Sentence examples for becomes for a from inspiring English sources

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

Nevertheless, her character falls under suspicion, and she becomes – for a short time – one of those writers whose misdemeanour overshadows the excellent achievement of her work.

Our mind becomes, for a moment, an Indian mind; and a shrine becomes, if fleetingly, more normal to us than a giant purse.

The episode shadows Chester's life, including not only his relationship with his father but also his relationship with the woman who becomes, for a time, his wife.

Yet while his opera is not melodramatic, it romanticizes and softens the story, which here becomes a tale of a grieving mother driven to kidnap a girl who becomes, for a while, a surrogate child.

For example, with the substitutions d′Q = T dS and d′W = P dV, the differential form (dU = d′Q − d′W) of the first law of thermodynamics becomes (for a single pure substance) dU = T dS − P dV.

A loser becomes, for just a few minutes, a winner.

Mine became for a while an obsession.

He had become, for a moment, a puppet.

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

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