for all


Also, for all that. In spite of, notwithstanding. For example, For all her protests she still loved the attention, or He's too old for the part but he did a good job for all that. [Early 1300s]

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How to use for all in a sentence

  • It was nearly eleven o'clock when the free-for-all running race was announced.

    The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • The method pursued was to read a chapter, and follow with a free-for-all exposition of it.

    Around Old Bethany | Robert Lee Berry
  • The most exciting feature of this weekly frivolity consisted of a free-for-all exercise in mental arithmetic.

  • I wondered about Marian; somehow I still don't like seeing a woman tangled up in a free-for-all.

    Highways in Hiding | George Oliver Smith
  • The Virginia reel was a marvel of supple, exaggerated grace and the quadrille looked like a free-for-all for unbroken colts.

    Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up | Clarence Edward Mulford