Example sentences for: ballyhooed

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

  • This low-key town, a good base for exploring the north coast, is lined by pretty houses and ballyhooed seafood restaurants along the waterfront.

  • The 21-year-old British author's youth and good looks are cited as major factors in the blockbuster advance ($800,000) and ballyhooed publication of this ponderous gothic novel.

  • Speaking of ESPN, ESPN: The Magazine , the much ballyhooed challenge to Sports Illustrated , makes its debut.

  • There's more musical invention in a song like "Trailways Bus" than in the entire score of the much ballyhooed Ragtime . It's nothing to do with rock vs. showtunes, only with the cruel truth that most contemporary Broadway music isn't very good: not popular music, not serious music, but existing in some grisly limbo in between.

  • "There's more musical invention in a song like 'Trailways Bus' than in the entire score of the much ballyhooed Ragtime ," says Slate 's Mark Steyn.


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