Example sentences for: ambitious

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

  • "American perplexity over how a politically impotent entity [the European central bank] could govern such an ambitious currency is well founded," he wrote.

  • Still, though Thatcher may have been more ambitious than the typical woman, she was a paragon of ideological fidelity compared with Clinton (or Ronald Reagan).

  • Clarke and Black were asked to develop a range of options for attacking Bin Ladin's organization, from the least to most ambitious.

  • The task of rebuilding fell to the power behind the throne, an ambitious and tyrannical minister known as Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, best remembered as the Marquês de Pombal.

  • In an autobiography, Kirk Douglas--who worked with the director on Spartacus and Paths of Glory --remembered a nasty, credit-hogging character, less noble and more commercially ambitious than he has subsequently been depicted.


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