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Example sentences for "became known"

  • Corea Opened to Foreign Intercourse=] Corea long pursued the same policy as China and Japan, locking its ports against foreigners so closely that it became known as the Hermit Nation and the Forbidden Land.

  • It was just after this time, that it became known, and was used in the European wars.

  • One of the monks from Fountains went to live as a hermit in a secluded spot adjoining the River Nidd, a short distance from Knaresborough, where he became known as St. Robert the Hermit.

  • The pit was supposed to have been formed by subsidences resulting from the mining operations below, and as he used it on subsequent occasions when preaching to immense congregations, it became known as "Wesley's Preaching Pit.

  • In 1710 a new site for St. Louis was selected, the settlement being located on the present site of Mobile, and by that name it became known.

  • In 1607 it became known that De Monts's patent had been revoked, and Champlain returned to France.

  • When it became known in the colonies that the Ministry intended to enforce a more rigid policy which included the levying of internal taxes by parliamentary enactment, vigorous protests were made.

  • This northern state, with Samaria as its capital, became known as the Kingdom of Israel; the southern, of which Jerusalem remained the capital, was called the Kingdom of Judah.

  • His designs, however, became known to Tiberius; and the infamous and disloyal minister was arrested and put to death.

  • But, as became known, the incident caused him to attract the attention of Rasputin, and he and the court favorite came together and to an understanding.

  • Only one case of a submarine fighting and destroying another submarine became known.

  • It became known as the Selective Draft Bill because of its chief provisions, which authorized the President to institute a modified form of conscription for raising a new army.

  • It became known at the office on the last day of February,--two days before the return of the Rodens to London.

  • He became known as a liberal leader and a supporter of President Juarez.

  • Gradually he became known at court, and from 1536 onwards he was in the service of Henry VIII.

  • To him the king in some way pledged the picture, and for a time it became known as the Ripalda Raphael.

  • The children with the white mother became known as white, and associated with white people.

  • This prince made a plot to raise himself to the Incaship, but it became known to Huaman Achachi, then Governor of Chinchay-suyu.

  • It became known to a wife of Ccapac Yupanqui, who was a sister of Anco Ayllo, the captain of the Chancas.

  • On commencing to enter the land of Caxamarca, it became known to Gusmanco Ccapac.

  • When it became known to the people of one district that some from other parts were coming to make war, they chose one who was a native, or he might be a stranger, who was known to be a valiant warrior.

  • About the same time the crannog in Ballinderry Lough, near Moate, county of Meath, became known, and appears to have yielded a large quantity of bones and antiquities, together with one or two canoes.

  • This doctrine he prepared, and the paper was presented to the legislature where it became known as the South Carolina Exposition.

  • He made mining a scientific study and after about six years of variable success, he became known as an expert.

  • At the bar he became known as a sound, but not especially brilliant pleader.

  • About the middle of 1818, as Schindler relates, it became known as a settled fact that Archduke Rudolph had been appointed Archbishop of Olmuetz.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became acquainted; became aware; became bishop; became chief; became conscious; became customary; became dark; became emperor; became exceedingly; became first; became lord; became more; became pastor; became poor; became the; became very; became vicar; bring back; each square; joining hands; keep back; little rain; lower level; other knights; true friend; twenty shillings