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:

  • Port d’Alcúdia has evolved from a small fishing harbor into an all-purpose port for commercial, naval, and pleasure craft (there’s a big yacht marina) and the largest summer resort in northern Mallorca.

  • Nowadays, we just say Cheers , an all-purpose word used indiscriminately.

  • However, serving as the all-purpose lawyer required Isaacman to take a bullet that never actually hit him.

  • 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 .

  • A handful of critics concede that while the film is technically excellent, it's in no way groundbreaking; rather it's simply a collection of "stale and reactionary ideas" being pawned off "under the all-purpose rubric of 'black comedy' " (David Edelstein, Slate ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review.)


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