Sentence examples for rather becomes from inspiring English sources

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman".

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," Simone de Beauvoir wrote in "The Second Sex," a hundred years after "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" was published.

For Beauvoir, identity is an effect of choices and actions in specific situations: "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman".

"ONE is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," Simone de Beauvoir wrote in "The Second Sex" in 1949, shocking readers with her contention that the wife-and-mother destiny was a myth devised by men to deny women freedom.

And she came up with a famous answer that has hovered over the arguments about feminism and femininity ever since: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman".The obvious corollary was that you could unbecome one, too: what society makes, a person can unmake, or can if there are enough like you to change the rules.

There may indeed be much that is dated about Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex," but contrary to Francine du Plessix Gray's claim (May 30), there is nothing "preposterous" in the assertion that "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman".

"I thank the team, but I would rather become world champion than tie or beat Ronaldo".

Right now, he said he would rather become a schoolteacher than go into politics.

Mr. Hansen, rather, became township attorney in January 2000 and still holds the post.

Rather became CBS's Southern bureau chief, and was continuously on the road.

In silence the picture faded, or, rather, became fixed: Bud at the telephone.