How to Use all told in a Sentence

all told

adverb
  • Things were fine, we were all told.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • That would be for the sake of humanity, all told.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • So [my films] are all told from the first-person [perspective].
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The teen-agers, all of whom were Black, all told the same story of their whereabouts that evening.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There were 46 submissions all told.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • First of all, they’re all told from a narrow first-person perspective.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Then 1200 people plus murdered all told.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And it’s all told in one single, winding 300-page sentence.
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Employees were all told to wash their hands during the inspection.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And we were all told to let everybody at the table answer the question completely.
    — Andre Mouchard, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • We were all told how the Affordable Care Act would bring down rates but few if any have seen that come to bear.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The packet includes statements written by three officers on duty that night, who all told the same story.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Bale gets a big scene at the end, but all told, his John Connor might well be the most boring of all the John Connors.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
  • An enjoyable experience all told, but Giguère would’ve much preferred a shorter break in hindsight.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Still, all told, Koepka made roughly $120 million in four LIV years.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Google, Yelp, and the Better Business Bureau reviews all told the same story.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The project’s vast ambitions have already accrued about five years of delay, and, all told, its price to taxpayers has ballooned to nearly $5 billion.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • The United Nations estimates that, all told, thousands of people have died or will die as a result of the disaster.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • It's all told from the vantage point of a woman trying to make sense of her life in the face of devastation, sometimes grasping for signs that only hindsight can uncover.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Also spawning spinoff projects like Bad Grandpa, the franchise has brought in over $500M worldwide to date, all told.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, all told, Dell sees the massive demand for AI and the infrastructure powering it as a sign the good times are still here, at least for now.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • After the front door was cleared, authorities ended up closing the building anyway; people who were in line for their immigration appointments were all told to go home.
    — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • For Guardiola to focus on lambasting Hallam was pretty pathetic, all told.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The employees who got the miscoded notifications were all told about the glitch on Friday or Saturday, the person said.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Over the past year, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Walmart have all told employees to get back to the office.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During the entire episode, Mia, Miles and Celine have all told Stella in one way or another why her decisions have set herself up for failure.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Cynics say this would be a dream come true for professors of philosophy and entire departments of philosophy, including a cushy overflow into the liberal arts all told.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • That's offered a rare chance for the party to draw a new crop of candidates — all told, nearly 60 hopefuls are vying for the six seats — and for the winners to help shape the next Democratic caucus.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • However, police, her councilwoman and Queens District Attorney's Office all told her to take the matter to housing court, per the docuseries.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Still, Bale has a couple of nice moments as Mandras, a Greek fisherman who loses his fiancée (Penelope Cruz) to a mandolin-playing pacifist (Cage, of course) but, all told, is pretty reasonable about it.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026

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