How to Use take-no-prisoners in a Sentence

take-no-prisoners

adjective
  • His take-no-prisoners approach played well.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 12 May 2026
  • Anna may be be the most solid of the bunch, a take-no-prisoners (so to speak) type who may be sturdier than any of the men.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Cami’s speech rules, and is a great reminder of the take-no-prisoners attitude that makes this show special.
    — William Earl, Variety, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Chicago is known for its hard-nosed politics and take-no-prisoners attitude.
    — Glenn Davis, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Her take-no-prisoners portrayal of Lois quickly became a defining career highlight.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That’s how Trip Cullman’s taut, take-no-prisoners production plays it — the pulse is allegro, the casual tone spiked with gasp-inducing wickedness.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Ed O’Bradovich, the young, take-no-prisoners defensive end, was a product of Proviso East High School.
    — Charles Billington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Ricky Gervais has hosted the Golden Globes five times, making Hollywood sweat with his take-no-prisoners approach to jokes mocking showbiz.
    — William Earl, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Lemieux played a total of 1,215 games in the NHL, and his statistics were legion, as was his take-no-prisoners reputation.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • And Childress got an Earnhardt descendant in Busch — a driver who some considered a villain for his take-no-prisoners style, a father, an all-time great who for the longest time couldn’t win the biggest race of them all.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2026
  • Trump’s White House is accustomed to take-no-prisoners political messaging, continuing its aggressive style from last year’s campaign that critics describe as callous and vindictive.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 23 May 2025
  • Nothing about Francis Lawrence’s take-no-prisoners adaptation of Richard Bachman’s (aka Stephen King) staggering novel offers one shard of hope for any of us to wrap our bloodied fingers around.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The fact that any remaining mutual admiration is fueled by mutual animosity is thus introduced right up front, and the movie wastes zero time setting out the rules of engagement for what will soon become take-no-prisoners warfare between the Roses.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Hence the tendency to preen and posture and adopt a take-no-prisoners attitude toward even the mildest criticism or opposition, not to mention the mindless attacks on staunchly pro-American countries such as Canada or Denmark.
    — Stephen M. Walt, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But some specialists in legal ethics expressed doubts at the time that the additional pledge would affect courtroom behavior — the late Stanford Law professor Deborah Rhode said some lawyers simply conclude that a take-no-prisoners attitude would help their client.
    — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Karen Read and her attorney Alan Jackson, who just signed on to the latest twist in this take-no-prisoners legal struggle, aren’t sweating the sad wrongful-death suit brought in Plymouth County by John O’Keefe’s family.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • All eight club tracks follow the same basic template, one cribbed from Midwestern producers like Boo Williams and Paul Johnson, as well as early, ravey Daft Punk and, in particular, the take-no-prisoners cutups of Germany’s Soundhack.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Continuing in his take-no-prisoners approach, Lane moved on from Chalamet to relate an anecdote, first told by his friend Jesse Tyler Ferguson on a podcast, in which Lane met Ferguson’s young son, who was duly dazzled by The Lion King star.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026

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