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
Love is an experience so all-consuming and strange that we need all the help we can get.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Like a sleepaway camp that feels all-consuming at the time but vanishes from memory as soon as school starts again.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
