too great
Example Sentences
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The need was just too great, thought Gil, to stand by and do nothing.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
He said he can't lose hope that "one day a social revolution will allow me to go back, but for now the risk is too great".
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
“I’m not too great at my history,” Maye said when asked if he knew the other second-year winners.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
The need to get rid of the garbage is too great.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
There were her mother’s slender arms, which looked so fragile and birdlike, as if they might snap under too great a weight, but which could carry more than any woman Pearl had ever seen.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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