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Example sentences for: ambition

How can you use “ambition” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It has hampered Turkey's ambition to join the EU, and raised concerns about its NATO membership.
The least naturally ambitious people can have ambition thrust upon them in this way.
This approach works fine when one's ambition is to build models that faithfully mimic particular biological phenomena.
Consequently, keeping the body fit for the task has been built into female basic training for four generations, despite new shifts in the direction of female ambition and the foundation of new codes of female honor.
The more substantive part of what Gore proposes--an increase in the EITC, marriage-penalty relief, an expanded family-leave act--is fine, but unduly modest in its ambition.