Sentence examples for become shaped from inspiring English sources

You become shaped by China's intense human capital policies.

But folk memory has become shaped by tragic accidents that happened in the morning.

Interspersing vivid action scenes with moments of tranquillity in Kent, Boyd's novel is a stirring portrayal of decaying British imperialism and the ordinary lives that become shaped by conflict.

They had planned something far more complex, and so in their descending journey they deliberately left uncarved parts of the rock that would in time become shaped into pillars, elephants, camels and other creatures.

In the pianist Hank Jones, as with a number of older jazz musicians, you get the sense that ideas and technique are one: his thinking has become shaped to fit his hands and body.

Demographically, many African societies have become shaped like pyramids; you start out with lots of babies at the base and then taper away like a pyramid as death, disease, mortal happenstance, take its toll until you have a narrow tip of 80-year-olds at the apex.

'I wanted to examine how their sense of morality becomes shaped by outside forces such as Western capitalism and media images,' he says.

"They become shape-shifting gangsters".

"Usually the words just become shapes to me," says Van Bon, who has been taking Skryf to festivals since 2012.

Whether any of this will ever become shape-shifting in the fictional sense is open to debate.

The sea – the gymnasts and the dancers – become shapes, become patterns, each one highly skilled.