all-encompassing
taking in or including everything; comprehensive, universal, or all-embracing: The diner features an all-encompassing menu, including breakfast, brunch, lunch, snacks, cocktails, and dinner, in a range of cuisines.
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How to use all-encompassing in a sentence
Not literally, but that was the impression I got; the hug was all-encompassing compassion, forgiveness and acceptance.
Heroin users describe the high as a feeling of all-encompassing well being.
Instead, he prefers to avoid that all-encompassing, data-friendly approach and go from the gut.
David Simon Says ‘The Wire’ Wouldn’t Survive on TV Today | Alex Suskind | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd that really encapsulates the pure spirit of all Icelanders: an all-encompassing passion that permeates everything they do.
Don meets Joy on a California business trip in Season 2, and they embark on an extremely brief, sunny, all-encompassing affair.
Every Woman Don Draper’s Hooked Up With on ‘Mad Men’ | Amy Zimmerman | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Socialism would introduce, indeed, the most vexatious and all-encompassing absolutist government ever invented.
Contemporary Socialism | John RaeWhat she was doing was not of herself; she had been moved to it by all-encompassing influences above, around, and beneath.
Pierre; or The Ambiguities | Herman MelvilleInside the all-encompassing, roasting grid of the melting suit, Lonnie writhed.
Zero Data | Charles SaphroNo one to kneel beside him and pray for light in that awful, all-encompassing dark!
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories | Ethel M. DellFor a brief moment he succeeded, then the grayness moved in like an all-encompassing curtain.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
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