Examples of all-purpose in a Sentence
there's nothing wrong with all-purpose flour for baking bread, but flour with more gluten is better
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Wortham earned All-Big Sky Conference honors at receiver at Eastern Washington and again for his senior season in 2025 at Montana, where the 5-8, 180-pound burner produced a school-record 2,431 all-purpose yards.
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Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
One bottle of all-purpose spray for the sink, another for the shower and another for the toilet.
—Jolie Kerr, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Some of today’s most interesting films are shot on such devices, under circumstances that corroborate their all-purpose convenience and utility.
—Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Residual stains can be cleaned with an all-purpose cleaner.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 25 Apr. 2026
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Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
One bottle of all-purpose spray for the sink, another for the shower and another for the toilet.
—Jolie Kerr, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Some of today’s most interesting films are shot on such devices, under circumstances that corroborate their all-purpose convenience and utility.
—Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Residual stains can be cleaned with an all-purpose cleaner.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 25 Apr. 2026
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“All-purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-purpose. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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