How to Use aspire in a Sentence

aspire

verb

• Every team aspires to be the best, but the reality is only one team will win it all.
  — Lorrissa Horton, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• What comes next is what gives the wigs the true razzle dazzle, and the natural look that all wig wearers aspire to.
  — Essence, 1 Apr. 2022
• Putin and his inner circle are the only ones who aspire to Russian autarky.
  — Nate Sibley, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
• Charlotte is enveloped in the shame of having a mother and sister who don’t aspire to respectability.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• But presidents, and those who aspire to the presidency, don't have the luxury of frivolity in matters of war and peace.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 6 Mar. 2022
• Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables and aspiring to be the lead of his own story.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 22 Oct. 2024
• But also for the first time, the son of a bus conductor and an office cleaner could aspire to a third-level education and then go on to expose his country’s greatest failings.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Authoritarians aspire to turn artists and intellectuals into tools of the state.
  — Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
• For a very long time the things we were supposed to aspire to be in were so stupid.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2019
• So many writers aspire to be the next J. R. R. Tolkien.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 23 Oct. 2022
• The fact that that’s his favorite song speaks volumes to the kind of artist Combs aspires to be.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2024
• Any home cook or aspiring chef is aware of the value of a good knife.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2019
• That can present CFOs with the conundrum of where to aspire to land next.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• The forecast for the first two rounds Wednesday and Thursday is in the same range — the low 60s — as golfers aspire to shoot.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
• The ratio of whipped cream to pudding is what all slices should aspire to.
  — Rachel Karten, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2019
• Those specs misled those of us who aspired to be like the top shooters.
  — David Pogue, Scientific American, 3 July 2017
• All golfers aspire to add more distance to their drive.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• But that is surely no bad thing in somebody who aspires to the top job.
  — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
• Both teams aspire to not only make the playoffs but make a deep run.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
• So that’s how the aspiring forest dwellers get their food.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 28 June 2018
• Good to see there are people such as Taufatofua for kids to aspire to be.
  — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Customers and lifestyles and what the young guys are aspiring to is new.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2020
• Nine-year-old Lena, who aspires to be a cook like her mom, had blueberry bread in the oven.
  — Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
• An aspiring singer, Azriel, then an eleventh grader, jumped at the chance.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
• These days, an owner increasingly aspires to control the team, the venue, and the land around the venue.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Back then, Muñiz had a boyfriend and did not aspire to ever have children.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
• Over the years, skeptics have raised questions about why schools should even aspire to join it.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• But the secret weapon for The Onion might well be the fact that Lawson doesn’t seem to aspire to media moguldom.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 May 2024
• The book was clearly well researched and aspired to answer some of the key questions that are at the heart of the faith-and-work movement.
  — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024