Hyperbole Examples, Examples of Hyperbole
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Bill Gates has enough money to feed an entire continent.
He always knows the right thing to say.
He is as skinny as a toothpick.
He is the fastest thing on two feet.
He was thirsty enough to drink a river dry.
Her brain is the size of a pea.
Her brain is the size of peanut.
Her eyes were as wide as saucers.
He’s got a truckload of money.
He’s older than the Harappan civilization
His house is large enough to have its own zip code.
His teeth were blinding white.
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
I am so tired I could sleep for a year.
I can smell pizza from a mile away.
I could listen to that song on repeat forever.
I don’t have two cents to rub together.
I have a million things to do today.
I have told you a million times not to lie!
I waited in line for centuries.
I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
I was so tired you could have knocked me over with a feather.
I went home and made the biggest sandwich of all time.
I will die if she asks me to sing in front of everyone.
I’d rather French kiss a rattlesnake than miss a gym period.
I’ve seen this movie at least 80,000 times.
If he talks to me in front of everyone, I will die of embarrassment.
If I can’t buy that new game, I will die.
If I don’t get these jeans, I will die!
I’ll go insane if I don’t get to the meeting on time.
I’ll kill her if she doesn’t arrive for the party on time.
I’m so hungry I could eat a goose with its beak!
I’m trying to do ten million things at once.
It is going to take a bazillion years to get through Medical School.
It is the only thing that ever mattered to him.
it took him two seconds to drive here.
It took light years for this to work.
I’ve told you a million times don’t exaggerate.
Maybe I’ll do it in a million years.
My car is a million years old.
My dad knows everything about cars.
My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high ice cream cones we were having for dessert.
My mother’s lecture on good manners lasted two weeks one afternoon.
Nothing could ever go wrong with his plan.
Now there is no star that is not perfumed with my fragrance.
Old Harry has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
She arrived with an army of children.
She can have any boy that she wants.
She could singe any one’s eyebrows off with her breath.
She cut him down with her words.
She drank from a bottomless glass of Kool-Aid.
She has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.
She is skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.
She lives on the other side of the universe.
She worked her fingers to the bone.
She would be content anywhere.
She’d die if she didn’t eat a bar of chocolate everyday.
That new car costs a bazillion dollars.
That was the easiest question in the world.
That woman has no self-control.
The boys were glued in their seats.
The daggers of heat pierced through his black t-shirt.
The engagement ring he gave her was so small that a magnifying glass was needed to see it
The house was so big, it took a week to walk from one end to the other.
The lesson was taking forever.
The mountain of paperwork weighed heavily on the teacher’s desk.
The movie was so bad that I wanted to gorge my eyes out.
The only thing that he ever wants to do is play that game.
The package took forever to arrive in the mail.
The sight of them kissing is so gross that it makes me want to puke.
The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
The whole world was staring at me.
There are millions of other things to do.
There were an endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.
This car is faster than the speed of light.
Vanessa never has anything interesting to say.
Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
We tried everything that we could.
We’ll be best friends forever.
You snore louder than a freight train.
