Example Sentences

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“I will aspire to tweet less after 3 a.m.,”

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

“I see this project as the model that I hope all applicants will aspire to,” commission chair Donne Brownsey said during the meeting.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

“Countless researchers will aspire to follow in his footsteps.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

“While continuing to promote WTO reform, Japan will aspire for the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2020

Ten years hence Bulawayo will aspire higher towards the sky, and when the electric trams run in double lines between rows of shade trees, there will be no sense of disproportion between buildings and streets.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)