How to use all in a sentence All means ‘every one’, ‘the complete number or amount’ or ‘the whole’ We use it most often as a determiner We can use a countable noun or an uncountable noun after it … when all refers to a whole class of people or things, we don’t use the The whole of one's fortune, resources, or energy
The brave defenders gave their all. You use all to refer to a situation or to life in general All is silent on the island now As you'll have read in our news pages, all has not been well of late. When you talk about all of one thing, you mean the whole thing When shakespeare writes, in as you like it, “ all the world's a stage,” he means the whole world.
The whole number of (used in referring to individuals or particulars, taken collectively)
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