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
• The sound became all-consuming, passing through his ears, his organs.
  — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
• 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
• This is an all-consuming sport; Vingegaard often swims to escape the mouth of the whale.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 21 July 2026
• 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
• 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