Became [verb]

Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.

The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.

These schools became affiliated Universities, but never equalled the Law University in importance.

As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.

What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?

The water suggested the fear that he must be nearing the open sea, and he became supernaturally grave.

Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.

To give him a party name, he became an anti-clerical, strictly in a political and lawful sense.

W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.

He passed through all the honors of the law, and in 1836 became lord chancellor.