How to Use aspirant in a Sentence

aspirant

noun

• Like many a New York aspirant, both grew up in small towns a bus ride from the city.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
• There is an aging champ, still in the lead but closely trailed by new aspirants.
  — Doug Bandow, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• An aspirant also asks donors for their prayers and keeps them up-to-date on the progress of their vocation.
  — WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• This isn't just a tale of a yet another tech aspirant in Birmingham with an idea and a dream.
  — Roy S. Johnson, AL.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The region has long attracted show business aspirants from around the world who hope to catch their big break.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• One of the world’s most exclusive clubs just got a new member, with a second aspirant knocking on the door.
  — Scott Carpenter, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• Many of the offseason concerns for this championship aspirant came on that side of the ball.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2020
• The game advances, and with it a test of wits and mettle, chivalry and courage — the kind that every knight aspirant must endure and master.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
• Jaimes was a 47-year-old mother of two, the owner of the restaurant and aspirant for a state congressional seat.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• But the point is that Sanders stopped believing in it, or at least Bernie the aspirant officeholder did.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
• Months have been spent tracking the aspirants' bobs and weaves, this tick up or down in polling, that endorsement or defection.
  — TIME, 14 Jan. 2024
• Texas has breezed from one blowout to the next, stomping four overmatched foes and one Final Four aspirant with equal nonchalance.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2022
• She's widely considered to be a White House aspirant in 2024.
  — Stephen Groves, ajc, 27 June 2022
• Now, at least half a dozen aspirants are sizing up their chances in the April 28 Democratic primary.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 26 July 2019
• No mere genre writer or run-of-the-mill political aspirant, Abrams is a rising star.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
• For aspirants to the big leagues, the stresses are ever-present and often unforeseeable.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 16 May 2018
• Charm is useful though not essential in an aspirant for high office, and the same can be said for knowledge of the details of government.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• To fashion a stronger link between the two of them then, between the most famous and admired athlete in the world and a seventeen-year-old aspirant, would have been absurd.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2022
• The answers the White House aspirants gave were by turns surprising, incisive and even amusing.
  — oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
• Burns told Mets management that Finch was likely a trapas, or aspirant monk.
  — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• In all, a mind-boggling 17 would-be White House aspirants have suspended or ended their campaigns.
  — Mike Hofman, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2020
• But like with March Madness itself, chance is often the final arbiter of the aspirants' collective fate.
  — Gregory Krieg and Tal Yellin, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
• The two met at the posh Biltmore Hotel, where, as promised, Sinema went through the list of Democratic aspirants, explaining why each of them was unlikely to win the new swing district.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• The midseason trade deadline is looming and the front office is going to field offers for just about anyone who might fill a hole for a World Series aspirant or a wild-card wannabe.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2019
• Experience is important both for the aspirant and for the voter.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• Other aspirants to the governor’s mansion should not completely despair, though, for there remains another route to the front of the line.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• The issue for the EU is that aspirant members are graded on the strength of their democratic institutions, but existing ones have no such checks.
  — Ewa Krukowska, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• The only thing any of these candidates—and the raft of even more pathetic aspirants who joined them—accomplished was getting in one another’s way.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• Both Serbia and Kosovo are EU aspirants, and ending the feud is a core requirement for gaining membership.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Then the aspirant must get recommendations from three family members, at least one of whom must be a board member.
  — Matt Durot, Forbes, 4 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024