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 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
• Dropping brand names and titles is no more than a show of ignorance.
  — Senton Kacaniku, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• To make matters worse, mainstream media outlets go out of their way to spread the ignorance that these activists spew.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• The consequences of that ignorance are supposed to teach us something, right?
  — Allison Begalman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• What if selective ignorance turns out to be the best long-term strategy?
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
• The Muslim Council relies on the West's ignorance of Islam.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Ignorance is bliss, but ignorance should not be our public health policy.
  — Crystal Heath, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
• The engineer said ship management companies can feign ignorance about lapses in safety at sea and that, nine times out of ten, nothing bad ever happens because of it.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024