toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

novel
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • She both fits in perfectly yet remains slightly novel.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • He wanted to find a "novel" item, something that people would wear that was not being sold in the stores.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • “A Novel Technique for Transforming the Theft of Mortal Human Cells into Praiseworthy Federal Policy”   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means.   (source)
  • First, she found his unavailability intriguing, even novel.   (source)
  • And she conceived the idea of a soldiers' center. It was a novel idea for its day and Tante Jans threw all the passion of her nature into it.   (source)
  • My dad taught this to us by example, but he also looked for novel ways to teach it to others.   (source)
  • Holding the twenty up like it is novel.   (source)
  • It was a novel experience not to be the object of people's curious stares and whispered comments.   (source)
  • This was a novel experience.   (source)
  • Pipkin and Blackberry were waking, more at the stamping than the voice, which was thin and novel, not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct.   (source)
  • What a novel idea.   (source)
  • Another forceful personality, Brigadier General Bhangoo, had a more novel way of demonstrating his support for Mortenson.   (source)
  • He decided to offer Lorenzo a novel solution: "Next time somebody wants to fight you, pretend you're having a seizure."   (source)
  • Clara grew like a wild plant, despite the recommendations of Dr. Cuevas, who had brought from Europe the novel idea of cold baths and electric shocks for the treatment of the insane.   (source)
  • The company of men is so novel for Cedric that this modest assurance lifts him.   (source)
  • Later I realized what made the experience so novel: He was the first old person I'd spent time with who wasn't in my family.   (source)
  • To the British rank-and-file there was nothing novel about being a soldier.   (source)
  • And yet in its refusal, it passes toward novel order as a primary requisite for important experience.   (source)
  • They wrestled with the novel idea that a Deviation might not be disgusting and evil — not very successfully.   (source)
  • It was not an isolated view then, and it isn't an isolated or novel view today.   (source)
  • To counter that, a search is under way for novel approaches, finding an "architecture" different from...   (source)
  • This was all we could find in each other, this the novel language of our life.   (source)
  • 5 This was a novel undertaking.   (source)
  • And I'm sure the guy sitting across the table shouted, "Now, that's a novel idea!"   (source)
  • Wall Street Journal called it "an attractive high-risk-high-gain investment with novel growth potential."   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Your general design concept is novel but may work.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • These were novel concepts to one who had been taught to believe that wolves were not only capable of catching almost anything but, actuated by an insatiable blood lust, would slaughter everything which came within their range.   (source)
  • Of course, there's nothing novel in that.   (source)
  • The children were still enjoying this novel experience, and wondering what was drawing them upwards, when they disappeared into the ship.   (source)
  • The Almighty Novel.   (source)
  • Is it so novel a thing?   (source)
  • But Raymond was in his study when I arrived, and remained there until it was time to eat; and my nervousness disappeared in the novel excitement I felt at seeing Yvette, so recently naked, corrupt with pleasure, in the role of wife.   (source)
    novel = new (not experienced before)
  • He had never served in an atomic-powered ship, and as much of the equipment was classified for security a great deal of it was novel to him.   (source)
    novel = new (not previously seen)
  • It was daring, novel, exciting; a sudden display of ultra violet windows through clothes and flesh into the soul…   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: "The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive."   (source)
    novel = original
  • Surely he had not placed it there, but there her head was and there was Scarlett helplessly sobbing against his thin chest, an exciting and novel sensation for him.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • She liked his bringing her there to the eastward vision and the novel tricks of wind and water; it was all as new as they were to each other.   (source)
  • There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.   (source)
  • He arranged for a number of novel features.   (source)
  • Dr. Ashmore, the new Rector of St. Matthew's, had been chosen because he was very "advanced": his sermons were considered bold in thought and novel in language.   (source)
  • Once more, this novel method of walking behind the scenes, adopted by the managers of our National Academy of Music, attracted attention; but the managers themselves thought of nothing but their twenty-thousand francs.   (source)
  • ...the enemy is crafty and cunning and full of novel treacheries and stratagems.   (source)
  • The Russian gentleman was so delighted with the strawberries that the three racked their brains to find some other surprise for him. But all the racking did not bring out any idea more novel than wild cherries.   (source)
  • Things might be different awake; maybe in looking for inner support he would do well to give Settembrini's novel nature a try—rebellious and critical, though sentimental and bombastic, too.   (source)
  • …always alike, filling all my nights and days, differentiated this period in my life from those which had gone before it (and might easily have been confused with it by an observer who saw things only from without, that is to say, who saw nothing), as in an opera a fresh melody introduces a novel atmosphere which one could never have suspected if one had done no more than read the libretto, still less if one had remained outside the theatre, counting only the minutes as they passed.   (source)
  • The second handling-machine was now completed, and was busied in serving one of the novel contrivances the big machine had brought.   (source)
  • The whole thing was so novel and surprising that the General was completely overcome with happiness.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • There is something distinctly novel about some of the features.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • CYRANO (coming nearer, passionately):
      Ay, a new tone!  In the tender, sheltering dusk
      I dare to be myself for once,--at last!
    (He stops, falters):
      What say I? I know not!--Oh, pardon me--
      It thrills me,--'tis so sweet, so novel. . .   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • To Carrie, the sound of the little bells upon the horses-cars, as it was novel.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Granted that the great Life Force has hit on the device of the clockmaker's pendulum, and uses the earth for its bob; that the history of each oscillation, which seems so novel to us the actors, is but the history of the last oscillation repeated; nay more, that in the unthinkable infinitude of time the sun throws off the earth and catches it again a thousand times as a circus rider throws up a ball, and that the total of all our epochs is but the moment between the toss and the catch,…   (source)
  • Phillotson was not really thinking of the arithmetic at all, but of her, in a novel way which somehow seemed strange to him as preceptor.   (source)
  • In after years such things became commonplace enough, but then they were in no slight degree novel and startling.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Several sections of this book and its introduction had appeared in periodical publications, and other parts had been read by Sergey Ivanovitch to persons of his circle, so that the leading ideas of the work could not be completely novel to the public.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Some of the briefer articles, which contribute to make up the volume, have likewise been written since my involuntary withdrawal from the toils and honours of public life, and the remainder are gleaned from annuals and magazines, of such antique date, that they have gone round the circle, and come back to novelty again.   (source)
    novelty = quality of being new
  • He pronounced the last truly admirable word with the accent on the last syllable, not as unaware of vulgar usage, but feeling that this novel delivery enhanced the sonorous beauty which his reading had given to the whole.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • However novel and peculiar this testimony of attachment, I did not doubt the accuracy of the interpretation.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • He was the prey of a throng of novel sensations.   (source)
  • To Jack the pleasure of hunting about in the hold, was novel and charming, and very soon a tremendous rattling and clattering heralded his approach with a wheelbarrow, in the highest spirits at his good fortune in having found such a capital thing in which to bring home potatoes.   (source)
  • For the rest, whether trite or novel, it is short.   (source)
  • I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel.   (source)
  • Is the circumstance strange or novel?   (source)
  • Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.   (source)
    novelty = newness
  • The interior of the "castle" was as faultlessly neat as its exterior was novel.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Akakiy Akakievitch gazed upon all this as upon a novel sight.   (source)
  • Individualism *a is a novel expression, to which a novel idea has given birth.   (source)
  • It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.   (source)
  • Since we don't have a television in our house, I assumed it would be fairly easy to find something entertaining, if only for the novelty.†   (source)
  • I joked with a buddy that if she had possessed a terrible personality, she would have made an excellent heroine in an Ayn Rand novel, but she had a great sense of humor and an extraordinarily direct way of speaking.†   (source)
  • Finally, once some of the novelty had worn off, I could tell that Aech was ready to talk.†   (source)
  • All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.†   (source)
  • The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day.†   (source)
  • It was full of chattering first and second years, and a few older students, who had obviously visited Hogsmeade so often the novelty had worn off "Harry!†   (source)
  • He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel.†   (source)
  • The characters and events in this novel are fictional.†   (source)
  • I wonder how long the novelty will last.†   (source)
  • The scene was novel, the spectators were an unusual element, but the dilemma was familiar enough: how to keep the peace and not humiliate her mother.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's old hat, an outworn novelty, a mangy toy.†   (source)
  • I tired of anything that was not a novelty.†   (source)
  • Meredith claims it'll settle down once the novelty wears off for the juniors, but I'm not holding my breath.†   (source)
  • "An orange," Hannah echoed, pleased with the novelty.†   (source)
  • Some sort of Japanese novelty store.†   (source)
  • I am under deadline for this novel.†   (source)
  • I have an enormous and now unrepayable debt to Paul Peters, whose account of his experiences as an SOE wireless operator in occupied Holland urged me to write this novel.†   (source)
  • He had thought it was something old enough to be new, a play whose novelty alone might be enough to see it through a successful Broadway run: a tragedy in five acts.†   (source)
  • After four-to-six weeks of backbreaking slave labor, grueling homework assignments, and humiliating good behavior at school, a package arrived in George's mailbox from the Li'l Wiseguy Novelty Company.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because I was a novelty here, where novelties were few and far between.†   (source)
  • The first time you see a bear in the kennel it is a novelty, but when the same ones are there day after day, you wind up naming some of them (old Notch-Ear, Billy-Jo, etc.) There gets to be a too relaxed attitude.†   (source)
  • Two and a half millennia later, Albert Camus not only uses plague, he calls his novel The Plague (1947).†   (source)
  • There was a novelty to it; she was good for morale.†   (source)
  • Fighting was novelty enough at our school.†   (source)
  • After an hour or so of drinking, these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages - a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty.†   (source)
  • Everyone is in a good mood, giddy with the novelty of the whole activity.†   (source)
  • Jewelers will buy it, or rich folk who want it for the novelty.†   (source)
  • Question four: What is the significance of Jack London's choice in making Buck, the dog in The Call of the Wild, the focus of his novel?†   (source)
  • She had started to shiver, her jaws clicking together like the chattery-teeth toys you could buy in novelty stores.†   (source)
  • On her many journeys through the world, Fermina Daza had bought every object that attracted her attention because of its novelty.†   (source)
  • The novelty of this appeals to him.†   (source)
  • The theme of unrequited love was introduced as early as 1774 by Goethe in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.†   (source)
  • The novelty, I thought, would be in having this story of female violation revealed from the vantage point of the victims or could-be victims of rape—the persons no one inquired of (certainly not in 1965): the girls themselves.†   (source)
  • I was fascinated with the novelty, with the fluttering Mrs. Cullinan and her Alice-in-Wonderland house.†   (source)
  • He was a brainy kid from a small south Florida town to whom hot showers were something of a novelty, who didn't have the right clothes or much spending money, and at Duke he had a couple of classmates whose father bought them a condominium so they wouldn't have to live in a dorm.†   (source)
  • The novelty of his profession and their dating status must have worn off since he'd first shown up at the house, since no one paid him much attention after the initial hellos.†   (source)
  • But the people in his novel massed against him.†   (source)
  • Five years, and the novelty had not worn off.†   (source)
  • They popped up at breakfast, a day-making novelty.†   (source)
  • "We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.†   (source)
  • After a couple of hours, the novelty of having an American in the house wore off, and the men became fidgety and wandered off to do errands.†   (source)
  • "One of Adam's biggest concerns about getting the eye removed was that it might freak the kids out, and here it was, a novelty.†   (source)
  • There had been a long story in the paper this very morning about the novelty wedding of the sports guy and the weather girl, which went into detail about the mentoring relationship between Charlie Baker and the intern he'd taken under his wing during her first shaky days at the station.†   (source)
  • The local newspapers highlighted the arrests until they grew so commonplace they were no longer a novelty; then they dropped Ira's scrapes with the law into the police log, with the rest of the petty-crime news.†   (source)
  • There was a new novelty I hadn't seen before: a small model of Cormac Limbs.†   (source)
  • It's like she's a novelty or a pet.†   (source)
  • Once, just once, when I was seven years old, my dad had caught me reading his novel before he had finished revising it.†   (source)
  • He stuck his bookmark in the pages of his novel.†   (source)
  • Franz and Simon are the dreamers of this novel.†   (source)
  • The small Missing switchboard was still a novelty.†   (source)
  • The novelty of newcomers had brought out almost all the men who were not on duty or asleep, so the cellar was crowded and warm.†   (source)
  • The last word was still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944.†   (source)
  • But novelty wasn't the strangest thing about her.†   (source)
  • Every novel written has to do with choices.†   (source)
  • He simply looked bemused and interested in the novelty of Pig's stance.†   (source)
  • Grandmama settles herself at the piano and bids us sing along to a rousing round of novelty songs.†   (source)
  • Apart from Knox, and later Leonard Woolf in his novel, A Village in the Jungle, very few foreigners truly knew where they were.†   (source)
  • Lou looked at the titles there and immediately saw every novel and collection of short stories her father had written.†   (source)
  • Nothing's final—nothing's ever final with these guys—but I think I've got him half snowed into the idea of making a picture out of that Lenormand novel.†   (source)
  • He said he was still getting them, said he thinks we'll both get them until there's more people like us—ones who wake up, anyway—and then maybe the novelty will wear off.†   (source)
  • A novelty.†   (source)
  • May the readers and listeners of this novel be likewise blessed, watched over, and protected by their beloved ancestors.†   (source)
  • We walked up and down the quaint streets filled with novelty shops and tourists.†   (source)
  • New prisoners are largely of two kinds—there are those who for shame, fear or shock wait in fascinated horror to be initiated into the lore of prison life, and there are those who trade on their wretched novelty in order to endear themselves to the community.†   (source)
  • And so I made a skirt for her, weaving bright colours into the white cotton that she might like it, and so she did for a time, wearing it gladly, twirling it about her as she spun round and round; but when the novelty had worn off, she became fractious and wanted to tear it from her.†   (source)
  • A few years ago, however, one of our number came to the rescue with a novel idea; he was a young fellow, a native of our valley, absolutely trustworthy and in fullest sympathy with our aims; but, like all the valley people, he was denied by nature the chance that comes more fortunately to those from a distance.   (source)
  • He had seen, for the first time in his life, the face of a girl whose cheeks were not the colour of chocolate or dogskin, whose hair was auburn and permanently waved, and whose expression (amazing novelty!) was one of benevolent interest.   (source)
  • The porter took up his candle again, but slowly, for he was surprised by such a novel idea.   (source)
  • It was novel, strange, somehow exhilarating, and yet disturbing.   (source)
  • He too returned to his old life at school and all his novel enterprises fell to pieces.   (source)
  • The situation was novel, strange to him.   (source)
  • But the first of these was the more novel to him.   (source)
  • The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.   (source)
  • There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect.   (source)
  • ...he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower—   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original (not previously encountered)
  • In him, therefore, the scene in the blockhouse awakened no very novel feelings.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • The house grew accustomed to the novel ways of M. Fauchelevent.   (source)
  • Thus democratic nations have neither time nor taste to go in search of novel opinions.   (source)
  • We have penetrated into this community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day.   (source)
  • The spectacular quality of my sensations was curious and novel, but for all that I was heartily tired and angry long before he had done his eating.   (source)
  • The only time she could remember ever having been alone like this was once when she had missed her maid and her train at a place outside of Versailles—an adventure that had been a novel and delightful break in the prescribed routine of her much-chaperoned life.   (source)
  • In Gopher Prairie the only ardent new topics were prohibition, the place in Minneapolis where you could get whisky at thirteen dollars a quart, recipes for home-made beer, the "high cost of living," the presidential election, Clark's new car, and not very novel foibles of Cy Bogart.   (source)
  • All its phases were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas--everything! … except the novel responsibility of command.   (source)
    novel = new (not previously encountered)
  • Shefford experienced again a feeling that had been novel to him—and it was that he was loose, free, unanchored, ready to veer with the wind.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • So novel?   (source)
  • "Lord!" said Mr. Marvel, looking nervously about him, trying to count the money in his pockets by his unaided sense of touch, and full of a strange and novel idea.   (source)
  • This drifting from conjectures and broodings into a vague sort of enchanting reverie was a novel experience for Milly.   (source)
  • These kept their balance best in that environment, and what tone there was, beyond the apartment's novel organization of light values, came from them.   (source)
  • At the shoe factory she put in a long day, scarcely so wearisome as the preceding, but considerably less novel.   (source)
  • In London nothing interested her but the theatres and the shops; and she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris cafes chantants where, under the blossoming horse-chestnuts of the Champs Elysees, she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.   (source)
  • She helped Rosemary choose a diamond for her mother, and some scarfs and novel cigarette cases to take home to business associates in California.   (source)
  • The following morning the train pulled safely into Montreal and they stepped down, Hurstwood glad to be out of danger, Carrie wondering at the novel atmosphere of the northern city.   (source)
  • He remembered every detail of the previous day and he knew that a perfectly novel experience had befallen him, that he had received an impression unlike anything he had known before.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • The reflections of the daughter were less melancholy, and mingled with a pleased astonishment at the novel scenery she met at every turn in the road.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment.   (source)
    novel = pleasantly new and original
  • Bathsheba's adventurous spirit was beginning to find some grains of relish in these highly novel proceedings.   (source)
  • Lastly, he was to wind them up by appearing in his favourite character of Mr. William Button, of Tooley Street, in 'the highly novel and laughable hippocomedietta of The Tailor's Journey to Brentford.'   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Hard-Heart listened like one in whom a train of novel ideas had been excited by the reasoning of the other.   (source)
  • 'The daughter of a gentleman, though—ha—himself at one time comparatively far from affluent—comparatively—and herself reared in—hum—retirement, need not of necessity find this position so very novel.'   (source)
  • Yet it is not wonderful that these conceptions are indefinite, since they have their origin in sources so utterly novel.   (source)
  • Duncan obeyed, and soon found himself in a situation to command a view which he found as extraordinary as it was novel.   (source)
  • He looked about the room at the novel hangings and ingenious furniture with which she had surrounded herself.   (source)
  • To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.   (source)
  • Then their pleasure—not to say delirium—was so fresh and novel and inspiring that the sight of it paid me well for the interruptions which my sleep had suffered.   (source)
  • ] The foundation of New England was a novel spectacle, and all the circumstances attending it were singular and original.   (source)
  • Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.   (source)
  • The circle of novel ideas is, however, soon terminated; the touch of experience is upon them, and the doubt and mistrust which their uncertainty produces become universal.   (source)
  • Thus Roger Chillingworth scrutinised his patient carefully, both as he saw him in his ordinary life, keeping an accustomed pathway in the range of thoughts familiar to him, and as he appeared when thrown amidst other moral scenery, the novelty of which might call out something new to the surface of his character.   (source)
    novelty = newness (in perspective)
  • This new pause was to enable Deerslayer to survey the singular edifice, which was of a construction so novel as to merit a particular description.   (source)
    novel = new and original
  • Each, in truth, felt that interest in the other which similarity of age, condition, mutual comeliness, and their novel situation would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous.   (source)
  • Darya Alexandrovna watched this luxury which was novel to her, and as a good housekeeper used to managing a household—although she never dreamed of adapting anything she saw to her own household, as it was all in a style of luxury far above her own manner of living—she could not help scrutinizing every detail, and wondering how and by whom it was all done.   (source)
  • In such a novel intermixture, however, of men born and nurtured in freedom, and the compliant minions of absolute power, the catholic and the protestant, the active and the indolent, some little time was necessary to blend the discrepant elements of society.   (source)
  • …of the first of September, after his interview with Kutuzov, Count Rostopchin had returned to Moscow mortified and offended because he had not been invited to attend the council of war, and because Kutuzov had paid no attention to his offer to take part in the defense of the city; amazed also at the novel outlook revealed to him at the camp, which treated the tranquillity of the capital and its patriotic fervor as not merely secondary but quite irrelevant and unimportant matters.   (source)
  • At last he reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Pacific upon Balboa's gaze.   (source)
  • She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that Laura should come and live with her when she was married, and gave Laura a great deal of information regarding the passion of love, which must have been singularly useful and novel to that little person.   (source)
  • Let it suffice, that among spendthrifts I out-Heroded Herod, and that, giving name to a multitude of novel follies, I added no brief appendix to the long catalogue of vices then usual in the most dissolute university of Europe.   (source)
  • At such times there are always a multitude of men engaged in difficult or novel undertakings, which they follow alone, without caring for their fellowmen.   (source)
  • The flash was almost too novel for its inexpressibly dangerous nature to be at once realized, and they could only comprehend the magnificence of its beauty.   (source)
  • The sensations were novel; and regret, with the freshness of our better feelings, mingled with his triumph.   (source)
  • Then, as eye met eye, an expression of novel intelligence passed from one to the other, indicating that to them, at least, the appearance of this extraordinary tenant of the pavilion was as unexpected as it was incomprehensible.   (source)
  • This Constitution, which may at first sight be confounded with the federal constitutions which preceded it, rests upon a novel theory, which may be considered as a great invention in modern political science.   (source)
▲ show less (of above)

show 10 examples with meaning too common or rare to warrant focus
  • She was in the latter stages of the novel, where the young priest was doubting his faith after meeting a strange and elegant woman.   (source)
    novel = book with a made-up story
  • They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.   (source)
  • He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel.   (source)
  • He raised the subject of the novel that the farmer's son was reading, thinking that, he wrote, "if she liked books, she must understand the mind and hardship of human life."   (source)
  • Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee — even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before.   (source)
  • Ruefully Josh says, "The guys from the graphic-novel club are going as different fantasy-book characters."   (source)
  • Late one evening she took her first novel, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, from Ma's bookshelf and read about love.†   (source)
  • One of their most heated debates in that first year was over a novel.†   (source)
  • Give him long enough and he'll write a novel."†   (source)
  • The novel was released in the summer of that following year, 1989, and the publisher sent me on a five-city book tour.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 40 more examples with meaning too common or rare to warrant focus
  • Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP.†   (source)
  • The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews.†   (source)
  • This creature did not belong at a wedding but on the cover of a Stephen King novel.†   (source)
  • All of them were deep thinkers with novel points of view, and I felt that I was opening my mind through the exchanges.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, it takes a certain amount of discipline to sit in a chair and read a novel, even a seasonal one, when a beautifully wrapped present waits within arm's reach and the only witness is a one-eyed cat.†   (source)
  • Lale described it as like something out of a le Carre novel.†   (source)
  • Fortunately the crime novel she was translating from German was absorbing, a welcome distraction.†   (source)
  • I read every novel by every single one of Halliday's favorite authors.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the novel sputtered, coughed and died.†   (source)
  • It turned, like a hidden passage from some mystery novel.†   (source)
  • Like a character in a Victor Hugo novel, she tearfully explained her heartbreaking tale to me.†   (source)
  • Who're you writing the novel to, anyway?†   (source)
  • It was raining a lot and I was riding my bike to school to avoid having to take the bus, and each day when I'd get home, I'd retreat to my room, lose myself in a novel, and simply forget about collecting eggs.†   (source)
  • This is a murder mystery novel.†   (source)
  • He'd written a novel called Great Circle it was about ending up where one started.†   (source)
  • Shit, maybe I was trying to write a romance novel.†   (source)
  • He ate celery while he read a paperback novel.†   (source)
  • "Done?" he asked, closing the novel he was reading.†   (source)
  • "It's not a mystery novel."†   (source)
  • I'm thinking she found a good shrink, or maybe she published that novel she's been writing since the earth cooled.†   (source)
  • The stack of folios before them looked like loose pages from a small paperback novel.†   (source)
  • The novel!†   (source)
  • I thought of sitting in a tub full of cold water reading a novel.†   (source)
  • The novel of the future would be unlike anything in the past.†   (source)
  • "And maybe …. you could do a novel-menu restaurant …. foods from fiction …. sandwiches from Lawrence Sanders murder mysteries, just desserts from Nora Ephron's Heartburn.†   (source)
  • "It's just a boring romance novel," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Fifty pages had been written, but I still didn't think of it as a novel.†   (source)
  • She'd abandoned the novel after the second chapter.†   (source)
  • The leukemia novel.†   (source)
  • The front seat was almost as big as Eleanor's bed, and the back-seat was an Erica Jong novel just waiting to happen.†   (source)
  • But I'm working on a novel."†   (source)
  • They had no novelists-and would not have permitted anyone to read a novel if one were handy.†   (source)
  • I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa.†   (source)
  • Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex.†   (source)
  • This morning if you had told me I'd be reading a romance novel to Dean Holder in my bed tonight, I'd tell you that you were crazy.†   (source)
  • The only difference between our novel and those other, "brand X" novels is that ours is the only one that cares enough to bring you the latest in "Cheesy Animation Technology!"†   (source)
  • But even so—the whole novel is in some ways about that moment.†   (source)
  • "He's assisting me with my novel."†   (source)
  • NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In part, Tamar is a historical novel, a mix of fact and fiction.†   (source)
  • The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)