Example sentences for: hyperbole

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

  • Under-researched and perfunctory (no editor or reporter wants this unrewarding, time-consuming assignment), tending toward hyperbole (once a writer has picked things to preview, he has to justify his choices), previews nonetheless provide a valuable service.

  • Cullen Murphy replies: Harris Collingwood's letter is one of many I have received that would derive hype from hyperbole rather than more circuitously from the hype derived from hypodermic , and thus from the idea of stimulation associated with drug use.

  • In swinging away at the government's weak spots (market definition, harm to consumer, Netscape's market penetration), Warden employs the kind of hyperbole usually reserved for domestic fights about who does the dishes.

  • The air of hyperbole that surrounds the ABC march is in keeping with the partnership's Madison Avenue attitude that a message doesn't have to be accurate if it sells.

  • More crucially, her "design for living in the digital age," as the subtitle puts it, comes across as a cross between New Age philosophy and 1950s hyperbole.


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