ambition
Example Sentences
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But the Kushners’ empire, like Trump’s, was underwritten by years of dealing in much more modestly ambitioned properties.
From New York Times • May 23, 2017
We must not judge them by the rules of the normally ambitioned.
From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010
Till we have gone back to the places themselves, we can never realise the life we led there; how we felt in that long ago; what we thought of, what we ambitioned.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James
The nocturnal conference of Mirabeau with the queen, in the park of Saint Cloud, was ambitioned by his rival; but Mirabeau sold, Barnave gave, himself.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
Hyacinth Halvey: In danger to be linked and wed—I never ambitioned it—with a woman would want me to be earning through every day of the year.
From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady
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Nothing But the Truth
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