How to Use aim high in a Sentence

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• Jupiter well aspected in Aries on the 9th makes this the time to say yes to new situations and aim high.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 July 2022
• Some students aim high, some have no interest and the rest are somewhere in between.
  — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• The president’s historical memory is prodding him to aim high and move fast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• Basically, Tierney is the political scientist who studies how the U.S. in conflicts tends to aim high, achieve a narrow goal and then go home with as much dignity as possible.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Aug. 2021
• Multiple studies show that those who aim high in negotiations end up achieving better results.
  — Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Tech companies routinely broadcast lofty views of their potential, but Nvidia has particularly good reasons to aim high.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• Even those fans who opt for a more modest fascinator—typically finely feathered—occasionally aim high with their frivolous Derby Day fashion.
  — Michael Solomon, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• Simmons also encouraged women to aim high and to rise above insecurities about their personal qualifications.
  — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2021
• When first-generation students do aim high, still other research shows that employers prefer candidates from elite universities who are more likely to be from higher income levels and social classes and families in which other people have degrees.
  — Jon Marcus, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024