Sentence examples for missing becoming from inspiring English sources

He scored 697 points, just missing becoming the fifth player to hit 700 in a postseason.

Game 1 of the World Series produced a 9.5 Nielsen rating Saturday night, narrowly missing becoming the lowest-rated game since 1968.

And he narrowly missed becoming one of those links.

He missed becoming the parliament's speaker by only three votes.

Several times Watkins narrowly missed becoming the object of such bereavement himself.

LeClair missed becoming such a free agent this year by four days, turning 31 on July 5.

By divorcing Hilton, she missed becoming the mother-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor who married Conrad Hilton Jr in 1950.

She also narrowly missed becoming women's world champion, losing to Kosteniuk in the final.

Vojislav Seselj, a virulent Serbian nationalist, just missed becoming president of Serbia, Yugoslavia's main republic, in an election in October.

Last winter, Golden Seas, a 783-foot freighter, narrowly missed becoming grounded on the Aleutian chain, skirting an environmental and human tragedy.

"The Informers," which Mr. Ellis adapted with Nicholas Jarecki ("Arbitrage"), is an inky Los Angeles version of "Kids" set in the early '80s, and it misses becoming a straight zombie by a single F-stop.