How to Use ambitious in a Sentence

ambitious

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  • Your plans for the future are very ambitious.
  • It was too ambitious a task for just one person.
  • This 500-page book is her most ambitious effort yet.
  • The company was created by two very ambitious young men in the early 1900s.
  • Cassileth is ambitious and hopes to expand this cosmetic-forward method of care across the country.
    — Mariah Morrison, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The mayor’s program — under which the police, medics and clinicians will have people deemed unable to care for themselves brought to hospitals — may be ambitious.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Tackling such a profound concept in just over an hour is ambitious, yet the film succeeds in kicking-off the conversation, providing rich fodder to contemplate at leisure.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The European Union recently increased already ambitious targets for wind generation by the end of this decade to almost triple the amount available at the end of last year.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The project is named Dubai Walk and is still in the early stages, but looks very ambitious.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But an ambitious plan unveiled Wednesday could lead to more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But the Poundbury project has been far more ambitious than a book.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Hendriks had his own plan, too, of course—one that would turn out to be even more ambitious.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • On the face of it, this goal may feel in tension with achieving the ambitious business goal.
    — Matthew Smith, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Next the team set an ambitious new goal: listen to large swathes of the ocean in the hopes of training a computer to learn to speak whale.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Dutch shipyard unveiled one of its most ambitious projects to date on the first day of the prestigious event.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Soul was ambitious but played too much like a jazzy riff on Inside Out.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2023
  • Some were hits, some flops, but all were ambitious in terms of talent and budget.
    — Peter Bart, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • As chair of the FTC, Khan has pursued an ambitious agenda.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The ambitious plan of action also set out to end poverty and hunger by 2030.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Our biggest and most ambitious record to date with some crazy features.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 27 Dec. 2023
  • That ambitious goal sounds more likely now that Sato is taking control of the reins.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Many of the more ambitious goals would require Congress.
    — Julie Rovner, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Billed as the pop rock trio’s most ambitious outing yet, Five Albums.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 May 2023
  • The actual success rate from the ideas is likely to be low; a high success rate would be a sign that the ideas are not ambitious enough.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There are certainly worse things than having a hugely ambitious goal to aim for against the odds.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
  • With the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
    — Vulture, 4 Jan. 2023
  • That is similar to the most ambitious hydrogen project in Utah.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • But getting these ambitious projects to the finish line is far from assured, if the industry’s track record is any guide.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
  • De Bruyne is an ambitious target for a club that will make its professional debut in 2025.
    — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Five years ago, New York led the world by showing that ambitious climate policy was still possible.
    — John Raskin, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025

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