Sentence examples for to be an overstatement from inspiring English sources

Two seconds proved to be an overstatement.

This claim turns out to be an overstatement, to say the least.

The words of that refrain — "Every little thing gonna be all right" — were understood by everybody to be an overstatement.

At the annual dinner of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of Americaa on Sunday, Cashman said that Torre had called him Sunday after initial reports about the book stated that Torre had accused Cashman of betraying him, which appears to be an overstatement.

3) The overproliferation in the primordium is described in the manuscript as "massive" (in the summary) or "strong" (in the Introduction and subsection "Control of proliferation and tissue size in the zebrafish pLLP"), but this seems to me to be an overstatement.

Indeed, for some participants "slow" turned out to be a ridiculous overstatement.

First is that a villager's estimate of 40 kilometers for the journey, which they had thought to be a gross overstatement, may well have been accurate.

When all the qualifications of margins of error are allowed, there did appear to be a systematic overstatement of the Labour share and an equally systematic understatement of the Conservative one.

It would be an overstatement to suggest that AUX allows any conceivable signal to be specified in a simple form, because each AUX statement is still a manifestation of semimathematical and algorithmic operations.

Surprisingly, though, he also noted that it would be an overstatement to say that this had been an easy round to raise.

But it would be an overstatement to say the publicly backed stadiums jumpstarted an urban boom.