Sample sentences for HYPERBOLE

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Definition

extravagant exaggeration

She makes her case with facts, not hyperbole.

The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
It was a contest in hyperbole and carried on for no other reason.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

hyperbole = extravagant exaggeration

Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied...
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
Saxon was not nautical enough to appreciate his hyperbole, though Billy grinned.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
Those two words may just be hyperbole, but coming in the first two sentences of the story, they feel suggestive.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
It is a mere rhetorical figure—what they call in the books, hyperbole.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
"Hyperbole, Mr. Mason," Ms.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
None were quoted as sources, and none have since been blamed for the misleading hyperbole.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
How sincerely Jefferson meant what he had written, how much was hyperbole among friends, is difficult to gauge.
David McCullough -- John Adams
He wasn't above hyperbole or dramatics.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Now that remark sounded like schoolgirl hyperbole.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
I frowned at the hyperbole.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Prochazka loved to regale his friends with hyperbole and excess.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Though the horse was dollar sound at this stage of his career, reporters given to hyperbole began regularly referring to him as a "cripple."
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
I'm engaging in hyperbole.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
But I'd always thought of it as a hyperbole, a traditional description for something that had no real physiological link, like a green thumb.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
I'm dying for a drink," cried Bo with her customary hyperbole.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
I rolled my eyes at the hyperbole.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
Yet it's not hyperbole to say that millions of women and girls are actually enslaved today.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

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