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.
• That ambitious goal can’t be reached without big offshore wind farms.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• At times the project of cataloging, or indeed defining, the threads of centuries of free thinking can verge on overly ambitious.
  — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• Founded in 2021, the award recognizes groups with ambitious goals to help solve environmental problems by the end of the decade.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
• Its winding, disjointed, miles contain more interesting people and places than even an ambitious guidebook writer could ever hope to chronicle.
  — Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• After manufacturers spent the beginning of the decade making ambitious promises about electric vehicle production and sales, many have spent the past few years backpedaling.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
• 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
• But the Poundbury project has been far more ambitious than a book.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 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
• The Dutch shipyard unveiled one of its most ambitious projects to date on the first day of the prestigious event.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
• Soul was ambitious but played too much like a jazzy riff on Inside Out.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2023
• Some were hits, some flops, but all were ambitious in terms of talent and budget.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 13 June 2024
• The ambitious plan of action also set out to end poverty and hunger by 2030.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2023
• Our biggest and most ambitious record to date with some crazy features.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 27 Dec. 2023
• Billed as the pop rock trio’s most ambitious outing yet, Five Albums.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 May 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
• Fields of wind turbines planned off the California coast in the decades ahead are part of an ambitious effort to draw on ocean winds as a new source of clean power for the state.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2023
• The rank and file at OpenAI are an ambitious and mission-oriented lot.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2023
• Like Musk’s lofty plans for Starship, the rocket itself is ambitious.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• To an ambitious and left-leaning young scholar like Harris, the clash of ideas was alluring.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024