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Example sentences for "only too"

  • But if Percivale wouldn't mind my going with you instead of with him, I should be only too happy to accompany you.

  • The old Adam is only too glad to get a word in, if even in behalf of his supplanting successor.

  • I shall be only too glad to have the humblest share in any thing you draw me into," said Roger.

  • He laughed, and said it would be a very desirable measure, only too great an interference with the liberty of the subject.

  • He imitated the gestures and ways of women to perfection, and not a few women would be only too glad to be like him.

  • If I have in the past been able to be of any little service to Lady Heyburn, I assure you I am only too delighted.

  • If I can do anything to assist you I am only too ready.

  • What this man said was, he knew within his own heart, only too true of the girl towards whom they had been so cruel and so unscrupulous.

  • The senator and his wife were only too glad to quit Egypt.

  • He found it only too easy to sing her praises; but as he did so with growing enthusiasm Katharina hit him on the arm exclaiming, half in jest and half seriously vexed: "Oh, she is a goddess!

  • What those wishes were Katharina knew only too well; the probability of their accomplishment had roused her fierce jealousy and made her hate Heliodora.

  • Yes, she is only too glad to lay all the blame on you.

  • Be quite easy, dear mamma," said Wenceslas, only too glad to see this critical moment end happily.

  • Baron to himself, only too certain of an intruder in the temple.

  • No necessity; he will be only too glad to get rid of the penniless brute.

  • If you do, I assure you I shall be only too glad.

  • Sally is dining here to-night; she is only too anxious to talk of her sister.

  • La Valliere, "it is only too true, my cause is a bad one, and I cannot tell in what way to begin.

  • But a common soldier would, of course, be only too delighted at having been selected by M.

  • It has been brought home to me only too painfully of late.

  • Now, when it was too late, he saw, only too clearly, her startled white face and quivering lips, and the way she had shrunk against the wall.

  • She had said at once that they must have Felix to stay, and for her part she would be only too glad to do anything she could for those poor children of Tod's, even to asking them to Becket, and trying to civilize them a little.

  • Any time you want to know anything--I'll be only too glad.

  • However, after the awful possibility, or rather certainty, that we have had to face of not getting any story at all, I am only too thankful.

  • He said he should be only too glad to thank you again, when I asked him to come and judge of what you were really like in your own lodging.

  • But, if an opportunity occurs, one is only too happy to seize it; then one has an excuse with which to silence one's conscience.

  • The sigh signified: "It's all clear--only too evident.

  • He will be only too happy to receive Mademoiselle Claire without a dowry.

  • If you need any help in getting together evidence, Mr. Carton, I shall be only too glad to help you.

  • Nervously we set our names to the thing, only too eager to keep the secret if we could further the case on which we had been almost literally sweating blood so long.

  • If I can be only a small cog on a wheel that crushes them, I shall be only too glad.

  • I should be only too delighted if that were possible, since I perceive that you, an aged and respected gentleman, are suffering for your own goodness of heart.

  • I should be only too glad if I could feel less acutely, if I could take things less to heart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only 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:
    ever did; human labor; literary works; office again; only another; only answer; only fancy; only four; only hope; only laughed; only look; only meant; only more; only necessary; only right; only temporary; only the; only then; only thirty; only this; only three; only too; only used; only want; only wished; voluntary action