no place for

idiom

used to say that someone or something does not belong in a particular place, situation, etc.
This party is no place for children.
There is no place for racism in our society.

Examples of no place for in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Well, there should be no place for it anywhere in America. CBS News, 21 Apr. 2024 The next year, when piles of snow left no place for dogs to go to the bathroom, Sorenson sculpted a dog out of snow and an opening in their yard that invited neighborhood pups to stop to do their business. Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024 This is incredible progress at a time when there is no place for laggards in the race to decarbonize. María Mendiluce, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 California is a state that promotes equality and diversity, and there is no place for discrimination and hate. The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024 Now, especially being a mom, there’s no place for shame. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024 Part of this might be his sense that there is no place for Jews in the new landscape of competitive victimhood—that identity politics has become a militarized option for every minority aside from his own. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024 But humanitarian aid groups said there's no place for people sheltering in Rafah to go and that large swaths of the territory have been destroyed by Israel's military operations, including Gaza City and Khan Younis. John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024 With concrete floors and fluorescent lights that stayed on day and night, the 120,000-square-foot warehouse was no place for children. Fernanda Santos, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024

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“No place for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20place%20for. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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