All 3 Uses of
aspire
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance.†
Chpt 22 *aspires = hopes to be successful
- Aspiring.†
Chpt 30aspiring = hoping to be successful
- Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.†
Chpt 39aspire = hope to be successful
Definition:
to hope to be successful -- especially in a career