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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:

Remember the '70s, when people were turning their suburban lawns loose and allowing them to aspire to being meadows?
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."
Take, for example, the recurring metaphor of society as an extended family (a particular favorite among those who aspire to be the head of the household).
It also lowers the standards of literacy and fairness and open-mindedness Slate seems to aspire to.
They aspire to the rise in status and income that computer geeks benefited from in the 1980s.