all kinds of

1. Also, . All or many varieties of something, as in Before the banquet, they served all kinds of drinks , or He sold exotic fruit of all sorts , or The museum featured all manner of artifacts . [Early 1300s]

2. A large amount of something, as in She has all kinds of money . This hyperbolic usage is colloquial.

Example Sentences

“I hope you have not been reading the newspapers, Penny! They seem to print all kinds of inaccuracies nowadays.”

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“There’s one thing that I really want to do, one thing I really want to see. Something I’ve read about. A place filled with contemporary sights and sounds and teenagers and everyday, ordinary life. A place where you can get anything you need in the 1990s and find all kinds of things you didn’t know you needed. A place where people shop in real life, in real places,” he said.

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“We have all kinds of medicine. Right, Michael? Doesn’t your mom have Nyquil or something?”

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"There are all kinds of plans still being published," he says, "including an artificial intelligence plan and a smart manufacturing plan. However, the mother of all plans is the 15th five-year plan."

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She said she wanted to “write a story about social movements more broadly that could be applicable to all kinds of fights, and that people in all kinds of movements for freedom can see themselves in this story — men, women, everybody.”

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