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Example sentences for "would become"

  • It would become me As well as it does you; and I should do it With much more ease; for my good will is to it, And yours it is against.

  • Your charm so strongly works 'em That if you now beheld them your affections Would become tender.

  • Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds, Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood, It would become me better than to close In terms of friendship with thine enemies.

  • He would become familiar, in fact, with the guiding principles of geological inquiry.

  • But if it were tight in the middle and loose at the outer edge, it would become, under the same pressure, convex on the top, as in Fig.

  • What, he asked, would become of the Bank of England, or of every banking house in the kingdom, or of all debtors who were liable to pay upon demand all that they owed?

  • The latter port is only four days' steaming from Suez, and, being the most central depot for all merchandise both to and from Upper Egypt, it would become a point of great importance were regular means of transport established.

  • This country must be exceedingly unhealthy during the rainy season, as the soil is extremely rich, and the valleys, surrounded by hills, would become swamps.

  • When the progress of the attenuation becomes so slack as not to exceed half a pound in the day, it is prudent to cleanse, otherwise the top harm might re-enter the body of the beer, and it would become yeast-bitten.

  • It must be kept hot till it goes to the fire; for were it allowed to cool it would become necessary to heat it again very gradually at the mouth of the furnace of fusion, to prevent the enamel from decrepitating and flying off.

  • The reader will see how important, as time went on, it would become to have an accurate record, and I already then feared that there might be some want of fidelity after I myself had been deposited.

  • At the present moment a law has been passed which, if carried into action, would become abhorrent to mankind at large.

  • I should be the laughing-stock of the people; and as such, it would become me to hide my head.

  • We should no longer hear that seduction was to be sued as "loss of service:" it would become loss of honor to more than one.

  • If the position that woman is not a citizen were pushed to its extreme, it would become untenable, her property could not be taxed, and the necessary remedy would be applied.

  • If women would expressly disapprove of wine-drinking, soon, among the decent classes, it would become obsolete.

  • How elastic, tough and cheerful our young folks would become, could this white, sickly skin be exposed every day to the sunshine!

  • Business would proceed with difficulty, if the representation was so numerous as it would become by the ratio of one to thirty thousand.

  • What, he further asked, would become of our produce, in the event contemplated?

  • But actually, with the decay of incest, it would become what it is as among lower races, where nothing is more remarkable than the strict interdict upon any union between members of different generations.

  • He would not think of race-horses, he would desert the Beargarden, he would learn blue-books by heart, and only do as much shooting and hunting as would become a young nobleman in his position.

  • I could make an argument in favour of any equality with the best Briton that ever lived,--as would become a true-born Republican.

  • She could tell herself with pride that her conduct towards him had been always such as would become a lady of high spirit and fine feeling.

  • Truly she ought to have had something; she was of the old man's blood, whether or no the law recognised her or not; and where was she and what would become of her?

  • It seemed impossible--it would become impossible if she once learned her own charms.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would become" 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:
    like best; would accompany; would appreciate; would ask; would begin; would cause; would certainly; would continue; would cost; would grant; would have been very; would hold; would indeed; would necessarily; would not; would pass; would play; would please; would present; would probably; would recommend; would remark; would they; would undertake; would work; would yield