all told
adverb
: with everything or everyone taken into account : in all
expecting eight guests all told
Examples of all told in a Sentence
all told, we made $14.64
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So [my films] are all told from the first-person [perspective].
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Publishers Weekly found similar sales dips in other D.C. bookstores: Little District Books, East City Bookshop, Lost City Bookshop, and Kramers all told PW that sales were down.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Over the past year, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Walmart have all told employees to get back to the office.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
That would be for the sake of humanity, all told.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Publishers Weekly found similar sales dips in other D.C. bookstores: Little District Books, East City Bookshop, Lost City Bookshop, and Kramers all told PW that sales were down.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Over the past year, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Walmart have all told employees to get back to the office.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
That would be for the sake of humanity, all told.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for all told
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“All told.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20told. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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