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Example sentences for: aspired

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Those who aspired to broader knowledge used Brewer's and others' books as a ready-reference guide to culture.
The European Community has, in the few decades of its existence, established quite a reputation for generating paper output on a scale that no mere national government has ever aspired to: like every other Euro-initiative ever launched, ESPRIT generates Euro-text by the ream.
It sounded better than the fancy new textbook one of my kids used last year to study the Middle Ages, which aspired to spend equal time on the non-Western world--and so ended up spending much too little time on anything.
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.