Example sentences for: overstate

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

  • As several people noted, the percentages Chatterbox cited in his previous item (" Do Vacations Kill?") overstate some vacation dangers in the sense that, say, the higher incidence of drowning deaths compared with falling deaths reflects the much greater number of people who swim as compared with the number who climb mountains.

  • Nor can I overstate the fear that every low-income mother throughout the United States and around the world must carry with her every day: that the consequences of poverty will ultimately catch up with her children, too.

  • Some of the Kyoto headlines, like USAT's "Global Warming Pact OK'd," overstate a bit, since it's a plan, not a deal.

  • It would overstate the quality of our estimates to interpret this as providing precise probability estimates.

  • And if official productivity statistics understate the real rate of progress by 1 percent, official price statistics also overstate inflation by exactly the same amount.


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