Sentence examples for the overstated from inspiring English sources

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the overstated

verb

To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

  • I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.

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The company suspended nine executives below board level in connection with the overstated profits.

This is the overstated premise at the heart of the book.

(Unfortunately, squinting won't get rid of the overstated door handles, which look like Art Deco leftovers from a garage sale).

(The overstated costumes are by Gregory Gale). Connie's husband, Alan Bill Phillipsseemseems calmer at first but is the one who winds up doing something crazy.

Perhaps the overstated holiday feeling of these pictures conceals a behind the scenes flurry of work that he has taken with him.

All bases are thereby covered: please forgive the overstated hyperbolic speculations, he says; I do this to invite the reader to argue with me.

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The ideals exposed in the wildly overstated "Gadfly" -- the protagonist later becomes a heroic revolutionary -- took hold of Chinese youth.

The revised manuscript must also avoid the exaggerated and overstated claims that mar the current version.

This is the least overstated and therefore the best of the uploaders videos.

Riseup was leery of describing the groups: in the possibly overstated words of Mr. Saxon, "Any group we name would not want to be named".

While the Revo has the fashionably overstated bass sound, it also has an equalizer app so you can dial the bass down to a more realistic level — or up to a brain punishing thud.

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