all-consuming
Example Sentences
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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
While depravity is omnipresent, that doesn’t mean it’s all-consuming.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2025
But on her new album, “West End Girl,” Allen is neck-deep in a tragedy, attempting to keep her head above the all-consuming black sludge of inconceivable heartbreak.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025
Like a sleepaway camp that feels all-consuming at the time but vanishes from memory as soon as school starts again.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
