How to Use aspiring in a Sentence

aspiring

adjective
  • Where’s the best place to look for an aspiring teacher?
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2024
  • Otieno was an aspiring hip-hop artist who moved to the US from his birthplace of Kenya at the age of 4, Krudys has said.
    Sara Smart, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And the other is a young aspiring artist at the pinnacle of success as far as the way the world sees him within the lens of the show.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
  • There, the aspiring cowboys find a ranch where their skills give them purpose—and where one of them finds love.
    Lucas Wittmann, Time, 13 June 2023
  • And that’s where many aspiring ADU owners draw a blank.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • This really is a Web3 phone, then, just perhaps not in the sense the aspiring crypto bros hoped for.
    Andrew Williams, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The aspiring performer has even graced the runway at New York Fashion Week twice.
    Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Prior to that, the girls on the receiving end of the flowers had hardly noticed the aspiring boy band.
    Mark Gray, Peoplemag, 29 Apr. 2024
  • From the outset, the goal of Word by Word was to go beyond the usual advice doled out to aspiring screenwriters.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Reclaiming His Voice: While on a rescue mission in Ukraine, an aspiring opera singer was shot in the lungs.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Terrell Coghill, 29, was an aspiring hip-hop artist with a young son who lived in Northwest, his uncle said.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • An aspiring playwright, Jerry wrote a one-act about the encounter.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Judah, the oldest child, selected a 200-piece puzzle of a painting by an aspiring young Black artist and dumped it on the table.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Michael Carrillo said Dominguez worked as a waiter but was an aspiring singer and actor.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But Freeport was no place for an aspiring menace to society.
    Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Owen plays Jack, an aspiring writer who supports himself in the title job.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This set would be a great gift for any aspiring bakers or Harry Potter fans in your family.
    Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The first lesson for the aspiring merchant marines is not about seafaring, but instead about where to seek shelter during an air raid.
    Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • That includes your search for the best gifts for singers or any aspiring (or professional) musician in your life.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Right now, there are so many aspiring artists, young people, deciding to make music.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Next year marks 30 years since Bentley and his father loaded up the family truck so the aspiring country star could try his luck in Nashville.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The No Boundaries Coalition, for example, runs a boot camp for aspiring block captains.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The Fringe is a proving ground for any aspiring British comedy performer or writer.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Her father, John, was an aspiring tennis coach who made ends meet as a milkman, and her mother, Doris, was a homemaker.
    Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In 2014, Michael wrote a duet for Tanya’s brother, also an aspiring musician.
    Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The bat mitzvah girl, a dancer, wanted to collect ballet slippers in the U.S. and distribute them to needy aspiring dance students in Israel.
    Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • More recently, soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices have forced many aspiring home owners to give up on their dream of owning a home.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • June is also an aspiring journalist and fashion icon, serving as fit inspo from the redwood forests to the gulf stream waters.
    Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Before his death, Nicholas was an aspiring musician as well.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 5 May 2024
  • One episode focuses entirely on the life of Tony Hughes, a deaf aspiring model.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022

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