Used in a Sentence

everything

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for everything.

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A big part of the difficulty is that you truly can't be everything for everyone, but you really need to be something for anyone.

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Quick take

(ambitransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of everything gathered in one view.

verb

(ambitransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for everything.

verb

(ambitransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.

Example sentences

1

A big part of the difficulty is that you truly can't be everything for everyone, but you really need to be something for anyone.

2

If everything is to go electric, will there be charging stations every 15 feet along every sidewalk?

3

They'll likely get retweets and replies to virtually everything they post - but may not even read any of it.

4

You’ll be leading our frontend team and working closely with our product team to ensure everything runs smooth and looks great.

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Sure but then every analysis is flawed because everything has some kind of externality that's hard to measure and account for.

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It's a very small (but well funded) team so everyone contributes in everything.

7

It certainly doesn't appear to be the case that America's federal administration has anything but sycophantic praise for everything that Silicon Valley does.

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We're also pretty big on education, we don't expect any new team member to know everything.

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Our core platform is open source, and we're working on open sourcing everything else we do.

10

Pretty much have everything I can do right now I can do while rich beyond saving for money for eventual retirement.

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Pretty much any computer built in the last decade has been fast enough to do everything I need without making me wait.

12

Opportunity to get involved with everything, should you want to.

Quote examples

1

So they basically say "we Google define the law" for everything that is "out" of your country.

2

You're right that "everything is an object" is not the most performant way to build a runtime, but it suits the purposes for which Ruby was designed very well.

Proper noun examples

1

Everything else is too rare to worry about.

2

Everything else Google does is cover fire.[3] What I'm really asking is, why can't I name a single pure play search company other than Google?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use everything in a sentence?

A big part of the difficulty is that you truly can't be everything for everyone, but you really need to be something for anyone.

What does everything mean?

(ambitransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.

What part of speech is everything?

everything is commonly used as verb.