How to Use overstate in a Sentence

overstate

verb

• It would be overstating the case to say that it was a matter of life or death.
• But the White House is keen not to overstate any change.
  — Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
• The weirdness of McCarthy’s style is hard to overstate.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
• Nike’s sway in elite track and road running is hard to overstate.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• The human toll of the opioid crisis is hard to overstate.
  — Sam Whitehead, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
• But in truth, both sides overstate the impact this case is likely to have on the law or on the ground.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• The film’s title rather overstates the Frankenstein of it all.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• In the past, IPCC scientists have bent over backward to be calm and not to overstate the case.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• In some cases, the amount of money the group has claimed to cut has been overstated.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
• Steven Weinberg’s stature in physics would be hard to overstate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• Much of the skepticism starts at the top, with a voice whose power is hard to overstate.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2020
• This elongates the neck and jawline and overstates the power of surgery.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 1 Dec. 2023
• There is no way to overstate how the Supreme Court has changed the political mood.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• But the importance of the 49ers’ first-round bye cannot be overstated.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• The good news is that the summer slide is often overstated.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
• The shock and hurt in Canada, the largest U.S. trading partner and a close ally, was hard to overstate.
  — Author: Anne Gearan, Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2021
• But the authors probably overstate the effect of IRS staffing on the wealthy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• To Vincent, there was no overstating the danger of gambling to the sport.
  — Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
• There’s no way to overstate Mr. Salazar’s bad judgment.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• There’s no way to overstate how big a blow losing Ovechkin is to the Capitals, though.
  — Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• The level of nationwide anger at the parties is hard to overstate.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 June 2022
• Hard to overstate how valuable a player like that can be.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2021
• The consequences of all these forces combined are hard to overstate.
  — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• The importance of his voice in this area cannot be overstated.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 4 June 2018
• It can’t be overstated how Joe has transformed the landscape of our corner of the state.
  — Josh Will, Cincinnati.com, 10 Jan. 2020
• But the stories this week about the surprising power of the left side of the party may have overstated the case a bit.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• Some will say the Pac-12 is back as well, but that’ll be overstating the case off one game and where the SEC team in question could see its coach fired by the end of the year.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 July 2019
• The polls were correct that Joe Biden would win, but 93 percent of them overstated his lead.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
• There is truth in this argument, but Gordis overstates his case.
  — Ethan Bronner, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
• The initial accounting was overstated by billions of dollars, a review by CBS News found.
  — Dan Ruetenik, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Mar 2025