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Example sentences for "exaggerates"

Lexicographically close words:
exactness; exacts; exaggerate; exaggerated; exaggeratedly; exaggerating; exaggeration; exaggerations; exalt; exaltation
  1. It looks like the Turner person, him bein' nacherally timid, exaggerates the perils which lurks in that aged cimmaron.

  2. I in no wise exaggerates when I avers that I freequent cuts the trail of parties who, after the tenth or mebby it's the 'leventh drink across the Red Light bar, waxes that punctillious they even addresses a measly Mexican as 'Sir.

  3. I own to thinking,' she writes, 'that your sensitive nature exaggerates or misinterprets the neglect that you experience at the hands of your husband.

  4. Pray forgive me if I own to thinking that your very sensitive nature exaggerates or misinterprets, quite unconsciously, of course, the neglect that you experience at the hands of your husband.

  5. And suppose that the doctor's opinion exaggerates the peril in his case.

  6. Lyrical distortion exaggerates the intensity of the sentiments and the emotions of the author and his friends: we should remember this when we attempt to reconstruct "the psychology" of a person.

  7. Lightfoot very greatly exaggerates the importance attached to the Armenian version, and I call special attention to the passages in the above quotation which I have taken the liberty of italicising.

  8. The poetical in woman exaggerates the worth of the practical in man.

  9. Ah, Mrs. Morley, do not lower your friend into an ordinary girl in whom idleness exaggerates the strength of any fancy over which it dreamily broods.

  10. Mr Horne stupidly exaggerates thus-- "His table with repletion heavy lay Amidst his hall throughout the feast-long day.

  11. Like that author, the Countess labours assiduously to collect together all the darkest shades and least favourable points of the country and people she visits; exaggerates them when she finds them, and invents them when she does not.

  12. But this exaggerates the beginnings, of which Rivarol could have no exact knowledge.

  13. I naturally put him down to be one of those alarmist cranks with whom one so often comes into contact--a man who exaggerates the gossip of the Bourse and repeats it as actual fact with embroidery of his own.

  14. No doubt you've been told some awful tales about my doings--stories which get about Rome, and everyone exaggerates them as they pass from mouth to mouth.

  15. Carey exaggerates when he calls money the cause of the movement in society, out of which force is produced, what coal is to the locomotive, or food to the animal body (Principles of Social Science, ch.

  16. Fuoco exaggerates this into the principle: che la distribuzione, e non la produzione, sia la prima e principal operazione in economia.

  17. It has often been objected that he mistakes and exaggerates the position which he is attacking.

  18. In the large place which the details of good living fill in his plays, Plautus exaggerates a tendency which is discernible in the more decorous fictions of Scott and Dickens.

  19. The Secretary in no degree exaggerates the great importance of pressing forward without delay in the work of erecting and finishing the fortifications to which he particularly alludes.

  20. The tremor may be controlled in voluntary {543} movements, while emotion exaggerates it.

  21. Then there is the fear of tremor which exaggerates a tremor due to some organic cause, but yet not necessarily of grave import, nor likely to increase rapidly.

  22. Attention exaggerates it, and makes diversion of mind difficult.

  23. Believe me, it is your own proud spirit that exaggerates the difficulties that would await us in society.

  24. She never exaggerates a gloomy story, and her account is very afflicting.

  25. Pascal exaggerates somewhat when he says the Bible never seeks to prove religion from the “wonders” of nature.

  26. While Buddhism makes God, or the good, and heaven, to be equivalent to nothing, it intensifies and exaggerates evil.

  27. How, for instance, he exaggerates in his mystical enthusiasm the principle of authority, see below, p.

  28. It is certain, however, that the vice greatly exaggerates natural fear, and creates an unnatural apprehensiveness.

  29. The patient is sometimes unnecessarily frightened by it, and often exaggerates the amount of the losses, and the symptoms arising from them.

  30. We are inclined to suspect that both here and in the Republic Plato exaggerates the influence really exercised by the song and the dance.

  31. And secrecy introduces mystery which enormously exaggerates their power; a mere animal want is thus elevated into a sentimental ideal.

  32. Xenophon exaggerates the importance of the recent defeats (as he terms them) before Sparta and Mantinea.

  33. Justin (vi, 7) greatly exaggerates the magnitude and violence of the contest.

  34. My grandfather exaggerates my usefulness," said the girl.

  35. In short, we notice him because he exaggerates our own peculiarities.

  36. Kapinan ug sulti sa tabian ang íyang mga libak, The gossip always exaggerates the stories she tells behind people’s backs.

  37. Lábung manulti kay hanginug útuk, He exaggerates because he is boastful.

  38. With vivid strokes he paints me scene after scene, episode after episode, of his life in "a windbag," and I see that he exaggerates not at all.

  39. He feels guilty and even exaggerates his own guilt in view of the punishment which has befallen him.

  40. The Theory Exaggerates the Role of Antagonistic Competitive Struggle in the Darwinian Theory.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exaggerates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.