How to Use ignorance in a Sentence

ignorance

noun
  • His racist attitudes were born out of ignorance.
  • Has this led me to fetishize my own ignorance over the years?
    — Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Trump wants no one around him who might speak truth to his ignorance.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
  • It's based on ignorance and that's part of the whole sadness of this to me.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Our ignorance on those fronts is profound, of course.
    — Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
  • One is sheer ignorance of this etiquette rule.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The process also widened my eyes to the extent of my own ignorance.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 10 June 2022
  • Dropping brand names and titles is no more than a show of ignorance.
    — Senton Kacaniku, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Above all, they are beset by their own ignorance and poor choices.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • But if the joke and the ignorance are equally yoked, people will laugh.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There is no excuse for ignorance, don’t blame the schools for not teaching it.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024
  • Aside from my ignorance about the math, there is one high-level issue with the book.
    — David A. Teich, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • That ignorance has begun to erode.
    — Mark Guiducci, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
  • My ignorance did damage to my friends, colleagues and strangers alike.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 13 Feb. 2021
  • At what point does ignorance stop being an excuse?
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The only way to stop the cycle of ignorance and hate is through knowledge and love.
    — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • And that has everything to do with my own ignorance of what that was, to be honest.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • To believe or support this is pure ignorance.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • No longer can any of us feign ignorance to the daily injustices.
    — Kayley McColley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2021
  • The problem is not ignorance or bad arithmetic.
    — Les Rubin, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The public can no longer claim ignorance of the issue, Marsh said.
    — Kyle Davidson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The deputy claimed ignorance on all counts, saying that the women at the station stayed out of it.
    — The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • 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
  • In effect, the public was dragged from willful ignorance by the truth.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But is that leap of logic founded in insight—or ignorance?
    — Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Like most of what Welch says, it’s based on willful ignorance and emotion rather than facts.
    — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • 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

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