Example Sentences

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"Sometimes," he says of Beethoven, "one gets the impression that the work is playing itself...that is what I am aspiring to."

From Time Magazine Archive

While some of my partial friends are blaming me for stooping to accept a share in the government of that Empire, I am afraid that I am aspiring too high for my qualifications.

From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir

I have time enough to wait; for as yet I do not stand on the pinnacle to which I am aspiring.

From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by Jordan, F.