Aim

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"Aim" in a Sentence (30 examples)

We must achieve our aim at any price.

The aim of science is, as has often been said, to foresee, not to understand.

The primary aim of science is to find truth, new truth.

Take steady aim at the tiger.

That aim is impossible to attain.

The democrat endeavored to accomplish his aim by himself.

All of these sports and many others are dominated by the human urge to aim at something.

What is the central aim of this plan?

What is the chief aim of this society?

We aim to please.

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to take aim

Take time with the aim of your gun.

2012, "The Legend of the Gobblewonker", season 1, episode 2 of Gravity Falls, spoken by Grunkle Stan, voiced by Alex Hirsch My ex-wife still misses me, but her aim is getting better!

My number one aim in life is to make money to make my parents, siblings, and kids happy.

There is no doubt at all that this is the future of machinery, and just as trees grow while the country gentleman is asleep, so while Humanity will be amusing itself, or enjoying cultivated leisure—which, and not labour, is the aim of man—or making beautiful things, or reading beautiful things, or simply contemplating the world with admiration and delight, machinery will be doing all the necessary and unpleasant work.

As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.

The police officer has excellent aim, always hitting the bullseye in shooting practice.

He has a bad aim, so he decided to join archery classes.

What you would work me to, I have some aim.

He aimed at the target, but the arrow flew straight over it.

He aimed the gun at him and he held his hands up in surrender.

to aim at a pass

to aim to do well in life

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.

to aim an arrow at the deer

She aimed a punch at her ex-boyfriend.

to aim a satirical comment at Communists in general

But, good my lord, do it so cunningly / That my discovery be not aimed at;

There are Schimmel Sister stickers, and Navajo Nation stickers, Cherokee Nation stickers, Idle No More, and AIM flags duct-taped to antennas.

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