Example sentences for: overhyped

How can you use “overhyped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Predictably, the film festival's 50 th anniversary is an overhyped bash; and predictably, critics kvetch.

  • On the NYT Op-Ed page, Gordon G. Chang, a Beijing-based lawyer for an American firm, argues that the Chinese-American WTO negotiations are overhyped.

  • Another thing: Why do 50-something male columnists criticize the Women's World Cup team as being "overhyped," when, in fact, that story was the complete opposite of hype (fans packing stadiums and surprising everyone, forcing sports editors to scramble to send reporters to cover a burgeoning story)?

  • Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.

  • I'm indebted to Republican political maven Rich Galen and his e-mail newsletter "Mullings" for putting the Hillary interview in its proper context: It's the media's "August story," an overhyped journalistic frenzy designed to cover the fact that when the shrinks go on vacation, there is virtually no real news.


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