Example sentences for: ambitions

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

  • Then there is Come Back to Sorrento (1932), a simple, direct, and achingly beautiful study of two would-be artists in a stultifying small town that cannot comprehend their dreams and ambitions ( Come Back to Sorrento , by the way, is one of the very few books written before the gay-lib movement that features homosexual characters and is neither a soggy plea for understanding, a mockery or hate tract, a clinical case study, or anything other than an intricate and compassionate rendering of some fellow human beings).

  • I had no ambitions for more status and attention within that society.

  • Many European papers dwelt on the harm the scandal may cause to the presidential ambitions of Vice President Al Gore.

  • Its momentum shattered, the extravagantly funded Washington Post Magazine limped along for a couple of years until the Post abandoned its grand financial and editorial ambitions and downscaled it.

  • America in Black and White fails, however, to reach the levels of insight and carefulness that its subject demands and the expressed ambitions of its authors lead one to expect.


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