Sentence examples for but instead became from inspiring English sources

Q: You began college studying chemical engineering but instead became a world-class playwright.

You aspired to become a physician, but instead became a teacher and then a clergyman.

He trained for medicine, but instead became a writer - like Anton Chekhov.

The finance sector no longer acted as servant to the economy, but instead became its master.

And so Zuerlein did not become another Megatron, but instead became Legatron, the N.F.L.'s new kicking phenomenon.

The old anti-apartheid movement, its job completed, did not disband, but instead became another lobby group for southern Africa.

The new higher wage should not supersede the statutory minimum wage but instead become a mark of best practice.

Is it ethical to accept this aid if I have no intention of studying forensic accounting or tax law, but instead become a civil rights lawyer?

Great novelists disappear so that their characters no longer seem to partake in their creator's sensibilities but instead become real unto themselves and thus to the reader.

Soner arrives in New York with hopes of making it as an actor, but instead becomes involved in an organized-crime kidnapping.

After an ambiguous departure from the university, the professor character takes a downtown office to attend to his work, but instead becomes obsessed with listening in on next-door conversation between a therapist and her patient.