Sentence examples for this was an overstatement from inspiring English sources

This was an overstatement.

I fancy this was an overstatement.

This was an overstatement; Maxwell and Warner knew quite well that their magnificently constructed letters were destined for boxes and files, not the bonfire.

This was an overstatement: they are, but following recent interventions, the gap is closing so rapidly that on current trends it will have disappeared entirely by 2012.

But Nigel Barker, EH's planning and conservation director in London, said this was "an overstatement", adding that "there are not many we've actively supported".

This was an overstatement, but Spitzer had by now developed a comprehensive critique of the financial industry, which some people in his office jokingly referred to as "Spitzer's Grand Unified Field Theory".

But this is an overstatement.

This is an overstatement, to say the least, because there is nothing one would characterize as cutting edge or political here.

[Excerpt from a public address by Zolton Ferency, chairman and gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Party of Michigan, June 1970.] Probably this is an overstatement, but it conveys the flavour of a great deal of contemporary political propaganda.

"Maybe this is an overstatement, but I see this [European tour] as an opportunity for a reset of the European relationship," Heather Conley, director of the Europe programme at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told the Washington Post.

This is an overstatement, of course, but his rationale for classification makes no more sense to today's science than Aristotle's four causes do.