Example sentences for: overstate

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

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

  • 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.

  • Put plainly, there is no way to overstate the alarm everyone in America ought to feel over the fact that childhood poverty, despite our nation's skyrocketing wealth, is still on the increase!

  • 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.

  • It became a cause for Scheck: He was convinced that prosecutors would overstate their DNA evidence to secure conviction.


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