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

Too Slow in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: slow
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28 words

Words in this phrase

too slow

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • too can mean: Likewise. Common word
  • slow can mean: Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

at 70 too slow to outspeed 1× been far too slow 1× davis was too slow to get 1× either too slow in the 1× fast or too slow 1× for being too slow to take 1× had been too slow ms patel 1× have been too slow for too 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after mantiply entered 1× but development banks 1× doing the best 1× either too slow 1× he too small 1× his passing is 1×

Common sentence endings:

a straight line 1× and care workers 1× and too old 1× and too slow 1× arsenal s style 1× capital markets union 1×

Context words

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

people 3× get 3× fast 3× either 3× feel 3× response 2× far 2× pace 2× care 2× game 2× long 2× important 2×

Related phrases

slow down far too too little too big too long too early too expensive little too too far slow motion

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around slow:

slow down 20× slow motion 9× slow pace 9× slow start 9× slow cooker 6×

Just before it in the phrase index:

too seriously too pic too old too narrow too long too little

Just after it in the phrase index:

too soon too tired too weak took advantage took aim took off

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

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

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "too slow" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as at 70 too slow to outspeed, been far too slow, people, get and fast stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with slow down, far too, too little, slow down, slow motion and slow pace, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with too slow

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

Short example sentences

He too small, he too slow. (6 words)

His passing is slow – far too slow for Arsenal’s style. (11 words)

Either too slow in the left lane or too fast in the right. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

For me, the pacing was extremely important generally from the start to finish because we didn’t want it to go too quick and we didn’t want it to go too slow… I was living with my dad at the time, as well as writing. (46 words)

The Pakistani military deployed J-6 fighters (Chinese-built MiG-19 clones) capable of Mach 1 speed and two radars to defend the border, but these proved too slow and the patrol and radar coverage too spotty, so none of the raids were intercepted. (44 words)

Kennedy believed Johnson was in too deep in Vietnam, too slow on civil rights, too unmoored from the truth, too preoccupied with his legacy, too egotistical to heed the advice of experts, too insecure to invite anyone but sycophants into his circle. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

Kennedy believed Johnson was in too deep in Vietnam, too slow on civil rights, too unmoored from the truth, too preoccupied with his legacy, too egotistical to heed the advice of experts, too insecure to invite anyone but sycophants into his circle.

In response to accusations made by Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary that progress on compensating people affected had been “too slow”, Ms Patel said: “I agree, the way in which payments have been made have been far too slow.

We were too slow into lockdown, off the pace on testing and PPE, and too slow to protect our care homes”, referring to the shortage of personal protective equipment for frontline health and care workers.

His passing is slow – far too slow for Arsenal’s style.

After Mantiply entered the game as a reliever, he took too long to throw his warmup pitches—then Davis was too slow to get ready for the pitch.

But we have been too slow for too long on one essential building block: the Capital Markets Union.

For me, the pacing was extremely important generally from the start to finish because we didn’t want it to go too quick and we didn’t want it to go too slow… I was living with my dad at the time, as well as writing.

Hoopa has one of the worst speed tiers in the game at 70, too slow to outspeed most offensive threats but too fast to be used in or counter Trick Room teams.

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Saruman had either forgotten about the Ents' role as protectors of the forest or reasoned that they were too slow to act and too weak to stand against him.

This aspect ensures people don’t get confused by reading either too fast or too slow.

But development banks aren’t just about low-interest financing—they’re about catalyzing growth in sectors that are too risky or too slow for profit-driven banks.

If you feel the car ahead of you is going too slow, it's important to stop yourself from getting too aggressive.

Naomi could feel that her mind was diminished — it was too slow, too slack — but she found that she could think in a straight line.

Either too slow in the left lane or too fast in the right.

He too small, he too slow.

The Pakistani military deployed J-6 fighters (Chinese-built MiG-19 clones) capable of Mach 1 speed and two radars to defend the border, but these proved too slow and the patrol and radar coverage too spotty, so none of the raids were intercepted.

This all comes as the pace of Trump’s own original response continues to come under scrutiny, questioned as too meager and too slow.

While there have been many slogans and campaigns, urging people to see the capability and not the disability, it is all too clear that disability representation is improving at too slow a rate.

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.

If the electorate held Democrats responsible for sending doughboys to the Western Front, well, TR had spent the war years Wilson for being too slow to take up arms and for waging war too feebly once he did.

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