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.
• To an ambitious and left-leaning young scholar like Harris, the clash of ideas was alluring.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
• The e-bike features a mean tactical look and is outfitted for the most ambitious adventuring.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
• Netflix is one of several studios to have set ambitious goals to reduce their carbon footprint by 2030.
  — Jon Alain Guzik, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• Crypto for the world The bigger question is whether Worldcoin can achieve its almost impossibly ambitious scale.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 21 Mar. 2023
• Russia’s rapid advance is a striking change from the situation last year, when the front lines remained mostly static, with both sides launching ambitious offensives that largely failed.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• People felt that the competitive, upward, ambitious nature of employment made someone who wants to take a less demanding role face suspicion – or disdain.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Double-dealing, self-absorbed and relentlessly ambitious, the most prominent of them were usually appalling.
  — Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Billed as the pop rock trio’s most ambitious outing yet, Five Albums.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 May 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
• That is similar to the most ambitious hydrogen project in Utah.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
• The appointment is a sign of progress and the ambitious student takes it seriously.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• The second is more ambitious, while the first is less definitive.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• But that isn’t going to stop Ira from cooking himself and friends an ambitious birthday feast.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 7 Sep. 2023
• Fields of wind turbines planned off the California coast in the decades ahead are part of an ambitious effort to draw on ocean winds as a new source of clean power for the state.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2023
• The rank and file at OpenAI are an ambitious and mission-oriented lot.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2023
• Like Musk’s lofty plans for Starship, the rocket itself is ambitious.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• College may not be the logical next step for many ambitious high schoolers.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024