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.
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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 -
Over the last year, rising gas prices have been hard to ignore.
— Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022 -
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 -
Sure, there are exotic dream weavers, such as Pagani and Koenigsegg, that ignore the sales siren of the ute.
— Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 24 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
As a note of warning, ignore fake keto BHB pills at all costs.
— Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022 -
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 -
This suggests to me that the Feds want people to ignore the very thing that makes use of so many sites and services, well, usable.
— Davey Winder, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 -
Yet, Indian fans in the host nation are just hard to ignore.
— Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2022 -
If there is no trust in science, warnings about both will be ignored.
— Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024 -
The latter, of course, remains in place, but the former adds a layer that can be difficult to ignore as the season hits the final stretch.
— Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024 -
But should investors really be ignoring small caps in 2025?
— Bret Kenwell, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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