Example Sentences

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Behind us not far was the view of Toledo, a low hump and a comparatively unaspiring tessellation of rooftops, seen from where El Greco did not see it that way.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Here the heir to Peter’s melancholy abeyance is Hassan, an unaspiring analyst from Karachi.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018

Author Harrington speaks of the "thickness" of poverty�the dead ambitions that make for apathy, immobility, unaspiring hopelessness.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a reporter Lippmann is by self-concession unqualified and unaspiring, consistently ignores opportunities for scoops.

From Time Magazine Archive

A more contented, fruitful and unaspiring conifer could not be conceived.

From The Yosemite by Muir, John