Sentence examples for all the marbles from inspiring English sources
noun
Everything; all that is to be had
- After a day's worth of events, it came down to one last match
"This is for all the marbles".
"Freight railroads had all the marbles".
And it's something when it's for all the marbles".
This is it; you're playing for all the marbles.
We know it's crunch time and it's for all the marbles".
One set for all the marbles – and $1.9 million to pay for them.
Much to Price's relief, however, when darkness halted an all-the-marbles playoff between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, the matches were declared a draw and the teams shared the Cup glory that year.
It was a go-for-all-the-marbles approach.
It threw all of its darts on the bulls'-eye, shot all of the marbles out of the ring, played intensely and beat ailing Connecticut, 65-51, before 16,108 fans in the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.
"All the marble -- maybe that's the Greek side of me," Mr. Anastassiades said.
"If you were to try to save it, all the marble would have to be removed and reattached, which would be a tremendous undertaking," Ms. Hotchner said.
