Start with a silverback gorilla, remove the fur, add scales, and stick an extra pair of arms in the wrong places. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His characters escape from Cuba on rafts of sticks and tires, refuse to harvest grapefruit, dream of singing in a rock and roll band in California. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all the women were wearing aprons, and the strings, which were tied tight around their waists, made their bulging stomachs stick out even more. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Pete herded him out to train every day and rode his bicycle behind him, whacking him with a stick. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take it away in some random direction and stick it on a migrating bird. See how the Specials like South America.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Excellent little filly, that girl! D’you know, she can produce more tuck in the twinklin’ of an eye than you could shake a stick at. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The idea is you have the valve open and stick the wide end over a hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was biting a stick like it was a chew toy. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Not until the slice of sticks on his skin that he realizes he’s lost his way. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I chopped onions with a stick in my teeth and didn’t even cry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There actually are a bunch of little sticks on the sidewalk across the street, and one green feather. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a lady with a bunch of plastic flamingos sticking out of a shopping cart. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was an image of a man in a kayak, looking over his shoulder at a large fin sticking out of the water behind him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A black garbage bag leans against the foot of the bunk bed with some clothes sticking out the top of it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In other places there were the dry sticks of some sort of climbing plant which had wound itself round the pillars and helped to pull some of them down. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We stick close to the walls as we approach, but the frenzy from the blackout compels the guards to rush from their posts to secure the Mess and the Hub. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I just had time to stick them in the drawer and close it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If rubbing two sticks together produces heat, then it is possible to imagine that heat may be a form of movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above all he loved to watch with wonder and admiration whenever Dustfinger took a few little sticks and lit a fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There, on the wall, I drew an eye with long lashes, followed by a heart and a stick figure, next to which I wrote Matt Johnson and dated it: 10/29/1997. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had no weapon, not even a stick or a stone. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

We’ll be sure to hold our teacups with our little fingers sticking out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I probably deliver to Fred’s three nights a week, and two of those nights, Tammy Wynette is playing, and no matter how much good music I play afterward, the song sticks in my head. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We each peeled a stick and solemnly chewed it; it was Beeman’s peppermint, and nothing so delicious has been made since. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a sketch of a long box with a woman’s head and feet sticking out of either end. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“All I know,” I say, “is that you stick the hose into a gas tank and you suck on it.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Later she would explain that the boys had been taunting her, sticking their feet in the aisle to trip her, kicking her, and calling her names. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped on the book with her stick. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about that stick of an elf,” she would have said. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Sorrento has tried everything but genuflecting, doing a little dance, and sticking his pinky finger in the keyhole.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His hair sticks up on one side from where he slept on it, and his eyes are bloodshot. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why must it be done without his knowledge?” she asked, settling her hands upon her stick, that she might regard me the more attentively. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up and saw my bike on the ground, a freshly snapped gumbo-limbo branch sticking out of the front spokes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She looked at Valley and Thorn at her sides and knew she’d never be alone; even if one day they lost one another, the friends you make always stick around somehow. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That morning, we had scrambled eggs spiced with pine bark, which came from the sticks we used to stir them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Inside are tidy piles of hummus, carrot sticks, and edamame beans. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She unloaded him a stick at a time. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many tiny beetles with something sticking out at their backs, as if they had forgotten to tuck in their wings properly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Guitar’s two sisters and baby brother sucked away at the bone-white and blood-red stick, but Guitar couldn’t. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a cousin who lived in Englewood, plenty of money there but gaudy rich, lots of lawn statuary, half the saints in the Gregorian calendar sticking out of the Ficus benjamina. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Ron asked, sticking his head through the branches. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Soon all the childrens are gathered round, and when Vinny realizes he has an audience, he goes faster and faster with the wooden sticks, what you call them? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

My head sticks out the end of the iron lung. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They found some rotten sticks and carried them back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatchet sticks in the frozen turkey flesh. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s moving target was not an Me-109 or a pheasant but an empty tin on a stick, waved about by a very brave soul at the other end of the garden. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I don't know this man, and I have to question the sanity of anyone who thinks sticking a needle in my neck is a good idea. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Such works decorated the house, and I was often scolded for accidentally throwing away Robert's Styrofoam cup or Douglas's very special paint stick. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I go to the window and stick my head out. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know yet. They’re running out of places to stick me.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My hands shook so hard I dropped my stick and my knees were so weak I could hardly walk. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop panting and look up long enough to see Charlie sticking his head out of the pisa y corre, screaming at the top of his lungs for me to hurry. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He ate a stick of cheese and a couple of crackers, slugged a long drink of water, then laced his boots and climbed up to the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each of us faces the altar, holding a lit incense stick between palms in prayer. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the women have a Watchbird beside them, a red and black bird like a child’s drawing, with big eyes and stick feet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But before he could move, the foreman grabbed his shirt and lifted his stick high over Neel’s head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas groped for her stick, but suddenly the yellow dog had it in his teeth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He tapped Pong's leg with his walking stick. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to tell. It’s dark out here. It’s an old picture. And because of the cap and gown. You can’t see his ears. Sean’s ears stick out a little.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ugly old women, every one of them, but all that praying and scrubbing and beating novices with sticks had left them tough as roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Give the crate a good shaking, smack it with the stick once or twice, put them gloves on, open the lid far ’nough that you can reach in and grab the cat by his head. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Someone poked a stick into my ribs, hard, and hissed at me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason pulled himself up with his walking stick and hobbled towards the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then, we stick a candle in the sand of each bag, and when we light the candles, it turns the street into a “landing strip” for Santa Claus. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand was a walking stick strong enough to stave in a skull. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Without me, y’all would be chomping on carrot sticks all day.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I fold the note in half and stick it between the stem and the white cotton-looking plant they stuck in with the rose. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very few had sticks with something written on them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How hard could it be? You just stick your fingers in the three holes and throw the ball at the pins.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Shifting the light, Rashid looked at the girl again and spotted a small yellow bag sticking out from under one of her legs and slid it out. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If I throw a stick up in the air, it always falls down. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, you do. Now why don't you take up that stick, and we'll start over. High ward." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But part of what makes his personality work is his ability to stick around, to be there day in and day out for people. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Both her hands were cupped over the gold knob of the stick that she always used when walking, and she was staring at me with eyes as bright as two stars. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if I put my beard on the table? It’s kinda hot in here and it’s sticking my face.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my teeth stick to my lip and my whole mouth quivers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Was she planning on using one of those cue sticks against him? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You have to have a lot of metal things for that," he said, "and we haven't got no metal. But we got a stick." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So they came: friends, neighbours, bringing sugar cane and frosted sugar and sticks of striped candy for the new baby. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems like she’s pretty smart. You might want to stick with this lady,” I say, elbowing him. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to make do with a sharp stick,” she sighed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first step was to stick the scraps of paper down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chet mentally crafted a series of clever texts as he walked through the woods with his stick and pillowcase. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The dried blood,” she said, sticking her finger in the glass and tasting it again. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Their backpacks were maybe 100 feet away, uphill from them. Their faces and torsos were covered with snow; only their hands and feet were sticking out. The wind was just screaming across the Col.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean the sticks and chains and clubs and so forth.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down south, there was always someplace else to go you could step out into the rain and Grandma would let you lift your head and stick out your tongue be happy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

At this there was a quick whirr and a smack and the Wart found an arrow sticking in the tree between the fingers of his right hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the big stick out of my backpack—a bedpost I’d broken off Crusty’s Safari Deluxe floor model. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They’re made of bamboo, or fake bamboo, and between each stick are varying amounts of space. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He carried one small willow stick in his hand. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was someone to learn from, to stick close to. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They hit you with the sticks on the shoulders, the back, the legs, and, especially, the hands. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a stick and pounded the creature even as it rose to attack again, banging it until its body was mush with the tail twitching feebly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s me, sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls were taking turns with the pumice stone, scraping it along the ends of sticks to make spears. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He turned to open the refrigerator door, and that’s when Genie noticed something was sticking up from the back of his pants like a short tail. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even when my younger brothers chivvied them with sticks out of boredom, they wouldn’t bother to raise their heads. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He thought about the stick wrapped inside his coat pocket, and what it meant that Juno had appeared at camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rose stood up from where she was playing tic-tac-toe with RiRi in a crust of snow with a couple of sticks, but I went over to the Elders first. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"You don't care to have somebody stick to the point when he tells you something?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mom thought I was just trying to get out of housework, but then I stopped playing field hockey because bending over the stick became impossible. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His bare legs were dusty and red with welts from where one of the monkeys struck him repeatedly with the stick he had given to it earlier. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He threw the stick, but it felt like a lie. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I was sent to prison, he was serving time for trying to stick up a dining car steward on a train between New York and Philadelphia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most evenings, the younger kids in the house will gather in the kitchen to study Chinese, and a tutor uses the bamboo stick to point out characters on the blackboard. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps at first he merely reinforced the outlines of such images with a charred stick from the fire, so that others, too, could see what he had found. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once we cross la frontera, we’ll make a good living in California,” he would say, standing up straight and sticking out his chest. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alec used the stick to poke a spot—-just above the ground where the others had passed—of leaves clumped together. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He carried the beautiful white shell beads on the end of a stick because he suspected where they came from; he left them hanging in the branches of a piiion tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Mapper would stick by them; all three were probably ducking between people’s legs toward the exit. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That was the best part of my day right there, sticking my head out the window like a dog. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kite hadn’t flown—he’d been six years old, and really it wasn’t anything more than a picture of a dragon taped to some Popsicle sticks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He loves to corner the rats and then we smash them to bits with rocks or sticks or stab them with the hay fork in the stable. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” he said, sticking it back in his pocket. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

While they try to stick it back on the wall, the principal orders us to our homerooms. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He kept the gambling sticks all stacked up ready for them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other people latched on to his idea—one woman who lived on Dedlock Street, very near the edge of the city, managed to get into the Unknown Regions with her flaming stick. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she’s walking now, over sticks and clumps of soil, following Dr. Martin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, stick them on each side of the head using double-sided tape. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“If you can’t stick it out, I might have to figure out a way to go to juvie with you. And that would suck for both of us.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We need something we can use to turn these sticks into spears.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Even from where we walked I could see that near the top of the hill the trees were just charred sticks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw one on the shelf just above my head with fat white legs sticking from beneath her starched pink dress. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Taking a large stick, the head baboon went up to the sleeping lion and hit him firmly on the nose. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He ate one-handed, the other clutching a sharpened stick lest anyone try to wrest away his prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stick my face into the stream and drink icy water that’s better than the lemonade in any fish and chip shop. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some guy started swinging a stick that came from one of the art classes at school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d like to tell you that at that point I suddenly remembered a time when Gabriel came bouncing through the house on a stick horse, but that wouldn’t be true. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Will all of you please wave your sticks and stones again?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine had gone completely stiff, and lay in Bronwyn’s hand with her eyes closed and legs sticking out rigidly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“But the way they make it through the world is by sticking together. That’s why they stay flocking on the building edges in those big clusters.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to stick you with a needle now. There might be a little ouchie.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Your dad wants you to drive. All you have to do is learn how to drive a stick." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She unwraps a Blow Pop and sticks it in her mouth. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I know I can count on you to stick around." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I stood there in my half muddy, flip-flopped feet, with my hair sticking out from under my baseball cap, and clutched her right back. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But things didn’t have to be new all the time if we’d stick around long enough for something to happen more than once. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When it did, Eleanor felt like going to the bathroom and sticking a finger down her throat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She’d changed into a ratty Museum of Modern Art T-shirt and her regular marker-colored jeans, her blue plastic hairbrush sticking out of her pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Albert,” I say "we stick together; you see.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Them tables ain’t for the likes of us. You stick close to me till you learn your way around.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you are. I’d like you to try to stick around for the next forty-five minutes. You don’t have to talk, but you have to stay. Deal?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bailey asks, melting flakes of snow sticking to his coat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“A stew? Or maybe it’s a special offering for us. Stir it, man, before it sticks to the pot.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The pens skewered his eyeballs so deep that only an inch was left sticking out of his drippy sockets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One morning I was digging alongside my sister when my stick struck something soft buried deep in the debris. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” Ignatius said calmly and paused to chew on the tip of the hot dog that was sticking from his mouth like a cigar butt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he won’t stop till the soles and heels are covered with squares of rubber tire which stick out on each side of the shoe and flop before and behind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I knew where they was going now, didn't I? Didn't he say Lord Bertulf's? So what reason on God's green earf could you give for me for sticking around after hearing there's a dragon about?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We didn’t stick around to play knock, knock with her, though. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It rolls under a plank and onto a miniature diving board that plunks down and hits another marble that is supposed to jump a stick, only it doesn’t. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age,” Bull declared, “they couldn’t keep me away from the girls with a stick.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he doesn’t stick out in my mind. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay jammed the stick down into the mud next to my heel. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“There aren’t many of us,” he said, “so we have to stick together. When I found Hazel—” “You have other sisters?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

With a stick he pushed a clay ball from the embers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they took him home he was stiff and arched and his tongue was sticking out between his teeth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a stick from next to the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After all, doctors had been drawing blood for centuries for diagnostic testing, and aside from the pain of a needle stick, there seemed to be no risk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Z was ambling along, poking a stick at various stones. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took it off and let Jackie stick the cannula in her nose and breathe. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I put my hand through the grass, I would feel a forger sticking out of the dirt—or a hand. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She found a big branch and snapped off a stick covered with leaves. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I took three big sticks and a brick and figured this was enough. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My clothes are sticking to my skin, but I’ll get eaten alive by bugs if I take off my shirt. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They didn’t show you anything of the man’s body, only his legs and feet and the white stick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I clutched the stick, crying, trying to reason. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz pulled on a clean pair of gloves, snapped up his walking stick, and headed out the door. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour stopped too, leaned on his stick, and stared at Harry, his expression shrewd now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The man reached down into the canoe and pulled up a handful of long, slender hazel sticks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It does not twirl incense sticks or throw shoes and dishes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angel sings, sticking out her tongue and crossing her eyes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They are clannish and they stick together, speaking a specialized language. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the child to the Japanese Gardens, where she bought her caramel on a stick and a bag of popcorn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to stick with the complete sentences, here,” she said, waving the essay at me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The reporters were sticking microphones in her face. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But that reputation sticks to you like another layer of skin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sam pushes the stick shift into gear, and the vehicle lurches forward, weed killer sloshing in the giant tanks behind us. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My father’s feet stick out from underneath his Camry like the Wicked Witch. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old man sticks his right hand up at me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Ruby! I caught you a whole box of fish sticks. How’s that?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Emile, stick with me. All the way. And you can’t go wrong. We need men like you.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's too much talking out of turn," Ralph said, "because we can't have proper assemblies if you don't stick to the rules." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around, wide- eyed and startled, and dropped his stick in the grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He swung the stick—whap!— and a mango fell into the hands reaching up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall, with broad shoulders, and hair cropped so close to his head it made his giant ears stick out even more. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’m just standing here, putting gel on my edges, but who wants their older brother sticking his nose in the bathroom while they’re getting ready? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I said, casually sliding a stick of gum out of the pack and offering it to Faith, real gentlemanlike. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

With a match, Tanin heated a stick of wax until molten pearls began to drop one by one onto the paper, creating an inky black pool. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He started walking, using his pitchfork as a walking stick. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sass ran after the dog with a stick, landing several blows. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Picking up a flashlight and one of the sturdy sundari sticks from the pile in the corner, he left the hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is also important to select an area of burglary and stick to that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been laughing, but those swinging sticks had made Pax uneasy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ash flew around us like snow, collecting on our hair and sticking to our wet clothes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She got rid of the cactus—put it by the door—and picked up a small stick. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Let's stick to the discussion. I'm intrigued. You were saying?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “That’s right, ma’am, Five Forty-one is just waiting for the executioner to get home. Would you like to stick around and write down his last words?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We got a lot of sticks. We could have a sundial each. Then we should know what the time was." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I poke it with a stick, turning it over, and see the maggots. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many things you could do with a stick. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

Big Ma said, “Strong is sticking around. Raising ’em. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stick off the ground and didn’t look at her. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Half the pleasure was sticking your arm in up to the shirtsleeve and fishing in the ice water for the bottle. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of folks with unfinished business that think sticking around is going to help them fix it,” Aunt Rose said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“These Reds’ll do anything and they stick together. Sure; he’s got an alibi. Why shouldn’t he have one? He’s got enough pals working for ’im. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quincy stayed curled up tight, that one foot sticking out. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We had decided to press on, following the shoe poet and his ambitious walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He turned and almost screamed out loud—a beetle blade was only a few inches from him, its spindly legs poking through the ivy and somehow sticking to the stone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would be proudly bearing my stick, which I had left by a tree when I had stopped to tie my laces or adjust my pack. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I play with my color sticks and pretend I do not see her thinking about eating me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

At night, she fell asleep on top of her books and woke up with the pages sticking to her cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You two rest now! Go on or I’ll take a stick to you!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Stick and run, don't slug with him, stick and run, jab and move." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stick, broke it in half and tossed both pieces to the ground. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Almost straight ahead of him, he could see what looked like a fist, with its thumb sticking up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She looked forward to the task— they would take turns pounding the vegetable into a wooden bowl with a stick almost as tall as Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tomb is a great big marble building that’s set in the side of a hill so only the fancy front sticks out. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Got me a stick back up on the hill,” I tell her. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had meant to cover my legs if anybody came in, but now I saw it was too late, so I let them stick out, just as they were, disgusting and ugly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Strange how hard it is, for it’s an easy name to call another man; a name that sticks, that fits, that convinces. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stick my phone into its charger and then wiggle it around for a minute to trick it into actually charging. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be trouble now,’’ one muttered, as he dragged the remains out from a half-opening while others held the survivors off with pointed sticks. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And then I get this idea, and I stick my fist high up in the sky. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But by then the pullers had done so much damage that a splinter of bone was sticking out through the skin of the forearm. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken house is made out of sticks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma allowed my sister to stick to her like glue because she knew Adria needed that security. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their heads looked small sticking out of their extravagant fur collars, but their mouths were wide open. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tiara’s ’do was short and spiky with a longer strip sticking up in the middle, warrior-style. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mami slips something inside my butt that feels like a stick of butter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just stick by me and I’ll make sure that you be all right.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long row of little red points was sticking up out of the ground, with curly folded-up leaves. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She stick her head in and her mouth make the shape of a Cheerio. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Sho, and they raised the devil about the youth members going into the subways and sticking 'em up in place of them constipation ads and things—but do you know what they doing now?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were standing over them cooking hot dogs on sticks and what looked like skinned possum or some other source of protein not usually found in butcher shops. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers stand behind the new group of prisoners, casually smoking a cigarette with one hand, while the other holds onto a big hammer with clumps of hair sticking to its head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moore sticks her head in and says, “Vanessa, your escort is here.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sticks out his hand for a shake. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some news reporters are there, but every time they try to stick a microphone in someone’s face, the person just waves them away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wants to ask the red-faced peddler, with his fingers sticking through the brown cotton gloves, if he can hold the tumbling bear for a minute, but he is afraid. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama shushed them up and told me to go get the forked stick from under the clothesline. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tim may have his face in his phone most the time, but when he does actually talk—well, it’s the kind of thing that makes a girl like El stick around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I felt a prodding at my back as if someone were pushing two sticks against it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men stood pawing through the dynamite— twenty-four sticks of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If she made her daughter stick to the natural, overgrown eyebrow look, then family members would whisper about it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Iorek ate his meat raw, of course, but he spitted its joint on a sharp stick and laid it to roast across the fire for the two of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I really admire all of you for sticking with this,” Ms. McCrea said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

An elderly Haitian came over and offered her his walking stick. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sifen pushed himself up with his stick to follow her gaze. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But this stick was intricately decorated, and from the shavings on the table she could tell that the boy had been working on it. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knife is sticking out of his chest. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lifted out the button with a wooden stick and soaked the button in plastic resin to preserve it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reach low with their sticks and reload. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Poet walked around the barn, tapping the bottoms of people’s feet with his walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were all hard angles and harsh tones, and he soon felt his tongue stick to the roof of his mouth, everything dry once more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the yellow legs sticking out of the unfamiliar white silk pajamas they had dressed me in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I belted the oxen across their rumps with my stick. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unwrap a piece of Doublemint and stick it in my mouth. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A stick snapped and he stifled a cough. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I get up to find a stick but almost immediately come across the arrow that bounced off Cato's body armor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At Dudley’s filth birthday party, Aunt Marge had whacked Harry around the shins with her walking stick to stop him from beating Dudley at musical statues. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The seed started sticking its head out further and further. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a meaty stick when he cut it up and cooked it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sticks, handle out, from a large hunk of cheese they positioned on top of the dresser. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the mouth came closer, my eyes went straight to the huge, serrated teeth, gnarly and sticking out at different angles. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The wind starts up slightly, and a big green leaf sticks to the sweat on my leg. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We’re going farther out in the sticks than that,” she said, grunting. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the two workers were kind enough to stick around and make sure we all ate and that we needed to return the kindness. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

His arms looked like bleached leather pulled over sticks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Panthers opened the doors and we trailed inside, the three of us sticking close together. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was sitting in the driver’s seat, making engine noises in his throat and pretending to work a phantom stick shift. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ellis could have pulled out her hockey stick and invited Dee into the backyard to hit the ball around a little. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She hadn't gone hungry much since she learned to knock down birds with her stick sword, but she feared so much pigeon was making her sick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If I'm going to swing a stick of wood to thwack a round object, I'd rather it be the flatter rectangle of a cricket bat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There,” said Mr. Curtain, holding up the journal, with the ends of ribbons sticking out here and there. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, girls, we don’t need to stick around here. The witch baby might turn us into frogs or something.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mama came running to stick her head through the door and say, “What on earth, Travis?” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting in his armchair wearing his favorite red sweater, and his short white hair sticks up on the top of his head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone assumes Twig is a funny nickname because she’s long and skinny and her ash-blond hair sticks out everywhere, but it’s actually short for Twiggy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But organic, quite warty actually, and with sprigs of black hair sticking out of his ears. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, in desperation, he fashioned a makeshift net, looping the strands of Gabriel’s blanket around a curved stick. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him a stick and he dropped the whole thing in the pan. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And one day they told her to stick with Ob. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in front of the mirror and stick a furry mustache on my upper lip. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I poked a stick in the hole at the base of the rock trying to provoke him. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would light those burners with a long fire stick. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looks down at the wet field, he thinks the grass looks like ugly hair sticking up from a bloody head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My bones were hollow sticks; my brainpan empty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet hair sticking to my face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I want you to know if you admit Jesse, I will stick with him,” I said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wants me to stick with it too. But she has other friends in the class. It’s not like we're partners or anything.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Very occasionally, Uncle Kufa threw a stick into the stream for one of his dogs to retrieve. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see his shirt, wet through, sticking to his back. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You girls put away them rocks and sticks before you get spanked. None of you knows what end of a sword to hold." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought I could cure diabetes by spreading suntan lotion on sticks of chewing gum. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a shotgun, so I grabbed a lacrosse stick that was leaning against the wall and ran from my room toward the noise. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The two of us lie under the one cow and we’re having a great time filling ourselves with milk when there’s a roar and there’s a man with a stick charging across the field. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote my name in the dirt with a stick and then scribbled it out. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The grocer, tall, skinny Mr. Waylan, with his Adam’s apple sticking out above his collar, his fish- belly blue-white skin and oversized fingernails, was the white man I saw most often. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second time, I performed much better, sticking all my landings and not wobbling or messing up on the beam. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A big boy sticks his face up to mine. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I scattered them with a stick and timidly touched them with my fingers: they were cold. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes at Hideo, swinging the stick at him with blinding speed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As he runs, three agents follow on the ground, pelting him with rocks and sticks, an experience many migrants say they have here. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Alys added the last of the raspberry leaves to her basket, straightened, took up her stick, and turned on the path. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the only thing that upset all this was his bill, which you looked at first because it seemed to stick out above the scenery—and it was upside down. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dogs of the village smelled or heard or sensed them coming, and began to howl frightfully; and the reindeer in their enclosure moved about nervously, their antlers clashing like dry sticks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The people let out a great sigh when they saw the snake arrive and immediately the young men pinned it to the ground with sticks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He set the bowl aside and reached for his sticks. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The slanting sticks of sunlight were lost among the branches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the feet were sticking out from the newspaper. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

His chilled wings beat the earth like a drummer’s stick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In Africa women stick together, and men generally go about their own business. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you won’t mind sticking your hand down in the flour bag with all those weevils and maggots in there.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people saw the rocket sticking out of the window, and shouts of encouragement rang out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sea Shirt rubs the red stick on some paper and the color stays there. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They gave her blue pollen and yellow pollen they gave her turquoise beads they gave her prayer sticks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All those endless letters, those sticks and circles and zigzags, filling up books and magazines, billboards and candy wrappers. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His mouth talks, but his eyes never stop hunting, looking for some hidden law of physics that could explain the missing head and hands that ought to be sticking out of my black turtleneck shirt. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged lay blind and dumb in fever like a stick in a slow fire, and there was no spell to cool what burned him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stick the thermometer under my arm at a slant, and flip it steadily with my forefinger. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine that half-burned stick in your pocket gets heavier every day.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your tongue sticks out of your mouth when you draw,” Lil said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jenny reached into her pocket and held up a little USB stick. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fuller pulled the stick away from the man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I told her I looked like I was wearing a big pillowcase with elephant trunks sticking out of the sides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One boy stood about six feet from the opening with a stick in his hand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

These reporters, who use cell phones and smuggle out sound and video recordings on tiny USB memory sticks, have revolutionized news coverage of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ground was so littered, with limbs and tree-tops sticking every which way, that it was hard to get through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy swallowed a scream and opened the pillowcase wider, nearly sticking her whole head inside. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The small stick flew into the air and then was batted as far as possible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He punctuated each word with a blow from his stick. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside, I threw sticks to Frightful and she caught them in her talons. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could cany a burning stick and build a signal and perhaps attract attention. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We trained with padded sticks so no one got hurt—purely ceremonial. It was all about pressure points and energy flow. I’ll show you, one of these days.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with moving the tongue out of the way or stabilizing it with a stick. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I carried a small stick and a small club. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Noah blasts into the studio like a lit stick of dynamite, then freezes as he scans the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her fingertips, numb from the damp, chilly air, weren’t able to twist the stick fast enough. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make one, you pound a stick in the ground and put a stone at the end of its shadow. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would buy a stick of incense and place it in the little temple to the Earth God. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Jane, your films were about sticking it to the man, snapping back at the patriarchy by showing strong female protagonists who didn’t conform to gender roles. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t see any option except to stick to the plan. Split up, infiltrate, find out why they’re here. If things go bad -’ ‘We use the backup plan,’ Piper said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She looked young, but her hair was frizzy white, sticking out on either side of her head like the white of a giant fried egg. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even though her feet were bare and the ground was covered with sticks and pine needles, she felt no pain, for this walk was leading her, perhaps, to that destiny that Afi kept speaking of. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a pin from the caisse and stick my finger. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t give up on me, even though I knew as much about being Jewish as I know about building a nuclear power station out of Popsicle sticks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He sticks a candle deep into each cupcake so that the wicks stick out where the flames would exit each space shuttle. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a big shape that’s partly covered by the same blue fabric except its feet and pedals are sticking out so I know it’s a piano. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are going home, Javier,” I try to recover, sticking to what I hope will be true. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And so for the first few months, four- year-old Gogol plays on an uneven, dirt-covered yard littered with stones and sticks, soiling his sneakers, leaving footprints in his path. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought, I was stupid, I could have bashed him with that stick, bashed and bashed his head in. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After sticking the note to the fridge, I go to bed, and Audrey comes with me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My voice sticks in my throat like the wrong key in a lock. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There, not five feet in front of me, was my sword, its gleaming bronze hilt sticking up in the mud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He held a stick of wood in one hand and the end of the stick was charred and smoking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she's not looking, I stick my tongue out at her. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting idly by some fire, sticking pins into a wax doll while miles away a drug-crazed draccus rolled in the flaming wreckage of some innocent family’s farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So the poor knight is to be left sticking in the hedge, is he?” asked Mr. Brooke, still watching the river, and playing with the wild rose in his buttonhole. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stick, with its jagged, sharp end, sank into his attacker s face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You tried to throw a scare into Slim, an’ you couldn’t make it stick. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew fierce and strong, and it pelted them with bits of sticks, sand, and little rocks. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an essay sticking out of one of the books. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’m terrible at sticking up for myself, but I can’t help but defend Dad. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

With a stick Ray Gusdorf drew a line in the dirt. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might have been ill, or he might have suffered a crippling blow, but the result was that he could not walk without leaning on two sticks, and he trembled constantly like an aspen leaf. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He carries a long stick, a pointer, and if you don’t pay attention or give a stupid answer he gives you three slaps on each hand or whacks you across the backs of your legs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The other two kids were all stick- ered up and waiting to go back to class. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

If the punt did pass under the bridge without sticking, it would do so by no more than a claw’s breadth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apa leans his arm on the car door, his elbow sticking out the window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Before Valentine’s Day we have to cut out hearts of red construction paper at school and decorate them with pieces of paper doily to stick on the tall thin windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked at the stick again but it was stuck real good and I only ended up with splinters in my hand. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His office is small and filled with books of all sorts—fat books, skinny books, old books with pages sticking out, new books still stuffed in bags. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, my hand shaking, I reached around the nameless boy for the bread sticking out of his pocket. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'd buy a stick of gum before you could tell the time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once, I stepped on something that at first looked like a small brown stick, but then the stick wriggled, squirmed, and slid away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two sticks, used as targets, would be driven firmly into the ground in an upright position about one hundred feet apart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the beach she dug butter clams with a pointed stick, raking an arc in front of her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he returns, he is carrying a long stick. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

A paperboy cap sat on his hair, which he’d gelled into a tall tower sticking straight up off his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One day after Zella had swept the floor to make it look neat and clean, she picked up a stick and drew a rug of flowers, deer, and butterflies in the earth. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we cut out into the clearing, a few feet from where Lincoln sat in his chair, still carving a stick into nothing more exciting than a sharp point. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I dug into it with a stick, raking the loosened earth with my hands into a low pile on the downhill side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

No matter how fast they moved, how fast they cut and swiveled, how fast the sticks popped back and forth, I slowed everything down and remained focused. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Olympic Fencing has a Post-it note sticking out. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He sticks the rolled dollar bill into one nostril and runs it over the line, sniffing deeply. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw him, Sam, he was going to stick his sword into Father. You have to go down, Sam, you have to.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know at some point we’ll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or be hunted, but for right now I’m planning to stick to our little beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit showered again in the morning, dried off, then ran a stick of deodorant three times under each armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was holding the burning stick high, making the shadows on his face long and severe, as if his head had been stretched; Jonathan saw him in a new way—powerful and evil. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some walk around tapping at beds with sticks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’d gotten the idea from the stick insect, but Roz quickly realized that camouflaging herself as a twig was out of the question. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘Well. He steadied himself with his walking stick. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“We’d like to stick together for the rest of the war, sir. Is there some way you can fix it so nobody will ever break up the Three Musketeers?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are long needles sticking out of my ankles! A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The kid holds a can of drink and a long stick of licorice, and now I see there’s someone else with them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I stand abruptly, judging whether to leave or stick it out. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Gilly led the way into the living room and backed up to the couch, sticking a hand out toward the brown chair. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As he poured water onto his stick, it trembled, and — was she imagining it? — it seemed to grow. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They kicked the students, called them names, slapped them in the face, dragged them by the ears, whipped them, and struck their hands with wooden sticks and rulers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The battling stick that Mama used to beat the dirt out of clothes when she washed stood leaning against the wall. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A man climbed onto our school bus today. He had a huge stick...Threatened to crack open the heads of anyone from Chennai." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Once she tripped and fell, and a sharp stick reared up like a claw at her cheek. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it didn’t stick very well, and then Rocket started playing with it—you know how he’s always carrying ponytail rubber bands away when Mom or I drop them on the floor?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two enormous feet sticking out at the bottom and a loud puffing sound told them that Hagrid was behind it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And when the blur in my eyes finally vanishes, I see it, sticking up like a hitchhiker’s thumb. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My hand shakes as I stick the note on the fridge. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I stick to the road out of habit, but it’s a bad choice, because it’s full of the remains of those who tried to flee. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"See that stick? We could use it to try to get the keys!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

What I end up with is a wad of paper about an inch wide and two inches long, the perfect size to stick up into my left armpit—gross and uncomfortable, but effective. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t right that no one was sticking up for Drew. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But then you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I raised the stick, it whimpered and slunk off. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boys were trained to use bows and arrows, slings, clubs, throwing sticks, and spears. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover had a cudgel in his hand and Juniper held a stick—like an old-fashioned whipping switch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I saw him out the corner of my eye, his head of tousled blond hair sticking out of the tent. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“There’s one sticking into my back,” said Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want to have a good stick ready for after breakfast.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They make fun of me all the time about my age, my size, my braces, and the way I stick out my tongue when I play. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t let her response get to me, and instead I just say, “We’re going to have lots of different snacks! I’m going to bring some chocolate Peppero sticks and Yakult drinks.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Another snap, this time louder, almost like someone had broken a stick over their knee. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I know I keep getting a little bit off track and letting my emotions about this—about them—get in the way, but I’ll try to stick to the facts. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The first thing I need is a stick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I knew he didn’t want me to go and I wanted to stick around remembering things and laughing with Sapo, but I had things to take care of. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Zoey peels one off its paper and sticks it to the soccer ball. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Out in the corridor, Frank suddenly became aware that the hand gripping his walking stick was slippery with sweat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Jars, baskets, pots; a doll, a spindle, earrings, a photograph, a stack of sticks, a set of silver brushes and a silver cigar case. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blast of violet light shot through the end of the stick, but the Sleeper, now fully emerged from the wall, merely batted the beam of light aside. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Ellison brothers stick together,” he says, extending his hand. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I guess you’ll have to stick with me, ” he said, wiping the blade with his handkerchief. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Neel slid the long stick up to his sister when they reached the hollow and shone the flashlight on her hands. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

That and the clarinets and even they were called licorice sticks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hot chilies and cayenne,” adds Zion, sticking out a thumb and finger. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The train overflowed with people, people sticking their heads out the windows for air, men sitting on the roof and hanging off the sides. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“And you flew the rest, I suppose,” said Bigwig, “burning a white stick in your mouth? Come on, tell me sensibly. What’s the matter, Hyzenthlay?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved sticking my nose right on top of Joey’s head and smelling all those nice things baked together. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would stick loyally to just those notes for the whole piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His red hair sticks up at odd angles, and a bandage wrapped haphazardly around his bicep is stained with blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His family and friends throw coins at him, which stick. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Big Ma cooked food meant to stick to your insides and keep your belly full. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He kept on sticking his thumbs up in the air. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

RiRi wandered over with her tic-tac-toe stick still in her hand. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He spread them by the fire on sticks angled into the sand and piled on more wood and went and sat by the boy again, smoothing his matted hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I watched the PSF let go of his arm, take her gun out of its holster, and, without a word—without even blinking—stick the barrel inside of her mouth and pull the trigger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I got to stick with this,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man took a small stick out of his pocket and bent down. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She slowly sharpened the stick until the point gleamed in the moonlight. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once it was out, how could he stick it back in the holster? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother took one look and said, “Is the rationing that bad at your father’s? You’d better have some food to stick to all those bones.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chewed down his carrot sticks and what remained of his sandwich, then poured out the tin cup of milk and filled it twice with water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about it today because I remembered one time when we were shopping, she kept sticking the notebook into purses she liked, to make sure it fit. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She figured she could walk as far as the interstate; then she'd stick out her thumb for station wagons and minivans. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Inside were six tiny dolls that looked like stick figures, with ink dots for eyes and mouths. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As it clattered across the room and hit a wall, he pictured Darnell, that dart sticking straight out of his shoulder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Why,” asked JT, “if you went to all the trouble to steal the rest—why didn’t you take the last two sticks?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I force myself up and drag myself into the bathroom, where I stick my finger down my throat and throw up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You can use my stick if you like.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, but I do close my mouth so my tongue doesn't stick out. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me go first this time. Bring the stick.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If that’s the word for what you feel, then stick with that. Now, what’s the important thing you had to tell me?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For Lee Chong dug into the grave on China Point and found the yellow bones, the skull with gray ropy hair still sticking to it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But clearly not everyone has a soul,” said Poet, raising his walking stick to the woman. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang, Ivy didn’t stick around to see if June might talk to her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing left to do with her wet handkerchief but to stick it back inside her purse. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don't stick up for his wrong doings. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would use sticks and iron rods to dig, but often we had to use our hands, especially on Mondays and Tuesdays when the garbage contained perishables like half-eaten sandwiches and cold cuts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, Hiram, you got your wish to stick around in Greenwood a little longer. You been enjoying the extra summer vacation?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around for a few minutes, lifting the dead leaves with my stick, but I saw nothing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He moved through our group, hitting us with a stick until we moved. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like Grampa said. The sheriff just wants me to stick around in case I have to answer questions or something. I’ll be all right.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You always stick up for people,” said Father, making it sound like a vice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And all forty-two of his legs were sticking out straight in front of him, like rods. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks another spoonful of fro-yo in his mouth and checks it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

‘It is as well you used a stick, and not your hand, Strider!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Standing there, barefoot, her hair damp with sweat and sticking to her cheeks like paint, she felt easy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I and my little redheaded sister, Mary Toy, always followed him down the hall, and he usually gave us each a stick of penny candy before shutting the company room door in our faces. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can’t do algebra or say ‘Nice poodle’ in French or tell you who discovered Brazil, but I can make a fire with two dry sticks and a rock. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not even that time Oz whacked him in the eye with a stick.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wore nothing but shorts, his whiter-than-white skin stretched across his bones like a sheet wrapped tightly around a bundle of sticks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

“There,” said Lupin, sticking his own wand back into his belt. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Bring the stick. And don’t use that flashlight unless we absolutely need it. We’d be spotted right away.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though still deeply shaken, Frank took a firmer grip upon his walking stick and limped over the threshold. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The boy stabs at the dirt with the stick. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When you have a bowl full of blood, you take a stick and swirl it around in the blood for five to ten minutes to remove all of the clots. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Britain sucks his teeth and glares at Shanna, who sticks her tongue out at him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Nothing seems to stick to her, partly because she's so rarely herself. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I lean down, fumbling as I shove the sticks of dark gray graphite back into the box. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With her beady eyes, sharp teeth, and tapering snout, she stood leaning on her hockey stick, right foot crossed over left: ankle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Fern told her mother that Avery had tried to hit the Zuckermans’ spider with a stick, Mrs. Arable was so shocked that she sent Avery to bed without any supper, as punishment. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was why so many people said it felt better to drive a stick shift. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had to rotate it slowly and that was hard to do with his hands so he found a forked stick and stuck it in the sand to put his cooking stick in. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A witch, you must understand, does not knock children on the head or stick knives into them or shoot at them with a pistol. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was sometimes possessed of strange rages and would strike out with his walking stick and even smash the furniture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even thinks it’s important to poke me with a stick. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His long thin arms and legs make him look like the stick figures I used to draw on my schoolbooks. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would teach him to stick his curious nose where it didn’t belong. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We weren’t allowed to use the oven or stove when Audrey’s parents weren’t home, which was most of the time, so we had to stick to using the microwave. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the lawns on the university grounds are overgrown now; the long grasses stick up like green arrows. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a sharp sizzle and the stick flies back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We could hit it along with sticks. “We could hit Meg, too,” he added, as an afterthought. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he knows how to read and how to stick up for himself, he’ll be OK.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They picked up sticks and racketed along the slats. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I lie back on my pillow and pull the covers up so only my nose is sticking out into the chilly air. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Mr. Nielsen if I can use my own earnings to give a child a stick of penny candy now and then, and he laughs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

All Chinese food — a bowl of sweet, hot soybean milk, and two long, twisting oil sticks to dip in it; also two onion cakes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves stick together like floppy pages in a decomposing book. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grumbled about the dinner when he had finished it, but then turning to Ged said, “At least it’s not illusion, like so much around here; it sticks to your ribs.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He took an ordinary stick of kindling from the box and smelled it and said, “Maple. Good!” and proceeded to make a neat little totem pole out of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She turned the eggs to keep the developing embryos from sticking to the shells. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The horses whinnied and made me a whole lot of promises that they would be good flesh-eating horses from now on, but I didn’t stick around to chat. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In all ways possible he maintained the life of an eighteenth-century squire, even to providing special walking sticks for his guests as they accompanied him around his grounds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He slipped the metal sticks in his pockets. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They had stick swords and pinecone grenades and ran as fast as they could through the trees. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You got to treat a dog good if you want him to stick around,” I say, bold as brass. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fit was tight, and the sweat on Frankie’s back made him stick to the floor as he pushed himself along with his feet. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the sun set that night, Sam cut one more notch in a stick to keep track of the thirty-one days of incubation. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of washed-up logs and sticks on the island, and under the bridge the wood was bone-dry. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He saw I was so high that he even helped me roll it—a hundred sticks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sweaty, and my hair is sticking to the side of my face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I give the stick To a friend, And more candies Rain to the ground. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stupid,” I say, stabbing a stick into the dirt. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Our piano teacher, Miss Brown, looked like a thin, dry stick, but she could swing her ruler with plenty of juice when she thought no one was looking. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I bet you could catch bullets,” she said, and threw the stick away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Armelio bangs on his chair with some sticks and gets bored, leaves the room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A man was waving them on with a red flag tied to a stick. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“The stick makes a noise. But I can’t walk without it.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine was now the mother and father, the love and the discipline, the carrot and the stick, and the sole breadwinner. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I fold up the letter and stick it in my pocket. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hurried to the small shrine in the back of the hut, lit an incense stick, and began chanting prayers to the statue of Bon Bibi that always stood there. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The officers who shot Fannie insisted she was leading a riot and that union sympathizers had attacked them with rocks and sticks. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It caused me to recall something I’d read once: if ever you’re in a crowded theater and there’s a fire, you should stick out your elbows and raise up your feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see doctors trying to stick a tube in my throat. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It only gots a shower and I like me a good soaking tub, but I can get along pretty good here, long as that stick of an ole woman be leavin’ me alone. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I spit on the stick until I heard a sizzle. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore nothing but shorts, his whiter-than- white skin stretched across his bones like a sheet wrapped tightly around a bundle of sticks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the council members seem to be there, stirring tiny sticks in tiny cups of coffee, the majority of them men and women David’s age. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mark turned a corner and lurched down the alley that led back to the Shack, sticking close to the building on his right for a partial shield. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One Friday she finds herself alone in Dimitri’s apartment; he goes out as soon as she arrives, to buy a stick of butter for a white sauce he is making to pour over trout. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Well, yes, I suppose I do know a lot of things. That’s why people started calling me Sticky, because everything I read sticks in my head.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, try to screw my courage to the sticking place. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lily is sorting through the bottles and sticks and containers that she’s spread out all over my bed, her hair tucked neatly behind her ears. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Life’s unfair, Sosie thought as she poised her stick to strike. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Covered in sweat, his face red, clothes sticking to his body, the boy didn’t slow, hardly glancing at Thomas as he went past. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Harry slowly, “I’m not. I’m pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren’t sticking with your own kid, actually.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But sadness gets sympathy, so I stick with that. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He could break me in his hands like a kindling stick. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I joined the field hockey team because all my friends were on it, even though I did not like running up and down a big field bent over a stick. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He takes the stick of charcoal out of my hand and throws it onto the floor. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Kate took out a stick of gum and said, “I’m in,” without even pausing to consider. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat staring at it while Zooey—grinning but perspiring freely at his upper lip—went on using his orange stick. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We sat together looking through the crooked stick fence at the great variety of spurned blossoms in my father’s garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “I was excited about taking art this semester. But we have to stick to the assignments. No ‘doing your own thing.’” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carver shook his hockey stick at a passing pack like Man Friday. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I jabbed the earth with my stick, ashamed at the twinge of jealousy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now it sticks to my feet, coating them like a second skin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the plan I’ve been struggling to come up with for weeks explodes in my brain like a stick of dynamite with a too-short fuse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“There are a couple of bookshelves, and then I have to go through the desk drawers and stuff. I’m sticking the phone in my pocket, but I’ll leave it on so you can hear me.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They also have the same strong jaw, distinct chin, spare upper lip, stick- out ears. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Over by the cotton mill, I would see men drawing a map in the street with a stick to show where they had bought some new land for cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riccio jumped ashore and tied the boat to one of the wooden stakes sticking out of the water. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gently, I smooth out the strands that stick up in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand was smooth and I dug many small holes with a stick. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll expose you, all right," he said, sticking out his chin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stupid sticks won’t go in the box and I snap several in my frustration. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We send them to factories and press them into breaded sticks and patties. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Wearing a blue suit with a little trim of white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket, Ivory made a striking figure, his poise like that of someone thirty years old instead of seventeen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nervously threw a stick at the animal, and it didn’t move, whatever it was. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That and the steel hoop of the wheel sticking up out of the cockpit aft. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She looks around, checking for raccoons or stray mental patients on the frighteningly dark back road to my house, and sticks out her index finger at me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A suction sleeve liner goes right over my stump, and it has a two-inch notched metal peg sticking out of the bottom of it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel put her backpack down, grabbed a thick stick, and poked the mass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he’s tough, today pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It growled low down in its throat—rrrrrr! Its tail lashed the grass. I thought, That leopard could swallow my bundle of sticks and still have room for me.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That ain’t to say that he caint force you to study something till it sticks in your mind for a while, ’cause he can. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I swam to the edge, pushed the langosta off the stick, caught my breath again, and dived. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a far comer of the convent park we heard laughter, and when we looked we saw one tall, strong boy waving a flat stick, and all around him little boys jumping. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wide, round face, and the other kids teased him that he looked like those grilled rice balls on sticks that old ladies sold from their boats. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a long stick from the fire, its end glowing with orange heat scales, and waited. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But our family sticks together like wet pages. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Empty Plastic Bottles!” he bellowed around a mouthful of mozzarella sticks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One moment Omakayas was wiggling a leafy stick, making it move on the ground so the cubs would jump on it, biting fiercely. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

In Shalimar there was general merriment at his quick return, and Pilate blended into the population like a stick of butter in a churn. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll stick him with a spear if he wants a good report. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jen’s dad turned around and pointed, and Luke saw a small disc sticking to the back of his collar. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing hard, and garish petals shook loose and tumbled back among the cars, sticking to the damp windshields like bits of confetti. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A hundred pool sticks of different lengths stand at attention in their cradles on the walls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer sticks wooden stakes into the sand and ties neon tape around each to create a giant square of bright tape around the seal. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

His feeling of regret was so strong that he actually felt pain walking away from the school building, but he’d made a decision and he knew he had to stick to it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She picked up a stick and poked at the flames. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And she’d say, “Please stick to the prompts or I will have to give you an incomplete grade.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

With the stick she crushed the glass to bits and scraped dirt over them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her tongue sticks out a little bit between her lips, and she smells sort of like vanilla extract and talcum powder. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Duke grabs the stick and regains control of the aircraft. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mama had gone to bed, and Dyedka carved at the end of his walking stick with a knife, forming a goat’s head out of the knobby top. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Every time I walked past Miles, I got the distinct feeling that he’d stick his leg out and trip me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Viboon was trying to shame him, but he didn't plan to stick around long enough for that. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Doon dawdled over his breakfast of carrot sticks and mashed turnips, waiting for his father to go. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Also the same black hair sticking up straight in the front and flat in the back. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A halfforgotten holiday has unveiled every knife that sticks inside me, every cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Does it hurt the chicks when you stick the needle into them?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But one, I saw, had a large stick in his hand. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t like it, you can stick it up your butts ’cause I ain’t asking you if you like it or not. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing sticking above the water as far as he could see. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll think of something,” he said easily, brandishing his stick at an invisible enemy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gus leaned on his cue stick and gazed at Bigger and Bigger’s stomach tightened as though he were expecting a blow and were getting ready for it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

People kept thrusting leaflets at me and sticking stickers on my sweatshirt. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the bamboo stick is a bowl of rice and some salted eggs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One group of soldiers beat Abraham until be almost died, and also punched me and bit me with sticks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Em’s other side was Tab, sticking out her tongue and making peace signs with both hands. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of their captors, both black and white, carried both whips and fire sticks. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steak plates were piled high on the stove with their brown juice and their white grease sticking them together. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am fine eating lunch alone, but today my cold cheese sandwich sticks a little to the roof of my mouth. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Once I found a small stick standing upright in one of my traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my students wanted to stare at the walls for two hours a day, then fine, from here on out we'd just stick to the basics. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Inside an alder bush, just ahead of him, a family of wrens was darting and hopping about, their tails sticking upwards like Indian head-dress feathers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If there’s a fish, we’ll do our best to net it, step on it to hold it down, whack it over the head, stick a knife in back of its eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The superintendent whacked each of them on the head with a stick. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t sticking up for Joey,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then Trouble noticed two things—one, a pair of black boots was sticking out of a shrub beside the door, and two, there was a massive human standing in the doorway. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Cassie’s feet are hidden under a white velvet sheet, toes sticking straight up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Eva banged on the floor with her stick but nobody came. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can picture him trying to ride Justin’s bike with his long legs sticking out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Snuffy shrugged and, in Spanish, suggested the regional director place one of his fingers somewhere and then afterward suck on it like on a popsicle stick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, give us swords or sticks instead,” laughed Laertes, pretending to spar with Horatio. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No, the other words, heavy as mountains, are the ones that stick. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wade into the waves after her, the cold winter water lapping up against my thighs and my sides, making my school uniform stick to my skin. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was sticking way out in the breeze, the way she was laying on her side. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He heard the stick break and the line begin to rush out over the gunwale of the skiff. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

People left with long sticks with squares of fish on them. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"I couldn't begin to tell you how crowded it was. It was more sardines in a can than you could shake sticks at." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The words “as far as I know” stick in my mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the kids drew with charred sticks on the sides of their cabins, but that too wore off. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mami made me stick to her side as if someone was going to pounce on me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The force of the blow almost knocked the stick from her hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The minder sticks his chicken neck out, staring at us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He took his eyes away from the microscope and looked around the table until he found a wooden stick that had a human eyelash glued to it with a dab of nail polish. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was right in front of her, conveniently sticking out of the open envelope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I notice my pocket-size sketchbook lying on my dresser, the regimen crammed into the back of it, neatly folded and just barely sticking out past the small pages of the book. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Her legs are sticking out of her sheets, and I can see the plaid boxer shorts she wears for pajamas. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Directly below the aerie was a pine tree where two blue jays had built a stick nest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The first jumper tends to stick in your head.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s like sticking my face in a bowl full of marshmallows. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Gus stood at the table, toying with a cue stick, his eyes straying lazily over the billiard balls scattered about the table in the array of an unfinished game. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I break off some larger splinters from the stick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I splash him good when he sticks his feet in the water, then run out before he can get me back. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Then he removed his jerkin, and took off his shirt, which he proceeded to tear into strips which he used to bind the sticks, as firmly as he could, about her injured leg. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every breath felt like a hundred tiny needles sticking me in the chest. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I recounted the attack, sticking to the facts and avoiding conjecture. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She expected to find something made of yarn and popsicle sticks, or maybe curly macaroni and glue. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one gruff gentleman carrying a walking stick blamed plain old bad luck. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” Theodora said, “we should make notches on a stick, or pile pebbles in a heap, one each day, so we will know how long we have been marooned.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A lamppost had been broken in half like a pretzel stick. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No, nothing at all,” Ophie said, the lie sticking in her throat. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dirt covered his face and his hair was sticking up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’m sure we were a shocking sight: our clothes were mud-splotched, our hair greasy and sticking up at odd angles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hope is silent—his name, they say, belongs to a girl, his ears, they laugh stick out too far from his head. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

My arms are tired from supporting myself on the walking stick and Jack’s shoulders. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Today, her breath smells like the sachets my grandmother sticks in her underwear drawer. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Just relax. This is going to be great. Just stick with the tried-and-true, like a diner. Something basic.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But no man with an infant sticking out of his chest. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I look at Boomer and stick out my tongue like I’m gagging. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I walked the rest of the way home, sticking to the shadows to avoid catching the attention of cops on patrol. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He reached high, higher, trying to stick the swinging rod into the barrel so as to set the ball snug proper. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman had disappeared into the shadows with his sweetie, but I was sticking to the lighted area, making myself available. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They walked around him in a circle, each team pulling on the long stick to which it was hitched, and following the team ahead. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marten was biting the fabric of the backpack and sticking his muzzle out of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Day after day he went out as before, delving and scraping for food, as thin and dry as a hollow bamboo stick. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Away from speeding lacrosse balls and apples and swatting sticks. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Traps it back in the basket of his stick. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then Edmund ran up and began to poke it with a stick. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His hair was sticking up in all directions, as if he hadn't combed it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been doodling on a sheet of paper, stick figures, and “Father Amadi” written over and over again. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the nickname didn’t stick, I was humiliated for at least three days, until Luke forgot about me and moved on to his next victim. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I watched her through the mirror, the tip of her tongue sticking out of her mouth, concentrating, weaving the hair slowly, trying her best not to mess up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

My body is wet with sweat and throw-up from the others pressing close around me like sticks of firewood. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once in a great while, the stick got a lucky hit, but the Goddess Kwan Yin was again merciful and sent the ball nowhere near the fence. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Millie invited you over here to her home and all you’ve done since I walked in is stick your face in your phone and brood.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But Yishan still looked like the same boy, tilted dangerously over the bridge’s railing, now with the tip of his tongue sticking out from the corner of his mouth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He held his left arm behind his back and waved the other stick of meat out in front of him, like a wand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“A for apple!” sang Ess, drawing with her stick in the wet sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Roberto made a small cross from sticks and laid it on the mound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"It's only a stick, m'lord. It's not no sword, it's only a stick." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This pond gave me a choice. I could focus on the left end or the right end of the stick. I could focus on the sunrise or the dark clouds. It was my choice.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With relish, she sticks the needle in his neck and presses the plunger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Glue the tail on the back so it sticks out to the side or up behind the head. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He lunged, and his stick struck my breastbone painfully. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he’d pull for us from the tandoor s roaring flames. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stick will sting, boys.The ash plant will whistle through the air, it will land on the backside of the boy that jeers, the boy that sneers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I put the rounded end of the stick into the little hollow and start spinning it twixt my hands, pressing hard into the wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

After about an hour you put another stone on the end of the new position of the stick’s shadow. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the same guy who delighted in sticking freshmen’s heads in toilet bowls in high school, and thought flicking boogers on me was hilarious. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My dad was sticking out of the open fridge, balancing on one crutch. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out over and over, for a year, with a gun to your head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Did you really stick those horns on him?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She worked on it for a week, using a sharpened Popsicle stick to shape the slightly bulging eyes and the goatee and earring and longish hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Victory was wiping the roasting stick with leaves while Joe leveled the fire. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that stood between him and Death was a half-burned stick. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She wished she wasn’t shy, that she wasn’t shaped like a lima bean, and that her left ear didn’t stick out farther than her right. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks it’s horrible that my parents didn’t videotape Mr. Neck’s class or stick up for me the way his folks did. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking through the sunflowers, holding the blue silk shawl around her shoulders in one hand, carrying the long curved willow stick in the other. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she hands it back to me, there’s two more smiling stick figures. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They made bonfires with dried sticks, corn husks, and paper, cursing the authorities under their breath. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She prodded the coals with the tip of a stick. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One of the old men caught his visitor, another old fellow, stealing his bantam; the owner spotted its black feet sticking out of his guest’s sweater. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the stick in one hand and her knife in the other. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jethro’s hand found a sharp stick, and he dug it into the earth, twisted it around and around, and stared at the hole he had made as if it had some meaning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours one of us hauled while the other guided, mincing along like a cat on eggshells, sounding every step in advance with the stick. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just the daintiest stick there would kill him and solve so many serious, agonizing problems for them both. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In my closet, piece by piece, I pry away parts of my heart, stripping off every picture, shredding them down, building little paper piles as the tape sticks to my nails. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Men began to wear their handkerchiefs in their sleeves and some foppish lieutenants carried swagger sticks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stick a ball in and take a practice shot on goal with one of the white guys. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The dry sticks of the wall smoked gently, forcing Septimus to suppress a cough, and then they caught fire, and Septimus smiled. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to take this risk; hopefully James would stick it out with me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’re down to ten players and I’m going to stick with the ten unless somebody gets hurt. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to stick to Claire’s side like there was Velcro on her uniform. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Chancellor leans over her, hinging rigidly at her waist like a stick bug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the air was so hot and muggy in Elinor's car that Meggie’s T-shirt was sticking to her skin with sweat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She set to work gathering a huge load of dry sticks, dead branches torn off during the winter by heavy snow and ice. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I just don’t want this to stick.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I saw that the ospreys were back, arranging sticks on the channel marker for their gigantic nest. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He could see Mars Bar’s foot sticking out, trying to trip him up as he circled the bases for a home run. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat right next to him for the rest of the trip—even though there wasn't a seat belt, and she had to sit with the stick shift between her legs. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The lying in a hospital bed with only a straw sticking out of your bandaged head kind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I unwind my hijab and stick it in a cubby. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I sit down with a bump and stick my feet through. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nun cradled the smallest, a shriveled doll with stick legs and a pregnant belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne squealed from the sidelines, “You could stick two fists and a leg up Ben’s left nostril with that schnozz of his.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park's dad had decided to be a fascist about Park's driver's license; he'd announced last night that Park had to learn to drive a stick first. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see one of Mango’s ears sticking out from the middle of the pile. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His red pants had a convenient hole in them so that his tail could stick out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound, like sticks snapping, and an animal cry. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, I see the dark outline of grape clusters of basketballs, stacks of pointed traffic cones, and a rack of hockey sticks. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say this over and over in my head, hoping that somehow it will stick. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The lock sticks a little, but I open it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I do, too,” Luna said, sticking out her chin and pulling her journal from her satchel. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I stick the tip of the loppers into the pricker canes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go put this in the donation box by the walking sticks,” Mom tells him. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stick and began walking toward the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They also carried knobbly sticks, used for hitting each other while the teachers weren’t looking. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They’d repaired their plane themselves, sticking wooden plugs into the holes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

First they plunge around in the dark, shuffling and cursing, grabbing up leaves and sticks, lurching, stumbling all over the place because of the liquor they have been drinking, Their breath. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese field soldier, trained in the art of kendo, or stick fighting, was exceptionally proficient at killing in this manner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up his walking stick, which was propped against the wall, and set off into the night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The other one’s head and two little paws were sticking out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, two carrot sticks, a mound of lime gelatin, a tin cup of milk, served on a cafeteria tiay. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He clasped the pole and started upward, pushing with his feet, his knees sticking out to the sides. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Teenage boys build a shelter from sticks and sheets of plastic. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And fear propelled her now as she stood, leaning on her stick. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come in, say Jack A skinny little white woman stick most of herself through the door. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys cannot seem to do this right; their stitches are large and clumsy, and they stick one another with the needles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know the place on his property where that clump of cedars sticks out—you know, right on the county road?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like someone who enjoyed sticking her fingers in electrical sockets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I kept rereading the same sentence over and over again to make the information stick in my brain. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

With a stick broken from a nearby willow she searched through the reedy water, poking around and around the spot where the bag had gone down, working in bigger and bigger circles. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a rag on the end and the boy stood waving the stick in circles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up children like sacks of grain and carried a large stick wherever she went. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You better stick your hands in the sink and wrench out them scratches.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in a Balkan costume of vest, ballooning trousers, and high leather boots, the immigrant carries his possessions bundled on a stick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I shouldered my bag and picked up my stick and tried to put on a brave face. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I pull the turkey tea cozy off the giant jug of pretzels where it usually sits, stick it on my head like a hat, and dance around the kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She slid a stick of chewing gum into her mouth and chewed away noisily. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The guys sometimes liked to kid her about it—our own little native, they’d say—but Mary Anne would just smile and stick out her tongue. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a stick and began to push it into the fire to see it burn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like an army gun, a carbine I think, with a square magazine sticking out of the bottom. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Indian families stick together like Gorilla Glue, the strongest adhesive in the world. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed, stick my foot up in the air, and dangle the locket off one toe. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In sticks and stones. What a sweet dreamer is Mr. Mouse! Give me a sermon, Mr. Mouse.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Since the basement doesn’t get as much light as upstairs, we should stick to lighter colors.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He dropped the meat into the oil, added a few more sticks to his fire to get a raging boil, then threw in a handful of sliced potatoes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The room was entirely empty—not even a stick of furniture. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold and muddy, full of sticks and leaves, tadpoles and crayfish...and a dog. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spend half an hour shredding up string-cheese sticks and cracking eggs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With effort, I can hold it like a stick. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bill Thorpe asked, sticking his tongue out good-naturedly at Mercedes as he got the tickets on the package from Nick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was in my pocket but it wasn’t, so I went off and found a few sticks to throw to him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Basically, S’meggs was an egg attached to jumbo marshmallows and sticks and even bars of chocolate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stick my head out and see them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the doctor took up two of the hakata sticks in one hand and two in the other. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baachan brought in the big pot of soup, and then set it in the middle of the table with a ladle sticking out of it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The roofs burn up because they are all made out of sticks and hay like the Three Little Pigs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked behind her, lifted her tail, and saw the head of a dead lamb sticking out between her legs. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She was now kneeling right on the edge of the hole with her head down and her enormous behind sticking up in the air like a giant mushroom. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could break his head open, suffer a broken arm, twist his ankles, bones sticking out, all that. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

All he has to do is go out to the jakes, stick his finger down his throat and bring it all up so that he can start another round. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The solution is to dump the thumbtacks out of the box, tack the box to the wall, and stick the candle onto the box. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“But you gotta put them on a stick yourself—they taste better that way.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a photograph of a desiccated insect with a stick emerging from its corpse—it was gross, but kind of fascinating, too. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The girl lay sticks on the ground in circles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I just kept sticking my two curled fingers in and licking them off and the more I ate the faster I wanted to eat it and nothing else mat-tered. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In panic, Ralph thrust his own stick through the crack and struck with all his might. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I scoot beneath the sticking barbs, stand up, brush myself off, and pull the armband up over my right sleeve. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Setanta had a stick and ball and one day he hit the ball and it went into the mouth of a big dog that belonged to Culain and choked him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The only notable presence was a tall, dilapidated saguaro, a bundle of sticks, in worse shape than Archie’s Senor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The helium nuclei will be jammed together still more tightly, so much so that they begin to stick together, the hooks of their short-range nuclear forces becoming engaged despite the mutual electrical repulsion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Drink your sweety-milk and you shall have a stick with ribbons and a long whistle like silver.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or it meant they weren’t going to stick up for me, which amounted to the same thing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sat down again, leaning his stick against the wall, and took several deep breaths. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His mother shook her head and claimed she was content to stick it out at South Beach; they could go to Amity Harbor in the morning if they wanted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pull open the center console and stick it back inside. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“All you do is yap, yap, yap! You keep sticking your nose into things that are none of your business!” he tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Half a minute later she sticks her head back through the door and waves for us to follow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

With the arrow still sticking out of his strap, Rondon fired his rifle into the air, scaring the Indians off. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He flicks it against the wall, where it sticks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mabel then picked up the stick and with one try sent the ball flying. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

One minute, it had looked like an arm sticking out of the waves; now it was an ominous black-granite mountain surrounded by half-submerged clawlike reefs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel clean after sticking your hands in water that a hundred other hands have been in?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But there’s always a few that enjoy their job too much, that like using their sticks to crack heads, so you got to be careful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fixed me up with a big white bandage around my finger so that it looked like a stick with a huge wad of cotton candy on the end. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max sticks his head out from under the bed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he raised her it was like picking up a handful of sticks concealed in a rag bundle, so light she was. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never had anything to do with weapons, beyond the mock skirmishes with elder sticks at the orphanage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wore an oversize yellow T-shirt and a raggedy pair of shorts and held a bag and a wooden stick. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It isn’t even 4:00 p.m. yet, but he’s already in his Captain America pajama bottoms, and his short black hair is sticking up in all directions. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The only sign that the monster had ever existed were two green sword points sticking through the cracks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He said he’d taken a pledge with some friends to stick it out until they won.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wire was held up by sharp little sticks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in front of the mirror winding my hijab on my head in bandanna fashion, to accommodate physical activity, when she sticks her hand out, palm up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She touches my foot, which is sticking out down where I can’t see it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One solitary obsessive, feebly armed with an apostrophe on a stick, will never have the nerve to demonstrate outside Warner Brothers on the issue of Two Weeks Notice. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I wish the world would stick like a clock so I could look at him for as long as I want. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

According to the pictures she’s muscular, with big thighs, but the doll is a slender stick. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wagged his orange stick solemnly at his mother. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He began to slap the swagger stick into the open palm of his left hand again and again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stick em in his diaper to hide. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth—razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maxim was throwing sticks for Jasper on the lawn. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Alright,” he said, abruptly standing and throwing his stick away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hunters walked among them and fed them treats, completely unafraid, but I decided I would stick close to the tents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Just then he saw what looked like the arm of a doll sticking out from under one of the wings. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With sticks the men laid the tall grass down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would stick my nose out to better feel the warmth on the rest of me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He hated to see the swings, slides, monkey bars, and seesaws empty and tried to get kids to stick around as long as possible. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy explained how to use a stick of licorice for a bit until Gabilan was used to having something in his mouth. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured out which button opened the sunroof, and I stood up with the top half of my body sticking out of the car. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the lowest tides, the barnacled ribs of a thousand shipwrecks stick out above the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I stick a finger into the red jar. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Each Sucker consisted of a yellow cardboard tube filled with sherbet powder, and there was a hollow liquorice straw sticking out of it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The DA initially threatened an attempted murder charge for what went down in the SUV with Kerns and me, but Dave’s lawyers were too good to let that stick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I pick a blade of young wheat and stick the end in my mouth, not quite looking at him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “I’ve had enough life these last three days. I’m sticking to the bread.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Old Granny, bent low on her stick, came bringing a rupee which she gave me to keep for the child. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Billy, thin and wizened and slightly hunched, like a walking stick that had warped in the rain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged a stick through the shallows of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The firemen told my father that out of twenty sticks of dynamite, ten exploded. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His jaws closed on matted fur slick with hoarfrost, on a limb thin as a dry stick, but the one-eyed wolf clawed at his belly and tore himself free, rolled, lunged for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What was he doing a million miles from nowhere, sitting in a freezing pond beside a bizarre Tlingit Indian with a stick? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Or they would cut the top off a big gourd they had grown and use that, sticking an ear of corn in the opening to seal it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya swung at the prince again, but this time Joffrey caught the blow on Lion's Tooth and sent her broken stick flying from her hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I sat on the concrete, my feet dangling toward the water, she overturned rocks with the stick and pointed out the skittering crawfish. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked like a stuffed doll, and because he was always smiling, the deep dimples in his pillowy cheeks looked like permanent fixtures, as though someone had sunk a stick into his cheeks. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I throw some small sticks on it, wait for them to catch, too, then some larger ones, and pretty soon there’s a real fire burning in front of me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Creole and Haiti stick to my insides like glue—it’s like my bones and muscles. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Abdullah sputtered when he saw Papa molding my little fingers around a stick of charcoal. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, through the shock and the blare of noise, a bright, blinding white, and Lance Winters sticking his microphone across the table and shouting, “Astelle, Astelle!” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I stepped over to him, took the stick from his hand, and threw it into the fireplace. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His walking stick nestled in his left elbow; his vest was immaculate; there was a scarlet rosebud in his lapel. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I do know that I couldn’t get close to Old Jim if I had anything that even remotely resembled a stick for the rest of that summer. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He would’ve gone to medical school, got twelve doctorate degrees and bought a large green python on a stick. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked out at a piece of stick floating down on the even two-mile-an-hour current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, stick around an’ keep your eyes open. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still felt kind of sick when I thought about being naked again, but the worst had already happened, and I knew Sohrab would stick up for me if it came to it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She slammed the trunk of the birch with a big rotten stick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Just stick your arms in there and feel around till you get her!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I used a stick to poke at the contents and saw that they were finished cooking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ma always fixed me up a little water with a stick of cinnamon when fear had me jumping like a bug. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I showed a picture of a jellyfish that looks like Darth Vader, and another that looks like a kindergartener’s drawing of sunshine, just a big circle with lines sticking out in every direction. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Using a rake made from a stick of red willow pulled up by the roots, the two girls took turns turning the rice over and over, smoking and toasting the grains. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The tail of the ship was all that remained sticking out of the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You Miss Saunders’s pet, anyhow,” Char says, sticking gum in her mouth. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She handed me a rag and just as soon as she’d splashed one of the tin cans in the water and give it to me I’d dry it and stick it in the wooden box. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But if not, the hyper-rich are content to stick with their kind. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Carrying the dog tucked under her free arm, Kira leaned on her stick and followed Thomas; they edged their way around the crowd and back into the quiet of the building’s corridors. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People spend lifetimes breaking their stick to get rid of anger. But always anger remains, and they think they’ve failed.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When Neel extended the new lure, tied to the end of the sundari stick, the cub sucked hungrily at the milk-drenched shirt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned against the two big boxes on the counter, sticking my finger in the diamond-shaped spaces between the rows and rows of empty jars inside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After replying to the text, Kaori lit a stick of incense, walked across her zodiac circle rug, and stepped into the hallway. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

George let go of the stick and scrambled up a tree, climbing as high as he could go. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for sticking up for me back there. For telling Dodge the truth.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There he crouched and reached inside the sleeve of his coat for the short, heavy stick of lignum vitae he carried along his left forearm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’s ordered mozzarella sticks for me, a pizza for the three of us, and Cokes all around. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Gary says, "Tiny's rubber. You're glue. Whatever you say bounces off him and sticks to you." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He patted a USB stick in his pocket, wondering if what he had planned was a good idea after all. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to wear anything that made him stick out. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Pale morning, icy sky, frosted crusts on the hills, but no sign of sticking snow, worse luck. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the crones, a bent and shriveled stick of a woman with a single black eye, raised her arms on high. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Burnham High has a school plaid, a school crest with a thistle and a couple of those Scottish knives they stick in their socks, and a Gaelic motto. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Khoi gets to monitor lines for the bathrooms, where bottoms stick out to the sea behind blankets blowing in the wind. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Upon awakening she played with a feather, then a stick. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Lord of the Flies hung on his stick like a black ball. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You want a taste of the stick too, you little beggar?” the man sneered, spitting drops of saliva. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Joe with his Henry Huggins look, tall Benny with his long hair and trumpet case, Ellie with her army jacket covered in pins, her long red hair sticking out from under her hat, and me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It makes her think of Sierra Kincaid and some girls at school, who’d eat two bites of yogurt and a carrot stick and say they were full. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Did you climb trees and make pictures in the dirt with sticks and skip rocks in the rain puddles? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up a small stick and slapped my leg with it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, moving the strings with the sticks with his one hand, Bryce made Edward dance and drop and sway. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Speak the truth, you ingrate!” cried Miss Havisham, passionately striking her stick upon the floor; “you are tired of me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I ran till a forked stick tripped me and I fell. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were men, and women, and people who seemed the height of little kids but had flat stubby heads and wore pastel suits in various colors, so they looked like short, running sticks of chalk. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I draw another person next to the dog, with a stick in their hand so they can play fetch together. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes narrow and my jaw sticks out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seer asked, then added, “When the meat has browned, add some broth so it doesn’t stick to the pan.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A patriarch with a long white beard, black skull cap and toothless gums presided over the vats with a big forked wooden stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Struchen went to the bulletin boards and tapped photos and drawings with a pointy aluminum stick as he presented the facts. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might have scared her.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Barry wanted to jab Clyde with his stick, but he wouldn’t dare. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before the day was over, there was one more surprise near the campsite: Kermit found a walking stick. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The streets were very narrow and as crooked as a hickory stick. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made himself a lean-to with sticks and canvas. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He used to sit in the front window every day with a stick in his mouth and wait for me to come home from school to play fetch.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He takes a cube of rodent meat, skewers it on the tip of a pointed stick, and lets it fall into the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And just like then, before she flipped over the stick to see the result, she says, “Let’s do this.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bullets could be seen sticking out just a little bit in the baby’s body and she was swelling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The white man with the walking stick tied a blindfold ’round Madame Sabbar’s face then pulled a cloth sack over that so’s we could tell she waren’t seeing a thing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then, he saw one foot sticking up above the bank of the stream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I see him holding the other end of the pool cue while we walk through the hospital, telling me to stick around for the next year. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

‘You stick to the plan. Get Nike’s chariot.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I suddenly want to take the stick horses and march into the living room and whack my father over the head with them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She kept walking around, looking over the boys' shoulders, and sticking her pitchfork through the dirt piles. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They don’t burn fragrant sticks of incense or stacks of paper to send you on your way. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled back on the stick, and when we banked to the left I could see we were headed for the Viking Drive-in. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Good work, Nebraska. Sparkle Ponies and Lost Girls, start buffing and polishing those sticks into fish-killing machines.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We stand up its middle section and then stick on the branches, longer pieces at the bottom and shorter as we build up, tier by tier. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could stick around, Jax, but it’s almost time for dinner. I think we’d better head home. Is there anything else you need?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

One man had managed to ignite the end of a stick of wood by holding it against the electric burner on his stove. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He used a walking stick and wore a bow tie. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now he pokes at the ashes with a stick, shaking his head. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lumley brings newspaper clippings about the Royal Family and sticks them to the side blackboard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other vendors along the street were starting to arrange their wares—rubber sandals, wool shawls, toys, baskets of pomegranates, cinnamon sticks, and cloves. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Team Egg,” he said, sticking his hand out, palm down. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They did try hard to avoid going into his study when they were bleeding and needed a sticking plaster to put over the cut, because they knew Charles hated the sight of blood. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main technical problem now is to find a carrying solution that will stick the bacterial spores to the needles of the evergreens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You look good, sportsfans. Your hair’s sticking up in the back but otherwise you win the Commandant’s Cup. Where’s Mary Anne?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I pulled some of the tape off and put it over my tags, sticking them to my chest. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both let the balloons drop, and Dad pulled back on the stick and we climbed into the sky. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t really a newspaper. It was one of those free ad-vertisements, you know, that they stick on your door.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"It was one fight. He was sticking up for some girl the kids pick on." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But my mother had been determined to stick it out in the home she’d bought with her husband. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He would hold his eyes shut so hard that his face tightened into a grimace, and then he would stick his tongue out as far as it could go. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even if somebody ties me to a chair, sticks headphones on me, and pipes “Link Rowley!Link Rowley!”in an endless loop at top volume, I will train my brain to block it out. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As the circles went faster, he shouted, “Push the stick back to the middle and lift up your foot.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must ask Hen Wen about it immediately, and we shall need the letter sticks. Quickly, help me find them.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He pulls on the stick, and the cooler moves half an inch. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the smell of mud, mold, and wet rot was thick enough to stick. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Now, when the navigator walks, I notice that the pitchy ooze that fills the crevices of the ship sticks to his heels. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

To this end, he took what seems at first sight a rather bizarre decision, upping sticks and moving to Holland, where he signed up for military service with the Prince of Orange. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Inside, I hear the people praying—whimpering, whining, mumbling, pleading—to their numerous sticks and stones. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by letting go of the control stick to shout, the puppy has returned full command of the craft to Dr. Loofah. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Look, yer bleeding everywhere, okay? And I can fix it, all right? Just don’t get any ideas about any more ruddy sticks.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s no bell by the door, or there was a bell, but it’s been dismantled, or chewed up by a wild animal, only a bunch of ravaged wires sticking out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was emaciated, the bones of his face sticking out sharply against the yellowish skin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Leaning on her stick, she made her way through the crowded village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Stick, stick, stick and run," screamed Donatelli, but his voice was lost in a rising chorus of boos. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would fix her hair, cover it with a flimsy net, put on a clean white cannery worker’s dress, and stick a brightly colored handkerchief in the lapel pocket. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put you in a room right next to the one where they’ll strap you to that gurney, stick those needles in your arm, and let you die in front of a room full of strangers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sweaty strands of my hair are stuck to my lips, my face; I can feel them sticking out at odd angles from beneath my pink beanie. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You stick with him the rest of the day, and he’ll put in a word for you.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I began to turn the crank, but it didn’t turn so well and finally it jammed up and I couldn’t get the stick out. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He produced a stick from his jacket, and she took it from him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The multiplication helps a little, but the sad horn song sticks in my head. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

One man was trying to read a letter by the firelight, another was roasting a small piece of meat at the end of a stick. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gun handle I saw sticking up, jammed between the driver's seat and the middle console. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The trees were dry and stubby, the mound was barren, and my attention was arrested by a water faucet sticking two feet out of the sand, like some subterranean periscope. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sisters began to hit at each other, first with their fists, then with sticks, then with rocks pulled from the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

All the way to wherever we’re going the girls belt out pop tunes and blow at my face or stick their fingers in my ears. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He smiles quick up at me, then hunches back over an elaborate machine made of rocks, marbles, sticks and rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like this little baby and I stick around to be sure she is hokay. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She took the stick from him and ran her fingers along it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I almost went along with it too. I guess sometimes it’s just hard to find that line and stick to it, even when something feels totally wrong to you.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Khadim was squatting, drawing something in the dirt with a stick. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nhamo poked around the edge with a stick, but even after she had satisfied herself that no scorpions were lurking, she couldn’t bring herself to carve. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said it’s too late now. We’re just going to have to stick together.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The top one was sticking a little, so I left it alone. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Painted on the island of Dominica in 1779, this illustration shows stick fighting. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She stretched out her hands as the passengers left the train, and in the bustle I saw a man stick his finger in her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For more than 2 million years, human neural networks kept growing and growing, but apart from some flint knives and pointed sticks, humans had precious little to show for it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around them peddlers were selling dog sausages, roast onions, and unborn puppies on a stick, but Dany had no need of such. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I nibble on a carrot stick as Emily talks about how her dad owns his own construction business and Soojin shares her parents’ challenges running their deli. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Jacob strolled to a nearby driftwood tree that had its roots sticking out like the attenuated legs of a huge, pale spider. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could just stick a microphone next to my chest. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

What unimportant little details stick in the memory. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a pure-oxygen environment, 16.7 million joules will be released for every kilogram of sugar used, releasing the explosive force of eight sticks of dynamite. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The safety pin is stuck and when he wriggles it comes loose, sticks him in the hip, and starts him screaming for Mam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was afraid, though, the blame would find a way to stick to them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good, we started yesterday with the kit. I have these awesome sticks from home that...” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Far, far away, someone was yelling, "Stick, stick, stick and run . . ." Up on the balls of your feet, chin in, here he comes, left, left, pop-pop, circle, left, shift, cross. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Hemme set him in front of the class, he gave permission. And it isn’t malfeasance if you give him your hair and watch him stick it on the mommet’s head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She tossed some more sticks on the fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I drop and search the floor with my hands for a weapon—a rock, a stick, a bone—anything to fight off whoever is stalking me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ivy had to stick out her hands to keep from smashing her face into the trampoline. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The kid was as skinny as a stick. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I hate the heat of late summer,” Polly remarked, her hair sticking to her face in the humidity. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When no one did, he lay down and attacked the stick like a warrior, tearing its bark with his small sharp teeth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lee saw flags floating through white smoke, disembodied, like walking sticks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly he jumped back and began waving his stick madly in the air. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t stick a pin in my nose this time, did you?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I never would go out and stick nobody up, but I showed you who was the drug addicts, who was the wineheads, and don’t go with different crowds. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at them, twirling little sticks inside tins filled with mud, pretending to be cooking, porridge maybe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crosses the room and slams the point of a knife so hard into the table that it sticks there, handle toward the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With my golden goat, Cheetah, at my side, I climb toward home, urging the straggling sheep along with my stick. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One nightfall I ate the last of my food but had enough sticks for a good fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I moved on, clattering my stick as the trees grew thick around me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And when she came on Saturdays, she'd always catch Cynthia marching around outside the front of the store—prompted by her grandfather—and Miss Fran would stick stamps on Cynthia's chubby cheeks and forehead. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He turned the handle, trying to do it silently, but the little noise he made sounded to him like a stick banging a bucket. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She acted as if she really believed people in this world cared about other people and would actually stick their neck out, just because she did that for other people. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They add extra ingredients for color, coating, and to make the pill stick together. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It is upside down, wheels sticking up into the air and still spinning, like a beetle stuck on its back. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So if I stick around, and you tell me this big secret, what’s to stop me from going out and telling everyone?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to stick to my plan, because my plan was going to take me places. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had his pointed stick, but it didn’t jab at him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

My father’s arm looked like it had been twisted out of its socket My mother was lying facedown across my father’s body, and her tongue was sticking out of her mouth. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He kept sticking his nose into her elbow and flipping up her arm and wouldn’t stop until she stroked him. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A pair of explorer cousins marched towards the shed with sticks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I got a few answers wrong on purpose. I didn’t want to stick out.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on a bench and held on to a long stick as my sword. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I watched him stride off to get the spear, a little boy with thin arms and legs like sticks, wearing a big string of sea- elephant teeth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I’ll just stick to reading some books and writing in my diary. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Here it is better to have a few people to stick up for you and make sure you get your food rations. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He was sticking close to Dustfinger all the time,” he pointed out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think I’ll stick around in case my brother needs me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stick and probed the brain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I ask, sticking my face in Piper’s face. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left it there, the hilt sticking out. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m better at games when I can mostly use the joy stick,” I said as Connor slipped the disc into the console. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hanako watched her grandmother stir the soup, then remove the pot from the stove, her thin arms sticking out from beneath her rolled-up sleeves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I must have made it back to my room, because the next thing I know, I’m filling a glass with water from the bathroom faucet and sticking the rose in it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If I decided I had been mistaken, I’d go back and get my sticks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stick in the phrase would have where a simple had should go. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Ron had pulled off their sweaters, but Harry’s T-shirt was sticking to the back of his seat and his glasses kept sliding down to the end of his sweaty nose. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They stood trembling at Will’s anger, breathing heavily, clutching their sticks and their stones, and they couldn’t speak. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A head sticks up out of the top, and it has eyes, eyelashes, and pouty red lips painted on. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I lowered my stick and speared the ground over and over. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With a gasp, I let my stick fall. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your friend is quite right, Agha. You might as well poke a rabid dog with a stick,” someone said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go to Hogsmeade,” said Harry, “and try to work something out once we see what the protection around the school’s like. Get under the Cloak, Hermione, I want to stick together this time.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She took a deep whiff of the daisy before sticking it behind her ear. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She looked out for cliques, especially among players who wanted to stick with their own kind. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The man had been driving with his head sticking out the window, staring up at the moon, looking to see the spaceship. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But it gave him a fix on where the man was, and he lunged forward and slashed with his stick at the darkness, connecting with something—arm? hand? shoulder?—and knocking the gun away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She came back to the porch with her bristles sticking out all over her and with dissatisfaction written all over her face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We need one with a good, straight branch on the top to stick the star on,” Hyacinth said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If I stick to the original plan of building my house, I think I can still convince her not to take that job. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He is undersized and his ears stick out and he speaks with a high, sweet voice; the whiteness of his hair stops people in their tracks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he first saw the cow, he caught his breath, at the bony legs of a calf sticking awkwardly out from behind, and the rest of it still plunged deep inside its mother's belly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

You track the other person by observing broken sticks or footprints or even clues that a person sets out, like an acorn under a pine tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to encourage him, to hug him or something, but knew better than to stick around. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They hitched each team to the end of a long stick that came out from the center of the machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This paint sticks darn near everywhere,” he said, “buggin’ me eyeballs.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Pa ties a fish net to a long stick to catch them as they pass by in the rushing water beside our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked from Hazel to Jack, the snowballs to the stick, and raised her eyebrows. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I stick to the instructions, and fill the bottle with warm water and some drops of food dye and detergent and baking soda to make the lava. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would all stand; my uncle, leaning his walking stick against the wall, would lean his weight on the table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his plump cheeks, Somkit was spindly as a stick bug—that never helped when you were living on the streets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Its fur is white and sticks out all over. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the other boys run around in the mud; large extra feet of clay stick to the soles of their boots, leaving tracks like monsters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With great care, their boots sticking in the wet ground, they continued to advance, Jonathan still in front of the Hessians. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” she said to him, and picked up a stick from the ground. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was bent over his walking stick, and his long white beard hung almost to his waist. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The guard marches toward us and sticks the barrel of her gun between us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One man had money sticking out from under his cap. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of our chaperones, Mr. Andrews, who is a sixth-grade homeroom teacher, has shown everyone how to build a campfire, starting with sticks placed in the shape of a teepee. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The more nervous I got, the tighter I would clutch the control stick, and at the end of an hour my right arm would ache. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last Stanley saw of it was one hairy leg sticking out of the lizard's mouth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We’ll stay here and stick together, and when we get out, we can go wherever we want, and no one will stop us.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“He ought to keep his eyes closed to things like that and know who his friends are. A boss is a boss, and working people got to stick together.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The stick smacked Storch right on the back of his head. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, they bought rats on a stick from a boat seller, and watched the street river traffic. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold extended his walking stick between the two men, trying to force his way through, but the tall man grasped him firmly by the shoulder. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lev and I stick to the side streets and small parks where the trees are dense and we can disappear into the shadows. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"You won this round, Alfred, it's one each now. Stick and run, stick and run." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar tossed his walking stick to the ground and they took off again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I hear a stick break, then another, behind the bushes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The flat part of the stick he hollowed out with his knife till it was a little trough. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and find Nico, sitting on the floor in front of the lockers with his legs sticking out in front of him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’m going to print out a copy of Maya Angelou’s poem when I get home and stick it right up on my wall. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” says Vincent, “I’ll swear anything you want but on condition that you vomit that stuff up immediately—stick your finger down your throat until you vomit, otherwise I’ll call the others.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He attached a small square of cloth to the end of a metal stick and began jabbing it down the barrel and through the chambers—eight times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The big fish hawks put sticks in many places during the breeding season. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There, with a long stick she drew a letter in the wet sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know that was a thing. Cooking something on the stove and then sticking the entire pot in the oven.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I didn't pass. Nobody in my session did. To tell you the truth, I think the only reason they let me stick around was because I helped Old Yellow Suit out of a tight spot.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first person who rubbed two sticks together to make a fire was conducting an experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s like a little bottle, only made out of sticks and shells and things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a knock behind us, and a white man with red hair sticks his head into the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Harpoon without a barb is just a long stick. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet stopped and thumped his stick against the icy road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah, right. It’s almost as though that date sticks in your head more than it does mine.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow fed a few sticks to the fire, buckled on his swordbelt, pulled on his boots, shook the dirt and dew from the cloak, and fastened it around his shoulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. Warner is trying to make the name G stick to me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The shaved-ice guy would stroll through, pushing his cart and ringing his bell right next to the mango lady, who sold peeled mangoes on sticks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She felt anger flash through her; she always did find it easier to stick up for people other than herself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Arroyos might be dry for years, but when heavy rains did come, the run-off carried boulders and logs down the arroyo, where they snagged weeds and sticks and other debris. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He even managed to make a pinecone on a stick look intimidating. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Deen and she sat and talked or picked berries or carved sticks, and that was plenty. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, I can make out a teenage boy in a chocolate-brown coat sticking his tongue out at the soldier, in an unseen act of defiance. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Taking advantage of their brief moment of strife, Mr. Griswold swung his walking stick and whacked Barry on the cheek, then pushed past him toward the entrance to the lower level. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

After all, even apes will pick up a stick to knock down a banana or a stone to throw at an enemy. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the mantelpiece in the dining-room and sticking up behind the hatrack there were bright yellow leaves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the stick broke in two, he yelled in sheer joy and continued beating the rock with the short end of it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They joined me in streaking our faces with berry juice and sticking chicken feathers in our hair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After I glued both wings on, the plane got too big to stick back in its box, so I had to hide it under a pillowcase on the top shelf in my closet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped on a cue stick lying in the middle of the floor and tumbled forward. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

While they ate, everyone except Shirley played marbles or cards and traded bottle caps and pictures of men swinging a stick or wearing one huge glove. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turned and went across die yard into the kitchen saying: "Miss Brent and I are getting you breakfast. Can you—bring some sticks to light the fire?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

An old guy with a walking stick who was so lean and healthy looking he looked like he could walk a thousand miles without hardly noticing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He gave his father a sharp tap on the head with his Smelting stick. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I pull one of the sticks of dynamite from my boot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We throw darts at balloons that never seem to stick, but on the last try I manage to pop one balloon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The workers formed rapidly, smiling and sticking one another with their engines of war. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and touched the end of a muddy wooden stick, a digging tool of some kind, sitting next to a small wooden hoe beside me on the boat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Julian cautiously removed the stick, and I disentangled myself. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked for a spot where I might stick an extra star if I had one, I couldn’t find any space at all. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if that doesn’t work, I’ll have to stick with my own opinions and judgment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I opened the window — surprised when it opened silently, without sticking, not having opened it in who knows how many years — and sucked in the relatively dry air. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After leaving my slippers next to Rani's things, I stick a toe into the water. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They came, checked it out, and found fifteen sticks of dynamite in the bag. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d screamed, whacked his father with his Smelting stick, been sick on purpose, kicked his mother, and thrown his tortoise through the greenhouse roof, and he still didn’t have his room back. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But his hand was firmly on her arm and the stick was not just for show. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With the town so deserted, Doha was sharply aware of how much they were sticking out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was no champion, just a dwarf on a pig clutching a stick, capering for the amusement of some restless rum-soaked sailors in hopes of sweetening their mood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A bloody white bone jutted out near his elbow like a broken stick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Miss Lumley brings newspaper clippings about the Royal Family and sticks them to the side blackboard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moving through her room, trembling with excitement, Celaena gathered two balls of yarn from Philippa’s sewing basket, along with three sticks of chalk and one of her makeshift knives. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Nope. But then I thought I'd stick around for you. Seriously, once I started watching the game? Man. Now I know what the hype is all about. You're a monster out there.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Radar dropped a stick at Alex’s feet and jumped back in a crouch, ready for a game of fetch. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The men were scattered all through the trees, red pennants dipped down, rifles bristling like black sticks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he says bring your mother you have to bring your mother or out comes the stick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next time, I would just stick the answer sheet up my shirt. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tucked the berries in the pouch back in under the overhang in the cool shade and found a couple of sticks. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe his life depended on something as small as a stick. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rachel drew another figure with her stick—an ashy Antaeus dangling from his chains. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet laughed and shook his walking stick at her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I totally get why dogs like to stick their head out of car windows. Running’s like that but with fewer bugs in your teeth.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He hurt his head and shoulders on nails sticking down from above as he crawled. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t she stick her nose up in the air! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Around the edges of the pond, before it whitened up, you could lie down on the clear ice and see pebbles and drowned sticks and sand. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had some tubes sticking out of his arm, and one sticking into his nose. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He felt the pleasant rubbing of the stick along his itchy back. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She always makes you stick around later for her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hard to believe Biddy didn’t take a whipping stick to folks that look at her that way all the time. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And probably guessing Tommy was in danger of getting stick from the others, she went too far the other way, actually finding things to praise, pointing them out to the class. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I don't know why we need to stick to the causeway when the water is so shallow. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Theo had found a new pirate sword—an enormous stick, almost as big as he was. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We are to stay in the playground till she sticks her head out the window and calls for us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Barry wanted to jab Clyde with his stick, but he wouldn’t dare. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Thug was brushing his sticks across the round gold metal thing next to his drums and making it sound like a soft rain was commencing to fall on someone’s tin roof. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

His skin is slippery with water and he smells like sweat and my shirt sticks to his arms when he slides them around me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had no problem at all in sticking up an innocent man, Mr. Nesbitt. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clatter of the stick provided a nice rhythm for the rhyme running in my head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Always sticking up for idiots like Chas and losers like me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In her homeland she had started many fires, but usually with a burning stick from someone’s cooking fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held a backpack and a walking stick like she was prepared for a long journey. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Why are you staring at ash and at sticks and scraps of wood when we could be chasing Loki? Kvasir! As you ponder and talk your nonsense he is getting away from us!” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She lay on her side on the stretcher with a pilum sticking out of her armor—almost like she was holding it between her chest and her arm, but there was too much blood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure she will. She always intended to someday. And she has no family there. She’s old enough to marry, but no one would want her. Her leg is crooked. She walks with a stick.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The big white bone sticking out of the skin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I drop the seeds on the table, flicking off the ones sticking to my clammy palm. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A group of white men armed with bats, bottles, and sticks were beating on people at the edge of the crowd. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t eat spicy food. It makes me…” The girl sticks out her tongue, panting like a dog. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He grabs a stick and pulls himself up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Abraham hesitated, the men pummeled him with sticks and the butts of their rifles until he took off the shirt and offered it to the officer in charge. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this relative motion, the particles can never stick together by their mutual gravity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the real flies sticking to my fingers and lips, not the wind blowing through the cornstalks, not the voices overhead of kids carving pumpkins. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was getting pretty worked up herself and now she heaved herself out of her chair and began pacing up and down the room, thumping the carpet with her stick. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s in a hurry. We’d—” then I saw another man, an oldish man running heavily, clutching a stick, and a boy naked from the waist up, clutching his pants as he ran. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And up to the pagoda, where I’d stick the biggest sign of all. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Jeez, Piper, why do you go sticking your nose in this?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Miss Jackson sticks her head out the window, shushing them dogs, I keep real still. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shift gears. sticks out like a sore thumb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marigold fought the urge to stick her tongue out at him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For once the Doctorita is taking my side, sticking up for me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even stick around long enough to thank the officer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then she felt the heat on her fingers and let go, and the flaming stick dropped over the ledge and into the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When two moving lumps collide, the computer program makes them stick. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, the end of the stick burst into flame. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t pay me for today unless I stick until dinner.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing is that Alice wore white stick deodorant with a strapless dress, and it showed. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Jesus Christ bleeding on a Popsicle stick,” I whisper under my breath. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy fumbles for his keys and sticks several in the lock while muttering, “Please, God. Please.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For example, if you run across two sticks in the shape of an X you have to hop over it backwards on your left foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly leaned slightly bigger sticks on top of them and blew some more. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He brought his stick to high ward, seeming to invite a thrust from Julian. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had big, shin\\ -looking boots that dusi didn’t want to stick to. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spurge had made a little pile of leaves, then twigs, then sticks, then logs. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He writes down House of no yelling and sticks it onto the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Joey Witter brought in pretzel sticks, which we got to dip into frosting and red sprinkles. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sure they are very nice, but I’ll stick to my own kind. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey was sitting cross-legged on a blanket, poking at the fire with a stick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Though I do stick around for the New Year’s Eve party. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I will count the people and make marks on the stick,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For years, I’d dreamed of being one of those powerful girls in their shimmering leotards, flying through air, sticking the landing every time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They walk a short way down an adjoining passageway, layers of mud sticking to Bailey’s formerly shiny shoes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was still angry over Pimlico starter Jim Milton’s use of tongs on War Admiral the year before, and he was sticking to his vow never to run a horse at the track again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my turn to stick my tongue out at him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because all of a sudden, I’m leaning over the gear stick, and my hands are on his shoulders, and I’m trying to keep breathing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In his right hand he carried a swagger stick which occasionally he slapped against his left palm, punctuation marks for the thoughts that crowded and strutted invisibly within him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the stick and grabbed my wrists so tight it hurt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This,” said she, pointing to the long table with her stick, “is where I will be laid when I am dead. They shall come and look at me here.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks you oughta stick around. And we were talking, and I think it’s about time for me to do like him. Sit on a beach, watch some pretty women.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Styx shoved one end of the stick through the bandanna knot, then hiked the pack up over his shoulder, like a real old-timey hobo. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the sticks and some bailing wire, Grandpa made a frame that looked almost like a gingerbread man. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, I wish we could stick around to watch this.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Quickly I drew stick man and stick tree side by side, to clarify. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a small stick and traced in the dirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We decided to stick it out through the month. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite clearly and emphatically, and only a yard or so away from the back of the shelter, a stick cracked. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he sees Helene, Leander self-consciously runs his hand over his curly hair—which sticks up all over the place no matter how short he cuts it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was in the driver’s seat and said, “Just pull the stick in the direction you want the car to go. The car will do the rest.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just as she was turning to leave, Jinny happened to notice a slip of white paper sticking up from the side of the couch frame, pale in the dim room. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We boys practiced throwing our little stick spears. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherlock is out in the yard with us, gnawing on a stick. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was drawing in the dirt with a stick. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“And he broke it with a stick and said, ‘Help.’ The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I put my trowel down and stick my fingers into the soil. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Safer tells me that even though it looks like a messy bunch of sticks, the nest has three different areas, almost like little rooms. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Once a week, he prepared the “special sauce” for his hamburgers, making it in huge kettles on the back porch of his house, stirring it with a stick and then pouring it into one-gallon jugs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Eating lunch in the cafeteria, Kyle stared at his wilted fish sticks, wishing he could pull a magic Take Another Turn card out of thin air. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She brought out a bunch of seemingly random supplies: toothbrushes, combs, little deodorant sticks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She dropped the stick and took it, stared at the jeweled box winking blue and red and purple in the light of the fire. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was smiling with a white Tootsie Pop stick jutting out of the corner of his mouth. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo switched her across the legs with a stick before dragging her back to the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged herself away, limping as fast as she could, and the terrible fury of the man came after her, thrashing and beating with his stick, and the frenzied laughter-like agony filled the air again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I scream and he sticks the knife in to the handle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad sat with his right leg sticking out into the aisle, a hard cast wrapped around his foot like a cement boot. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He stuck his stick upright in the little mound and then asked for water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you find her much changed, Pip?” asked Miss Havisham, with her greedy look, and striking her stick upon a chair that stood between them, as a sign to me to sit down there. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Spirit Medium raised his walking stick, but Tendai wrenched it away before he could strike his sister. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I hit him with a stick—knocked him out. Let me sleep.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood near the large tins of rice and could smell the cinnamon sticks which sat on a shelf right near my face. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After dinner he will help Sonia and Ben scrape bay leaves and lamb bones and cinnamon sticks from plates, pile them on the counters and two burners of the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had started to explain Hera’s plan for bringing the camps together to battle Gaea and the giants, but the goddess stamped her walking stick against the marble floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That smell's going to stick around for a while, too. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell a couple of times, tripping over roots sticking out from ground that was ashy and loose in the thinning earth, washed out from the endless rain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Or she’d stick her finger down her throat and throw up, or she’d hold the thermometer near a light bulb to make it look as if she had a temperature. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The animals got so close that Guerra hit two of them with a stick to force them to back off. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I start sucking my shirt cuff that’s sticking out of my jacket sleeve. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just felt like maybe it would fix itself over time, and that there was no need for my father to stick his nose in it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

G.H. and Jack leaned on their cue sticks and watched silently. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But you do want to talk about this sometime later?” she asked, sticking her face right up close to mine again, another blast of Gatorade and something else, cinnamon, maybe. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I got it!” he said as small clouds of smoke drifted up into the air and a low flame started blooming on the mound of sticks and leaves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth sticks her pinky in the air as if she’s holding a delicate teacup. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Your father and I will always stick out because—well, you know—because of our education and our way of thinking. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I never knew or had forgotten how much of Maine sticks up like a thumb into Canada with New Brunswick on the east. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walking stick insect is great at camouflage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The girl looks at me for a second and then uses the tip of her boot to knock the burning sticks off the little green box. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko offered him a stick of gum, which the kid crammed into his cheeks. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day two thousand men, many armed with sharpened sticks, advanced on McArthur’s workers, seized two, and began beating them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The vendor ladies squatted, scowling, resting their chins on their crossed arms, behind fortresses of stacked kola nuts, bundles of fragrant sticks, piles of charcoal, salvaged bottles and cans, or displays of dried animal parts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man is looking at me the way the guards looked at Mouse Girl when they shoved her in, like I'm the rubbish that's sticking to my skin. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Time after time, it dipped in and out of the candy counter: peppermint sticks, jawbreakers, horehound, and gumdrops. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tried to stick his tongue in my mouth the other day.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Those are just details!" she cried, waving her stick again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

He reached into his pocket and pulled out three pieces of ribbon-striped stick candy. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered how Bigwig, after his reconnaissance on the previous day, had spoken of the little white sticks in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sticks up out of the ground just about one foot. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mud closed around the stick for a moment, then shrank away, leaving a small gap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She leaned on her stick and walked slowly to the door. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Bertulf just sat in his chair behind the table, like a stick of butter slowly melting. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The hens paid her no mind, seeing that she came with a crooked stick and no feed. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I whacked him between the ears with a dead stick. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do the right side, I’ll stick to the left. Maybe there’s another exit we don’t know about.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was sticking close to Dustfinger, close as a burr, and he didn’t like the gutted cottage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” said Mrs. Weasley anxiously, clearly torn between a desire to finish the shopping quickly and the wish to stick together in a pack. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"Ask him what they are doing about it, ladies and gentlemahn. Are they afraid—or are the white folks and their black stooges sticking together to betray us?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood back and the head hung there, a little blood dribbling down the stick. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Oh, hell, what had happened had happened and he would stick to his story. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said all we had to do was stick together and be brave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Holding flashlights and sticks, they began to strike at us left and right, shouting: “Everybody out! Leave everything inside. Hurry up!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had one huge shot of the splintered walkways sticking up in all directions, like Godzilla had just trampled through there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could bring you bugs, though I don’t like to pick them up. But I wouldn’t want to stick butterflies to the wall.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I try my best to stick to the shade near the building, but it’s hopeless. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a horse, so skinny it seemed made of sticks and paper bags, clopping through the snow and slush of the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They d hollow a hole in a log and put the corn in there, then pound and grind it with a heavy stick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often there’s a plate of pizza crusts or a half-eaten carrot sticking out of a bowl of hummus. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And then I feel my heart squeeze up the way he stops smiling, sticks his tail between his legs again, and slinks off. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ren looks the most frazzled out of us all, with his short brown hair sticking out in every direction and his eyes hidden behind a pair of white sunglasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The thing I’d realized most over the past few days was how important it was for us to take care of one another and stick together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And even though Cecile didn’t bother to bring us here or stick up for Fern, the Black Panthers had slapped palms and said, “Those are Sister Inzilla’s, all right.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stick out my chest and add, “Nothing I couldn’t handle.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

While me and Howard gathered leaves and branches to stick through the chicken wire, Bertha kept Burl busy with all her questions. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The net, under tension, rained seawater onto the deck along with sticks and kelp. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the choir of two-fisted tenors on the record were “proud to bear the title” Colonel Meecham entered the room slapping the swagger stick in a steady, tautological rhythm that seemed ominous, even predatory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made it to the last one just as the stick had almost burned down to her fingers, and she let it drop on the counter to burn itself out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In her hand was a flaming stick, which she held up like a torch. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could almost see the idea rolling around her brain, like a hard, round candy, trying to find a place to stick. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Max sticks the shovel in the ground and hops light as a cat from the hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I had a deal with my grandmother that I had to survive 1 year of middle school. I’m already the cleaning lady. I don’t need to stick out any more.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer felt a gust of beef stick breath. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I kept walking, Fern sticking close to me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pass through another car, trying to avoid the limbs that stick out from under bunks, the arms that spill over their edges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But the way she imagined it was feeling like long nails were sticking into your stomach. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a while a guy wearing a Lonestar Arena T-shirt came out and tried to adjust the line so that instead of sticking straight out from the ticket window, it went parallel to the building. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Get down!” he shouted again as what appeared to be a flaming stick of dynamite whizzed past and landed on the stair just below me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think he’s saying be a good friend without expecting something in return,” James said as he poked a stick under a trash can. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Kay isn’t such a bad stick, you know, in his way.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were middle-class Haitians, Farmer said, adding that they regarded living in Cange as living in the sticks. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Old Man reached beside him for his walking stick — a bent, twisted wood stick — and tapped it on the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I saw an arm sticking up from the mound of rubble and the hand was twisted at an impossible angle from the wrist. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now if I hear of one boy in this class jeering and sneering at McCourt or his brother over their shoes the stick will come out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“And as you can see, it features a stove that will cook if we light the whole thing on fire and cook hot dogs and marshmallows on sticks.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I tuck my knees up against my chest and only my shoes stick out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“All those women in bikinis strutting around Cape Canaveral, and there’s old Wernher and his boys with their big rockets sticking up in the air. How do you feel when our rockets work?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, Seven thought it might be enchanted mail, but then she noticed the old brown dress shoes sticking out beneath the boxes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At their head was the boy in the striped T-shirt, and it wasn’t a stick that he was carrying: it was a pistol. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, Roany landed flat on his back inside the bed of that dump cart, with all four feet sticking up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made his voice sound ghostly, shrugged, then ate a mozzarella stick. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Or you jealous, that’s what it is,” he said, sticking his nose up in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“All I know is that you need to stick up for yourself. If you just let them do that, it’s like telling them it’s okay.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I ran back to where he’d landed, pulled him to his feet, and dragged him by the hand through the field of sharpened sticks, to the safety of Rose Hill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She could tell something was wrong, I knew she could, but she doesn’t like to be rude and stick her nose where it doesn’t belong. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Still, I’m firmly convinced that we’ll stick to our agreement never to quarrel. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t stick around to hear what else Mikey Sanders’s got to say. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He kind of reminds me of a friendly fisherman from a commercial for frozen fish sticks. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She still stood looking at the fallen bubbles and then at the bottle and the stick in Mr. Chris’s hands. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I begin a curtsy before I remember myself and awkwardly stick out a hand. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He took a stick and dug some black grease from one of the hub caps on the buggy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They are the pendants of those “vicious”, “bloodthirsty”, “depraved” animals that inflame the ire of the maniacs I have just mentioned, who vent their spite on them with walking sticks and umbrellas. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d offhandedly give them each a couple of dollars to just stick in their pockets, to have something to spend. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fielding was several yards ahead of him, poking in the reeds with a stick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“There are sticks near the nest,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He tied the end of the twine to the stick, and he began to wrap the twine around the stick, to weave it in and around and through. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Men who pushed and pranced, appearing to us as dark stick puppets before the wall of fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed the cup of soil before them and stuck some incense sticks into the soil and lit them, so that Monkey and the Buddha-to-be would be comfortable in the pleasant smoke. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at the camera that’s mounted near the ceiling and stick out my tongue. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The others filled in with what they could find — sticks, coconuts, hollowed bamboo. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You trying to get the nerve to stick me up or you running from somebody?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My daddy sucked in his breath as I told them about the letter opener and forgetting the last two sticks and David coming to pick me up. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Soon Ho, stick out your tongue,” the guard said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The tenants watched him in amazement, without the foggiest idea of why anyone would stick a pin in the color blue one day and move it to the color green the next. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stick to indie stuff, mostly. Lots of comics online.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You stick to your own kind. Better for you and your folks. Go on home.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That would be daring all right: I didn’t have a gun, didn’t have a sword or anything but a knife and a stick. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to him he led an old outcast, a beggar man, leaning most painfully upon a stick, his poor cloak, all in tatters, looped about him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fixed up a bird table, a board sticking out from the sill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cloth muted the noise of the wooden stick on the tiled floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sets it down on a dryish area of ground and piles some sticks on top of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Eager to try, she snapped a stick off a snow-laden bush, trimmed all the side shoots off, and swished it from side to side like a rapier. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed up late and made something in the fire called s’mores with marshmallows on sticks. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It makes no sense—how instantly bloodied he is—until we see the barbs sticking from the wire that encases him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Admittedly there was no evidence that Rosy’s samples contained any divalent ions, and so we might be sticking our necks out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

While Char’s pinching my shoulder, she takes her baby finger and sticks it up her nose like a plug in a sink. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We line shoes up by size along the benches and make signs with cardboard and sticks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We know how they are, the first quarter you start hittin ’em a couple of times, get a couple of sticks on ’em, they want to quit.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the trader brought it to Europe, and the duke fitted it into the end of a walking stick and carried it everywhere.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’d say you’re sixteen. And in case you were wondering, five foot nine . . . brown hair. Oh, and ugly as fried liver on a stick.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He watched the four sticks well lit and then went homeward, comforted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He patted a forked stick tied to his saddle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I let my sticks take the lead, from the bass to the snare and again and again. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nokomis went over to Tallow’s place and pounded some of the corn to meal with the hollowed log and great round stick that Tallow kept in her yard. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But here, the Governor was going to catch them like dogs and stick them in a pen. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She tosses me an exasperated look and points at the twins, who are poking a fire-ant mound with a stick, practically begging to get swarmed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sticks. Just go check it out, okay?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, I patted my lucky film-reel hair sticks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My brother and some of his boy cousins had found a long bamboo stick and were poking the water as if they could make the boat go faster. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feed them stick after stick of metal, running back and forth, and by the middle of the day, I’ve learned how to repair a water pump. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I let my eyes drift shut as my sticks find the pads. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I’m sweating from every pore as I walk, my socks squishy and my shirt sticking to my back. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks out a hand for my dad to shake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"You rub two sticks. You rub-" He glanced at Ralph, who blurted out the last confession of incompetence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now they openly patrolled the streets of Mingora with guns and sticks as if they were the army. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One tray is filled with bundles of slender gray-brown sticks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cramp warned me to “stick to the recommended dosage—two pills, three times a day—otherwise you’ll be completely stoned. Okay?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Great excitement is probably the only thing that really interests a six-year-old boy and it sticks in his mind. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny asked, reaching over to pat down a tuft of curls that was sticking straight up from the girl’s head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“She wants to see it,” the older man says, sticking my money in his pocket. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They ran sluggishly on the parched grass, holding sticks as guns, making shooting sounds with their mouths, raising clouds of dust as they chased one another. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the queen beckoned to another curious member of her entourage: a tall gaunt stick of a man, his height accentuated by an outlandish three-tiered hat of purple felt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He could call her parents, stick her keys in his pocket, and bounce. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was all very well having a rule about not laughing at Toby, but it wasn’t always easy to stick to it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is me!” said Muhammad, pointing to a stick figure with greenish eyes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it hadn’t just been thrown down accidentally, because sticking out from one end of it was the stock of a gun. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robb’s younger sister, brown-haired, long-faced, skinny as a stick, always dirty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tris sticks the needle into her arm and presses the plunger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Behind him came a motley rabble of about thirty men armed with sticks and rocks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And there were two more sticks that had rolled out of the bag, way in the back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stick my phone back in my pocket. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

If she had lost some magical powers in our world, she had not lost her strength; she could break an iron bar as if it were a stick of barley-sugar. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had one pitiful little tooth he was very proud of, and he tried to use it to bite the stick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was just light stuff, like the snow, falling around our heads and not sticking and I knew I wasn’t going anywhere with the conversation. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sticking up for somebody who’s having a hard time sticking up for herself.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He had learned about static cling from watching those boring women who talked about it on television, but could he really stick to a sock? Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

A slim booklet with an American flag on the front sticks out from underneath, jogging my memory. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Those couple of Dragon writing pages sticking out of it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I watched her pound the cocoyams, dipping the pestle often into the bowl of water so the cocoyam wouldn’t stick too much to it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I squat, listening behind me for bears, aster leaves rough on the tops of my legs, then bury the toilet paper under sticks and bark and dried bracken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ucho still had his stick, and he poked it at my side — not hard, but also not gently. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He recognized the gray and blue stripes of Cari’s sock sticking out from under a fallen bookcase. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the lot she dug a small hole with a pointed stick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie’s stick figure was holding hands with one that had Erin Wheeler’s face. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A mouth opened in the mouthless face, strands of pale stuff sticking to the lips, and a voice that no longer even faintly resembled her father’s whispered, “Coraline.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He said it's being willing to fail but try again—pushing through and sticking with something even if it’s hard. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stood up and walked to Tayo; he reached down for the prayer sticks and spoke the words distinctly, pressing the sticks close to his heart. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the darkness while he shaved sticks into a pile with his knife and broke up the small branches with his hands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

People who had never once spoken to him suddenly remembered, with a pang of affection, having seen him throwing sticks to a dog or stealing tulips from a teacher’s garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This twisting tightened the chalzas and kept the yolks suspended in the middle of the albumen so that they did not stick to the inner shell. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Peeling it away, I made a hole so large that I could stick my fist inside. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I name him Pierre and stick him in my pocket. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’d rather be skateboarding, or spitting, or sticking gum on the floor 9 elevator button so that cranky Mr. Watkins had something to give him the stink eye for. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t help notice her two big toes sticking out from the gap, because they were painted with matching dark pink nail polish and were very bright. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts the needle back in its case and sticks an adhesive bandage on the injection site. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At first we didn’t have paper and pencil, so we learned to write with a stick in the dirt floor of the school. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She spread her snare, elevated it with an ice stick, and paid out enough hide­ line to be out of the sight of the hare. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would make pushing my stick off the river bottom harder, but I knew it would be impossible for Otto to sit still on the rocking boat without holding on to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

All along the carriage, heads were sticking curiously out of their compartments. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The front yard was decorated with what looked like a DIY glow-in-the-dark bowling set made from plastic water bottles with glow sticks inside them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to lift the long stick she kept at the foot of the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls launched the rocks and sticks at the jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She looked like the victim of a famine—limbs like sticks, swollen knees and knobby elbows, rags for clothes, broken fingernails and toenails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see an officer command a modicum of respect and wanted Konoval to stick around, despite his tsk-ing over housekeeping. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilda sticks her head out of the other window to cheer me on. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Mam never opens the trunk so what does it matter if I cut off a piece of the dress to make seven red hearts we can stick on our chests? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His length was his pride, and no mere walking stick was more impressive than he! Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris took the stick from the bottle and waved it over the pans, and—Marly stared and Joe gave a surprised whoop. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar drove stick, and the engine purred to life. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I put Mr. Patterson in a pair of white shorts with skinny white legs sticking out and I gave Mrs. Patterson a big sunhat and a bathing suit, imagining Moxie bottles in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He drew a long tube and at one end made a stick figure face. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Laughing, Nick tossed the stick aside and swaggered off. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Splitting up in situations when they clearly need to stick together.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

One day during recess—while doing some stick sketching in the dirt—I took a deep breath and plunged ahead. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Nurse probed about the hair with a long thin stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the woods, looked around, could not see the crow, but noticed a big stick nest in a scrabbly pine. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept running the stick over his chin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wishes we had a drop of hair oil in the house but water and spit will keep my hair from sticking up like black straw in a mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the thing that sticks in my mind are these two lines: Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

British soldiers looted a burning house, running out with arms full of silver, and forks and spoons sticking out of their pockets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if he did see the light—or whatever you call it—why not stick with the religion he already has? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sit down, Uhmma says and sits back on her feet, butt close to the ground, knees sticking up to the sky. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then I dug at a seam of tar on the roof with my fingernails and used some to stick the hair to a leaf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could already feel a hint of bum on her nose, and realized she had forgotten to stick on a sunblock patch after daybreak. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Nan came up with Relocation Rule Number 14: Blend in with the locals or stick out with the yokels. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The racket stops, the door opens and the man is there, white hair, thick glasses, white sweater, a stick in his hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He ran to the dinghy, pulled the stick it was tied to out of the ground, and began to shove the boat out into the current. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Directly across the lake from it, at the inside comer of the L, was a mound of sticks and mud rising up out of the water a good eight or ten feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me, I cast out and then I stick with it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says ’tis all right for her to be begging at the St.Vincent de Paul Society for a docket for food but he can’t stick a few spuds in his pocket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seven naked little pink creatures lay all wound up together with closed eyes and ears standing up and long whiskers sticking out and little pointed noses and tiny strings of tails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A sack was slung across his shoulder, and he held a stick that was much sturdier and longer than Muthu’s. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

You stick your chin out, like, Go ahead, hit me if you’re going to hit me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He tells me hold out one hand and then the other and hits me with his stick once on each hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It acted on him like the jabs from the pointed stick, provoking him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Slapped over and over again with the stick, Seabiscuit blew Faust’s doors off, covering a quarter mile in an impossible 22% seconds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It does too. Your tongue sticks out of your mouth when you draw. That’s why you drool.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They’d gone there with other kids and imagined they were hiding out, sharpening alder sticks with pocketknives to be used in their defense. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“For sticking to your prior commitments, you will receive our special Prior Commitment Sticker prize: a complete set of Lemoncello Sticker Picture Games and a laptop computer to play them on! Enjoy.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“And the bubbles wouldn’t stick, Connor! Not to any of the other blue willow leaves. Not to any of the other tree leaves. Just to the leaves from these two trees!” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“The midday is over. I must run or I’ll taste that foreman’s stick.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

On the bridge I painted four stick figures. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The day before I’d gone to first grade, T. Ray had found me in the peach stand sticking a nail into one of his peaches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who needs a husband when I have more handsome gentlemen around than you can shake a stick at? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a new character for you,” Jack said, whiffing at a snowball with his stick. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She laid a thin stick under the score line and pushed sharply down on the lacquer, as she’d seen a glazier cutting glass, and it worked: now she had two sheets. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She missed the familiar drafty classrooms, the textbook pages sticking to her cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She came hard upon my heels and I scuttled into the back yard, running blindly in the dark, butting my head against the fence, the tree, bruising my toes on sticks of wood, still screaming. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I was telling my brother how I could have taken Chinese or German but that I decided to stick with Spanish, and he couldn’t believe it.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You can pass on or you can stick around. You’ll have company,” Ophie said, her heart feeling brittle as she looked at the ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard Kira rise from her chair as well, lift her stick from where it leaned against the table, and walk across the room. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let them stick to the bottom of the pot. I’m going into the living room and put my feet up and watch television like the Rockefellers.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the hill, a car peels by me and I want to stick out my thumb. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Barbecue, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar, cheddar ranch, flaming hot, and I tried to figure out which would be the one that could be most easily beaten by a stick of gum. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That kind of shook me, but I decided to stick around and shoot some foul shots anyway. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I thought I could melt back into the fun and forget about everything else, but I’d made Jules a promise and I was going to stick to it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If you're not off our land by the time I count to twenty”—Dawn Madden crumpled a stick of Wrigley's Spearmint into her beautiful mouth—”I’ll tell my stepfather you groped me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Sure you do. Remember how we used to hide here? Remember the night my momma died and you stayed with me, told me you were gonna stick with me? Sure needed you that night." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying me in one hand, she went bustling out of the bedroom and along the corridor, banging her stick on the carpet with each step she took. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When you were small, you would swing yourself up legs-first, but now you have to stick your head through the opening in the floor and then hoist the rest. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

With the imminence of defeat, some women went into the street armed with sticks and kitchen knives. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He shook his head slowly while he turned the meat with a forked stick. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks his head in the driver’s side. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever saw the police carry those long sticks around anymore. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He seemed to know what she intended before she did, and when she lunged at his head, the great paw swept the stick aside harmlessly, and when she feinted, he didn’t move at all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It still sticks out at an unnatural angle and has a bump on the bone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Some roll it up and slip it into their walking sticks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So I take half a step closer, and I stick out my elbow and bring it to her hand, which is not so easy when you can't see your own arm. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my memory, the stick poked into my side over and over again, and I grew angry once more. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Seven sticks his hand under his armpit, then rubs it in Sekani’s face. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was my only prop, a plastic stick painted to look like wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He drew on a pair of very thick gloves, picked up a large, knobbly walking stick, and proceeded toward the door of the Monster Books’ cage. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Take this money, this note, and this stick,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sticks and stones,” I mumbled, though I wasn’t feeling very powerful at that moment. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But it doesn’t change who they are—Chantal still sticks to her books and is worried about paying for her classes next semester. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his Bismarck walking stick and took off, almost at a run, heading for Lone Pine to buy himself a car. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrapped it six inches above the cut, using a stick to wrench it tight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took a bite of the carrot stick. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There's the tiny cake I bought too, with one skinny candle sticking out of it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In that instant, I saw that life might hold more for me than being a champion stick- fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the road they went into the deep resin-scented darkness of the trees, and gathered dead sticks and cones to make a fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She put a hand on my shoulder, which made the hairs on my neck stick up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probed at the opening of the pouch with a stick, loosening it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped his trademark walking stick, striped in Bayside Press colors, to the beat of his tune. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was nearly noon, and the figures Wash had drawn with a stick in the damp dirt were now dry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They rolled discarded old bicycle tires with sticks. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ekon looked again to the feet sticking out from the tapestry. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I dropped my lacrosse stick and wrapped my arms around my little brother. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Stop it! Stop it!” cried the manager, poking the walking stick through the bars and knocking the books apart. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This was an order, and basically the price of admission, as she was holding the hot dog roasting sticks behind her back as she spoke. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“A few are broken, but it’s not a total catastrophe. We’ll stick the bad ones on the bottom before Abuela can see.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Golf was a novelty, bringing the cream of society together around a tiny ball that was struck with a stick, just as the Indians had done two hundred years before in these same, places. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s eyes followed Gus as Gus put his cue stick in the rack and brushed chalk dust from his trousers and walked a little distance away. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had one of the heads in her lap, wrapping folds of pink velour around it and sticking pins here and there to hold the cloth in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"Well, I don't want to stick around in here if it is some weird mutated plague. Call for a bio team. Let's have him brought to the medical ward cells." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He poked the leaves with his stick and heard something—this time, from the ground. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was becoming a solitary girl swiping nettles with a stick, and at last she stopped and tossed it toward the trees and looked around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, so close to the boat I could have leaned down and grabbed it, a large sea turtle appeared, a hawks bill, flippers lazily turning, head sticking out of the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hard, grooved candy stick is both sweet and sour, a jolt of flavor so intense I almost swoon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had one of those wooden passes sticking out of his hip pocket, the same way we used to have, to show he had permission and all to go to the bathroom. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Tell me if it happens again, the sticks and twigs poking at you.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A piece of the broken mask is sticking out of his backpack. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The crowd scattered, a few heading for the woods with sticks and clubs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw found a long, straight stick, and began to peel it, to make a skewer. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Multiplying by zero is like sticking a needle on the north pole and everything winds up at zero: anything times zero is zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t have any tubes or anything sticking out of his arms—not like I thought he would. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She set down her bag and walking stick, then slid her passport through the slot under the glass. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The snow has begun to stick and I leave a trail of footprints behind me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That is, the neutrons stick in the nucleus of the uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks sort of like a prep-school student, which will put him at a disadvantage in our school and make him stick out, because no one at our school has money, except drug dealers. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cowlick on the side of his head sticks up in a nubby devil’s horn. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There it was, sticking up out of the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed him around the house like a puppy, begging him to show her how to stand on her head and stick pins through her skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stick and began to poke at the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t stick out his neck and sink our ships—and he did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We used to spar when we were younger, with practice sticks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think you should stick things on people’s cars.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank you for sticking up for me,” said Rita after she had recovered from being thrown down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems kind of strange for Coach to be sticking his neck out so far for a non-basketball player,” says Erin, fishing. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a stick and talked on, almost like I wasn’t there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They treat these introductory words as mere throat-clearing with no grammatical significance, then stick in an unnecessary is before going on with the rest of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a stick or an oar to propel the raft, but the rotted thing jerked into motion by itself, floating slowly at first, then picking up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The smell coming off it was like a garbage can full of fish sticks that had been sitting in the sun all week. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The hairs on my arms stick straight up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced at her, at the stick, when she spoke of it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Janine is sweating now, her hair is escaping in wisps from the elastic band, bits of it stick to her forehead and neck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bundled up the sticks that opened into flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Hamid says I’m steadily climbing to the top of the transplant list now, so I’ll be here for a month, taking antibiotics, sticking to my regimen....” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Standing tail, with her feet together, stick on her shoulder, she waited bravely. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

His father’s plate is polished clean, the chicken bones denuded of cartilage and chewed to a pinkish pulp, the bay leaf and cinnamon stick as good as new. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Squelch straddled a limb of the Hollow Log like a horse and whipped his own bum with a whippy stick. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jimmy took a long stick and poked around in the grasses before he sat down. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve walked off more marriages and close calls than you can shake a stick at, but never got out of the Dark Continent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit looked back at the gray figure bent over a kettle, stirring something with a long stick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly just sitting by the side of the road with someone’s head and arms sticking out the top, smoking, and holding on to a gun. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid had written about a boy whose oddity it was to stick pencil stubs in his ears. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rush to the window, stick my head out and throw up. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I might as well swallow a lit stick of dynamite and hurl my own self off Devil’s Drop. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The nurse, noting that the slashes were only superficial, just had the inmate stick his arms out through the bars so she could clean them up and put on antiseptic and bandages. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right at his feet were two orc-archers with knives sticking in their backs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet left bloody footprints upon the path—sliced by every stone and sharp stick she stumbled over. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d known as soon as I punched off the vault that I was soaring too far out and wasn’t going to stick the landing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His hair is sticking straight up, and he has toothpaste around his mouth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At this moment, it could be a plea: stay close to me, stick with me. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For the next four days, Celaena awoke before dawn to train in her room, using whatever she could to exercise—chairs, the doorway, even her billiards table and cue sticks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Looking over at him dizzily, I see the hilt of my knife is sticking out of his chest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She knew that if she moved her hand quickly enough she could stick her forefinger and thumb into the fish’s gills and, in a swift movement, lift it out of the water. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn't too bad for a while because there weren't many people around and I could stick my feet up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Atticus walked from his office to the foyer and took down his hat and stick from the hat rack. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"I'm just sayin', it ain't that deep. You run, then you hand the stick to the next person. Then they run." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When left to its own devices, it sticks up and makes me look as if I have been set afire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Using her walking stick as a prod, she pushed the man away and wrenched her wrist free from his grasp. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hunch up like a sad turtle and try to ignore him, but he’s now throwing sticks and dirt at me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t organize it. I didn’t talk to nobody. If I’d talked to anybody they would of told me not to stick my neck out. Nobody organized nothing.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into sticks, into round slices, and into triangles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He hands his tree sticks to a boy with a backwards baseball cap. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z