all-consuming
Example Sentences
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The stories frame the all-consuming desire for retaliation as an integral aspect of our mortal lives; no one gets out without hankering for a bit of vengeance.
From Salon • May 19, 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
But rather than extricate themselves by any means short of actually calling the police, they sink deeper and deeper into an all-consuming situation, their efforts to survive becoming increasingly extreme, never mind unlikely.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Now I wonder what I’ll deliver this time round as I walk through the door of Melusso’s restaurant into the all-consuming smell and warmth of spaghetti sauce, pasta, and garlic.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
