IGNORANCE in a Sentence

Learn IGNORANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
290 example sentences for IGNORANCE, such as:
1. Fear is a product of ignorance.
2. The savants stared at her ignorance.
3. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
4. I had no option but to pretend ignorance.
5. He laughed and she blushed for her ignorance.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of IGNORANCE
ignorance
 n.  the lack of knowledge or education
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Both the doctor and his wife looked slightly shocked at her ignorance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  He laughed and she blushed for her ignorance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild--either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  She didn't want to hear bad tidings about her own family from an outsider, didn't want him to know of her ignorance of what had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  Hardly any of his acquaintances cared for Americana, or knew anything about them; and the consciousness of this ignorance threw Mr. Gryce's knowledge into agreeable relief.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
7  He put it to her as if she had not grasped the consequences of her act; as if her incorrigible ignorance of business were about to precipitate her into a fresh act of folly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  The savants stared at her ignorance.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Aunt Bessie was a bridge over whom the older women, bearing gifts of counsel and the ignorance of experience, poured into Carol's island of reserve.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which it is so easy to come by.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  The cloud of serene ignorance submerges them in unhappiness and futility.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  One after another they peered in, for nothing but their own eyes could persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk away.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
13  , massacres were excused as the natural resentment of intelligence against government by ignorance.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  Honest white men practically conceded the necessity of intelligence murdering ignorance to correct the mistake of the general government, and the race was left to the tender mercies of the solid South.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  She laughed at Arobin's pretensions, and deplored Mrs. Highcamp's ignorance.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  The more a man knows, the more he see his ignorance.
2  Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
3  The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
4  We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.
5  By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
6  Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
7  The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
8  Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
9  Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
10  Fear is a product of ignorance.
11  He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims ignorance.
12  Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
13  Not ignorance, but the ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
14  My ignorance biased me against popular music.
15  I had no option but to pretend ignorance.