Comme il faut

Usage examples of becoming.

Abuse victims, we often read, continue the cycle by becoming abusers themselves.

These questions still interested him, but the flavor of academicism which informed them in the face of the coming catastrophe was becoming more and more evident even to him.

Most importantly, achieving transformation means becoming a being of sharing.

He would have done better for himself than by becoming adjoint to the maire of Arthenay.

Whether It Was Becoming That the Magi Should Come to Adore Christ and Pay Homage to Him?

Count Bunker, arrayed in a becoming suit of knickerbockers, and looking as fresh as if he had feasted last night on aerated water, who sat down to consume it.

Grant was thinking that this was about the fiftieth urgent agendum that had been pressed upon him, each more crucial than the other, and he was becoming powerless to evaluate them, but he did acknowledge that he had two personal obligations which had to be considered seriously.

Things that The Shadow had already analyzed and passed along to Harry, but which were becoming more established, the way Alker put them.

She had not strength to repulse the hand which I pressed amorously upon her heart, and becoming bolder I fastened my burning lips upon her languid mouth.

The conversation between Bee and Gay was becoming predictably fractious, and Ana pulled herself from her daydreams.

I had persisted with the morphine but the doses were becoming larger andless effective.

Because, she replied in pictures, she believed that the worlds were becoming decadent under the anima, without much vigor, and she thought it would be more interesting under the animus.

All, then, is antecedent and resultant, each sequent becoming in turn an antecedent once it has taken its place among things.

What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.

It is certainly not beautiful as grown in Province Wellesley, and I am becoming faithless to my allegiance to it in this region of areca and other more graceful palms.