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
Los Angeles’ city fathers, so adept at ballyhoo, just hated it that the highfalutin’ town up the Arroyo Seco had thought up their big flowery promotional parade first.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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
Hiram Grafter taught me to ballyhoo And to make openings.
From The Broadway Anthology by Bernays, Edward L.
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