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Example sentences for "soon became"

  • In outward things he soon became a strict Pharisee.

  • In parliament he soon became prominent as an opponent of Pitt, and as an advocate of popular rights.

  • Of one thing, however, he soon became certain.

  • But it soon became apparent, even to the sailor himself, that unless something was done to restrain the impetuosity of the camel, he must soon be separated from those following afoot.

  • It soon became known to his white captives that his name was Golah, a name which Terence suggested might be an African abbreviation of the ancient name of Goliah.

  • Mr. Kemble, it soon became apparent, had been dining, and had paid too much attention to the claret.

  • After his return to Muskau the Graf continued his work on his estate, which, in spite of a sandy soil and other disadvantages, soon became one of the show-places of Germany.

  • He soon became so necessary to his service, that he alone was admitted into his private apartment.

  • He always wished to have him with him; and that which at first appeared no more than a rising inclination, soon became a very warm attachment.

  • These congregations, or families, soon became boroughs, and the inhabitants, though agriculturists, took the name of bourgeois.

  • Montfaucon, originally the name of the hill, soon became that of the gallows itself.

  • He soon became president of the Jamestown colony and labored strenuously for its preservation.

  • While in the West, he caught the mining fever, but he soon became a newspaper reporter and editor, and in this capacity he discovered the gold mine of his genius as a writer.

  • The Unitarian movement rapidly developed and soon became dominant at Harvard College.

  • As to the Prince Royal, he soon became inured to the climate, having been for many years employed in the north.

  • His mind rapidly developed, and it soon became a question where to find teachers competent to instruct him.

  • After completing his college course, he entered the priesthood, and rapidly attaining to eminence, he soon became attached to the court of the king.

  • It soon became a source of very great corruption to both priest and woman.

  • In the hands of such able politicians it (marriage), soon became an engine of great importance to the papal scheme of an universal monarchy over Christendom.

  • So little was it expected that the tax upon concubinage soon became a component part of the celibate system.

  • With the rising tide the gale came on again with renewed fury, and it soon became a question not of saving the vessel, but of saving their own lives.

  • The men, however, soon became used to the life; and Smeaton mentions the case of one of them who was even accustomed to give up to his companions his turn for going on shore.

  • Monson, however, as his writings prove, soon became an adept in navigation and all the arts of seamanship.

  • George Cogswell received his preliminary education at Atkinson Academy, where his love for scientific investigation soon became manifest.

  • Upon leaving the sea he soon became foremost in matters that were of public concern.

  • His grandfather, Abram French, was a native of Stratham, where he spent his boyhood and learned the trade of a carpenter and builder, in which he soon became known as a skillful and thorough workman.

  • It soon became a question whether we could continue the manufacture of iron within so small an area.

  • As Mr. Glass was a highly popular man, and had political aspirations, these periods of absence became longer and more frequent, so that I soon became an adept in his branch of the work.

  • This reproof was so just, that Cimon promised to do better, and tried so hard that he soon became one of the most industrious and unselfish men of his day.

  • As they yielded much precious metal, he soon became one of the richest men of his time.

  • As Dion was modest, truthful, and eager to learn, he soon became a favorite of Plato, who took great interest in him, and spared no pains to make him a fine scholar and philosopher.

  • It was so favorably located, that it soon became an important town, and has continued so even till the present day.

  • He was so proud of it, that he soon became unbearable, and even wanted to become ruler of all Greece.

  • I found nothing, to my idea, but love poems without any love in them, and so I soon became weary.

  • In the necessary movements, he soon became precise to a degree that attracted the attention of his officers; while his character was remarkable for all the virtues belonging to a perfect soldier.

  • Possessed of a natural aptitude for mechanical operations, he soon became a tolerable workman; and he found that his previous education assisted to the fitting execution of those operations even which were most purely mechanical.

  • This convinced many, and the newly discovered art was seized with avidity by the people of the tribe, and, from the extreme simplicity of the plan, the use of it soon became general.

  • He soon became noted as an able leader and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and had command of "Lee's Legion," consisting of infantry and cavalry.

  • In his encounters with the savages he showed such courage and skill that he soon became famous, and to his credit, it must be said, he was always humane and just.

  • There he entered the studio of Julian, one of whose favorite pupils he soon became.

  • He soon became a prominent figure in state politics.

  • He soon became active in politics, his first public reputation being made in the campaign of 1888.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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