Words similar to all-purpose

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:

In the last few years, the expression one-liner has developed into an all-purpose usage.
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.)
But Pearce makes Exley a stuck-up, repressed little prig who issues orders wearing an all-purpose smirk on his rigidly chiseled face.
This all-purpose Republican frame posits that the Senate is Clinton's jury and should behave accordingly.
To make our pages more attractive, we had been using quotation marks and apostrophes that curl left or right, as appropriate, rather than all-purpose marks that are straight vertical.