How to Use only too in a Sentence

only too

idiom
Definition of only toonext
  • There will be plenty who will be only too happy to say goodbye to the grimness of 2020.
    — Rich Barak, ajc, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Like the hairs on your head, brows come in all shapes, sizes, textures, and colors – something a brow artist knows only too well.
    — Fiona Embleton, Allure, 14 June 2022
  • But in a way, friends said, that seems fitting for a man who was only too comfortable with loose ends.
    — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • For the moment at least, some comic-book fans are only too happy to tune out all the drama around Miller.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • And the companies that push the solution are only too willing to abuse it.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Once Corvette customers got a taste of the awesome sauce that was the C5 Z06, Chevy was only too keen to follow it up with an even tastier one.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Anne Elliot, one of Austen’s most mature heroines, is only too aware of this.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022
  • Most landowners are only too happy of get rid of a few coyotes in winter, when the cows are in feedlots.
    — Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Readers were only too happy to point to their favorite places, when asked to do so by AL.com on social media.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 7 July 2023
  • For a company that has been laser-focused on engagement and time spent, the deal is only too logical.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
  • Conner's teammates were only too happy to help their teammate meet and exceed goals.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Sampling Qatar means sampling its history, and Qataris are only too happy to share.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And in a country where the per capita gross income is just $800 a year, Joseph worries many people will be only too willing to turn in their neighbors if the bounty is right.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Or maybe this is just an industry that is only too happy to take public dollars, but when push comes to shove cares more about Louisville and Belmont than Charm City.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • For him, an adult is merely a corrupted child, who has availed himself of the weapons—and then the crutches—with which society is only too happy to supply him.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Companies still largely embrace this arc, and are only too ready to nudge people out post-50, labelled over-the-hill and too expensive.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But there is another Eric, one only Vincent can see — a metaphor for his doubts and failures, one only too happy to remind him of them.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
  • As such, Ring has aggressively courted the police, who have been only too happy to add the cameras to their arsenal of crime-fighting tools.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • Mental health is a taboo subject in many South Asian families (otherwise only too happy to talk about their success in health care).
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • This will be hard for an Israeli public that had grown comfortable with the idea that Palestine is not only too hard to solve, but also a problem that doesn’t need to be solved, a problem behind walls.
    — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Unsurprisingly, country labels were only too happy to take part in the show.
    — Mike Wass, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Fans are encouraged to think like front office bosses, and the media is only too happy to provide a steady diet of fodder for discussion.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Same with Tim Lambert, who is only too happy to publicize Arthur's handiwork.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
  • Millions of Angelenos were only too happy to forget that the river even existed.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Presidents know only too well that when one national security threat is extinguished, the next is just over the horizon.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Kundera himself understood this only too well, and his work remains a testament to the writer’s stubborn struggle to survive.
    — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Newsom’s camp will be only too happy to link Faulconer to Trump at every opportunity.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Some soap varieties may contain ingredients known to affect LCD screens and a sudsy mix is not only too wet, but won't evaporate quickly enough to safely be used on a laptop screen.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Allowing two-tier health care would thus create a kind of medicare death spiral—one that some provincial governments, looking to solve a budget crunch, might be only too happy to help bring about.
    — Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • That’s something one Centennial family knows only too well.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 14 June 2024

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