Below you will find example sentences with "too big". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Too Big in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: too
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.5 words

Words in this phrase

too big

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • too can mean: Likewise. Common word
  • big can mean: Of great size, large. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and still too big for everybody 1× can become too big 1× clear become too big too integrated 1× for being too big too powerful 1× government is too big too bossy 1× have been too big for the 1× he looks too big a price 1× house was too big big enough 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

another explained that 1× assassin s creed 1× beyond that the 1× despite his complaints 1× if climate chaos 1× josh had a 1×

Common sentence endings:

a big wedding 1× a posh area 1× after one summer 1× and too flexible 1× become too big 1× big a price 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

people 3× facebook 3× become 3× fat 2× small 2× long 2× ask 2× government 2× good 2× regulation 2× find 2× jordan 2×

Related phrases

big ten far too too little big island too long big bear big brother big screen big sisters big tech

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around too:

too little 15× too long 12× too late 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

too afraid tony stark tony khan tony blair tony award tonight show

Just after it in the phrase index:

too busy too complicated too early too expensive too far too intense

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

too little too long too early too expensive too far too late

Same ending:

brothers big

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "too big" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and still too big for everybody, can become too big, people, facebook and become stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with big ten, far too, too little, too little, too long and too late, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with too big

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Other species were too rare, too shy or too big. (10 words)

Time to treat Facebook like big tobaccoPeople are mad at Facebook — for being too big, too powerful, too omniscient. (19 words)

It’s a question that is still too big for me and still too big for everybody,” he said. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

She added: "Throw your middle finger up to anyone who tells you your too thin, too fat, your stretch marks are ugly, your body isn’t the right shape, your boobs are too small, too big, your bums too flat or too fat or you’re too fake! (48 words)

Despite his complaints that the house was too big ("big enough for two emperors, one pope, and the grand lama in the bargain" John Whitcomb, Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence. (42 words)

Yeah, well, I talk big for someone who passed her rider safety course, bought a bike that was too big for her, scared the shiat out of herself trying to ride it on actual roads, and gave up after one summer. (41 words)

Exclamation examples

She added: "Throw your middle finger up to anyone who tells you your too thin, too fat, your stretch marks are ugly, your body isn’t the right shape, your boobs are too small, too big, your bums too flat or too fat or you’re too fake! (48 words)

Example sentences (20)

She added: "Throw your middle finger up to anyone who tells you your too thin, too fat, your stretch marks are ugly, your body isn’t the right shape, your boobs are too small, too big, your bums too flat or too fat or you’re too fake!

Assassin's Creed Odyssey wasn't just too long and too big, but it felt too big and too long for no important reason.

We should be looking at how to deal with an overcrowding island – too much people here, too much traffic, too much garbage, too big names buying up properties for $$$$$$, too much blocking of our beaches, lesser space, more congestion.

Time to treat Facebook like big tobaccoPeople are mad at Facebook — for being too big, too powerful, too omniscient.

When people ask me why I’m running for office, I tell them because government is too big, too bossy, too nosy, too intrusive.

When renowned Chicago Bulls commentator Stacey King described star point guard Derrick Rose as “Too Big, Too Strong, Too Fast, Too Good,” he had the otherworldly performances of the 2011 NBA MVP in mind.

It’s a question that is still too big for me and still too big for everybody,” he said.

If climate chaos was previously too big a subject for “serious” writers to wrestle with, it is now too big to ignore.

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Over the past couple of weeks, the Facebook war plan to resist regulation has become clear: become too big, too integrated and too influential to be broken up by regulation or politics.

Other species were too rare, too shy or too big.

It'll be a big ask to find the three lengths judged on that, but plenty can change over this flying six and he looks too big a price.

Josh had a big red drum hooked that we lost boat side that probably would have been too big for the 18″ to 27″ slot.

We had a great date but then it was getting too big, we didn’t want a big wedding.

Yeah, well, I talk big for someone who passed her rider safety course, bought a bike that was too big for her, scared the shiat out of herself trying to ride it on actual roads, and gave up after one summer.

There are sight gags (Martin in clothes too big) and awkward moments (little Jordan pawing big Jordan’s boyfriend).

Despite his complaints that the house was too big ("big enough for two emperors, one pope, and the grand lama in the bargain" John Whitcomb, Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence.

And if they’re forced in too violently, or if the holes are aggressively sanded out, the holes can become too big.

Another explained that it has "beautiful towns, not too big and not too small, very nice people, good architecture and a few but nice pubs", however, they warned that it is not a "posh area".

Back in the heady days of the 90s techno-libertarians looked forward to an era when free speech would flourish as government couldn’t monitor everything on the web; it was too big and too flexible.

Beyond that, the knee-jerk reaction of too many politicians and regulators seems to be "they're too big, they must be doing something illegal" is something I find appalling.

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