Sentence examples for becomes for a while from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Mine became for a while an obsession.

(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.

Within the Surrealist circle, he encountered the young Chilean-born painter Roberto Matta, and they became, for a while, fast friends.

This slice of feisty action became, for a while, the world's most popular clip on YouTube.

It wasn't as a prep school for investment bankers, even though that's largely what the school became, for a while anyway.

It was crooked then and it's crooked now: a cow path that became, for a while, the city's liveliest thoroughfare.

When Ryan Florence made a gun gesture at David Cameron in 2007 during a tour of Wythenshawe, he became for a while the nation's most notorious hoodie.

His little encampment, which included his tent and many placards, became for a while the real alternative to the view expressed in parliament.