How to Use ignorance in a Sentence

ignorance

noun
Definition of ignorancenext
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  • His racist attitudes were born out of ignorance.
  • It's based on ignorance and that's part of the whole sadness of this to me.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The process also widened my eyes to the extent of my own ignorance.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 10 June 2022
  • The only way to stop the cycle of ignorance and hate is through knowledge and love.
    — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Aside from my ignorance about the math, there is one high-level issue with the book.
    — David A. Teich, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The public can no longer claim ignorance of the issue, Marsh said.
    — Kyle Davidson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The deputy claimed ignorance on all counts, saying that the women at the station stayed out of it.
    — The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • This is, and always was, about hate, fear and ignorance.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
  • The most important thing is that no one dies because of hubris or ignorance of the risks.
    — Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Merkel is a counterforce to ignorance and bluster, and the free world will miss her when she is gone.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • There is no excuse for ignorance, don’t blame the schools for not teaching it.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024
  • This story, if true, is filled with ignorance and irony.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2021
  • And that has everything to do with my own ignorance of what that was, to be honest.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Dropping brand names and titles is no more than a show of ignorance.
    — Senton Kacaniku, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The 61-year-old Democrat was forced to address his own racial ignorance.
    — Dan Merica, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • In effect, the public was dragged from willful ignorance by the truth.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • When the notes were filled out I was unsettled by both the imbalance, and my ignorance of the volume of items.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 13 May 2023
  • Your defense of them is the epitome of ignorance and evil.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • My ignorance of the system was detrimental to my life and has been to so many others just like me.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Yet this is a decades-long conflict that few know about, and so the film forces the audience to reckon with its own ignorance.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The ever-present hum of antisemitism and ignorance is just something we are used to.
    — Iliza Shlesinger, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
  • More and more people are flocking into harm’s way, not all of them out of true ignorance.
    — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • No longer can any of us feign ignorance to the daily injustices.
    — Kayley McColley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2021
  • Remember that ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2023
  • Santorum's pockets are so full of ignorance that there isn't room to stuff a tissue of truth in there.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 May 2021
  • Snyder claimed ignorance and blamed himself for being too hands off in his leader ship of the team.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • At its heart was an ignorance of the long tendrils of history, how those loops and coils wind through the everyday.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Healthy people might not notice it on the shelves — might even think ignorance is a kind of protection.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Perhaps my words are not correct, many times due to ignorance or pure mistake.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The Statue of Liberty, with its motherly stance, initially guides the student forward and away from the unknown, but that is just the comfort of ignorance.
    — The Learning Network, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025

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