Synonyms for aiming

Grammar : Verb

Spell : eym

Phonetic Transcription : eɪm

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Définition of aiming

Origin : early 14c., "target;" late 14c., "guess;" from aim (v.). Meaning "action of aiming" is from early 15c. (to take aim, originally make aim); that of "thing intended, purpose" is from 1620s.

verb point or direct at a goal

Example sentences :

Were I a man, she should suppose I was aiming to carry the county—Popularity!
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

They really ought to fire a few rounds--after a week of aiming and snapping.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

For to throw a tomato at the son of Lawyer Gamely was aiming very high.
Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

They were aiming at some one in the water between us and them.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

He was aiming at the glowing crack where the green light was issuing.
Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin

Poe raised his gun, and aiming surely at the chief, pulled trigger.
Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers

Who knows but we may be aiming at the greater, and fail of attaining the lesser?
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

As usual the Jerries were not aiming to close with the Yanks.
Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery

You seem to be aiming at me as directly as a small boy aims his snowball.
Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley

“I was aiming in a general eastern direction,” Rathburn replied in a drawl.
Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts

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