Example sentences for: overhyped

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

  • 2) School violence is declining and has been absurdly overhyped.

  • The most difficult category to conceive, though it does exist, is that of figures who are underrated and also overhyped.

  • In fact, says the review, only children are no better off than children in big families, and overpopulation may be an overhyped myth.

  • 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").

  • The other overhyped controversy that distracts ethicists from the real action is cloning.


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