Example sentences for: overstated

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

  • Jespersen may have overstated the case, but there is no doubt that whereas no Hispanic male would hesitate to call a little pig a chanchito , few American men would care to be heard calling one a piglet .

  • The notion that large numbers of people who need the meds can't get them is, I think, overstated.

  • The importance of integrity can not be overstated, if the key players don't have integrity, not much else matters.

  • Granting that the above sampling is hardly scientific, Chatterbox concludes that Global 2000 's pessimism is overstated roughly 50 percent of the time, and justified roughly 50 percent of the time.

  • Lazarus' claim that zealous clerks run the court is deemed "overstated" (David Garrow, the New York Times Book Review ).


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