no place for

idiom

used to say that someone or something does not belong in a particular place, situation, etc.
This party is no place for children.
There is no place for racism in our society.

Examples of no place for in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Was this another zen moment, perhaps, where there is no place for right and wrong? Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024 Where other versions of the story bear names like Tombstone and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ford’s emphasizes the character who symbolizes civility and the possibility of a better world to come, even if that world might have no place for men like Earp in it. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024 But movements that seem dedicated to Palestinian safety and self-determination to the exclusion of equally valid Jewish needs have no place for us. Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2024 Female protest leaders have highlighted the fact that Thailand’s most powerful institutions—the military, the monarchy, and the monkhood—are dominated by men and have little or no place for women. Tamara Loos, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2020 See all Example Sentences for no place for 

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“No place for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20place%20for. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.

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