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

Of course, one doesn’t expect PR departments to ballyhoo bad news.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2022

“That was one of the places that my father used to stand outside in his outfit to ballyhoo all these movies,” she recalled.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 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

No steam carousel shrieked, no ballyhoo blared, no steam pianos shrieked, no barker barked.

From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)