all-consuming

adjective

: taking all of a person's time and attention : being the only thing a person thinks about

Her all-consuming passion was music.

Examples of all-consuming in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web No story in music this year has been more all-consuming than the ongoing beef between superstar rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar (and a whole lot of supporting characters) — and this week, on the chart dated May 18, the Billboard Hot 100 properly reflects the drama’s cultural dominance. —

Angel Diaz, Billboard, 14 May 2024 Gemini May 21 – June 20 Your efforts to pursue your spiritual interests may seem all-consuming at the moment. —

Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024 Without a country, the Cassar children traverse the globe, from Paris to Sydney, Havana to Toulon, seeking all-consuming love affairs, desperate to belong to someone, if not to some place. —

Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024 But the impression that Simpson’s all-consuming trial had on shaping the modern media environment cannot be overstated. —

Oliver Darcy, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024 There was no lightbulb moment, switch flick, or sudden parting of the clouds—there was just the very real, very raw, all-consuming aspects of parenthood, and space for very little else. —

Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2024 Running a restaurant kitchen is an all-consuming, life-sucking thing to do. —

Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2024 How can the world be full of people who have yet to experience such all-consuming beauty? —

Longreads, 29 Mar. 2024 Parents are going to want to protect their children from the all-consuming reality of these devices and these media platforms. —

Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024

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