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
Recent Examples on the Web
Doing so will benefit the mental wherewithal of society all told.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
In one round, they were all told to walk as straight across as possible—or with essentially zero degrees of deviation.
—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2025
Higashioka hit 20 home runs all told, including the playoffs, and took over the starting job down the stretch.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
With 1 billion monthly podcast users, YouTube would be far bigger than Spotify, which all told had 675 million monthly active users at the end of 2024.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
In one round, they were all told to walk as straight across as possible—or with essentially zero degrees of deviation.
—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2025
Higashioka hit 20 home runs all told, including the playoffs, and took over the starting job down the stretch.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
With 1 billion monthly podcast users, YouTube would be far bigger than Spotify, which all told had 675 million monthly active users at the end of 2024.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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“All told.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20told. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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