Example Sentences

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These two will have become fond of each other now.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

When they announced the ceasefire, she told me about how worried she was, wondering whether she would be able to see her beautiful house again, or if it will have become something else entirely.

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2025

By August, your 6-inch tomato seedlings will have become at least 4-foot-tall plants with lush, dense foliage — despite your best efforts to tame them by trellising them or growing them in a tomato cage.

From Salon • May 22, 2022

Still, Marks says he anticipates that by the time makers of vaccines formulate new preparations to combat variants and test them in small human studies, the key immune responses will have become clear.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2021

“This habit probably originated in the females carefully licking their puppies—the dearest object of their love—for the sake of cleansing them... .Thus, the habit will have become associated with the emotion of love.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman