How to Use ballyhoo in a Sentence

ballyhoo

noun
  • No rematch, no do-over, no more circuit of coarse promotion and ballyhoo.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The wanted posters began to disappear years ago with no ballyhoo.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Here comes 72 hours of ballyhoo and bluster about the state of the television business.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 May 2025
  • Mullet and pinfish are the hardiest, with menhaden, sardines, and ballyhoo being less so.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • For all the ballyhoo about the total solar eclipse this past April, the event didn’t stir up much in the way of conspiracy thinking.
    — Eric Olson, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • Imagine the ballyhoo if a Bears general manager were to do that today.
    — Charles Billington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Between showering shows, Stanczyk fishes for sailfish by trolling dead ballyhoo.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 2 July 2020
  • An Oscar season with less ballyhoo may not be as susceptible to lobbying, experts say.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • But no-one was laughing yesterday as the ballyhoo around Amazon's garage sale triggered the latest in a series of gut-wrenching sell-offs in retail stocks.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 11 July 2017
  • Back then, some medical ethicists arched eyebrows over these procedures and an accompanying ballyhoo in the news media.
    — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2016
  • Much ballyhoo will be made over the look of this game, but just as impressive are the audio design and DualSense controller integration.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022
  • And after much ballyhoo, it was revealed that 2019 will be the year of King Greg and King Marty.
    — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • At this point, The Rock already had one foot out the door toward Hollywood, and the win would matter less in his career than the overall ballyhoo of the match.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 July 2024
  • There’s been much ballyhoo, and rightly so, over Fargo star Ewan McGregor pulling off not one, but two roles in the show’s upcoming third season.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
  • The ballyhoo that gathered around all the naked dressing at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival was, in hindsight, a little ironic.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The parade began as a ballyhoo event for the famed retailer in Manhattan’s Herald Square in 1924.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Intermittently, the banter and ballyhoo that results from this is serviceable, especially with the plot moving as a progressive dance in its mixing and matching of character pairs.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • On the basis of this notion, the Oscars have an element of interest and significance that extends far beyond the ballyhoo and the choices, however misguided.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The whole 50th ballyhoo led up to an all-star three-plus hour anniversary show that premiered Sunday (naturally), February 16.
    — Rance Collins, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Teaming with Procter & Gamble, which released its first cold-water detergent to much ballyhoo in 2005, is a canny financial move.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2020
  • But having been shut out of the first two days of proceedings, as Republicans broadcast this ballyhoo through the convention’s reality distortion field, the real world started to up its game on Wednesday.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The chefs have clearly helped Miami diners expand their palates, serving unusual dishes that could potentially make diners uneasy, like the ballyhoo, which Martinez said should return to the menu once the season starts in a few weeks.
    — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The masters of ballyhoo chopped it up on the delicate handling of awards campaigns, the elusiveness of Gen Z consumers and how marketing around blockbusters and franchises is now a year-round obligation to keep fans engaged and interested.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Having been pretty much unanimously declared the loser of the verbal ballyhoo, Drake has since taken the feud down a different avenue – accusing record label Universal Music of illicitly boosting the track on streaming services and radio.
    — Rebecca Messina, The Week Uk, theweek, 30 Dec. 2024

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