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Example sentences for "hyperboles"

Lexicographically close words:
hyperaemic; hyperaesthesia; hyperbola; hyperbolas; hyperbole; hyperbolic; hyperbolical; hyperboloid; hypercritical; hyperdrive
  1. Thus the abominations of Il Lasca's stories would have to be regarded as the last desperate bids for popularity, as final hyperboles of exhausted rhetoric.

  2. The sonneteers suggested parodies to Aretino, who celebrated vice and deformity in women with hyperboles adapted from the sentimental school.

  3. But we can hardly think that Balzac was not gravely ironical in some of the strange hyperboles which Bouhours quotes from him.

  4. He is less mythological, less affected, less given to frigid hyperboles than his predecessors, but far too much so for anyone accustomed to real poetry.

  5. We believe that the hyperboles of the privy-counsellor and the bishop are of equal magnitude.

  6. Such are the hyperboles sanctioned by the genius, or, what with some judges may have more influence, the name of Milton.

  7. But Dryden would have made Mercutio challenge Tybalt in hyperboles as fanciful as those in which he describes the chariot of Mab.

  8. Hence posterity is too often deceived by the vague hyperboles of poets and rhetoricians, who mistake the splendour of a court for the happiness of a people.

  9. Orgonte, the emblem of pride, outdoes the hyperboles of Rodomonte and the lunes of Tamburlaine.


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