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.

  • Prominent religious leaders, more secure with maintaining a Jewish identity in America, now urged schools to let Jews abstain from yuletide celebrations or to provide all-purpose holiday parties instead.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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