all-consuming
Example Sentences
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Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt attributes the decline in serious nonfiction sales to the fact that everyday events are all-consuming.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
I think I didn’t even quite understand what I was reading — I’m sure at first blush I thought it was romantic and wild, just like my all-consuming teenage crushes at the time.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 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
