How to Use all-encompassing in a Sentence
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The pain was just so all-encompassing that the fight just went out of me.
—Paul De Gelder, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
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The muted green color, all-encompassing on the walls 70 years ago, is still found at the base of the walls.
—Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
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The rock set reappears at No. 193 on the all-encompassing tally.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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Amid what can seem like all-encompassing death there is new life, often born in tragedy.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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Jorge Rios Wright’s oldest friends are still awed by his one-of-a-kind, all-encompassing sense of humor.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
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These all-encompassing roles would lead her to factories one month and on shopping trips to Paris and Milan the next month.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 1 Aug. 2024
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Flo Milli heated up the Sahara Tent early, making full use of the venue’s all-encompassing screens in the process.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
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In Iran, the hijab – and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some – has long been a political symbol as well.
—Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
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In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well.
—Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
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Several of the singers were also inspired by the fact that record was so all-encompassing of so many genres.
—Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
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The lingering pause is like a warm, all-encompassing embrace frozen in time.
—Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
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Yes, Shakira had a big year, but with no album or tour in the past twelve months, other artists had bigger, more all-encompassing years.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
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But Madigan’s path to becoming the all-encompassing political titan came thanks, in part, to the luck of the draw.
—Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
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Smith’s new indictment is so all-encompassing that one of Trump’s former lawyers has a message for his old boss: Good luck.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
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Wesley Morris traces the art form from its South Bronx origins to all-encompassing triumph.
—Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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There’s no art, no patterns, no distractions: when the room is full, the only break in this bold, all-encompassing monochrome comes from the colors and shapes of the people themselves.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024
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This might not become a single, all-encompassing world war.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
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Now, the rivalry has become so bitter and all-encompassing that even the conference office has to pick a side.
—J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
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His foresight led him to launch an all-encompassing web agency, Emblaze One.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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For brand marketers, this calls for a more adaptable, all-encompassing approach.
—John Pacini, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Get ready to embrace the all-encompassing feeling of well-being that Medterra CBD oil offers.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
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And, is being a teenager stuck with this all-encompassing medium more difficult than in years’ past?
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
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His love for her has become an all-encompassing obsession, and he’s grown more and more controlling of her with each passing year.
—Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 22 June 2023
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But Feyi isn’t looking for another all-encompassing love...maybe a fling?
—Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
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Only two songs have led longer since Hot Country Songs became an all-encompassing genre ranking in 1958.
—Jim Asker, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
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Tucked away among towering pine trees beneath crisp blue skies, the resort is an all-encompassing sanctuary where time seems to slow.
—Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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The surprise here is less that an album about emerging, stronger, from sorrow’s all-encompassing shroud somehow goes down like a goblet of spiked sunshine.
—Raymond Cummings, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024
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For that matter, there’s not much left of what the home was like before Renaissance Remodeling came to work on a project that became rather all-encompassing.
—Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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Guests will also note the all-encompassing Parisian aesthetic — hot pink and floral, like Barbie-dreamhouse-meets-French-cafe.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
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How did this figure of speech become a pejorative for elitist artistic and/or intellectual seclusion—something to be gotten out of or pulled down for the good of the cause, the community, or, more recently, the all-encompassing market?
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
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