How to Use to put it mildly in a Sentence

to put it mildly

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• This is hard, to put it mildly.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
• The founders cared, to put it mildly.
  — Time, 17 Dec. 2025
• This is, to put it mildly, strange.
  — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
• The world at large is in a bad state, to put it mildly.
  — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
• 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 process is, to put it mildly, grueling.
  — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Meanwhile, the fans are frustrated, to put it mildly.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 3 Nov. 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
• January has been a difficult month, to put it mildly.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 30 Jan. 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
• Motion sickness, to put it mildly, is the absolute worst.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Neither, to put it mildly, has been a priority.
  — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 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
• Orbcomm, to put it mildly, disagrees.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2019