How To Use Ambitiously In A Sentence

  • `So it wouldn't do any harm to redecorate them unambitiously now. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • This poem is rooted in the tradition of many Scottish artists of looking confidently and ambitiously to the future of Scotland.
  • It was this sorta stapled, tabloid-type thing on stiff paper, well printed but unambitiously laid out.
  • As a wealthy orphan, he inherited the patrimony and honors of the Anician family, a name ambitiously assumed by the kings and emperors of the age; and the appellation of Manlius asserted his genuine or fabulous descent from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • As a wealthy orphan, he inherited the patrimony and honors of the Anician family, a name ambitiously assumed by the kings and emperors of the age; and the appellation of Manlius asserted his genuine or fabulous descent from a race of consuls and dictators, who had repulsed the Gauls from the Capitol, and sacrificed their sons to the discipline of the republic. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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  • It was he who snarled warningly at the younger members of the pack or slashed at them with his fangs when they ambitiously tried to pass him. The Battle of the Fangs
  • she pursued her goals ambitiously
  • These are failed poems, and they fail unambitiously, and there is even a sense in which their failures are repetitive, merely typical.
  • But knowing and confessing, how farre unbeseeming my love is, to aime so ambitiously at a King, and being unable to controule it, or in the least manner to diminish it: I have made choyce of the onely and best remedy of all, namely, to dye, and so I am most willing to doe. The Decameron
  • Nestling between the likes of The Fast and The Furious and Rush Hour, Half Past Dead tries unambitiously to be this year's biggest action flick.
  • Creepers are always ambitiously trying to crawl over every inch of the wall.
  • That remains the heart of the Gospel that Christians proclaim, the Good News which we ambitiously but humbly believe is that which orientates and shapes all our human enterprise God-wards. Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & History
  • But to fail as Jeffrey Harrison does, so unambitiously, so droopily, to leave the plate with three called strikes-it smacks of faithlessness, of a kind of shrugging perfidy, a knowledge of what's expected.
  • This year, a lot of new face enter notebook computer market, want ambitiously to occupy position.
  • The objective is to bring ecologists, paleontologists, geneticists, biogeographers, and others together to think ambitiously and work on evolutionary problems on a broad scale.
  • The New Urbanism, by contrast, often aims at a more totalizing transformation of space, ambitiously imposing its principles and physical picture by erasing that which preceded it.
  • Prophets is a book-length poem with an ambitiously epic scope, a sensibility and language that is rooted in Jamaica and a work with a markedly religious overtone — not doctrinaire or even ideological, but openly exploring the day-to-day implications of Pentecostalism in Jamaica through a language that is sensual, that invokes myth and reggae and that is best described as risky and experimental. Poetry Terrors : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • This year, a lot of new face enter notebook computer market, want ambitiously to occupy position.
  • The ridiculously defiant title ambitiously pits her -- not a typo -- against the music, suggesting a final showdown in which Britney suits up to, once and for all, eliminate that colossal aural evil by turning it on itself. Archive 2003-10-01
  • Things come out of the blue that are unanticipated, unlooked for - neither dreamt of nor ambitiously sought after.
  • The art, or, as the Continental foresters rather ambitiously call it, the science of sylviculture has been so little pursued in England and America, that its nomenclature has not been introduced into the English vocabulary, and it would not be possible to describe its processes with technical propriety of language, without occasionally borrowing a word from the forest literature of France and Germany. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
  • At the best inn, called ambitiously Hughes's Hotel, I found that I was considered fortunate in getting any sort of bedroom to myself. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
  • Bibliophile Stalker interviews Ellen Datlow, Editor of (among many, many other things) the upcoming anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "It's not that the genres have weaknesses or strengths but that the purveyors of genres write well or badly and use the genres ambitiously or in hackneyed ways. March 2008
  • And the fact that he's ambitiously retooling his swing for the third time suggests that he's not just waiting around for his pension to kick in. Why Tiger Will Never Dominate Again
  • Michael Chabon's "The Final Solution" ambitiously attempts to prolong the detective's life into World War II. The Game Is Always Afoot
  • The building conforms to the natural bedrock shelf, using an ambitiously constructed terrace to extend the floor surface to the west and to expand and regularize room sizes.
  • This band sports an unambitiously simple sound.
  • She pursues her task ambitiously, tirelessly, and scrupulously through the major texts of three canonical writers of early modern English literature.
  • Mormonism, as a relative newcomer on the religious scene and an ambitiously proselytizing faith, is not ethnically rooted. American Grace
  • But to build a moonship in orbit or even more ambitiously, a Marsship, you've got to have a sturdy Earth-launch vehicle which can get the parts up there easily. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- What Would Ronald Reagan Do?
  • he does his job, but he works unambitiously

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