ballyhoo

Example Sentences

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For all the ballyhoo about having the most skiable acreage in the U.S.,

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

This L.A. was the self-invented mirage city of unflagging ballyhoo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Barely a decade ago, the New York men’s wear presentations merited their own dedicated week with all the attendant ballyhoo, parties, corporate sponsorships and street-style photographers trawling for Instagram fodder.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2022

That might be one reason why the fanfare surrounding Firth’s larger-than-life Hyde Park statue paled in comparison to the ballyhoo surrounding Goldblum’s.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2021

Whereupon, I take it, he'll rove forth again to seek his son and patch up a regular ballyhoo of a quarrel that almost disrupted the Holbein Club.

From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre