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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.
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.
He never aspired to be a Lippmann and rejects the idea of Government by Columnist: "I don't want to live in a country blown about by gusts of wind raised by journalists.
--Will writes, "The headmaster of Bush's private secondary school in Houston aspired to give students 'a sense of style,' ...
The miracle is that he found a way to make art out of the substance of his affective life, and to turn his ephemera into visual poetry that no one else--certainly not Tony Curtis, who aspired to be a box-artist himself--could match.