Sentence examples for becoming a general from inspiring English sources

Some believe it was originally a noun referring to bamboo stalks, and gradually expanded in use to become a classifier for many things with "vertical, individual, [or] upright qualit[ies]", eventually becoming a general classifier because it was used so frequently with common nouns.

"It's becoming a general phenomenon.

Roh rose steadily through the ranks thereafter, becoming a general by 1979.

Ms. Evans shifted fields to investment banking, becoming a general partner in Montgomery Securities of San Francisco.

But Henderson himself feared at least one man — General Koster, whose rating of him as a brigade commander would make or break his chances of becoming a general.

In 2004, Steele arrived at Fort Campbell to lead the Rakkasans, and he was on his way to becoming a general officer.

After becoming a general-assignment reporter, she won a George Polk Award in 1951 for her education coverage.

EZchip has survived because it boasts the most flexible and most highly integrated chips, becoming a general-purpose solution to the network market much as the MPU (microprocessor) was to the PC.

Apple hasn't shown any interest yet in solving this kind of problem by becoming a general-purpose PayPal alternative, but it's fair to say it would be in a better position to do so should it choose to go down that road.

Her former beau, meanwhile, returned to the Army, becoming a brigadier general.

He was imprisoned for much of the decade-long Cultural Revolution and later rehabilitated, becoming a full general in 1988.