Sentence examples for become for a while from inspiring English sources

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(The latter, at least, she did become for a while, at the Washington Times-Herald).

While she spares no detail of Sexton's pathology, her book is not, in any sense, what Joyce Carol Oates has called 'a pathography.' It is, rather, a deeply moving account of how one young woman — badly educated, marooned in the Boston suburbs and hampered at every turn by mental illness — managed to become, for a while, a poet of distinctive and original gifts".

Even when his space has shrunk to just a narrow box, Mr. Rigal can fold in two so that, with his shoulders on the floor and his torso upended, he has his knees in his face and his feet on the ceiling, and then he extends his legs until, parallel to the ceiling, they become for a while his body's topmost shelf.

That is, we humans become for a while, whereas God always becomes, Hartshorne maintains.

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Mine became for a while an obsession.

His colours became, for a while, lighter in hue and at the same time more intense.

Within the Surrealist circle, he encountered the young Chilean-born painter Roberto Matta, and they became, for a while, fast friends.

This slice of feisty action became, for a while, the world's most popular clip on YouTube.

And yet Miss Bates's voice, self-generating and unstoppable, becomes for a while the only one you can hear.

It wasn't as a prep school for investment bankers, even though that's largely what the school became, for a while anyway.

It was crooked then and it's crooked now: a cow path that became, for a while, the city's liveliest thoroughfare.

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