Example sentences for: be-all

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

  • We're teaching them a deliberately diminished view of human nature that has been useful in helping scientists establish long-overdue connections between human and animal psychology--but that is not the end-all and be-all of who we are, what we do, and why we do it.

  • The only explanations I can muster are that 1) I hate Kentucky basketball--Rick Pitino is so smooth it's creepy and 2) this is the NCAA tournament, the be-all and end-all for sports fanatics, an event in which no fine point is too fine, no minutia too minute.

  • The moral of this complicated picture is that SATs are not the be-all and end-all.

  • The same paper said in an editorial that the summit is "not the be-all and end-all, because even if the sides sign some sort of agreement, it will not be able to reverse in one fell swoop the feeling of alienation that prevails between them."


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