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Example sentences for: hyped

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

I see from the papers that the Y2K consultants are already extremely defensive, insisting that the problem wasn't hyped and that their $100 billion price tag was worth it.
Now Tina Brown's wildly hyped magazine, Talk , has taken up the issue again in its much-discussed profile of Hillary Clinton.
Blair Witch was obviously heavily hyped, and the buzz on the film was good, which undoubtedly made selling the film to theater owners easier than it would otherwise have been.
Hype derives from hyperbole , and when it came into use in the '60s, it was used, in much the way overhyped is used today, to refer to something praised far in excess of its value ("Sergeant Pepper has been hyped as a masterpiece, but the fact is, most of the songs on it aren't of the first rank").
In Internet chat rooms, it was hyped as 1) a once-in-a-lifetime event; and 2) yet another reason to view the millennium as extraordinary.