Sentence examples for were ambitious for from inspiring English sources
adjective
Possessing, or controlled by ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
Most were ambitious for money, but in a mundane way.
Many of the young women felt pressure from their families, who were ambitious for them to go to university.
And though they were ambitious for the human genome, they were serious about the worm as well.
"They were ambitious for me to go to university," said Mr. Zou, who is slight and soft spoken but clearly possessed of considerable will.
Their parents were ambitious for them, their mother particularly, and music soon became an essential part of Ted's life, with piano and singing lessons and a place in a percussion band.
The foundation said that those criteria have changed over time — and that while the "criteria we used to judge companies in 2011 were ambitious for the time, but they've been almost universally adopted in the years since then".
Labour is "Ambitious for Ireland".
But be ambitious for yourself.
I'm ambitious for our party because I'm ambitious for our country".
And he is ambitious for his party.
But he was ambitious for movies.
