Sentence examples for became defining from inspiring English sources

These qualities became defining for her as the show grew, and was an intentional move in order for her to create the type of show she wanted.

Both lines became defining sound bites of the campaign, and may have cost the Ford-Dole ticket some votes in what was a very close election.

Emerging at a time when we also saw a new energy to black activism in American life, both Citizen and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between The World and Me became defining texts of 2015.

Richard Williams is an intriguing sports figure, and the story of how his daughters Venus and Serena became defining presences in women's tennis continues to be one of the great stories in contemporary American sports.

The things that Mr. Bowie explored to the hilt, alongside his fellow glam rockers like Roxy Music and Alice Cooper, during the early '70s — over-the-top theatricality and staging, extremist fashion and sexual androgyny — became defining principles of 21st-century pop.

"Many of the problems I saw at the beginning eventually became defining points to the work; evidence of the process of painting and the materials used," she tells The Creators Project.

Their relationship became defined by, and ultimately reduced to, the struggle to stake out their motherhood.

The music's driving rhythms, popping bass lines and crisp, choppy guitar became defined as "funk".

Suddenly political leaders scrambled to find solutions to what became defined as "the energy crisis".

The group is largely drawn from the CAR's Muslim minority and the conflict soon became defined along sectarian faultlines.

Heterosexuality became defined as the key indicator of masculinity, with gay men framed as "weak" and "feminine".