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Even, more so, as in Painting the room white will make it all the lighter, or They liked her all the better for not pretending, or You don't care for dessert? Good, all the more for us. Used to underscore a comparison, this idiom was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It (1:2): “All the better; we shall be the more marketable.” [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see so much the.

The entire amount of, as in These cousins were all the family he had. In this usage all the is short for all of the. [Ninth century a.d.]

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How to use all the in a sentence

But once EV-68 fizzles out, surely something new will fill its place in the rabid 24-hour all-crisis-all-the-time news cycle.
Midwest's 'Mystery Virus' Is Scary but Not Deadly|Kent Sepkowitz|September 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The death carried an all-the-more-powerful message because Julius Caesar was famously merciful to defeated enemies.
Who Was the Real Cato?|David Frum|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Still there was something endearing about his total, damn-all-the-evidence conviction.
Mitt Romney’s Delusions of Victory|Matt Latimer|November 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Not from this class, however, do your all-the-year-round bathers come.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies

And then Santa Barbara, peerless among all-the-year-round resorts.
The Road of a Thousand Wonders|Passenger Dept. Southern Pacific Co
It has durable imitation leather covering, metal parts are nickeled and it offers the daylight-all-the-way feature of the Kodaks.
Kodaks and Kodak Supplies, 1914|Canadian Kodak Company
Several recreation centers, all-the-year-round playgrounds, have been added since then.
What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr
Practice alone can make perfect, and experience is the more necessary because the cinematograph is an all-the-year-round machine.
Practical Cinematography and Its Applications|Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot