Sentence examples for given to exaggeration from inspiring English sources

"OK, 15 years – I'm given to exaggeration".

Generally speaking, Japanese bureaucrats are not much given to exaggeration.

Miss Cotell — less given to exaggeration than her friend — said nothing, but in her reticence there was no denial that the afternoon had been a pleasure.

The Qaddafi government, given to exaggeration, claimed that nine civilians died in the airstrike, including a rescue worker electrocuted while clearing rubble.

Max Glickman, in "Kalooki Nights," announces, in proper Rothian form: "So we are an immoderate, overemphatic people, much given to exaggeration — so what?

Baker is not given to exaggeration and his anticipation of a defining race is shared by Child and Gould – who will travel together with their horses, in the same box, on Gold Cup morning.

"I am not given to hyperbole," he continued, "but I believe it is not an exaggeration to say that there will be jubilation among our foes and despair among our friends.

In the words of Nicholas Penny, the director of the gallery – and a man not given to breathless exaggeration – this is "a juxtaposition that was almost certainly not seen even in Leonardo's own lifetime, nor at any time since, and one that is unlikely ever to be repeated".

He's a quietly determined kind of chap, not much given to flummery or exaggeration.

He is exceptionally polite, softly spoken, not given to excess or exaggeration; only occasionally does he raise his voice.

Besides cramping each other's exaggerations, they are given to cross-talking.