Sentence examples for understatement of the week from inspiring English sources

Understatement of the week goes to Sonny the mechanic.

Understatement of the week goes to Toni, who says in Lucy's flashback: "If you like tragedy, you've come to the right place".

Saying that Dick Cheney is unrepentant for torture would be the understatement of the week – but, hey, it's only Monday morning.

The House Republicans' stubborn opposition to the extension "may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world," Speaker John Boehner said, in the understatement of the week.

Leonard Cohen, one of the few true poets to ever cross the musical charts -- he has also written some of the sharpest "political" songs ever -- called his induction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame on Monday night an "unlikely" event, surely the understatement of the week.

Understatement of the decade perhaps ?

(The understatement of the year).

That's the understatement of the year".

That was the understatement of the evening.

"That sure was the understatement of the year".

Said McElwain, "Yeah, that's the understatement of the year".