How to Use all that in a Sentence
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What can confine me to earth when Death shall have taken away from me all that was dear upon it?
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024 -
That phone didn't sell all that well, so the majority of consumers have spoken: Big phones are the way to go.
— Samuel Axon and Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2022 -
Contrary to popular perception, marble is not all that tough.
— Sarah Archer, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2022 -
Boy’s most recent album, 2018’s Mania – and didn’t have all that have much to do with it.
— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2022 -
But if electricity supplies aren’t reliable, nobody will buy all that stuff.
— Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022 -
The joke is that his disdain for hoary mystery cliches isn’t all that different from his preference for tacky action cliches instead.
— Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022 -
To lose ourselves in reverie and sexuality and rage and emotional transcendence and all that stuff.
— Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022 -
Picking the Buckeyes to lead 42-0 at halftime is not all that outrageous of a prediction.
— Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022 -
Or, maybe you guys just moved way too fast, don’t really know each other all that well, should slow it down just a little, give one another some space to think for a bit, and maybe talk things over.
— Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022 -
Tornado Cash isn’t all that popular of a program, but the implications of the sanctions are far-reaching.
— Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022 -
Sure, on any given Sunday and all that stuff, but Lance’s first test of 2022 could be a multiple-choice, open-book exam.
— Jon Schultz, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2022 -
The discovery of human DNA wasn’t all that revelatory—the lions got their man-eater nickname for a good reason.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024 -
The hard technical problems have basically been solved—all that’s left now are the details, which will surely be worked out through market competition and old-fashioned entrepreneurship.
— David Karpf, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024 -
The squash and turnips, onions, that was all that was left on the shelves.
— Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022 -
Leave to the Jets to screw all that up by getting Rodgers.
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023 -
But the process does not look all that quick or easy right now.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023 -
And so all of that, the whole pandas and the bears and all that, that’s five days of a re-shoot.
— Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 July 2024 -
From there, all that’s left to do is wait for New Year’s Day.
— cleveland, 17 Dec. 2022 -
With the dressing done, all that’s left to do is plate the salad.
— G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023 -
None of those things were true — and even with all that ASU had a chance to win.
— Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2022 -
Well, the surge in air travel this year has changed all that.
— Nerdwallet, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023 -
But the music bears the weight of all that anxiety and grief.
— Niela Orr, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023 -
In the midst of all that chaos, the money was an afterthought.
— Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023 -
There’s so many of y’all that are so legendary in here.
— Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2023 -
But, of course, all that’s a little further down the line.
— Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023 -
Now, all that’s left of the sculpture is the base, the metal frame and a lot of plastic waste.
— Eva Amsen, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023 -
First of all, a move like this wouldn’t even be all that new for the Cardinals.
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023 -
The big question is what to do with all that extra time.
— CBS News, 6 June 2024 -
Just use that gripper (clean, of course) to stroke the ear of corn and remove all that pesky silk.
— Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2023 -
And just to get that nod, that’s all that matters to me, man, for real.
— Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
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