Sentence examples for a certain understatement from inspiring English sources

Some at the breakfast referred to what happened on that chilly afternoon a year ago with a certain understatement.

In fact, everything about Given exudes a certain understatement.

After taking the money, the company reported – with a certain understatement – that this exercise was "theoretically challenging to complete, and considered by some not to be a theoretically sound endeavour".

Of course, there is the Protestant legacy, which is ingrained in a certain Hanseatic understatement.

"And that improved it greatly," says Tuomey, with a certain kind of understatement.

Cue the usual rehearsal-room routine of lengthy discussions and improvisation exercises, plus what Neilson, with a certain amount of understatement, calls "a certain amount of drinking".

They built large stuccoed houses lacking a certain taste and understatement that old Glendale had grown accustomed to.

A bit of an understatement.

It was a wild understatement.

That's a big understatement.

That's a kindly understatement.