of all places

idiom

—used to say that it is unusual or surprising that something happened in or is true about a particular place

She met her future husband in a grocery store, of all places.

Examples of of all places in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But especially so when that victory is the 100th in the organization’s history and comes at, of all places, Daytona International Speedway, a track indelibly linked to a team whose place in NASCAR dates back to the sport’s origins. —Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024

The Times spoke with Clown and the band’s ferocious new addition, 33-year-old former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande, about the impact of that first album, the curse of phones at shows and Clown’s off-duty life in Palm Springs, of all places. —August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024

Marla was at a conference in Bloomington, Indiana, of all places, receiving her usual accolades in the difficult, sometimes hopeless field of juvenile-justice reform, navigating between the federal government and various state, local, and tribal organizations. —Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024

What is more quintessentially weird L.A. than a 90-year-old WWII ghost ship permanently docked in, of all places on Earth, Long Beach? —Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024