How to Use ambit in a Sentence

ambit

noun

• Now over a short span of three years more farmers have been brought under its ambit.
  — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• The ambit of crimes against women was widened to include stalking, voyeurism and acid attacks.
  — Kamakshi Ayyar, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
• Of course, the salient issue is the ambit of the president’s duties.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
• What was striking about Moral Mondays was their sweeping ambit.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2021
• Gradually, Charles widens the ambit of his life to include the end of the block and even the park around the corner.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• The more that Waters’s legend grows, the larger the ambit for his grievance becomes.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 1 May 2017
• Some tax experts suggest that a sale should not be included within the ambit of the Van Hollen proposal, so it won’t be taxed.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• When infused with the power of a rising hegemon, those men were capable of actions that expanded their empire’s ambit.
  — Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
• The memorandum does not even specify which government programs will fall under its ambit.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• Beyond being impactful, your idea should be executable within the ambit of today’s resources.
  — Yec, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• But the full scope of Webb’s audacious scientific ambit is best revealed through two other images—one striking and one subtle.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 July 2022
• The delegation's most substantive event may come outside of the Olympic ambit on Saturday.
  — CBS News, 9 Feb. 2018
• And as the satellite-fuel example reflects, the FCC’s ambit extends even into space.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 2 May 2023
• Under the Westfall Act, as construed by federal courts, the ambit of official acts is extremely broad.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
• The law also leaves it up to the judge presiding over the case to decide whether the murder fell in the ambit of an honour killing, according to AFP.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
• Bring high-risk suppliers under the ambit of continuous control monitoring and provide them with only the least privileged access.
  — Steve Durbin, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• Under the ambit of these rules released in February, the government is also coming down hard on over-the-top (OTT) players.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 18 Aug. 2021
• But some critics have long been wary of medicalization as the best path toward an equitable psychedelic revival that ever escapes the medical ambit to make the most of their diverse potentials.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
• Yet the kind of misrepresentations experienced by Tkachuk and Harris aren’t within the ambit of intimate imagery laws.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Mar. 2026
• In 1619, René Descartes resolved to transform the study of philosophy—a broad ambit that at the time embraced mathematics and the study of nature.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
• Nothing about the administration of presidential elections is within the ambit or the outer perimeter of presidential duties.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• The risk of triggering Article 5 could narrow Russia’s military options and limit the geographic ambit of the war.
  — Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2023
• Both countries are now working out a payment mechanism, including a rupee-ruble arrangement and the routing of transactions through banks outside the ambit of Western sanctions.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
• Kaplan’s book follows Gersony all through the rolling ambit of his world travels, and thanks to Kaplan’s own considerable narrative gifts, those journeys are as vivid and compelling as any travelogue.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2020
• Even in the familiar relationship of an old woman and her cat, Le Guin finds an ambit for challenging moral insight and matter for an inquisitiveness that probes the deep time of evolution.
  — Robert Minto, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
• The chairman has adopted an exceedingly paternalistic agenda at the SEC, taking the agency far beyond its ambit.
  — Jennifer J. Schulp, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
• Forests are an agricultural product, Boniface said, and require harvesting to produce paper, lumber and other products, putting them in the ambit of the agricultural easement.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2021
• In Turkey’s case, this deviation came in the form of Ataturk’s inauthentic reforms that placed the country within the ambit of a West that did not accept Turks as equal partners.
  — Steven A. Cook, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
• If the independent body cannot review these decisions as well, Facebook will be left with a large degree of control over what claims get ventilated and reviewed, and will be able to determine the ambit of the body’s promise of due process.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2018