Sentence examples for better only to from inspiring English sources

How disappointed they were when I got better only to keep up this ridiculous religious practice.

Sometimes, he says, he makes people better only to see them beaten again.

The children in those photos, my uncles, ventured north in search of something better, only to attend segregated public schools in Chicago.

So we lie to the dentist about how often we do it and promise to do better, only to skip it again the next day.

"The last thing we want is to change the industry for the better, only to have the pipeline get overburdened and blow back on restaurants with higher fees or fewer pickups," she said.

It's a portrait of an economy that disappoints a huge number of people who have heard that they live in a country where life gets better, only to experience something quite different.

Yet there is something deeper still: a political landscape in which nobody really believes themselves to be travelling somewhere better, only clinging to what they have in a global maelstrom whose every wind augurs ill.

But if its goal is to pervade you, more is better only up to a point.

It turned out that the dataset fed into the algorithms did not account for the fact that asthma sufferers had been immediately sent to intensive care, and had fared better only due to the additional attention.

Both laboured in the rice fields before they came to Dhaka, but their wage in the tannery is not much better – only enough to cover food and living costs.

It's like when all stand to get a better view, only to discover that none sees better than if everyone had remained comfortably seated.