6446 examples of aim in sentences

Carefully he took deliberate aim and fired.

Then he raised his revolver slowly, and seeming scarcely to take aim, fired.

Fortunately, in his excitement his aim was poor and he missed.

Well, you keep under cover about here, moving about just enough to spoil the aim of the foe.

He took aim and fired.

During the Conference France put forward some proposals the aim of which was nothing less than to split up Germany.

Take aim, boys.

Years of a "short water crop," that is, when too little snow fell on the high pine ridges, or, falling, melted too early, Amos held that it took all the water that came down to make his half, and maintained it with a Winchester and a deadly aim.

Neither should we ever use reproach as a means of compassing any design we do affect or aim at; 'tis an unwarrantable engine of raising us to wealth, dignity, or repute.

It is said Ambition fires his brain, and to secure The empire to himself, his wicked aim Is to rebel against his generous father.

Therefore, if thy aim be still To rule, thy father's wish fulfil; Quickly trace the distant road; Quick invade the chiefs abode; Bind his feet, and bind his hands In a captive's galling bands; Bring him here, that all may know Thou hast quelled the mighty foe.

And my first aim shall be to bind thee fast, And show thee to my troops, Rustem in fetters!" At this the champion smiled, and thus exclaimed, "Where hast thou seen the deeds of warriors brave? Where hast thou heard the clash of mace and sword Wielded by men of valour?

The Kazú-tree has also this peculiar quality: an arrow made of it is sure to accomplish its intended errandit never misses the aim of the archer.

He says when you aim always aim as if you had only one bullet and it was the last one in the world.

He says when you aim always aim as if you had only one bullet and it was the last one in the world.

Sukey did not fire as often as some of the others, but at every shot he went up to the breastwork, looked over until he could see a redcoat, and then taking aim blazed away.

Failure is the indication of an inability to perform what was attempted: the aim was misdirected, or the arm was too weak: in either case the mark has not been hit.

But in granting a want of due preparation in the public, we only grant that the author has missed his aim.

The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim.

But Paulus uses a javelin and his aim is like lightning.

But let him know he goes against the emperor and he has no nerve to start with; he can't aim straight; he suspects his own three javelins and his shield and helmet have been tampered with.

I aim at no glare in what I do of that sort.

They cannot be lower: perhaps they wish not to be higher: and, not able to do for every one, I aim not at works of supererogation.

"And I declare if that purring sound doesn't come from there, too," he muttered, as he sank down upon one knee, the better to aim his rifle.

For the general business of the world lies, for the most part, in routines and forms, of which there are none so exact observers as those who understand nothing else to divert them, as carters use to blind their fore-horses on both sides that they may see only forward, and so keep the road the better, and men that aim at a mark use to shut one eye that they may see the surer with the other.

6446 examples of  aim  in sentences