Example sentences for: exaggeration

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

  • Dunne's gift for melodrama and exaggeration, says The New Yorker 's Jeffrey Toobin, makes him the "perfect chronicler for the case."

  • If the first possibility were correct, that would be good news for the southern credentials of George Bush Sr., since (as C-Span's Brian Lamb observed in the Wall Street Journal piece quoted in Chatterbox's earlier item) the smirk was clearly passed from father to son (acquiring some exaggeration in the process).

  • Johnson disdained exaggeration.

  • Inflation exaggeration should have special appeal to proponents of a flat-rate income tax.

  • All told, the obstacles to intergroup harmony posed by human nature are big enough that there is little exaggeration in saying that xenophobia is a part of human nature, at least in this sense: Uncritical hostility toward an identifiable group of people--identifiable by language, dress, color, whatever--is an inherent capacity, activated under certain predictable circumstances.


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