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Example sentences for: aspires

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Notice how the trompe l’oeil painting on the low arched ceiling aspires to turn the little church into a lofty Gothic cathedral.
Though he has yet to visit Washington since his release from prison, he aspires to return to respectability in the city's eyes.
The dignity to which the town aspires is there in the simple interior, illuminated by the magnificent Mantegna triptych (1459) on the high altar; two of its panels are in London.
He avers that he respects olive trees and aspires to preserve as many as possible but that there's no stopping, or even slowing, technological advancement, market integration, or American cultural hegemony.
It's not oral history; the author is there on every page, as enticed by vanity as any journalist is--maybe more so, because his is the kind of journalism that aspires most nakedly to the status of literature.