hype

Example Sentences

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Hegseth’s bravado has also been caricatured on “Saturday Night Live,” which opened two weeks in a row with a satirical portrayal of him as angry, dimwitted and hyped up on the violence of war.

From Los Angeles Times

Roger Paterson presented his footage to America in a traveling show that crisscrossed the nation and climaxed with the hyped Bigfoot sequence on screen.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Even if you didn't see it publicly, all of them are here for me and hyping me up," she says.

From BBC

Fact-checking website Snopes at the time suggested the story was "far more hype or hoax than reality".

From BBC

Today, there are “valid concerns” about travel there, but there’s also “a lot of hype and hysteria” among those looking to travel to Mexico, Elrod said.

From MarketWatch