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Example sentences for "became more and more"

  • Notwithstanding this, as I got better I became more and more anxious to receive news of the frigate, and began to wonder what had become of her.

  • Every hour I became more and more attached to Sophie.

  • These, which were by no means so evident at one time, became more and more pronounced as time went on.

  • That spirit had long been a great motive power in London; it became more and more so as the century wore on, until almost everything was subordinated to it.

  • The Persian khans, vacillating between Christianity and Islam, became more and more powerless, until at last, in A.

  • Thus the controversy and the parties engaged in it became more and more violent.

  • It became more and more of a riddle to me that we did not make greater progress northward.

  • We became more and more excited as we approached the headland to the west.

  • As he grew older he became more and more interested in machinery and mechanical things.

  • However, as time went on and he saw more and more of the results of such action as he was contemplating, he became more and more interested in completing his education.

  • As he cultivated his mental powers, he became more and more interested in the use of his constructive aptitudes in the formation of ideas.

  • As the nineteenth century went on, it became more and more plain to the intelligent directive people that the common man had now to be something better than a drudge.

  • Its meetings, proclaimed by horn-blowing from the Capitol and the city walls, became more and more a gathering of political hacks and city riff-raff.

  • On the contrary, he became more and more elated.

  • This pleased Rostov and he began talking about it, and as he went on became more and more animated.

  • From day to day he became more and more entangled.

  • It became more and more difficult to find suitable persons to execute important missions.

  • Instead of confiding to him my aspirations, vague though they were, I became more and more secretive as I grew older.

  • An hour passed, and it became more and more evident to me that I must see and talk with Mrs. Temple.

  • Napoleon's return to the traditions of the Old Regime, even to those most execrated by the nation, became more and more extravagant.

  • As the evening wore on, however, that last cry of "Long live the Emperor," became more and more infrequent.

  • Their attitude, their words, became more and more threatening.

  • Alexander Muller soon disappeared from our midst, as he became more and more engrossed by domestic calamities, bodily infirmities, and the mechanical drudgery of giving lessons by the hour.

  • My water cure and the hydropathic establishment became more and more distasteful to me; I longed for my work, and the desire to get back to it made me quite ill.

  • He became more and more melancholy; and sleeping by day, would wander about the country at night, disconsolate and sad.

  • His meals in working time were very simple, often just bread and cheese, eaten while sitting at his easel, and after Saskia died he became more and more careless of all domestic details.

  • And this delightful yarn-spinning was also dropped as he became more and more absorbed in his mathematical and other studies.

  • Stas was immensely overjoyed at this compensation, for dates with rice formed the only wholesome nourishment for Nell and became more and more difficult to obtain in Omdurmân.

  • For Ted "Papa" became more and more an abstraction, until a higher Power withdrew him altogether from earthly affairs.

  • Vincent had begun by looking to her as a protection against his worst self; and when his mother died suddenly that winter, his last link with home being broken, he became more and more dependent on Katherine.

  • Consciously or unconsciously, it became more and more Audrey's aim to separate them, to play off the one against the other.

  • In our case it became more and more serious; it clung and grappled, till it hung upon our meditations like the albatross round the neck of the Ancient Mariner.

  • In the mean time the determination in America to resist the principle of the supremacy of Parliament over the colonies, became more and more extended.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "became more and more" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered very; became apparent; became aware; became bishop; became clear; became dark; became emperor; became evident; became exceedingly; became independent; became known; became lord; became more; became necessary; became silent; became very; been produced; commissioners were; damage done; double sense; each particular; general catalogue; inside the; keep her; nothing that; open mind