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"Neglect" in a Sentence (19 examples)
You must account for your neglect of duty.
You can't afford to neglect your health.
You are not to neglect your duty.
It is silly of you to neglect your studies.
Thanks to television, boys and girls are apt to neglect reading books.
Some students neglect their studies in favor of sports.
I cannot, however, neglect his warning.
I'm angry at the neglect of these children.
The reasons for this neglect are not hard to discover.
Some day they will find me lying in neglect and decay.
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to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts
I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
This, my long sufferance and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste.
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
to neglect strangers
A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.
This problem says to neglect air resistance.
Fifteen participants argued that the neglect of discourse on relationships had major implications for the ability of adolescents to acquire courtship skills and maintain relationships. This neglect means that the students acquire knowledge and skills through the media and by observing and imitating others in their immediate environment.
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