Ambition

//æmˈbɪʃ.ən//

"Ambition" in a Sentence (16 examples)

It is Tom's ambition to go to the moon.

Sony inspires ambition among its employees.

His ambition was blasted by these repeated failures.

That politician is full of ambition.

My brother is consumed with ambition.

It is a worthy ambition to do well whatever one does.

The foundation of a college was her great ambition.

The rebel concealed his ambition to destroy the regime.

He had the ambition to be prime minister.

His ambition was to be a great politician.

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My daughter, Johanna, wants to be a firefighter very much. She has a lot of ambition.

The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]

One is aſtoniſhed hovv ſuch a ſmall ſpot could furniſh Men ſufficient to ſacrifice to the pitiful Ambition of poſſeſſing five or ſix thouſand more Acres, or tvvo or three more Villages: […]

My ambition is to own a helicopter.

I on th' other ſide / Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, […]

Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

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