How to Use ignorance in a Sentence

ignorance

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Remember that ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2023
• 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
• Dustin’s first instinct was to panic and plead ignorance.
  — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2021
• Don’t try to recruit or convert them, and don’t blame them for their ignorance or lack of interest.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the silence over the state meant the national government could feign ignorance.
  — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
• According to Plato, not knowing how to swim was as much a sign of ignorance as not knowing how to read.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2022
• Howe certainly could not feign ignorance about the issue, because he was asked about the heckling.
  — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
• Which may explain my ignorance of fish forks, tines, and my 32 year apprenticeship in how best to load a dishwasher.
  — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025