become like

Example Sentences

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“We’ve become like Europe, we’re unable to move and change.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

“You become like a grandfather and look at the kids, and you take pride in them,” Acuña told a Cal State Northridge publication in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Her older sister had just asked us if we were “on the baby Punch-kun side of TikTok” because she had become like a “Facebook Mom, watching videos of him all day.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

"He's not a proper ball-playing centre-back yet. Technically, there is a lot to improve on, but he's a smart kid and he can get there and become like a Virgil van Dijk."

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

All Southern California waterways have become like phantom limbs.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman