aspire
IPA: ʌspˈaɪr
verb
- (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
- (transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
- (intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall.
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Examples of "aspire" in Sentences
- To live is to aspire; to cease to aspire is to die.
- The greatest reward to which he can aspire is re-election.
- Why not, in short, aspire to be a god when the alternative is to be a bum?
- The only good to which it should aspire is the perpetuation of its condition. —
- And they realize the standard of Hollywood films is higher and they kind of aspire to that.
- Brown has heeded Mandy (for now ... possibly) and changed his mantra to 'aspire' - daylight theft of a Tory slogan.
- Love is this thing that we all kind of aspire to receiving and giving, it's the one thing we're all kind of hungry for.
- How about our kids, teenagers, university students, ourselves -- is this something we want to "aspire" to intellectually or in any other way?
- Let us rather regard the dignity and excellency of knowledge and learning in that whereunto man's nature doth most aspire, which is immortality or continuance.
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