On a wild road in Ireland I had heard Irish spoken for the first time; and I was seized with a desire to learn Irish, the acquisition of which, in my case, became the stepping-stone to other languages.
At the age of twenty-six, in the year 768, he became the monarch of the greater part of modern France, and of those provinces which border on the Rhine.
Woman, under the influence of chivalry, became the star of worship, an object of idolatry.
He became thecounsellor of kings and nobles, bishops and popes.
Gradually Etienne began to indoctrinate his companions with a spirit of revolt, and when the great strike broke out he became the leader.
He became the lover of Silvine Morange, promising her marriage, but disappearing before the ceremony.
It was said that he became thelover of Madame Rastoil, and it was certainly through her influence that he won his first cases.
He became the lover of Adelaide Fouque in 1789, less than a year after the death of her husband, and had two children by her, Antoine and Ursule Macquart.
Later, under the system called Christianity, woman, who had previously become identified with the evil principle, became the Tempter.
This man begat three sons who became the fathers of the three Deutsch tribes.
It became the original "life giver," it was Adam, the creator of the race.
Under the immediate jurisdiction of Carthage, it became the centre of commerce and empire; but the republic of Carthage is now degenerated into the feeble and disorderly states of Tripoli and Tunis.
After suppressing a competitor, who had assumed the purple at Mentz, he refused to gratify his troops with the plunder of the rebellious city; and in the seventh year of his reign, became the victim of their disappointed avarice.
Then it became the fashion to use calicoes for curtains, cushions, chairs, and beds.
In this way she had among her friends a selection of the best members of the Court; so that it became the fashion to be received by her, and it was useful to be so, on account of the connections that were thus formed.
It became the fashion to give fetes in his honour; and the astonishing fact is, that the King, who at heart was more offended than ever with William of Orange, treated this ambassador with the most marked distinction.
He became the confidant of the married pair, and their bond: of union with the Cardinal.
Her body, formerly so perfect, became theprey of the unskilfulness and the ignorance of a surgeon.
On his vacations he became the third in the family, and to him was given the building of the fires, the sweeping, and the washing of the dishes.
If the favor he asked were refused, it became the thing he demanded.
The expenses of combating the strike were tremendous, and they were earning nothing, while daily the situation went from bad to worse, until "peace at any price" became the cry.
He became the ancestor of the Fabii of after-history.
It was no longer a question of the wrong done his mother thirty years ago; it became the question of a wrong done himself in casting him nameless upon the world, a thing of scorn to cruel, unjust humanity.
He spoke, as usual, in a loud voice that all might hear, and his talk was loose and heavily salted as became the talk of a rake of his exalted rank.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Hence it became the policy of the Church to support the civil authorities in getting lands cleared for settlement, in improving the methods of cultivation, and in strengthening the seigneurial system at every point.
After it became the law of the colony no one desiring land from a seigneur's ungranted domain was expected to offer anything above the customary annual dues and services.
That is the way in which he became the owner of a model seigneury.
Ruth, who married John Bass, became the ancestress of John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Andromache, the widow of Hector, became the wife of one of the victorious Grecian chiefs, to whom she bore a son.
OEdipus, ignorant of his parentage, had already become the slayer of his father; in marrying the queen he became the husband of his mother.
The four sons of Brahma, so significantly brought into the world, became the fathers of the human race, and heads of their respective castes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "became the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
