Becomes

Examples

• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called _blooms_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He becomes careful to instruct them, and attentive to assist and relieve them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When we look at near objects, the muscles act in such a way that the lens bulges out, and becomes thick in the middle and of the right curvature to focus the near object upon the screen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• To save her from misconstruction, cruel misconstruction, that even my friends have not been able to avoid, becomes my duty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Every housewife knows that if a kettle is filled with cold water to begin with, there will be an overflow as soon as the water becomes heated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The tiny yeast plants multiply and continue to make alcohol and gas, and in consequence, the dough becomes lighter and lighter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the lid is closed, the picture becomes darkened, and by the gradual removal of the screen at the same time, it is changed into a transparency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If this extra cool air is used for cooling another batch of air under pressure, the latter upon expansion becomes still colder than the first batch expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Well,' said Mr. Pickwick, as Sam and his companion drew nigh, 'you will see how your health becomes, and think about it meanwhile. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The _personnel_ becomes the collective capitalist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this case, chemical action is expended in heat rather than in the production of electricity and the liquid becomes hot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Weather becomes absolutely of no consequence. Jane Austen. Emma.
• If, when the bill becomes due, the acceptor does not pay it as soon as it is presented, he becomes from that moment a bankrupt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the sea-urchins the steps can be followed by which a fixed spine becomes articulated to the shell, and is thus rendered movable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Experience then ceases to be empirical and becomes experimental. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Where the goodness or talent of your friend is beyond and above all doubt, your own worthiness to be his associate often becomes a matter of question. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When bicycle tires are being inflated, the pump becomes hot because of the compression of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The air passes through it before entering the working cylinder, and becomes heated to 450°. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Unless he wants to get rid of the friend,--and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He becomes proprietor of this portion of the mine, and can work it without paving any acknowledgment to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The shallowness of a waternixie's soul may have a charm until she becomes didactic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The ex-queen gives me Idris; Adrian is totally unfitted to succeed to the earldom, and that earldom in my hands becomes a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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