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How to use the word exaggerating in a Sentence?

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I always feel like people are going to think I’m exaggerating when I try to explain the wind, but it’s outrageous, it’s violent.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I would be careful about exaggerating characterizations that may help excuse a mundane intelligence failure, if we say some innovation is impossible to imagine, then no one is really responsible for missing it.

Jeffrey Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From what I heard, some of the newest technologies can help doctors identify tumors at earlier stages, and that's great, but the internet has a tendency of exaggerating things, giving us enormous false hope.

Tony Li

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We'd be foolish to deny that China has a problem with terrorists, but I think the Communist Party is exaggerating the threat of radical Islam and they are turning up the heat in assimilating the Uyghurs into the Chinese nation state.

James Leibold

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating there would be a financial meltdown I think it's been proven they were not exaggerating, i think one of the reasons why there should be a second referendum, particularly once the terms are known about what our entry into Europe is going to cost us, the public will then have all the facts.

Richard Branson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It would be better for all of us if I was exaggerating the urgency of this threat, but the science tells us unequivocally that those who continue to make climate change a political fight put us all at risk.

State John Kerry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If she hadn't lied about certain injuries and had told the truth instead of exaggerating, she would have probably gotten some money anyway.

Norman Zalkind

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Certain countries are roping in countries from outside the region to get involved in the South China Sea issue, putting on a big show of force, deliberately exaggerating the tense atmosphere in the region, this way of doing things will not have a beneficial effect on the situation in the South China Sea.

Yang Yujun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that 99 percent of research work does not end up as' product', it's very hard to predict what would turn out, otherwise it wouldn't be called research.

Titus Tang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's exaggerating the anxiety.

John Praveen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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