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Example sentences for "once became"

  • The Boston Light Infantry at once became the 24th Unattached Company, M.

  • This accomplished, the new unit at once became the 5th Company in the 1st Regiment.

  • Framingham at once became a synonym for increased efficiency; that very year the tour of camp duty was lengthened from three to four days, and from time to time thereafter successful effort was made to secure further extension.

  • Ripened by years of experience in public life, he at once became recognized as one of the leading men of the body, and was conspicuous in the absorbing question then before the country, that of internal development.

  • Choosing as his home Jacksonville, where he located as a merchant in 1839, he at once became an interested sharer in the stirring times of that period.

  • His astonishing intrepidity won the attention of both armies, and Pelham at once became a common target to the batteries of the enemy.

  • Being both intelligent and witty, she at once became my favourite companion.

  • Liszt came by himself, and my house at once became a musical centre.

  • After saying this, Kali vanished from his sight, and Nala at once became well-disposed as before, and recovered his former splendour.

  • When the god had said this, he gave him the sword and disappeared, and that prince at once became possessed of powerful weapons and great strength and courage.

  • When Bhimabhata had said this, he abandoned the form of an elephant, and at once became a Gandharva of heavenly might.

  • And she at once became a mule; and this is she whom thou seest before thee, O Sultan and Chief of the Kings of the Jinn!

  • Presently the scorpion changed to an eagle, and the serpent at once became a griffin, which pursued the eagle a long while, till the latter became a black cat.

  • And opening his mouth, rushed upon her: but she made haste and plucked a hair from her head and waved it in the air, muttering the while; and it at once became a sharp sword, with which she smote the lion and cut him in two.

  • When I told him I was an auctioneer he at once became interested in me, as he had been one himself in his younger days.

  • I became satisfied, at any rate, that I had "struck my gait," and at once became wrapped up soul and body in the business.

  • After the subjects had been chosen, the question, how to treat them, at once became paramount.

  • Her success was remarkable, and she at once became an established favorite.

  • Her exceptional musical talent at once became apparent to the professors at the academy, notably Emanuel Garcia, who, although then upward of eighty years of age, took the liveliest interest in his young pupil.

  • So saying he retired into a thicket and took off his waist cloth and at once became a tiger; then he swallowed the waist cloth and thereby grew a fine long tail.

  • The horse then opened wide its mouth, and breathed upon the lad, who at once became a most handsome prince, worthy to be a fairy king.

  • When the old woman came very near again, the lad threw the brush behind him, and it at once became a dense forest, having as many trees as there were bristles in the brush.

  • Maria at once became a silver lake and Johnnie a silver duck.

  • As by magic he threw off the cumbrous mass that so long confined his mighty genius and at once became a gigantic and brilliant intellectual man.

  • Convinced of the justice and possible success of the cause he at once became a champion in its favor.

  • He at once became a champion for chartered rights and rational freedom.

  • The horror of Herr Carovius at once became real.

  • He at once became moody; she was still more surprised.

  • In 1861 his Poletuje holubice won a prize and at once became a favourite with the local choral societies.

  • It united the moderate Liberals throughout Germany, and at once became a great political power, notwithstanding all the efforts of the governments, and especially of the king of Hanover to suppress it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once 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:
    but they were all; certain relation; colored soldiers; dramatic composition; eastern side; her whole; innocent person; now and; once again; once and; once apparent; once despatched; once for; once found; once gave; once knew; once made; once more; once proceeded; once recognised; once recognized; once the; once thought; once wrote; she walked; though unable