become wise

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

By the time you become wise enough to do it, you’re too old to do it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2018

Shops have become wise to the growing number of novice green thumbs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2017

“I say that proudly. That’s the third stage of a woman’s life, and that’s when we can become wise women.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017

De Botton claims in Consolations that it is possible to “take on a task at once both profound and laughable: to become wise through philosophy.”

From Salon • May 13, 2013

And after Chronicles had registered Zorobabel as the son of Penniah, Matthew and Luke, assuming to become "wise above what was written," both declare that he was the son of Salathiel.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey