How to Use exaggerate in a Sentence

exaggerate

verb

• The book exaggerates the difficulties he faced in starting his career.
• He exaggerated his movements so we could see them more clearly.
• He tends to exaggerate when talking about his accomplishments.
• It's impossible to exaggerate the importance of this discovery.
• It’s part of our job to exaggerate; it’s part of our job to go there.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• Dark shades can 'bleed' and exaggerate lines around the lips.
  — Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
• In this way, Zenith Labs seems to exaggerate many of the benefits of their products.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• He’s humble, not one to brag or talk tough, and not one to exaggerate either.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2022
• There is no way to exaggerate quite how thoroughly the World Cup took over Qatar.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2022
• But at the same time, there is a good chance that Guardiola was exaggerating, just a touch.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• A lot of times people feel like some rappers exaggerate their street cred, but this was not the case with Biggie.
  — Chuck Arnold, Billboard, 21 May 2022
• The mirrored wall was placed off-center to exaggerate the asymmetry of the room.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 15 Apr. 2022
• Despite that, analysts caution not to exaggerate the impact the use of the Zircon could have on the war as a whole.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
• Hard to exaggerate what Ted Lasso has done for profile of men’s football in the United States.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• And whereas often callers exaggerate the size of snakes when calling the shelter, in this case the python was just as big as the callers thought.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Dec. 2022
• Other pages are dog-eared or blown up to exaggerate their grainy texture.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• And there was an outcry when the press exaggerated the number of older members who were asked to step aside.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 5 Mar. 2023
• State lawyers said Trump exaggerated his wealth by as much as $3.6 billion one year.
  — Michael R. Sisak, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2024
• And, yes, the family was aware that some would accuse them of exaggerating Jack’s condition as a way to hide from the media.
  — Mike Wagner, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2023
• At least one has been altered to downplay Russian losses and exaggerate those on the Ukrainian slide.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• It is built to exaggerate the face angle of a putter on the impact, as well as provide alignment practice.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• Short does not exaggerate Putin’s standing within the K.G.B.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• People in many YouTube videos will exaggerate silliness or gorge on toys or candy to get more attention and video views.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• The sophomore pushed Johnson, who then appeared to exaggerate the altercation by falling to the turf and drawing the flag.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• As the job market for lawyers slumped, other law schools were sued by at least 15 of their own graduates for exaggerating placement rates.
  — Jon Marcus, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• Last summer, the news wire ran a story accusing Tesla of exaggerating the range of its EVs— which has long been one of its main selling points—for close to a decade.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2024
• The lawsuit alleges that Burger King began to exaggerate the size of its menu items in September 2017.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• There is no exaggerating what some other men did for this country.
  — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
• Without the training to grapple with the cascade of thoughts, people obsess or exaggerate or imagine threats.
  — Jan Bruce, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• At night, street lamps and car headlights exaggerate the glimmer of stainless steel that does not, cannot disappear into the darkness like wrought iron.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024