How to Use ignore in a Sentence

ignore

verb

• She tried to ignore him but he wouldn't leave her alone.
• They ignored the warning signs.
• I'll ignore that last remark.
• If we continue to ignore these problems they will only get worse.
• Observers stared, laughed, yelled, and rushed to call the police, but the man ignored them.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• When the first blow thudded across his back, So tried to ignore it.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• Iger’s track record at Disney cannot be ignored–but he is not caught up in the past.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
• She’s always been there for the people who don’t have a voice, who get ignored, kicked to the curb.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• And yet, even compared to the Cup of Nations, the Asian Cup is largely ignored.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Those, contrary to the plan, can safely be ignored, and are.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• And so this song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 May 2023
• And this is not to ignore other creators who have had a bad time.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• The fact that her family doesn’t talk to her is a red flag that should not be ignored.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
• There’s a reason most people ignore all their stuff in the cloud.
  — Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• In the mad rush to get ahead, Google can’t ignore Bard’s shortcomings.
  — Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
• About 30% of them still plow ahead full-speed, ignoring the warnings.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
• Of course, teens 13 and older can simply ignore or opt out of the 60-minute default.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
• But the process sweeps out negations as well, meaning most LLMs just ignore them.
  — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
• For the second year in a row, the Clippers guard was not among the three finalists for the league’s Sixth Man of the Year award and the snub was too much to ignore.
  — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024
• That’s a warning Churchill Downs can’t afford to ignore.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
• The Tesla ignores this too, though the bus appears on screen as a flashing red truck — something the car must try to avoid.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
• The full Moon of the 5th tunes you in to dreams, faraway places and vision quests—so ignore petty annoyances that are in the air.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023
• If there is no trust in science, warnings about both will be ignored.
  — Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
• That said, don't ignore signs that that trust has been broken, says Dr. Lamson.
  — Denise Witmer, Parents, 29 July 2024
• The government ignored us—the cops ignored us—telling us we should have been prepared.
  — Jared Lemus, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
• His request was rejected by most, and ignored by the rest.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• With Americans eating around 100 pounds of chicken a year, the price hikes are hard to ignore.
  — Gerson Freitas Jr., Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Some will want to stream shows or movies, and ignore the date; others will want to watch the holiday action from afar on TV.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• But the coincidence with the details of Samuel Causton’s baggage was too striking to ignore.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• However, critics claimed that part of the law has no teeth and would be ignored by employers who won't take the time to make the necessary calculations of salary and tips each pay period.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024