How to Use of all places in a Sentence

of all places

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  • And what about the candle inspired by the Moon, of all places?
    Kristin Limoges, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
  • Who knew a massive pimple could appear on your knee, of all places?
    Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • Lo and behold, his name came up – on LinkedIn, of all places.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Catharsis came from, of all places, a return to music.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There is injustice and corruption, which is true of all places in the world.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • This shouldn’t happen in America of all places.
    Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Curiously, at the top of that list is the dishwasher of all places.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Watch this video to learn why customers are flocking to Costco — of all places — to buy precious metals.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Some towns, though, are best reached by cruise ship—and Minnesota, of all places, has one of the country’s finest small-town ports.
    Sarah Cahalan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Several people marveled at the astute little bear’s instinct to ask for help at a zoo of all places.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 12 July 2024
  • Some towns, though, are best reached by cruise ship — and Minnesota, of all places, has one of the country’s finest small-town ports.
    Sarah Cahalan, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2024
  • Millennium Park, of all places, is a hot spot for visitors.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Netflix, of all places, is starting to do a better job of producing new seasons quicker.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • That’s when the rumor began, that Lacob would buy the team and move it, of all places, to Oakland.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • But one of her favorite trips was her 2024 birthday trip to Cincinnati, of all places.
    Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The Idea of You seems to have been buoyed by great word of mouth, out of South by Southwest of all places.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2024
  • The Hills stumbled on a restaurant, in a mall of all places, that earned a Michelin guide shout-out seven years ago.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the comedian did not expect to be the butt of the joke on SNL of all places.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Still, to impose such a hard line in Catholic schools, of all places, seems particularly unjust.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Why, of all places, would South Florida need someone focused solely on heat?
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Or Soap, which has individual episodes available on Sling of all places.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
  • As the Olympics expands its reach, Paris of all places certainly knows how to prolong the magic of the past.
    Blythe Lawrence, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • As a result, Amy and Sidonie took to eBay, and one shop in Majorca of all places.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2023
  • And then this script arrived, from Los Angeles of all places, from two women on exactly the same page.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The first official glimpse of the Chevrolet Corvette’s future is coming from overseas of all places.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The fear was palpable — in the state Capitol in Tallahassee, of all places.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • That includes posting photos without makeup and taking viewers behind the scenes to, of all places, the shower.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
  • Laney College, of all places, will play host to Oakland’s next professional baseball team.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This week, New York City got smoked out … in a very bad, extremely toxic way by Canada of all places.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 8 June 2023
  • The fact that a Black soldier chose to make a small town in the Upper Peninsula, of all places, his home after the war.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023

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