IGNORANT in a Sentence

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290 example sentences for IGNORANT, such as:
1. What we are ignorant of is immense.
2. Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
3. He is an ignorant man, of no education.
4. He's completely ignorant about modern technology.
5. I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of IGNORANT
ignorant
 a.  uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
 a.  unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
2  He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the public.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  He was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  He respected learned men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer evening with a tin watering-pot painted green.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
6  For many years past, I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the visage of one damned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
7  It is probable that he, also, was disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of everything, something excessive.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
8  He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
9  No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
10  He is an ignorant man, of no education.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
11  I was even ignorant of the fact that you had left my shop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
12  Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
13  The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to this detail.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
14  In the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
15  That pigmy kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece.
2  It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
3  Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant.
4  What we are ignorant of is immense.
5  She is ignorant of the latest development in computer industry.
6  Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
7  The general public remained totally ignorant of the danger.
8  To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
9  Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
10  My inquiries reveal that most of these are caused by exercise programmes devised by ignorant charlatans feeding off our need for health.
11  He's completely ignorant about modern technology.
12  And the poor old stick used to cry out 'Oh you villains childs!' -- and then we sermonized her on the presumption of attempting to teach such clever blades as we were, when she was herself so ignorant.
13  And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking!
14  The ignorant audacity to believe that I don't appreciate the life and death of what I kill is astounding.
15  Lazy, ignorant, and retarded is no way to go through life, son.