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Example sentences for: aspired

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In his day French was the international language, spoken by anyone who aspired to a place in high society in any country, but during his brief visit to London in 1763-64 he made an attempt to pick up a smattering of English.
But then, as John F. Szwed makes clear in his new biography, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra , Sun Ra never aspired to conventional lyricism; he wished to re-create the roars and the silences of the cosmos.
knew it was being--horrible--slaughtered, all that it knew and aspired to instantly voided;
Like Atta, Binalshibh, and Shehhi, Jarrah aspired to pursue higher education in Germany.
--Will writes, "The headmaster of Bush's private secondary school in Houston aspired to give students 'a sense of style,' ...