was aspiring
- past progressive of aspire.
Example Sentences
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After catering to retirees and families on road trips, Cracker Barrel was aspiring to court younger guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
After high school, I was aspiring to be a fashion designer, so I was trying my best to get into the top fashion school in India.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
“We should have a court that provides easy access to treatment-based diversions. And that is what community court was aspiring to do,” Lewis said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
I was aspiring to create that big summer movie experience and a movie that had to be seen on the big screen.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Grinnell Rhodes now lived in England, dancing attendance on his wife, the daughter of Mr. Creamer of Creamer, Crustback & Company, who was aspiring to be in the fashionable set there.
From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson
