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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But for some people — roughly 15 percent of workers — the job becomes all-consuming.
  — Chris Woolston, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• 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
• Trying to eliminate all the electronic dings, blurbs, and beeps from your sound world, or go more than a few hours without hearing an engine, could become an all-consuming quest.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024