aiming at

Synonyms

focusing pursuing purposing

Examples

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. Euripides

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. John Dewey

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. Alexander Pope

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. Stanley Baldwin

Words in the phrase

aiming at

Close letter words and terms

aimful aimfully aiming aiming board aiming circle aiming high