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all-consuming

adjective as in burning

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Example Sentences

Davis then describes the all-consuming grief and loss she felt after her second abortion.

From this all-consuming cycle of pain and pleasure, though, one sport stands as an exception: lacrosse.

Leave it to the Bard to remind you just how all-consuming (and deadly) a serious relationship can be.

Hollywood is gripped by an obsession so all-consuming that no blockbuster is safe from its brooding influence.

Meanwhile, Washington has been preoccupied with all-consuming battles over debt ceilings and sequestration.

A less experienced woman cannot satisfy the extravagance of my desires, the demands of my all-consuming imagination.

Like a tusker in his fury, like a lion in his ire, Like the sun in noontide radiance, like the all-consuming fire!

Ancient Drupad wields his weapon peerless in the field of fight, And his brave son, born of Agni, owns an all-consuming might!

Madness was upon me—a delicious, an all-consuming fire burned within me.

Even though as I pen this, perchance my last declaration, I am strangely torn between two all-consuming wishes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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