Example sentences for: overblown

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

  • (Which is one reason why bubble talk is overblown.)

  • A few dissenters--such as Fox's Juan Williams--argue that Waco's importance is overblown.

  • But reviewers agree that the recording succeeds--in spite of Domingo, and in spite of James Levine's "overblown conducting" (Alan Blyth, the Daily Telegraph )--mainly because of the cast, which includes soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Thomas Hampson.

  • However, while I agree that security is a serious issue, I reiterate that the hysterics with which security stories are played out in the media are generally overblown.

  • He wanted the Principals Committee to decide whether al Qaeda was "a first order threat" or a more modest worry being overblown by "chicken little" alarmists.


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