Sentence examples for to become something less from inspiring English sources

It was the first peaceful transfer of power in Afghanistan since 1901, but Ghani and his aides felt that he had been forced to become something less than Afghanistan's legitimate President.

Horrified, he confesses his act to his wife, who eventually agrees, with great reluctance ("Don't ask me to become something less than a shadow, an anonymous thing rustling around in a hostile place"), to ease his anguish by donning a burka and going out with him for a lover's promenade -- a fateful decision.

What has changed is society's collective need for a label (and we really love labels) for people like Norrie: a 52-year-old that was born a man but underwent "gender reassignment" surgery in 1989 to become something less easily definable.

SINCE 1938, when the Merritt Parkway opened as one of the first limited-access landscaped highways in the country, it has become something less than the relaxing, pleasant drive it was designed to be.

First-rate food and mixed drinks together become something less than the sum of the parts.

Around that 90-minute mark, the conversation can become something less guarded and very special.

New York is not the only place where flying has become something less of an ordeal.

BLOOMBERG NEWS A New Paranormalmal'  |  Bill Gross, managing director of Pimco, writes in his latest investor letter that the "New Normal," a phrase made popular by Pimco's Mohamed A. El-Erian, has become something less knowable, "a world of fat-tailed, almost bimodal outcomes".

In an era when wealthy candidates have become something less than a novelty, most New Yorkers said they did not mind that Mr. Bloomberg was spending so much on his own contest; some said they even preferred it.

Voters who backed Hillary Clinton take the polar opposite view, although both sides largely agree that the nation's political discourse has become something less than genteel.

Later in the song, he anticipates his audience's reactions, asking: "Am I amusing you/ Or just confusing you/ Am I the beast you visualized?" Has he become something less than human?