Sentence examples for this may be an overstatement from inspiring English sources

While this may be an overstatement, Prendergast has surely helped to pull an expanse of scrub and swamp, and the people who live upon it, into American sightlines.

This plenitude is often explained by the intense competition for top engineers; companies often complain that there is a dearth of well-trained programmers — though this may be an overstatement — and many of the best ones tend to want to start their own companies instead of working for others.

While that may be an overstatement, the Knicks are certainly having problems.

Even that may be an overstatement: actual votes for a rupture might fall short of bravura responses to pollsters.

Foreign Policy magazine tagged the end of Mr. Ben Ali's rule "the first WikiLeaks revolution," and while that may be an overstatement, the cables' role in what President Obama lauded Friday as "this brave and determined struggle for the universal rights" underscores the awkward dilemma the WikiLeaks cables have posed for the administration.

TO describe CHRISTINE BREWER'S recital on Sunday at Alice Tully Hall as a rare New York appearance by this great American soprano may be an overstatement.

When I traveled extensively as first lady this may be an overstatement, but not far from it and I would go to countries with authoritarian leaders, I don't remember them talking about what the people thought or wanted very much.

That may be an overstatement.

That may be an overstatement, but only a slight one.

-- although calling it a "corporate underwriter" may be an overstatement.

"Tackle" may be an overstatement; touching with a long pole may be nearer the mark.