BECOME in a Sentence

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1. His dream has become a reality.
2. , had become irregular in her payments.
3. The battle has become part of national myth.
4. You have promised me to become an honest man.
5. You must become either a god or else a coupes.

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 Meanings and Examples of BECOME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
become
 v.  begin to be, be well suited to
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)
16  The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape.
17  The bar has become notorious as a meeting-place for drug dealers.
18  The battle has become part of national myth.
19  The wind such as flower of time, and you become the most beautiful ornament.
20  Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is like.
21  Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
22  You must become either a god or else a coupes.
23  Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant.
24  Both of them felt that they had become very intimate.
25  Gender issues have become something of a hot button.
26  His dream has become a reality.
27  His name has become a byword for honesty in the community.
28  Women have become more assertive in the past decade.
29  Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.
30  She has become the self - appointed guardian of the nation's conscience.