Sentence examples for behind becoming from inspiring English sources

One tadpole lagged behind, becoming bigger and fatter but no more like a frog than the day he arrived.

Over time, many grew weak from hunger and exhaustion and fell behind, becoming easy prey for lions.

Her younger brother, Bert Swezea, stayed behind, becoming a popular real estate agent in Seattle, where he married and had two sons.

Old, white, impoverished males – once the people who decided elections – have been left behind, becoming little more than spectators of a political battlefield now dominated by a university-trained metropolitan elite.

That's when Obay decided to leave his family, friends, possessions, and everything that he loved behind, becoming a political refugee in Cyprus, where he has been given political asylum under the Turkish government.

With the fine print of No Child Left Behind becoming more evident as schools become more familiar with the act, resentment has grown.

Many of us admire people like Al Gore, who found his road to the White House suddenly blocked and chose to focus on educating people about global warming, and Christopher Reeve, who left acting behind after becoming a quadriplegic and went on to become a film director and advocate for those suffering from spinal cord injuries because they were able to let go of the past and transform their lives.

In 1975 Mr. Baldessari began to leave Conceptual Art behind, apparently becoming fascinated with how movie stills, amended with shapes of bright color, could be used to structure meaning in ways porous enough for viewers to add their own.

Drugs can make soldiers do things they otherwise never would: leave their humanity behind and becoming the fighting apparatus of an army.

"Whatever its origins, the problem of young men falling behind is becoming entrenched... Now, in families where the fathers have a high school education or less, girls are much more likely than boys to finish college.

A race to finish in the top two has now become a battle to remain among the top four with the space behind Northampton becoming congested.