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"Aspire" in a Sentence (27 examples)
I aspire to fame.
The basic question is, what vision do you aspire to?
Sometimes little kids aspire to be strange things.
I'm not a mountaineer, and I don't aspire to be one, but it's so cool to stand on a summit and see the world around me from places one can only get to on foot, with a lot of huffing and puffing and sweat along the way.
It's a binary world; the computer might be his paradigm. And many engineers seem to aspire to be binary people within in.
By nature, human beings always aspire to build a cozy nest of their own.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Aspire to be a person that everyone enjoys interacting with.
You must want to burn yourself in your own flame: How could you aspire to be new, if you don't become ashes first!
The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award that any soldier can aspire to.
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to aspire to / for / after / to do something; to aspire that something happens
He aspires to become a successful doctor.
We aspire that the world will be a better place.
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have:
Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, / Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebell:
This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.
His own desire repulsed him. Though if he could not aspire to purity, then he was sufficiently aware of what his mother and certain others might think, not to give in to baseness.
Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
Thus ſhall my heart be ſtil combinde with thine, / Untill our bodies turne to Elements: / And both our ſoules aſpire celeſtiall thrones.
Mercutio’s dead! / That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
rockes so high / That birds could scarce aspire their ridgy toppes
She’s vitious; and your partiall selves confesse, / aspires the height of all impietie:
In midſt of which a ſumptuous Temple ſtands, / That threats the ſtarres with her aſpiring toppe.
As they descended, they saw […] one of the grand passes of the Pyreneáes into Spain, gleaming with its battlements and towers to the splendour of the setting rays, yellow tops of woods colouring the steeps below, while far above aspired the snowy points of the mountains, still reflecting a rosy hue.
Seas that restlessly aspire, / Surging, unto skies of fire;
There is a moonshaped rictus in the streetlamp’s globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
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