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Example sentences for "being ignorant"

  • Being ignorant of the law, when they landed, they sacrificed a calf.

  • But alas, it was within them that destroyed them; there was not such a heart in them as to hear and obey, but they undertake, being ignorant of their own deceitful hearts, which were desperately wicked.

  • Being ignorant of the righteousness of God, they went about to establish their own, and could not submit to the righteousness of God.

  • The operations of the siege were wholly conducted by the engineers and officers who commanded the British marines; and the Americans, being ignorant of war, were contented to act under their directions.

  • God, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, that is, of that which God imputeth to a man, and that by which he counteth him righteous, have it not in their thoughts to accept of that unto justification of life.

  • And poor creatures hearing the name Christ, being ignorant of the nature of Christ, do presently close in with these things, supposing, nay, verily believing that these are the Spirit of Christ.

  • Bax, being ignorant on this point, had given up all hope.

  • Being ignorant of the cause of his friend's sudden departure, and knowing his deliberate, sensible nature, the whole subject was involved in a degree of mystery which his philosophy utterly failed to clear up.

  • On one occasion five men, the crew of a small vessel, being ignorant on this point, tied the rocket-line round them and leaped together into the sea!

  • These fellows are in hopes that, being ignorant of the value of leopard brains, you have left them in the carcass, and are burning with anxiety to be off after them.

  • Being ignorant, as yet, of the cries of the various wild beasts inhabiting those woods, we were greatly at a loss to determine what creature it could be that approached at such headlong speed.

  • In the present instance, being ignorant, I have no opinions to assert.

  • The general, being ignorant of my father's death, had written to him, asking him to join him, and recalling his promise to assist with money.

  • The Garibaldians suffered from the very great disadvantage of being ignorant of the nature of the ground and of the enemy's position, the Neapolitans being completely hidden from view by the cactus hedges and cane brakes.

  • Very few of the merchants who now sail from Egypt by the Nile and the Arabian Gulf to India have proceeded as far as the Ganges; and, being ignorant persons, were not qualified to give an account of places they have visited.

  • The Romans subsequently, being ignorant of this principle, constructed an aqueduct.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being alarmed; being caught; being confined; being connected; being destitute; being duly; being first; being ignorant; being just; being loved; being made; being rather; being related; being relieved; being right; being smaller; being subject; being the; being then; being treated; being unable; being used; being usually; being vanquished; being washed; being willing