Sentence examples for then devolved from inspiring English sources

Tens of thousands of people turned out for what started as peaceful protests and then devolved into ugly violence.

He was once mentioned along with abstract masters like de Kooning, Kline and Motherwell, then devolved to "West Coast underground legend," then (kind of) vanished.

This is largely how today's culture has chosen to remember Welles: as a pompous wreck, a man who peaked early and then devolved into hackwork and bloated fiascos.

It then devolved into an occasionally tense standoff between the parties over the problems revealed by the election and the means to fix them.

The new construction suggests a complete reversal of the UK's current constitutional arrangement, in which all sovereignty formally rests in the centre and is then devolved to regions on a piecemeal basis.

Command then devolved to the first lieutenant, Lieutenant Daniel.

What a pity it then devolves into a typical liberal attack on conservatism.

Aristotle's "downhill slope" is topped by men, followed by women, then devolves into "hybrid offspring" like satyrs and fauns.

A conventional conflict could then devolve into the now familiar kind of insurgency that U.S. forces face in the Middle East and South Asia.

There they were at the ballet barre, dutifully maneuvering their limbs and then devolving (evolving?) into erotic undulations, a gang of disaffected Wilis.

It opens with a piano melody borrowed from "Simple Gifts" and then devolves into a multipart marathon, flitting from semi-rapping to falsetto-driven lament to a throbbing choral breakdown.