Sentence examples for become like one from inspiring English sources

He said he'd like to do several more films, but wouldn't want to go on too much longer and become like one of those directors who become "out of touch".

It sounds good, he said, but you don't want to become like one of those third-world countries that embarks on development so ambitious that it's too much for the economy and the country collapses.

We had become like one big family.

"I've become like one of Pavlov's dogs," Mrs. Marchant said.

Without realising it, our interview has become like one of his movies.

"I don't want to see us wither away and become like one of those ghost unions that hangs about with Unite.

Instead, she becomes like one of these tribal leaders – she gets more magnificent and more impressive.

In the Soviet Union there was far less to hold the designers back, and the whole country became like one of those unfortunate American utilities that committed itself too heavily and could find no way out.

That spell can be broken if the reader is too often reminded that he is reading a book; then the illusion of life loses its fullness and becomes like one character's "dark silhouette against the window," which "looked as if it had been cut out with scissors and pasted on gray paper".

"That stuff takes a lot of time, and Ernst & Young already had those relationships," Mr. Pappajohn said, "so it became like one-stop shopping for us, and we get a nice stable of financial-services firms".

We became like strangers to one another, except when the Yankees were on television in the playoffs.