aspiration

Example Sentences

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This provided direct evidence of costal aspiration breathing, where muscles between the ribs expand and compress the chest cavity to pull air into the lungs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Some of those eagerly sought to enlighten their charges, while a few others grew to see – or claimed to see – an unbridgeable chasm between the ivory tower and mass cultural aspiration.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Some might call those words prophetic but any rabbinical aspiration Israel had in her youth would have to wait—as the field wasn’t open to women when she was coming of age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

“Our aspiration is to win the championship. Our goal is to make the playoffs,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

That night she realized that she would not have a moment of rest until she showed Mauricio Babilonia the uselessness of his aspiration and she spent the week turning that anxiety about in her mind.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez