tried to grab her, she dove headfirst and split her chin on the table’s edge. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Very slowly it split itself wide, showing the bright blue inside of its mouth, two bare fangs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We help you clear the gate, and in return, you agree to split the prize money with us?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I left the horses back in the woods, where they wouldn’t get stung, and then I chopped the tree down and split it open.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just then, a large wind blew in from the north and the flower on the table split from its stem and fell at my feet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could the force of the collision cause the uranium nucleus to stretch and stretch—-just like a liquid drop—until it split? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m talking about the ideologies that split Korea into North and South,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They came to drier soil with strangler figs splitting the rocks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I could try. I know a few Nirvana tunes that can split rocks. But, Percy, are you sure you want to do this?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shorty just smiled, cool as a cucumber in spite of a split lip. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Kiyo, three years older, would wait for me at the door, where we would decide whether to run straight home together, or split up, or try a new and unexpected route. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our ideas are popping. Too bad we have to share them with a couple of girls. Can’t believe they split us up even after my dad made that donation.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were glue-covered, sticky and thin, and as he inched them on, one tore—not a dangerous tear, just a split between the fingers, but it seemed to him an omen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But don’t go out of your way to avoid the “splits.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if my foot got caught, I’d be dragged until my head split on a rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I visit a world without my dad, and it doesn’t seem like much of a world at all. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She felt split apart, broken, as frozen as the island that bore the weight of Elowen’s ambition. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Cedric looked as though he couldn’t believe his ears; then his face split in a grin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the trail, the boardwalk splits in a few different directions. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The car stops for a split second at the peak of the first, the steepest crest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my third day in the Haight, I was in a cafe, eating a banana split. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The bad blood of spring filled us with strange yearnings and tumult, and the boys from Los Jaros split off from the boys from town and there were gang fights. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Håkon arched his back, and a mound of earth rose up, then split apart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His lip is split and there’s a bruise on his cheek. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I split off into the break room and stuff my purse in my locker. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But it was visible only for a split second. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His nonchalance is belied by his split lip, swollen eye, and the blood dotting the front of his waistcoat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They tumbled to the paving stones at the foot of the bridge, the ancient leather splitting, pages of parchment flying. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her back is long and white and split by the knobs of her vertebrae. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They order French fries and milk shakes, banana splits and grilled burgers and sandwiches. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had split up when she was a baby, and she had been raised by her grandmother, an old lady on a pension, who was very strict and old-fashioned and religious. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were split between sadness for Dr. Hyde and excitement about Alaska, remembering the up-close sight of her mouth whispering, “To be continued?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Margaret and I split up at the mall so that we could buy presents for each other, I knew that that would be my chance to get to a shop that sold hair grips. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d only passed one split in the tunnels—not enough to lose them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“About Garland’s motives. Wanting to split us up; what you said.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll have to split the profits with X-Ray. When we sell all the tickets I’ll make a profit of four hundred and thirty-five dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His eye and cheek were swollen and his lip split open. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ll need every inch of your silk. This entrance doesn’t divide or split. It appears to be a straight path to the seal.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She just couldn’t handle it, so she’d split and hadn’t been back since. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I kiss her forehead and both her cheeks and then her forehead again, and before I’m done, Helena’s tears are drying and a smile is starting to sneak around her split lip. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake split the water like an otter, opening his knife as he dived. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

This was the best news I’d had all day, my face nearly split in half from my giant smile. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We'd gotten six cookies to split, and they’d been gooey and delicious at first, but all the sugar was beginning to sour my stomach. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But with every good thing, like kisses while we wait to cross the street or our hands finding each other again after crowds split us up, I’m still rocked by this idea of everything ending. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Rage controlled Cole’s hand as he drew back, paused for a split second, and then flipped the lighted match inside the shelter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In a split second, Thomas surveyed his view of the Griever Hole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was locked, but Beckendorf pulled some chain cutters out of his bag and split the bolt like it was made of butter. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A bomb crater, wide enough to swallow a lorry, had split the road at the school entrance in two. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a by-product of the famous superstition about splitting an infinitive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached up and yanked her earring from her ear, splitting the lobe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hovers there, a breath away, his hands at Alex’s hips and his mouth split open in a crooked smirk. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the group grew too large, its social order destabilised and the band split. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck was split open and cartons of cigarettes littered the wet road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In that split second I thought about the days when my mom used to work at the Grand Central candy shop. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you and I can split off from Goddard. Glean at our own speed, in our own way.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re making a clay map. Our group was just about to split up the readings.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For the split part of a moment, the tree thrower went through a kind of Gethsemane. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, could a partnership split up? Because then maybe you could dance with us, and Evan could be the one in a bikini.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A blinding flash split the air in front of him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I feel my face splitting into two pieces with a grin. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t close her eyes without seeing her mother’s body split in half, arms askew, and filled with tumors. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The woman flashed her light at a couple on a bench, illuminating them for the split second it took to confirm that they were pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought she was going to do a split, but then her other foot touched the water and slid forward. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The truth is that the phrase “split infinitive” is misleading. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smart move now was to split and head straight for Middletown while I still had a head start. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He offered to split any profits we made after he was reimbursed for the cost of the drinks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Those loyal Dauntless gathered in the lobby and split into four groups that stormed the stairwells simultaneously, surrounding the Dauntless traitors, who had clustered around the elevator banks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes, unable to burden her family with both of her children, has split them up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A split second later I realize that my hand is on his hip. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a split second Wormtail gazed into the apparently empty cellar, ablaze with light from the three miniature suns floating in midair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Windows exploded, beams crashed, and trees split, their crowns ablaze like torches in the hand of a cruel giant. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their left, a section of the wall split. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They are trying to hold us down, split us up, and keep us from making a difference. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Morehouse doesn’t say anything, for a split second I think about hanging up, but somehow I squeeze the words around the lump in my throat. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hole had split up His Excellency’s face on the sleeve of her boubou. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The area around Castle Anorak, which had been crowded with warring avatars a split second before, was now a desolate and barren wasteland. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In a few hours the country had split into two irreconcilable groups, a division that began to spread within every family in the land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year, an employer simply split the office into two militarized zones on game day, thereby allowing Permian supporters to decorate their half black and Odessa High supporters their half red. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Obviously I don’t have all the details. But we all know about you splitting with Ruth.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He split the snack, stuffed half in his mouth and gave the other half to Kenzi. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He lowers the gun, meets my eye for one split second. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My foot slipped, and I ended in an awkward split with one foot out of bounds, losing the point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On pegs were also pieces of harness, a split collar with the horsehair stuffing sticking out, a broken hame, and a trace chain with its leather covering split. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys howled as the wooden plank split, their stupid excitement splintering Pia's skin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

His leg was swollen to the point that the skin was about to split along the lines where he’d torn into it, up the length of his shin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I sever the rope that holds the sandbag for boxing, and the bag splits open as it slams to the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I think about telling her the whole truth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He also taught me how to swing an ax to split firewood. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Dad bought it when he and Mom split up, so when I was twelve,” Alex tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We practiced the splits, and bending backward, the high-stepping strut, and I saw myself a sequined princess leading orchestras across a football field, the idol of cheering fans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, my surroundings had changed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My work shifts were split so haphazardly that it was easy to believe that my superiors had chosen them maliciously. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I twist, and for a split second I'm free. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I say, “Calvin and I split up. Was near here. Not sure where.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I wish I had gotten rid of her two years ago when we were considering splitting up. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A field that had seemed unified was split into warring camps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s squashed flat; the red plastic is split at the sides, where the sewing is. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

An explosion of light and smoke, and the quicksilver of the bullet splitting the distance between them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd in front of the initiates splits in half, making a wide path for us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The elf’s ugly brown face split suddenly into a wide, toothy smile. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The iron would split it open with a wide gash, and blood would darken the white spot and make it the color of the man’s sunburned face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fell some of the big trees and split the logs longways into planks, making clapboards. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But in the split second before Captain Smith lets loose with his fist, it is as if something reins him in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dray’s wall is cracking, splitting down the middle. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Shielding my eyes, I squinted through split fingers at a world I hardly recognized. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her lip was split and her cheek was badly bruised, and though her skirt and hands were stained with her effort to stop the blood pouring from her nose, a little still trickled down. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So go ahead and split, but don’t overdo it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not to go to the mine,” she intoned gravely as lightning split the air and turned her face bluish-white. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And really, just like that, number eighty-eight performs a forward handspring, landing in the splits. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The shambler kicks out, her heel catching me in the mouth and splitting my lip. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harrison squeezed it for a split second before releasing it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was just a split in the wood, but looking closer, I could see that the top of the bar was a movable panel. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the car moved, the splintering of wood sounded over their heads, a splintering that changed into splitting of boards and scraping of metal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We will find this Cheeky bird, split the money, and then we will be rich!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After the trick-or-treating, we went back to our apartment, and we sat on the floor with candles all around and split up our candy. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to smile, but his split lip prevents him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They’re too small, and one of them split at the front, so you can see my sock. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The fissure split and grew, like those scenes in disaster movies when an earthquake cracks the streets apart and chases the hero. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, my backpack experienced a non-passive failure, splitting across the seam holding the main pocket together. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It had split and then resplit—you had twelve thousand shares at four dollars a share. I must point out that this kind of growth is unprecedented.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It split up the back, and, at the shoulders, the sleeves came entirely free. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months after he moved in with Harim, Shin called me to say that they were splitting up. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The door had splits and cracks and sat crooked on the frame. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The tears cleared away the dirt from my eyes, stinging as they crossed my split lips. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I told Thomas we had to split up and I started the practiced evasive maneuvers, running in the patterns. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what your reasons were or whether you regret it or not. I’m asking if you and Dad split up because of him or because of you.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was a mess with a black eye and a split lip. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A poxie launched himself at us, mouth frothing and a wicked meat cleaver raised high for some skull splitting. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His pants were split at the knees, his kneecaps scraped raw and bloody. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, in New York, Bobby Joe’s friend simply up and split with the smack, leaving Bobby Joe high, dry, and very strung out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, like an egg, the great, hairy, black and golden creature splits in two, each with an equal share of the family genome. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you opposed to splitting a vanilla shake?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But my head was about to split open. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just in time too, because the sky split open and the rain fell. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We split up,” he told Harry out of the corner of his mouth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the posters were flapping and twisting around, and the brittle edges of the paper were beginning to split and tear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she fetched a piece of split wood from the pile at the front door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Felix wore a dark suit and his Nike Flights and stood next to his mom and sister, smiling until his cheeks hurt and his bottom lip felt like it might split open. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Percy registered all this in a split second, but there wasn’t much he could do about it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Likewise, Pangaea may have split and reformed not three times but a dozen times, or perhaps a score of times. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he had them pinned against the river, he would split them up and kill as many as possible. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughs loud and hard at that, and it takes me a split second too long to start laughing with him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

For one terrifying split second I thought something had happened. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and plunged my arm deep into the heat and pulled it out a split second later. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

‘Tardy as usual, Hippolytos. I hope your news is worth the wait. King Porphyrion should be . The ground between them split. An even larger giant leaped from the earth like a breaching whale. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I heard Mr. Ward yell again, “There go 17 and 18!” and I heard the sounds of Portables 17 and 18 splitting apart. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry thought fast, his scar still prickling, his head threatening to split again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He hung for a split instant in midair, looking down on the raft, on Derek—then he plunged down, down into the boiling, ripping water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had swollen until the skin itself had split and was oozing a yellowish fluid. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

This ended up splitting Republican votes between Roosevelt and Taft, which allowed the Democratic hopeful, Woodrow Wilson, to win the election. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Mom got the good silver when my parents split up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He shot past, right over our heads, and the whooshing sound his body made in splitting the air sent cold chills running all through me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would we maybe even be split up, me and Finn and Emma all going separate places? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If you fell off the plank and dropped the bag, it would split open, making a mess. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, like a grizzled extra scurrying out of the bar just before the climactic final shootout in a grade B Hollywood Western, Bud dropped a dollar onto the table and hurriedly split. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palms would split the seams of the gloves, and I would never wear them again. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey grabbed the other one from him, peeled it and split it in half. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Barack stepped over the threshold and got promptly sucked into the room, I froze for a split second, then pivoted and fled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when Victarion closed his hand the skin would split and smoke, yet the arm was stronger than it had ever been. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At this point they burst out of the ladies’ room and the forces split. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His whole body ached and there was a sudden pain when he smiled through split lips. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kapos split us up—Jews in one train car, Poles in another—and we were loaded on. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The rocks began to say the same thing, so Mambo had fires kindled on them and split them into pieces. Still the voice was heard whispering, ‘If not for Tumbale, there would be no victory.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a split second of unstoppable momentum. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even I though Kat’s voice was like a supersonic boom splitting my eardrum, I was glad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a third time, splitting open the cut on my lip from where Aaron hit me yesterday morning. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You remember my broken jaw and my split lips and my missing teeth?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most people are more likely to bet a penny for a six-dollar payout, or if you split the bet, a penny will bring you a dollar for any combination hit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wept—strong monster with teeth like a shark’s—and I slammed the earth with such force that a seam split open twelve feet long. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bolted through the catacombs, Emma’s fire casting manic shadows across the walls, the blind boys clicking loudly with their tongues and shouting out “Left!” or “Right!” when we came to splits in the tunnel. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It shattered, splitting from the fuselage with a loud rip. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I might have split right then, but I knew the last part of the funeral was going to be okay. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Courtney’s parents split up when she was four years old, and her father moved with his mother to a town two hours away, in the Pocono Mountains. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Without speaking to each other, they split into three groups and charged toward our drawers, cabinets, and chests. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dumped him, for your information. And at least my boyfriend didn't go munching up Wendy Lench the day after splitting up with me!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of timbers splitting filled the air, followed by another mournful moan. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His breeches were similarly split; the right leg was solid green, the left leg striped in red and white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The festering wound split open anew, spewing a geyser of pus. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The short one’s eyes widen for a split second, but he recovers quickly. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It takes me a second to recognize the snarl that splits the air as my own. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at the set faces and thought the Underlanders had already decided to split them up. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the space around Werner tears in half, as though the last molecules of oxygen have been ripped out of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He slaps my face, and his clunky gold signet ring splits my lip, and blood pours down my chin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the face of the stony wall there was something like a stair: natural perhaps, and made by the weathering and splitting of the rock, for it was rough and uneven. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He could dress a cow from start to finish: skin it, split its bones, gut it, and cut the meat into pieces. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, that really wouldn’t be fair to you. Tell you what, why don’t we split it down the middle? I’ll take half, you take half.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘I still hate the idea of splitting up.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The line is moving so fast, I only see her for a split second. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When she reached the spot where the branch split, she was well over his head. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In that town, the big group that we had been with for weeks decided to split up. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Japan's defeat in 1945, control of the Korean Peninsula split down the middle, at the 38th parallel, a line that cut the nation neatly in half. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the split lay far in the future. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I split my life into two pieces,” he told an interviewer later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Only after the eggs were split open, revealing moist reddish-yellow centers, did she return to her story. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schindler did not invite me upstairs often; but when he did, I always split the "bounty" with my father and brother. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The battlefield splits in two as Washburn’s men punch through the first wave of the rebel line. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

True, such logs could be split to fit through the kiln openings, but this required extra work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

While the last of the haze burns off, I weed the meadow garden and split kindling before returning to my tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nail of her forefinger split and the balls of her thumbs ached as she struggled with the placket. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And farmholds spread over the land, first in the valleys and then up the foothill slopes, small wooden houses roofed with redwood shakes, corrals of split poles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a split log and walked it over to the stacked wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father sizes up the murder in my eyes in a split second and hits the power locks before I can leap out the passenger door. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I pry until one of my nails splits off at the quick. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know if this is what split the worlds, or just a, a consequence,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His shoulders dropped from his ears, and a smile split his face. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In steep places stairs of stone had been hewn, but now they were cracked and worn, and split by the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Watch this, Nick, he says, then dribbles to the center of his backyard and flame throws a banana kick so swift, it basically splits the air, then sizzles right into his doghouse. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After five minutes, we split up to go to our destinations. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry you lost the fish. I’ll split my money with you.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And then the clear twilight air was split by the screech of a saw biting through wood from behind the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And you think, “I’m going to die. They’re going to split apart and I will free-fall into brambles where the demons hide, into their waiting claws. The whole world will tear me open.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“In the second section,” he remembered, “buried away some place, was an announcement that some German chemists had found that the uranium atom split into two pieces.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a distance she appeared to be whispering to herself, when she was only nibbling or splitting tiny seeds with her front teeth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split the session and I was still hoping that things would blow over. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we split up I say, “My birthday is next month, May twenty-eighth. Mrs. Malloy said I could have a sleepover. Want to come?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Look, Bessie, if I had to leave town and wanted dough, would you help me if I split with you?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the women who trained in the 122nd Air Group, though they split into three separate units when they went to war, would say that they belonged to “Raskova’s regiments.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was feeling sick to my stomach again and my head felt like it was splitting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His little black nose was split wide open and was bleeding. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ring emitted a blinding flash of light, and a split second later my avatar was there, standing on the surface of Frobozz. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I saw that his right ear was split wide open. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying on the floor, blood from my split upper lip staining the mauve carpet, pain ripping through my belly, and wondering when I’d be able to breathe again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I think maybe he didn’t say what I thought he said. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was a dry splitting crack of thunder right overhead. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Such a cutting or fission of atomic nuclei occurs in nuclear weapons and conventional nuclear power plants, although it is not carbon that is split. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart feels like it’s about to split in half. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Baaz stared at her blankly for a moment before his expression split between irritation and incredulity. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

High dune grass hid the paths up to the houses—in fact, almost hid the chopping block one man was using to split his cordwood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But Fernanda felt so moved that she thought she would go mad when Meme awoke at midnight with her head splitting with pain and drowning in vomited gall. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I'm usually the one who looks like the world is about to split in half. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After that we are split into teams and assigned sections to patrol. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For a split second he hesitated, his hand on the window latch, wondering whether to slam it shut. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’m somewhat fascinated by her hair, since it’s so uniform, so without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Three more strokes and Papa had the animal split—two sides of roast pork steaming from within. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the shock wave a split second after I heard the detonation and instinctively dropped to the floor of my hideout with my arms wrapped over my head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell exactly what was going on in Berlin, but the announcement of the split times was alarming. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Since we were going different places to do our training anyway,” she said, “it didn’t seem worth it, to split up properly. So we just stayed together until I left.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her guess about these universes was right, and they were the multiple worlds predicted by quantum theory, then some of them would have split off from her own much earlier than others. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were split between admiration and wariness of his dangerous presence among them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swung the axe down and split a log neatly in two. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

This would start a little split running lengthways of the log. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She senses the audience is evenly split in its support of one woman or the other. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear tapping against the window and jerk my head to the side, for a split second believing that it is Fernando, trying to get in. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the informant said that Burt and Hale had “split on the boodle”—the sum of money—obtained from Bigheart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He knows them both down to their split ends and nasty habits, but there’s a strange girl bond between them he can’t, and knows he isn’t supposed to, translate. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Blue lightning flashed in the kitchen, and for a split second you could see every calendar on the wall in there. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They slide into synchronized splits and the crowd goes nuts. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would reach up with his other hand, until he found a high split in the rock, and make another fist and jam it in. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wants to split open and empty everything inside out, but I ain’t letting them see me like that. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With a long-handled, double-edged axe, he split fence rails from massive cedar logs that washed down the Dungeness in the spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ralph made a nutritious meal of split peas, rice, and lentils before moving on to another room where he found an open jar of library paste—delicious! Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a grinding, splintering, tearing crash, Swordfish split the rotted hulk asunder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Boxer’s split hoof was a long time in healing. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Some of my classmates— who had, on the advice of their parents, avoided me—now came to visit and I could tell in a split second that they had been instructed in what to say. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer and Pima split up and continued to explore the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They both started yelling, until Frank thought his brain would split in half. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sat with Rowan, spoon-feeding him soup, and blotting where it spilled from his split, swollen lips. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Though Bobby had always pushed for Belgrade as the site of the championship match, a tentative understanding seemed to have been worked out to at least split the match between Belgrade and Reykjavik. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I flatten myself to the mob a split second before the low doorway would have taken my head off. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even the rabbinic faculty was split, most of the rabbis voicing their hope for a Jewish state, some of them opposing it, while all of the college faculty seemed to be for it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Everything is letters now—now that the court is empty, and the world split, and nobody left but the Lord Protector.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer: “There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive... except that eighteenth- and nineteenth- century grammarians, for one reason or another, frowned on it.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It infuriated me that two people who loved each other as much as they did had to split up in the eyes of the law, just so they could remain in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Had the last washing split the shirtwaist so bad it could not take another mend and changed its name to rag? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It split the temple’s quiet, long and agonizing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They split ripe coconuts open, broke the thick white meat into chunks that we children grated when we weren’t munching. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Take it in your right hand. Lord strike you dead on the spot, if ever you split in any way sumever! Kiss it!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Presently a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins over again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If she split from her parents, it wouldn’t really be two of them and one of her; it would be two and two, if she didn’t send Pet away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She imagined the wood planks of the kitchen floor splitting open so she could escape that stare. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t feel that she could be herself in Amman, and she was willing to endure a split with her family to live in a place where she could lead the life she pleased. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Weren't you supposed to split the money up? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pack had split up and were waiting on both sides of the ravine for me to pass them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carter was surprised at the sudden dismissal and he banged the gavel too hard, almost splitting the crate he used as a desk. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained why he and her mom had split up. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Blood matted the fat boy's hair where Haider had split his helm asunder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ralph stood now, one hand against an enormous red block, a block large as a mill wheel that had been split off and hung, tottering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The mighty stones of its walls split like twigs, their jagged ends thrusting at the sky. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Harry hurried up alongside them — for a split second, he thought he was seeing bonfires, and men darting around them — and then his mouth fell open. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Grim gave me a dollar, big deal, but we can split it." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from a hide, elk or maybe buffalo, heavy and stiff enough to stop stones and arrows; long dry years had shrunk and split the edges, and it had lost the round shape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

New sweet wood was going in, pine sharp with resin and velvety redwood and a new roof of long split shakes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No!” he says loud, looking up at me for a split second, before he looks away again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

At last the kernels of corn began to swell, and they swelled and swelled until their skins split open and began to peel off. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably separate unions altogether for child jugglers and people who can do the splits. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had become a mascot; our branch of the family was split to pieces; I had just about forgotten about being a Little in any family sense. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She forced her mind to split into two parts—one intensely focused on her task, one playing the role Sciron needed to see. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A paper screen is set up, splitting the front of the room right down the middle, surrounded by a collection of round tables and chairs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He lopped the branches, split the trunks, and trimmed his puncheons true. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Taro called and said the same thing as you. Maybe we're all the same person, split into three pieces.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But if they can’t find anyone to come in for the second half of the split, Mom has to work the whole three-to-eleven shift, which means she works from seven a.m. to eleven p.m. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Rob’s dad didn’t know and Andy’s dad didn’t notice, so splitting a few beers after a game had become routine. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three seconds later, the whole underneath of the cloud seemed to split and burst open like a paper bag, and then—out came the water! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Winter’s daily routine settled into splitting firewood, carrying water from the stream, cooking, reading, and doing schoolwork. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The moment my audio kicked in, I heard the ear splitting roar of engines coming from somewhere directly overhead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We pause at the split in the hallway where he will go one way, toward Advanced Math, and I will go the other, toward Faction History. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There are also gray areas and various ways to lump and split the relations, which give linguists plenty of things to argue about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Two more times in the face, splitting his eye open. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

I kept pulling on the necklace, trying to break the dental floss, but it wouldn’t split. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Golly Moses, he looked as if he could stamp his foot on the ground and the rocks would split open beneath him and fire and thunder come out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Like him not carrying my books no more made it official we were splitting up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then we split up for our different rows. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They waited patiently as Jinjoo carefully split the two cakes into four even pieces and shared it with her friends. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He sees me coming a split second before I ram hard into him, sending both us careening away from the wolf. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His javelin slammed into the earth where Artemis had been a split second before, and a fissure opened in the rocks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It strikes further back in his memory, around the time his parents split up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He has a split lip and a cut running through his eyebrow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I could still feel where Yakov and I were fused, as though my consciousness was being stretched taut to the point of splitting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And my lip split so badly, the nurse sent me to the hospital. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I clambered fore and aft my hulk until a comber split her, keel from ribs, and the big timber floated free; the mast, too, broke away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Nicanor tried to impress the military authorities with the miracle of levitation and had his head split open by the butt of a soldier’s rifle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She redoubled her attentions, rubbing Clara’s stomach with sweet almond oil to keep her from getting stretch marks, and her breasts with honey so her nippies would not split. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was split by the shriek of the heavy iron wheels, which threw spinning sparks over the rails as one car after another rattled past. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The old farmhouse—the heart of the Cottages—had a number of fireplaces where we could burn the split logs stacked in the outer barns. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she read, I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—her own head answered, A Canyon opened—where before there had been smooth land. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As it spilled over a pair of stones, the current split and then reunited in a liquid silver braid. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

An ear-shattering siren split the air, and the bungee jacket seemed to jump from the rack into her hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I can see a flinch of hurt on Kalinda’s face, though, which turns into a stony anger just a split second later, and I feel guilt twisting my insides. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember my parents fighting or why they even split up in the first place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They met at the dam, where the river split in two to encircle New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Enormous shelves scale the walls and split into hundreds of balconies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As we moved through, eventually people started to recognize me, and the crowd began to split open, making a clearer path for us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She liked that her nail polish was always, always chipped, but her hair never had a split end. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then a hoarse roar split the air and fairly shook the rigging, and Nat found he was yelling, too. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The issue had already caused a split within the American Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This is the market where gesture is all: a tongue’s lightning lick; a thumbnail grazing the split cheeks of a purple plum. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His knuckles are scabbed over, right where they would split if he punched something too hard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I think he’s talking about me and him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We have to split up—it’s our only chance. Just keep moving. Don’t stop moving!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When Blanca saw the long unpolished wooden table where two rows of children were awaiting their portions with pleading eyes, she began to cry and wound up spending two days with a splitting headache. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabiya tries to do splits and ends up falling on me, knocking me over. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They abandoned their carriage- house oracle and split the profits, even though the only one who had cared about the material side of things had been Nana. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shiners, split lips, swollen cheekbones, bruised arms, scraped knuckles, and bitten earlobes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had not put on his split hat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bag split, but she caught it from the bottom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean it in the our souls were split and you’re my other half forever and ever sort of way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

God, I wish I could do the splits. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stuck his lip out slightly and felt the skin splitting open. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The smith’s prentice grabbed the bar with both hands and brought it down across the mercenary’s back like a man splitting wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don't know what she said but it made him smile wide enough to split his face in two. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Since you found the keyhole, how about we split them fifty-fifty.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was split open and bloody on one side of its head, at the level of the gills. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton likes that my speech is like a light switch: I can go from news reporter to ’hood girl in a split second. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He brought the cane down on my hand and I thought it was going to split in two. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They ate nothing of the flesh without a split hoof, or that didn’t chew a cud. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with some other cousins and neighbors, we split into teams of five, then hunted one another in the maize rows and across the dirt courtyard that separated our house from Geoffrey’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He’s quiet, but only for a split second. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

One day we are splitting clapboard, and he shakes his head. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Its better to split up the comparison: Harry’s broom is as good as Malfoy’s, or better. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet he’d be happy to split my head open again. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Cranes split into different directions to explore the bookstore on their own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a table near me made of thick smooth planks, and a bench made from a section of split log. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the Blackwater, three of the king's war galleys moved in formation, gold-painted hulls splitting the water'as their oars rose and fell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lee heard fragments split the air near him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her high bun looks like a split peach on account of the color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The rays from the lantern fell on his wasted face, on the tight yellowed skin, on the lips split with fever, on his limbs which were like a child’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He likes your dream. It’s my personality. He thinks it’s split.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He wondered how she knew about their split, and if she knew what they broke apart about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I’m just a guy who makes a mean banana split.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had watched through the window and seen great fiery bolts split the sky, and he had smelled the sulfurous smell that they sometimes left behind. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“If I slip, just remember that I’m a comical genius. It’s hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a crack at the bottom of the boat that looks as though, if it gets any bigger, it will split the boat in two. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A metal edge split my broken lips and clear, warm water poured into my mouth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For a split second, she looks me in the eye. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t one of these chameleons, one of these split- personality types. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned his horse around to go back into the Wood, and she watched him go, feeling as if her world had split wide open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought they—we—were all split up,” Edward says over his shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman’s hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf’s feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s the biggest number I’ve ever been, but it’s an easy number—easy to say, easy to count, easy to split in half. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He fell in love with her the split second he laid eyes on her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of my parents splitting up made me feel sick. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It did nothing to Snape, who for a split second seemed to think he had been reprieved: But then Voldemort’s intention became clear. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then his face split in a wide smile. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Jared’s scrambling up from the floor with a split lip and a swelling eye, and Blake is on his hands and knees with blood pouring out of his nose and onto the carpet. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They knew the splitting nucleus would release energy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He split more fallen wood with his knife. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A quick, ear- splitting boom that shook the ground, which continued to tremble even after the noise ceased, vibrating so much that the bushes around them danced. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

George worked her way through the split in the curtain and surveyed the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And I wanted to ask again why the women in our family have a split nail on our left little toe. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the woman was not pock-marked nor had she a split upper lip. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

People were always doing that—like if they looked down at my torso for longer than a split second, they would turn to stone. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My lips are parched; the split has dried and cracked. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Kaiserman had only a fleeting moment, if not just a split second, to observe the situation, and he was involved in a major collision himself,” Bunderson wrote in his motion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His top lip is split, and blood dribbles down his pale neck. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had a split lip and a bruised wrist, the latter inflicted upon myself when my swing at Kim’s shoulder missed her and landed squarely on the pole of the volleyball net. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. The engine. Not the car. Well, they’re not really cars. Lev-Ports is the technical name. No need to split hairs.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My lip splits open on the inside from bashing into my teeth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It crashed over rocks and through narrow channels, catapulted up into moonlit sprays, split apart, rejoined, and dropped down into boiling cauldrons at the bottom of steep falls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s split right down the middle,” said Major Sanderson, who had laced his lumpy GI shoes for the occasion and had slicked his charcoal-dull hair down with some stiffening and redolent tonic. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The others turn and look at me, and in that split second before I explain, this amazing feeling comes over me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Luke’s guards were too stunned to do anything except watch the bear twins’ bodies dissolve into smoke. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Harry thought it was another leprechaun formation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We split the cost of the candy, and I hate going into Daddy’s sock to take out seven dollars and some change. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He looks away and for a split second I see his inside face again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“My name”—his dark, scraggly beard split in a smile—“is TimeStar.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They grew amazingly fast—so fast that their skin split open every few days and they wriggled out of it—“just as a person,” she noted, “pulls off a shirt over his head.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the boy makes it to the commandant a split second before the others come pounding past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But at the start of the next day’s work it would split and bleed again. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She did splits on the kitchen floor while Dad and I ate the chicken-salad sandwiches and muffins Mom had brought home for us from the Jump & Grind. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A dust-coated counter splits the room, backed by dozens of glass display cases and another, narrower door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He told of an ancient feud between two brothers which split all the world between darkness and light. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN And you didn't speak to him after the stickup or split any money with him? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only a little girl when my home was almost split in half. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If you happened to cut yourself with it, it would go through your skin without resistance, as if your skin were air—and it would split individual blood cells as it went through your finger. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s possible he’s searching for something he accidentally threw out, but judging by the split leg of his jeans and the grime on his rust-colored vest, it’s safe to guess he’s homeless. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looks into the distance, and for a split second I can see how lovely she was as a young woman. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As these uranium atoms split, they would release more neutrons, which would hit more uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you had to pay $4.80 a month for a sofa that started off split, no good, and humiliating—you couldn’t take any joy in owning it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the Ghost and the Bomb are not precisely my friends, but they actually seem to like me, and I am not inclined to split hairs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then I’d take a second wedge and drive it into this split. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first vacation with Dad’s family since my parents split when I was eleven and it’s like I’m a visitor among the earthlings frolicking on a beach in Florida. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Iceland is split down the middle, which makes it tectonically half American and half European. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bomb had not come to rest atop Adam’s finger, as it usually did, but had split him straight down the middle and exploded. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll do my best to represent Big Creek,” I said, frowning into the stage lights and trying to ignore my splitting head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some days it seemed like I was forever digging post holes or splitting rails. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would wait until morning and then split. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my stomach feels like it's about to split open, I lean back and take in my breakfast companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hitting a forty-mile target from a distance of 238,000 miles is about like trying to split a human hair with a razor blade thrown from a distance of twenty feet. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, a third member of the quest was dead. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They yelled at her because they both wanted her; they had been buddies all through the war together, and she was trying to split them up, they said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a loud ripping noise, his bag split in two. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

While he left us no instructions, we guessed that we were to use it to tie around the city if it looked as if it were to split. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His chin quivered slightly, and for the first time it hit me how much he must’ve loved her, how it had split him open when she left. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second the soldiers pounced on him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

An eighth grader in a football jersey lurches against my side, and I mumble an apology a split second after he’s gone. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For a split second, he thought he was going to fall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I told you she was a snake. Drop her skin in a split second.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she was riding along with the group, suddenly there was a loud crack, and everyone came to a halt, surrounding one individual whose wheel had split. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sand split beneath me, opening up a crevice straight down to the center of the earth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to extend her senses, to see through the Mist and find the cavern again, but all she felt were tunnels splitting off in a dozen directions, going everywhere except forward. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The gnarled tree was dying, split almost to the ground and rotting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tipping his head toward them, the hat’s brim slashed a shadow across his face, dividing it diagonally, leaving a single crystal blue eye, half a nose, and a split grin visible. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The courtly bow he attempted at his employer only made him seem more the baboon, but this formality gave Johnny one split second. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning split the northern sky, etching the black tower of the Night Lamp against the blue-white sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Darwin had obviously split ways with Lamarck’s evolutionary ideas. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The building was split into fourteen rooms facing out toward the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The word doesn’t pass my lips, but it ricochets through me until I am rocked raw and split open. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A child of Mars, are you? A praetor of Rome? No true Roman would spare the Greeks. I cannot abide to be split and confused - I cannot think straight! Kill them! Win!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I split it with my friend; is that okay?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Day after day the pitiless sun blazed down, scorching whatever still struggled to grow and baking the earth hard until at last it split and great irregular fissures gaped in the land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Remember," he whispered to the prince, "it's me they're after, not you. Tell 'em we split up. Tell 'em I swam the river." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

That dog could be home in a split. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

With a longing that almost split him open, he thought of her handing him a bit of smoked hock out of her dish. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, I make a calculation of how this ice structure might topple if I mess with it right now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I agreed that if we won, the prize of no chores for the rest of the month would be split between our two cabins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

So tall was he that when he stood up his head split the sky, and snow fell down. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That news, which broke in January 1939, launched physicists upon flights of learned speculation about the enormous energy released when the uranium nucleus split following its absorption of a stray neutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A split second later, she hears him calling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The basin broke in half, split by an arrow the size of a rake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I look back, I see Cardan’s hands are deftly splitting the deck of cards, but his glittering black eyes are on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I put my hand to my mouth and felt my bloodied lip, split right down the center. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Frank felt as if he were being shot with arrows, his heart splitting into porcelain shards. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

What if, we said, what if in another universe, a split reality, God reached out his finger and lightning struck the Clairmont house? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I locked the porter in his cell, prefatory to keeplocking him, and tried to come to grips with the splitting headache that had crept up on me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said “Howdy” back and watched them walk along way down the beach, touching my split lip and thinking how different their lives were from mine. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His throat had been split, and the dirt was dark beneath him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Out in the courtyard, they bought a snow cone and split it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Outside under the window were some carts and an old diligence, the wood of the roof cracked and split by the weather. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sidecar rose like a cork, unsteerable but at least still airborne: He had but a split second’s relief, however, as more curses streaked past him: The three Death Eaters were closing in. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Right in front of him was the boy who’d split his lip. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One person uprooted the stem, then tried to split it down the middle by pulling it apart. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore paused for a moment, marshaling his thoughts, and then said, “Four years ago, I received what I considered certain proof that Voldemort had split his soul.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every night Sarai split her mind a hundred ways, her moths carrying pieces of her consciousness through the city, and when they came back to her, she was whole again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The difficult part was to split the almonds in half. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark hearts of oak he split and trimmed for a high palisade around it, and built twelve sties adjoining in this yard to hold the livestock. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one had a piece chipped off where the wood was rotted through, the other had a long split in it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what was the point of splitting a house when you could just make it flat and not have any stairs at all? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Aye, the wedge slipped, when we were splitting a block of granite twenty years ago,” said the old one with a sidewise grin. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I try reaching for the boat, but it’s gone in a split second, gone so fast it might as well not even exist at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

SJ crosses her arms, and the three of them lean in to hear the “analysis” of some anti-gang violence pundit who appears on a split screen with the anchor. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Louie and Norman Bright split the cost of a room at the Lincoln Hotel. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

As anticipated, guards split the group into men and women, then led both rows, chains jangling, through a nearly round archway fashioned in the shape of a wolf’s open mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then Archer was attacking, his hands a blur, the broken ends of the spear pummeling Gregor’s long arms, his shoulders and legs and head in a broken rhythm of blows and bruises and split skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

W.E. looked up for one split second with terror in his eyes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, I didn’t dare to suggest that maybe we wanted to get the corpse out of the boat before the skin split. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day they sent her to the roof to record inventory until lunch, at which point Haidar brought her receipts from the morning’s sales and a bowl of yellow split peas for her lunch. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Said the Yankees would hang you by your heels and split you down the middle like a dang pig. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It helps, but as soon as the bread splits open it coughs out another cloud. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“How are we going to know when he’s here? Is there going to be a sign or something? Like maybe the earth will split down the middle and he’ll pop up?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We split a massive pile of designer tortilla chips with spinach and queso, and everything’s sort of okay for a minute. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The iron gates opened, and she glimpsed the wicked name of the mine before it split in two and swung wide. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment, just a split second, I’m on Day’s side. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My skull was going to split open if I didn’t lash out, if I didn’t channel that energy somehow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Back when she was alive and him lusting in his heart after another woman, it’s a wonder God hadn’t strung Grandpa up by his heels and split him down the middle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She lifted the stake high in the air and brought it down, splitting his head like a watermelon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He also started collecting armloads of firewood, cutting and splitting the wood with a small handsaw and hatchet, and stacking it in a straight pile against the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She began to show us a few steps and tricks, be-ginning with the splits. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cedar planks that formed the skin of the canoe had split, and the paint around it was scraped. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tiny shards of twigs were flung in every direction and the stump split in two. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His split lip was beginning to swell painfully. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, eviscerated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins and I were to split up and walk home—me to campus, the twins to their apartment—while Henry and Francis took care of the car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are several small bags of yellow split peas and a large plastic bag of rice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What happened was that a few days after they split, I was in the Art Room with some other girls, working on a still life. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take photos all around: an herb garden planted in a giant cowboy boot; bicycles chained to the fences; a nautical steering wheel hung on a rail, splitting the sun into triangles on the ground. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Catching sight of Harry, Pansy called, “Potter, have you split up with your girlfriend? Why was she so upset at breakfast?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It must have been in slow motion, because I had a split second there to be reminded of Mr. Birkway’s drawing of the two heads facing each other, with the vase in between. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Up there, you see where zee passageway splits? We will, of course, take zee tunnel on...zee left.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi felt like his face was going to split in two, he was grinning so hard. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You guys should stay here, just in case we do have to run. We shouldn’t split up.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Our country had irrevocably split in two: those for the war, and those against. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We’d just rounded the final curve, heading toward the thinning cloud of brand flies near the tram entrance, when a scream split the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His great red face is split with an enormous smile. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a crash, as though the earth had split asunder; the water turned to foam, and Taran felt himself dashed against an unyielding wall. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And split four ways—that was just $2.40 for each boy. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe souls can split or something.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On that occasion, as far as I remember, Ruth looked puzzled and surprised for a split second, then gave me a quick nod and went past. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half- man and woman. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The rest of the properties were split unevenly among us. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The man we split our room with had blisters all over his face as if someone had splashed him with acid. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He looks at me for only a split second. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What staggered Hahn was that the force of the collision seemed to be causing the uranium atoms to split in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would willingly have split all the money in his Gringotts vault with the Weasleys, but he knew they would never take it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I split my ponytail in half and pull to tighten it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In a dead tree, split in two by lightning, were perched three huge, black birds, too big for crows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The skin had split open, and from the laceration of the scalp a tiny strand of pink brain material protruded. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You said you needed a messenger,” Barry hissed into his cell phone, wincing when it brushed the gauze taped over his split cheek. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as Hazel chose a path, the stairs split again. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He felt his chest chopped down and split apart. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He punched me so hard my lip split open and the loose molar I had been teasing with my tongue broke off. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky into a million little pieces. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached New York City in January 1939, he was convinced—uranium atoms really could split in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great gust split through the cloud, the black dust disintegrating into the night sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Feynman explained the basics: how uranium atoms split when hit with neutrons, how they give off energy, how a chain reaction could lead to an explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It split light rays in two, so that when you looked through it you saw double. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just then, the eagle flew over and split the air in half with his terrible screech. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On a normal night they would split up and divide the city a hundred ways between them, but not tonight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She turned and scrambled up the outcroppings, picking up the hatchet that was to have been splitting kindling all this time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She had a vicious keloid slash that split her face nearly in two. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The officer doing the “split” divides incoming inmates into two contingents that line up on either side of the room’s periphery and wait their turn on the serving line. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he was splitting open, like his body was twisting apart. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I see his lips pull tight, like a seam within him is splitting. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I leaned in and kissed him closely, my face against his, whiskers on whiskers, skin on skin, holding it there, longer than normal, in case it gave him even a split second of pleasure. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty feet down, the tunnel split into four smaller arteries, each one identical, but the one on the left radiated cold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When it came time to consider surrender, the Big Six were split. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fifth kick, the edge of the little door split and swung open. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It felt the same way your body feels after a day of splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thunder split the air and the lightning bursts illuminated the churning, frothy tempest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was a bad night for romance all around. Ginny and Dean split up too, Harry.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At the split second he was turning around Peanut Abbott cracked into the back of Ben’s head, his forearm shivering against the base of the brain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I glad to see our group split up once we got to the airport. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Theon had seen it often as a boy, when he'd jumped a horse over a mossy wall, or flung an axe and split a target square. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another girl sat in a comfortable split on the floor next to her, with her hair wrapped in a high bun. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Max’s parents split up before he was bom and his mother cleans motel rooms for minimum wage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

From above came the sound of wood splitting, and a huge limb fell across the path behind him, a few leaves and twigs swishing against him as it passed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I’m split between wanting them to hug forever and being ready for Mama to stop so she sees me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe all Hannah had meant to do was point out how Tommy, since splitting with Ruth, looked a bit of a spare part. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d hung the sacks of beans on hooks in the hallway, just inside our secret entrance, but a few seams split under the weight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other to rain down fire. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to bellow at the world, cry out against her death, topple buildings, split the earth open, tear down trees. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were split logs and sticks, a jumbled mess. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We split our sides laughing, as if she’d told us a good joke. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I reached up and fingered the split lip, the swollen eye. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They reached the huge split that led outside to more stone pathways. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I know. My dad played the field. Once he and my mom split up, I lived with him. He was always ‘the man’ and I idolized him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My grandmother split a pea pod with her thumbnail and sent the peas plummeting into the pan. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then right after Carl vanished, my parents split, and my mom took off.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Bobby Kennedy will end the war, end the discrimination that’s splitting our country in two, and end the control of the government by a handful of fat old men.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she heeled right over and as she went the mast broke in two, split right down the centre. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The willow trees drop yellow catkins over the bridge; the maple keys fall twirling to the sidewalks and we split the sticky seed part and pinch the keys onto our noses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Haider took hold of his longsword with both hands and brought it down so hard the blow split leather, even on the flat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I do not have a black eye, and a split lip, and a bruised jaw. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I could hear Eddie hissing at me to slow down and wait for him, feel my ribs splitting with laughter as I ran. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My body feels like it’s held together by strings that are splitting and fraying inside me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Emma shouted, “Train!” and we split apart and pressed our backs to the walls. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m on my feet in a split second. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions.28 I find it hard to specify when not to split an infinitive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was blackened, and one of the branches hung crooked and dead, split from the trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A helmeted, chain-mailed guard leaped out at me, sword in two hands above his head, prepared to split me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second I’m gasping, completely engulfed in the strange flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It splits the air and echoes back against the hills. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, it remained as he left it, paralysed, its fur still bearing the imprint of his hands. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

One bandit splits open waistbands, collars, and cuffs looking for hidden money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We had to split our two bread rations to feed Jonas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In grocery stores, he carefully pocketed canned ravioli, which they split five ways, Zalmai getting the lion’s share. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She always had some book with her, and poring over it, she would make a thirty-minute job of that daily dish of banana split. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magazine photograph showed a girl in a strapless evening dress of fuzzy white stuff, grinning fit to split, with a whole lot of boys bending around her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I laughed so hard, it felt like my sides were splitting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The snake had killed the mouse in a split second. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hesitate for a split second, then hold up one finger again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Finn shoved the box back on the shelf and slapped a bandage on the split eyebrow, which was stubbornly weeping blood. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I suggested that we split up and start searching, but Dad said no way, it was too risky. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each strand is used to generate a complementary version of itself, resulting in one double helix that splits into two double helices. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She could not control the tree, or its blackened, split trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He has gone crazy. He says a neutron can split uranium!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his friends split off to find their own, Moss pulled open his locker to drop off his bag before homeroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I’m not comfortable with the idea of Mom and Dad splitting up,” I said, “but Abbey and I have a right to know. Don’t we?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The gorilla line apparently split off slightly before the split between the chimp and the human lines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So I’ve been thinking about what you said. We could all be split up tomorrow. I need to stay with Emilia.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everything was going fine and according to plan, when Ruth and Tommy split up and it all got confused. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we rounded the corner a loud moan split the air. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The tomb split open from head to foot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I noticed right away how he held Momma’s hand for a split second before our guests mobbed him. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Just that one moment, that split second of happiness, felt like a betrayal of Mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe we could split the right wing in half. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold days dragged mechanically: up early and to my job, splitting wood, carrying coal, sweeping floors, then off to school and boredom. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silly and I split up in different directions. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: And if I find something, me and Lloyd will split it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the worlds split before Mom or that other woman were even born,” Emma interrupted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Stag of the Sea split one of foffrey's galleys clean in two, but Dog’s Nose was afire and Queen Alysanne was locked between Lady of Silk and Lady’s Shame, her crew fighting the boarders rail-to-rail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a split second I thought I knew him—his eyes looked exactly like Miles’s. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The old road was disintegrating, split, weed- sprung. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to split the thousand Galleons between the three of us if one of us wins,” said Lee, grinning broadly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And what a strange sight he was with his black tunic, legs of two colors, split hat bobbing, and bells jangling. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But now I know they split up because my mom cheated. And you knew, because your parents moved to get away from her and try to mend their family. Your family.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Encarta World English Dictionary: “There is no grammatical basis for rejecting split infinitives.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t think about Peach without feeling a pain that sliced through her, splitting her open just like it did in the delivery room. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She wonders who I am, but only for a split second. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Levi’s captured that split second before her eyes fill. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And Marina’s head was split in two by the impact with the gunsight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That’s what Nike looked like: a divine doorstop, splitting in two. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was a split bit of being when time and space had no meaning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is sharp enough to split a virus cleanly in half, like a razor blade going through a peanut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his mom and the boyfriend split, Ocean was twelve. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My pants just burnt my crotch rather than split me in two. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a split second, she wondered if the jacket would work since she wasn’t wearing an interface ring. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Circling, tap- dancing, I was underneath them when they landed—doing the “flapping eagle,” “the kangaroo” and the “split.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever it is, it’s after me. It might be a good time to split up.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In return for a place to sleep in the building, Joe was to chop enough kin-dling and split enough wood to keep the school’s huge stone fireplace stoked day and night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sacrabani, who had been screaming vigorously, began to quieten down: he gave one or two more tentative wails, then his mouth split in something like a smile and his fingers curled round Selvam’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to have anyone left because we are being split into different classes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Writers of English have been merrily “splitting” infinitives since the 1300s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would split the log further along and, at the same time, loosen the first wedge. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Paul says my dad split 2 seconds after the pregnancy test came back positive, and that it was a good decision for all of us—especially me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"We'll split with you," said Major, "and you don't even have to come." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood had split, the lid opening to spill the chest's contents across the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Find them. I mean find out about them. We’re all split up, my family, and some folks in town thought you might know some of them.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, what if they didn’t split up? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He said he started playing basketball after his parents split up, because his mom’s new boyfriend was a youth basketball coach. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was shocking what she could process about my appearance in the split second it took for me to pass by that door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn't seen Dad since the night I kissed Holly Deblin, when he told me he and Mum were splitting up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On hitting the ground, the snag split and broke up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They startled him and he leaped to his feet, whereupon the sole of his right shoe split away from the soft cordovan leather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, then. Fifty- fifty, right? Whenever we’re together, we split the booty. I’ll show you where you can trade it in for food or whatever.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We’ve been split apart in all directions, time and time again. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara looked down and gave a frightful cry; she was standing on the black back of Barrabas, who lay there split down the middle, transformed into a rug. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day I saw lightning split a tree nearly in half. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The black brother left ten to guard the wagons and the whimpery little girl, and split the rest of them into four groups of five to search the town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone is splitting through the top of my head with an axe, a messy axe that won't make a clean cut through my skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He splits it with Bea, but there’s not much of either of them in any of the high ceilings and heavy, jacquard furniture. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A minute before, I’d been so tired out with my rail splitting that I couldn’t have struck a trot. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as he stretches from a little boy into the broom-size of a man, his height mounting the innocent fabric that splits our one-room house into two spaces, two mats, two worlds. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

I’ve seen her a million times since we split, but this is my first chance to talk to her with nobody else around. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“After my folks split, I stole my old man’s car. Red-hot Camaro. I was drinking whiskey and beer and crashed the vintage piece into a bank.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined the cedars that were now cut and dried and split into house shingles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once the planter elite split the labor force, poor whites responded to the logic of their situation and sought ways to expand their racially privileged position. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only a few minutes later he had the lid off and split into long pieces. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They might take her away, too, and split me and you up. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was a long quiet spell that was split in the middle by the loud clank of an iron door banging shut. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sorry,” said Harry, and he turned quickly to join in Luna’s conversation, forgetting for a split second to whom she was talking. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Know it takes me twice as long as Judd to split that wood, but I don’t stop. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the strong, black devil was blotting out the sun and getting ready to split open the world. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still gazing at the mirror fragment in which, for a split second, he had thought he saw Dumbledore’s eye. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He opened his knife and began to saw at the thick, stiff fabric, cutting out a piece a bit longer than the split in the hull. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was standing right beside her, but the distance between us had split into the kind of canyon I couldn’t jump across. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I returned, holding the heavy bag at the bottom so it wouldn’t split, Dad and Brian were arguing over the plastic jack-o’-lantern filled with green plastic army soldiers that Brian wanted to bring. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when I’m in the car, I know for sure, cuz I find a piece of paper mixed in with the money we split. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

My words were blurry and muffled from the blood in my mouth and my split, swollen lips. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The last bright rays of sunlight split his head in half, like a big ax splitting logs for winter kindling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We split up the rest, the Chinese, Laotians, Singaporans, Filipinos, the whole transplanted Pacific Rim. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the side, he might have passed for human—until he turned, and Percy saw that his upper body was split into three different chests, each one dressed in a different-color Western shirt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I would see a young man who resembled him, and for a split second I would feel a surge of hope. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My dad had the sprinklers running all morning so the grass was wet and your foot slid forward, sending you into a split. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The rest of us got up and split and left Brunner and the rat in the hooch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I am completely split in half, I wail. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then how his shipmates killed Lord Helios’ cattle and how Zeus thundering in towering heaven split their fast ship with his fuming bolt, so all hands perished. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His back tooth on the left side split right down the middle. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January, the Area Council, 300 members strong, split off from Operation Breakthrough to become United Organizations for Community Improvement, or UOCI. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One morning the old man showed me how to split and stack firewood, and for several hours we just worked in silence out behind his house. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt something collapsing inside me, sticks snapping, logs on fire splitting and falling, and I suddenly felt so ashamed. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The guards split us into male and female groups. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I had convinced Stephanie that there was strength in numbers, and that splitting a ride three ways from school would cut our Lyft fare considerably. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I’m frozen to the spot for a split second, but then my feet are racing toward my house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

This was evidently a password, because the gargoyle sprang suddenly to life and hopped aside as the wall behind him split in two. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the split second before he reaches me, I see my future: in the back of a police car. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

And underfoot was not soil but broken rock, split into small cubes, great slabs, but none of it water-rounded. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skeletons had split up to look for us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We have two clipboards now instead of one so we can split up and talk to twice as many people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath the surface, claws of metal raked into her leg, splitting open her flesh. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I got a sick feeling in my stomach, like when your parents are about to tell you they’re splitting up, but you know it before they even open their mouths. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The goddess’s ruined mouth split into a grin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bluffs forced the river to a narrower width, deeper, and at the same time aimed it through some boulders that had split off either side and dropped in the middle. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And even then she just barely glanced at me for a split second. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we reach the hospital they split us up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His fingertips touch the lump on my forehead, my split lip. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What happens when water freezes? Swells, doesn’t it? Well, if sap freezes in full buckets, sometimes all the seams split, and there we are. A leaky bucket’s no good for man or beast.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you can suggest some fantastic explanation,” Hahn said of the splitting uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It cost four dollars to make the copies. I figured we’d split it.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A split second later he heard a body hit the floor. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two quick passes from Winchell to split end Lloyd Hill gave Permian a first down at the El Paso Austin ten. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the substance. Just the fact. Pilate came back here just after her baby was bom. One winter. She told me they split up when they left here and she hadn’t seen him since.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts the stake as though it weighs nothing and splits his head in a single clean movement—ponk—like cracking a hardboiled egg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Retreat!” he told his men, and the grenade’s blast got only a few men, whose split bodies flew in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I heard Lorraine yell from the foot of the stairs, and the split second in which I turned my head gave Norton the chance he was waiting for. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Off Malcolm Island the boat split a pod of seven orcas. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tearing creak and the other crack split open, and out of it Pippin sprang, as if he had been kicked. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one woman shrieked, and I felt my skull would split open. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She daubed some of the steaming liquid into the split, then closed up the wood, easing it together from the root to the tip. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thin shirt has split at the seams and he gazes into some middle distance with hypothermic slackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But what made this a world- changing discovery was that if atoms really could be split, they would release energy as they broke in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diary, I tried to do a split once. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Most intriguing was the possibility of a chain reaction: if neutrons emitted in fission struck neighboring nuclei and caused them to split, they might in turn emit even more neutrons, producing more fissions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Cranes split into different directions to explore the bookstore on their own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He’d cut through a tight alley split by a murky canal. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On a rock above them, the eagle flapped its wings and split the air with a scream of fury. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not in love with—” “Right, okay, whatever, here’s my proposal: We team up and split the reward.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A split second later, he saw the British boat do the same. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The woman who was with him said later that Aureliano Arcaya jumped out of bed and opened the door and was greeted with the discharge of a Mauser that split his head open. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She splits her time between her family in Korea and Uncle Gene in California, and by the time she makes her way to us for Thanksgiving, she always has a treasure trove of tales. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the Armada had begun to split, with only the Prince’s giant ship sailing alone closest to the coastline, looking for a landing possibility. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a brownstone you either own the whole house like us, or the floors are split between two other families—three, max. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Each contained as many as ten thousand cells, and the cells themselves were split by the knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We need to split up. I know I'm chasing away the game." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It slashed at his arm, splitting his skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some split off and snapped up fallen Ridgefolk—no doubt hauling them back to the Maafa and Uncle C. The rest stampeded up the ramp after me and Gum Baby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For a split second a roaring noise in his ears blotted out sound. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Wari and Tiwanaku collapsed, at the end of the first millennium, the Andes split into sociopolitical fragments and with one major exception remained that way for more than three centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden the sky split in two as lightning sliced the night. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

From time to time Ash thought she saw the air split apart as if torn by an unseen hand, and within that secret space was the oldest land of all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the corner of the library splitting their take of the year sevens’ pocket money. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Some sacks split open when they hit the ground, and corn and beans spilled everywhere. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

While shock among the onlookers was widespread, the range of glee and dismay was split mostly along party lines. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a split second he was a parallel line three feet above the ground. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in a way that only grandfather and granddaughter could do, together Cynthia and Cinder split open and laughter poured out of them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It barely fits her anymore, clinging to her bottom so tightly the seams have almost split. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Frank doubted his plan. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was like the split second before you step into a puddle, you realise it’s there, but there’s nothing you can do about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just blow the word and I was ready to split. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We race across the boulevard that cuts in front of the school, and alongside the trees that separate the main parking lot from the river that splits the town in half. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The bird split the stick three ways in as many seconds and snapped up the few insects inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton and Anthony were eager to replace the connection to the press that they had lost in the split with Horace Greeley and the New York Tribune, so they accepted his offer. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The trunk split into branches full of soft, feathery bright green leaves where he’d also hidden names. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had split up around the time Eric and I did, but he had consoled himself by buying and renovating a wreck of a town house in Brooklyn. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Time to split up the dream team, I think,” he sneered. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

My insides kind of split into pieces as Pa stepped off that fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she told him what had happened, Phill’s mind split in two— “big-brother mode and attorney mode,” as he put it later. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She knows I split my Sundays between them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, during the early morning hours of March 28, their floe split in half. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I was hoping to leave the money on the counter and split, forget the change, but it appeared Fatty was an early riser. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And since my parents split up, I have begun to wonder if this is happening to me, too: if I am getting more weighed down, harder to lift, as I move through this world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A fake took Brothers into the air and I went up a split second later, leaned into him for the foul and put the ball against the boards. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The grown-ups split their sides laughing, and we enjoyed ourselves every bit as much. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her lip is split, mouth and teeth full of blood, her eye swelling, and she’s got a knot on her forehead that must be from hitting the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some judge who had never even met me decided to split me in half. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, the two societies split the region between them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I scrambled over the white split rail fence and carefully picked my way past the sharpened stakes of the interior fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When he saw what I was looking at, a grin split his great bearded face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sets up chess problems and works them out, or splits kindling, or goes for long walks by himself with a butterfly book. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would collect our spoils of war, which we would sell to some kid and split the money. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There are several ships. Tomorrow we’ll all be split up at registration,” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ground split open down the centre of the courtyard. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A dilapidated vessel, bigger and more horrifying than any bone ship, split the surface, growing larger and larger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When they were flush with a silver coin or two, they’d go to the local convenience store and buy food for breakfast or dinner, often splitting a pack of Hostess donuts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If things got really bad, maybe he could convince the school to let him take lunch home with him, and then he and Julie could split it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Xavier’s chest cavity had been split open and his vital organs removed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The same hand that bled with newly split skin had been the same one to coax his father, his advisers, anyone and everyone it took, to consider Project Jamboree. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The split in his lip opened again when he smiled. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer gave another command, and the men marched off, splitting into three groups to investigate the Battery and waterfront buildings. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chaha’oh was split in two with a wall of plywood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He is as guilty as everybody else, no matter how many moral hairs he can split. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the only fair thing to do would be to auction off the Beta Capsule and split the proceeds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, we did. I’m so glad we did. Pan will be glad one day, too, when I die. We won’t be split up. It was a good thing we did.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He said nothing, but ripped the joint in half with a sound like a splitting log. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The vapor shell of the cauldron began to split. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A skull-rattling boom split the air with a puff of dark gray smoke. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At this time the chromosomes do not split, but one whole chromosome of each pair goes into each daughter cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it: a smile splits my face without my permission. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It had been purchased new, but the fabric had split straight across the back by the time it was delivered. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, her head felt like a log being split to splinters. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few of them are split from punching Caleb, and dotted with faint bruises. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When they finished training, the 122nd would be split into three regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She made a series of perfect cuts down the side of the tree, and then chopped sideways and split from the tree ten perfect wedges of the hard ironwood. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I always got hot chocolate, and she got coffee, and we picked one dessert from the case and split it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the gyrating objects developed huge mouths and began laughing at me, a roaring, crazy laughter, which split my head in two. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin thought about Grace defending her family, about Maya’s parents splitting up, her dad moving out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He could use a soldering iron and hammer two boards together so that the wood did not split and the nails did not bend. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Or,” said Haley, “maybe these clues are telling us we need to go out and find the four books we haven’t found yet. We should split up. I’ll go back to the four hundreds room.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A split in the top of his skull, through which the bad news hissingly poured; a groove in his knees, which buckled, and suddenly Milton couldn’t keep it out any longer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The ground was now splitting apart, like ice breaking on a frozen pond. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

These youths, allegedly, had said or implied that they were affiliated with “Black Muslims” who had split away from the Nation of Islam to join up with me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured I'd better put my face down somewhere before it split down the middle. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

After a long walk and several Y-shaped tunnel splits, the pigeon led us to a disused section of track where the ties had warped and rotted and pools of stagnant water spanned the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He heard the scream, heard it coming a split second before the others heard it, the scream that he knew now had been growing inside him for a long time. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The thunder fills the air with streaks of charcoal-black spirals, and for a split second I think they’re trying to pound me into the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As they went they split into bands, and each of these bands plundered where it chose. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You said you needed a messenger,” Barry hissed into his cell phone, wincing when it brushed the gauze taped over his split cheek. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Annabeth’s mind split into two different levels: one carrying on the conversation, the other madly grasping for a scheme to survive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The seam of his jacket was split under his arm. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she read my mind, and I felt sorry for it because, for a split second, I’d wished she wasn’t there. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Because of Ashoke’s passion for this particular book, the spine had recently split, threatening to divide the pages into two sections. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a loud crack as the wood split against the back of the prince's head, and then everything happened at once before Sansa's horrified eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Travis brung that pointing stick down on top of his desk so hard it was a miracle the desk didn’t split clean in two! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

On stiff and frozen legs, she followed the other students off the plane and into customs, trying to keep her eye on them as they were split into different lines. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His scalp was split open, and a police car came and he was taken to a nearby precinct. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We split the twin bill yesterday,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In the end, Judge Willmore decided to have the defense and state split the cost of the witnesses. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the girl and I lock eyes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In that split second Stanley thought he saw an unusual rock formation on top of one of the mountain peaks. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

By three billion years ago, a number of one-celled plants had joined together, perhaps because a mutation prevented a single cell from separating after splitting in two. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said it yourself—they weren’t getting along anymore. They were splitting up! What if Quinton realized she was keeping secrets from him?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He lay on the ground, his skullcap split, refusing to let the attendants take him to the hospital. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could be found on fall afternoons with a rake in hand, or a splitting maul perhaps. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I came to our spring that gushed clear cold water out of a split in a rock ledge. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it happened, I was down the creek a ways, splitting rails to fix up the yard fence where the bulls had torn it down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks around the rez with a black eye and split lip. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or would they split up, the mother taking the colored child to live in the ghetto while the father stayed white to make a living to support them? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We’re all sitting in his uncle’s living room, splitting his Levain cookie; I give him my piece, even though I’m hungry. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the passageway convulsed, the hidden roots of trees sprang up, the ground split beneath Taran, heaving and crumbling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“The top of Gareth’s head was off,” he said with indifference, “and he had a surprised expression. Gaheris had no expression, because his head was split in half.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, they split him up as best they could. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine having to just split up the carnations that were already ordered? I’ve never heard of anything so unfair.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I saw my grandmother and for a split second, I didn’t know whose bed she was at until I saw the person in it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ground before the mouth of the horn splits in two and a round table with a snowy white cloth rises into the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ice floe they were on had split. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I was jittery being out on the water and wished for a split second I’d thought of some other way to do this. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I finally reacted—too late—and Sorrento nailed my mech in the lower torso, just a split second before the beam cut off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He stood and grinned and rubbed his split knuckles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The electoral vote split along sectional lines, Adams carrying New England and Jefferson the South. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How about we split the cash like we said we would?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He opens the door and I split, quicker and slicker than a banana. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that organism generated sperm or eggs, the alleles were split up again—one was passed to the sperm, and one to the egg, only to become combined in the next generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They had run a scam to get a shot of Nicole and auction it off to the highest bidder, splitting the take, end of story. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was standing in the hallway, holding my sides like I was going to split in two if I let go, which I think I might have. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For a split second Harry forgot where he was and what he was doing there: He even forgot that he was invisible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He grabbed one and split it in two. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see why you split equal with that weird kid. He wouldn’t know the difference.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And in that moment—for a split second—I feel it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Right now, the contenders are, of all people, Michael Clark and Edna, which has split the class into boys versus girls. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“We had to split up. He should be down here. Unless they killed him or something.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Breaking a leg on the concrete would be better than burning to death, but there was also a good chance he’d split his head open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As she flew on her cursed dragon, the land rumbled and split. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The thick iron was cracked and splitting in three places, and the upper comer of the left-hand door looked partly melted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nigel was the only driver who split the tips down the middle with Obinze; the others pretended not to remember to share. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On several occasions he slugged his wife, hating Sherri for the way her presence constantly had him split down the middle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep splitting and you get neutrinos and quarks and muons and antiquarks and mesons—on and on and on, smaller and smaller and smaller. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brother got a harder head than your husband did, Janey. His split open the first time I hit him. Made such a mess, I threw him into Charleston Harbor for the ocean to bury.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even before Alex’s parents split, they both had a habit of calling him by the other’s last name when he exhibited particular traits. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every time she split a stump, a loud roar of pain erupted from the poor pieces of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Grandpa Bobby had left instructions that the money was to be split evenly among Sandy, Del, and my father, but Dad wouldn’t take a nickel. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We never heard from him what happened after he and Isaac split up. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most compelling was his final point: Given that both his splits and final time for the race were record-shattering, the idea that Seabiscuit had been restrained was preposterous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For some reason, things went wrong. The Table split into factions, a bitter war began, and all were killed.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1780 General Sir Henry Clinton, successor to General Howe as commander of the British forces in America, had split his troops in two. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Canton's mom had turned her back just for a moment, a split second, and by the time she realized what was happening, Kenzi was charging across the crosswalk, a school bus heading right toward him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And she herself said that the murder took place just as she looked out and the lights went off a split second later. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe by splitting into three pieces, we robbed each other of what it felt like to be a full person. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree split in four directions, each branch thicker than both of Emily’s legs put together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The cord was cut through, and the metal wires inside the cord were split apart at the cut section. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lena and I took Cap’s bus after school and found the right house, a well-kept split level on a quiet side street. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There are three rows of chairs on built-in platforms that edge around the sides of the classroom in a split hexagon shape. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Wash was splitting wood behind his house when he saw a flash of yellow in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had made part of it into a steak maze, for tourists, and we split up in the steak maze and tried to see who could get to the center first. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to split some more logs, so I watched him take an ax to a bunch of dried alder. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we get to the point where we start splitting up, my teammates reappear as tiny dots on a small map in my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His lips were cracked with long, bloody splits dividing ’em every little bit. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When the uranium atoms in the bomb split, some would break down into other radioactive elements—atoms that would continue shooting out particles. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split up, the way we’d done with the Nemean Lion. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then tall woodcutters entered to split up logs for the hearth fire, the water carriers returned; and on their heels arrived the swineherd, driving three fat pigs, chosen among his pens. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he said violently, “At least, I will not have a woman who is pock-marked, or who has a split upper lip.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I make the shot, I’m gonna split the million bucks with you.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I don’t know what is keeping the boat from splitting in two. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“They had to split a sectional into two parts to make it fit in the room. You can see where it's supposed to be connected.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

So T would get the banana, and I would get the apple, and we would split them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Fine. But if he gives you any money, you can split it with your brothers and sister. That's the least you can do." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to split up, but I had the feeling she was right—it was our only chance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is the same one I have danced with ever since I saw blue gel beneath my split flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Frisch began telling Bohr that uranium atoms could split in two and was halfway through his explanation when Bohr slapped himself on the forehead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d go to work on the halves, splitting them apart. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it was run down by a car and then split by a bike—hopefully not Rufus’s. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then the troll broke through the wall and a child’s voice split the night. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As it emerges from the drop of water the white light has been split into an array of colours. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The splitting sound, the thunderous impact, the splintering and bits of branches showering him, all had happened when the huge tree crashed to earth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Smoke streamed from several large splits in the hull. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I balance for a split second, but Captain Smith shoves me and I fall onto the ’tween deck floor. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He tried to plant his feet at the threshold, but it only lasted for a split second; the pole sent him into the Maze with a lurch. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of its own cul-de-sac, it was a large modern house of the “architectural” sort, bleached cedar, its split levels and asymmetrical terraces self-consciously bare. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She plays with the tips of her hair like she’s checking them for split ends. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thinking in a split second about possible reactions to one decision and how it affects decisions afterward. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We might need to split up,” I say under my breath. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A blast of lightning split the tree down to its roots, opening a smoking crevice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This seemed to suggest that the Earth was splitting apart at the seams, like a nut bursting out of its shell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My lip had pretty much healed by then—there was just a faint, kind of purplish line where the split had been—but I pointed it out to him anyway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The three of them got split up coming in and Faith had spent most of the concert looking for the other two. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even Gerald, who had seen up close the awful things a drunken man can do, would split a six-pack with Andy and Rob. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know who he’s trying to blame—it’s my fault that my parents split up. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to look but couldn’t help myself, and I half turned away but peeked back through split fingers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Increasing their numbers was labor-intensive: scientists had to repeatedly scrape the cells from one tube and split them into new ones to give them more space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These circumspect words produced a scientific earthquake, for what Rutherford described was the first artificial splitting of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But today, after I was sure my nails were dry, I reached up and grabbed a chunk of hair, split it into thirds, and started braiding. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As he stood over the body, someone caught him from behind with an axe, but his helm turned the Mow, and his skull was left ringing when it might have been split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The white mobsters had the numbers racket split into specific areas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank God none of the water bags had split. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the window were wide fields with wonderful rail fences just like in the pictures of Lincoln splitting rails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it would mean splitting us all up for a few years, but she couldn’t give up her life’s project. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Like—moving. He said it was impossible to move because time stands still inside each little split second.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tony was now full-time in the streets, splitting his time between his father’s and girlfriend’s apartments in the Murphy Homes Projects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In that split second, telling him might have changed our fates. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Watching her adjust the straps of her bikini top, I want to tell her I know how it feels to be split down the middle, too. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, he reported, as the family moved inside to escape the twilight mist that rose from the river, he had overseen the carpenter who was splitting the white oak for the clapboards. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re reacting to your mom and dad splitting up by trying to steal someone else’s best friend. Mine. I see right through you.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Hamameh’s children, my brothers, children from dozens of other homes, and I played along a street that split our neighborhood like a spine. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He made a split on the top and fitted a crosspiece on for a mark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground split at Annabeth’s feet and she fell into darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Alvarez told Oppenheimer that uranium atoms split in two—scientists were calling it fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But naturally occurring uranium also contained U-235, which was much more fissile—highly likely to split after absorbing a neutron of almost any speed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They split into teams and had debates, and they put a whole new layer of clippings and cartoons and news photos onto Mr. Larson’s bulletin boards. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the fog pulsed with red light. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The New India split to pieces and collapsed in Father’s mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he and Moms split up, but they always get back together. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A grand staircase splits into two like a pair of pearl-white snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I split the last piece of bread with her, drank from a stream, and we walked on. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If I stretched all the way across the table, the seam under my arm would split open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We switched trams, and after four more stops we arrived at a street split by a beautiful canal, the reflections of the ancient bridge and picturesque canal houses rippling in water. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

At a jam-packed press club conference, I believe the very first question was why had I split with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She divided the sweet syrup then used her fingernail to split the cherry into two bits for the twins to share. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She split things in half, then quarters, speedily producing florets, cubes, slices, and shreds. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My face must split into two smiling moons, because Garret Charles stands, skittering the plastic folding table out from underneath the team, and whispers: “Wipe that smile away, Anthony.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Ser Addam Marbrand commands their outriders, and he's pulling back south, burning as he goes. He knows where we are, more or less, but the Black- fish vows he will not know when we split." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Car breaks down, they split up to find help, and a serial killer murders somebody,” Seven adds. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His hackles were up and his left ear was split. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The checkpoint boss typically gets half the take; his workers split the rest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Winchell drops back to pass, throwing a perfect strike on a timing pattern to reserve split end Johnny Celey on the left sideline. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s that feeling you get when you think for just a split second about steering into oncoming traffic. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was attached like a shoe—there was a split down the middle with a long lace pulled tight through holes on either side. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Julius dared not take his eyes for one split second from the tiger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey will wish he still had his sword. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the pupa ecloses, or splits open, and the adult crawls out. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If they trace their lineage back far enough, at a certain point it splits into white and native and a tangled web of “other.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He took the knife, made the first cut, and it felt like my head was split down the middle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leapt with savage energy from the pad, zinged up the guide pole, and split the valley with its thunder. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So you feel it, too? I think my head’s going to split open!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When a jump shot split cleanly through the net, it was their hand, their phantom hand, that guided the ball. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s too late now. I’m on the split shift.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Resting up between crucial observations, Rachel was studying the tails of her hair very closely for split ends. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The asphalt had split in a lightning-streak pattern, and more tangles of weed sprouted through the fissures. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her head is split in half and a pink-gray sludge oozes from the fracture in her skull and drips down onto my face, and she stinks of formaldehyde and rotting meat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Uncle Vernon stood framed in the doorway; then he let out a bellow like an angry bull and dived at Harry, grabbing him by the ankle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, he’d split his mental gymnastics, leaving his imaginary board to swing a fantasy baseball bat and knock an invisible ball into the left-field stands of the Ebbets Field in his mind. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harry made up his mind in a split second. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And the man’s body was missing its vital organs—like someone had split him open from neck to navel, and—I’m sorry, you look like you’re going to be ill. I shouldn’t have said anything.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As he knocked it against the railing a second time, the railing split. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the two of them, Henry and Alex, like the world’s worst illustration of the Symposium: split down the middle and sent bleeding into separate lives. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once all the men and gear were safe on the same piece of floe with the boats, they began to relax, only to have another crack split directly under the James Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They stood at one end of a large room, which was split into two sections by thick metal bars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They took the two straightest trees, hacked the limbs and branches from them, skinned off their bark, and split them, laying the logs in a square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two months later, after buying Tori a new car with unlimited car washes, Candice and Brandon split the remaining money fifty-fifty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mourning the split trees, hens starving on rooftops. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, while echoes ripped the air and a whirlwind screamed overhead, the cauldron split and shattered. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fire’s made a barrier—split us into groups. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Dad’s annoying in either form. Me? I was called Heracles. Then the Romans came along and named me Hercules. I didn’t really change that much, though lately just thinking about it gives me splitting headaches...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a long pause she replied, “We would all die if we split up.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he split for class, leaving me to chew on that by myself. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His chest split down the middle, exposing the flame-filled hollow within him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Jenna and I split off at the corner, I stopped for a moment and watched her walk away. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I can feel blood running down my temple but I know it’s from the sugar bowl cut that’s split open again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Driving one wedge ahead of the other like that, I could finally split a log in two halves. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though he was good at ticking, he said spinning and sliding were his specialties back in the day, and that the crowd always went crazy when he did a split. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His skin cracked and split open, but there was only more fire beneath, his coattails rippling behind him like a pair of wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s split up so we can be done faster. I’ll get the spinach and the bread rolls,” he says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The women are wearing red lipstick and colorful snug- fitting long dresses that split at the side over loose, flowing pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped they weren’t going to split up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

No thunder, no earthquake that split open the ground, no hailstones big as heads. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before her hands could get the different but equally tough skin of a laundress, her knuckles split with the rubbing and wringing, and ran blood into the rinse tubs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They split us into two groups, and we trail behind them into the parking lot, where there are actual buses waiting to be boarded. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I remember how bad my parents used to fight right before they split up. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The meat, crisp and split, ignited into a small flame, which found new fuel in the spots of grease upon the stove. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, thinking about splitting the money three ways, instead of just two. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I saw them start up the steps and felt suddenly as though my head would split. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chloe splits her time between the desk and...somewhere in the back. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He could navigate it effortlessly, as if the oceans were splitting into glossy liquid roads for him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t my fault that its seams were starting to split. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When U-235 is hit by neutrons, it does split and release energy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung the trident in his massive hands and in one shock from top to bottom split that promontory, toppling into the sea the fragment where the great fool sat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, we’re in this together, Ben. We’re partners because we saw this together. I wouldn’t think of making money off this without splitting it with you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split the last half inch, and I told Katz I would go on ahead to the pond, filter the water, and have it waiting for him when he arrived. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet would raise the saffron dust that floated down on the coveralls and bunion- split shoes of the man breathing music in and out of his harmonica. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he did look he saw, in a split second of time, Mary turn her eyes away from his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There they hung, three live men and one dead one, as the Lord of Light’s devout stacked split logs and broken branches under their feet, then doused the piles with lamp oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I was just gonna tell you your zipper was open. I didn’t mean to split your backpack.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sorry your parents are splitting up, bro, but this really sucks. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her lip split and blood ran down her chin, to mingle with the salt of her tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For a split second, two strands of conductor filament connected, sending power flooding to one of the tunnel beams. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“If you lie to me, I will split your head open like a melon and let the monkeys eat your brains.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I’m sure I saw a frown, even if it lasted only a split second. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Crispin, do you know why my hat is split into two parts?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The columns that held the second floor of our house split in half, and the roof surrendered. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Faraway streaks of light split through the sky, leaving traces like a bruise. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He still lived in the same duplex he'd lived in since her parents split up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Liam met my gaze for a split second, nodding in the direction of his side mirror. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was relieved for a split second, but then I saw it—a white-and-orange tranquilizer dart lodged in Sasha’s right arm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I must have looked like I'd split my lip in a bar brawl. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Baby turned another handspring and made a split again on the waxed floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lightning split the air near me, and—krakoom!—the thunder knocked me down. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dome is split into halves—the walls on the right side show cute furry animals in green meadows filled with flowers of every color. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At thirty her hot brown eyes had turned to agate, and her skin had taken on the sheen of maple struck down, split and sanded at the height of its green. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I reached up and touched my split lip. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He held up a small piece of blue plastic and split it open. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On offense black athletes started at flanker, split end, and fullback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that split second, the man fighting with him bent down and seized the neck of a broken bottle from the ground. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My legs felt wobbly-weak, and Jay squeezed my hand tight as we watched Susie split her scalp straight down the middle and continue right down her back. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In a split second she struck the water. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I am trying to buy time, but one of his blows could split me in half. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In every comer of the workshop, axes and saws split fresh timber as the woodshop boys made sets and stage scenery. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It splits the top layer of my skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

To Nehru, Jinnah, India, and Pakistan, to the men who fight and kill—you can’t split us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Good night. Go right to sleep now. I have a splitting headache," my mother said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In a split second he must have waked up, but his eyes remained closed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These genes, in turn, activate “mapmaker” genes that make segments and split the body into its broad domains. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I think he’s telling the truth, that our recipe is so bad, it could kill someone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as she walked away, Gran’s face split into a huge grin and she hugged my shoulders. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

John had also split and stacked the wood from a dead maple we’d cut down, and climbed up on the roof to replace some rotted cedar shingles. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They went straight down from his eyes, splitting his cheeks into sections. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I finally reached a jagged split in the hull and, as the raft drifted inside it, fetid water dripped down my neck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Thomas had noticed them exchange an odd look before they split up, almost as if communicating some secret with their eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As I turn to go, my heart feels like it’s splitting open and being mended back together at the very same time. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I did, and split my head against a car engine sunk into the black mud of the river. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Ruane, you got the north- end gates? Bailey on the split. Baker, Smith, Singleton on the pat- frisk.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I make eye contact for a split second and I nod, thanking her for the secret update. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Leo was excited, because he hadn’t expected it to work underwater. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph and I were splitting wood—he was getting good—and piling it beside the sugaring house. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Lightning had split it down the middle, and around the charred core, where the bark had peeled away, the tree had weathered silver. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They would have split us up. Now I have nothing, not even a crumb.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the world seems to tilt on its axis, like it’s about to roll right off its designated ring in the solar system and float aimlessly into outer space. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us are experts at splitting, flaking, sharpening and polishing, as well as finding, rocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its bridges connect to Manhattan and it’s split up by canals and creeks—filthy green streaks of water that remind you that it used to be a swamp. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can hardly remember now what it was all about, but I was a total mess then, having just split up with Salim’s dad and not yet having discovered Transcendental Meditation. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each family split off and lived by itself, laughing at the others because of their great noses, but not liking to be laughed at for their own noses. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I glance at the girls, to see if either of them was in fact bit, when thunder splits the humid air, warm fluid spattering my face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“We ought to split up the rest of the Tang people’s town,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bought a split- level house on Willet Drive in suburban Annandale. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt his lip split and tatter over his teeth, but his skin seemed thickened and dull, as though he were encased in heavy rubber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near one end, Grandpa cut the stick half through, and split one half off. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it took a little longer for me to wake up this morning, and I quickly developed a splitting headache. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a shiny section of rock, split cleanly down one side but studded with shiny purple on the other and with a hole to allow for the thong. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, she wished she could take it back. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He split open a pair of plump potatoes. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed watching them, because they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other’s way, and because their techniques of splitting and cutting and joining wood were so elegant and effective. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One day in early February, McCandless announced that he was splitting for San Diego to earn more money for his Alaska trip. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel turns left the moment they enter the main office, splits off from the people talking to Ms. Dale, and goes straight for a seat at the round table in the back of her room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her back was straight, and her dirty hands made fists so tight her knuckles looked ready to split. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“They split up and the others are on their way.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But if he had sought to deprive us of a dime, blood might have been split. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that split second, James is out of the tent. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the underbelly of the Argo II, the glass bay doors split open. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One by one we would be called home to fetch water from the hydrant in the back yard, to go to the store and buy greens and meal for tomorrow, to split wood for kindling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a split second later, it turns black. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hate combined checks, because someone always wants to split the bill evenly—and I don’t want to be a jerk, but there’s a reason I didn’t order that twenty-dollar sandwich. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He suggested that they split the management of the outbreak. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anya yelped as the claws split her flesh in three gouges. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Actually, he’s doing the splits on your driveway.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sister Redempta went back inside and Billy gathered up a few wood splits and followed her. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The black skin stretched upon the bones and their faces split and shrunken on their skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My whole body vibrates with electricity as I split the rock in two. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As it gets bigger it molts several times, splitting the old skin with its head and wriggling out, revealing stretchy skin underneath. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My family was splitting down the middle—the three who had left the mountain, and the four who had stayed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Trees blazed like torches; the sap in their veins boiled and split them asunder, the pitch in the conifers caught like naphtha, the twigs seemed to blossom with ferocious orange flowers all in a moment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens a split second later and there is the warden rising to fill the doorway. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It appeared as though one more coin might split it wide open. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Its—her face had split at a laugh line. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The batter’s foot lands on third a split second before the ball hits Hennessey’s glove. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But then her face changed, and for a split second I thought that maybe she had figured it out. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Now, as father and son sat down at the kitchen table with a map, if either felt conscious of a family about to split apart for good, there was no reference to it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura and Jonah start arguing about how to split up the project, so I decide to ask Roger a few questions. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

That split second it takes to go from safe to a full-on fight for survival. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My heart was beating so hard that I thought my chest might split open. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then his tabletop split into helicopter blades and Buford buzzed away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It went out over my head and when I turned I saw that Nick had it for a split second. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he laid the edge of the blade against the swollen throat of the creature on the straw, the skin split open in a gout of black blood and yellow pus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Where he had grasped the torch, his skin had cracked and split. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the girls are practicing their splits, and a boy is posed on a skateboard, and two other boys are juggling balls back and forth. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A rickety bridge made of split logs and woven vines dangled across a steep, rocky ravine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Max replied cheerfully, and a split second later, my apartment’s security system switched into lockdown mode. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had carried home armloads of the seed pods, the size of peas, full of fluffy cotton when they split open. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My father, his eyes squinting, was now taking in my split lip, I could tell. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The new guy behind the counter stared at me, probably thinking I was about to stuff some product down my pants and split, but I didn’t care. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She saw the eerie image of her business manager/stepfather split into two people, each holding a baseball bat high above his head. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His agony was terrifying, the piercing, unearthly howl with which he split the moonlit dark vibrating in its own impact for seconds afterward like a devastating shock. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Theoretically, as the uranium nucleus split in two, more neutrons would break free and fly off on their own. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fracture in Maya’s heart split a bit wider. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mashed between their tugging fists, the Whopper splurted sauce and cheese and pickle chips; then it split. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grew in volume, the sound of splitting wood came from the rear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid stood and looked at them all for a split second, then turned and strode into his cabin, slamming the door behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I have to keep myself from smiling because I know it’ll make the cut split open again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She split up with his father eleven months later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He spat on his hands, then he split open the hot clay and smelled the sweet flesh of the hedgehog, which had cooked, slowly, in the embers, as he had slept. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I half expected to see the shark’s white belly stretched out at the bottom of the harbor, as though its weight had split the bands and the shark had just sunk to the seafloor. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The beers all broke,” he says again, and nods toward the split- open cooler, gallons of foamy liquid pouring out from inside it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Opposite the fireplace were shelves made of logs split in half and nailed against the wall to hold the books that Shadrach had brought with him from college. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They split up when I was a baby, so I had no memories, just some old photos. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As we stood there facing each other, I had this flickering thought that I looked the same way to her, split down the middle by light and shadow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

What had from afar seemed to be one sheer mountainwall was split into several long steep ridges, separate isles perhaps, between which the sea ran in narrow sounds or channels. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I lick my split lip—salt and blood and tears. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It splits his skull, and blood sprays out past his dangling brains, yet he doesn’t fall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She split the wad and pressed the gum into her ears. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Standing just where the path split into three lanes was an enormous shadowy monster. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked the rest of the way, I lifted my eyes to the minaret that split the sky like the body of a bird between its two wings. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You know we’re in this together. We split the money, fifty-fifty.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And number eighty-eight—still in the splits!—spins out of them, onto her back, and yells “Faster!” to Sammy, which gets a nice big laugh out of Mark and Marc, the bearded boys. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When she came to, she was in a car, locked in the back, with a splitting headache that her pain nanites were struggling to subdue. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There were packets of split, dried fish, a makuk of special powdered fish, moose meat, a little manomin traded for with deer meat, smoked fish, and a bag of dried pumpkin flowers to thicken soups. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Ranofer!” cried his friend, and the face split into a grin of delight. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The great tree falls, splitting, cracking, rushing down in leaves to the final, shuddering blow along the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t exactly help their mission to offend the other Messengers, but neither did he wish to be split up from Kate and Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the story of the bear man who split the Gorman Islands?” he asked. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hedges of honeysuckle—twisting, strangling vines—had grown over what must once have been a split rail fence between the house and barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she split us into groups of two and told us to practice. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I would write: “The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, it displaced the look of all-around wear and, plainly, specific worry that had been on her face since she entered the bathroom. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then they began to billow out toward the ground, as though they were carrying some heavy load and were about to split. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Doctors had done a small operation just after I was born to remove the tumor that split the middle of my face and caused my facial deformities. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The shapeless mass of darkness he had lifted split apart. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

So I turned to Cap and snarled, “Keep your split ends off my side of the couch!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He says he heard the boy say, “I’m going to kill you” and a split second later he heard the body hit the floor. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Cho were now too embarrassed to look at each other, let alone talk to each other; what if Ron and Hermione started going out together, then split up? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then the witch took her own knife and split an alder sapling along its whole length. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bright flash of lightning split the sky, and right on cue, we both grabbed the other’s hand and began to run just as a huge clap of thunder rumbled the ground under us. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a split second the driver made the right choice: he dove out of the chariot, which careened away and exploded in green flames. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But if Paul’s bruises and split lip were the signs of the winner, I had to image that Marc was a whole lot worse. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In earlier work, Neel had combined data from multiple sources to estimate that two related groups of Central American Indians had split off from each other eight thousand to ten thousand years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes it split along Mormon and non-Mormon lines. We talked about politics. He encouraged me to read Catch-22, and it’s my favorite single book.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he cried because his world was split. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Out on the grounds, someone is splitting wood, and Werner listens to the ringing of the sledgehammer against the wedge and the quick, frightened breaths of the boys all around him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Annabeth understood what was happening a split second before I did. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She dances well and she eats banana splits. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How ya like that?” as they did the splits, the camel walk, and the mashed potato. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He splits the hairy exterior and out pops a slimy white ball. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The split second has been growing more and more important to us. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was peeling back my skin and bones and looking into my heart, splitting it wide for me to see, and what I would soon find there terrified me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The fire was so intense that piles of pig iron melted like wax left in the sun, granite blocks split in two, and limestone and marble turned to powder and blew away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw them go up this way,” Florida said, “but then they split. Did you see which way they went?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and broad, and he filled up the doorway for a heartbeat when he entered, his face splitting into a smile to see them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Because she didn’t know that there were two of me now; split between everything I had wanted, and everything I would now have to be. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Foreign Service is split into two parts, the diplomatic corps and the cultural staff. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a split second when it looked like Noah was unaware of where he was or how to form words. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Axel adds this fact to the growing list in his head. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“White people always wanna split up, and when they do something bad happens.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He split hairs for three-quarters of an hour on the grammatical accuracy of his text. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So T would get the banana, and I would get the apple, and we would split them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You never split up when the monster’s after you. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger had to admit that for a split second he felt something almost like satisfaction. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Abby glanced at me for a split second, touched her mouth, and blinked. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We split into different versions of the same dream. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In commercial airlines, captains and first officers split the flying duties equally. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I said, “Our toilet was broken so my stepdad made me dig trenches in the backyard to find where the pipes had split open.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Let’s split up,” Harry told the other two. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s me and it isn’t, or it’s me splitting in two, and this other voice, this new voice, keeps shouting. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded his fist against the nearest rode, which cracked and split in half "Now, come!" he shouted. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The question of whether to sign the oath split the faculty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Fang took the money and split, probably to find Dwight and hit him up for some weed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This time she split the air with her demanding voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The single, twisting road that led from the quarry soon split into several streets, the main one leading to the bazaar, and it was this that I took. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The split second those last words flew out, I wanted to take them back, but I couldn’t. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How in the heck can he do the splits with pants so tight? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Don had been three when his parents had split up, and his coming back into Charlie’s life on a permanent basis wasn’t the simplest of moves. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I split my lip on the last tumble and tasted wet pennies and heavy perfume. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It stuck, heel-first, into the bark of a small tree with such force, it split the tree in two. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

With the knife, he split some tinder from one of the splintered planks and set a fire on the grass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our group split up, with each pair taking one of the two main avenues leading to Nyame’s estate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The blow to his mouth had split open his upper lip and broken six teeth, three of which were embedded in his lower lip, hideously inverting his beautiful smile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the bottom of Prema Estates, Spoon and I split up and headed to our respective homes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The melee seemed to halt for a split second as all eyes turned to look at Og, who was now floating at the center of the dance floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was no need to call retreat—for at the intensity of that first volley, we had stumbled backward—and now we found ourselves split into two parties. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The corridor split, and she twitched her ears at the path on the right. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

He split his time between his apartments in London and New York, farmhouse in Provence, seaside home in Malta, and fifteen-thousand-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think her smile is going to split her face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She never broke down, but that split second when the truth of the matter flashed across her face was all I needed to know it was there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I said that since neither she nor Dad could be bothered to work, and since she refused to leave Dad, the government was going to do the job of splitting up the family for her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Mr. Lincoln had started by splitting rails. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word, said out loud, made Luna’s skull feel as though it was about to split in half. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He caught the first man in the back of the knee before they even knew he was there, and the heavy axehead split flesh and bone like rotten wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He split one in two with his fingernail and baited their fishing lines. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The corridor was split in half with a metal staircase leading down into what must be some sort of basement. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Carefully she split her attention, beaming half of it to the ocean, into the water to keep him afloat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could react, the planks in the bulkhead to my right split apart, and Tarrypin—his shell bundled in chains—was marched out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A gigantic smile split my face in half. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It did one circuit of the stadium, then split into two smaller comets, each hurtling toward the goalposts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Only about two weeks before I arrived, she had split up with her second husband—the soldier, Frank, whom I had met there the previous summer; but she was taking it right in stride. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gauze back would split, and I could see the disk with six holes, the secret of the sound. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second it sounds like the squealing brakes of a train. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If it’s split apart into pieces then wouldn’t putting all the pieces together bring Closure? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then tinder hits flint, a hiss splits the air, and a moment later, a torch catches fire with a whoosh. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We were excited and asked if they could take the ten dollars and split it four ways for us. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her ideas of good and evil are split so clearly into one side or the other. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a shame we can’t just admit that we have failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The split second of sheer panic as the wolves came at her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No matter who won, they would “save,” or split, the purse between them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back to the television screen, which is split in two by a flashing lightning bolt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The boys split, diving into the yard, each ducking behind some large, odd piece of junk. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two broken washboards, piles of moth-eaten quilts, chairs with split seats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Just let us keep the rest of the money without having to spend it. Benji and I will split it.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pain was an axe splitting his head apart, but when the crow wrenched out its beak all slimy with bits of bone and brain, Bran could see again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Haley wanted to make stickers, which is why she’s in a split on the carpet with her headphones on and coloring, and I’m about to tell the silly version of the Glenn Burke story. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

My worst nightmare was that I would open the locker one morning and find that all three had spilled or, worse still, had split. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Were going to fine-tune the musical numbers this morning. Big ensemble numbers first, and then we’ll split into smaller groups. We break for pizza at noon, and after that, we run through the whole caboodle.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This chapel was the first place where my presence was strong enough that I could appear to you as myself - by which I mean Hades, god of the dead, not split with that other manifestation.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As though she’d read her mind, the old woman split her bread in half without another word. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Congo is so wide that it effectively splits the country in two. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee didn’t split with me because of you, so get that out of your head right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I turned it, a fiery hot shriek split the serenity at Snowberger’s, as if touching the doorknob had set off an alarm. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second I was afraid that he was a Red, because judging by the look in his eyes, he wanted nothing more than to burn me to a crisp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Monkey rings that would split in two and send a swinging child hurtling through space. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the story of sixteen-year-old West Springfield native Rashad Butler develops, the city seems to be split in terms of which side of the argument they fall on in this case. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The spicy-sweet aroma that rose from freshly split cedar was the same scent that often filled the shell house in Seattle when Pocock was at work up in his loft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

For a split second it hovered above the face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veins of her flight feathers were split and dry. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sky was split by a zigzagged path of lightning, but even then I didn’t move. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Athena was in such bad shape, split between her Greek and Roman personalities, that she wasn’t even paying attention. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pictures made of seeds were now hanging above the blackboard, but enough split peas and lentils had fallen to the floor to make a good meal for Ralph. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He clutches the headpiece in white-knuckled fists and pulls, screaming through gritted teeth, until a split zigzags across it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Two protein bars. We’ll split one. Save the other for later.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"I read a line that said, 'You are like pomegranates split open. Even the emptiest among you are as full of good as a pomegranate is of seed.'" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I understood what Grover was going to do a split second before it happened. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Completely ignorant to the split second when time froze, when I was sure we were going to kiss. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A tall, thick-lipped boy who had trailed Red in pursuit of Ben caught the history book full in the face, his nose splitting like an overripe piece of fruit, blood spouting down his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An old boyfriend. Maybe he split when your mom got pregnant. Or maybe he got killed in an accident before you were born.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mack’s lips were split against his teeth and one front tooth bent sharply inward. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Dr. Thorn was taken by surprise, so his first volley of missiles zipped harmlessly over our heads. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The first priority is to buy the house. We’ll figure out how to split the rest afterward.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And what little still remained to white people was shriveled like a seed hoarded too long, shrunken past its time, and split open now, to expose a fragile, pale leaf stem, perfectly formed and dead. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It emerged a split part of a second later. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell the grapes to keep still, my head is about to split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She reads something, whispering with a grin spread across her face, and the hyenas split into an uproarious screaming fit of laughter. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And while she sprinkles the collar of a white shirt her mind is at the bottom of the bed where the leg, broken clean away from the frame, is too split to nail back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me a cloth to press to my bloody nose and split lip. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But I think before we split up the money, we should buy you a good half-harp out of this,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Take the housefly. If it hadn’t developed all those split- second reflexes it would have become extinct long ago.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When a girl grabbed for it, I decided to put it in my book bag, but it got squashed on the school bus and one of the glass leaves split in half.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We have to decide in a split second whether or not he’ll walk me across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hanako had to use a knife to split each almond on the seam. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We worked it for a week and after the money was split four ways, I had fifty dollars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A split second later, the gang kids ran past outside. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they entered the toy store, the family split up, cruising the aisles with their own shopping carts. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Driven by instinct and fright, Yossel and I ran, splitting off in different directions, barely escaping the shots. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They came to a gully that split the narrow foreshore like a defense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Half the couples, I was told, split up at some point in the fifteen years after their discussion was filmed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The jamb was splitting on the inside and it finally gave way and he pushed it open and stepped down the companionway into the cabin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hands the pajamas to Dad and then does a split on the floor by my workstation. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The stopper would shudder back and forth so fast it looked like it was splitting into two separate coils. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He pulls the door shut and splits his book open with his thumb. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They forced all eight of the passengers from the vehicles and ordered them to sit on the curb of the traffic island that split Alameda. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His uncle Finn had suggested they split up in Joplin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its wood carves well and will not split or crack. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They screamed for more and I obliged, squiggling my feet and slip-sliding across the wooden floor, jumping into the air and landing in a near split by the blackboard, shouting “Eeeee-yowwww!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled us all apart, and for a split second it seemed like Guzzo and Tooms were going to go at it again, but Coach got each of them by the collars of their shirts. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

With a hard kick, she split a coconut, dabbing the sweet juice behind her ears and squeezing it between her wrists like perfume. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Con’s stomach reeled as he watched the wolves tear into the packhorse; they had split into two mobs, one surrounding the horse, the other surrounding Pol. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders dropped from his ears, and a smile split his face. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Why did you tell me you and Dad split up because he cheated?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, rewriting a sentence to avoid a “split” makes it ridiculous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One ball split the paper window and struck against the hearth with a hard, shattering crack. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful, beautiful boys who dotted the landscape like jewels, split the air with their shouts in the Held, and thickened the river with their shining wet backs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And later, for a split second, leaving the gym. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And when he and Linda went to bed at night they clung together wordlessly, waiting for unseen fatal blows to split open their skulls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, others watched in terror as ice split and earth shook beneath their feet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Angela and I had split the list of female students at the Hollows. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“You are,” I said through my split lips. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Darrell jumps onto a chair and balances for a split second before the chair falls right over and he lands on his behind. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She winced as she wiped her split lip. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"Why can't I split the wood?" she asked, but no one listened. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Realizing I am not so different, I force myself to notice the pattern of moles on the human girl’s skin and the split ends of her blond hair and the roughness of her knees. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not only did they use counting boards, they used tally stlcks to record loans: a money value was written along the stick’s side, and it was split in two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her mouth split open, revealing small white teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Mark dragged him back to the door, he heard a horrifying sound coming from the floors above: the sudden crack of splitting wood. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Training with Hatchet’s other boys—the splitting of skin over knuckles, the heft of a sword—until he was the only one left. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had split our class into two teams, Shirts and Skins. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The man dared not move a step to his right lest this crushing blade split him open. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A split second later, he is on the bed, plunging his knife into Seward’s neck and shoulders. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian Being, undefined and indefinable, finding itself alone, fearing death, yearning for company, began to swell in size, rearranged itself inside, and then split into two identical halves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what matters is us; Hana is being ridiculous if she thinks that me and my friends are going to split up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It had deep-blue feathers along its back all the way down to its tail, which seemed to split in two like a snake’s tongue. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The ladybug’s shell split, turning into wings as the house came unmoored; neck straining, Grover was dragging it behind him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinnertime the boys split up, and Palmer returned home alone. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a split personality when he puts on that helmet.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to his nose, he let out a sharp hiss, but he didn’t try to twist away until I brushed his swollen split lip. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Our tire man, too, deserted us, leaving us to clean our costumes and hold our split seams together as best we might. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If I win, I’m going to split the prize money with you guys, regardless of whether you help me or not. So helping me is probably in your best interest.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I forget that I’m sharing my sleeping space with a dog. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She turned in time to see Oomen’s ugly face split in a determined grimace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A mighty roar from the shore splits the night as a dozen men burst from the darkness. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They read books about other kids whose parents had split up, and talked about them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He thought of Druzmilla’s children and the wonderful parties they had as each child split open their first skin. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When she splits the book open, I watch her flip through sketches of cartoonish women, all dressed like futuristic gangsters and armed with some kind of weapon or another. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tiwanaku split into flinders that would not be united for another four centuries, when the Inka swept them up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said, “OK then, we’ll split them up, you and you”—she pointed at Bugs and the other kid—“can do half, and me and this boy can do the others. What’s your name?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Where should I start? Poet, philosopher, fisherman. My pop calls me a bum, but that’s elitist, don’t you think? I can split wood, spread mulch, pour beer and grow perfect tomatoes.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Dauntless is split in half,” Edward says, talking around the food in his mouth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"When you split the firewood," Arya remembered, "where did you leave the axe?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm going to split one. But I'll save the cheese for tomorrow," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“See, I have this friend. And he was scalping tickets. We bought twelve tickets for your concert. I paid for the tickets, and he sold them, and we split the profit.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But now there were more and more “free” workers—those who had moved off the estates and lived in their own houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their own businesses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Tommy came home that year for Thanksgiving break, his father told him they were splitting up and the reason. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A dozen men were splitting logs to feed the blaze when Asha came limping up with her keepers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“OK” We split off from the Costellos and moved into the gymnasium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman suggested we split them among us for souvenirs, but Quentin wouldn’t hear of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘You’ve twenty days to practice in. Logs in back yard need splitting.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Roman returning it to the Greeks...that could heal the historic rift, maybe even heal the gods of their split personalities.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I picked at some flea-bite scabs on my calves, which were split and caked with dried mud and hardened blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d split the log by driving steel wedges into the wood. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want us to split up and systematically search every place he might go. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, skilled labor has gone from being heavily Democratic to almost evenly split. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was ba­nana split in the wrong sense of the term: the sea dispersed them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a sharp squeak, the wheels whipped about to face the crate, into which Kate, a split second before, had drawn the spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess that’s how my parents felt before they split up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My stomach hurt and my head was splitting in two, but I put on my robe and let her in. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was Rutherford who had assigned Cockcroft the task of splitting the atom and personally paired him with Walton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in fifteen days, JB looks at me for a split second, and I almost see the hint of a smile. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The guy nods, smiles, jumps up, and lands in a split. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

For example, split the atom and you get neutrons and electrons and protons. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to decide in a split second whether or not to let Warren know how sheltered I am. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Baba isn’t that concerned about how the tent is split up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, the boys grabbed the pot and plopped it deep into one of the big kettles of soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, take a sip. It’s split pea soup. It’s your favorite.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We split all the profits, fifty-fifty. He was there with me for every sale.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I trembled in front of him, split down the middle by fury and shame, hate and love, understanding and darkness, a frantic tide pulled by a wild moon. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the morning he awakened on a split second and lay waiting for reveille. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That people back in the day actually decided the split should be right here. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She kept shuddering and splitting, making Leo dizzy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“All right, man, guess I can give it a try. But we split everything sixty-forty.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It had been cleanly split in two, from the branches down to the stem. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a split second, Birch had a hand around Massey’s throat, and I found myself joining him in pushing the inmate against the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in a split second he was gone also. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am in labor for seven hours, the agony so great in the last stretch that I wonder if it’s possible to split in half. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A few of his knuckles are split, and the blood looks fresh. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s a huge bedroom and you can split it into two, and we have beds on other sides. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The darkness rolled out as it had rolled in, leaving a splitting headache and sore muscles in its wake. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When the road splits and it’s me who should be heading right, I veer left and follow a strange boy down a dark road, the sky above us in a deep sleep. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The too-small primary schools and the split grades that meant Mexican kids were always and forever behind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The split spread out and down, his human skin peeling away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The split knuckles on Kino’s right hand burned when he saw who they were. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that they had plenty of trees to get rails for splitting. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chest splits open, and all my organs spill out onto the floor. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One chair gave way and the sound of splintering wood split the air in the rear of the church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Should we split up the list? I can make the beef stew and the cheesecake. Do you want to do the roasted vegetables and carrot cake?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We can’t have a fire tonight, Min. How about let’s split one of these waters before bed.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Only thumb and forefinger remained on the hand that held the reins; the other fingers had been sheared off catching a wildling's axe that would otherwise have split his skull. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Amerinds, he concluded, had split off from northeast Asian groups about fourteen thousand years ago, which fit well “with the widely held view that the first Americans were the Clovis-culture big-game-hunting paleo-Indians.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He caught air before slamming to the ground, only to find that his pants had split up the middle and his superhero briefs were on blast. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not only that, the measurements by Bonatto and Bolzano suggested that soon after the migrants arrived in Beringia they split in two. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Her parents are splitting up. They’d been trying to reconcile, but her dad left for good the other day, she’s pretty sure. She wanted some advice.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Not really the person, of course. You’re sponsoring him, and if he does well you split the purse.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The glittering girls, the ones with split tongues and pinchy fingers, whispered. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Another row showcased iron cuffs so thick that no saw could bite them, and cuffs so thin that only the thought of punishment prevented their wearer from splitting them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As harsh as his feelings were, however, Teller’s split with Ernest would not last long. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To think, to think, even with a split second left—to think was the only hope. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember!” she said, trying to smile, for the splitting headache had already begun. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In places it broadened into wide areas like small lakes; and at others it split into narrow channels, only to combine again unpredictably. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As she applied the compress to her swollen, split lip, she scolded me for not scraping candle wax that had dripped on the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You listen to me, Isaiah Thornton. I hate that we have to split our child in half like the continental divide.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I whiled away many a pleasant hour gnawing at a flipper joint or split­ting open bones and licking out their marrow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had just split the seam so it wasn’t any big deal. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

With the infinitive left split—The board voted to immediately approve the casino—it can only be the approval. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We usually split a pastry and order iced coffees. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now Em belonged to the school’s Banana Splits Book Club, for kids whose parents had split up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He could find no flaw: we will go up the center and split them in two, on the defense no longer, attacking at last, Pickett and Hood and McLaws. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the meal finally comes and he and William split the check. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A split second after we heard the thunderous boom, my perspective shifted, and I found myself looking at our three avatars, standing there frozen in front of the open gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of our choreography, we split into two groups to make a path for our emcee to walk down and grace the audience with her beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“If you took me with you, you wouldn’t have to split.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm smiling so hard, it feels like my face might split. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It felt like my fingers suddenly swelled to three times their size, like cooked sausages splitting their skin, as I tried to flip through them all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We work hard together, Captain Smith always working the hardest, with some felling trees, some splitting wood for clapboard, some cutting reeds for thatch. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Yellow eyes peered from between the ragged split strands, and a hiss spilled from a mouth full of fangs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And I also told her that I hit you until your eyes popped out and your head split open.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try me this morning, man. You say one more word, and I’ll split you open!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pale face split in a malevolent grin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

You can play straight, so that your number has to come up exact, or you can split your bet six ways to cover the mixes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the tank collapsed, the molasses inside seemed to hover in the air for a split second—a massive roiling cloud. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

A split second before they collided, the Special seemed to disappear, slipping out of sight like a coin in a magician’s hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had to split his attention three ways: behind him to avoid the man, ahead to see where he was going, and on the furious dæmon tormenting his hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s perfectly natural to split the parts of a verb like have gone by putting an adverb between them: The goombahs have finally gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughs so hard, one of the whiteheads on his cheek splits and begins to bleed, but no one tells him. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The three who got away would split up and hide. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the look in Junito’s eyes is different. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I see her totally differently than I usually do. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers walked to the woodpile, picked up a split log, carried it to the fire, and tossed it on the flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have tried different ways of dividing the bills, at one point splitting the $1,475 rent and sharing the utilities, at another point, one paying the rent and the other the utilities. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He was always joking about calling the tips number in the newspaper, and the five of us splitting the reward money. Picking up the telephone. Pretending to dial.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since to isn’t really part of the infinitive, there’s nothing to split. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said, the thought only lasted a split second. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We split up close to the road and scrambled into position. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The ground at his feet split open and skeletons crawled forth—dead Romans with missing hands and caved-in skulls, cracked ribs, and jaws unhinged. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her words cracked as her voice, always so under control, split and fractured like ice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We took turns, splitting into groups, Hunting and Homestead, switching off every three months. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The reaction would begin—speeding neutrons would hit uranium atoms, which would split, re- leasing energy and more neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second explosion seems to split the air and leaves my ears ringing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I sure don’t want to believe Hana was right when she said the United Nations might split up, but I can’t help worrying, and today worrying feels a whole lot like being mad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As she walked around the trees, she saw that there was a split in the larger tree that widened to almost two feet across at its base. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gripped by a split second of fear, realizing the only thing supporting me was the water, I’d start paddling madly to get somewhere, anywhere that didn’t give me this strange feeling of falling-but-not-falling. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Three dollars and twenty cents split four—excuse me.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once this is said by the judge, in an official way, Dell makes a show by dropping to the floor like he's doing a split. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As Copperud wrote, “Shall, then, seems well on the way to extinction, much like the hapless Scot.” split infinitives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was the speechless astonishment of seeing a hog stabbed through the heart, dipped into boiling water, scraped, split open, gutted, and strung up gaping and bloody. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left some malaria pills on Peewee’s bunk and split. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that split second, they decided he was dangerous. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Cider turned to ice and split the jugs, forcing the men to drink their cane liquor too soon. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

TTie wood was hard and he didn’t want to cause it to split so he took his time, took small chips and concentrated so hard that at first he didn’t hear it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days the atom had not been split and few of the chemicals that were to duplicate radiation had as yet been conceived in the test tubes of chemists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Listen everyone,” Magdalys said, reaching the mass of kids, “we’ve got to split up. I’m going to take all the youngest ones.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The screen was split between Isaac’s point of view on the left, and Augustus’s on the right. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Turning and looking down from this camp one sees the glacier-flow split, divided, torn and churned by the black steaming peaks that thwart it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My head felt like it was splitting open. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks a million,” she said grasping my hand for a split second, and was gone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They split into two groups, one heading for the police station to free the cook, the other heading for the hospital to finish off Tayama, who had been concealed under a hospital bed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small hallway leading to the kitchen splits Ma and Pa’s bedroom from the room my three sisters and I share. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their right, the Phlegethon split into branches that etched the plain, widening into a delta of smoke and fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Miles of little split levels and stretches of mall-lined highways surrounded the place. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was pushing at the top end of it, and in a moment the threads there split apart and a dark furry knob emerged. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cry so hard it feels like I’m being split in half. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A squadron could be split into flights of three aircraft for smaller missions, too. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As though this was just what Anatsou had hoped to hear, his face split into a wicked grin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For what seemed to be a lifetime, but was really a split second, I could only hear the soft sound of the breeze blowing through the palm trees. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a split second, one took on the icy visage of Boreas. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“They go on a hiking trip, split up, and a bear kills somebody.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not in the first tomato off the vine, split open and salted lightly, which her grandmother put before her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looper found a can of pineapple. I was going to split it with him, but I’ll give you a bite if you promise not to tell.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of his pursuer went on relentlessly, only now with the bone-shuddering addition of cracking and splitting rock joined in. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We split up, which was always wise to do. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, it felt as if she could make the turnoff, climb in through her window, and go to bed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Barbarossa couldn’t hide his surprise. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning splits the sky, illuminating the battlefield for a tantalizing moment. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a banana split dish rowing with a spoon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Nobody else wants us, and if we leave, they’ll split me and Toby up.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Marina Gamba decided to remain in Padua, where she had lived all her life, and the couple split, it seems amicably. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first step in the “digestion” of corn is to split the kernel into its different parts: • The yellow skin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dave: “I told you, it happened out of my line of sight, just past the corner where the hallway splits.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow split a poor waboose, rabbit, and opened its skinny body to show that the creature was mush inside, a bloody pudding as the result of disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, days later, when the clouds disappeared and the sun emerged, the lake began to split into hundreds of small puddles throughout the labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

All polynomials of degree n—those that have a leading term of xn—split into n distinct terms. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If ye press on with it, ye will but split the clan. I have told ye plain that none of us will help ye. Ye will be left to yer ain stour.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down in wonder at his split knuckles and at the blood that flowed down between his fingers. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, Mabel and I split up our science assignment on the 31, hopped off around the corner from Trouble Coffee, and went in to celebrate our excellent time management with two cappuccinos. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I jammed my finger into an open pocket in the seam, wiggled it until the tape split, and the flowery paper fell away like a snake shedding its skin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat of Archer’s hand on her elbow and tried to focus on that instead of the dizziness, instead of the breaking and splitting inside her head. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even if he decided to split her unit up, she couldn’t stop him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I did so, and the sandwich split roughly in two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was many other places, too, but most of her focus was split between her father and the dreamer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For a few days I lay flat on my back, hardly able to blink without feeling like my forehead was splitting open, and everything sick and black. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I go to find Captain Smith where he is helping John Laydon to split clapboard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The legionnaires split, four taking hold of me and the other four grabbing Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I can change. Want to see me do the split?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once, Harry’s scar felt as though it had split open again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s sweet. See, it’s customary to buy a drink for yourself and one for me. We could just split a bottle of champagne.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“My mother will split the Collective into a million pieces.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It split the darkness and he heard the dull plunk as a stone, not a star at all, hit the wall of the building near the window. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were first designated as one giant state bedroom for visits from the Marquis de Lafayette in the Monroe administration, but eventually they were split. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The collection of centennial quarters Toby’s mom had given him before she split. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tyrion wiped the blood from his split lip with the back of his hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I watch Mrs. Rylance cross her legs and pat Jordan on the knee, and he’s smiling so hard I think he actually splits a corner of his mouth open. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Hooper’s hands scrabbled about in the parcel, splitting open a paper bag. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In that split second, stuff is decided, a vow is made. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Since Rollie and Lillie are twice as big as the other two dogs, Nora and I decided to split them up and each walk one bigger dog and one smaller dog. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It's Mr. Bierman, bleeding from the nose, his right eye split and swollen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But my neighborhood is not flooding or splitting in half. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It split at our feet, and shards of brown glass dappled our legs before we could jump back. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly Abby’s talking like we’re the kind of friends who go to parties and take selfies and split French fries at midnight. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Outside had been warmth and chaos and color, but here was the crisp sharpness of a newly split block of ice. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The feeble attempt at magic was too much for Harry’s wand, which split into two again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z