Sentence examples for only to again from inspiring English sources

The phrase "only to again" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when something is done repeatedly or habitually. For example: She walks around the same path every day, only to again reach the same spot in the evening.

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And from Matthew Hamshaw's ensuing corner, Boulding headed the ball over Schwarzer only to again be denied by the woodwork.

For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one.

And even that wasn't the end of it: up against a September deadline, the bill staggered back to life, only to again be stymied by the slimmest margin.

Haas staged a rally to break back to love at 3-3 only to again wilt as Davydenko broke again before holding on for the win.

The team again rebounded the following year to post the franchise's first 100-point season since 1983 84 only to again lose in the first round of the play-offs.

It looked bleak for Fish when he found himself a break down in the third, but he hit back to take it to another breaker only to again find himself on the back foot.

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Running government like a business has been tried again and again, only to fail again and again.

Some of them already have, in fact, collapsing or slumping to the floor only to rise again and again.

Fullerton came close, again, only to lose, again, in the final minutes.

Only to split again.

Familiar melodies emerge only to vanish again.

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