How to Use ignorance in a Sentence

ignorance

noun

• His racist attitudes were born out of ignorance.
• And that has everything to do with my own ignorance of what that was, to be honest.
  — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
• This type of ignorance is deadly in these kinds of complex foreign conflicts.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Aug. 2021
• The way people get in her comments and the ignorance and ugliness that comes her way is truly shocking.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2021
• Sometimes people fail to match their beliefs to the evidence out of stupidity or ignorance.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
• Or: Joints laced with opioids are analogous to politicians laced with medical ignorance.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
• Drivers meeting flaring headlights are blinded by the glare and can’t tell which way to turn, and the offender invariably pleads ignorance of the law.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
• Of course, ignorance and destruction are often intertwined.
  — Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2021
• Researchers believe this indicates dogs recognize their own ignorance – a sign of metacognition.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
• That ignorance is a reflection of our collective failure as Americans.
  — Nick Ochsner, CNN, 17 Aug. 2021
• Because so many celebrities presume to lecture us on behavior and politics, the game’s display of ignorance on both the professional and civilian side is stunning.
  — Armond White, National Review, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024