How to Use aspiration in a Sentence
aspiration
noun-
No influence is too low to be acknowledged, no aspiration too high.
— Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022 -
Increase your awareness: Start asking yourself if your spending is aligned with your goals and aspiration.
— Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022 -
Kaley Cuoco has high aspirations for her next rescue animal.
— Nicholas Rice, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024 -
But part of the human fascination with celebrity is projection and aspiration.
— Jill Filipovic, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022 -
Fox News was quick to slap a veneer of normality on Trump’s aspirations of erecting a Nazi-like regime in his image.
— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024 -
An agency that serves as lawmaker, prosecutor, judge and court of appeal makes a mockery of Jefferson’s aspiration.
— Peggy Little, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022 -
That sort of aspiration was what the family home’s wrought-iron G signified to Gray: a totem of status on an otherwise modest property.
— David Sims, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2022 -
The notion and the aspiration have been around for decades.
— Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020 -
With your first studio lead in the books, what’s next on your list of aspirations?
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019 -
The companies in the room were well aware of these aspirations.
— Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2017 -
That is not to say Tebow doesn’t have big-league aspirations.
— Justin Tasch, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 July 2018 -
But their hopes and struggles and challenges and aspirations will still be the same.
— Melinda Gates, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2015 -
But those aspirations have never died — and the fight is far from over.
— Michelle Adams, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024 -
And the life force of limitless aspiration can be catching for the young.
— Star Tribune, 13 July 2021 -
The real key is the earnest aspiration to keep getting better all the time.
— Scott Meslow, GQ, 12 Jan. 2018 -
The aspiration of adding to those lists remains strong.
— Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023 -
Clair’s aspirations for his son didn’t include the major leagues at the time.
— Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2018 -
For Tee Tran, the golden rule is not just an aspiration.
— New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020 -
The aspiration was made public as long ago as last year.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 July 2023 -
No one had managed to peer inside the snakes to figure out the how and why of their aspiration antics.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022 -
Yet even this vision is not big enough to capture the aspiration of Plaid.
— Scott Harkey, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 -
And putting themselves below the needs, the dreams, the aspirations of the American people.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024 -
Our aspiration is to be the world’s computer, in Azure.
— Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2019 -
Back then, Baer’s aspirations were a little more down-to-earth.
— Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Sachdev has always been an activist in her heart, but recent events around the world have brought the aspiration to the forefront.
— Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018 -
If the Wing was a shorthand for female aspiration, the bookshelf was a visual symbol of the brand.
— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023 -
White’s essays and the letters between White and Lawrence were just right for that aspiration.
— Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 -
What are your career aspirations, and is this company the right fit for you now?
— Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023 -
Jesse Dominguez had the same aspirations many in Los Angeles do: to be an actor.
— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023 -
The protagonist of this comic novel is George, a millennial with vague writerly aspirations, who sustains his aimless life style by drawing on family connections and his girlfriend’s trust fund.
— The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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