Example sentences for: understated

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

  • Nicolas Cage's Frank Pierce saves Cy from a death as gruesome as the one De Niro's Travis Bickle visited on Sport, and when Frank does take a life (in the movie's best, most understated scene), it's an act of mercy.

  • 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.

  • After two highly acclaimed story collections, this "young Mozart of Jewish fiction" (Judith Dunford, Newsday ) has written a warm, subtle, understated novel about the daily lives of a group of Orthodox Jews who summer in a small town in the Catskills.

  • Jon Voight gives a fine understated performance as a police inspector, Brendan Gleeson's turn as Cahill is a "tour de force ...

  • The clues are too faint--too understated.


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