Meanings of became the city in English

She became the city and then the county superintendent of schools.

The population of what afterward became the city of Chicago then numbered three hundred.

And thou became the city of the dead.

In sacred literature proud Babylon became the city of the anti-Christ, the symbol of wickedness and cruelty and human vanity.

Dublin became the city of lost children for a short time yesterday following the confusion of milling crowds at the parade's end.

First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

David wanted this stronghold for the chief city of the kingdom, and so he took it, and it became the city of David.

And as the dove was said to have descended at Rheims, and St. Remy was buried there, this became the city of the coronation.

The former congressman served three terms until David Dinkins defeated him in the 1989 Democratic primary and became the city first-andso far, only-Blackmayor.