Sentence examples for become but from inspiring English sources

The public become but figures on a spreadsheet.

So what else could she become but a playwright, a recorder of newsreel realities?

"I'm surprised at how popular the booth has become, but it's really gathered momentum.

"To realize how lucky we had become, but also show how lucky we had been.

No one knew what it was going to become – but just to be working and playing was something.

The most important question today is not how strong China might become but rather how weak it now is.

"It was what you hoped it would become, but didn't realize it happening as quick," Coach Ron Rivera said.

Michael Portillo was not then the modernising metrosexual he would become, but the most prominent of John Major's rightwing "bastards".

It is the economy that we have become, but we have to lift these people out of poverty,' said Westin.

I understand how emotive this has become, but after five years of talks we've got to resolve this dispute.

The push and pull of adolescence and testing the waters of freedom and independence was shaping me -- and who I would become -- but there were parts unknown.