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Example sentences for "too often"

  • He looked on life as a farce,--though he too often made it a tragedy.

  • Not as we've too often come to think of it.

  • The trouble, too often, is that he does not realize that he must work to please this new audience.

  • And then Mr. Andrews, too often, goes stiffly through a scene from a play, or gives a dramatic recitation.

  • And the awakening is an ugly process enough, too often.

  • It seemed to Richard, as he rode homeward, that human justice is too often a very comedy of injustice.

  • Let your pupil therefore know something of the lot of man and the woes of his fellow-creatures, but let him not see them too often.

  • Amid the uncertainty of human life, let us shun that false prudence which seeks to sacrifice the present to the future; what is, is too often sacrificed to what will never be.

  • Unaccustomed to that accuracy of thought, which is too often sneered at by Gibbon as 'metaphysical subtlety,' all of which they would have been aware was the change of a few letters in a creed written in an unknown tongue.

  • It seemed to them, too often, to be not only natural, but spiritual also, and therefore just and right.

  • When prepared in the rough-and-ready manner of burning sugar in a spoon, as is too often practised in English kitchens, this desideratum is never attained, as you are bound to impart sweetness in addition to a burnt flavour.

  • Too often adulteration is a deliberate form of robbery.

  • Too often I am captive led, Yet daily triumph in my Head.

  • Too often, however, publicity is given to the lives of men splendid in acts of mighty mischief, in whom the secret exercises of the heart would not bear a scrutiny.

  • Too often, however, flowers are seen which are a mere caricature of what Asters may become in the hands of men who understand their requirements.

  • Although they afford a great bulk of blanched material, it is too often destitute of flavour, or altogether objectionable.

  • This religion of mere negation, expulsion, and restraint is too often presented to the mind.

  • A maiden would have been blind indeed had she not been able to read the riddle of Van Berg's ardent friendship now, and Ida had seen that expression too often not to know its meaning well.

  • Resignation is too often conceived to be merely a submission not unattended with complaint to what we have no power to avoid.

  • Not that I see folly in the fact of playing cards, but it is too often accompanied by a dissipated spirit.

  • It's too often a lying rainbow painted on the dark mist of ignorance by the devil's own artist.

  • Too often, after much sugar-coated deception, and many premeditated misdeals on both sides, one draws a blank and the other a booby.

  • In the mad rush for advanced technique, the soul of music it is meant to convey is, alas, too often forgotten.

  • He's had the advantage of me too often before.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "too often" 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:
    implied powers; independent company; rather small; recent times; too great; too well; took another; took away; took down; took from; took her; took him; took leave; took little; took occasion; took orders; took pains; took pity; took place; took pleasure; took post; took their; took upon; took upon him the; toothed wheel; you fellows