Example sentences for: overstates

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

  • Krauthammer and Blankley both portray Brock as a marginal self-promoter who overstates his historical role.

  • I think he's largely right, though as I'll argue in a minute, he overstates the ease with which the Lexus and the olive tree can happily coexist.

  • Andrew Sullivan steers clear of my main criticism of his article--that it overstates the hope that now exists--and instead resorts to unfounded suggestions that I've ignored his checked tone, taken his writing out of context, and--most absurdly--nit-picked him because I am obsessed with AIDS vaccines and have an agenda.

  • If the Consumer Price Index really overstates inflation, then those real income numbers should be higher.

  • Early this month a panel of economists, led by Stanford's Michael Boskin, made semiofficial what most experts have been saying for some time: The Consumer Price Index overstates inflation.


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