How to Use no quarter in a Sentence

no quarter

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  • The Lions gave no quarter from then on out.
    Alissa Noe, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Ciara, of course, is giving West no quarter.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps the real hero of the play is the playwright, who panders to no quarter.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
  • For the battle against sparrows, the people were told to give no quarter and to use all available means.
    Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Santa Anna did indeed signal that his force of more than a thousand would give no quarter.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 July 2021
  • Must be given no quarter, no safe harbor, no place in a civilized society.
    Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The Senators were granted no quarter, and couldn’t appear to find the inner slot with a map.
    Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Cindric and Blaney teamed up, but Wallace gave no quarter during the final lap.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2022
  • So with that all said, to any and all who see our flag flying off your stern, know this… There will be no quarter nor mercy offered nor given.
    Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The Americans accepted the challenge, and no quarter should be taken on either side.
    Zach Zorich, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • After a third set with no quarter, Keys was a game from the trophy with Sabalenka trying to prolong the match into a deciding tiebreak.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The strength of democracy is the principle that everyone should be treated equally, that elections should be free and fair, that corruption should be given no quarter.
    CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • However, John Carroll offered no quarter in the second half – scoring five goals and coasting to its first title in 11 years.
    Evan Dudley, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Linebacker Patrick Queen moved with purpose and force, giving no quarter when Commanders players wanted to scuffle.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Here, in a patch of the city that is 99 percent concrete, a space that leaves no quarter for animals to survive, is evidence that the creatures are thriving, albeit just out of reach.
    Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • The atmosphere at the Emirates was nervous, too, and their next two opponents — Leeds (away) and Sunderland (home) — will give no quarter.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Given the trajectory of American right and our politics as a whole, there can be absolutely no quarter for such arguments.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The rowdy fans typically give no quarter to visiting players, something Boise State’s senior point guard knows quite well — just not yet as a Bronco.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Palestinian tricolor stripe overlaid by a red triangle as well as the black flag signaling no quarter hang in private homes and wave defiantly at demonstrations.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Trading insults with Greene gives her more oxygen while alienating Mace from conservatives who want their representatives to give liberals no quarter.
    W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass.
    Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The problem is that the key segment of the PCSK9 protein is largely flat, providing no quarter for small-molecule drugs that might bind to its surface and shut it down.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Angelos, the pugnacious negotiator whose tenacity resulted in billions of dollars worth of class-action settlements for those harmed by asbestos and tobacco, gave no quarter in his dealings with Major League Baseball leaders.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Kristen, this is why the — the president and Secretary Hegseth’s rhetoric about no mercy, no quarter, death from above, bomb you to the Stone Ages, this kind of rhetoric is really dangerous because the likelihood of having downed pilots or others who are captured in a war like this is very high.
    NBC news, 5 Apr. 2026

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