All 8 Uses
aspire
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The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- Yet all human desire is sacred, and of God; to desire—to want—to aspire—thus shall the individual be saved; and surely in this is the salvation of the race.†
Chpt 2aspire = hope to be successful
- If you thought that my wishing and—aspiring—would ever bring me such as that, I'd sure try.†
Chpt 8 *aspiring = hoping to be successful
- I don't rightly know what to aspire after.†
Chpt 8aspire = hope to be successful
- "See here, Lydia," Mrs. Hexter remonstrated in crisp tones, "what's the matter with the girl's aspiring after a blouse like yours?†
Chpt 8aspiring = hoping to be successful
- "Oh, but Mrs. Hexter," murmured the mortified Miss Sessions, glancing uneasily toward the mill-girl contingent which was listening eagerly, and then at the speaker of the day, "I am sure Mrs. Archbold will agree with me that it would be a gross, material idea to aspire after blouses and such-like, when the poor child needs—er—other things so much more."†
Chpt 8aspire = hope to be successful
- "If I were you, Johnnie, I'd just aspire as hard as I could in that direction," she said recklessly, her mischievous glance upon the flowing lines of Johnnie's young shoulders and throat.†
Chpt 8
- Why shouldn't you aspire to it?†
Chpt 8
- Pushing, aspiring, he subscribed for and faithfully studied a mechanics' journal which continually urged upon its readers the profit of patenting small improvements on machinery already in use.†
Chpt 9aspiring = hoping to be successful
Definitions:
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(1)
(aspire) to hope to be successful -- especially in a career
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)