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Sentences ending with becoming

You cannot believe that they were ever thought beautiful and becoming. [4]
Not the least of these is the consideration whether the cap-and-gown habit is becoming. [4]
True, the colours of the costume were becoming. [10]
Had Ingolby been less to her than he was, there would still have been the comradeship which made her the great creature she was fast becoming. [11]
But this one is too light, it's not becoming! [2]
Her whole top hamper was neat and becoming. [5]
She had hitherto found no difficulty in keeping within the limits of what was becoming. [10]
He had fine-cut features, and the white linen he wore was most becoming. [9]
Barine could not fail to appear like a beggar in comparison, though Alexas said that her blue kerchief was marvellously becoming. [10]
Her mustache and eyebrows were extraordinarily becoming. [2]

Short sentences using becoming

Was solitude becoming unendurable? [10]
It was becoming unbearable. [9]
This thing was becoming serious. [5]
The matter was becoming grave. [5]
The Interviewer was becoming excited. [6]

More example sentences with the word becoming in them

If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
My house my yard, everything around me, in fact, shows' that I am becoming one of these cattle--and I used to be thrifty in other times. [5]
And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? [14]
Her cheeks glowed with health, and she wore a becoming suit of dark blue. [9]
The Celebrity answered, with becoming modesty, that the Asquithians were benighted. [9]
Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
In a word, why don't you go off somewhere and die, and not be always trying to seduce people into becoming as "ornery" and unlovable as you are yourselves, by your villainous "moral statistics"? [5]
One bookseller to whom I applied told me that he had had a few copies before he understood the nature of the work, but that, after becoming acquainted with it, nothing should induce him to sell another. [5]
Are the people who, by reason of a competence or other accidents of good-fortune, have most leisure, becoming more agreeable? [4]
There are those who profess to fear that our government is becoming a mere irresponsible tyranny. [6]
A chief pleasure which the author of novels and stories experiences is that of becoming acquainted with the characters be draws. [6]
The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
The narrow path which buried itself in the sand was becoming a thoroughfare leading upward. [10]
These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
The gradually increasing weight of the brain and skull in man must have influenced the development of the supporting spinal column, more especially whilst he was becoming erect. [1]
All this finery was wonderfully becoming to the smith's son, and he must have been blind, if he had not noticed how old and young nudged each other at sight of him. [10]
Such a bill was passed and tendered to the Republican Governor for his signature; but, principally for the reasons I have stated, he withheld his approval, and the bill fell without becoming a law. [7]
The magnificent star was missing; in its place she wore at the square-cut neck of her dress two beautiful halfblown roses, and her mirror had showed her how becoming they were. [10]
Meanwhile my life was full, and gave promise of becoming even fuller, more absorbing and exciting in the immediate future. [9]
The street below was becoming less crowded. [10]
It is not very becoming for one in my position to make speeches at length; but there is another subject upon which I feel that I ought to say a word. [7]
The former preserve us from becoming Europeanized; they keep our pride of country intact, and at the same time they intensify our affection for our country and our people; whereas long visits have the effect of dulling those feelings--at least in the majority of cases. [5]
She lifted him up, kissed him, and then asked the mother, who also greeted her, for a piece of bread, for her hunger was becoming intolerable. [10]
Lurida has given up the idea of becoming a professional lecturer,--so she tells me,--thinking that her future husband's parish will find her work enough to do. [6]
I have given up the idea of becoming a doctor. [6]
But then Kitty Tynan was as fond of singing as a canary, and relieved her feelings constantly by this virtuous and becoming means, with her good contralto voice. [11]
Even as Janet trudged homeward on that Memorial Day afternoon from her Cinderella-like adventure in Silliston the sun grew hot, the air lost its tonic, becoming moist and tepid, white clouds with dark edges were piled up in the western sky. [9]
Maurice of Saxony, too, was on the point of withdrawing from the Smalkalds and becoming his ally; so, with the assistance of Heaven, he might hope to win the victory for the cause of the Church, and with it also that of the crown. [10]
I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
When Berenike refused to receive him, the maid assured her that he was a young man, and had expressed his wish to bring an urgent request to the lady's notice in a becoming and modest manner. [10]
The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel's whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay. [2]
For the first time he felt how great a danger he ran of being dragged into this marsh and becoming a lost, evil man; but never, he thought, would he have been so corrupt, so worthless, as this prince. [10]
The case is this: my father's health is growing noticeably worse, he cannot stand any contradiction and is becoming irritable. [2]
With enough of this world's goods to give him comfort of body and suave gravity of manner, the figure he cut was becoming to his Quaker origin and profession. [11]
The results of this teaching of religion in modern terms are already becoming apparent, and some persons are already beginning to see that the Creeds express certain elemental truths in frankly archaic language. [9]
It was in this same year, 1816, when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal, that he wrote to Brevoort, upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor: "We are all selfish beings. [4]
Not long before this I had listened to a wonderful sermon by Dr. Chalmers, whose force, and energy, and vehement, but rather turgid eloquence carried, for the moment, all before them,--his audience becoming like clay in the hands of the potter. [6]
This state of things is continually becoming worse and makes one fear that unless a prompt remedy is applied the troops will no longer be under control in case of an engagement. [2]
Young George was there, Mr. Hutchins's nephew, who was daily becoming more and more of a factor in the management of the mills, and had built the house of yellow brick that stood out so incongruously among the older Hutchinses' mansions, and marked a transition. [9]
To his notion, there was nothing the matter with his plan of campaign; the only miscalculation about it was that the campaign was becoming a lengthy one, whereas he had expected it to be short. [5]
Perhaps neither of them was bubbling over with things to say; perhaps it was becoming yearly less attractive to pick up a pen and write, and then, of course, there was always the discouragement of distance. [5]
Newspapers have reached their present power by becoming unliterary, and reflecting all the interests of the world. [4]
Instead of turning the ungrateful rascal out of the house, he, the dunce, had given him hopes of becoming her poor, dazzled, innocent daughter's husband. [10]
The fortunes of the Sellers play were most uncertain and becoming daily more doubtful. [5]
The anatomy of the scalpel and the amphitheatre was, then, becoming an exhausted branch of investigation. [3]
Perhaps it is the mourning which is so becoming to your pink-and-white complexion and the somewhat subdued lustre of your golden hair. [10]
Newly arrayed in the most becoming of grey furs, she met him at that hitherto fabled restaurant which in future days--she reflected--was to become so familiar--Delmonico's. [9]
He knew that the great primal truths, which each successive revelation only confirmed, were fast becoming hidden beneath the mechanical forms of thought, which, as with all new converts, engrossed so large a share of his attention. [6]
This was often the first warning which the travellers received that the ice was becoming thin and dangerous. [1]
On the fifteenth, the day of the old prince's death, the Marshal had insisted on Princess Mary's leaving at once, as it was becoming dangerous. [2]
The name of the city is becoming a reproach. [5]
And so, with the cheerfulness which it was kind and becoming to show, so far as possible, and yet with a little excitement on one particular point, which was the cause of his writing so promptly, he began his answer. [6]
To avoid becoming the bore of the domestic circle, he proposed to ease off this surcharge of the intellect by inflicting his tediousness on the public through the pages of the periodical. [4]
You will understand that your men--" Ferrol heard no more, for the two rebels passed on, their voices becoming indistinct. [11]
The difficulty is that it is so hard to be her friend without becoming her lover. [6]
I could feel that I was becoming gaunt, and wasting away: already I seemed to be emaciated. [4]
He told himself that he was on the point of becoming a traitor and a criminal, the visions he had just beheld passed before him again, but this time it was another, and a different one which gained the foremost place. [10]
Mr. Walpole could tell a deal, tho' he took the pains first to explain that he was becoming too old for such frivolous and fashionable society. [9]
At dinner the talk turned on the war, the approach of which was becoming evident. [2]
Well, to be sure, the man who does not fear to commit adultery would make nothing of becoming his father's murderer.--There, that is the way! [10]
He would surely succeed in becoming the master of the Protestant princes; but was the steel sword the right weapon to destroy this agitation of the soul which had sprung from the inmost depths of the German nature? [10]
Descending to the street, she was unable to gain any news of Clarence from Ned, who was becoming alarmed likewise. [9]
The darkness was steadily growing, the people becoming more and more distressed. [5]
It did not spur him to do anything, to follow the example, for instance, of the young fellows from the country, who were throwing themselves into Wall Street with the single purpose of becoming suddenly rich, but it made him uneasy. [4]
The first words spoken were not those of one becoming estranged from this world, and already permitted to stray at times into realms foreign to the living. [14]
Nor was it solely to soothe Eva that she assured her that, deeply as she mourned the death of the hapless Ulrich and his parents' grief, Wolff's deed could not diminish either her love or her hope of becoming his. [10]
After a long sojourn abroad, it seemed becoming that he should know something of the floating life of his own country. [4]
She even turned so that he should see her profile in what she thought was its most becoming aspect. [2]
She felt, as she listened, the pressure of his sincerity and force, and had to strive to prevent her thoughts from becoming confused. [9]
It was costing several thousand dollars a month for construction and becoming a heavy drain on Mark Twain's finances. [5]
It is becoming serious--and the noise is growing louder. [10]
The theory of religious regeneration not being tenable, it was naturally supposed that he had fallen in love; the identity of the unknown lady becoming a fruitful subject of speculation among the feminine portion of society. [9]
Quite becoming to Reggie's dark beauty. [9]
She tried to read, but the few books she had brought from Delft were all familiar, and her thoughts, ere becoming fixed on the old volumes, pursued their own course. [10]
Was she not rather becoming more and more involved in the toils of this plotting Yankee? [6]
His only becoming quality was his ample extravagance. [11]
I wanted to put myself irrevocably beyond the old life, which simply could not have gone on, and I saw myself in the advancing years becoming tawdry and worn, losing little by little what I had gained at a price. [9]
How was it possible to live for hours at a time in this bedlam without losing presence of mind and thrusting hand or body in the wrong place, or becoming deaf? [9]
The transition takes place by their becoming confluent and straight, and at the same time more prominent and smooth. [1]
It seems a pity he did not finish, for after all his dreary former chapters of commonplace, he stopped just as he was in danger of becoming interesting. [5]
Irene at once perceived the change in her sister's face, and thinking only that she was surprised at her pretty adornment, she said gaily: "Do you think the flowers becoming to me? [10]
It got no pay, the treasury was getting empty, it was becoming impossible to feed it; under pressure of privation it began to fall apart and disperse--which pleased the trifling court exceedingly. [5]
At length the path becoming clearer and less intricate, brought them to the end of the wood, and into a public road. [12]
She took no pains with her manners or with delicacy of speech, or with her toilet, or to show herself to her husband in her most becoming attitudes, or to avoid inconveniencing him by being too exacting. [2]
But to its owner this very peace and quietness was becoming intolerable. [4]
Martyrdom was going out in her day and martyrs were becoming scarcer, but she made several. [5]
That collision the other day was serious enough, and it's gradually becoming a vendetta. [11]
For an instant only she clung to Janet, then becoming mute, she sat down in the kitchen chair and stared with dry, unseeing eyes at the wall. [9]
She was not only handsome and amiable and agreeable, but there was a cordial frankness, an openhearted sincerity about her which made her seem like a sister to those who could help becoming her lovers. [6]
Mr. Worthington went on to outline the duty of citizens of the present day, as he conceived it, and in this connection referred, with becoming modesty, to the Worthington Free Library. [9]
He patted her on the shoulder and said: "Don't do it, dear; remember, there are witnesses, and it is not becoming in the Crown Princess. [5]
She was then on her way to the cool hall when she heard her mother's voice--not in grief, but angry and vehement--so, thinking it would be more becoming to keep out of the way, she wandered off into the pillared vestibule opening towards the Nile. [10]
It is one of the recognized ways of becoming important and powerful in this world. [4]
This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. [1]
Life is full of contrasts, and Cynthia was becoming aware of some of them. [9]
With the assistance of a bad cook and a constant spleen caused by resentment against the intervention of his priest, good Father Roche, he finished his career with great haste and without either becoming a nuisance to his neighbours or ruining his property. [11]
She could see now (on Sundays) that her husband was becoming a bloated and repulsive Thing. [5]
If he has not thought of this, I commend to his consideration the evidence in his own declaration, on this day, of his becoming sectional too. [7]
If there was not much rowing and lawn-tennis, there was a great deal of becoming morning dressing for these sports, and in all the rather aimless idleness there was an air of determined enjoyment. [4]

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