ballyhoo

Example Sentences

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But could all this ballyhoo sap interest in his work?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

While Texas and Florida officials ballyhoo their border tightening efforts, no major immigration legislation has emerged this year in Arizona, where some of the nation’s toughest laws targeting immigrants have been devised.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

“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

No. 3 Georgia, a bout that stoked ballyhoo, thudded to a dud suspense-wise Friday night.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022

She was a hemp-rigged old ballyhoo out o' Quebec, an' gear was chafin' through all the time.

From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan