Sentence examples for become not a from inspiring English sources

They linger until they become not a symbol of death but a version of reality.

Grove will thus become not a book but a process, or, as Philip Cashian puts it, "an organism".

In Summers's hands, these twinned battles become not a revenge story, but a hymn to Navy values under pressure.

Opposition to taxes has become not a strategy – as it was with Thatcher – but more of a mantra.

Former US president Jimmy Carter once said, "We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic".

Central Paris has become not a window onto the world but a vitrine with exhibits inside, some fine, some squalid, all finished.

Failure in Afghanistan has become "not an option".

In The McConaissance, McConaughey has become not an anti-hero, but an anti-matinee idol.

It became not a secret".

It becomes not a big deal".

"Toni became not a black editor but the black editor," a friend of hers told me.