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Example sentences for "then became"

  • He then became a furnace man and had shortness of breath and palpitation on severe exertion with syncope three times.

  • The non-commissioned officer threatened to shoot him, and he then became still.

  • He then became an attendant at the Grand-Palais.

  • He then became a partner in the business, under the firm style of Guichard & McAuliffe.

  • He then became interested in a milk ranch and dairy business, but in 1870 he disposed of his ranch and stock and returned to San Francisco with the intention of making that city his permanent home.

  • About 1900 he removed to Dayton, turning over the operation of his farm to his sons, and he then became one of the organizers of the Broughton National Bank, of which he was made a member of the board of directors.

  • It then became necessary to beat the woods for stragglers.

  • The valets, as the French called them, then became comerades, and ceased to be mere engages.

  • He then became a cadet in a marine regiment.

  • He then became a toll-collector at Long Ditton; but his wife and he did not live happily together, and at Christmas in the same year he quarrelled with her and cruelly beat her with a poker.

  • He then became Pastor in Rundem, Minnertsga, and at last in Ablasserdam.

  • He then became a teacher in a Christian school at Zieginhals.

  • He then became a colporteur of religious books, when he suffered much from his friends, yet lived so economically that he managed to save sufficient money to enable him to study for the ministry.

  • This, for that they believed, then became unbelievers!

  • He then became a part of the restored State government, serving his fellow citizens as a member of the House of Delegates, to which he was twice re-elected.

  • He then became a man of very regular habits and devoted much of his time to meditation and prayer.

  • He then became pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Chicago, where he was succeeded by Richard DeBaptiste as pastor of the combined Olivet Baptist Church in 1863.

  • He then became pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, a charge which he held until 1882.

  • It then became a resort for mealmen and farmers, and latterly a brandy-shop and beggars' haunt of the vilest sort.

  • The Golden Cross ran up beside the King's Mews a little east of its present site; it was the "Bull and Mouth" of the West End till railways drew travellers from the old roads; it then became a railway parcel office.

  • The palace, never the home of very happy inmates, then became a lodging for foreign kings and ambassadors, and a home for a few noblemen and poor retainers of the court, much as Hampton Court is now.

  • He then became Councillor of State and Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Nicholas.

  • He then became Minister of State, and for a short time Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1848.

  • He then became secretary to the Embassy at Lisbon, chief consul at Leipzig, and political adviser to Marshal Radetzky in Italy.

  • He then became a supporter of the July Monarchy.

  • He then became apprentice to a printer, devoting all his spare time to self-education.

  • He then became a lawyer's clerk, and was later an assistant in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.

  • He then became tutor in the family of Sir T.

  • He then became Bishop of Rennes and cardinal.

  • He then became President of the Republic, which post he held till 1873.

  • He then became member of the orchestra of the Italian Opera.

  • He then became, for a time, Servais's pupil in the Brussels Conservatoire.

  • He then became a member of the Court Kapelle at Loewenberg and Meiningen.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then became" 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:
    fine church; not far from the; prevented from; steel rails; then add; then added; then both; then carried; then draw; then enter; then expanded; then gave; then goes; then laid; then nodded; then pack; then presently; then returned; then sprinkle; then taken; then the; then the priest shall pronounce him; then told; then took; then very; thence will