BECOME in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for BECOME, such as:
1. It has become dark outside already.
2. He has become celebrated as an artist.
3. , had become irregular in her payments.
4. You have promised me to become an honest man.
5. What was once a novel approach had become orthodoxy.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BECOME
become
 v.  enhance the appearance of
 v.  undergo a change or development
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He despaired at parting from so good a master, who had become his intimate friend; but the pleasure of serving him prevailed over the pain of leaving him.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
2  I have been tempted a hundred times to set fire to the convent, and go and become a Turk.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
3  Then without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search on the banks of the Propontis for his Cunegonde, however ugly she might have become.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
4  What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
5  In less than a year the Bishop had become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those in distress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
6  It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
7  When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had become august.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
8  The man had again become absorbed in his reflections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
10  You have promised me to become an honest man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
11  Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
12  Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration of a minute the little Thenardiers were playing with the new-comer at making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
13  They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm them up, easily become monstrous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
14  , had become irregular in her payments.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
15  In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
2  I don't think that when people grow up, they will become more broad-minded and can accept everything.
3  She hoped to achieve her ambition to become a singer.
4  You become so deeply absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time.
5  Our aim is to teach our son to become an independent, self-reliant adult.
6  Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction.
7  I regret to see you again become a starting point discrete.
8  It has become dark outside already.
9  It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday, today is the hope, but also can become tomorrow's reality.
10  Now he is also to become a star of the small screen.
11  What was once a novel approach had become orthodoxy.
12  He has become celebrated as an artist.
13  The district attorney said if McVeigh is given the death penalty and his conviction is upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.
14  Her ambition was to go to law school and become an attorney.
15  I quietly walked away,I gently rippling heart will become calm.