How to Use ballyhoo in a Sentence

ballyhoo

noun
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  • Much has been the ballyhoo, and this superb show earns it.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • And after much ballyhoo, it was revealed that 2019 will be the year of King Greg and King Marty.
    — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • No rematch, no do-over, no more circuit of coarse promotion and ballyhoo.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The parade began as a ballyhoo event for the famed retailer in Manhattan’s Herald Square in 1924.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The parade began as a ballyhoo event for the famed retailer in Manhattan’s Herald Square in 1924.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
  • There’s been much ballyhoo, and rightly so, over Fargo star Ewan McGregor pulling off not one, but two roles in the show’s upcoming third season.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Mullet and pinfish are the hardiest, with menhaden, sardines, and ballyhoo being less so.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • But no-one was laughing yesterday as the ballyhoo around Amazon's garage sale triggered the latest in a series of gut-wrenching sell-offs in retail stocks.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 11 July 2017
  • Much ballyhoo will be made over the look of this game, but just as impressive are the audio design and DualSense controller integration.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Tax reform, which was rolled out to much ballyhoo by the Trump administration, remains nothing more than a broad outline of proposals -- none of which have begun to make their way through the legislative process.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 July 2017
  • Between showering shows, Stanczyk fishes for sailfish by trolling dead ballyhoo.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 2 July 2020
  • Teaming with Procter & Gamble, which released its first cold-water detergent to much ballyhoo in 2005, is a canny financial move.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2020
  • An Oscar season with less ballyhoo may not be as susceptible to lobbying, experts say.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • On the basis of this notion, the Oscars have an element of interest and significance that extends far beyond the ballyhoo and the choices, however misguided.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
  • But having been shut out of the first two days of proceedings, as Republicans broadcast this ballyhoo through the convention’s reality distortion field, the real world started to up its game on Wednesday.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Back then, some medical ethicists arched eyebrows over these procedures and an accompanying ballyhoo in the news media.
    — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2016
  • Intermittently, the banter and ballyhoo that results from this is serviceable, especially with the plot moving as a progressive dance in its mixing and matching of character pairs.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Expectations were stoked by months of hype and ballyhoo, with almost 11 million social media posts about the eclipse in the last seven days, according to Talkwalker Inc., a social media analytics company in New York.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017

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