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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:

It was hyped by Matt Drudge on his Web site.
Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book "a fascinating cautionary tale" of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects.
Critics hyped the face-off between New Republic theater critic Robert Brustein and black playwright August Wilson over Afrocentric theater as "the intellectual version of extreme fighting" (Frank Rich, the New York Times ). But the debate was judged to be a flop--lots of combative bravado and little payoff.
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").
Much hyped: Godzilla , The Truman Show , Armageddon , Saving Private Ryan .