How to Use one too many in a Sentence

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• And in the fifth game of the second set, Kovinic sent one too many forehands long.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• Then again, there’s that old saying about going to the well one too many times.
  — cleveland, 21 Jan. 2023
• The Office, Grace & Frankie) pumps the brakes one too many times to make way for a teachable moment.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• No one wants to rehash things — living life twice is one too many times.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• No one wants to rehash things — living life twice is one too many times.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• A lot of my friends have other diseases, and one too many have killed themselves.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• Not to mention the dark, tired under-eyes that come from one too many long travel days.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023
• There was the player whose breath reeked of one too many beers when Maddon visited him on the mound.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• But the man guarding him keeps fouling; after one too many, Eubank snaps, grabs him by the shoulders, and throws him to the ground.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• But Monty’s yelling is tinged with the weariness of having tried a trick one too many times and still being doomed to try again.
  — Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
• Still, one final hop on the Convair felt like one too many for most in their entourage.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• If Quantrill is activated, the Guardians will have one too many arms in the rotation.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
• After one too many taunts, Everett charged across a table at Rome.
  — Sophia Sun, Variety, 19 July 2023
• It's been one too many cruel summers since Taylor Swift last went on tour.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• The Oura Ring comes with a small charging stand, and my cats have knocked it — and therefore the ring — off my nightstand and under my bed one too many times.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
• Mark Consuelos has been stumped one too many times by Jane Krakowski.
  — EW.com, 13 Feb. 2024
• At times, Leao was guilty of being too flashy, taking on one too many players instead of passing the ball on.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• And, of course, there were one too many (ie: anything more than zero) jokes about last year’s slap incident.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• Are two point guards with wildly divergent styles one too many?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Two All-Star point guards on the floor was one too many, so Westbrook volunteered to move to the bench, a move that brought the season’s tagline: sacrifice.
  — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2024
• And then there is the multitude of anonymous people who have dug their hand one too many times into the drawer where the white tablets are kept.
  — Penny Hueston, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• One-on-one with Blanchette, Trejo made one too many passes and lost possession.
  — Eli McKown, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2023
• One-on-one with Blanchette, Trejo made one too many passes and lost possession.
  — Eli McKown, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2023
• In a tweet of his own, Wright, having heard one too many of those sentiments, responded with a clip from The Pink Panther.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 3 Mar. 2022
• The trip was wonderful, but too much time in the desert sun and one too many cups of the country’s signature didn’t help with the dehydration.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2023
• The trip was wonderful, but too much time in the desert sun and one too many cups of the country’s signature didn’t help with the dehydration.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2023
• Ulseth told me that Hot Dog claimed to have confronted the carcass-discarders with a gun, after one too many goats had been dropped near his camp.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• That happened one too many times, however, and Garner dropped him with a single punch.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Mary nurses her grief with a perennial mug of whiskey and breaks down crying after one too many in the movie’s most heart-wrenching scene.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• Still, Mensah tested the patience of a bleary-eyed official who has seen one too many TSA lines and car rental counters.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024