4404 examples of to becoming in sentences

They are on their way to becoming straightforward.

Tsz-lu having asked what made a "superior man," he answered, "Self-culture, with a view to becoming seriously-minded.

"What's going to became of Kenneth?" "I have left him five thousand," said the woman.

She hoped Morris would not have to settle on the "land," he loved the water with such abounding enthusiasm, he was so ready for his opportunities and so devoted to becoming a sailor missionary.

Having been accustomed, prior to becoming a mother, to take a glass or two of wine, and occasionally a tumbler of table beer, she was advised to follow precisely her former dietetic plan, but with the addition of half a pint of barley-milk morning and night.

And now it has toppled down and is on the way, perhaps, to becoming as much a thing of the past as wigs or knee-breeches.

Others were already fast on their way to becoming prominent, but so far she was still going unnoticed.

Every race in the universe must aspire to becoming a factor in politics; but history shows that there is no short route to such success.

If you will give me ten minutes so that I may tell my story I will willingly obey any order you may give, even to becoming a prisoner in my room; but I think that it will be better for you to know the facts about this case, and what I have learned about this Mr. Meeker in Manila.

I'm on the way to becoming a starving artistwriting things."

When his father wasn't reading, he enjoyed fixing things; he looked forward to becoming a sort of anti-heroMajor O'Shaunessy to the rescue, the tools, the truck, the little boxes of washers and screws and finishing nails, the retirement checks punctually in the mail.

To disprove the falsity of the charge that literary instruction given in Neau's school in New York was the cause of a rising of slaves in 1709, he produced evidence that it was due to their opposition to becoming Christians.

She learnt with surprise that her husband was on the high road to becoming one of the princes of industrythat great power of the century.

The first affection of this age is an increase of property by wealth, as well with a view to becoming rich as for a plentiful supply of the comforts of life; the second is a thirst after honors, with a view either of being held in high estimation or of an increase of fortune: besides these, there are various allurements and concupiscences which do not afford an opportunity of ascertaining the agreement of the internal affections.

He was quite determined to limit his ambition to becoming the husband of Tamira, and living holily.

We repeat it, to became a servant, was to become a proselyte.

We repeat it, to became a servant, was to become a proselyte.

Heraldry and ancestry succeed the Church in gaining a notice from his pen; and his researches have gone so deep, that one is led to imaginedespite his declarations of contemptthat he looks forward to becoming some day The Most Noble the Duke of Arkansas and Mississippi, with a second title of Viscount de' Tucky and Ohio;[BN] the "de" suggestive of his descent from The Three Continents.

Hitherto he had rather deprecated these remarks as savoring of pride and self-conceit, but now he began to believe that they must be true; and so believing, if he had but known it, he had taken another long step on the way to becoming the perfect soldier, who firmly believes his regiment the finest in the world and is ready to die in proof of the belief.

A little while before, she had been very close to becoming a woman.

Now, I must reconcile myself to becoming the wife of this detestable Mr. Flem.

In youth he had loved a bright, pretty girl, who had looked forward to becoming his wife; but he had never married, because he had not had the means, and the pretty girl died a disappointed woman.

"I understand very well that in endeavouring to stop the abuses committed by our officers and by the Filipinos who claim to belong to us, in Manila, I expose myself to becoming a victim of their vengeance; nevertheless, this does not terrify me, because my duty to the country requires it.

At these words the man so appealed to became scarlet.

I went to Strang and demanded an explanation; I told him that my sister hated him, that the sight of his face and the sound of his voice filled her with abhorrence, but he only laughed at me and asked why I objected to becoming the brother-in-law of a prophet.

4404 examples of  to becoming  in sentences