Sample Sentences forhyperbole (auto-selected)
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"They'll map it like Manhattan," Annie said, and the two women did not argue the hyperbole.† (source)
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At every Gregarious Games press conference, Morrow grinned infectiously from behind his unruly beard and wire-rimmed spectacles, using his natural gift for hype and hyperbole.† (source)
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I have no doubt, mein Herr, that your remark regarding Russia's contributions to the West was a form of inverted hyperbole—an exaggerated diminution of the facts for poetic effect.† (source)
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I'm engaging in hyperbole.† (source)
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I frowned at the hyperbole.† (source)
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Now that remark sounded like schoolgirl hyperbole.† (source)
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It was a contest in hyperbole and carried on for no other reason.† (source)
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It was what is said in the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart.† (source)
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Prochazka loved to regale his friends with hyperbole and excess.† (source)
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g./, /like greased lightning/, /as scarce as hen's teeth/; they are grotesque hyperboles, but surely not slang.† (source)
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"Hyperbole, Mr. Mason," Ms. McAllister replies.† (source)
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In what words shall I describe this dread exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on hyperboles!† (source)
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Yet it's not hyperbole to say that millions of women and girls are actually enslaved today.† (source)
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Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer-flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: I do forswear them; and I here protest, By this white glove,—how white the hand, God knows!† (source)
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The New World Shopping Centre, a magnificent 5 storeyed open complex bringing under one roof the finest goods from the 4 corners of the earth...Hyperbole notwithstanding, the 'complex' was adjacent to the hotel; it would do for his purposes.† (source)
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In what words shall I describe this dread exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on hyperboles!† (source)
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