How to Use all-or-nothing in a Sentence

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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
• Rahman notes that apps do not have to take an all-or-nothing approach to integrity checking.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Advertisement The offspring don’t have to look far to see that if they are caught and extradited to the U.S., choosing to go to trial is a high-risk, all-or-nothing gamble that rarely ends with walking free.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• Support for democracy and human rights is not an all-or-nothing proposition.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Your partnerships tend to be all-or-nothing — or rather, become possessive instead.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 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
• The company had originally planned to make Slack AI an all-or-nothing proposition, meaning customers had to either pay for all their Slack-using employees to use the features or none.
  — Ina Fried, Axios, 16 Sep. 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
• But for those with partly manageable conditions like high cholesterol or chronic viral infection, there may be less enthusiasm in some folks for this all-or-nothing approach.
  — Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
• Middle Tennessee had an all-or-nothing defensive approach last season.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024