However, as more and more deaths quickly ensue, it becomes apparent that there is an epidemic.

When the blade becomes dull, it can be quickly reversed or switched for a new one.

In one scene of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Clark becomes aware of an emergency while talking with Bruce Wayne and, in the next panel, he has flown out of his Kent clothing and glasses so quickly that they have had no time to fall.

Davros quickly becomes obsessed with his creations, considering them to be the ultimate form of life, superior to all others.

The noise travels around the loop and is amplified and filtered until very quickly it becomes a sine wave at a single frequency.

It is more like a physical quantity, and though it can be tempting to treat height as the vertical coordinate, in addition to the horizontal coordinates and, and though this actually is a good approximation of physical reality in small areas, it quickly becomes invalid for regional considerations.

A gas which is quickly removed from the atmosphere may initially have a large effect but for longer time periods as it has been removed becomes less important.

Inflation becomes hyperinflation when the increase in money supply turns specific areas of pricing power into a general frenzy of spending quickly before money becomes worthless.

During the course of the illness, the patient's mobility is progressively restricted as it becomes hard for him or her to bend down, reach for things, walk quickly and so on.

It becomes rancid quickly when exposed to air.

As each generation becomes more in tune with the Internet, their desire to retrieve information as quickly and easily as possible has increased.

This plasticity is whittled down as a child becomes exposed to the specific sounds and structure of his or her language environment, and so, the child quickly becomes a native speaker of that language.

The lack of an obvious rule to determine whether a given Mersenne number is prime makes the search for Mersenne primes an interesting task, which becomes difficult very quickly, since Mersenne numbers grow very rapidly.

In burst or automatic fire, the pistol should be fitted with the wooden shoulder stock ; otherwise, the weapon quickly becomes uncontrollable.

Several colors can be cut separately and then overlaid, but the process quickly becomes cumbersome for more than a couple of hues.

It quickly becomes a center for exploration, interstellar trade, political maneuvering, and eventually open conflict.

Nintendo Magazine System showed a preference for the multiplayer modes of the game and stated that while the " single player mode becomes dull quickly " the " two-player mode won't lose appeal ".

For optimal taste and texture, Temaki must be eaten quickly after being made because the nori cone soon absorbs moisture from the filling and loses its crispness and becomes somewhat difficult to bite.

Hitomi's latent psychic powers are enhanced on Gaea and she quickly becomes embroiled in the conflicts between the Zaibach Empire and the several peaceful countries that surround it.

Piggy, although Ralph's only confidante, is quickly made an outcast by his fellow " biguns " ( older boys ) and becomes an unwilling source of laughs for the other children.

When he and the others arrive on the island, Ralph quickly becomes the chief of the group, not by any harsh, overt or physical action, but by being elected.

In the case of hyponymy, psychological experiments revealed that individuals can access properties of nouns more quickly depending on when a characteristic becomes a defining property.

* The water hyacinth is introduced in the U. S. and quickly becomes an invasive species.

One reason for such a threat is that, unlike the typical sword and sorcery adventurer, the hero is seldom bored stiff by ordinary life and therefore will not abandon it quickly and on any excuse.

She collects children, with whom she quickly becomes bored or frustrated, and imprisons them behind a magical mirror, slowly sucking the life from them.

However, he quickly grew bored of that post, and became the district attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania in 1829, a position his father had held from 1801 to 1814, and continued in that role until 1831.

Without their girlfriends around, the boys quickly become bored.

To supplement his income, he briefly tried his hand at domestic service, but although he enjoyed cooking, he quickly became bored and resigned.

But he apparently quickly became bored with his law-abiding middle-class life.

He quickly grew bored of the mundane day-to-day work as a commissioner and missed the cut-and-thrust nature of Irish politics, which was going through a particularly unstable period.

His tenure was a brief one, as he quickly became bored with slaughter simply for its own sake and did not share the original Dark Judge's fanatical zeal for their " sacred mission " of purging all life.

Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions.

The next day they go sightseeing in Venice, but Tom quickly gets bored and the couple decide to split up for the day: Tom going to the bar to watch sports and his wife continuing to see Venice.

Though easily the most powerful of Superman's recurring enemies, Mxyzptlk is simply a fun-loving prankster who prefers to use his power for childish antics and light-hearted harassment rather than intentional malicious evil, as he would get bored very quickly by doing so ; thus he is more of an annoyance to the Man of Steel than a true threat.

It quickly transitions into twin bored tunnels, heading southwest beneath Granville Street, then curving southeast to follow Davie Street through Yaletown.

Despite having said “ I always get bored of the company of women really quickly ,” he married Mylène Halsall in a secret ceremony in Florence, Italy on 11 July 2004.

Mark Loomis started to play guitar for a popular young local band known as The Shandels, but quickly became bored with playing for a target audience of pre-teens.

He quickly grew bored with doing business as an ordinary hired killer and resolved to find a way to continue his work in a manner more suited to his sensibilities.

In the commentary, when Joss Whedon is asked about his decision to turn Angel evil, he said that he feels it was necessary to keep the story fresh as viewers would quickly become bored with Angel and Buffy's relationship.

They tend to get bored easily and give up on relationships quickly.

Victoria quickly gets bored of being stuck in the TARDIS and convinces Jamie to explore.

With nothing to do, he quickly gets bored and escapes from the home.

* A tendency to become bored quickly with old things

On the whole, though, Justforkix is quickly bored with the village.

A common cliché is that, if presented with a large and expensive new toy, a child will quickly become bored with the toy and play with the box instead.

Stark was somewhat bored by the party, but his attention was quickly captured by the presence of a stunning red head surrounded by potential suitors.

Diving with buddies who get bored or tired quickly also does not lead to enhanced enjoyment for either party.