How to Use aspire in a Sentence

aspire

verb
Definition of aspirenext
Synonyms for aspirenext
  • At a halftime show the choreography can certainly aspire to be as flashy as the music.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Maybe what people aspire to isn’t the idiocy of the stunt, but the sense of companionship and belonging that comes with the effort.
    — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Washington will no longer aspire for primacy in the European theater.
    — Sumantra Maitra, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
  • So Phoenix should aspire to capturing the franchise’s first title, but must push through the 82-game grind in the regular season.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In 2021, its example as the model to which nations should aspire was buffeted and beaten.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Nothing could be more normal than for Biden to aspire to do something similar for another demographic sub-group.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Meantime, her guitars and synths often aspire to airy, smeary, hornlike communication, and even the drums, for all their tidiness, consistently speak in umphs and hisses.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Jess and her three brothers grew up in Ansonia, a town best known for football, but by the time Jess was growing up, there were more opportunities in hockey, more to aspire to.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The tragedy opened a window into the murky world of people smuggling and the trial shed light on international networks exploiting thousands who aspire to a better life in Europe.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Ruben is a content repurposing wizard, and his tips are genius for those who aspire to develop a brand and promote themselves or their business efficiently and effectively.
    — Bob Kulhan, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
  • For a very long time the things we were supposed to aspire to be in were so stupid.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2019
  • So many writers aspire to be the next J. R. R. Tolkien.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that that’s his favorite song speaks volumes to the kind of artist Combs aspires to be.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2024
  • Any home cook or aspiring chef is aware of the value of a good knife.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2019
  • That can present CFOs with the conundrum of where to aspire to land next.
    — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The forecast for the first two rounds Wednesday and Thursday is in the same range — the low 60s — as golfers aspire to shoot.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The ratio of whipped cream to pudding is what all slices should aspire to.
    — Rachel Karten, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Those specs misled those of us who aspired to be like the top shooters.
    — David Pogue, Scientific American, 3 July 2017
  • All golfers aspire to add more distance to their drive.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • But that is surely no bad thing in somebody who aspires to the top job.
    — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Both teams aspire to not only make the playoffs but make a deep run.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
  • So that’s how the aspiring forest dwellers get their food.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 28 June 2018
  • Good to see there are people such as Taufatofua for kids to aspire to be.
    — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Customers and lifestyles and what the young guys are aspiring to is new.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Nine-year-old Lena, who aspires to be a cook like her mom, had blueberry bread in the oven.
    — Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
  • An aspiring singer, Azriel, then an eleventh grader, jumped at the chance.
    — Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
  • These days, an owner increasingly aspires to control the team, the venue, and the land around the venue.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators aspire to bring about a conceptual revolution of the sort that rocked physics in the late 1700s.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • In a 2020 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Kidman spoke about the impact her mother had on her life growing up and as an aspiring actress.
    — Rachel Flynn, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024

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