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."

  • It is not just a matter of theatrical exaggeration.

  • 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).

  • Different forms of the same word are listed, e.g., exact, exactly, and exactness, exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggeratedly, and exaggeration.

  • Some discern a feminist slant to the film's "ballsy depiction of man's inhumanity to woman, and man" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin praises its "critical detachment" and "coolly stylized exaggeration," which make it "impossible to mistake In the Company of Men for simple bigotry."


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