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  • THE SHACK SAT BACK from the palmettos, which sprawled across sand flats to a necklace of green lagoons and, in the distance, all the marsh beyond.   (source)
    SAT = college admissions test (registered trademark of College Board)
  • THAT SATURDAY, I SAT at my desk with a stack of homework.†   (source)
  • LOUIE SAT AWAKE, LOOKING INTO THE SEA.†   (source)
  • TRUDY SAT UP IN BED, annoyed and confused.†   (source)
  • With the hospital bills piling up, I got a third job (as an SAT tutor at the Princeton Review), which paid an incredible eighteen dollars an hour.†   (source)
  • My SAT scores were hundreds of points below the average for students entering Johns Hopkins, and despite my being a junior college graduate and an Army officer, I knew that landing admission at Hopkins would be a stretch at best.†   (source)
  • SHE SAT DOWN then, although there was nothing to sit on.†   (source)
  • They finally got around to talking about SAT scores, which I have never taken.†   (source)
  • Colleges care about more than your SAT scores.†   (source)
  • The SAT lines are interfused, so triangulation is out.†   (source)
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  • He had given Willow practice exams in everything from the required three-hour test for application to medical school to fourteen of the SAT Subject II's.†   (source)
  • MITCH SAT at his station in Mission Control.†   (source)
  • The subject line read, SAT vocab.†   (source)
  • You have to have the grades, teacher recommendations, a personal interview, SAT scores—that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • One Saturday, soon before he is scheduled to take the SAT, his family drives to Connecticut for the weekend, leaving Gogol at home alone overnight for the first time in his life.†   (source)
  • He got a perfect score on his SAT, even though he fell asleep at one point during the test.†   (source)
  • IN THE LATE AFTERNOON MATT SAT IN THE CABIN doorway.†   (source)
  • CINDER SAT INSIDE HER BOOTH, CHIN CUPPED IN BOTH palms, watching the huge netscreen across the crowded street.†   (source)
  • THEY SAT ON THE BENCHES NAKED AND COLD FOR A LONG time while the barber worked on each in turn.†   (source)
  • I SAT AT THE BASE of the tree, legs folded up to my chest, waiting.†   (source)
  • WE SAT IN THE nearly empty bar —a once-famous oak-panelled joint smelling of hamburger grease, Ivy League pennants on the walls, while Platt talked in a rambling, uneasy monotone so quietly I had to strain to follow.†   (source)
  • The SAT scores have arrived and are available to be picked up in the Senior High Counseling Office.†   (source)
  • I'VE JUST SAT down at the dining table for dinner.†   (source)
  • "Echo's ACT and SAT scores are fabulous.†   (source)
  • GEARED UP AND STRAPPED IN, I SAT VIBRATING in the gunner's chair of the DPV shortly after nightfall March 20, 2003, as an Air Force MH-53 lifted off the runway in Kuwait.†   (source)
  • I SAT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE WITH Mina.†   (source)
  • She knew Cass's playing stats, SAT scores, and GPA by heart.†   (source)
  • HOLMES SAT IN HIS CELL at Moyamensing Prison, a large turreted and crenellated building at Tenth and Reed streets, in south Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • I SAT BOLT upright in my bed.†   (source)
  • The first two times I took the SAT—ugh.†   (source)
  • He knew how smart Dennis was; he had seen his SAT and AP scores.†   (source)
  • I SAT IN THE back of Abenthy's wagon.†   (source)
  • DR. DOANE: I mean, what I came up with is this....There is a direct statistical tie-in——that is, those students who have taken an English class with you, Peg, score higher on the Iowa tests, the Stanfords, and the SAT verbals.†   (source)
  • I laugh sometimes when I think of my secret for scoring so high on the SAT.†   (source)
  • THEY SAT ON THEIR BED and watched the rain and talked as they often did about the end of the world, and Saeed wondered aloud once again if the natives would really kill them, and Nadia said once again that the natives were so frightened that they could do anything.†   (source)
  • LAYLA SAT ON HER BRAND-NEW DISCOUNT MAT-tress while Quinn busily checked out the clothes she'd recently hung in her closet.†   (source)
  • This isn't the SAT, Nora."†   (source)
  • LUMA SAT CROSS-LEGGED on the edge of the playing surface, her eyes calm and appraising beneath the bill of her baseball cap.†   (source)
  • DAVID HENRY SAT UPSTAIRS IN HIS HOME OFFICE.†   (source)
  • SAT word alert.†   (source)
  • And just when you think you're going to die if you have to take another practice SAT, your dad asks if you want to go visit your grandmother in Virginia Beach."†   (source)
  • I had taken all the tests that counted—the SAT and the Florida Placement Exam in order todetermine state college eligibility.†   (source)
  • THEY SAT opposite on their bunks with their elbows on their knees leaning forward and looking down at their folded hands.†   (source)
  • God, if I want to be reminded of how dumb I am, I'll just consult my verbal SAT scores, thanks."†   (source)
  • BILL STRAUSS SAT UP when he heard the man's voice.†   (source)
  • —From The Warrior Song of King Gezar THE KING SAT in the window seat.†   (source)
  • It's an SAT word, Kyle.†   (source)
  • My SAT prep courses are paying off.†   (source)
  • I SAT HUNCHED over The Incredible, Fantastic Adventures of Frankie, Toothless Girl Wonder by a Leopold Gursky who wasn't me.†   (source)
  • I SAT THERE, ratcheting the possible connections through my mind.†   (source)
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