Example sentences for: ignorance

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

  • First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).

  • In order to consult a reference book, one must first acknowledge either ignorance or insecurity, neither of which is either a crime or a reprehensible condition: many people are very certain about things about which they are dead wrong, thus never look them up to check their accuracy.

  • To continue today's policy of muttering and changing the subject verges perilously on saying not just that too much alcohol is bad for you but that ignorance is good for you.

  • (McCurry may be obliged by ignorance to stiff-arm reporters, but that doesn't mean the White House is inattentive to the media.

  • And they neglect, through ignorance or overconfidence, to take the elementary precautions that would guard against such lapses: above all, to mark up their scripts, the way actors do--inserting a vertical pause here, or a curving tonemarker there, or an underlining to cue emphasis, or three dots to indicate a dying fall...


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