How to Use all-encompassing in a Sentence

all-encompassing

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  • And, is being a teenager stuck with this all-encompassing medium more difficult than in years’ past?
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This evolution moves beyond the current focus on selecting a single, all-encompassing model.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The pain was just so all-encompassing that the fight just went out of me.
    Paul De Gelder, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
  • The muted green color, all-encompassing on the walls 70 years ago, is still found at the base of the walls.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
  • The rock set reappears at No. 193 on the all-encompassing tally.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Amid what can seem like all-encompassing death there is new life, often born in tragedy.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Jorge Rios Wright’s oldest friends are still awed by his one-of-a-kind, all-encompassing sense of humor.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • These all-encompassing roles would lead her to factories one month and on shopping trips to Paris and Milan the next month.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Flo Milli heated up the Sahara Tent early, making full use of the venue’s all-encompassing screens in the process.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • In Iran, the hijab – and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some – has long been a political symbol as well.
    Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
  • In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well.
    Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
  • Several of the singers were also inspired by the fact that record was so all-encompassing of so many genres.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The lingering pause is like a warm, all-encompassing embrace frozen in time.
    Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Yes, Shakira had a big year, but with no album or tour in the past twelve months, other artists had bigger, more all-encompassing years.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Smith’s new indictment is so all-encompassing that one of Trump’s former lawyers has a message for his old boss: Good luck.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
  • Wesley Morris traces the art form from its South Bronx origins to all-encompassing triumph.
    Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no art, no patterns, no distractions: when the room is full, the only break in this bold, all-encompassing monochrome comes from the colors and shapes of the people themselves.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This might not become a single, all-encompassing world war.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Now, the rivalry has become so bitter and all-encompassing that even the conference office has to pick a side.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • His foresight led him to launch an all-encompassing web agency, Emblaze One.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • For brand marketers, this calls for a more adaptable, all-encompassing approach.
    John Pacini, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Get ready to embrace the all-encompassing feeling of well-being that Medterra CBD oil offers.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • His love for her has become an all-encompassing obsession, and he’s grown more and more controlling of her with each passing year.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 22 June 2023
  • But Feyi isn’t looking for another all-encompassing love...maybe a fling?
    Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The surprise here is less that an album about emerging, stronger, from sorrow’s all-encompassing shroud somehow goes down like a goblet of spiked sunshine.
    Raymond Cummings, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • For that matter, there’s not much left of what the home was like before Renaissance Remodeling came to work on a project that became rather all-encompassing.
    Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Guests will also note the all-encompassing Parisian aesthetic — hot pink and floral, like Barbie-dreamhouse-meets-French-cafe.
    Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
  • After her daughter was born in 1985, Smith no longer had interest in the demanding, all-encompassing work of running a first-class restaurant kitchen.
    Marcus Crowder -, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • By adding sports to its streaming lineup, Amazon is hoping to drive new subscribers to Prime, its all-encompassing e-commerce package.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • This vision of an all-encompassing AI ecosystem could also be a way of ensnaring customers.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024

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