How to Use all-or-nothing in a Sentence

all-or-nothing

adjective
Definition of all-or-nothingnext
  • The Dodgers’ offense has had its own – much milder – dry spells spaced out in an all-or-nothing pattern over the past month.
    — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 14 June 2024
  • Remember, though, that these are not all-or-nothing ranges.
    — Emily Abbate, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The more the Bruins court history, the more all-or-nothing success becomes.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The debate is largely framed as an all-or-nothing proposition.
    — Craig Peters, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The Moon is entering Scorpio and your all-or-nothing 8th house, which covers many of the most serious aspects of life.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Rahman notes that apps do not have to take an all-or-nothing approach to integrity checking.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Sanguine Celtics fans don’t usually like to deal in such absolutes or all-or-nothing stakes.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Curt Miller urged his team to play with an all-or-nothing sentiment before the Sparks closed their four-game homestand Tuesday night.
    — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • Campbell’s all-or-nothing, go-for-it mentality hurt him in that title game.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, her all-or-nothing spirit, inspiring to some but grating to others, prompted her to take her goats to the streets of New York City last fall to raise attention to her plight.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This smoldering focus is a reflection of their all-or-nothing approach to life.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But saving for college isn’t an all-or-nothing decision.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But thanks, in part, to the pandemic, the stark all-or-nothing choices mothers have faced around working or not are becoming more flexible.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The way to extirpate this bias is by realizing that the concept of death is not an all-or-nothing matter, but rather a spectrum—something that comes in degrees.
    — Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But her all-or-nothing work ethic can sometimes cause a difference of opinion, as fans learned in her most recent post on Instagram.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Heat will issue its injury report for Friday’s all-or-nothing game on Thursday afternoon.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Most of these projects are all-or-nothing, meaning local governments rent or buy the properties and use them entirely for shelter space.
    — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
  • The bottom line is that running an ingredient household doesn't need to be an all-or-nothing thing, and there are ways to stock your kitchen that work for everyone in your family.
    — Suzanne Hayes, Parents, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement The offspring don’t have to look far to see that if they are caught and extradited to the U.S., choosing to go to trial is a high-risk, all-or-nothing gamble that rarely ends with walking free.
    — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Support for democracy and human rights is not an all-or-nothing proposition.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Your partnerships tend to be all-or-nothing — or rather, become possessive instead.
    — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Philanthropy, however, does not have to be an all-or-nothing proposition.
    — Robert Reiss, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • An all-or-nothing approach to security simply doesn’t work.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Reducing your plastic footprint is not an all-or-nothing approach, Jackson says.
    — Jerica Pender, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Moon is in your all-or-nothing 8th house, leaving you extremely sensitive to everyone else's behavior.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
  • Don’t get trapped in an all-or-nothing mentality: Some salt is important for flavor, just use it strategically.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Share Success of Li Auto underlines risks of an all-or-nothing approach to the shift to electric vehicles Don’t write off hybrid electric vehicles.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • So tuning out all-or-nothing diet mindsets can improve our nutrition and benefit us in deeper ways.
    — Oona Hanson, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The company had originally planned to make Slack AI an all-or-nothing proposition, meaning customers had to either pay for all their Slack-using employees to use the features or none.
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • While striving for excellence can be motivating in some areas, this all-or-nothing mentality often leads to rigid expectations that are unsustainable.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

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