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Example sentences for "became more"

  • The growth of wild plants, scanty near the coast, became more luxuriant as we approached the hills; the Arman Acacia flourished, the Kulan tree grew in clumps, and the Tamarisk formed here and there a dense thicket.

  • This offer pleased him, and we became more friendly.

  • On the next day, however, he became more tractable, and before reaching Berberah he showed himself, in consequence of some old blood feud, more anxious even than ourselves to avoid villages.

  • He and I were very intimate and when I discovered that he was the cousin of Minnie Vanderwelt, I became more partial to him.

  • As we became more intimate, the seamen, who were glad to talk, from weariness of confinement, asked us many questions.

  • Thus the drivers gained experience, while the animals, with a wholesome dread of the whip, became more responsive to commands.

  • George, from being a mere associate of Peary and Fix, became more amiable as the year went by, and at times it was quite pathetic to see his attempts at friendliness.

  • At two miles from the Hut the drift thinned out and the wind became more gusty.

  • It became more common, was at its height in the last week of June or beginning of July, and before the end of July had entirely ceased.

  • The agues, which had occurred in the spring of 1678, became more common in the summer and autumn, when they raged so extensively that no other disease deserved the name of epidemic so much.

  • In May, 1751, smallpox was brought in by Conway's regiment; it spread in July and August, becoming worse in type in the autumn as it became more common.

  • In October it became more general, among old and young, and increased till about the 24th, when it began to abate.

  • I have heard or read of a man who, after being divorced even from a wife, became more passionately in love with her than ever.

  • Though it was a kind of declaration of war; I mean a war of words; which, as we became more acquainted, was occasionally waged with some asperity.

  • My voice was powerful, my nonsense was applauded, my fears vanished, and I became more collected.

  • When he became more composed, he said, "I am well aware that it is the purity and goodness of my Anna which have thus met their reward; but I hope and believe, this gift will stimulate me to imitate her example.

  • But as he grew more free, I became more embarrassed, and as he walked by my side leading his horse, I began to wonder what I should do with him.

  • But when he had taken some drink, he became more composed, and said, "Thank you.

  • The revolt, instead of dying away, became more formidable.

  • He was a type of the Mussulman princes of the time; no doubt he went to mosque; he surrounded himself with Hindu singing and dancing girls; he became more or less Hinduized.

  • Ere long this march, which at first was peaceful, became more disquieting.

  • After a time I became more composed, I thought of little Madame Gironac, and the recollection of her disinterested kindness put me in a better frame of mind.

  • As I became more composed, I felt that it was time to act.

  • A narrow, effete, and selfish oligarchy, it became more tyrannical as it became more incompetent.

  • He was worried and alarmed by his helpless plight, and the wound on his head, instead of cicatrizing, became more serious, because it was complicated by a sharp attack of fever.

  • He was wild in his youth, as clever men often are; but, on attaining his title and fortune, and marrying into the family of the then premier, he became more sedate.

  • He became more German in extreme old age, and less impressive in his idiomatic French and English than in his own language.

  • As many things remote from current knowledge grew to be certainties, he became more confident, more independent, and more isolated.

  • When he perceived that those worldly wise young men of the press saw through the dodge, he became more adept, more adroit, more delicate in method.

  • He became more arbitrary in his movements and exactions.

  • He became more morose, more self-immured.

  • As I became more attentive, I found my papers in a much greater confusion than they were when I left everything open.

  • The dispute, as it became more animated, produced several pamphlets.

  • After having several times made the same remark, I became more careful, and locked the door.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became acquainted; became apparent; became aware; became chief; became conscious; became customary; became emperor; became exceedingly; became first; became interested; became king; became lord; became more; became necessary; became poor; became professor; became vicar; brought out; common carriers; constitutional interpretation; family name; nine members; population note; superior quality; thin piece; things present