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

Too Old in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: old
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.7 words

Words in this phrase

too old

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • too can mean: Likewise. Common word
  • old can mean: Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

agency are too old or too 1× already be too old and too 1× are slightly too old and too 1× biden is too old and too 1× biden is too old but 62 1× biden is too old to be 1× céline and too old for drake 1× he is too old and too 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

bebe rexha is 1× consequently their patronage 1× doing the best 1× first you can 1× hannah now 23 1× he continued honestly 1×

Common sentence endings:

and too incompetent 1× and too old 1× around my crush 1× be fully convincing 1× cannon like kennedy 1× care too much 1×

Context words

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

young 6× year 5× biden 3× president 3× told 3× services 3× either 2× say 2× years 2× feel 2× makeup 2× look 2×

Related phrases

years old far too old notes too little too big too long too early too expensive little too too far

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around old:

old english 9× old man 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

too narrow too long too little too late too intense too far

Just after it in the phrase index:

too pic too seriously too slow too soon too tired too weak

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

too little too big too long too early too expensive too far

Same ending:

years old same old

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "too old" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as agency are too old or too, already be too old and too, young, year and biden stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with years old, far too, old notes, old english and old man, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with too old

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

Short example sentences

Joe Biden is too old and too incompetent. (8 words)

He continued: "Honestly, I am too old at this point to care too much. (14 words)

And I am too old to get another full-time job and too young to retire. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

In a released the day before the debate, about 70% of voters said they believed the 81-year-old Biden is too old to be president again, compared to 40% who feel the same way about the 78-year-old Trump. (41 words)

Hannah, now 23, was turned away by both children’s and adult services when she was 17. “My GP was repeatedly told that I was too old for children services but too young for adult services,” she said. (38 words)

I'm told I dress too old and I'm too young, criticised for how I do hair and makeup because it ages me, and I'm told I would look better with less makeup. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

I was too old to wear Harry Potter T-shirts, too old to be in the school musical and too old to be acting that foolishly around my crush.

Consequently, their patronage comes very largely from those who cannot drive, either because they are too young, too old, or because they are too poor to own and operate an automobile.

Also: among the respondents addressing the age issue, 68% say Biden is too old, but 62% say Trump is too old.

However, Hughes was a month shy of 78 years old, and was deemed too old and too frail to be a wartime Prime Minister.

In a released the day before the debate, about 70% of voters said they believed the 81-year-old Biden is too old to be president again, compared to 40% who feel the same way about the 78-year-old Trump.

The 78-year-old Trump spent a lot of time the 81-year-old President as “too old” to be president.

Bebe Rexha is only 29 years old, and doesn't have time for old-fashioned thinkers who believe that late 20s is considered too old to be sexy.

He is too old and too feeble to stand up to any questioning, let alone standing up to a loose cannon like Kennedy.

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I'm told I dress too old and I'm too young, criticised for how I do hair and makeup because it ages me, and I'm told I would look better with less makeup.

He continued: "Honestly, I am too old at this point to care too much.

Joe Biden is too old and too incompetent.

They could look in free agency for help, but many of the options that are projected to be available come free agency are too old or too expensive.

Too old for TikTok and too young for a property portfolio, 35-year-olds must do the only thing left available: run from their problems by participating in half-marathons.

And I am too old to get another full-time job and too young to retire.

Sure, it’s a bit too Lethal Weapon “I’m too old for this shit” at times, although that’s unavoidable in a cop buddy movie of this ilk.

There have been theories that the Apple Watch Series 3 hardware might already be too old and too weak to support the advanced watchOS 7 features.

Too young for Céline and too old for Drake, it feels inauthentic if we like either .

Doing the best I could to get over wet rocks and navigate steep inclines quickly, I would feel the dull panic of being too slow and too old.

First, you can cast actual teenagers in all their awkward glory, not a bunch of actors who are slightly too old and too polished to be fully convincing.

Hannah, now 23, was turned away by both children’s and adult services when she was 17. “My GP was repeatedly told that I was too old for children services but too young for adult services,” she said.

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