DISREGARD in a Sentence

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For DISREGARD, below is one of 57 sentences:
Scarlett, with her usual disregard of all matters not directly under her nose, had scarcely known an election was being held.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISREGARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disregard
 v.  ignore; discount; take no notice of
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Scarlett, with her usual disregard of all matters not directly under her nose, had scarcely known an election was being held.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  Each man had built with the most valiant disregard of all the others.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The result is a growing disregard of human life.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  Then her absolute disregard for her duties as a wife angered him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
5  The gift to appreciate and the sense to feel the finer shades and relations of moral things, often seems an attribute of those whose whole life shows a careless disregard of them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  She could scarce conceive the possibility of her will being opposed, far less that of its being treated with total disregard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  You see,' pursued Fagin, affecting to disregard this interruption, 'we are so mixed up together, and identified in our interests, that it must be so.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  I imagined what my feelings would be if I had to return to you and to confess that some misfortune had occurred through my disregard for your instructions.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
9  Lestrade knew my friend too well to disregard his words.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
10  It is odd, too, how speedily I came to disregard these little people.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
11  This view would be a reasonable one were we to disregard the object which led Romulus to put those men to death.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX.
12  Now this disaster overtook the Romans entirely from their disregard of justice.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVIII.
13  No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
14  It was thus that I was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  Howsoever it may seem to you to touch me, disregard that.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  What amazes me is her complete disregard for anyone else's opinion.
2  They have shown a ruthless disregard for basic human rights.
3  Whoever planted the bomb showed a total disregard for the safety of the public.
4  There is a stare look on with a disregard called called silent care.
5  Her actions manifested a complete disregard for personal safety.
6  With a fine disregard for geography, she decided to start her journey to Paris by sailing to the Hook of Holland.
7  It does so with blithe disregard for best scientific practice.
8  He showed a reckless disregard for his own safety.
9  He ordered the jury to disregard the witness's last statement.
10  Another, who had sat on the search committee, said they might disregard their artistic expertise.
11  Many children forget their filial obligations and disregard the wishes of their parents.
12  They have so much hubris and become obnoxious, often show disregard for the rules of the road with impunity.
13  Did the jury simply disregard the law to give Stanley a free pass to murder? Jury deliberations are kept secret by law, and can never become the basis for a factual appeal.
14  We disregarded her invidious remarks because we realized how jealous she was.
15  Van Gogh was so disregarded that he committed suicide in obscurity as an artistic failure.