How to Use fanfare in a Sentence

fanfare

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  • The new jet was introduced with great fanfare.
  • Most of the time, there’s no fanfare — the show just moves on.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • The arrival of bet365 in Ohio has been met with a great deal of fanfare.
    — cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
  • In 2008, amid much fanfare, the Met returned it to Italy.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • No fanfare: Turn on the toaster oven to 325°; set on the bake function.
    — Anna Francese Gass, Bon Appétit, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Still, despite the fanfare surrounding the OBC, a game will have to be played.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
  • Cam Rising and the injury The back-to-back champion of the league, Utah, won’t have the most fanfare on Friday.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • There’s no fanfare, no crash-banging thuds and whirring smoke.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Then boom, Brock and his symbiote are whisked right back to their world with little to no fanfare.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Two of the most-beloved directors in the industry have stepped into the race, to great fanfare.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There's something about weddings, and the fanfare, and the bachelorette.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Opened to much fanfare last September, the venue cost $2.3 billion to build.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 July 2024
  • The movie has inspired all kinds of fanfare—from Hocus Pocus costumes to drinking games to tours of the town where it was filmed.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Slowly and without fanfare, around the end of the aughts, social media took its place.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But as Ford revived the Bronco to great fanfare, GM has stayed quiet.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The Cruise news, which was first reported on Aug. 1, brought fanfare and shocked the internet.
    — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
  • So great fanfare accompanied the release in 2019 of the first image of a black hole.
    — Katie McCormick, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The ship was launched with great fanfare on June 17 and has been in the final stages of construction at a Shanghai shipyard.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The building opened with fanfare in 1928 as the Real Estate Building.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Earlier that day, just across the Bay and to far less fanfare, my mom delivered me.
    — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • Swift started her first of eight Eras Tour shows in London on Friday night to much fanfare.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 22 June 2024
  • There are some who don’t get feathers ruffled and have a high tolerance for the fanfare.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • A week later, and after much fanfare, the first Black Out night came and went without much issue.
    — Jazmine Hughes, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • Its first season premiered in 2022, on what was then called HBO Max, to little fanfare.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Sweeney arrived about halfway through to great fanfare in a form-fitting black pleather dress.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Welcomed by a fanfare, Queen Camilla then entered the cathedral to take her seat.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The day that probably was the Crescent’s last came and went with no fanfare, no last-minute pleas for donations.
    — Lawrence Specker | , al, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But there was no fanfare at the Tucson shelter when the Guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters and rats arrived.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Each time another Star Wars title opens with a rousing fanfare, a scroll and a star field, all of us get that same feeling — a new hope — over and over again.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Her eponymous daytime talk show, launched with some fanfare in 2019, was canceled after just one season.
    — Belinda Luscombe / Boston, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024

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