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.
  • By the mid-1960s, the Catholic Church could no longer ignore the clamor.
    — John Loughery, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • Observers stared, laughed, yelled, and rushed to call the police, but the man ignored them.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The way for Utah fans to deal with these two fan bases is to ignore them or make fun of them.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2022
  • If there is a link, file or phone number in the text, ignore it.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • When the first blow thudded across his back, So tried to ignore it.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Over the last year, rising gas prices have been hard to ignore.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Boasberg ordered the flights return to the U.S., which the White House ignored.
    — Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Iger’s track record at Disney cannot be ignored–but he is not caught up in the past.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • She’s always been there for the people who don’t have a voice, who get ignored, kicked to the curb.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And yet, even compared to the Cup of Nations, the Asian Cup is largely ignored.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Those, contrary to the plan, can safely be ignored, and are.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And so this song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 May 2023
  • The topic, at least this week, might be harder to ignore than to achieve.
    — Bob Spear, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And this is not to ignore other creators who have had a bad time.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Parker said he had been taught that the best way to deal with bullies was to ignore them.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that her family doesn’t talk to her is a red flag that should not be ignored.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • There’s a reason most people ignore all their stuff in the cloud.
    — Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Grab a trash bag and pick up just the trash; ignore everything else.
    — Kc Davis, SELF, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In the mad rush to get ahead, Google can’t ignore Bard’s shortcomings.
    — Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The way this film has been made with the people who made it ... that’s difficult to ignore.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • About 30% of them still plow ahead full-speed, ignoring the warnings.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • But those bullish vibes ignore some of the hard ceilings Starlink faces.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Sure, there are exotic dream weavers, such as Pagani and Koenigsegg, that ignore the sales siren of the ute.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 24 Nov. 2022
  • My thought was to ignore the sneeze so as not to intrude on their privacy.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, teens 13 and older can simply ignore or opt out of the 60-minute default.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But the process sweeps out negations as well, meaning most LLMs just ignore them.
    — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023

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