Example sentences for: disregard

How can you use “disregard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Until a year or so ago, Old Washington and New Washington (which isn't even Washington, it's Northern Virginia) shared nothing but mutual disregard.

  • The Times of London said that "shoddy construction work, cheap building materials and a reckless disregard for safety," almost certainly caused so many buildings to crumble.

  • Have an illegitimate child: This special qualifying factor, added by Clinton and the 103 rd Congress, is solely for the benefit of upper- and middle-class single mothers, who are now allowed to disregard their parents' income in applying for loans and grants.

  • Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.

  • Inasmuch as the sublimated sexuality of his relationships is so central to the form and spirit of Cornell's art, only the kind of biography licensed by our decade's disregard of privacy could hope to explain how the art came about and what it meant to be an artist.


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