Example sentences for: overblown

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

  • Not only is the piece already a gush for the show, but--not to be a party-pooper--the last paragraph seems somehow overblown after reading the news accounts of Arkan's slaying, since he headed what was really "really a paramilitary orgainzation."

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

  • The purity of Bernini’s work here refutes the popular conception of Baroque as being nothing but overblown extravagance.

  • 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.

  • International fears of American cultural hegemony are overblown.


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