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The phrase "He became scared" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change in someone's emotional state, specifically when they start to feel fear. Example: "As the thunderstorm approached, he became scared and sought shelter."
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He became scared when a woman from the village spotted him trying to cross the border.
As soon as he did, he became scared that his father would find out.
Lord Andrew Stone told the meeting he used it to steady himself after he became "scared" when he was dispatched to Cairo for meetings with Egypt's military leadership earlier this year.
His heart rate felt dangerously slow and he became scared and tried to keep his head inclined by rolling his eyes way up and compared the rate to the clock's second hand, but the second hand seemed impossibly slow.
The doll was fourteen when he became scared of people.
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She told the police that she became scared following her son's arrest in January, because she saw on television how valuable the stolen paintings were.
Soni made plans to have the procedure done in New Jersey, before she left for college, but she became scared and backed out.
By the time he got out of the minivan, he said: "I became scared of what she was thinking.
Ronghi told him that he had found a body and became scared he would be implicated; he also said that what happened was an accident.
Pocci became scared, he said, "when those two jerks sat on the hood of his car".
There was no confirmation of the cause of the stampede, but Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said it began when what he said were one million people became "scared of something".
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