How to Use aspiring in a Sentence

aspiring

adjective

• Combs’s apparent disdain for the aspiring musicians on his show still pervades multiple spheres of culture, including newer platforms.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
• Where’s the best place to look for an aspiring teacher?
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2024
• Otieno was an aspiring hip-hop artist who moved to the US from his birthplace of Kenya at the age of 4, Krudys has said.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• And the other is a young aspiring artist at the pinnacle of success as far as the way the world sees him within the lens of the show.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• There, the aspiring cowboys find a ranch where their skills give them purpose—and where one of them finds love.
  — Lucas Wittmann, Time, 13 June 2023
• And that’s where many aspiring ADU owners draw a blank.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Bentley, 48, was born in Phoenix and in his adult years made the move to Nashville like so many aspiring country singers do.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2024
• This really is a Web3 phone, then, just perhaps not in the sense the aspiring crypto bros hoped for.
  — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
• The aspiring performer has even graced the runway at New York Fashion Week twice.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• Prior to that, the girls on the receiving end of the flowers had hardly noticed the aspiring boy band.
  — Mark Gray, Peoplemag, 29 Apr. 2024
• From the outset, the goal of Word by Word was to go beyond the usual advice doled out to aspiring screenwriters.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Belfast in the sixties was an ideal place for an aspiring writer.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Reclaiming His Voice: While on a rescue mission in Ukraine, an aspiring opera singer was shot in the lungs.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Terrell Coghill, 29, was an aspiring hip-hop artist with a young son who lived in Northwest, his uncle said.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• An aspiring playwright, Jerry wrote a one-act about the encounter.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2023
• Her daughter picked her up and brought her home, where her aspiring-nurse granddaughter took over her care.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2020
• The apparent boyfriend of an aspiring model who went missing last month shot and killed himself at the end of a car chase Thursday night.
  — Jack Dolan, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• With the Spurs, that means the unseasoned aspiring coaches in that job get lots of one-on-one time with Popovich, as well as access to team meetings and practices.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Ask just about any aspiring singer who moves to Nashville to name their goals and the answers usually involve fame, awards, No. 1 records and sold-out shows.
  — Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2017
• On the left was Christopher Edwards II, a 24-year-old aspiring sports reporter, dressed sharply in a gray suit jacket and white button-down shirt.
  — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• The two met when Diggins was just 16 years old and aspiring to be like her more seasoned future teammate Randall.
  — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2018
• Buy an assortment of seeds, soil, trays, grow lights and heating mats for your aspiring urban farmer.
  — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2020
• Several of them lead youth field hockey teams and teach lessons to aspiring players.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2024
• Judah, the oldest child, selected a 200-piece puzzle of a painting by an aspiring young Black artist and dumped it on the table.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Off-camera, the aspiring nurse also spends time with St. Brown's mother and brothers.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024
• The steed of choice for an aspiring adventurer isn't a horse but rather an Econoline van with a sick unicorn painted on its sides.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2020
• Michael Carrillo said Dominguez worked as a waiter but was an aspiring singer and actor.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
• But Freeport was no place for an aspiring menace to society.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
• Owen plays Jack, an aspiring writer who supports himself in the title job.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Some students are well-to-do retirees looking for a hobby, but the typical aspiring pilot is someone in their 20s.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024