How to Use one too many in a Sentence
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That changed after one too many New York colleagues asked if she was related to the notorious gangster.
—Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
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When two or more metrics are outside of the normal range, the app will notify users and give some extra context as to what may have caused the changes (e.g., illness, one too many drinks at an event, etc.).
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 June 2024
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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
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Then again, there’s that old saying about going to the well one too many times.
—cleveland, 21 Jan. 2023
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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
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No one wants to rehash things — living life twice is one too many times.
—Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
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No one wants to rehash things — living life twice is one too many times.
—Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
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A lot of my friends have other diseases, and one too many have killed themselves.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
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Not to mention the dark, tired under-eyes that come from one too many long travel days.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023
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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
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Sometimes pinning it on them for crimes such as having one too many joints on them.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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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
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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
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Still, one final hop on the Convair felt like one too many for most in their entourage.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
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If Quantrill is activated, the Guardians will have one too many arms in the rotation.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
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After one too many taunts, Everett charged across a table at Rome.
—Sophia Sun, Variety, 19 July 2023
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It's been one too many cruel summers since Taylor Swift last went on tour.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
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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
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Mark Consuelos has been stumped one too many times by Jane Krakowski.
—EW.com, 13 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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Are two point guards with wildly divergent styles one too many?
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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One-on-one with Blanchette, Trejo made one too many passes and lost possession.
—Eli McKown, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2023
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One-on-one with Blanchette, Trejo made one too many passes and lost possession.
—Eli McKown, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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