How to Use all-out in a Sentence

all-out

1 of 2 adjective

• Make a Christmas Brunch Instead of going all-out for Christmas dinner, make a brunch spread instead.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
• The all-out fight is certain to be welcomed by the Biden White House.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 24 May 2023
• The Boys season 4 sees America on the brink of all-out chaos.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 May 2024
• In the worst-case scenario, Trump’s policies could lead to an all-out trade war.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Since its release, the two have waged an all-out meme war online.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
• That’s the equivalent of nearly nine days’ worth of all-out, 200-foot shifts.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• This isn't the first time the Ambani family has gone all-out for a wedding.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• The all-out blitz may be over, but the crappie will remain active until the storm’s end.
  — Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
• Herro scores again and then goes all-out chasing down a loose ball, sliding on the floor.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
• His wife Nancy, on the other hand, went all-out in a neon pink skirt fitted with a black bow.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
• Is an all-out drug war — with full commitment, with all the bells and whistles — the answer?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Mar. 2023
• Warm and cuddly, nice with a little bit of snark or all-out Ricky Gervais?
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
• Built in 1880 by Jule Gilmer Körner, the historic home goes all-out for the holidays.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2023
• Janelle Monáe tends to go all-out for Halloween — but this year, her costume will be two years in the making.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
• The best way to avoid all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, says Blinken, is to get a ceasefire in Gaza.
  — Elliott Gotkine, CNN, 28 July 2024
• There’s no time like the holidays to go all-out on a gift for someone special.
  — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 4 Dec. 2023
• Both Israel and the militias avoided causing the kind of damage that could lead to all-out war.
  — Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• What followed was a huge, yet telegraphed assault and no all-out war.
  — Golnar Motevalli, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• Another fear is that the all-out Israeli assault on Gaza will soon turn to them.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Going on vacation doesn't always have to be an all-out splurge to have a good time.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2024
• Hezbollah, like Israel, does not appear to want an all-out war.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2023
• By the last song, the venue was an all-out party, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the 27-year-old rapper was running the show.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Canadian driver crashed at Turn 4, leading to all-out chaos.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• And that breaks the family bond and triggers an all-out battle for survival.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
• He was also seen posing with Kate and Oliver, both of whom also went all-out in dressing for the theme.
  — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• There’s no need to go all-out with the table decoration, but a few small touches can go a long way.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
• But the term war is now used all of the time in Moscow, most often to describe the all-out confrontation with the West that Russia sees in the conflict.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• The finale gave us a pretty thrilling cliffhanger: an airborne dragon duel, the killing of a young prince, avowals of all-out war.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 14 June 2024
• Your tween and their friends can work together to hit targets or wage an all-out war against each other.
  — Deanna McCormack, Parents, 19 Mar. 2024
• Any North Korean attack, even on a limited scale, would trigger South Korean retaliation, and could spiral into all-out war.
  — Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024

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all out

2 of 2 adverb

• Google is going all out with AI in its new Pixel 9 phones.
  — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
• They’re not supposed to fall ill or faint or fall off stools or talk to us about their unborn children that are still with them in the sky of a puppet theater made all out of biscuits.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
• This isn’t the first time an artist lets it all out next to Bizarrap.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
• The spinach lends a fresh green-ness to balance it all out.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Kyran Tilley left it all out on the court Wednesday night.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2022
• The victims were all out in the open on the sidewalk or on the streets, Fitzgerald said.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
• Both are wickedly fast and go all out from the moment the gate opens.
  — Tom Jicha, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• After all, Rodgers went on the retreat to block it all out.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• But in truth both sides, and the league writ large, were all out to prove something that night.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2023
• Yakusho fills in the blanks without spelling it all out.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
• Check them all out below, then head to Sephora to shop the full sale.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 2 Dec. 2022
• And a shout-out to Stevens for going all out to acquire White.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• Or will the day’s headlines prompt us to go all out and splurge on an end-of-the-world bender?
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Josh held his breath for a moment, then blew them all out.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
• But this night — this gala tribute show, brought it all out.
  — Michael Kosser, Variety, 26 Oct. 2022
• Biden just laid it all out there at a CNN town hall Thursday night.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 Oct. 2021
• The caller reported that people and pets were all out of the house, with two cars in the garage at the time.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2022
• To get the play-by-play on more of the movie's standout hairstyles, check them all out in our roundup right here.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 11 Jan. 2022
• She gets tortured by having to read and talk it all out.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2022
• Check it all out below and be sure to check back for updates.
  — Claire Peltier, ABC News, 26 July 2024
• And there’s no greater reason to go all out for Campbell.
  — Essence, 14 Feb. 2022
• Pour the tahini on top, making sure to scrape it all out of the container, and add the salt and cumin.
  — The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• The first paragraph in the summary of the case really spells it all out.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• Broke the rule: Manageg Gabe Kapler laid it all out the night before.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Aug. 2022
• Gemini May 21 – June 20 Time to cut loose and let it all out!
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
• Victims were all out in the open, either on the sidewalk or on the streets, police said.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Sep. 2024
• Rounding it all out: a private horse trail in the backyard.
  — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
• Women, and sometimes men, often need to cry it all out, and aren’t the movies—a refuge in the dark—the perfect place to do that?
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• The release of iOS 15.4 would give Apple one more reason to go all out for a spring event.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 27 Jan. 2022
• Buddy, just put us all out of our misery and hand out the rose already.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024