In a sentence
Six example sentences with hyperbole, each labelled with its topic.
The mayor called a two week delay the worst crisis in the city history, and reporters treated the hyperbole gently.
Politics
The narrator's hyperbole is the joke: he describes a rainy Tuesday as the darkest week his family ever survived.
Literature
Coaches warn that gym hyperbole, where every session becomes the hardest workout ever, teaches beginners to ignore real warning signs.
Fitness
Pitch decks run on hyperbole, and investors quietly divide every market size on the slide by ten.
Startups
Calling the freshman the best player ever born was hyperbole, though the arena chanted it anyway.
Basketball
Menu hyperbole calls every soup legendary, so diners stop believing the one dish that actually deserves the word.
Cooking
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