ballyhoo
Example Sentences
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Curiously, there seemed to be no VIP or movie star ballyhoo; instead, as The Times wrote, the inaugural passengers on the north-to-south trip were 150 L.A.-area schoolkids.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2023
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
Motion pictures ran day and night, their ballyhoo added to the outcries of the other barkers.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
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