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
That was a thrilling contest with no quarter given.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
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
