How to Use all (of) the time in a Sentence

all (of) the time

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  • In endurance events, your body wants to stop all of the time.
    Douglas Clark Usa Today Ventures Events, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe not all of the time, but enough for this crazy timeline.
    Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2022
  • People want to look that way in real life, all of the time.
    Brooklyn White, Essence, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Enjoy more legroom all of the time with the Andyer Portable Footrest.
    Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The couple said their grandchildren visit all of the time.
    Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Democrats, more than half, Republicans down to just 9% trust in government to do what's right most or all of the time.
    NBC News, 12 June 2022
  • But that's an ongoing fistfight that concerns me all the time.
    Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • These issues all stem from the fact that workers who are able to work remotely prefer to do so most or all of the time.
    Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Tampering happens all of the time and teams rarely file charges with the league office unless there is a beef to settle.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 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
  • Thank you for all of the time and effort in recruiting and believing in me as a person and student-athlete.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That is what attracted me to drag; the big hair, a lot of jewels all up my neck, just looking very glamorous all of the time, and being very polished.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Because my frugal and MacGyver-like Italian grandfather used to do it all the time.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 25 Apr. 2023
  • As noted by many hardcore Star Wars fans, the hat hanging on the director’s chair in the photo above is famously the one that Dave Filoni wears all of the time.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 May 2022
  • These are traumatized people trotting through the world doing questionable things all of the time.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 June 2023
  • The same players typically play together all of the time.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the time, most of the time, all of the time: let your hiker choose the qualifier that suits their pain best, because distances of any sort will inevitably, if not invariably, hurt.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Marriages of different religions work all the time, and there are plenty of divorces in marriages of the same religion.
    Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • There was also a bit of a reckoning with my own identity as an athlete and as a type A overachiever who can and should do everything all of the time.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Crazy injuries happen all of the time in baseball, from tanning beds, to massages, to gardening, to washing dishes, to being chased by wild boars.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Extrapolation is the action of playing something out into the future with the help of data, and scientists use it all the time.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Williams has also demonstrated a sort of superpower in knowing what space not to take up—the endless battle that so many white actors can’t stop losing, all of the time.
    Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The majority of subscription boxes function, by default, on a monthly delivery model, but that's not true for all of them or all of the time.
    Amanda Prahl, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Once relished as the reward after five days of hard work, weekends are dwindling as employees move fluidly between work and personal time all of the time.
    Anne Marie Chaker, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And that’s certainly true, but no deep introspection is needed to realize people fall behind on payments and other bills all of the time and for all sorts of reasons.
    Patrick George, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Craft: The needs of our students will be my 100% focus all of the time, but providing what our students need is dependent on having qualified and caring teachers being there for them.
    oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Small to medium-size companies generally offer hybrid models as well, but given the choice, many employees choose to work remotely much of the time, if not all of the time.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • Many bosses are getting frustrated on a regular basis, with 49% reporting that working with Gen Z was difficult most or all of the time.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • For employees who work from home some or all of the time, job hunting no longer requires manufacturing an excuse to be out of the office or worrying about a boss finding a résumé on the office printer.
    Ben Casselman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This happens continuously every few milliseconds, so the engine runs with optimum spark advance all the time.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023

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