How to Use too in a Sentence

too

adverb
  • The soup is too hot.
  • I want to go too!
  • I have too much to do.
  • The offer was too good to refuse.
  • You gave me too many cards.
  • This shirt is way too big for me.
  • He works much too hard.
  • We are selling the house and the furniture too.
  • She is much too young to be watching this movie.
  • He saw something, and she saw it too.
  • But, the study found, there can be too much of a good thing.
    Nancy Clanton, ajc, 2 Apr. 2021
  • It’s not the time to hold our heads too high right now.
    Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2021
  • And Democrats are likely to get the blame for that, too.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Just stay with it and try not to make too many changes.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Dew points in the teens and 20s mean that this air mass is quite dry, too.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The kids love this time away, and my husband and I do, too.
    Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • O’Malley, for his part, prefers not to think too much about any of it.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
  • The woman wrapped in a sheet for warmth was saved, too.
    Mackenzie Happe and Zoë Todd, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • And be sure to check out all our past Five on Five, too.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 25 May 2018
  • The 22-ounce bottle is nice too, and will last you awhile.
    Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe a year is too much time to wait in a shipping crate.
    Dina Nayeri, Time, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Ellen did the same thing with Oprah, too—at a grocery store.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2018
  • There, too, are the ones who stayed — some now on their third Auburn head coach.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • Make sure their hips can move and that the blanket is not too tight.
    Samson McDougall, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But none of the fans or parents seemed to care too much which team won.
    oregonlive, 12 July 2020
  • These two have lost enough to have to lose each other too.
    Jodi Walker, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The heel isn’t too tall, adding 1.5 inches of height and the wedges come in black, tan, and blue colors.
    Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2023
  • There’s a lot of product out there, some would say too much.
    refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
  • Life’s too short to debate how a person enjoys his or her meals.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The grass has grown, too, in New Orleans—so much so that in one of Nasseri’s photographs the bottom of a welcome sign by the side of a thoroughfare is obscured by it.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024

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