10 examples of cure-all in sentences

A highly radioactive and dangerous substance, radium was being treated as a miracle medicine that had been hailed as a cure-all for anything!

It never occurred to the others to let her sit without eating, once, as a cure-all.

Some forms of this drug are found in nearly all the various patent medicines so freely sold as a cure-all for every mortal disease.

While the active-minded portion of society believed ardently in progressive evolution, in the sufficiency of the intellect, the inerrancy of the scientific method, and the transmission by inheritance of acquired characteristics, this supreme confidence in free, secular, compulsory education as the cure-all of the profuse and pervasive ills of society was not only natural but inevitable.

There is, to be sure, no cure-all.

[Superstitious remedies] snake oil, spider webs, cure-all; laetrile; charm &c 993. V. preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice; not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe &c 664; take care of &c (care) 459; guard &c (defend)

There were forty or fifty kinds of simples and curiosities, cure-alls, and specifics.

There can be no legislative cure-all for great political evils, but legislation can make easier the effective expression and execution of the popular will.

Adorine's family, Acadian peasants though they were, knew as much about it as any one else, and all that any one knows about it is that marriage is the cure-all, and the only cure-all, for love.

Adorine's family, Acadian peasants though they were, knew as much about it as any one else, and all that any one knows about it is that marriage is the cure-all, and the only cure-all, for love.

10 examples of  cure-all  in sentences