become like

There’s dancing, and there’s singing, and there’s jumping up and down on tables, and all of the other characters become like puppets in Japanese theater.

“They have painted California to be so liberal that if we let the rest of the country become like California, the whole operation will collapse,” Horn said.

A high-security prison has become "like an airport" with so many drones flying in drugs, inspectors have said.

He didn’t suddenly become like this at the end of his life.

She’s just back from a trip to MTV’s Video Music Awards in New York to support Carpenter, who’s “become like a sister to me,” she says; before that, she was in Europe opening a string of concerts by Bleachers, the rock band led by producer Jack Antonoff, who also worked on “Short n’ Sweet.”