How to Use when all is said and done in a Sentence

when all is said and done

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• And when all is said and done, who takes it in the shorts?
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• Bowers could crack the Top-10 when all is said and done.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2023
• Curry has a chance to obliterate the mark when all is said and done.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2021
• Faraday Future will have around $748 million of cash to play with when all is said and done.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 28 Jan. 2021
• City staffers expect that the project will create a viable new bike route between Tempe and Phoenix when all is said and done.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
• And, when all is said and done, my gratitude falls to the behind the scenes folks who set up this Conic Con conference.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• This suggests Mario is likely to have strong legs in the coming weeks, leaving it well positioned to become the top-grossing movie of 2023 when all is said and done.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 Apr. 2023
• The little game is designed to fold out into a full playing board on the go and doubles as its own folding carrying case when all is said and done.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is out in theaters, and the movie could end up making over $1 billion at the domestic box office when all is said and done.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 May 2022
• The drilling makes an almighty muddy mess, but when all is said and done, the more than 2,000 boreholes planned for the campus will be undetectable, despite performing an impressive sleight of hand.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• The authors omit that the U.S. wireless industry will have invested almost $300 billion in 5G infrastructure when all is said and done.
  — WSJ, 24 Feb. 2022
• The feeling that the achievement of a goal, when all is said and done, was actually rather anticlimactic is common among those who set high standards for themselves and have achieved those benchmarks.
  — Outside Online, 8 Jan. 2021
• There’s a rather clever wink-wink opening to actor Randall Park’s debut feature as a director, Shortcomings, which, when all is said and done, mostly fails to deliver on its promise.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
• Generally there will be 2 to 5 inches accumulation, but some locations could end up receiving 6 or even 7 inches when all is said and done.
  — courant.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• White House staff selections, and who actually gets those jobs when all is said and done, have real implications for the direction of policy, the trajectory of careers, and, ultimately, the nation.
  — Tevi Troy, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024