Sample Sentences for
aspire
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    She aspires to become a renowned author.
  • •
    Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols.  (source)
    aspired = hoped to be successful
  • •
    Aspire to a level of coolness known only as ..."Botanist Cool."†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 9 word variations
  • •
    But the Piazza did not aspire to elegance, service, or subtlety.†  (source)
  • •
    The usual suspects: crazed fans, wannabe disciples, and aspiring bounty hunters.†  (source)
  • •
    One might almost assume he aspired to Great House status.†  (source)
  • •
    Reason aspires to wisdom, Will aspires to courage, and Appetite must be curbed so that temperance can be exercised.†  (source)
  • •
    because the people loved peace, and for this reason they loved the unaspiring prince, whilst the soldiers loved the warlike prince who was bold, cruel, and rapacious, which qualities they were quite willing he should exercise upon the people, so that they could get double pay and give vent to their own greed and cruelty.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaspiring means not and reverses the meaning of aspiring. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • •
    It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.†  (source)
  • •
    for they weened That self-same day, by fight or by surprise, To win the mount of God, and on his throne To set the Envier of his state, the proud Aspirer;†  (source)
  • •
    He serves you after strange devices: No earthly meat or drink the fool suffices: His spirit's ferment far aspireth; Half conscious of his frenzied, crazed unrest, The fairest stars from Heaven he requireth, From Earth the highest raptures and the best, And all the Near and Far that he desireth Fails to subdue the tumult of his breast.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She aspireth" in older English, today we say "She aspires."
  • •
    He saw no more the deep eyes, but the voice came over him as a spirit voice, and, as in a sort of judgment vision, his whole past life rose in a moment before his eyes: his mother's prayers and hymns; his own early yearnings and aspirings for good; and, between them and this hour, years of worldliness and scepticism, and what man calls respectable living.†  (source)
  • •
    People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)