All 9 Uses of
resume
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Neeley went back to bed and resumed his sound sleep.†
Chpt 6resumed = began again
- Behind the frosted glass door where the terrifying business was going on, there was a steady bawling punctuated by a shrill scream, resumption of the bawling and then a pale child would come out with a strip of pure white gauze about his left arm.†
Chpt 18resumption = the act of beginning again
- His mother, fearful that he would starve, resumed nursing him.†
Chpt 29resumed = began again
- Some children who had been standing around listening, resumed their play.†
Chpt 30
- One of the reasons was that when a little girl was attacked, the parents kept it secret so that no one would know and discriminate against the child and look on her as a thing apart and make it impossible for her to resume a normal childhood with her playmates.†
Chpt 33resume = begin again
- * I brought him up to be my pride and joy...Katie resumed her thoughts.†
Chpt 42resumed = began again
- Then the conversation was resumed—but this time in whispers.
Chpt 47 *resumed = begun again
- She resumed her breakfast.†
Chpt 53resumed = began again
- She watched a boat glide under the Bridge before she resumed her thoughts.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
begin or take on again