How to Use understate in a Sentence

understate

verb

• She's trying to understate the issue.
• He understated his taxable income.
• To say that was rare during the Gilded age of the late 1800s is understating it.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2024
• And that may understate the decline in the supply of labor.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• The thin white lines are understated and clean, while still adding a playful touch.
  — Tasha Nicole Smith, ELLE, 26 July 2023
• To say the Pimm’s Cup is extremely British is to still somehow understate it.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 June 2022
• The result is a surface that feels rich and luxe yet still understated.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2023
• There is just no way to understate how important Sunday's win was for the Colts.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2020
• To say there is no love lost between Griffin and Trump is to understate a very public feud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
• And some states report in ways that understate their totals.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
• In both cases, the role of our stars is grossly understated.
  — Jeff Fuhrer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Despite the seriousness of the build, the black-and-white pickup is understated and right at home in Alaskan snow.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
• Tesla has been known to play with the numbers, while Ford tends to understate estimates.
  — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• By any metric, 2023 was one of the most impressive years of all time for a singular pop star, and even that understates how huge the year was for Swift.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2023
• If anything, the team scores understate Carmel achievements.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2020
• The weight and power of that distinction cannot be understated.
  — Joe Reedy, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• The perfect pants are understated and do not draw attention to the wearer.
  — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
• Even in the early days of the uprisings, that phrase seemed to understate the significance of what had begun in Tunisia.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• The importance these types of gigs have had beyond East L.A. can’t be understated.
  — Stephanie Mendez, SPIN, 23 Oct. 2023
• Ashen looks are more understated, and the perfect choice for anyone looking to make a more subtle change to their hair color.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• To say that the singers must hit their marks is to understate; everything here is set and preordained to within a matter of inches.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• The 84-44 final score somehow still understated the gulf in talent between the teams.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Its rating could understate how much destruction the storm brings.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Most fitting, Belichick can take solace that his legacy in the region will be, like the man, understated.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• There’s the cooly oversized and understated Denim Trench Coat, for instance.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• To say that much of this, much of the residue of the larger project, was already apparent from the Whedon version is to drastically understate the case.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
• And if the specific moment of opening seems understated, there has been plenty of hoopla around it.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 9 July 2023
• The entrance is constrained and understated, with a wall directly in front of the visitor.
  — Kristina Linnea Garcia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• Yet even that number may understate how different their games have been.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• As such, the importance of maintaining a healthy scalp with textured hair cannot be understated, as the scalp serves as the foundation for any hair goal.
  — Essence, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024