How to Use all-consuming in a Sentence

all-consuming

adjective
Definition of all-consumingnext
  • The crush of death is still raw, but not quite all-consuming.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2023
  • While, on the surface, life in the UAE appears to go on as normal, the woman said the war was all-consuming.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But the industry no longer plays an all-consuming role in the state, and its future is in flux.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Making the album was a labor of love, an all-consuming project that stretched over two years.
    — Desiree Ibekwe, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • His life, therefore, is a juggling act while training for the Olympics, which is all-consuming at the moment.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Walk through the front door of Anne Scherrer’s Boise home and you’re greeted by an all-consuming Christmas spirit.
    — Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Running a restaurant kitchen is an all-consuming, life-sucking thing to do.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Beekeeping is not just a job or a hobby, but all-consuming.
    — Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • How can the world be full of people who have yet to experience such all-consuming beauty?
    — Longreads, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Even before the couple went public last fall, Swift was in the midst of an all-consuming media glut not seen since the days of 1989, Kim and Kanye, and Reputation.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Much has been made of the ways in which social-media sites made internet life compulsive and all-consuming.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Ballet was the all-consuming flame, and quitting often leads to heartbreak that makes most romantic breakups seem like child’s play.
    — Madison Mainwaring, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But love—even in its most genuine, heartfelt, all-consuming form—does not cure mental illness.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 May 2023
  • Neither Barnes nor Banks wanted to plunge into such an all-consuming case at the expense of their lucrative law practices, as laid out in the book.
    — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The work is so all-consuming that some allies worry that Wiener, who is not married, has let his job supersede his social life.
    — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The ongoing collapse of Twitter has lots of folks wondering when an all-consuming new social app will rise up to take its place.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The ribs take lamb on an adventure to Thailand via Turkey, and eating them is an all-consuming pleasure: Your fingers are sticky.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • One by one, China’s islands—stripped of air and naval support by the all-consuming fight over Taiwan—fall under Marine Corps control.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The past month had been a dizzying, sickening whirlwind of thrill, then worry, then stubborn hope, then all-consuming terror.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Lovers of the show applaud it for its writing and its depiction of generational trauma and all-consuming rage.
    — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Now, with the wide selection of all-consuming tales that—not by accident—find their way onto shelves near the end of the spring and start of summer, deciding what to read can be a mission in itself.
    — Lydia Wang, Women's Health, 16 June 2023
  • Trying to keep up with the pursuit of aesthetic improvement is all-consuming.
    — Chloe Laws, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There was no lightbulb moment, switch flick, or sudden parting of the clouds—there was just the very real, very raw, all-consuming aspects of parenthood, and space for very little else.
    — Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Donoghue depicts this youthful affair as an all-consuming force, hidden among the regimented lessons and strict propriety of the school.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Paoa likened unchecked tourism to an all-consuming obsession — one that, pre-pandemic, had come to dominate Rapa Nui.
    — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Young love is a beautiful thing: all-consuming, dizzying, and sometimes fleeting.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In Israel, though, the war no longer feels so all-consuming, and citizens have begun to find room for broader political debates.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In the face of these all-consuming developments, Trump’s rivals in the G.O.P. primary are largely being written out of the narrative.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Black photographers and photography showcase how Black people see each other and the Black cultures formed in spite of the all-consuming force of white supremacy.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Recruiting them soon became an all-consuming task that engaged AllDoners both inside and outside of the office, leaving little time for the staff to run the business.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2024

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