no quarter
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the real hero of the play is the playwright, who panders to no quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
While the Yankees' fielding and baserunning was occasionally sloppy, the Dodgers gave no quarter, and this final game exemplified how their injury-hit pitching staff collectively pulled together to help deliver the title.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024
David Friedman, Trump's former ambassador to Israel, said anti-Semites "deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left."
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2022
According to Capt. Thomas Antoine Mauduit du Plessis, the French engineer leading the group, an American soldier shouted out, “Well now, is it agreed that no quarter will be given?”
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
Hard fighting and long labour they had still; for the Southrons were bold men and grim, and fierce in despair; and the Easterlings were strong and war-hardened and asked for no quarter.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
