Example sentences for: hyperbole

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

  • In this atmosphere of hyperbole, Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong takes a refreshingly small-scale approach.

  • Such assertions might make you suspicious, but they are not hyperbole.

  • Her fabled "Remembering" columns are a hash of bunkum and hyperbole.

  • The unformed mind can't be trusted to discount for televisual hyperbole, from McDonald's claim that its petroleum-based "milk" shakes can make you deliriously happy to the cartoon causality that holds that shooting a criminal has roughly the same consequences as bopping a bunny to the seeming ubiquity of rape, murder, and mayhem.

  • To say that Shawn was "a man who grieved over all living creatures" is forgivable hyperbole; but later to add that he "mourned" for Si Newhouse when Newhouse unceremoniously fired him in 1987 (a couple of years after buying the magazine)--well, that's a bit much.


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