all-consuming
Example Sentences
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Love is overwhelming but can still be one-sided, an imbalance that love’s all-consuming nature disguises.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
It threatens to become an all-consuming task for the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
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
What made my fear all-consuming was the fact that I observed in many instances that my parents and all the other adults who were supposed to protect me were unable to protect themselves.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
