Sentence examples for Major understatement from inspiring English sources
Her fans would consider that a major understatement.
To say that I was disappointed would be a major understatement".
He added, in what qualified as a major understatement, that he was "a little better than I thought".
"It's a terrific victory, but it was a team effort," said the winner, Johan Museeuw, a Belgian, in a major understatement.
"They can get comical sometimes — and that's a major understatement — but we don't mind it," says Mr. Rose, on a Southwest flight from New Orleans to Midland-Odessa, Tex.
"Sold well" ended up being a major understatement.
"Getting to Mars was really hard to do," Nasa's chief historian Dr Bill Barry said, in a major feat of understatement, as the US space agency celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Viking 1 landing on Mars.
Actually, the word "major" is an understatement.
"To say it caused a major concern is a gross understatement," said Paul Bowser, a professor of aquatic animal medicine at Cornell University here.
To write that our understanding of the origin and early evolution of life faces major unsolved problems is an understatement.
To say that this black cassette with its ball-point scrawl changed the course of my life is an understatement in a major key.
