Example sentences for: ambitious

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

  • There are the ambitious Slytherins, the brainy Ravenclaws, the "just and loyal" Hufflepuffs, and the house with all our heroes, Gryffindor, "where dwell the brave at heart."

  • In his first policy speech following the handover, Tung promised to accelerate government land sales, with the ambitious aim of raising the proportion of homeowners to 70 percent within 10 years.

  • Al Qaeda began funding JI's increasingly ambitious terrorist plans, which Atef and KSM sought to expand.

  • This ambitious irrigation and flood-control project, built in the third century b.c., is still in use.

  • On June 7, Hadley circulated the first draft, describing it as "an admittedly ambitious" program for confronting al Qaeda.


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