Example Sentences

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Protesters will exaggerate the size and scope of their actions, while the government will attempt to downplay it.

From Fox News • Feb. 18, 2022

As for Salah, well, no doubt some will exaggerate his bluntness here for effect.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2018

“Death will exaggerate the commercial value of your business more than winning five Grammys, 10 Oscars or 14 Golden Globes,” LaPolt said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2016

As such cases are mostly in the earlier portions of the records, this will exaggerate the long-term warming trend.

From Economist • Oct. 19, 2011

It will exaggerate our failings and publish our faults; and if it cannot find fault with our actions it will attack our motives.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre