How to Use hyperbolic in a Sentence

hyperbolic

adjective

• Sure, that’s a bit hyperbolic for a team that has lost 15 of its last 22 games.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2021
• At the same time, at the risk of being hyperbolic… no one wanted this?
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
• To me, not to be hyperbolic, but James, as a songwriter and a melody person, is one of the greats.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2022
• That’s a bit hyperbolic considering the Suns are in the playoffs for the first time in 11 years.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2021
• There have been more pitches this year than in the last decade, to be slightly hyperbolic.
  — Avi Dan, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The idea that the virus could spread across these continents in just a few years is not some hyperbolic scenario.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Just four days later, the idea doesn’t sound as hyperbolic.
  — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
• On the surface, a statement such as this might sound hyperbolic, even New Agey in its triteness.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• But to say that his Heisman Trophy chances died on the first weekend of the season is nothing less than a hyperbolic statement.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022
• Like the oratory, the monument to Lee was hyperbolic—in this case, in scale.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
• That might sound hyperbolic given that all Samsung did was play a flashy reel of a sparkly ring with a few visible sensors on the inside of the band.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2024
• Even without the hyperbolic language, the line of attack is laughable.
  — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• The Red Studio is an unabashedly hyperbolic vision, a sort of fever dream (a cool fever dream, if that’s possible).
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
• The defendants claim their language in many of their chat room exchanges was hyperbolic and is protected by the First Amendment.
  — Denise Lavoie, ajc, 8 Nov. 2021
• The kid whose rhythm guitar was once buried in the mix, whose now Vedic presence and endurance mean more than anyone ever hopes to translate into hyperbolic praise.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• All these hyperbolic and chaotic doings are portrayed as just the way of the world, and the seeming disorder of Harry’s life comes off as the natural order of things.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• The campaign has sent about 500 post-election fundraising pitches to donors, often with hyperbolic language about voter fraud and the like.
  — Author: Josh Dawsey, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2020
• Such intense and often hyperbolic criticism proves the film’s place in the culture even more definitively than the praise, though the praise grows more lavish with each passing year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• Such fears can seem hyperbolic, and the prospect of great armies forming and clashing in the continental U.S. is blessedly remote.
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• Tax experts have been less hyperbolic but made a similar point.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
• Some have been hyperbolic; many have failed to appreciate how resilient the the service was before Musk’s arrival.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• Word is that audience reactions to the film were good, contrary to some initial fan rumors and hyperbolic quotes in some outlets.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• But Zuchtriegel is likely to be less hyperbolic in his promotion than Osanna sometimes sought to be.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• All the while, Michelle Monaghan throws herself into the challenge of portraying twins with the delirious freedom that the show’s hyperbolic framework allows.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
• While the battles will be fought in headlines and hyperbolic critiques, the winner of this public struggle for the soul of the party could ultimately decide the direction of the nation.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• Despite the hyperbolic name, this app actually seems very much like a return to Zillow’s core business, serving the needs of agents and homeowners.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 2 June 2022
• The film employs melodrama and hyperbolic speech as a vehicle to propagate a wider message of what love can achieve in times of division and turmoil.
  — Shayeza Walid, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• Concerns are wide-ranging, fervent and, in some cases, run hyperbolic.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• High-tech investing is predisposed to take even clearly hyperbolic projections as part of the game.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• At times, weather and climate information can be presented in a hyperbolic way.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024