6 sentences with 'ignored'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ignored and other words derived from it.
• « As emperor, Commodus indulged his taste for debauchery and ignored the affairs of state, eventually being assassinated after twelve years of incompetence. »
• « When Pipin the Short died in 768, his sons Charlemagne and Charles Martel each inherited half the kingdom. However, when Charles Martel died a few years later, Charlemagne ignored the right of Charles Martel's sons to inherit his lands and took it all (his nephews were subsequently murdered). »
• « For example, the Valois king, Henry II, ignored affairs of state in favour of hunting and was killed in a tournament (during a tournament, a splinter from a broken lance went through the crack in his helmet, impaling his eye - he died two weeks later from the subsequent infection), and other members of the dynasty were little more effective. »
• « Colbert, the architect of the much more efficient tax systems, repeatedly warned Louis XIV that these wars were financially unsustainable; Louis simply ignored the question of whether he had enough money to wage them. »
• « The great works of early feminism that emerged in the late Enlightenment, such as English writer Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1791, were viciously attacked and then largely ignored until the modern feminist movement forced the issue most of a century later. »