I know your kind heart urges you to keep the girl from harm, but I am exaggerating the danger to alarm her into obedience.

Probably there were just a few mice, and your memory's exaggerated them into rats, Dennis thought now.

To have two women in long plaits, take a couple of incidents and exaggerate them into a 3-hour film is such a waste of time.

Did I truly bug you all that much, Kitty, or was he not playfully exaggerating mild annoyance into vivid distaste?

Craig exaggerates the gesture into a monstrous lie of seduction to justify his own attempt to seduce a teen-age friend.

Mr. Tower has responded to the charge by exaggerating it into one of treason.

To her credit, Torres doesn't take the easy path and exaggerate this decline into tawdriness.

"This is Oklahoma, boy," he said, exaggerating his accent into a twanging nasal drawl.

But why exaggerate this into a scandal?

If troubles or difficulties there be from natural causes, then it will exaggerate them into nightmare proportions.