Example sentences for: downplayed

How can you use “downplayed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In particular, the pollsters charge that PROMO downplayed the extent to which respondents' fear of crime was based on the experience of crime--53 percent of those polled had said that they or someone they loved had been the victim of a crime.

  • But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.

  • The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.

  • And while economists may historically have downplayed their importance, those days are long past.

  • In an interview with the Boston Globe earlier this year, Morris downplayed expectations: "If you want to know what happened at a specific meeting, read Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon's book.


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