How to Use to put it mildly in a Sentence

to put it mildly

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• Five years from the deadline, progress has been slow, to put it mildly.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
• The evening was, to put it mildly, a bit over the top, and some wondered if that was not the point.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• The past year was a rough one for sports fans in the Bay Area, to put it mildly.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
• To say that most of the output from these companies lacks spark is to put it mildly.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• Things were not trending in a good direction, to put it mildly.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• The Wolves’ matchups to start a possession are funky, to put it mildly.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• The Ukraine rare-earths deal now seems endangered, to put it mildly.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2025
• North of the 49th parallel, that’s a non-starter, to put it mildly.
  — David Moscrop, Time, 8 May 2025
• The chances of doing that without new taxes of some kind are — to put it mildly — almost nil.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
• And, as one tense scene demonstrates, not every client is respectful, to put it mildly.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
• Texas is no longer a slam dunk to make the NCAAs, to put it mildly.
  — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
• Before Biden stepped aside from the race last weekend, her poll numbers were not great, to put it mildly.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
• Using bitters as the base of a cocktail is, to put it mildly, unusual.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
• Reese Witherspoon has been busy in New York, to put it mildly.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
• The news about China’s economy over the past few weeks has been daunting, to put it mildly.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• The eighties were turbulent times in the lower hemisphere, to put it mildly.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Also like Lamar, Williams is not the biggest fan of Drake, to put it mildly.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
• To say North Carolina is a state of weather extremes is to put it mildly.
  — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2026
• While the middle class is stalling, to put it mildly, the irredeemably rich appear to be getting even richer.
  — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
• So, to put it mildly, there’s a lot of blood in the water in the culture and our sense of our collective history.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
• The reign of his successor, Immelt, was less successful, to put it mildly.
  — Cory Munchbach, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• This is a period of profound adjustment for everyone at the club, to put it mildly.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
• Unlike most of the artists featured in this series, the Rolling Stones are pretty well known, to put it mildly.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• In the context of reparations, the idea of cash payments has been controversial — to put it mildly.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The auto industry was struggling, to put it mildly, and news about the city didn't invite much optimism.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
• And to be sure, there’s a lot riding on her ability to keep laughs coming and eyeballs trained on an awards show that’s battle-bruised to put it mildly.
  — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
• The Nintendo Switch era has been turbulent for the franchise, to put it mildly.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
• That will be the latest milestone in what has been – to put it mildly – an eventful few months in the Japanese star’s career.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
• The idea of such a population transfer is unpopular in the Arab world, to put it mildly.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
• And New England’s track record of drafting receivers is… to put it mildly, terrible.
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025