How to Use the mother of all in a Sentence

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• This is the mother of all waves.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026
• This is the mother of all choke points.
  — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• No whining about measly travel headaches with the mother of all bad-trip sagas looming on the big screen.
  — Alex Pulaski, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
• What could so easily have been a tense evening turned into the mother of all parties.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• That would have to go through Congress and survive the mother of all budget fights.
  — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024
• Grab your ketchup and mustard, because the mother of all hot dog-eating contests is here.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 June 2024
• The stage is set for the mother of all double features — light and dark, toys and boys, bombshell and bombshell.
  — Jason Frank, Vulture, 14 July 2023
• But its expiry brought the mother of all lockouts, when the owners dug in on their demands for a hard-cap system.
  — Carol Schram, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• The queen is also typically the mother of all or mostly all of the honeybees in the hive.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2023
• Gaia, the Greek goddess of Earth, was worshipped as the mother of all creation.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2025
• Re-creating that on earth has proved the mother of all engineering problems.
  — Harry Booth, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
• But the mother of all award shows is the Oscars, where the all-star Hollywood glamour always comes out to play.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 11 Mar. 2024
• It’s known as la madre de todos los chiles, or the mother of all peppers, because all capsicum can trace their genetic origins to this one tiny pepper.
  — Von Diaz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Dec. 2025
• And so a day that started in the relative oasis of a picturesque tennis court ends with the bedlam of a city gearing up for the mother of all parties.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 1 June 2025
• For the Ancient Greek philosopher, the mother of all virtues was phronesis, or practical wisdom.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 2 June 2025
• While these antics would lead to the mother of all ass-beatings back home in Arkansas, the hunters here in Australia have no choice but to grin and bear it.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2024
• The 46-year-old Louisiana native and first-time head coach was presiding over the mother of all youth movements.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2023
• Here, in the mother of all stadia, the Yanks will roll to World Series championship number 21.
  — Bob Brody, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2024
• Righty Calvin Faucher was summoned to try and pull the mother of all escapes, but Story knocked one through the right side to send the fans home happy.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• Even the mother of all transit names, London’s Underground, has a problematic name.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• Within this container of cruelty, amid atrocities born of the mother of all atrocities, there was always music.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Schwarzenegger even went so far to trick Stallone into doing the mother of all turkeys, 1992's Stop!
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2023
• Of course, Michael Jordan and the Bulls had the mother of all rivalries with the Detroit Pistons back in the day.
  — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• That’s what Al Jolson said in The Jazz Singer (1927), the mother of all talking films.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
• As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of all invention and Activate is testimony to this.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• This year at Series Mania, the mother of all deal announcements was made by two of the biggest public broadcasters in Europe.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
• Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday threw the mother of all reunions to celebrate 20 years on ABC.
  — The Deadline Tv Team, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
• As such, States and experts have been looking into other options to ensure that the mother of all crimes in Ukraine - the crime of aggression - does not escape accountability.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
• The 16th century literary classic Journey to the West is the mother of all Chinese fantasy.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
• In real football, Leicester City pulled off the mother of all sports miracles by winning the Premier League in 2016.
  — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2025