Use become in a sentence
Sentences ending with become
- You want a woman who will be wrapped up in your career, Hugh, and yet who will not share it,--who will devote herself body and soul to what you have become. [9]
- She would rejoice when she heard that Ulrich was still alive, and what he had become. [10]
- Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still more noticeable how much plainer she had become. [2]
- To be able to struggle and conquer, she must not withdraw from life and its influences, which, if she did not spare herself, promised to transform her into the resolute woman she desired to become. [10]
- I had need to do some mocking thing at the moment, or I should have given way to tears like a woman, so suddenly weak had I become. [11]
- Indirectly he owed to Claridge Pasha all that he had become. [11]
- They would like to be of the world again, and enter into its feelings, passions, hopes; to feel the sweep of its current, and so to comprehend what it has become. [4]
- I smiled to think what the tiny creek, always creeping through a faint leak in the gates and falling with a granite rattle on the stones, would now become. [11]
- On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. [6]
- How fascinating have the catalogues of the nurserymen become! [4]
Short sentences using become
- It don't become you. [11]
- They often become wholly suppressed. [1]
- Does he become unconscious, too? [6]
- Things had become truly serious. [5]
- I have become too hard. [9]
- What's become of them? [13]
- Prayer had become sin. [10]
- Life had become portentous. [9]
- What will become of us? [2]
- What's to become of us? [13]
Sentences containing become two or more times
- The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
- Now the valley through which they had passed was the Valley of Death, where the young become old, and the old young, and all become wise. [11]
- As nuns drop their birth-names and become Sister Margaret and Sister Mary, so high-bred people drop their personal distinctions and become brothers and sisters of conversational charity. [6]
- Many of them have force of will and character, and become distinguished in practical life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. [6]
- Now as organisms have become slowly adapted to diversified lines of life by means of natural selection, their parts will have become more and more differentiated and specialised for various functions from the advantage gained by the division of physiological labour. [1]
- The neighboring country had a very different shape, at that time--the valleys have risen up and become hills, since, and the hills have become valleys. [5]
- By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint but dread of punishment, they thus become absolutely unrestrained. [7]
- It had, too, a courage which might easily become a delicate stubbornness, a sense of duty which might become sternness, if roused by a sense of wrong to herself or others. [11]
More example sentences with the word become in them
- You ask why your restless microscopic atoms may not come together and become self-conscious and self-moving organisms. [6]
- Bring this before your mind, and everything else that you must accept with it, if you consent, when the time arrives, to become mine. [10]
- I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
- It would become you much better to repent of your crimes, and beg your old friend's forgiveness, instead of adding ingratitude to the unheard-of baseness of your other deeds. [10]
- In July, Goodman wrote that both Mackay and Jones had become somewhat diffident in the matter of huge capitalization. [5]
- How many another would long before have become sceptical of my promises! [9]
- Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
- Aye, husband, it would have become us better to guess something of this than to doubt Sirona. [10]
- Every year some would die and others become incapacitated by age and infirmity; there would be no new ones to take their places. [5]
- But then, what would become of Lenox? [4]
- The old Janet would be cast off with the old raiment; the new suit would announce to herself and to the world a Janet in whom were released all those longings hitherto disguised and suppressed, and now become insupportable! [9]
- What troubled Mr. Worthington infinitely more was the progress of his suit; for it had become a snit, though progress is a wrong word to use in connection with it. [9]
- For him, the world had become awry; he abhorred divorce, and that this modern abomination had touched the house of Chiltern was a calamity that had shaken the very foundations of his soul. [9]
- The Boyne Iron Works was to become the Boyne Iron Works, Ltd., owner of various subsidiary companies, some of which were as yet blissfully ignorant of their fate. [9]
- While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
- Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
- He and the woman he loved, who had first become really his own during a time of sore privation, had run into the harbour and gazed quietly at the storms of life. [10]
- Those who come within its irresistible influence are drawn so close that it seems as if they must become one with her sooner or later. [6]
- You thought that with your beauty--yes, you are beautiful--you'd conquer him, and that he'd give in, and become a real husband in a real home. [11]
- There were few with whose nature he had not become familiar in the darkness and solitude that once surrounded him. [10]
- But the magazine with which Warner had become connected was desirous that he should prepare for it an account of some of the principal watering-places and summer resorts of the country. [4]
- Friend," he added, with the winning insistence that few found it possible to resist, "if all be well, and we go thither, wilt thou become the governor-general yonder? [11]
- Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
- He was seized with terror, and, in a kind of convulsion, hurled what he thought had become a living head against the wall. [10]
- Since Fabian's marriage with Junia Shale's sister, Sybil, he had become discontented with his position in his father's firm. [11]
- Gaston was kind with him, keeping, however, a firm hand till his manner had become informed by the new duties. [11]
- He was living with a past which had been everlasting distant, and had now become a vivid and buffeting present. [11]
- I was filled with a painful curiosity to know what had become of her, which I repressed. [9]
- He was born with a most comfortable belief in himself and the knowledge that when he decided to become a domestic man he had simply, as the phrase is, to throw his handkerchief. [4]
- First of all, will you have the goodness to inform me where I shall find my voice; and secondly, what has become of my flesh? [12]
- The minor character will now become the chiefest, and I will name the story after him--"Puddn'head Wilson. [5]
- But no, I will not wear that, for it is too slight a tissue, it hides nothing and I am now too thin for it to become me. [10]
- My pious son will not let the gallows become empty in this land of heretical exaltation. [10]
- The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. [5]
- Although this letter will become public at some time, it is not intended to be made so now. [7]
- Perhaps all this will become less poignant in time. [14]
- Now that it will become known that you do not love her, beware of Iras. [10]
- I think it will become an important and practical question. [7]
- Latterly, the young wife had become very grave, and apparently completely severed her relations with her husband; but she also studiously avoided the Gaul and, if they talked to each other at all, it was in hurried whispers. [10]
- I don't know why marriage should suddenly have become such a mockery and failure in our time, but I know that it is, that ours hasn't been such an exception as I once thought. [9]
- In young persons whose heads have become fixed either sideways or backwards, owing to disease, one of the two eyes has changed its position, and the shape of the skull has been altered apparently by the pressure of the brain in a new direction. [1]
- Mademoiselle Bourienne, with whom she had never been able to be quite frank, had now become unpleasant to her, and for various reasons Princess Mary avoided her. [2]
- When the scoundrel whom she had called husband, and for whom her contempt had become too deep for hate, sneeringly assailed her family as having been fed from generation to generation from the corn-bin of the Museum, she bit her lips. [10]
- The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
- They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
- It filled her whole soul, had become an integral part of herself, and she no longer struggled against it. [2]
- As, during the whole pepper-harvest, they feed exclusively on this stimulant, they become exceedingly irritable. [6]
- Her own people who were fighting for Serapis--how were they faring; and Agne--what had become of her? [10]
- The pious youth, who so lately had punished his flesh with the scourge to banish seductive dream-figures, had in these few days become quite another man. [10]
- An old man who shrinks into himself falls into ways that become as positive and as much beyond the reach of outside influences as if they were governed by clock-work. [6]
- Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures. [2]
- And, again, those who are thus elected by our aid ever become our bitterest persecutors. [7]
- All the men who are distinguished in political life become so familiar to the readers of "Punch" in their caricatures, that we know them at sight. [6]
- The terror with which she started up at his call bore no favourable testimony to her good conscience, but she had already recovered her bold unconcern when he imperiously demanded to know what had become of lame Kuni. [10]
- It was impatience which made the minutes become quarters of an hour. [10]
- By the article which I have been reading I find the same things happening in the Howland School that we have become familiar with in our Children's Theatre (of which I am President, and sufficiently vain of the distinction. [5]
- The prodigal generosity which had become an empty name has revived again among us! [10]
- The two railroads which don't want him to get it, because the Truro would eventually become a competitor with them, are the Central and the Northwestern. [9]
- He must decide whether I dare allow thee to await the return of the Persian prince, or whether I must entreat thee to forget him and become the domestic wife of a Greek husband. [10]
- The gilded covering where the emblems of hope and aspiration had looked so bright had faded; not wholly, perhaps, but how was the gold become dim!---how was the most fine gold changed! [6]
- By and by, when we become a stock company I shall buy these royalties back for stock if I can get them for anything like reasonable terms. [5]
- And that evening, when I came in at five o'clock to study, I asked my mother what had become of Gene Hollister's aunt. [9]
- With Grenoble obdurate, what would become of the larger ambitions of Hugh Chiltern? [9]
- I don't know what would become of him if Natasha didn't keep him in hand.... Have you any idea why he went to Petersburg? [2]
- We never know what we are, he had said, until we become something else! [9]
- I asked him what was become of young Harney and Miss Sophia. [5]
- I don't know what is to become of us. [5]
- We couldn't tell what interpretation succeeding ages would put upon our lives and history and literature when they have become remote and shadowy. [4]
- I don't know what in the world is to become of us. [5]
- I often wonder what I might have become if it could have been harnessed, directed! [9]
- Ulrich now noticed what he lacked, but before leaving, to supply the want, asked the porter, if he knew what had become of Master Moor. [10]
- He comes asking what has become of Emerson's "wasted power" and lamenting his lack of "fruitage," and lo! [6]
- I was wondering what had become of you. [9]
- She never knew what had become of you. [13]
- I cannot imagine what could ever have become of that fellow. [5]
- Orthodox though he were, there had been times when his humour had borne him upward toward higher truths, and he had once remarked that promising to love forever was like promising to become President of the United States. [9]
- So, when they were to travel to Egypt, Martina took it for granted that Heliodora must go with them, and that the flirtation which had made her favorite the talk of the town must, in Memphis, become courtship in earnest. [10]
- Many and great were the difficulties attending the marriage of a Protestant princess in those troublous times, and Elizabeth finally announced that she would become wedded to the English nation, and she wore a ring in token thereof until her death. [5]
- Too many that were placed there as luminaries have become conspicuous by their obscurity in the midst of that illustrious company. [6]
- When the prisoners were passing Bent-Anat's tent, she was sitting within with Nefert, and talking, as had become habitual in the hours of dusk, of her father, of Mena, Rameri, and Pentaur. [10]
- Well, while they were gradually playing out, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder what had become of Marco. [5]
- The lad's cheeks were glowing with shame and anger, for the clerk of the muster-rolls and paymaster had laughed in his face, when he expressed his desire to become a Lansquenet. [10]
- But his perceptions were as keen as Nelson Langmaid's, and like Langmaid, he had gradually become conscious of a certain baffling personality in the new rector of St. John's. [9]
- When the ambassadors were already on the threshold, he called after them: "Wherever she may be, however late it may become, you will bring her. [10]
- But, whenever Pyrrhus went to market, letters reached the island delivered at the fish auction in the harbour by Anukis, Charmian's Nubian maid, to the old freedman, who had become her close friend. [10]
- And then she went to her ma and said she didn't know what would become of her uncle Sam he was too dull to learn anything--ever! [5]
- This bright side went on brightening more and more every day: in a very little while it was become almost all sunshine and delightfulness. [5]
- Clemens and Oliver Wendell Holmes had met and become friends soon after the publication of Innocents Abroad, in 1869. [5]
- It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
- He arrived alone, wearing the silk hat which had become habitual with him now, and stepping into his barouche at the station had been driven up Brampton Street behind his grays, looking neither to the right nor left. [9]
- As he grew weaker and more feeble, what would become of this lonely little creature; poor protector as he was, say that he died--what we be her fate, then? [12]
- We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
- It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves. [7]
- If you say we shall not control it, because it is only part, the same is true of every other part; and when all the parts are gone, what has become of the whole? [7]
- No sooner have we set forward over the brow of a hill than it grows lighter on the sea horizon in the southwest, the ruins on the peak become visible, Capri is in full sunlight. [4]
- There, under Zeno's watchful eye, the wild youth would become a noble man. [10]
- But as it was, I had a competence and several houses in Glasgow, and I set forth to Virginia with a goodly sum of money and a shipload of merchandise, which I should sell to merchants, if it chanced I should become a planter only. [11]
- The Honourable Dave was unmarried; and, he told Honora, not likely to become so. [9]
- As the bird was unable to crack them, he placed them one by one in his water-glass, evidently with the notion that they would in time become softer--an interesting proof of intelligence on the part of these birds. [1]
- Her husband, who was to become my dearest friend, was detained in Stuttgart by business. [10]
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