Example Sentences

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I am exaggerating about how easy it would be, but only a little bit.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025

Even the basic facts are too dark to be effective: when I talk about what I’ve seen, patients think I am exaggerating or trying to scare them.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2022

He thinks I am exaggerating and refuses to sleep elsewhere.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2015

“Oh, she said—no, please don’t think I am exaggerating, for it is all true—that they had lost their money, and were very poor, and, that she and her sisters were dressmakers.”

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Now don’t think that I am exaggerating, but at the moment when that enormous Captain settled down upon Donald, the horse’s hind-legs gave visibly under the strain.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis