How to Use disregard in a Sentence

disregard

1 of 2 verb
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  • Some students completely disregard the rules of the school.
  • He disregarded his father's advice and left school.
  • Please disregard what I said before.
  • But PPIs can free you to disregard most or all of that.
    — Sean O'Neal, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The town was brimming with cats, so the rats had no choice but to disregard the summons.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But has any No. 1 seed been disregarded as much as the Nuggets?
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Please disregard this email as it was sent out in error.
    — Taesik Yoon, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Nor does a state have the power to disregard or disobey a U.S. Supreme Court order.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • So defenders are prone to sag off of him at the 3-point line and disregard his ability to shoot.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Next, there is heat exhaustion, which is less easy to disregard.
    — Krista Diamond, Longreads, 15 Nov. 2022
  • This is an attempt to blatantly disregard the will of the people.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The rest of the special gives its young viewers a decoder ring for those messages, and permission to disregard them.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Smith continued to try and free the Honda from the curb and disregarded commands from the officers.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
  • When a coach like Kyle Whittingham guides his team to the Pac-12 championship game in four of the past five seasons, the last two of which his team won, that cannot be disregarded.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Over her years in business, Wainwright says she’s learned to disregard some of those dynamics.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • View Photos Like the Beetle, the Rabbit convertible disregards fashion to start one of its own.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The niece disregarded my request and contacted my daughter anyway and went off to have lunch with her.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Related Articles This of course is not the first time a state tried to disregard federal law.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Ford disregarded the orders and returned to the car, shifting it into drive.
    — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2023
  • And maybe disregard the fact that Gobert hit a teammate in Minnesota and got suspended for the Lakers’ play-in game.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • However, the icing on the cake is their ability to completely disregard the dead body floating in the ocean, because the ocean isn’t the hotel, duh.
    — Vulture, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Check the State Department’s list to make sure there is no travel advisory for this country, and if there is, do not disregard it.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The cardinal rule of adapting a book into a film is: Don’t disregard the source material.
    — Lesley Paterson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Which is where the movie’s race politics becomes so brutal as well: Mollie is, after all, not white, and as such even easier to disregard.
    — Jim Shepard, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Our minds seize upon the outliers and disregard the average cases.
    — Mike Rucker, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Again, do not misguidedly disregard all of the SDGs simply due to a personal perspective about one or another of the set.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The Courier Journal found that law is often disregarded.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
  • Some of the subjects spoke up at crucial moments for the values of American liberty, yet were willing to disregard others in the pursuit of their own crusades.
    — Ken Burns, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2022
  • That was cruelly awful luck, and the opinion of anyone marginalizing the impact of his injury will be disregarded here.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • After traveling about a mile and a half with police in pursuit, the driver disregarded a red light and crashed into another car on the 9100 block of West Silver Spring Drive.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
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disregard

2 of 2 noun
  • They treated the rules with complete disregard.
  • Never has a singer had such disregard for the rhythms behind him.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And some viewers will surely be turned off by the network’s craven disregard for the truth.
    — David Zurawik, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Had Joshua been white, grief would not carry the same bitter sense of disregard.
    — Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The disregard for truth is meant to be the point, but a smaller issue is very distracting here.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • The ropes hoisting Peter Pan are lashed across the upper part of the set with utter disregard for the poor actor’s head.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Less has been said about her disregard for the rule of law and due process and the way senior FTC officials enable her.
    — Christine Wilson, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • With a reckless disregard for the truth behind a senseless tragedy.
    — al, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The heinous disregard for Ms. Mooney’s life will not go unpunished.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But Musk’s antics, his disregard for rules and his gloom-and-doom tweets are frustrating.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • The motion highlights that comment as proof that the case was filed with disregard for the standards for an election challenge.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Musk wants to move fast and break things, but Twitter’s disregard for FTC rules will limit his ability to do that.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This includes an intent to harm with prior knowledge that what was said is false or was said in reckless disregard for the truth.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Dannels said the disregard for human life displayed by the cartels is the reason why members of Congress need to step up and help.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And to date, at least, Hamas has blocked them from leaving, showing once again its total disregard for civilians of any kind who are – who are stuck in Gaza.
    — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Democrats said the investigation shows Mr. Zeldin’s disregard for the law.
    — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • That disregard remains a sticking point, evidence of an erosion of trust that had been won over years.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This can lead to reckless behavior and a disregard for the consequences of your actions.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Yet records show a pattern of disregard for that directive.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
  • And it was just said with such… oh, my God, hate, such disdain, such disregard for humanity.
    — ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • So use this intel and look down the road: How will his stubbornness, thin skin and disregard for your judgment come to bear in future conflicts?
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Its generals will continue to show complete disregard for the lives of their own forces, sending tens of thousands to die in a war of Putin’s choice.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This also helps explain the crime wave and disregard for human lives in some of our major cities where people now fear going out at night.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2022
  • On the video, at least eight officers get involved in the detainment, disregard, and destruction of Tyre Nichols.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
  • But there are special moments in the lifetime of our universe—such as its infancy, when the whole cosmos was the size of an atom—for which this disregard for small-scale physics fails us.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • That’s according to the court, a blatant and systematic re disregard of due process.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
  • By now, From Software’s disregard for disabled players is no surprise, nor is the ableism from its fans, which has never been addressed by the studio.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The evidence clearly shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the Rust film set.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Wake Forest's total disregard for holding on to the football and an Akron backup quarterback yelling at a ref from the bench, leading to his ejection, were some of the week's low points.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The evidence of Cox’s complete disregard for copyright law and copyright owners has not changed.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024

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