Preposition: in

• way: To check whether your spreadsheet is overblown in this way, press the Ctrl and End keys on the keyboard.

Modifies a noun

• finale: Even tho there are some dumb moments and an overblown finale, Chan and Wilson's chemistry makes the movie themselves.

• rhetoric: It was overblown rhetoric, they said: a sad case of a politician drunk on the heady fumes of his own power.

• claim: I've never made overblown claims about our prospects.

• hype: The first few races saw the sort of overblown hype we've come to expect from Honda following a highly successful winter of testing.

• style: The Fulton speech analyzed the post-war international situation in the overblown style which was to win Churchill the Nobel Prize for Literature.

• battle: So just how much have Planners blown on their grandiose and overblown battle against malaria?

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: If a claim feels slightly overblown, then tone it down.

• little: Raoul was too flimsy and foppish until the moment of the sword fight and even then that was a little overblown.

• ridiculously: Tuition fees, foundation hospitals, faith schools - even the ridiculously overblown debate on fox-hunting - have all provoked a visceral reaction.

• vastly: Whilst the vastly overblown media hysteria and their ignorance will always alienate football fans, Wales is Wales and that was fantastic.

• rather: But in the attempts to make the film look as intentionally bad as possible, the film actually turns into a rather overblown cheese-fest.

• so: In 1977 Atlantic funded the sessions for The Gambler but the results were so overblown that it was not released.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Bird experts at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology also said the protest seemed overblown.

• become: With extra money coming in, there could be a danger that the market could become overblown.

• feel: If a claim feels slightly overblown, then tone it down.

• sound: It has a catchy chorus, a gorgeous melody and even manages to throw in an orchestral break without sounding overblown.

• get: But the value of information to democracy tends to get overblown.