Example sentences for: all-purpose

How can you use “all-purpose” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They argued that as long as governments themselves followed stable policies--and as long as the economy was sufficiently "flexible" (the all-purpose answer to economic difficulties)--there would be few serious recessions.

  • The reductio ad absurdum of this move is the common declarative Fuck that shit! , where an all-purpose verb and an all-inclusive noun stand in for all manner of once-current idioms, including the hell with .

  • That tone would have been a snap for Kubrick in the days of The Killing (1956), Lolita (1962), and Dr. Strangelove (1964), and a stretch after 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), when his storytelling acquired an all-purpose lugubriousness.

  • This all-purpose Republican frame posits that the Senate is Clinton's jury and should behave accordingly.

  • It's amazing that Mendes and Ball get away with recycling so many stale and reactionary ideas under the all-purpose rubric of "black comedy."


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