How To Use Hyperbole In A Sentence

But this exclamation is hyperbole; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
Better law enforcement is the key, but we also need to cut the hyperbole surrounding olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
Cosmo writes, “Cosmo is absolutely correct, â€œReaching for hyperbole and shrieking outrage at every turn doesnâ€ ™ t help your argumentâ€.” Paranoia « BuzzMachine
There is, however, no cost implication where hyperbole is concerned in this business.
American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.

According to this interpretation, the phrase “the nature of the divine and the good” refers simply to a characteristic that is attributed to Pyrrho, and labeled by poetic hyperbole as ˜divine™, in another fragment of Timon, namely his extraordinary tranquillity; the couplet as a whole, then, is saying that tranquillity is the source of an even-tempered life. Picnic
This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc.
The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards hyperbole.
I found examples of other tropes and schemes - epanalepsis, asyndeton, polysyndeton, hyperbole, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, and anadiplosis - but perhaps my point is sufficiently made.
He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and hyperbole.
That is hyperbole but is perhaps forgivable. Times, Sunday Times
And the only one who saw through the hyperbole and the meaningless superlatives was my Aunt Petunia, and she was half-deaf.
Let us note, first of all, that hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language not only most agreeable to it but also most necessary.
I agree that media coverage of the issue too often has been laden with generalizations, hyperbole and sensational images.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes the hyperbole gets out of proportion in terms of the influence they can wield. Times, Sunday Times
Internet hyperbole was still rampant and some Wall Street types, sensing a mega investment banking deal in the works, raved about the huge valuation this business would command.
The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
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More honest and accurate than laudatory adjectives on a fitness report or hyperbole in a medal citation, it is the true measure of a man by the people who know him the best.
See, it's NOT hyperbole cuz the hyperbolist tells us it isn't! Left-Wing Hyperbole: Know what Healthcare is Just like? Slavery - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState
In a country with proper respect for its rights and freedoms, this should not be a subject distorted by hyperbole nor confused by double-talk.
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! Don Quixote
It is impossible to create a responsible ethical and policy debate in a climate of hyperbole.
Step Into Liquid is a surfing documentary that offers a satisfactory amount of thrills within a tsunami of platitudes and hyperbole.
These include promises that attempt to create a climate for their own fulfilment, and promises that are more accurately described as hyperbole.
Because you chose to engage in hyperbole, and use the word “dwarfed”, you are now in an indefensible position, and you know it. Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of hyperbole.
Quickly the hyperbole subsided as he struggled to make an impact or carve out a distinctive policy agenda. Times, Sunday Times
Let us use my silly hyperbole as frontlets between our eyes.
This drops as the honeycomb; it dulcifies and sweetens the waters of Marah; it is better than life; it has a hyper-hyperbole in it.
Just like Clay took one decent point -- the "Residents' number is bad" -- and overblew his point as badly as he was accusing the press of overblowing their points, you're taking some good observations about SL's economic issues and interweaving them with hyperbole. SL Economy Misunderstood Again
Your hyperbole is typical, and no commentary about "broadbrush" will result from it, I'll bet! Drudge Retort
Aside from the fact that your hyperbole is laughable, I believe it is you and Dawkins who have missed the mark on this. A California Ruling
Your hyperbole is off the wall. 33% of Americans oppose the death penalty for murder, as do 40% of Democrats, but only 20% GOP per Galliup Poll in 2007. Senators to introduce Iran legislation
But I am willing to admit, since the truth is out, that it has long been my custom in preparing an article of a humorous nature to go down to the cellar and mix up half a gallon of myosis with a pint of hyperbole. Further Foolishness
I guess hyperbole is only acceptable from the Left. Begala calls Palin 'about half a whack job'
To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
I do remember some people scoffed at their name as childish hyperbole but we live in a world where megadeath caused by weapons of mass kaplooey is a real concern and the band is of this world ... you know what I mean. Archive 2004-10-01
Whether Alice actually wanted to put a hospital in the casino or the claim is merely gossipy hyperbole is unclear.
Some cynics might dismiss such statements as cosmic hyperbole.
We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and hyperbole.
Yet my experiences in the salons and at the stand-up recitals of the new literary scene suggest that, despite the occasional piece of irritating modishness, the hyperbole with which some events are trumpeted and the odd ropy performance, there is an energy and invention on offer that the established scene and its practitioners might do well to allow to rub off on them. The new wave of literary events
As a promise of lurid exotica, the term “Sci-Fi” was apt in the era of magazines titling themselves with words like “amazing”, “astounding”, “thrilling”, “stirring”, “fantastic”, but over the subsequent decades the Barnumesque hyperbole has been muted for a reason. Archive 2009-03-01
To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
The repetition and hyperbole involved in castigatory preaching approach suggest, paradoxically, its limited effect.
In such a febrile atmosphere, it is easy to reach for hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
The moralizing is given all the force which an accomplished rhetorician can provide and is enlivened by anecdote, hyperbole, and vigorous denunciation.
You are a classical scholar when you use hyperbole and a 'fibber' when you exaggerate. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life
More hyperbole was used when the picture appeared in Life magazine. Times, Sunday Times
Initially serving as either hubris or hyperbole, this trope likens the lover's earthly vision of the beloved to the angels' beatific, heavenly vision of God and the divine joy produced by that mysterious vision.
You could forgive the slight hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
With hindsight, was such hyperbole a little over the top? Times, Sunday Times
The claim that the Vendée is an aquatic Everest is not mere hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
The reference to a ‘pipeline’ is, of course, pejorative hyperbole and is not to be pressed.
The presiding deity of British pirate radio at the time was a fast-talking expat American who called himself, with standard transatlantic hyperbole, Emperor Rosko.
Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
Mourinho was modest afterwards, acknowledging the wild swings in hyperbole to which the media are prone.
This is no mere hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
Book jackets are known for their hyperbole and general flimflam.
It was all very negative and most of it was unfounded and/or hyperbole which I was able to refute fairly easily and did so.
Sometimes the hyperbole gets out of proportion in terms of the influence they can wield. Times, Sunday Times
These ranged from insult and hyperbole to completely destroying property and literally eviscerating enemies.
The employees are the real test of whether an involvement program is substantive and effective or mere hyperbole and atmospherics.
I tink I giving my hyperbole a lill exercise when I suggested that everyone give up the internet exploiter and get firefawx and sign up fer high speed jest so we kin git back our beloved burgers wid cheez. Plz to insrt carrot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
By resorting to understatement, concrete and physical language, a poet contends against abstraction, generalization, hyperbole and the heroic language of hot-headed generals and bogus lovers alike.
In a literary world filled with emotionalism and hyperbole, there are a few guiding stars.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
Antitrust standards are notoriously "squishy," and Varney's assertion that a New Deal-like relaxation of enforcement is a clear and present danger (hyperbole on my part) may be more populist than practical. Discourse.net: Why Aren't Hardware Limits on Netbooks an Anti-Trust Violation?
Such hyperbole deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
So do not take the following sentences as some fluffy hyperbole meant to substitute for a real, five paragraph review.
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
And to account for the hyperbole, perhaps the cheater is overconfident in his spouse’s ability to learn of and punish an affair, whereas in the present, he can more accurately determine that the affair will go unnoticed and end on its own terms. — An Ounce of Pleasure, a Gallon of Pain - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.
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It would be "descriptivist" to refer to him as Duh Poap Bennuhdigged 16 hyperbole, I know -- even in descriptivism that would usually be seen as wrong. URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion
He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities. Times, Sunday Times
At first glance, such a comment seems like hyperbole, an eulogizing overstatement.
It appears that you are looking past what you call hyperbole only to replace it with your own hyperbole by reading too much into this situation. The Guardian World News
Cosmo is absolutely correct, “Reaching for hyperbole and shrieking outrage at every turn doesnâ€ ™ t help your argument”. Paranoia « BuzzMachine
Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, hyperbole and damage limitation.
American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.
His hyperbole is intended to prevent informed debate in the fear that people will stop their partisan bickering long enough to actually see that his bill is lousy. GOP head demands apology for slavery remark
In addition, however, the speaker's unrelenting hyperbole draws attention to the incredibility of his praise of the Sidneys.
More hyperbole from the talker - how about those 5,000,000 new jobs you promised - Don't talk to us in generalities, or hyperbole, or abstracts – just the facts man, just the facts. where are the jobs? when are our retirment savings accounts gonna get back to where they were? Obama: 'Storms are beginning to break'
It's safe to say that hyperbole is the stuff of both poetry and protest movements.
The employees are the real test of whether an involvement program is substantive and effective or mere hyperbole and atmospherics.
They have since modified their youthful hyperbole, and both are now eminent professors. The Times Literary Supplement
Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order.
I agree that media coverage of the issue too often has been laden with generalizations, hyperbole and sensational images.
Grotesque hyperbole and mystification belongs among the trademarks of Czech culture and creating false identities is one of the strategies of contemporary art. Boing Boing
They generally strike me as hyperbole that works to insult but not really to enlighten.
If the material is strong enough, it doesn't need hyperbole and overemphatic delivery. Times, Sunday Times
However, in this particular society - open, self-governing and relatively tolerant of hype and hyperbole - the charge of treason is so difficult to prove, the word loses its meaning and its might. NPR Topics: News
And so I used hyperbole in writing a wittily scathing song back. Times, Sunday Times
British people tend understatement whereas Americans towards hyperbole.
James Mason was not a man prone to wild hyperbole or flippant remarks.
The grinding razzamatazz and hyperbole of the prematch entertainment and the awful food. Times, Sunday Times
There is some hyperbole in this, but the leap of imagination was certainly enormous.
The hyperbole that once oversold a piece of lame content now sells everything. Times, Sunday Times
Bosambo returned the messenger, with presents more valueless, and an assurance of friendship more sonorous, more complete in rhetoric and aptness of hyperbole, and when the messenger had gone Bosambo showed his appreciation of N'gori's love by doubling the guard about the Ochori city and sending a strong picket under his chief headman to hold the river bend. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
Such a misperception can lead to "loudness" -- all caps "screaming", hyperbole, exaggeration and such. Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders
But, if we follow Schwarzbach, Dickens's description of the street mire in Holborn is, if anything, understated - ‘mud’ is not hyperbole, but litotes.
Responding in kind to exaggeration or hyperbole is neither “appropriate” nor effective. The Volokh Conspiracy » Never a Good Way to Start Your Argument
According to the narrator, fierce would be hyperbole for even the bravest of hobbits.
But if his hyperbole is a little unfair, it's not foolish; it would be far more foolish to underestimate the import of the sublime, the degree to which the fame of those rhapsodes rests on how responsive people are to that aesthetic. Archive 2010-03-01
He's using exaggeration and hyperbole to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
It was not hyperbole to call it the worst storm in twenty years.
For the existence of hyperbole diagonal, the door hole below stair can be done triangularly , form the continuance of diagonal, those who prevented common practice is curt.
Pack up the breathless hyperbole and just point us in the direction of better gear.
It smells like some sort of crazy hybrid of fragrant, sweet berries and the floral hyperbole of lavender.
And before you remark, I apologize for the neologized hyperbole. Athens of the South
In such a febrile atmosphere, it is easy to reach for hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
Cassandra is sharp as a tack, awkward, and still young enough to greet her awakening desire and finer perceptions with astonishment and hyperbole.
While they may be provocative, they're quite bereft of the histrionics and hyperbole we've become used to in contemporary art.
I cringe whenever I hear terms like “podosphere” or “blogsophere” but tonight, Steve made me retch like a college freshman at his first kegger with the ultimate in vacuous hyperbole: “mainstreammediaosphere”! CJUG
Pisspoor Media will quote her sliming hyperbole no matter how much of a subliterary parasite she is revealed to be. Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing: James Wolcott
I recommend hyperbole to fiction writers in part because so many manuscripts are drab, flat, humdrum, unstimulating, safe. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Bigness
This is the metaphor gone beyond hyperbole into simile.
Rochefort was a 42-year-old cryptanalyst and a man not given to hyperbole. A Stealth Attack on Enemy Secrets
Coming from insiders to whom a term like "fabulation" actually means something, this hyperbole is excusable, even endearing; it's as if a team of hotel chefs were getting excited about their assortment of cabbages. Archive 2009-09-01
These include promises that attempt to create a climate for their own fulfilment, and promises that are more accurately described as hyperbole.
This is an unhelpful hyperbole, but it is certainly true that there must be contexts in which a statement of these truths is politically inopportune.
It's what you get for reading books of futurist hyperbole before you go to sleep.
In any other case this might sound like directorial hyperbole, but Lloyd has reason to be confident.
You could forgive the slight hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
It involves many techniques of expression such as innuendo, pun, irony, euphony, allegory, hyperbole, and oblique references, etc.
She calls him ‘a truly splendid man’, and goes on, with typical hyperbole: ‘You were the firstest with the mostest.
Something that comes close to implicating us all Pole star and hyperbole System, Satyam, & the Ashram Their Enron, our Satyam the surat split led to the partition of the country; the politics MaytaSatyam
But nobody can fault him for not lavishing enough hyperbole on his creation.
Sometimes the hyperbole gets out of proportion in terms of the influence they can wield. Times, Sunday Times
These narratives were overblown exaggerations, but polemicists employed their hyperbole to further political ends.
But by using hyperbole and muddling the difference between repressive regimes and the imperfections of democracy, Amnesty's spokesmen put its authority at risk.
To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
The work takes us from Hollywood hyperbole and reality TV to video-game warfare and the macho military leader's weakness for glamorous gold bustiers and high heels.
‘Hyperbole aside,’ says I, ‘do you know of any immediate system of buncoing the community out of a dollar or two except by applying to the Salvation Army or having a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps?’
His assessment was not mere hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
It's a nicely executed slice of bitterness, in which the speaker's pretensions and Romantic hyperbole are bathetically stripped away by the final snarling couplet. Archive 2009-10-01
The Greens specialise in hype hyperbole, to give it its full name, extravagant and exaggerated comments.
In fact, I might, in a fit of inexcusable hyperbole, prefer to have a flaming tire slung around my neck than this dress-necklace combo, but that's just because dresses with unnatural and undetachable jewelry (as opposed to beading, which is natural) are one of the (many) things that set me off on a rant. You know, there's another meaning of 'necklaced' - A Dress A Day
Real tragedies do not need hyperbole, for they are intrinsically hyperbolic.
It is not hyperbole to say that those beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals should now be called war profiteers.
When one attempts to extract something meaningful from this passage, one faces an uphill struggle, yet this is by no means an isolated example of such wilful obfuscation and hyperbole.
Forget that this was the hyperbole country of talk radio; forget that Pippen used the equivocal "may;" forget that a Bulls Kremlinologist would argue that Pippen was actually needling his canonized teammate "greatest scorer" has the whiff of faint praise more than he was lionizing a newcomer. No Use Denying the LeBrilliance Anymore
Stripping aside the zingers and hyperbole, you get a fairly clear picture of the respective strategies for the summer campaign.
After all the froth, all the frenzy, all the ridiculous hyperbole, the new Howard / Blair contest was put neatly into context by a Yorkshire MP.
Such hyperbole deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
I say this next bit without an iota of hyperbole.
They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis. Laddie: A True Blue Story
The spectacle is declared by the Americans themselves to have been one of the highest moral grandeur, if not of sublimity; and, though our cousins on this side of the water are somewhat too much in the habit of using fine words and indulging in hyperbole, no one who witnessed the long lines of busy men, neglecting their business for awhile to attend to the more important business of the State, and waiting patiently in the street amid the fog and rain until it came to their turn to deposit their balloting-paper in the appointed box -- using no jostling in pressing, indulging in no altercation with each other on the exciting subject which drew them together, and in every way behaving with as much subdued dignity as if they were attending a place of worship -- can deny that the encomium is abundantly merited. The Presidential Contest in America
Having said that let us not get carried away in hyperbole and rhetoric.
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All the hyperbole about how sacred the right to filibuster judges is is just bosh.
Finally, the tone involves too much hyperbole. Times, Sunday Times
Different criteria result in different categories of hyperbole.
Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole.
Even in the long debased hyperbole of historic moments in the Northern Ireland peace process, this was a monumental announcement.
The chancellor should drop his hyperbole about banks making a "fair contribution": the levy is a gentle measure. The banks have won after all
Similarly, claims about the potential of the Internet are usually overstated and often hyperbole.
One might forgive the hyperbole in a politician but it is less easy to take from academic or journalistic critics.
Sometimes the hyperbole gets out of proportion in terms of the influence they can wield. Times, Sunday Times

How To Use Hyperbole In A Sentence

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