How to Use ignore in a Sentence
ignore
verb
- She tried to ignore him but he wouldn't leave her alone.
- They ignored the warning signs.
- I'll ignore that last remark.
- If we continue to ignore these problems they will only get worse.
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Observers stared, laughed, yelled, and rushed to call the police, but the man ignored them.
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David Reamer | Alaska History,
Anchorage Daily News,
17 Sep. 2023
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When the first blow thudded across his back, So tried to ignore it.
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Timothy McLaughlin,
Washington Post,
3 Nov. 2023
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Iger’s track record at Disney cannot be ignored–but he is not caught up in the past.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2024
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And yet, even compared to the Cup of Nations, the Asian Cup is largely ignored.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2024
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And this is not to ignore other creators who have had a bad time.
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Ct Jones,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2024
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That’s a warning Churchill Downs can’t afford to ignore.
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C.l. Brown,
The Courier-Journal,
5 June 2023
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If there is no trust in science, warnings about both will be ignored.
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Heslley MacHado Silva,
Scientific American,
5 Jan. 2024
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The government ignored us—the cops ignored us—telling us we should have been prepared.
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Jared Lemus,
The Atlantic,
9 Mar. 2024
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With Americans eating around 100 pounds of chicken a year, the price hikes are hard to ignore.
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Gerson Freitas Jr.,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2024
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His campaign is not ignoring the protest efforts over the war.
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Gabriella Abdul-Hakim,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2024
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The new party has ignored calls from the 112-year-old liberation movement to change its name.
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Lynsey Chutel,
New York Times,
29 Jan. 2024
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Visiting the hospital felt risky, but the bleeding was too heavy to ignore.
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Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2023
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Meanwhile, spokespeople for the AP and Al Jazeera ignored my inquiries.
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Oliver Darcy,
CNN,
24 Oct. 2023
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Sometimes, Yarl, 17, turns inward, ignoring phone calls and texts from loved ones.
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Deon J. Hampton,
NBC News,
11 Apr. 2024
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The birds mostly ignore any humans who have located the nest, Gillard told Bay Nature.
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Daniel S. Levine,
Peoplemag,
23 June 2023
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These are the basic, but long-term investments that are often ignored.
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Alexa Gagosz,
BostonGlobe.com,
31 July 2023
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Those who objected to DEI’s assault on the social compact were easy to ignore.
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Noah Rothman,
National Review,
21 Dec. 2023
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But that extra step of folding and hanging on busy work days is just so glorious to ignore.
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Katie Toussaint,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Jan. 2024
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That's not at all a knock on the quality of these phones—they're just so similar to last year's Galaxy S23 models that it can't be ignored.
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Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
17 Jan. 2024
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Yet employees sometimes ignore signs that a patient might not be ready for surgery.
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Aimee Ortiz,
New York Times,
7 Dec. 2023
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Nike, North Face and PetSmart have so far ignored the backlash targeted at them.
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Jaclyn Peiser and Jacob Bogage,
Anchorage Daily News,
5 June 2023
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His athletic potential and his 2022 tape will be hard to ignore.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2024
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Smith was a great thinker, yet today he is often ignored or simplified.
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Dominic Pino,
National Review,
14 Sep. 2023
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Lily canceled her morning meetings and ignored her phone.
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Elliot Ackerman,
WIRED,
12 Feb. 2024
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But the Treasury’s immediate cash demands could throw a wrench into the stock market, which for the most part has ignored the risks of default.
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Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN,
2 June 2023
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That’s not really a good lesson to ignore the person that’s helping us.
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Nardine Saad,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Nov. 2023
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