How to Use all-consuming in a Sentence

all-consuming

adjective
  • The crush of death is still raw, but not quite all-consuming.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The sport is all-consuming among fans across the nation.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The darkness around here can feel all-consuming.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Hinch knows the criticism that comes with an all-consuming job.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • An ever-present veil would fail to conceal the wife’s all-consuming grief.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • His back pain became all-consuming.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Directing a film can feel like an all-consuming job, a true labor of love.
    — Stuart Miller, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But the industry no longer plays an all-consuming role in the state, and its future is in flux.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Making the album was a labor of love, an all-consuming project that stretched over two years.
    — Desiree Ibekwe, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • In fact, for a time his hopes to play pro baseball seemed more a vague yearning than some sort of all-consuming quest.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Running a restaurant kitchen is an all-consuming, life-sucking thing to do.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Wondering whether your bond might be a little too all-consuming?
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 19 June 2025
  • Writing is just an all-consuming passion.
    — Gillian Telling, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • For me, filmmaking and acting is an all-consuming process.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Resistance can feel all-consuming as the sun squares off with Pluto.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But love—even in its most genuine, heartfelt, all-consuming form—does not cure mental illness.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 May 2023
  • How can the world be full of people who have yet to experience such all-consuming beauty?
    — Longreads, 29 Mar. 2024
  • How can the world be full of people who have yet to experience such all-consuming beauty?
    — Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The gloom of existence shades youbet’s songs, no doubt, but the tension and noise don’t feel all-consuming.
    — Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
  • But after that, the all-consuming feeling of having been a part of the world stage receded.
    — SELF, 11 June 2024
  • My all-consuming fear appeared to satisfy him.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • It could be interpreted as a symbol of the all-consuming nature of grief.
    — Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The Faustian-bargain hunter, a third Goethean type, strikes a deal whose cost is all-consuming.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The rivalry against Ohio State can be all-consuming.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The crash was Skye's rock bottom, forcing her to get sober and attempt to cope with her all-consuming grief and guilt.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • First of all, the reality of caring for a newborn is all-consuming.
    — Parents, 25 June 2026
  • The feeling that time is running out can be suffocating and all-consuming.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 11 May 2025
  • This all-consuming love, thwarted in the book by circumstances, has flourished beyond its pages.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • His life, therefore, is a juggling act while training for the Olympics, which is all-consuming at the moment.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Much has been made of the ways in which social-media sites made internet life compulsive and all-consuming.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024

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