How to Use all the time in a Sentence
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This might sound simple enough—kids do it on the playground all the time, right?
— Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 22 Oct. 2024 -
New Oort Cloud comets are discovered all the time, a dozen or so per year in recent years.
— James Wray, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The growth doesn't come when things are handed to you, but the growth comes when things are taken away, when people say no instead of yes all the time.
— Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024 -
Of course, being a mother is not about being oh-my-goodness-what’s-going-to-happen-next worried all the time.
— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 -
But unlike algorithms, which are on all the time, the human operating systemneeds downtime.
— Arianna Huffington, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024 -
The streets don’t have to be used the same way all the time.
— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 Sep. 2023 -
The fans are on me about this kind of stuff all the time.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Jim Chapin: Ethan had a great smile, smiled all the time.
— Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023 -
Why do you guys need to be doing the splits all the time?
— Julia Sullivan, SELF, 5 Aug. 2024 -
That is our show — the wheels are falling off all the time.
— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Loucks, 83, of Bakersfield, used to take the cars to schools all the time.
— Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024 -
And these are things that Pippa thinks about all the time.
— Outside Online, 26 June 2024 -
Maybe he’s got his foot on the gas all the time — 24/7 Cruise control!
— Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023 -
None of us that are around here all the time are surprised.
— Tim Willert, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024 -
That’s why Tom Cruise tries to kill himself all the time.
— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023 -
Nobody should have to live with their guard up all the time.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 July 2023 -
People would call up and ask agents to price out a trip all the time.
— Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023 -
The Lakers were losing — all the time — and James seemed spent.
— Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023 -
Scott should have been all about football, all the time.
— Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023 -
The feeling nestles deep in your chest and stays with you all the time.
— Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024 -
Smooth and strong means nothing, if the reel is broken all the time.
— Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023 -
At last, the climate crisis is front page news, all the time.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023 -
This is a guy that is used to racing other things all the time.
— Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024 -
Ryan Coogler all the time, check in with him and his family.
— Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023 -
This is not to say that all states are rational all the time.
— Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023 -
But most of the time, almost all the time, I’m outnumbered.
— Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023 -
People come to you all the time telling you, ‘No, this is what happened.
— Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 11 July 2023 -
Even with all the time that's gone by since his death, there's still an air of mystery around him.
— Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Our actors were all on set all the time, ready to go as soon as the camera was ready.
— Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2023 -
There is no shame in just being rather than doing all the time.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
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