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.
• Many of the more ambitious goals would require Congress.
  — Julie Rovner, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
• That ambitious goal sounds more likely now that Sato is taking control of the reins.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
• Meta has done little to quell investor fears over its ambitious metaverse goals, until now.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 3 Feb. 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
• 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
• Alaska’s crop of nonstop flights from Anchorage is ambitious.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Now Ben Jealous has stepped into the fray — and he’s got an ambitious agenda for tackling the climate crisis.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• The outcome of the local transportation referendum could set the stage for decades of ambitious government projects.
  — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
• Some Russian war bloggers described the raids as a possible rehearsal for a bigger, more ambitious attack.
  — Susie Blann, ajc, 1 Mar. 2023
• Prep a lot — and early For the ambitious host, attempting to have multiple dishes ready to serve at the same time can quickly turn into a gravy-splashed nightmare.
  — Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
• Susan Page, big ambitious agenda also designed to forestall any challenge from progressives in the party.
  — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
• President Joe Biden campaigned on pledges to end new drilling on public lands and has set an ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
  — Becky Bohrer and Matthew Daly, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024