Sentence examples for became apt from inspiring English sources

Over the years, "old man" became apt.

It would be a shame if that name became apt again for less positive reasons.

"Der Judenstaat", the seminal tract by Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, is usually mistranslated as "The Jewish State" rather than "The Jews' State", but now the mistranslation became apt.

This is where comparisons with Google, which went public in 2004, become apt.

A phrase all too familiar from discussions about the economy could yet become apt in energy too.

At the time, real estate was booming, and few people imagined that the contortionists and acrobats flying through hoops would become apt metaphors for the obstacles many developers would eventually face as a result of the credit crisis.

In turn, if humans fail to become apt in living with the ever-growing connectivity [12, 40], mental strain can be helped with new workplace rules and practices.

In what has become Apted's life's work, the series has continued through eight installments, with most of the original cast still intact (though some have stopped out and returned along the way; only one quit for good, after 21 Up). .

Its roller coasters became an apt metaphor for the team's fortunes.

Though the world was lining up at the door, the family became less apt to open the property to members of the community as time went on: "It wasn't any longer a small-town community," Alma Tuchman said.

Originally an allusion to Melville, who used it to refer to great whales, and to the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, for whom it symbolized the state (and who also argued that all thought originates in sensory experience), the word became most apt in its original biblical sense of a sea monster.