How to Use aspiration in a Sentence

aspiration

noun
  • The notion and the aspiration have been around for decades.
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The companies in the room were well aware of these aspirations.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But their hopes and struggles and challenges and aspirations will still be the same.
    Melinda Gates, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2015
  • The aspiration of adding to those lists remains strong.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • And the life force of limitless aspiration can be catching for the young.
    Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • The real key is the earnest aspiration to keep getting better all the time.
    Scott Meslow, GQ, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The aspiration was made public as long ago as last year.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 July 2023
  • With your first studio lead in the books, what’s next on your list of aspirations?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
  • No one had managed to peer inside the snakes to figure out the how and why of their aspiration antics.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Clair’s aspirations for his son didn’t include the major leagues at the time.
    Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2018
  • That is not to say Tebow doesn’t have big-league aspirations.
    Justin Tasch, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 July 2018
  • Our ambition and aspiration is to appeal to all of them.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 23 May 2022
  • Yet even this vision is not big enough to capture the aspiration of Plaid.
    Scott Harkey, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • What are your career aspirations, and is this company the right fit for you now?
    Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
    Annie O'Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Sachdev has always been an activist in her heart, but recent events around the world have brought the aspiration to the forefront.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018
  • The young artist has aspirations to design clothes himself one day, too.
    Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
  • To adopt this aspiration was important in and of itself.
    John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This can take the form of an aspiration statement that also poses a challenge.
    Thomas Lim, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • He was told his college aspirations would best be served by signing on as a cook on submarines.
    Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Not with this accomplished group’s aspirations on the line.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Our aspiration is to be the world’s computer, in Azure.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Some liken the effort to landing on the moon, a rather awe-inspiring aspiration.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • What higher aspiration for him than to be permanently on his own doorstep, singing the song of home?
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But that did not fulfill his aspirations to do something more.
    Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • For Tee Tran, the golden rule is not just an aspiration.
    New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Every game requires a little bit of breath-holding these days, but the aspiration is close to fruition.
    Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The city’s burgeoning craft brewery scene boils down to humbler aspirations shared by many in town.
    Emma Simmons, al.com, 18 June 2019
  • Retreating to a hole is really not our best aspiration as a species.
    Ed Finn, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • In other words, precedent isn’t a goal or an aspiration.
    Stavros Agorakis, Vox, 5 Oct. 2018

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