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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She’s always been there for the people who don’t have a voice, who get ignored, kicked to the curb.
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Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2023
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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 so this song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.
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Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
1 May 2023
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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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The fact that her family doesn’t talk to her is a red flag that should not be ignored.
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Jeanne Phillips,
The Mercury News,
29 May 2024
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In the mad rush to get ahead, Google can’t ignore Bard’s shortcomings.
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Quartz,
9 Feb. 2023
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About 30% of them still plow ahead full-speed, ignoring the warnings.
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David Pogue,
CBS News,
13 Oct. 2024
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Of course, teens 13 and older can simply ignore or opt out of the 60-minute default.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
1 Mar. 2023
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But the process sweeps out negations as well, meaning most LLMs just ignore them.
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Max G. Levy,
Quanta Magazine,
12 May 2023
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For the second year in a row, the Clippers guard was not among the three finalists for the league’s Sixth Man of the Year award and the snub was too much to ignore.
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Janis Carr,
Orange County Register,
23 Apr. 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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The Tesla ignores this too, though the bus appears on screen as a flashing red truck — something the car must try to avoid.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
19 Aug. 2024
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The full Moon of the 5th tunes you in to dreams, faraway places and vision quests—so ignore petty annoyances that are in the air.
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Katharine Merlin,
Town & Country,
1 Feb. 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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That said, don't ignore signs that that trust has been broken, says Dr. Lamson.
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Denise Witmer,
Parents,
29 July 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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His request was rejected by most, and ignored by the rest.
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Sydney Page,
Washington Post,
4 Apr. 2023
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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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But the success of Le Pen and France’s far-right is impossible to ignore.
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Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 July 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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Lucy tells Benny to ignore his uncle Marvin who lives in a shed near the trailer.
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Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2023
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Lucy, of course, totally ignores this advice and tries to save the first two victims of the serial killer – Brian and Val.
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
5 Nov. 2024
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But for days the order went ignored by other jail medical staff.
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Kelly Davis,
The Mercury News,
4 Nov. 2024
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