exaggerate

Example Sentences

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You can’t exaggerate how important television was in the making of this man, and I don’t mean “The Apprentice,” I mean those old movies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

There is no way to exaggerate the danger of this moment.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Flat Mercator-projection maps, like the one Lauder showed Trump, exaggerate the size of landmasses near the Earth’s north and south poles.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026

The problem is that the birth-death model tends to exaggerate job creation at turning points in the economy — when growth accelerates or when it slackens off.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

“No, sir. Ah, I would say, sir, judging from what 1 heard, that General Hill thinks that, ah, Pettigrew is not a professional and tends to be overexcited and perhaps to exaggerate a bit.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara