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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's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.
Probably not: Her ambition, love of make-believe, and need to experiment would have driven her back to the novel.
And while he does not share Soros' ambition to be seen as a sort of philosopher-speculator, his prominence does constitute a sort of bully pulpit--with the operative word perhaps being "bully"--from which he has not hesitated to lecture nations on their failings.
Brown has always had an outsized ambition, and now she is imprisoned by it.
(Not, as indicated above, that ER was innocent of personal ambition.