How to Use hoopla in a Sentence

hoopla

noun
  • Many people have grown tired of all the hoopla surrounding the opening of the new theater.
  • All this hoopla is not without precedent.
    — David MacK, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • And they weren’t fazed by all the hoopla surrounding this week’s event.
    — Zahra Ahmad, Science | AAAS, 20 July 2017
  • But when all the hoopla is done, there always remains a game to be played.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Just as the hoopla from one major dies down, the hype for the next one commences.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • But despite the hoopla, AI can't think.
    — Stephen Wakeling, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There never was a whole lot of hoopla about my career or anything.
    — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There's been a lot of hoopla that's come out, a lot of distractions, a lot of noise.
    — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 18 May 2021
  • Some people will resist all the hoopla, but others will love it.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • As the hoopla has revved up around the event, some traders are betting that mining stocks will fall.
    — David Pan, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Except there is no hoopla, at least not in the Spurs’ locker room.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The theater and concert hall recede, along with crowds and hoopla.
    — Robert Boucheron, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • First win real championships and then make all the hoopla and noise about your team.
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Drowned out in all the hoopla, however, were some rather sobering caveats.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • For all the hoopla around the game and the strangeness of the setting, there still are two points on the line.
    — The Athletic Nhl Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • All of the hoopla, the hype, the expectations that were placed on him at such a young age.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • With mead, and wishes of blessings from Norse gods, and lots of hoopla, of course.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Others are more critical of the demo and the hoopla around it.
    — Wired, 16 Oct. 2019
  • There’s no hoopla to speak of, just a small sign and a shack that serves as the visitor’s center.
    — Will McGough, CNN, 5 July 2021
  • Owner Bernie Coulombe has a one-word response for all the hoopla.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • No one can explain to me all the hoopla around three guys who showed up two weeks late to celebrate a birth.
    — Louis J. Esterhazy, WWD, 8 Dec. 2024
  • You guys really seem to enjoy all the awards-season hoopla.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • For all the hoopla around Ball and his family, don’t forget that this dude can play.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • That's what this is about for Kaprizov, not the hoopla or the likes and the superlatives.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The challenge will be to keep the momentum rolling when the hoopla around the announcements fades.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 8 July 2018
  • The young team won’t be distracted by the Olympic hoopla and will be able to focus on winning a medal.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 3 July 2021
  • In the spring of 1989, a new board game was released amid modest media hoopla.
    — Wayne Curtis, WSJ, 9 June 2017
  • Type in opera on the hoopla site, and watch as dozens of pages appear featuring videos and CDs.
    — Chris Smith | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • In all, the coin and its artificial hoopla cost about $1,000.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Yebba released Jean ahead of any hoopla like a music video or an interview.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026

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