Example sentences for: all-out

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

  • From late 1963 to early 1965, Logevall claims, the Johnson administration faced a deliberate choice about whether it should raise or lower the stakes in Vietnam: Make it an all-out test of will, which it became, or look for an excuse to leave--perhaps with the claim that the regime in the South had become too ill-behaved to be worth further U.S. support or lives.

  • Our recommendation to leave counterterrorism intelligence collection in the United States with the FBI still depends on an assessment that the FBI-if it makes an all-out effort to institutionalize change-can do the job.

  • This summer, hostilities approached all-out war between India and Pakistan, as the nations' armies traded shots over the cease-fire line.

  • A WP "Style" section piece says that British newspapers still carry on in "all-out wretched-excess mode" about Princess Diana, almost a year after her death.

  • At the very least, I believe, their presence would have effectively deterred the North Vietnamese from an all-out attack.


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