Sentences with ambitious
am·bi·tious
A a - Chris is so ambitious, so determined to do it all.
- The ambitious project was completed in only nine months.
- There are more ambitious films around at the moment than The Strength of Water.
- Now into its second season, Hungry Beast is ambitious and worthwhile, if uneven.
- An ambitious project
- An ambitious undertaking
- Roger McDonald has written a big, ambitious book, a winding tale that takes its due time.
- Ambitious implies a striving for advancement, wealth, fame, etc., and is used with both favorable and unfavorable connotations; , aspiring suggests a striving to reach some lofty end regarded as somewhat beyond one's normal expectations [an aspiring young poet]; enterprising implies an energetic readiness to take risks or undertake new projects in order to succeed; , emulous suggests ambition characterized by a competitive desire to equal or surpass another
- An ambitious style
- A “moving platform” scheme [ …] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems [ …] . Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
- ambitious students.
- An ambitious attempt to break the record for number of wins in a single season.
- ambitious of love and approval.
- The candidate is proposing an ambitious program for eliminating all slums.