How do you use the word "aim" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "aim" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "aim": We must achieve our aim at any price. The aim of science is, as has often been said, to foresee, not to understand.

Aim Meaning

/eɪm/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.

nounThe point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.

Sentence Examples

We must achieve our aim at any price.

The aim of science is, as has often been said, to foresee, not to understand.

The aim was to improve the coordination of services.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

get take train

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

His main ____ in the project was to reduce costs by half.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You should always ____ for the best possible results in your work.

Word Origin & History

The verb is from Middle English amen, aimen, eimen (“to guess at, to estimate, to aim”), borrowed from Old French esmer, aesmer, asmer, from Latin ad- plus aestimare (“to estimate”), the compound perhaps being originally formed in Medieval Latin (adaestimare), perhaps in Old French. The noun is from Middle English ame, from Old French aesme, esme.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"There is no doubt at all that this is the future of machinery, and just as trees grow while the country gentleman is asleep, so while Humanity will be amusing itself, or enjoying cultivated leisure—which, and not labour, is the aim of man—or making beautiful things, or reading beautiful things, or simply contemplating the world with admiration and delight, machinery will be doing all the necessary and unpleasant work." — 1891 February, Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 49, number 290, page 303:

"As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom." — 2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century, Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 8:

"What you would work me to, I have some aim." — 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

"The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks." — 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

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