How to use exaggeration in a sentence

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More sentences with exaggeration

• He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.From the entry literally
• The child has a proclivity for exaggeration.From the entry proclivity
• Many Eastern countries experience auto-Orientalism, by which their people participate in existing Western exaggerations and fantasies concerning their culture and customs.From the entry auto-Orientalism
• 'The wee girls haven't caught a frog yet, so this talk of amphibicide is all exaggeration.'2016, Celia Brayfield, Harvest. From the entry amphibicide
• It ain't no exaggeration to say he was the stubbornest man I ever knew, except his dad.2010, Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne, page 242. From the entry miscompliment
• It turns out the death of the Columbus art scene was an exaggeration after all.2009, Jeff Regensburger, "CAW: Creating Our History", Columbus Underground, 7 April 2012. From the entry moirologist
• It was one of those tabloidish pieces filled with half-truths and exaggerations.2006, Shirley Jump, The Bachelor Preferred Pastry, page 222. From the entry tabloidish
• He told Ethel Sands, with typical exaggeration, ‘Asselin remains, I might say, my only friend.2005, Matthew Sturgis, Walter Sickert: A Life, London: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 480. From the entry déjeuner
• This is something of an exaggeration, but his writing can be hard work.2001, Rupert Woodfin; Judy Groves, illustrator, “Lecture Notes”, in Richard Appignanesi, editor, Introducing Aristotle (Introducing …)…. From the entry acroatic
• We have here the point of departure for all the exaggerations of medieval allegorism.2000, Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis Vol 2: The Four Senses Of Scripture, page 277. From the entry allegorism
• Granted, you can just take most of that exaggeration and shove it.1999 February 5, Stunt Borg, “Review of the New Sabbat Guide”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet). From the entry crappitude
• It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry hyperbole
• The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess.1968, Shirley L. Arora, “Spanish Proverbial Exaggerations from California”, in Western Folklore, volume 27, number 4, page 232. From the entry proverbiality
• He used exaggeration, vituperation, catch-as-catch-can epithets, slang, facetious Teutonisms, facetious Latinisms, sesquipedalian jocularity.1965, Clifton Fadiman, “Commentary”, in Fifty Years: Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and…. From the entry unschoolmarmish
• Then she sang, with an exaggeration of her native gallousness, several sentimental ballads of the day.1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 83. From the entry gallousness
• The jaws are long, powerful and devoid either of snipiness or of exaggeration in length.1934, Dogs and Their Management, page 38. From the entry snipiness
• It depicted Nast bowing with cartoonistic exaggeration before the American minister to Chile.1927, Henry Lane Wilson, Diplomatic episodes in Mexico, Belgium, and Chile, Kennikat Press. From the entry cartoonistic
• My request for your aid in studying was an exaggeration.2024 October 24, Keith Foglesong, “Shades of Green” (18:52 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 2, spoken by…. From the entry slow roll
• That subheadline is an exaggeration, to be sure.2023 July 21, Michael Anton, “The Pessimistic Case for the Future”, in Compact, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2024. From the entry subheadline
• The extraordinary exaggeration of Renaissance trunk hose.2015, Lucy Adlington, Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry canion
• In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.2008, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, HarperPress, published 2009, page 430. From the entry eloge
• By using jargon, clichés, exaggeration, and unnecessary words, we will be led down the primrose path of misdirection.2003, Loretta A. Malandro, Say It Right the First Time, page 113. From the entry primrose path
• As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.1992, Historia, page 293. From the entry laudator
• With the parental exaggeration which the birth of his various enterprises always induced, O'Sullivan spoke incredibly of eighty-five "enrolled" members.1965, Bruce Mansfield, Australian Democrat: The Career of Edward William O'Sullivan, 1846-1910. From the entry incredibly
• Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization.1988 November 11, Andrew Goodwin, “Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry overgeneralization
• Those who have gotten their doors of perception open wide enough often enough know that this statement of Blake's is not mere poetic exaggeration.1958, Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership. From the entry doors of perception
• In a few brief weeks it seemed London passed from absolute unsuspiciousness to a chattering exaggeration of its knowledge of our relations.1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, Book IV, II, § 2. From the entry unsuspiciousness
• Nelson might call a hyperbole, or exaggeration, since the only time I ever did was when I was about four, at the pony ring at the Sonoma County Fair.2012, Juliet Bell, Kepler’s Dream, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN. From the entry cowkid
• The dancers express giddy playfulness in terms of exaggeration: overarticulated beats of the feet, flamboyantly oversized port de bras, and patently unballetic shimmies of the shoulder.2006, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations, page 150. From the entry unballetic
• In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press…. From the entry account
• The narrator describes — in what could be exaggeration — what newly pressed sailors discovered when they were hauled aboard a guard ship to wait for orders.1999, Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity, page 23. From the entry guard ship
• Then, if one bewares of voluntary mistakes, of exaggeration and unfounded assertion, if one builds only upon actual and carefully observed facts, an important and well-grounded discipline must ensue.1918, Hans Gross, translated by Horace M. Kallen, Criminal Psychology, page 86. From the entry bewares

Meaning of exaggeration

1. noun The act of heaping or piling up.
2. noun The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
3. noun A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

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Questions about exaggeration in a sentence

How do you use exaggeration in a sentence?

Exaggeration is used as a noun. For example: “They say he's a millionnaire, but that's a massive exaggeration.”

What is a short sentence with exaggeration?

“The child has a proclivity for exaggeration.”

What does exaggeration mean?

Exaggeration means the act of heaping or piling up.