Sentence examples for setting your sights from inspiring English sources

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"Once you get complacent and setting your sights too high, it's got a habit of coming back to bite you.

The only thing worse is setting your sights on a yearling coveted by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.

José Mourinho had called this a must-not-lose match, a case if ever there was one of setting your sights usefully low.

In a world populated by high achievers, setting your sights on anything less than the Nobel Prize can feel like second-best.

Setting your sights on climbing Mt. McKinley involves not only rigorous physical training but also the costs of travel, guide services and gear, or an expenditure of at least $8,000, and possibly considerably more.

If you're applying to work at a plastic spork factory, and you say that your objective is to work at a plastic spork factory, your potential spork employers can still disparage you for not setting your sights higher.

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Don't set your sights too low.

You have to set your sights extremely high.

Why had you set your sights on going up to Oxford?

Bulldoze this mountain of obstacles known as Hump Day and set your sights on the weekend.

If you're going to seduce someone, set your sights high.

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