noun
definition
(with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
example
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
definition
The totality of one's possessions.
adjective
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All gone; dead.
example
The butter is all.
adverb
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(degree) Intensifier.
example
It suddenly went all quiet.
definition
Entirely; completely; totally.
definition
Apiece; each.
example
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
definition
(degree) so much.
example
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
definition
Even; just.
pronoun
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Everything.
example
She knows all and sees all.
definition
Everyone.
example
A good time was had by all.
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The only thing(s).
example
All that was left was a small pile of ash.
definition
Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
definition
Clipping of y’all. Used only as a vocative.
conjunction
definition
Although.
Examples of all in a Sentence
First of all, I wasn't the only one involved.
I think they are all having fun with Alex.
He was the best loved of all our poets.
Truthfully, Gerald wasn't all that good a dancer.
First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are.
After all, who knows?
That's all you wanted!
But, except for these fleeting memories, if, indeed, they be memories, it all seems very unreal, like a nightmare.
I see I have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news.
All three girls laughed.
All cuddled down together and were very happy.
I confess all these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.
A few minutes later they all marched in and took their places at the table.
People on top of the earth are all meat.
They saw a mass of tough green vines all matted together and writhing and twisting around like a nest of great snakes.
You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.
It was all wishful thinking.
Then all three of them laughed heartily.
We didn't mean to keep all of you waiting.
All my money is honest.
You all better get some rest.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.
If you have an unwavering commitment to an idea that all things will be good all the time, then that is irrational.
Indeed, I owe to her loving wisdom all that was bright and good in my long night.
They have got to live a man's life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can.
She sat in my mother's lap constantly, where I used to sit, and seemed to take up all her care and time.
We are all vegetable, in this country.
All I could think about was that I had a living father-in-law.
Apparently Señor Medena and his daughters had lived here all their lives.
All of our Princes and Rulers have grown upon this one bush from time immemorial.
Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense.
Now if that's all...
He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.
All the facts are in flat contradiction to such conjectures.
I do not want all this.
Surely he doesn't make all the decisions.
A person couldn't be in control all the time - right all the time.
But you haven't been working there all that long.
It'll be all right.
The assembled nobles all took off their uniforms and settled down again in their homes and clubs, and not without some groans gave orders to their stewards about the enrollment, feeling amazed themselves at what they had done.
Blindfolded, they knocked it around for a while until it broke, spilling candy all over the floor.
Whether we want to admit it or not, we all wish everyone would like us.
That was all it took.
That's what's been bothering me all this time.
All the humor vanished from his eyes as he watched her.
All I know is what Mom and Dad taught me.
Then he just makes all the important decisions - and you have no input?
Those words stayed in her mind all afternoon.
I wish that was all she wanted.