Example sentences for: understated

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

  • On the other hand, several other people noted, given that people spend a lot more time at work than they do on vacation , on a per-hour basis vacation dangers may be understated by the data in the previous item.

  • But Chatterbox's general alarmism about amusement-park dangers was, if anything, understated; according to NBC News, emergency-room visits attributable to amusement-park rides have increased by 24 percent during the last five years.]

  • "The Gimelsteins, of Lawrence, will order tastefully understated invitations to their daughter's bat mitzvah."

  • A few praise the film's understated pleasures: Richard Corliss of Time calls it "a small epic with subtle strengths."

  • A "wry, touching and understated novel" (Francine Prose, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to find out more about Desai.)


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