How to Use aspire in a Sentence

aspire

verb
  • One more thing for which to aspire.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
  • There is nothing else to aspire to.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 7 June 2026
  • The Knicks aspire to be a team strong on both sides of the ball.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The goal isn’t to stop aspiring.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For a very long time the things we were supposed to aspire to be in were so stupid.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2019
  • Now on his own, Dunk aspires to become a hedge knight too.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Any home cook or aspiring chef is aware of the value of a good knife.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Both teams aspire to not only make the playoffs but make a deep run.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
  • But that is surely no bad thing in somebody who aspires to the top job.
    — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Those specs misled those of us who aspired to be like the top shooters.
    — David Pogue, Scientific American, 3 July 2017
  • Jones didn’t aspire to run a major news outlet in her younger days.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Oct. 2021
  • And all 30 teams aspire to travel a road to supreme bliss.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
  • That is one way of achieving success, but not one that many places would aspire to.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • As for his advice to aspiring young artists?
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • But kids didn’t aspire to dress like work-from-home moms in machine-washables.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Over the years, skeptics have raised questions about why schools should even aspire to join it.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Track 2 would be for those aspiring to get to Track 1.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • For those aspiring to these top roles, the bar is higher than ever.
    — Harvard Business Review, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • The team aspires to tease this question out with future work on bonobos.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Back then, Muñiz had a boyfriend and did not aspire to ever have children.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • If the Rockies aspire to mediocrity in five years, then this move makes sense.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
  • For a team that aspires to make a playoff run, the second-half surge was timely.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Uber has long aspired to bring air transportation to its platform.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • An aspiring singer, Azriel, then an eleventh grader, jumped at the chance.
    — Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
  • Xezal, who had been raised from an early age to aspire to be a good wife, accepted all of this.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The alto hung in with the grim passion that only mezzos can aspire to.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020

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