[ US /ˈbæɫiˈhu/ ]
[ UK /bˌælɪhˈuː/ ]
NOUN
  1. blatant or sensational promotion
VERB
  1. advertize noisily or blatantly

How To Use ballyhoo In A Sentence

  • Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
  • There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
  • They were ballyhooing this very motion picture, in fact.
  • Not only was she far from a leading candidate to win a world title, she was not even the most - ballyhooed individual medley performer on the American team.
  • The most ballyhooed aspect of AoT: 40 is its emphasis on teamplay toward victory. ARMY OF TWO: The 40th Day PS3 Review – Collider.com
  • Guedes calls the ballyhooed Niteroi museum "an expensive lookout tower," and Brasilia's photogenic ministerial esplanade "columns of block buildings marching in a military parade. Skyline Sculptor
  • I have it on good authority that the whale thinks that this ballyhoo is a bunch of, well, blubber.
  • The power of red wine to counteract high cholesterol has been ballyhooed in the press.
  • When you try to hook a billfish and miss, all you recover is the hook and the head of the ballyhoo (the herring-like baitfish); hence the corruption, San Cocho.
  • Confusion surrounds the future of a much - ballyhooed extension of Shanghai's magnetic levitation ( maglev ) train service.
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