Sentence examples for to become devoted to from inspiring English sources

The picture won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and gave American low-budget independent cinema a lift, but anyone who expected Soderbergh to become devoted to quiet, confessional filmmaking was wrong.

The print media too have become devoted to football.

By this time his energies had become devoted to academic leadership.

Still, a certain strain of conscientious parent has become devoted to baby carriers lest Junior suffer detachment prompted by a stroller.

They lament the way generals and admirals become devoted to tank divisions and aircraft carrier flotillas because that is what they know.

In recent years, Urry has become devoted to using hard data and anecdotes from her own experience to alter her colleagues' perceptions as to why there are so few women in the sciences.

His last speech, against any diminution of an empire based on freedom, closed a political career that had become devoted to a reconciliation of imperial power with constitutional liberty.

Chess is a closed and perfect world with a clearly-defined and finite set of rules — the opposite of life, and, for those who become devoted to it, a substitute for life, for exactly that reason.

Like soldiers in combat, the players become devoted to one another, helped immeasurably by Yoast, who is demoted to an assistant coach but decides to get into the spirit of the project.

"Just this year, three of the buddies I hang out with have actually become devoted to politics," said Haris Bihorac, who just turned 18 and plans to vote for the first time in November.

My stepmother is a very warm woman and I knew that she would become devoted to the dog but it surprised me that my father would become so smitten.