How to Use all told in a Sentence

all told

adverb
Definition of all toldnext
Synonyms for all toldnext
  • The damage, in a sense, might linger and spoil the barrel all told.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And it’s a decent episode, all told, and for all its faults.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Vulture did a roundup of late-night hosts who all told the same joke.
    — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The young med students, some of them not even 20, all tell me their plan is to get out too.
    — Christian Borys, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Taxi drivers, concierges, bartenders will all tell you to be sure to go to Vij's.
    — Claire Dederer, ELLE Decor, 27 May 2011
  • Still, during one call, her children all told her the same thing.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Sep. 2020
  • But all told, this is a good deal on a more pleasing way to play Zelda or Tetris 99.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 18 June 2019
  • The deal is expected to go through for $900 million all told.
    — Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • And all told, wildfires burned more than 1 million acres statewide.
    — oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Bell’s contract can be worth as much as $61 million all told.
    — Mark Maske, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Kazakhstan was a part first of the Russian empire and then of the Soviet one, for over 250 years all told.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • They, and the students, were all told that the exercise was meant to improve writing skills.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2010
  • But THEN…out of nowhere, we were all told to make room, to spread out and make a circle for a presentation.
    — Vogue, 11 Mar. 2019
  • The difference between these rumors is that the No Way Home leaks all told the same story.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Apr. 2022
  • After all, we were all told not to look at the Sun with unprotected eyes.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 May 2022
  • Those in charge of social media, the website and the app were all told their services were no longer needed.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2020
  • So all told, Oz’s compensation from the talk show was in the ballpark of $10 million.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Virginia Supreme Court twice declined to hear the case, which all told cost the city over $1 million in outside legal fees.
    — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • That’s something that Tannenbaum and experts all told The Verge.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Yet all told, the 49ers have done much to seemingly change the vibe after last year’s disaster.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Collins said that all told, somewhere between 50 and 60 students will work the vineyard during the school year.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2021
  • At least one group on Martha’s Vineyard rallied to aid the 50 migrants who touched down on the island for two nights — less than 48 hours all told — last week.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • That’s $10 million all told; a boatload of money in Uzbekistan.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • A few days later, the Dekalb County Police Department sent me the rest of the body-camera footage—more than ten hours’ worth, all told.
    — The New Yorker, 6 July 2021
  • At the time, not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them—four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.
    — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • There's a sense of humor to the techy tunes, some really wicked moods and all told, nearly an hour and a half of dark, driving dance floor action.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Drew Eubanks missed a dunk, Lillard committed two turnovers, Nurkic missed four free throws, and all told, the Blazers shot 2 of 9 from the field.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2023
  • This is the ratio that we are all told to be concerned about because body fat is supposedly killing us.
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Filter replacements can run upwards of $100 a year all told.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Dec. 2018
  • She and colleagues were trying to figure out why the outbreak was so large — nearly 3,000 cases all told.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 20 Mar. 2018

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