Read full poem →Faints into airs, and languishes with pride;
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapp'd in a gown, for sickness, and for show.
Dictionary Entry
To arrive, come (to a place).
Origin
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Common Phrases
increasingly becomingless becoming. becomingone becomingaware becoming
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “becoming”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →tragic style, and sometimes also noble patrons, who
have done honour to themselves, by becoming the
friends and protectors of men of genius.
Read full poem →“_Only_ think—hiccup!—of a fricasséed shadow!” exclaimed our
hero, whose faculties were becoming much illuminated by the profundity of
his Majesty’s discourse.
Read full poem →The scale that crumples and deadens, the moth in the blossoms
Becoming a life that coils at the core of a thing of beauty:
You bite your apple, a worm is crushed on your tongue!
Read full poem →You find yourself reverting to a soul
You have not loved, despite yourself becoming
That other soul, and with an out-worn self
Read full poem →But, by its very nature, language changes with time, and access
to Spenser's magic kingdom is becoming ever more difficult. I
hope this edition provides a key.
Read full poem →syllable thus inserted shall be a light one, in order to prevent the line
from becoming clogged. Chaucer is very particular about this; and we shall
find that he almost invariably employs, in such a position, such light
Read full poem →between us. We belong to a later generation than you. A man and a
woman can be friends now without becoming lovers."
Read full poem →exposed the keeping part of the town, that the play was stopt when it
had but thrice appeared on the stage; but the author took a becoming
care, that the things that offended on the stage, were either altered
Read full poem →her clergy with their unambitious sloth in declining the dignity of
becoming bishops _in partibus infidelium_. The poet goes on to state
the scandalous materials with which it has been the universal custom