Sentence examples for become dear from inspiring English sources

If authors find it tough, so do readers, to whom these characters can become dear friends.

I want books that belong to me, books whose intimate pagination will become dear and familiar.

He searches for companies that are cheap and which he hopes to sell when they become dear.

Needless to say they had become dear companions, and the dignity this provided at the her very end of life was fantastic.

ANDERSON: I'd like to leap in here and add something that has become dear to my heart in the course of observing on the ground the conflicts engendered since 9/11: first Afghanistan, then Iraq, and, most recently, Lebanon.

"Yarrow has become dear to my heart because I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about the ability of people with learning difficulties to integrate successfully into society," he explains.

Other food essentials have also become dearer.

British cannabis has become dearer, too.

Mortgages will become dearer, driving some to the wall.

Coffee, sugar and orange juice have become dearer as well, driving up the breakfast index.

"In deflation, it's the opposite: dollars become dearer over time".