Sentence examples of "devenir" in French with translation "grow"

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Il est né pour devenir ingénieur. He grew up to be an engineer.
Un hameau grandit jusqu'à devenir une métropole. A small village grew into a large city.
Elle a grandi pour devenir une jolie femme comme sa mère. She grew up to be a lovely woman like her mother.
Il devient gâteux depuis peu. He had grown senile recently.
Elle devint un docteur célèbre. She grew up to be a famous doctor.
Sandra est devenue une jolie femme. Sandra has grown up to be a beautiful woman.
Mes cheveux sont devenus trop longs. My hair has grown too long.
La fille devient une femme svelte. The girl has grown into a slender woman.
Il deviendra docteur quand il sera grand. He is going to be a doctor when he grows up.
Les gens deviennent plus cyniques avec l'âge. People grow more cynical with age.
En l'espace d'un an, mon fils est devenu plus fort. In the course of a year my son grew stronger.
Le ciel devenait de plus en plus sombre et le vent de plus en plus violent. The sky grew darker and darker, and the wind blew harder and harder.
Au fur et à mesure que le temps passait, le ciel devenait de plus en plus sombre. As time went on, the sky grew darker and darker.
Il est bon que la guerre soit si terrible, de peur que nous en devenions trop friands. It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it.
Un jeune homme pauvre peut seul savoir ce qu'une passion coûte en voitures, en gants, en habits, linge, etc. Si l'amour reste un peu trop de temps platonique, il devient ruineux. Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous.
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