IGNORE in a Sentence

Learn IGNORE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

290 example sentences for IGNORE, such as:

1. What we are ignorant of is immense.
2. Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
3. He's completely ignorant about modern technology.
4. I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account.
5. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

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 Meanings and Examples of IGNORE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ignore
 v.  intentionally not listen or give attention to
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There had never been anything in her that one could appeal to; but as long as he could ignore and command he had remained indifferent.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  She knew that to uphold this dignity, they must ignore what she said, even if she stood in the next room and almost shouted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  While I wouldn't advise going that far, still it's more sensible than our way of trying to ignore it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  There was nothing she could do except ignore them and boil with rage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Scarlett knew Johnnie Gallegher lived with her but thought it best to ignore the fact.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  And some of his opinions were of such a nature that she could no longer ignore them and treat them as jokes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  Moral complications existed for her only in the environment that had produced them; she did not mean to slight or ignore them, but they lost their reality when they changed their background.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
8  One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
9  If a town was in disfavor, the railroad could ignore it, cut it off from commerce, slay it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
11  He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and his greatest labor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
12  We do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which we should ignore.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
13  That great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
14  I shall ignore it so long as the world knows nothing of it, so long as my name is not disgraced.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 23
15  I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
16  There is a certain penchant in true believers to ignore input which conflicts and contradicts that belief.
17  It costs 10 per metre, no, scrub that (ie ignore what I've just said), it costs 12 per metre.
18  Every major league pitcher has off days during which he must learn to ignore any catcall and angry hiss from the crowd.
19  The local gentry did not welcome the visits of the summer tourists and tried to ignore their presence in the community.
20  For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece.
21  It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
22  Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant.
23  What we are ignorant of is immense.
24  She is ignorant of the latest development in computer industry.
25  Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
26  The general public remained totally ignorant of the danger.
27  To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
28  Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
29  My inquiries reveal that most of these are caused by exercise programmes devised by ignorant charlatans feeding off our need for health.
30  He's completely ignorant about modern technology.