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Example sentences for "should become"

  • They may be of use to the Holy See on many occasions, but more particularly if any future history be published of the events which form the object of the present writings, or if it should become necessary to refute any false statement.

  • I'll warrant none so fair that it should become her, or rather that she should become it, more than her who doth covet it.

  • A people must grow up, as a child must grow up; and it is hard to expect that a child whose body has suffered by an unkind or an injudicious nurse, should become at once strong under better treatment.

  • Suppose that island, with its present population, under present circumstances, should become an independent State.

  • Whether it is consistent with the nature of our Government, that a single branch, without check or control, should become judges in their own case?

  • He differed in opinion, however, when the gentlemen said that we should have less to apprehend from St. Domingo, in case it should become independent, than whilst it remained a part of the French Republic.

  • The honorable member reads the Constitution as if it said that none but white men should become citizens of the United States; but it says no such thing, and never intended, in my judgment, to say any such thing.

  • It is time, he cried, and quite as extravagantly as Clay, that "we should become a little more Americanized.

  • In 1838, when his health had threatened to be unequal to his work, Van Buren had offered him the mission to Spain, if it should become vacant.

  • Did he approve another bank charter, if it should become necessary to preserve the revenue and finances of the nation?

  • At first it may be an interrupted hold, afterwards it should become such a grasp as the roots of a tree have on the soil.

  • At first it may be a tremulous trust, afterwards it should become an assured confidence.

  • The acquirement of book-learning he found a dull and dolorous business, to which he was driven only by the threats or entreaties of his parents, who showed some concern lest he should become an "arrant dunce.

  • The direct outcome of this note was, not the death of Borrow, but the departure from Milman Street of Roger Kerrison, lest he should become involved in a tragedy connected with Borrow's oft- repeated threat of suicide.

  • I am certain that, by thus going out of my sphere, I should become useless to the inhabitants, and render myself unhappy.

  • If they get the better of you, they will be enemies unto you, and they will stretch forth their hands and their tongues against you with evil: and they earnestly desire that ye should become unbelievers.

  • And when she had put the child in the ark, and had cast it into the river, the family of Pharaoh took him up; providence designing that he should become an enemy, and a sorrow unto them.

  • They desire that ye should become infidels, as they are infidels, and that ye should be equally wicked with themselves.

  • Meetings were held and petitions got up, with a view of hastening the time when the slave should become a man among his fellow-men.

  • I will speak to him, or give you leave to speak to him, if it should become necessary.

  • If the possibility you have been contemplating should become a reality, ought it to be deplored?

  • But of what use would it be that a Bohemian, not knowing German, should become a priest or a bishop in Germany?

  • His parents were Protestants, and it was decided that he should become a minister of that Church.

  • All this tended to confuse their knowledge of the points of the compass, but they did not forget to note everything that could serve as a guide, and were confident of finding their way whenever it should become necessary to return.

  • Remembering the caution of their friend they studied the landmarks around them, in the hope of not losing their way when it should become time to return to camp.

  • He pledged the boys not to offer any harm to Motoza for his last crime, and indeed would never harm him, unless it should become necessary in self defence.

  • The heads of the families were college mates at Harvard, and continued their intimacy after the marriage of each, so that it was quite natural that their sons should become fond of each other.

  • Do not let it be torn; if it should become snagged or torn accidentally, mend it at once.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should become" 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:
    eight lines; feudal tenure; more and; should advise; should become; should certainly; should consider; should continue; should have; should hear; should hope; should judge; should love; should marry; should perhaps; should please; should pray; should prove; should remain; should resign; should still; should suffer; should want; three classes; when heated; white persons