She grew up to be a slim girl.

When she got back, it was already a thick, brown paste.

The water turned to ice.

The caterpillar turned into a butterfly.

What have I become?

Christopher Columbus once stared at Medusa, and Medusa turned to stone.

I was looking at a dog. However, when I looked again, it had turned into a cat.

Russia had emerged as a second superpower.

The caterpillar transformed into a beautiful butterfly.

He begged to stay in Geneva.

Revolution transmuted into a crypto coup d état.

Last night was madness.

The little girl grew into a beautiful woman.

Mary turned herself into a raven and flew away.

Mary became a well rounded young woman.

In Kyrgyzstan, then the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kyrgyzia, she turned into something of a national icon.

Don't you see what you've become?

Again the frog turned into Vasilissa, the wise maiden.

From a stigma, however, it has become for Muslims a sign of their positive affirmation of an Islamic identity.

We watched her drive her car away, until it was no more than a dot in the distance.

The entire pile was a green berm of life.

As a result, politics has become a contest about credibility.

But you haven t turned into a bird (smiley)....

The Luhansk People's Republic, in short, has become a circus.

From a baker and pizza maker, I became a whore.

In the past few decades, Japan has become a sleeping tiger.

Putin's warning to the West that it risks repeating its Libya mistakes in Syria didn't impress anti Kremlin blogger Kirill Mikhailov, who argued that Syria is already far bloodier and more chaotic than Libya.

You can imagine the fuss that comes from this tradition.

To turn cold water hot, one needs to heat it.

In order to make cold water into hot water, one should heat it up.

US policy has devolved into a sort of wheel of fortune game for financial firms.

Norwegian Cruise went public in January 2013.

Mary's dream of going abroad finally became a reality.

For many of them, life seems to become an almost permanent holiday.

In the sixteenth century, Spain emerged as a superpower following its conquest of South America.

In a single instant of unfathomable fury, his moment of glory was transformed into one of madness and a curse.

It was a rich and well built country, but the country turned to ruins in just a year.

Over the years, ttt became the breeding ground for many of this nation s cultural icons.

America was briefly tempted into real imperialism when it emerged as a world power a century ago, but the interlude of formal empire did not last long.

Observing the relationship between her father and stepmother, and their affection toward her half brothers, she is said to have become embittered and developed a fierce personality.

Had federalism been introduced in Somalia, for example, when the north south rift emerged, it probably would not have ended up as a failed state.

We found this ridiculous as Ms Ng was originally making a complaint about suspected sexual assault of a police officer in the protest but now she has been turned into an attacker.

To have removed the issue from domestic ideological controversy ranks as a major achievement of Schroeder s tenure. But it was also meant to convey that Germany had grown up into a proper international power.

But it was also meant to convey that Germany had grown up into a proper international power.

Originally an anti insurgency effort, the campaign quickly mutated into a killing and expulsion operation.