ASPIRATION in sample sentences

Humble, no visible aspirations for wealth.

Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

Their dreams and aspirations had the grandeur, scope, and breadth of postage stamps.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

I wondered about the nature of my aspirations, the very supports of my existence; and I began to feel that any life I might have anywhere—however rich and successful and better furnished—would only be a version of the life I lived now.

V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

At twenty-two, struggling to become some kind of writer, I found that the creative heat which at eighteen had nearly consumed me with its gorgeous, relentless flame had flickered out to a dim pilot light registering little more than a token glow in my breast, or wherever my hungriest aspirations once resided.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

Well, could you maybe say something about your generation of artists—your generation of woman artists—and their aspirations and goals?

Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye

You put the Fuller products in among their aspirations.

Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

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Kathy was a woman who hoped to satisfy her own vague artistic aspirations through an association with someone engaged in the act of creating.

James Patterson -- 1st to Die

She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes.

Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

Not long ago, Louie’s aspirations had ended at whose kitchen he might burgle.

Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

LUMA’S THREE TEAMS had their own needs and aspirations.

Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

He was ambitious in the extreme, and like Walt McCandless, his aspirations extended to his progeny.

Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.

Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

Then who was executing him, killing him, depriving him of life—him, Pierre, with all his memories, aspirations, hopes, and thoughts?

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

Mary realized the letter effectively closed the door on her college aspirations.

Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

Thus a single man comes to represent, not a lone freak, but the multitude of all men together, to embody the reach of all aspirations in his own….

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

Maybe it was a symbol of the balance in my life between aspiration and pragmatism.

Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.

Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Beyond this, the IQ level becomes relatively unimportant in terms of ordinary occupational aspirations and criteria of success.

Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

And why had I these aspirations and these regrets?

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

She was patient—a martyr, indeed but she forebore to pray for enemies, lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

At present he’s discharged from the trouble of calling; owing to some presumptuous aspirations after Miss Linton which he manifested.

Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

I wouldn’t hold a stillborn aspiration.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

All the best of me belongs to her—there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.

Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

I realized now that I’d long ago given up any aspirations of shining at anything.

Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

It was the biggest cafe in the ghetto, and had artistic aspirations.

Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.

C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters

For the touch of grief will render My wild nature more serene, Give to life new aspirations, A new trust in the unseen.

Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women

Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation,—as it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,—and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

For young whales, in the highest health, and swelling with noble aspirations, prematurely cut off in the warm flush and May of life, with all their panting lard about them; even these brawny, buoyant heroes do sometimes sink.

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

They had social aspirations — social climbers, I suppose you could call them.

Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

CYRANO: —of pride, of aspiration, Of feeling, poetry—of godlike spark Of all that appertains to my big nose, (He turns him by the shoulders, suiting the action to the word): As…. what my boot will shortly come and kick!

Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac

I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.

Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

Moreover, unlike Willie-Jay, he was not critical of Perry’s exotic aspirations; he was willing to listen, catch fire, share with him those visions of "guaranteed treasure" lurking in Mexican seas, Brazilian jungles.

Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood

Through the rusted bars, tastes, rather than glimpses, were caught of the jumbled neighbourhood; and nothing within range, nearer or lower than the summits of the two great towers of Notre-Dame, had any promise on it of healthy life or wholesome aspirations.

Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

Ye deemed them holier than yourselves, and shrank from your own sin, contrasting it with their lives of righteousness and prayerful aspirations heavenward.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

He had no taste for sham, tact or pretension, and his credo as a professional soldier was unified and concise: he believed that the young men who took orders from him should be willing to give up their lives for the ideals, aspirations and idiosyncrasies of the old men he took orders from.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

If you have any aspirations to fiction writing, the perfection of this story has to inspire awe and envy.

Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

And during these few revolutions all the activity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out of existence.

H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

Before Josie had told the news Anne’s highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher’s provincial license, First Class, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!

Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

Its slated turrets, conical in the French fashion, crowded from complicated battlements in a hundred unexpected aspirations.

T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

No further aspirations.

Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

It seemed to her that in her external bearing she had succeeded only in deceiving Mrs. Shigemura; inwardly she knew her aspiration for worldly happiness was frighteningly irresistible.

David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars

But, in our youthful ecstasy, I don’t think that we really looked before us or behind us; or had any aspiration beyond the ignorant present.

Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

I think I may say, without seeming egotism, that it is seldom that five years have wrought such a change in the life and aspirations of an individual.

Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

With doubts, because the aspiration had been so laid waste in her youth.

Charles Dickens -- Hard Times