How to Use too little, too late in a Sentence
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The homer was Flores’ first of the season and the 150th of his career but proved to be too little, too late.
— Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 4 May 2024 -
But the run was too little, too late; the Cardinals lost 67-66.
— Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2022 -
The most substantial one is that the U.S. campaign against isis was a case of too little, too late.
— Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021 -
But the late-January event last year was too little, too late.
— The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024 -
But some writers were quick to dismiss it as too little, too late.
— Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024 -
But one half of net carbon emission by 2050 is far too little, too late.
— Sheila Thorne, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024 -
But those efforts now seem likely to be too little, too late.
— Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024 -
His absence raises the prospect of a timid Fed doing too little, too late to do any real good.
— John S. Tobey, Forbes, 15 July 2023 -
For some, then, Michelin’s arrival feels like too little, too late.
— Vivian Song, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2022 -
The late flurry turned out to be too little, too late for Indiana, but head coach Rick Carlisle was pleased with his squad’s effort.
— Sam Joseph, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024 -
It feels tacked on: too little, too late, too ludicrous — the past rewritten as a form of wishful thinking.
— Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 June 2024 -
Against the weight of these troubles, Beijing’s response to date can only be described as too little, too late.
— Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024 -
Efforts to partner with dealerships at the beginning of the year proved too little, too late.
— Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 20 June 2024 -
Some Solomon Islanders feel the efforts by China’s rivals are too little, too late.
— Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022 -
Yet for some city commissioners, those changes are too little, too late.
— oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023 -
Sixty days of waiting for the construction of a pier — to respond to imminent famine — could mean too little, too late.
— Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 -
But for valley residents, that came too little, too late.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023 -
But that is too little, too late to convince advocates that the Biden administration is in the right place.
— Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 8 May 2023 -
But that was basically it until two 3s that were too little, too late.
— Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024 -
However, its 18-point halftime deficit proved to be too large of a gap to close and its second half improvements were too little, too late.
— Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023 -
The late-season adjustments could feel like too little, too late for a defense that has been spiraling for weeks.
— Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023 -
Other consider the campaign and Biden’s ramped-up schedule too little, too late.
— Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 8 July 2024 -
Any successful adjustments Kidd finds for Game 4 will be too little, too late.
— Matias Grez, CNN, 14 June 2024 -
The Yankees’ offense provided too little, too late in what was a lifeless display for most of the night in front of a sellout crowd in their 3-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.
— James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024 -
But that angle is developed too little, too late to seem more than a modish afterthought.
— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2024 -
While officials promise the new aid will be offered to as many survivors as legally possible, some worry that the money is too little, too late.
— Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024 -
But others say the federal government is doing too little, too late.
— Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2022 -
Still, To Leslie made barely a peep when it was released in October and had been ignored by all the major precursors, leading most pundits to believe the Twitter blitz would be too little, too late.
— Vulture, 24 Jan. 2023 -
In a video posted later that day by Unfiltered, Kaylee and her mother responded, saying that St. Pierre’s apology was too little, too late.
— Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023 -
But these concessions are too little, too late for some community members.
— Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2023
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