How to Use exaggeration in a Sentence
exaggeration
noun
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Keep in mind that the word dry is a bit of an exaggeration.
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Rachel Gurevich,
Parents,
30 July 2024
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That’s no exaggeration in this case, as needles tend to be shiny and haystacks don’t tend to be all that large.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
11 May 2024
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Don’t be labeling me as the worst of the worst with your exaggerations.
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Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2024
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Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but there is some truth to it.
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Elizabeth Both,
NBC News,
20 June 2023
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Okay, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the 53-year-old talk show host does have some strong feelings about the pimple patch craze.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
18 July 2024
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Two hours is an exaggeration, of course, though not by much.
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Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2024
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It was played every day in our house, and that's not an exaggeration.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
8 Dec. 2022
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The case stems from a lawsuit in which James accused him, two of his sons and their company of a decade of fraud tied to exaggerations of Trump's wealth.
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Graham Kates,
CBS News,
24 Dec. 2023
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That's not an exaggeration: Ten probes that have made it to the Venusian surface; none of them have lasted more than two hours.
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Regina G. Barber,
NPR,
8 May 2024
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What happens in the show is not a massive exaggeration by any means.
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Rachel Seo,
Variety,
14 Dec. 2022
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To call it the most popular thing on TV is not an exaggeration.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
4 Sep. 2024
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Without fail, five times a week — and this no exaggeration — five times a week someone will bring up The Fugitive.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
29 July 2023
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The show's premise promises men who are half of the leads' ages, but that's a bit of an exaggeration because the oldest contestants are 31.
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Kimi Robinson,
The Arizona Republic,
6 Dec. 2022
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The commitment to working around the clock isn’t an exaggeration for this duo.
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Payton Kirol,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2024
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That’s not an exaggeration: the Logitech study found that 37% of respondents hold video calls with clients.
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Dr. Gleb Tsipursky,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2023
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To say that, after all, would have been an exaggeration.
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Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2022
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That’s not to say that the players on this roster dislike each other — that’d be an exaggeration.
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Zion Brown,
The Indianapolis Star,
20 Jan. 2024
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Perhaps this sounds like an exaggeration, but careless mistakes can put an end to weeks of progress.
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Julia Binswanger,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Apr. 2023
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It’s not overtly addressed in the film, and the filmmakers sound weary when asked about this, while acknowledging some of Nyad’s past exaggerations of her feats.
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Carole Horst,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2023
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But do these exaggerations earn these pets the title of having Munchausen?
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Donna Sarkar,
Discover Magazine,
30 Nov. 2023
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No exaggeration: Farris can pull off anything, regardless of where the look lands on the spectrum.
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Ineye Komonibo,
refinery29.com,
6 Dec. 2023
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Finding a place to grow old affordably amid love and support is one of the hardest damn things there is in America, no exaggeration.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
16 Jan. 2023
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On the other side, lies and exaggerations are sometimes told to gain advantage or gild a lily (by the way, this used to describe the Republican Party as well as the Democrats, but no longer).
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Michael Tomasky,
The New Republic,
18 Sep. 2023
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There are probably hundreds of thousands, not an exaggeration, of pieces on the cutting room floor.
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Hazlitt,
28 June 2023
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His children range from the ages of 15-34 are all, in no exaggeration, exceptional.
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Gabriella Abdul-Hakim,
ABC News,
27 July 2023
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While that's almost certainly an exaggeration, the building is one of the most visible signs of the ways in which the country has changed since Kagame came to power in the years after the brutal genocide shocked the world.
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Tinbete Ermyas,
NPR,
20 May 2024
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Israel has said reports of hunger in Gaza are exaggerations.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2024
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What’s the difference between an exaggeration and a lie in these sentences?
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Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
1 May 2024
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But the way in which Trump just traffics in untruths, exaggerations, falsehoods, lies, is unprecedented in my, what, 55 years covering politics.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
8 Oct. 2024
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The Tuesday debate was the first time that Trump and Harris had met, and the vice president largely controlled the tenor, goading Trump into agitated responses that contained exaggerations and mistruths.
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Meg Kinnard,
Twin Cities,
12 Sep. 2024
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