How to Use for no good reason in a Sentence
for no good reason
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At the end of the day, there is a small child that is dead for no good reason.
—Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
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But, as was the case then, careers will have been ruined for no good reason....
—Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
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More:Louisville trees were being torn down for no good reason.
—Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2021
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The Bruins tarnished their brand, and for no good reason Neely was asked about what his scouts thought of Miller.
—Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
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In a split second your world gets turn upside down for no good reason.
—Daniella Silva, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
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Gunned down at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights for no good reason.
—Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
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In a split second your world gets turned upside down for no good reason.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
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And there are monsters, starting with a dragon that pops up for no good reason.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
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The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason.
—PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2023
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Best friends, cousins, and spouses have beaten each other bloody for no good reason.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
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When police, White or Black, use deadly force against Black people for no good reason?
—Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
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For the other 199, the result may be devastating for no good reason.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
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Bad ones call attention to themselves for no good reason.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
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Certain aspects of their characters—like the desire to break stuff, for no good reason—are also alive in us.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021
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He has been delayed by the machinations of Poseidon, for no good reason.
—Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
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Heads are split open with an axe, and the makeup woman (Bérénice Bejo), for no good reason, turns out to be a master of the military martial art Krav Maga.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2022
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Now and then, for no good reason, the veins in my arms and legs would become prominent and blue and start to ache, a very science-fiction symptom with a Cronenbergian flair.
—Philippa Snow, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2021
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Time and again a character asserts that someone is obstructionist for no good reason or just doesn’t get it.
—Frederick Hess, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
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During the debate over the Colorado bill, opponents argued that the law would allow vindictive people to take guns away from others for no good reason.
—Markian Hawryluk, CNN, 27 June 2022
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That could compel police departments to either greatly restrict stops of men, or expand stops of women for no good reason.
—The Editors, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
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There are weird toiletry size restrictions and surly airport security personnel and people air raging for no good reason and—the list goes on.
—Men's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
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Fans may forgive the giant leaps of logic, the way pointless scenes (like Pete Davidson’s cameo) devolve into fistfights for no good reason, since such conflict keeps things exciting.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
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The Trump administration delayed New York City’s congestion-pricing plan for no good reason.
—Christopher Robbins, Curbed, 20 May 2021
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Villains explain their plans for no good reason; everything comes with exclamation points.
—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
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Blake, who is not above throwing a funeral party for no good reason, had one very good reason this time: After five years of kitschy fun and stiff cocktails, Death or Glory, a decadently dark and gothy drinking den, was closing for good.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
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For centrists, the big giveaways are an affront to frugality and the storied American tradition of nearly everybody being deeply in debt for no good reason.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
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Trillions of dollars have fled securities markets this year, yet regulators are rushing to impose new rules on markets for no good reason.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
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In 2016, the Republican platform’s language about Ukraine kicked up a campaign controversy and was dragged into investigations for no good reason.
—The Editors, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
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Sadly, instead of that, media outlets seem to be content vilifying technology and inciting fear for no good reason.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2015
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Then the show has to go and become pointlessly circuitous for two episodes, as a combination of interchangeable actors obscured by period facial hair, unplaceable accents and purposeless time jumping make the story hazy for no good reason.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022
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