How to Use all-consuming in a Sentence

all-consuming

adjective
  • 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
  • The crash was Skye's rock bottom, forcing her to get sober and attempt to cope with her all-consuming grief and guilt.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • This is what the Kremlin has been counting on: the total and all-consuming indifference of the man in the street.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024
  • The beauty of the Southwest was all-consuming, and our world at this time 16 years ago was consuming as well!
    Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 28 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • But after that, the all-consuming feeling of having been a part of the world stage receded.
    SELF, 11 June 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
  • Viewers watched him smooch his kids and train on the beach and reveal his all-consuming pickiness about what goes into his body.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • It could be interpreted as a symbol of the all-consuming nature of grief.
    Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • How can the world be full of people who have yet to experience such all-consuming beauty?
    Longreads, 29 Mar. 2024
  • How can the world be full of people who have yet to experience such all-consuming beauty?
    Longreads, 19 Dec. 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
  • Advertisement For the French, though, the contest was all-consuming.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
  • Many a bartender have found themselves in the throes of addiction purely based on the all-consuming nature of the position.
    Brandi California, SPIN, 1 July 2024
  • So really from the beginning to the end, including right now, that job is all-consuming.
    Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 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
  • It’s been a packed spring for music, between a half-dozen major pop releases, an all-consuming rap beef, and surprise hits from new and old faces alike.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 21 May 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
  • Everything falls apart once overwrought tragedy strikes in the final act, and the characters’ angst is much less compelling than their all-consuming lust.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Everything falls apart once overwrought tragedy strikes in the final act, and the characters’ angst is much less compelling than their all-consuming lust.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The Athletic spoke to acknowledge that the job’s all-consuming nature is one of its greatest challenges.
    Tom Burrows, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • People who were skeptical of this all-consuming love fest were viewed as crazy racists and messianic fanatics.
    Uri Kurlianchik, National Review, 25 Feb. 2025

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