"ambition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

ambition sustantivo

sustantivo + ambition
Kolokacji: 7
career ambition • life ambition • childhood ambition • lifetime ambition • weapons ambition • ...
ambition + verbo
Kolokacji: 17
ambition leads • ambition makes • ambition grows • ambition seems • ambition comes • ...
(3) exceed, outstrip
Kolokacji: 2
1. ambition exceeds = ambicja przekracza ambition exceeds
2. ambition outstrips = ambicja dystansuje ambition outstrips
  • His ambitions occasionally outstrip his abilities, but when they do not, his food is exciting.
  • Ultimately, though, "The Binding Chair" is a novel whose ambition outstrips its achievement.
  • Most well-known artists have an early phase when ambition outstrips originality and all their ideas are secondhand.
  • Those whose ambition far outstripped their ability would sell their own people for Hayll's "assistance."
  • This show has its inspired moments, though Mr. Kitaj is a painter whose ambitions outstrip his art.
  • With 130 pieces by 31 photographers, the show's ambitions far outstrip its available space.
  • Her ambition obviously outstripped her experience or her policy expertise.
  • But her ambition and her willfulness had outstripped her caution, and so she was no longer reliable.
  • Time and again his ambition outstrips his source base.
  • He decided to become a poet while still in prep school, but his ambition far outstripped his early accomplishment.
verbo + ambition
Kolokacji: 20
realize one's ambition • achieve one's ambition • fulfil one's ambition • pursue one's ambitions • put ambition • ...
adjetivo + ambition
Kolokacji: 120
political ambition • personal ambition • nuclear ambition • presidential ambition • great ambition • high ambition • ...
preposición + ambition
Kolokacji: 14
with ambitions • of ambition • to one's ambitions • for one's ambitions • about one's ambitions • ...

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