How to Use by/from all accounts in a Sentence

by/from all accounts

idiom
  • Hal Finney, by all accounts, was an unusually kind and righteous person.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
  • So it's supposed to be a very small number, and by all accounts, most of those individuals had not lived into adulthood.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Dude might scheme up a storm, by all accounts, and teach with the best of ’em.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Dana Taylor: And by all accounts, waters in and around the Gulf States ...
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • But by all accounts, Gadd is done with this chapter of his life.
    EW.com, 9 May 2024
  • Kim is, by all accounts, one of the most brutal dictators in the world.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The young Jaromil is a true believer, and by all accounts, so was Kundera at the time.
    Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • It was reached by a dirt road and was by all accounts a magical place.
    Michael Roberts, Outside Online, 2 July 2024
  • But by all accounts, no one knew this comet was coming.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • Langford, by all accounts, had the profile of a fast riser.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Ava still lives with her legal guardians and by all accounts is doing well.
    Susan Spencer, CBS News, 6 July 2024
  • Still, by all accounts, the pair remain in good spirits, grounded in their faith.
    Tierney McAfee, Country Living, 11 July 2023
  • McMurtry, by all accounts, wasn’t easy to know, at least not to those outside his circle of friends.
    Michael Schaub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Pelé was a Brazilian soccer player who, by all accounts, changed the game.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But the statehouse strategy is a long shot, by all accounts.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2020
  • And by all accounts, the cast gets along unusually well.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
  • Kemp’s infectious smile and, by all accounts, stand-up status as a teammate put him on the list.
    James Yasko, Chron, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Prime subs could pay a couple of dollars extra per month to avoid ads, but by all accounts very few did.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The beach-let opened along the Hudson River Greenway this week, by all accounts to a warm reception.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Now in his 40s, Joseph is not just contrite, but also, by all accounts, reformed.
    Judy Berman, Time, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Tweens do, by all accounts, love Rare Beauty and its founder, Selena Gomez, but don’t seem to connect one to the other.
    Dianna Mazzone Singh, Allure, 20 June 2024
  • The first iterations of the Boston Arm were by all accounts failures.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • He was elected to the city council in 1971 and was, by all accounts, effective and popular.
    Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • How big a problem is the current debt level, which by all accounts is high by historic standards?
    Iese Business School, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Ahmaud Arbery, by all accounts, loved to run but didn’t call himself a runner.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 May 2012
  • But, by all accounts, the megawatt star lived a relatively normal life in Switzerland.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 26 May 2023
  • And the 44-year-old was successful, by all accounts: good jobs, nice house, beautiful children.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Hinch, by all accounts, didn’t participate in the scheme, and tried on different occasions to put an end to it.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The larger-than-life moment echoed through the convention center and, by all accounts, may do the same on the campaign trail for the remainder of the election season.
    Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • Flaherty, by all accounts, will get a chance to manage someday.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023

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