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Example sentences for "little too"

  • Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets, which methinks is a little too much.

  • It comes now into my mind to observe that I am sensible that I have been a little too free to make mirth with the minister of our ship, he being a very sober and an upright man.

  • But she carries it just a little too far--she is a regular little actress.

  • He is a nice fellow, but a little too simple," said Adelaida, as the prince left the room.

  • He realized that he had gone a little too far.

  • Are not some of our simplified versions of the good stories of the world a little too simple?

  • But this first vision was over credulous, and a little too ambitious, the which God caused me clearly to perceive by the sequel.

  • The latter part of the phrase was just a little too much, and Aramis's former suspicions were again aroused.

  • This sentiment happened to be just a little too true, and set the daughter crying bitterly.

  • Lady Cicely thought Mrs. Staines a little too unreserved in her conversation; but was so charmed with her sweetness and freshness that she kept up the acquaintance, and called on her twice a week during the season.

  • All this seemed a little too high-flown to Mr. Lusignan.

  • But are we not a little too public in this open room?

  • Had not the people who talked so glibly of conscience and its mysterious operations spoken a little too soon?

  • That assumes that there is some connection between music and the banjo, and that's going just a little too far, don't you think?

  • We'll talk over my cases together, if they seem to run a little too close to the line.

  • He put two and two together a little too quickly.

  • He and I seem to come up against each other a little too often, as it is.

  • I tell him that he is a little too impatient.

  • He was noble, good, magnificent, ever willing to serve his friends; a little too much so, for he oftentimes wearied the King with importunities on their behalf.

  • It was a little too early to think of this.

  • Duc smiled also, and said it was a little too bad to make him the gaoler of his aunt!

  • At noon comes Mr. Sheres, whom I find a good, ingenious man, but do talk a little too much of his travels.

  • By and by the play begun, and in it nothing particular but a very fine dance for variety of figures, but a little too long.

  • A little too much, indeed, to have the opportunities opened to me by Mr and Mrs Boffin, appropriated by a mere Secretary and Pa's lodger!

  • And what was observable in the furniture, was observable in the Veneerings--the surface smelt a little too much of the workshop and was a trifle sticky.

  • Though a learned man in the law, he was a little too incredulous in other matters.

  • Well, now, that's cumin' of it a little too strong.

  • If he agrees with most of them, let him be patient with an opinion he does not accept, or an expression or illustration a little too vivacious.

  • You look as if you had kept away from Beckley a little too long.

  • You are young to the world's ways, and perhaps a little too headstrong, and vain.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little too" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little alcohol; little apart; little brook; little cinnamon; little cottage; little creek; little dark; little difficult; little flock; little hand; little horn; little jelly; little joke; little knowledge; little lake; little laugh; little lime; little love; little patience; little pieces; little season; little seasonal temperature variation; little silence; little sister; little spirits; little surprized