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Example sentences for: ambitious

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The least naturally ambitious people can have ambition thrust upon them in this way.
Immigration increased to meet an ambitious public works program of canals to bypass the St. Lawrence rapids and cross the Niagara peninsula, as well as of new cities, mines, and roads.
The Shearers are also the kind of people Republican mugwumps despise most viscerally: privileged, socially and professionally ambitious dissenters whose liberal-left politics don't prevent them from enjoying the prerogatives of membership in the establishment.
An ambitious plan for a hexagonally based church, raised above the ground on stilts and with stained-glass windows by Pollock, came to nothing.
Posts in these commands became prized assignments for ambitious officers, and the voices of their five commanders in chief became as influential as those of the service chiefs.