Sentence examples for be a gross exaggeration from inspiring English sources

To apply the terms boss and machine to the current party organizations would be a gross exaggeration.

"It would be a gross exaggeration to say that the people support Kim Jong-il," they write.

It would be a gross exaggeration to claim Scottish football was a quiet place before the return of Sone Aluko.

To suggest that selling sex toys in the Bible Belt is a recipe for instant-pariah status would be a gross exaggeration.

It would no doubt be a gross exaggeration to describe New York's Swedes these days as being as gloomy as a Bergman film, as tormented as a Strindberg character, as lonely as Garbo.

The US government claims he played a key role through the 1990s in connecting al-Qaida operatives around the world, though the CIA's initial assumption that he had been the third-most senior al-Qaida leader turned out to be a gross exaggeration.

That was a gross exaggeration.

This is a gross exaggeration.

This proposition is a gross exaggeration and utterly untrue.

That is a gross exaggeration, say Turkish officials.

For the moment, that is a gross exaggeration.