How to use ignorance in a sentence

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• Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.From the entry connote
• Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.From the entry nescience
• Jones straps on the tools of ignorance.From the entry tools of ignorance
• Due to Mary's ignorance, she was a tough case.From the entry tough case
• His ignorance, insecurity, hateful soul and lack of honest experienced associates make him incapable of success.2025 August 19, Dawna Stromsoe, “The Jim Acosta Show with Joyce Vance James Glancy and Elise Labott”, in Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance…. From the entry Trumpstein files
• By analogy with yokels, the ignorance and naivety of woke fascists makes them “wokels”.2022 June 12, J. C. Lester, Wokeness Is Inverted Fascism Plus Hypocrisy: A Libertarian Perspective, page 3. From the entry wokel
• “Like security theatre,” he says, “hygiene theatre comes from bad risk analysis – really, from ignorance.”2021 July 12, Sirin Kale, “Hygiene theatre: how excessive cleaning gives us a false sense of security”, in The Guardian. From the entry security theater
• The knotweed of stupidism can sow deleterious ignorance of the past.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 61. From the entry stupidism
• If an own exposes another person’s ignorance, a self-own reveals your own obliviousness.2017 April 2, Amanda Hess, “Identity Theft [online title: None of Us Are Safe From Getting ‘Owned’]”, in New York Times Magazine, page 11. From the entry self-own
• “Ignorance is bliss?” Benji said, face still hot after what Spinney had said.2016, T. Michael Martin, Mr. Fahrenheit. From the entry blissy
• But the issue goes beyond that, to a willful ignorance of history.2013 May 9, Norm Ornstein, “Obama's Hill Slump Has Nothing to Do With a Failure of Leadership”, in The Atlantic. From the entry schmooze
• Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө).2012, Herman Chernoff, Lincoln E. Moses, Elementary Decision Theory, page 12. From the entry regret
• This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish”, in The Guardian, §: “Comment &…. From the entry carapace
• Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.2010 September 28, Hélène Mulholland, “David Miliband voices displeasure during Labour leader's speech”, in The Guardian. From the entry profess
• Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.2008, Stephen J. Harris, Bryon Lee Grigsby, Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, page 177. From the entry Old English
• "The yogi is really a warrior against his own ignorance," Rosen says.2008 Nov, Yoga Journal, page 76. From the entry virabhadrasana
• To a large extent, says Allen, this antivaccination impulse is fueled by an ignorance of the past.2007 February 4, David Oshinsky, “Preventive Medicine”, in New York Times. From the entry antivaccination
• If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry chat room
• You must be the welcoming committee for anyone who dares express ignorance.1998, Peter Coffey, “New Alternative View Of Atomic Structure”, in sci.chem (Usenet). From the entry bless
• The method of this urbicidal ignorance is described step by step.1981, Lawrence Wodehouse, Ada Louise Huxtable, an Annotated Bibliography, Garland Pub., →ISBN, page 67, →ISBN. From the entry urbicidal
• Oh, God, what self-esteem, what ignorance, what malice, what shrunken thinking, and all in one person!1963, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 212, page 71. From the entry dephilosophize
• But what kind of democracy can exist side by side with so much corruption and ignorance?1960, Chinua Achebe, chapter 5, in No Longer at Ease (African Writers Series), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Heinemann Educational Publishers…. From the entry Augean stables
• I hate to display my ignorance around your Latin students,” Mrs.1956 May 23, Jean Yothers, “On the Town”, in Orlando Sentinel, volume 66, number 272, Orlando, Fla., page 20, column 1. From the entry domina
• At the Governor’s I commented upon this egrecious folly and ignorance and the ex Premier Mr.1954, Ellen Kean, Charles John Kean, Emigrant in Motley: The Journey of Charles and Ellen Kean in Quest of a, Rockliffpage 182. From the entry egrecious
• They regarded the very word Turk as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy.1928, Luṫfī Levonian, Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems, page 85. From the entry Turk
• And what a wordful of ignorance is daily talked and printed.1922 January, “The Civil Engineer and Radio”, in The Architect and Engineer, page 106. From the entry wordful
• The author shows surprising ignorance of the American social hygiene movement.1922, Ernest Watson Cushing, The American Journal of Sociology, University of Chicago Press, page 527. From the entry overcondensed
• This prejudice against goat mutton is founded upon ignorance rather than experience.1903, George Fayette Thompson, A Manual of Angora Goat Raising: With a Chapter on Milch Goats, page 96. From the entry mutton
• "Pride an' ignorance be the yoke-devils as have drawed you into this fix," said Chugg bluntly.1902, Eden Phillpotts, The River. From the entry yoke-devil
• For 'Grandpa' and 'Grandma.” She let my ignorance slide.2025 January 7, Adam Ross, Playworld: A Novel, Knopf, →ISBN, page 375. From the entry zada
• If one judges by today’s anti-vaxxery, such credulity and ignorance are alive and well, and flourishing on social media.2021 January 5, Charles Moore, “Heartening news from the NHS front line finally gives us something to clap about”, in The Telegraph. From the entry anti-vaxxery
• If you proclaim your ignorance in a simple matter like this your reputation will go for a toss.2021, Varalotti Rengasamy, Ponniyin Selvan - The Crown. From the entry go for a toss
• It is hard to think of any precedent for such a calamitous display of insensitivity, historical ignorance and uncomprehending political stupidity.2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer. From the entry death wish
• Your ignorance & pack of knowledge of Iowa is astonishing.2017 December 8, @JohnstonShow, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2025. From the entry istaphobe
• "The planets are called 'cosmocrators'" but they are no longer rebellious aeons fragmenting the pleroma through their ignorance.2015, Revd Allen Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order, Brill, →ISBN, page 293. From the entry cosmocrator
• Hindered by this ignorance, they attack markets they can't win and ignore or underresource those they could win.2011, Brian D. Smith, Paul Raspin, Creating Market Insight, →ISBN. From the entry underresource
• Instead, they should open up their own fully-owned production facilities so that they cannot pretend ignorance when abuses are committed.2007 October 29, The Guardian, London. From the entry pretend
• Ignorance of this reality is not an option.2007, Diab A. Shetayh, Actuality : The Reality Requiem. From the entry every silver lining has a cloud

Meaning of ignorance

1. noun The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
2. noun Sins committed through ignorance.
3. noun Existential blindness.

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Questions about ignorance in a sentence

How do you use ignorance in a sentence?

Ignorance is used as a noun. For example: “She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.”

What is a short sentence with ignorance?

“Jones straps on the tools of ignorance.”

What does ignorance mean?

Ignorance means the condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.