How to Use ambitious in a Sentence

ambitious

adjective
  • 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.
  • Plans are to shoot the ambitious project in Mexico and the U.S.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 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
  • But Gustin, even as No. 1 on the call sheet, did not ask that the Arrowverse press pause on the ambitious idea.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • A lot of people get too ambitious, head to the back tees, and end up absolutely wrecked by the course.
    — David Hochman, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • One of the top small-ship cruise lines in the world just announced an ambitious expansion plan for the years ahead with three new vessels.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But the court ruled out more ambitious approaches, like a cap-and-trade system.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • Why put in ambitious goals when lowering the bar a bit could get you millions?
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That ambitious goal sounds more likely now that Sato is taking control of the reins.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Second, this is the perfect time for an ambitious young man to join Real Madrid.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • First Copy is set in the 1990s and follows Arif, an ambitious boy from Byculla.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Four years later, Samara Cyn is one of the rising stars in rap’s rookie class and a breath of fresh air in the genre, boasting an ambitious blend of hip-hop and neo-soul.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 May 2025
  • Musk has seemingly pushed back the deadline for the $1 trillion in savings, as the billionaire Tesla chief said in March the ambitious cuts would be completed in roughly two months.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025

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