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
  • Lo and behold, his name came up – on LinkedIn, of all places.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Soto took $765 million to move to Queens, of all places.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • So, Watson does just that, in Pittsburgh of all places.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 27 Jan. 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 here the Fab Four were in Rotterdam of all places, the home of Feyenoord, unleashed as a quartet for the first time.
    Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • There is injustice and corruption, which is true of all places in the world.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Who knew a massive pimple could appear on your knee, of all places?
    Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • Image The couple met at — of all places — a festival called Spirit of Love in Maryland in the fall of 2010.
    Marissa R. Moss, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But Bourdain planned a blind taste test of snack foods for the show, so the pair noshed at a 7-Eleven, of all places, during their shopping trip, our sources say.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
  • 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
  • Watch this video to learn why customers are flocking to Costco — of all places — to buy precious metals.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But here’s a burning question, why did Cleveland become the butt of a zinger of a gag in Milwaukee’s Bay View, of all places?
    Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • 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 Ohio native left his head coaching job at Miami (Ohio) for, of all places, Michigan in 1969.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still, to impose such a hard line in Catholic schools, of all places, seems particularly unjust.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That friend said he had been taken to, of all places, Abdirahman’s former home, which like many other private homes had been seized by the RSF.
    Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Why, of all places, would South Florida need someone focused solely on heat?
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In Kevin Day’s case, the initial sense of shock eventually gave way to tears in, of all places, his local supermarket.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • Then, to add to the drama, Mel finds out in the part one finale that her biological father lives in Virgin River, of all places.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Coogler has an overall deal with Disney, meaning this would likely air on Hulu/Disney Plus, of all places.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Or Soap, which has individual episodes available on Sling of all places.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 June 2025
  • Mark Kelly There’s some good news in American politics, believe it or not, and in Seattle of all places.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023

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