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Example sentences for "ambit"

Lexicographically close words:
ambiguities; ambiguity; ambiguous; ambiguously; ambishun; ambition; ambitions; ambitious; ambitiously; ambivalence
  1. All these remarkable developments, all these delightful ramifications, now lay within the ambit of the red tape which Arthur, left alone, feverishly untied.

  2. He showed no jealousy of her preferences; that she would ever give him cause for serious jealousy, fears for his honour, had never yet entered his head; such matters did not lie within the ordinary ambit of his thoughts.

  3. How can we, having this incomparable work, necessary for study by all who would write English, bring it within the ambit of the English Tripos and yet avoid offending the experts?

  4. He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.

  5. At St. Petersburg, Vienna, and elsewhere he had been vaguely conscious of these social changes; but they did not come within the ambit of his daily life, and so it had not mattered.

  6. In a terrella and globe-shaped loadstone the magnetick power is extended outside the body in an orbe; in a longer one, however, not in an orbe, but it is extended in an ambit conformably to the shape of the stone.

  7. For a great circle of the Earth is to the ambit of the Primum Mobile less than a furlong to the whole Earth.

  8. Is there jurisdiction in the Courts to review in such a context as this taking into account the ambit of ss.

  9. In the Royal Commission on Licensing case that very principle was applied in this Court, it being held that certain matters were not within the ambit of the Commission's inquiry.

  10. The purpose was manifestly to make the ambit of review under the Act at least as wide as at common law.

  11. We are therefore in the ambit of secondary schools.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ambit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.