Example sentences for: exaggerated

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

  • The number of killings prior to the bombing, I think, has been exaggerated."

  • In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.

  • The same impoverishment of formal devices is found in examples of religious glossolalia, with an exaggerated tendency towards repetition, syllable reduplication, vocalic parallelism, open syllabification, excessive symmetry in contrasts, an impoverished inventory of sounds--whatever the mother tongue of the glossolalist.

  • This perception evolved into the still more exaggerated belief that the FBI could not share any intelligence information with criminal investigators, even if no FISA procedures had been used.

  • Observers said the Y2K bug's threat 1) was averted thanks to diligent preparation; 2) had been exaggerated by greedy programmers so that customers would commission expensive repairs; and 3) won't pass until companies and governments have used their "backroom systems," which were not repaired as thoroughly as critical programs.


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