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Example sentences for: aspire

How can you use “aspire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I still aspire to be them, and their work has most influenced me.
The popular kids, for example, mock the Wannabes, the mobs of freshmen and sophomores who aspire desperately to become Jocks.
There is a parallel between Hitler's ambition for a racially pure Greater Germany and Milosevic's ethnically homogenous Greater Serbia, but Milosevic was not working towards a Final Solution; he did not aspire to world domination; he did not espouse an ideology of eugenics."
It also lowers the standards of literacy and fairness and open-mindedness Slate seems to aspire to.
How many of us, after all, can aspire to the lofty moral heights of Victor Navasky without some social incentives to help us get there?