Sentence examples for aiming after from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(1)

The phrase "aiming after" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward to native speakers.
It can be used when expressing a desire or goal to achieve something, but "aiming for" is more standard.
Example: "She is aiming after a promotion at work, hoping to advance her career."
Alternatives: "striving for" or "pursuing".

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And the only reason he was alive, he said, was because the two men who robbed him of $50 on Sunday night had trouble aiming after he stepped on his accelerator to race for help and crashed into a truck.

After firing 1 shot, they have to "re-chamber", or load a new bullet (which can disrupt aiming after firing).

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Without a brake or recoil mechanism, a gun lurched out of position during firing and had to be re-aimed after each round.

Even more remarkable is the fact that Byron refers to the "united nations" in the Waterloo passage of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a point picked up by well-read Winston Churchill when discussing the allied war aims after Pearl Harbor.

This week came an announcement by the Royal Opera House that it aims, after a £50m refit, to shake off its "elitist" image and be "open for a much wider public", with plans including a talent festival involving schools.

The new plan aims, after decades of delays, to move the waste to one or more temporary central storage sites that would hold it until a geologic repository can be built in Nevada or somewhere else.

Transcripts were open coded and a thematic framework was developed, in the context of the study aims, after consideration of themes emerging from the data [ 14].

In all likelihood, such a page will provide only the good information about a company – it aims, after all, to entice quality candidates to apply for a job.

Innovation wasn't what he was aiming for, after all; he was just trying to describe someone driving a scooter.

The men's four just missed out on a world record, but clinched the gold medal they had been aiming for after a stellar season.

"A good lawyer makes you believe the truth," Wayne says after aiming a gun at his future employer's head.

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