became

[bih-keym]

verb

1. the simple past tense of become.

became

/ bɪˈkeɪm /

verb

1. the past tense of become

Example Sentences

A Kenyan family has told the BBC how a cheetah cub they adopted after finding it lying next to its dead mother became almost like one of their children.

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As he witnessed people dying on the journey, "my heart became a stone", he said.

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I’m sure he was proud of the person you became and how you navigated the loss of your two children.

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Ken Belson’s “Every Day Is Sunday” documents how the NFL became an “immensely profitable American religion, complete with acolytes, pomp, and tax breaks.”

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Nevertheless, they became unexpected but staunch allies on the Human Rights Commission that drafted the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ratified in 1948.

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