How to Use aspirant in a Sentence

aspirant

1 of 2 noun
  • There is an aging champ, still in the lead but closely trailed by new aspirants.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Like many a New York aspirant, both grew up in small towns a bus ride from the city.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
  • An aspirant also asks donors for their prayers and keeps them up-to-date on the progress of their vocation.
    — WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The region has long attracted show business aspirants from around the world who hope to catch their big break.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Many of the offseason concerns for this championship aspirant came on that side of the ball.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2020
  • This isn't just a tale of a yet another tech aspirant in Birmingham with an idea and a dream.
    — Roy S. Johnson, AL.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • One of the world’s most exclusive clubs just got a new member, with a second aspirant knocking on the door.
    — Scott Carpenter, Fortune, 7 July 2021
  • Months have been spent tracking the aspirants' bobs and weaves, this tick up or down in polling, that endorsement or defection.
    — TIME, 14 Jan. 2024
  • No mere genre writer or run-of-the-mill political aspirant, Abrams is a rising star.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
  • The game advances, and with it a test of wits and mettle, chivalry and courage — the kind that every knight aspirant must endure and master.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
  • For aspirants to the big leagues, the stresses are ever-present and often unforeseeable.
    — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 16 May 2018
  • The early retirement aspirant recognizes all of this, at least on some level.
    — Katie McDonough, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Burns told Mets management that Finch was likely a trapas, or aspirant monk.
    — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Then the aspirant must get recommendations from three family members, at least one of whom must be a board member.
    — Matt Durot, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • But the point is that Sanders stopped believing in it, or at least Bernie the aspirant officeholder did.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Charm is useful though not essential in an aspirant for high office, and the same can be said for knowledge of the details of government.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Jaimes was a 47-year-old mother of two, the owner of the restaurant and aspirant for a state congressional seat.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Experience is important both for the aspirant and for the voter.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Texas has breezed from one blowout to the next, stomping four overmatched foes and one Final Four aspirant with equal nonchalance.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And an abundance of entrance test coaching centers ensure that an increasing number of aspirants sit for the test every year.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 24 Oct. 2019
  • When aspirants make decisions, they are guided by the possibility of a future self that does not yet exist.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Despite many aspirants and imitators, there really hasn’t been anything like it since.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The answers the White House aspirants gave were by turns surprising, incisive and even amusing.
    — oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
  • Now, at least half a dozen aspirants are sizing up their chances in the April 28 Democratic primary.
    — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 26 July 2019
  • That neutrality could come at a cost, some experts say, should the two GOP aspirants prevail.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The only thing any of these candidates—and the raft of even more pathetic aspirants who joined them—accomplished was getting in one another’s way.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • She's widely considered to be a White House aspirant in 2024.
    — Stephen Groves, ajc, 27 June 2022
  • To fashion a stronger link between the two of them then, between the most famous and admired athlete in the world and a seventeen-year-old aspirant, would have been absurd.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • In all, a mind-boggling 17 would-be White House aspirants have suspended or ended their campaigns.
    — Mike Hofman, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Other aspirants to the governor’s mansion should not completely despair, though, for there remains another route to the front of the line.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017

aspirant

2 of 2 adjective
  • For one thing, there is one clear leader and one clear aspirant.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Lucy is the do-gooder vault dweller, Maximus is the aspirant warrior, and The Ghoul is the wasteland rogue.
    — Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • What separates them, for instance, from their peers and aspirant institutions?
    — Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The New Yorker was a common token among the aspirant middle class in the neighborhood.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Biden was the first Democratic White House aspirant to win the state since 1992.
    — Author: John Wagner, Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2020
  • That’s a vast improvement that will delight aspirant new MacBook Pro owners.
    — Mark Vena, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • What happens when one aspirant, after hundreds of casting sessions, gets off that stage and goes back home feeling defeated, and no longer has the will to carry on fighting?
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But at Greys Court a maze walker—or aspirant, to use the technical term—encounters a junction within seconds and has to make a choice.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • This is a player who has separated himself from some of the other aspirant-tier players at Canucks training camp as the preseason has gone along.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • How can anyone have known that Berlusconi was not just a media magnate looking for acclaim, but an aspirant politician using soccer as a vehicle?
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Signs of a slowdown are already starting to emerge, as banks take a more cautious approach to lending and aspirant home buyers delay purchases in the face of much higher borrowing costs.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In the first episode, Logan Roy, the patriarch at the center of the series, is given a watch from Tom, his aspirant son-in-law and business acolyte.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Alternatively, as Akinrinade points out, aspirant entrepreneurs may try to build their contacts online.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But what happens when all those aspirant professionals climb the career ladder and begin to take on managerial responsibilities?
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 28 June 2024
  • Georgia became the latest playoff aspirant to have its morning spoiled by Hartline and and the rest of the OSU recruiting apparatus.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 July 2021
  • There was no point in speculating whether Rick Perry would, or wouldn't, do well as an aspirant nominee of the Republican party for the presidency.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2011
  • Four league insiders surveyed on the condition of anonymity believed nearly every Finals aspirant in the West had improved, intensifying the playoff fights to come in the spring.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Flipping over to the investment side of the coin, a second workshop - hosted by McLintock and Sibony - will provide expert advice to aspirant investors on how to assess pitches.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • For a local political aspirant seeking to burnish her nativist credentials, the chance to trigger an international incident was apparently irresistible.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Ultimately the terminal state of this challenge seems to be capitulation and co-option by the elites, but until that moment one is confronted by the reality of dramatic ideological tensions between the elite and aspirant elite factions.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2013
  • McCoy, 37, clearly relishes these muddy agronomic investigations after years spent studying viticulture in the abstract as an aspirant sommelier.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Meanwhile, a flashback, set vaguely in the Before Times, presents a girl playing with the ragdoll Jessie, a cowgirl and aspirant sheriff, voiced enthusiastically and most capably by Joan Cusack.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026
  • In her autobiography, Meloni concedes to a lifelong adoration of Tolkien’s works, including dressing as the hobbit Samwise Gamgee with other politically aspirant youth.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023

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