Example sentences for: understate

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

  • The gross cost of the entity is understated in such cases; and to recognize an exchange revenue is to recognize a revenue without some or all of the related costs, and hence to understate the entity's net cost of operations.

  • interstellar - interstate, interstitial, interstice, interceder, underscore, understate

  • 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.

  • According to these hospitals, first-year residents work 70- to 80-hour weeks and up to 30 days consecutively (and some think these estimates understate the case).

  • More recently, several studies have found that the practice of examining the effects on a single day basis may significantly understate the risk of short-term exposures (Schwartz, 2000; Zanobetti et al, 2002).


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