How to Use aspiring in a Sentence

aspiring

adjective
  • Another must-have for the aspiring home chef is a kitchen scale.
    — Will Porter, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2025
  • What followed was a grind that most aspiring pop stars don’t talk about openly.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Other aspiring politicians were ready to get down to brass tacks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Steph, our aspiring astronaut, is not alone in the world.
    — Eliana Ramage september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Chesky continued, adding that too many aspiring founders chase trends.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Belfast in the sixties was an ideal place for an aspiring writer.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • What if aspiring parents had to be approved to have children?
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • In turn, Fauja taught her – an aspiring marathoner – tricks of his trade.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 July 2025
  • The two aspiring entrepreneurs hit the ground running on their venture.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025
  • But how to plant tulip bulbs has often proved to be a mystery to aspiring gardeners.
    — Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 24 Mar. 2026
  • And to make the audience believe that even a creepy aspiring sperm donor is a sweetie?
    — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For aspiring homeowners, saving up for a down payment on that first home can be a long slog.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But, not without the help of her aspiring actress daughter.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As such, many aspiring founders may be wondering about the ideal time to start their business.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Several of them lead youth field hockey teams and teach lessons to aspiring players.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2024
  • Presumably, many aspiring writers want to do the same.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Buy an assortment of seeds, soil, trays, grow lights and heating mats for your aspiring urban farmer.
    — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2020
  • To an aspiring autocrat, power exists so that it can be abused.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An aspiring playwright, Jerry wrote a one-act about the encounter.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2023
  • After five years of sacrifice and hard work as an aspiring rapper, Owens was stunned.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • This had a discernible impact — for the worse — on how aspiring comedians honed their craft.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Owen plays Jack, an aspiring writer who supports himself in the title job.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 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
  • 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 politician has amassed a large following online.
    — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Michael Carrillo said Dominguez worked as a waiter but was an aspiring singer and actor.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Caton's Sammie is an aspiring musician who is eager to join his cousin in their new business venture.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025

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