Example Sentences

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While TV political drama will often sensationalise conflict in negotiations, most in the business say that the real work happens quietly, over long hours of strategic give and take.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Cameras will not be allowed to film victims, witnesses and jurors amid concerns that wider televising of trials could damage the quality of evidence or sensationalise cases.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2022

“The Crown is a fiction. No one knows any conversation between members of the royal family, but people will tell the story the way they want to and sensationalise it.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2019

It is challenging to neither sensationalise nor sanitise.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2013

Ultimately, the quote, and this whole issue, serve only to sensationalise and cheapen the discourse surrounding a devastating crime.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2011