were aspiring
- past progressive of aspire.
Example Sentences
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Most attendees were aspiring founders or founders, some of whose startups are backed by Slow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Some were seasoned combat veterans; others were aspiring fighters arriving with bulging backpacks filled with military gear but no experience on front lines.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
While the poor got poorer, the region’s middle classes, toward which the young were aspiring, faced their own reckoning as their advances of recent years were stymied, their savings exhausted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
"We were aspiring to be a super plant, making a million tons of steel a year. We've got a full order book, and yet here we are, furloughed."
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2021
O how the world was eclipsed, while our full hearts were aspiring after God!
From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by Lyth, John
