Example sentences for: understated

How can you use “understated” 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.

  • Mizrahi put doormen in "understated" four-button suits, bellboys in Nehru jackets, and receptionists in "baby-blue twin sets."

  • "As literate and understated as one could expect" from Hollywood, says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan.

  • The film is an understated but moving depiction of the day to day existence of an intelligent young woman growing up in France and later America and is praised as having "captured something true about families and friendship" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Kris Kristofferson's performance as the novelist-father is called the best of his career.

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


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