all-consuming
Example Sentences
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The much harder work is getting out of survival mode — the all-consuming pressures of eternal presentism and perpetual crisis — and into a mode and discipline of building what comes after.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
Teaching is an "all-consuming role", she says, and the behavioural issues she has to handle in the classroom can take an emotional toll - which she sometimes struggles to leave at the school gates.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Flea, was a little boy, his attraction to the trumpet was all-consuming and amorous.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
In popular culture, as Mr. Tuck observes, the eruption is usually represented as all-consuming.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The relationship was all-consuming in a not entirely healthy way and Sasha had felt like a third wheel whenever they were together.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
