All 27 Uses
white noise
in
The Darkest Minds
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- WHEN THE WHITE NOISE WENT OFF, WE WERE IN THE Garden, pulling weeds.†
p. 1.1 *
- The sound that came over the speakers wasn't really white noise.†
p. 2.2
- The White Noise—Calm Control, the higher powers called it—was used to settle us down, so to speak, while it did absolutely nothing to them.†
p. 39.7
- I always took the White Noise harder than the other girls in my cabin.†
p. 41.7
- What was different about the White Noise?†
p. 45.8
- There wasn't a gun in his hand, or a knife, or a White Noise machine, but I could see cuts and bruises, some fresh, crisscrossing the back of his hand, all the way to his wrist, where the angry red lines disappeared beneath the sleeves of his white shirt.†
p. 90.6
- My head and heart were in agreement on run, but the rest of my body—the parts that had been tormented by White Noise, poisoned, and mistreated by people who claimed they only had the best intentions—stubbornly held its ground.†
p. 104.3
- I'd suffered the aftereffects, of course—power outages across the camp, White Noise when the camp controllers thought one of them had done it on purpose.†
p. 146.7
- The White Noise cut straight through the music from the speakers, tearing at our ears.†
p. 155.1
- The megaphone was suddenly two inches from my face, and the White Noise sunk into my brain like an ax.†
p. 156.7
- The only thing louder than the White Noise, than the radio, than Chubs's screams, was the sound of Liam's heart racing.†
p. 156.8
- The orange device flashed, and a moment later, above even the wailing of the White Noise, I heard Volkswagen say, "That's a positive ID on Liam Stewart."†
p. 157.9
- The White Noise cut out sharply as something clattered to the ground and landed a short distance away.†
p. 158.2
- My jaw was clenched, the muscles there seized as though the White Noise was still running through them like a current of pulsing electricity.†
p. 159.1
- Betty tore through the thickest heart of the smoke, and chased it down the open road until we were finally, finally, finally free of the wreckage, and the air coming through the vents no longer carried the echo of the White Noise into our heads, or smell of smoke into our lungs.†
p. 162.9
- You really didn't have White Noise?†
p. 164.7
- My long, sordid history with the White Noise included several episodes of fainting, vomiting, and memory loss, not to mention my most recent experience with bleeding profusely out of my eyes and nose.†
p. 165.1
- I recognized the nasty after-bites of the White Noise as the old friends they were.†
p. 165.7
- Considering it was his first time being ear-tased by the White Noise, Liam had recovered fast.†
p. 171.9
- My brain was still thrumming from the effects of the White Noise, but my weak heart made the choice easy for me.†
p. 174.6
- The sound the bell made was nearly as excruciating as the White Noise, its pitch stretched and distorted by the dream.†
p. 192.7
- At first I thought it was White Noise; all at once, the building's security alarms, intercom system, and televised displays went off, a hundred different voices screaming at us.†
p. 232.4
- It wasn't painful like the White Noise, but it wasn't pleasant, either.†
p. 264.7
- Cate had told me as much, when she explained the camp controllers had embedded a certain frequency in the White Noise to root out any of the dangerous ones still hiding out in the other cabins.†
p. 264.9
- The way the tires squealed just before the crash came was like the warning signal for White Noise.†
p. 319.9
- What did she tell you about the White Noise they used that day?†
p. 365.8
- I spent so many hours of so many days locked inside Clancy's room, pushing images into his mind, blocking him from trying to do the same, talking about the League, Thurmond, and White Noise, that we both fell out of sync with the camp's schedule.†
p. 375.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(white noise) meaningless noise that drowns out other noise and is easy to ignore; or more technically, noise with many frequencies of equal intensity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)