Sentence examples for become past from inspiring English sources

The Indians, in particular, have become past masters at co-opting the language of equity ("equal rights to the atmosphere") in the service of planetary suicide – and leftish campaigners and commentators are hoist with their own petard.

He would come down the hill from his house, walk through the lodge's doors and instantly become Past Master of Lodge No. 2, Past Grand Master of Masons of the State of West Virginia, Brother Haas.

The latter can be characterized in a number of ways, but at the very least passage is associated with the steady advance of the present, an advance which entails that future times will become present, that present times and events will become past, and that past times become every more past with every passing moment.

These firms would get a check from the Treasury for what would become past "overpayments".

For example, to say "Zhangsan turned into a tree", both  (Zhāngsān biànchéng -le yì shù, Zhangsan become PAST one tree) and  (Zhāngsān biànchéng -le shù, Zhangsan become PAST tree) are acceptable.

I think it speaks to the experience of travelling through time, and watching the present become past, and the past become present again.

"When you become nostalgic, you don't become past-oriented.

"When it became past our expertise, we referred them out".

Present became past dismayingly quickly this year with the early death of my friend Michael Dibdin.

But the 76ers quickly became past history for the Pacers, because if the Pacers do not go any further, they will consider this season a failure.

Where La Hune last stood, Louis Vuitton now stands.* These laments can all be dismissed as mere nostalgia — though, since nostalgia starts the very moment our experience becomes past, it can never be so easily dismissed.