How to Use all-or-nothing in a Sentence

all-or-nothing

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  • The Dodgers’ offense has had its own – much milder – dry spells spaced out in an all-or-nothing pattern over the past month.
    Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 14 June 2024
  • Remember, though, that these are not all-or-nothing ranges.
    Emily Abbate, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The more the Bruins court history, the more all-or-nothing success becomes.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The Moon is entering Scorpio and your all-or-nothing 8th house, which covers many of the most serious aspects of life.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Sanguine Celtics fans don’t usually like to deal in such absolutes or all-or-nothing stakes.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Curt Miller urged his team to play with an all-or-nothing sentiment before the Sparks closed their four-game homestand Tuesday night.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • Campbell’s all-or-nothing, go-for-it mentality hurt him in that title game.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, her all-or-nothing spirit, inspiring to some but grating to others, prompted her to take her goats to the streets of New York City last fall to raise attention to her plight.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But saving for college isn’t an all-or-nothing decision.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But thanks, in part, to the pandemic, the stark all-or-nothing choices mothers have faced around working or not are becoming more flexible.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But her all-or-nothing work ethic can sometimes cause a difference of opinion, as fans learned in her most recent post on Instagram.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Heat will issue its injury report for Friday’s all-or-nothing game on Thursday afternoon.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Most of these projects are all-or-nothing, meaning local governments rent or buy the properties and use them entirely for shelter space.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
  • Support for democracy and human rights is not an all-or-nothing proposition.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Reducing your plastic footprint is not an all-or-nothing approach, Jackson says.
    Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Moon is in your all-or-nothing 8th house, leaving you extremely sensitive to everyone else's behavior.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
  • Don’t get trapped in an all-or-nothing mentality: Some salt is important for flavor, just use it strategically.
    Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Share Success of Li Auto underlines risks of an all-or-nothing approach to the shift to electric vehicles Don’t write off hybrid electric vehicles.
    Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • So tuning out all-or-nothing diet mindsets can improve our nutrition and benefit us in deeper ways.
    Oona Hanson, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • People sometimes take an all-or-nothing approach to vulnerability with new friends, but small steps build trust most reliably.
    Emma Nadler, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • While copyright law tends to favor an all-or-nothing approach, scholars at Harvard Law School have proposed new models of joint ownership that allow artists to gain some rights in outputs that resemble their works.
    Robert Mahari, Fortune, 17 June 2023
  • The strategy of all-or-nothing competition with China has meant abiding the growth of other illiberal governments in the region.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Your ambitious 10th house is hosting the Moon for its monthly visit, giving you a drive to succeed that drive gains further intensity when Luna sextiles Mercury in your all-or-nothing 8th house.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
  • Bedridden after a stroke, Wilson rejected any amendments, insisting on an all-or-nothing approach.
    Michael Sheldrick, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Middle Tennessee had an all-or-nothing defensive approach last season.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Paxton’s impeachment attorneys countered with an all-or-nothing response.
    Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
  • Stepping into the debate was the reformist former president, Mohammad Khatami, who sought to lessen hijab as an all-or-nothing revolutionary issue.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2023
  • Across the decades and leagues in Greater Miami’s sports history, no game played in our own backyard, ever, had presented such a stark, all-or-nothing extreme of unprecedented momentous joy or epic humiliation and infamy — no in-between.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
  • Traditional bracket competitions are all-or-nothing; participants write one team’s name into each open slot.
    James Pollard, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Candidates build confidence: The all-or-nothing technical interview introduces a lot of stress into the hiring experience.
    Jeffrey Spector, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023

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