How to Use ambitious in a Sentence

ambitious

adjective

• Your plans for the future are very ambitious.
• It was too ambitious a task for just one person.
• This 500-page book is her most ambitious effort yet.
• The company was created by two very ambitious young men in the early 1900s.
• But an ambitious plan unveiled Wednesday could lead to more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Hendriks had his own plan, too, of course—one that would turn out to be even more ambitious.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• Next the team set an ambitious new goal: listen to large swathes of the ocean in the hopes of training a computer to learn to speak whale.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Our biggest and most ambitious record to date with some crazy features.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 27 Dec. 2023
• There are certainly worse things than having a hugely ambitious goal to aim for against the odds.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• That is similar to the most ambitious hydrogen project in Utah.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
• The appointment is a sign of progress and the ambitious student takes it seriously.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• The second is more ambitious, while the first is less definitive.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• But that isn’t going to stop Ira from cooking himself and friends an ambitious birthday feast.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 7 Sep. 2023
• The rank and file at OpenAI are an ambitious and mission-oriented lot.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2023
• College may not be the logical next step for many ambitious high schoolers.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 July 2023
• There are some non-scary attractions on the farm, including a moonlight hayride and, for the most ambitious puzzle-solvers, a flashlight maze.
  — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• Yilan County now runs one of the most ambitious myopia prevention programs in the world.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• As a tireless advocate for mental health, Dr. Saad has ambitious plans for the future.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Other groups also announced ambitious plans to join the methane fight.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• The prospect of the United States delivering on an ambitious agenda for the global South seems remote in this context.
  — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• Although the visual scale is smaller than the many widescreen epics Nolan has made—save for the part where the bomb goes off—Oppenheimer might be his most ambitious work as a filmmaker to date.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 July 2023
• An ambitious first feature giving full-voice to a new Spanish auteur.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• There’s talk that some players want to leave — to be fair, that’s hardly unique to the Cougars — and that Pope is ambitious, keeping his head on a swivel, looking for other suitors — again, not unique.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Thanksgiving has long been an excuse for ambitious home cooks to strut their stuffing and create a hearty meal for their families and friends.
  — Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Move Forward campaigned on an ambitious platform promising to curb the influence and power of the military and the monarchy over the nation.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• Researchers found companies with some of the most ambitious climate policies are among the worst offenders.
  — Mike Scott, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Opia and Lawson pay homage to ambitious women fighting to be seen and heard in their marriages and amid the sexism deeply embedded in the Black community.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• This hardly seems like enough funding to launch an ambitious satellite program.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Given the history of that slow progress, quickly opening up even larger sites is ambitious.
  — Nicole Hayden, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• But the sanctuary represents the most ambitious effort yet to preserve the tribe’s history.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 29 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024