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Example sentences for "she became"

  • She became aware at this moment of another girl who was passing on foot.

  • As the day wore on, however, she became reassured.

  • As she paced up and down the room in evident agitation, every now and then stopping short to wring her hands when terrible thoughts came crowding, she became in her own mind exceedingly abusive.

  • She could not know how dear she became to him then, because not ten minutes before, from the very lapel against which her cheek lay pressed, he had unpinned a white carnation.

  • If she became as she had been before--Howie would have failed.

  • In the convent, because she was well born and well connected, she became a person of much influence and received many callers.

  • She became in after life something of an autocrat and overmuch of a bigot.

  • Turkish harem, she became as black and as ugly as the mistress of a Kaffir household.

  • The woman came down from the house, and as the heat of the sun struck her on the stomach, she became ill, for the sky was very low.

  • As time went on, however, she became tired of the old man, and planned to set his son against him.

  • When the maiden saw the animal, she became angry at its owner for letting it into her garden.

  • For a week or ten days I did not know what to think, she became so weak, and suffered so much from increased pain in the side, and aggravated cough.

  • She became a regular correspondent with Mr. Williams, and not less than a hundred letters were sent to him, most of them treating of interesting literary matters.

  • When, as a girl of fifteen, she became a pupil at Roe Head, Mary Taylor once told her to her face that she was ugly.

  • When the princess saw his sympathetic grief, and [heard] his kind assurances, she became easy in her mind.

  • As the evening wore on she became quieter, but had a great thirst, and begged that a little bit of the ice might be put into her mouth.

  • The station was too isolated for her, and if she became ill it might be weeks before any one knew.

  • To augment an income rendered small through the misfortune and death of her father, she became a journalist.

  • She became displeased at him in consequence of his coming into possession of a property from which she had been expelled.

  • Subject to fits or trances, she became prostrated by them; and she had, according to her own account, converse with angels and the spirits of dead saints.

  • She became a convert to the Christian religion, from which she was sought to be seduced by Olybius, a ruler in the East who sought her hand in marriage.

  • In 1874 she became a student at the Art School in Stuttgart, where she worked under the special direction of Funk, and later entered the Art School at Carlsruhe, where she was a pupil of Gude.

  • In Rome, where this artist spent several years, she became a disciple of Overbeck.

  • She became an intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Howitt, and died at their summer home in the Austrian Tyrol.

  • Although Madame Merian, who had taken her maiden name, was seventeen years older than the gifted flower painter, she became to her an example of industry and devotion to study.

  • He was chosen a prefect, and he married the wealthy widow of Comte de Montcornet, who offered him her hand when she became free.

  • She became a skilled workwoman and was about to set up for herself when the Empire was overthrown.

  • She became a widow in 1835, and took as her second husband the Duc de Rhetore.

  • As she rose, she became conscious of the wet and cold, and was completely sobered as she stood shivering at Horace's side.

  • She became lost in long ponderings on how far a person's conscience might be bound by vows made without at the time a full recognition of their force.

  • She became as heavy as lead--just as she had been before he arrived.

  • She became silent, glaring at him with murderous eyes.

  • In laughing, she became a model for an artist, an embodiment of fierce life independent of morality.

  • She became so at present, partly in consequence of the stimulants she had taken to support her through a trying ceremony, partly as a means of obtaining time to reflect.

  • She became afraid of him and would have called out if he had approached her.

  • When she raised her eyes higher, she became aware of a bright burst of sunlight.

  • She became used to it all, just as she got used to wearing torn skirts and no longer washing herself carefully.

  • She became calmer, but felt a vague sadness as she continued to watch the objects that appeared, wondering if they were from her time or from the time of others.

  • She became so peculiar at times, holding her breath, listening attentively, expecting to unravel the secret through one of Bazouge's movements, that Coupeau would ask her with a chuckle if she had a fancy for that gravedigger next door.

  • She became one of The Dreamer's most intimate friends, and always made him and his wife welcome at her "evenings.

  • She became, in imagination, the sharer of his studies, the wife of his bosom, and he sat at her feet and gladly learned from her the beautiful, strange secrets of this fearfully and wonderfully made world.

  • She became a living, breathing, wrathful, loving woman once more.

  • While she was at her machine, her very individuality seemed lost; she became an integral part of a system.

  • When Fanny stood beside her daughter and looked at her, then at Robert, with the reflection of the beautiful young face in her eyes of love, she became at once pathetic and sacred.

  • She became to her own understanding like an instrument which is played upon with such results of harmonies and discords that all sense of the mechanism is lost.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    she added; she always; she answered; she asked; she begged; she cried; she declared; she don; she fell; she glanced; she goes; she had never known; she left; she must; she passed; she read; she rose from her; she said under her; she sighed; she stood; she turned; she was; she whispered; she would; shed tears; sheet metal