How to use hype in a sentence
40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective
Hype means promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims. Example: “After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.”
Examples of hype by meaning
nounPromotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims.
- After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.
- The first Grand Slam showpiece between the two dominant players on the ATP Tour had been a tantalising prospect - and it surpassed the hype.2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC
verbTo promote or advertise heavily.
- They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.
- Hydrogen fuel cells are hugely hyped but have yet to prove themselves in the real world beyond a few limited trials or small fleets on the European mainland.2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 30
nounA drug addict.
- Local hypes copped in L.A.2001, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 90
More sentences with hype
- He's hyped about getting to kiss her in the final scene of the play.From the entry hyped
- The unparalleled media hype surrounding the new film guaranteed that fans would experience anticippointment.From the entry anticippointment
- I know you're really hyped about the plan, but, my brother in Christ, it's not gonna work.From the entry my brother in Christ
- I love Jujutsu Kaisen, even if it's just hype moments and aura.From the entry hype moments and aura
- The faddist magazines have been hyping that lately.From the entry faddist
- If you strip away the hype, you find that he is just an ordinary person trying to make a living, like everyone else.From the entry strip away
- If it fails to live up to the hype, their retirement savings could evaporate.2026 June 13, Ben Casselman, “Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry evaporate
- Pokemon Wonderlocke time let's goooo I'm so hyped to see you do it on stream!2026 March 29, @CB_Reaper, X (post), archived from the original on 10 May 2026. From the entry Wonderlocke
- Each had amazing hype cycles but none as explosive as Ozempic.2023 October 9, Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fen-phen
- Look I know I don't really make posts but I could not be more hyped for TBTWP.2019 March 14, kdoodlethug, Reddit. From the entry TBTWP
- All this may in fact be being hyped up by the Tory right and left alike.2018 August 21, Editorial, “The Guardian view on Tory party entryism: a real and present rightwing danger”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry entryist
- In this unreflective boomerism of American hypercapitalism, one has to hype one's project to attract venture capital.2017, William Irwin Thompson, Self and Society, →ISBN. From the entry venture capital
- It felt like watching two friends who I’ve hyped up to each other finally meet.2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry hype up
- Recreational use is all hype and something that people are doing to seem cool."2015, Jack Lester, "Xanax: Beyond The Pharmacy", The Collegian (Georgia Perimeter College), Volume 31, Number 8, page 3. From the entry Xan
- Even without media hype, there have been and always will be next big things.2015, Richard Faulk, The Next Big Thing: A History of the Boom-or-Bust Moments That Shaped the Modern World, →ISBN. From the entry next big thing
- You need to jam your hype and tell your boydem to stand down.2014, Charlie Higson, The Fear. From the entry jam one's hype
- She probably heard some hyped up version from the mandem but she don't know the truth.2013, Polly Courtney, Feral Youth, page 169. From the entry mandem
- But if you start believing your own hype, you won't survive.2013, Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz, Lean Analytics, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry reality distortion field
- The most important one is the end of the Ajax hype.2006, Peter-Paul Koch, “Afterword”, in ppk on JavaScript, →ISBN. From the entry what goes around comes around
- There is no hype about the musicians, no fancy dress, no gimmick to catch the wandering eye.2003 October 31, R. M. Campbell, “Ensemble is sheer artistry, pure and simple”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 01 May 2016. From the entry straight goods
- I know I'm probably just repeating popular hype, but I'm v. fond of Tolkien's Quenya.2002 August 3, David Thomas, “Conlang poll”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Mar 2026. From the entry v.
- Trailing a little behind that in hype are the ’tweeners: the larger-format Windows CE Palm Pro portables.1999 January 4, Cathy Gagne, “Flashback ’98 Tech review: Handheld Dandies”, in Computerworld, volume 33, number 1, Framingham, Mass.…. From the entry tweener
- With new advances in medicine, you can't be sure you won't be around for trillennial Millennium hype.1999, Josh Freed, Terry Mosher, Aislin, 2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium: A 21st-Century Survival Guide, →ISBN. From the entry trillennial
- He’s not just the hype man on stage goin’ Yea Yea, he’s rappin’ whole verses.1995 August 30, Richard Payton, “Re: Suge Vs Puffy”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet). From the entry hype man
- The 26-year-old recording superstarlet has been showered with oceans of hype.1993, Opera, volume 44, page 923. From the entry superstarlet
- And he knew he was shife, he knew he was hype.1991, “Nasty Bitch”, performed by Bust Down. From the entry shife
- Does anyone else remember the "Smugleaf" hype?2026 March 6, @ShroomMeister, X (post), archived from the original on 18 May 2026. From the entry Smugleaf
- “It’s clear we are in a hype cycle,” he said.2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, quoting Billy Thalheimer, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry hype cycle
- Lacking any of Dragon Ball and DBZ's emotional depth, Dragon Ball Super typically only cares about hype moments and aura.2025 June 23, Emma Singer, “10 Times Dragon Ball Super Only Cared About Hype Moments and Aura”, in CBR.com, Valnet, retrieved 17 Nov 2025. From the entry hype moments and aura
- Fellow fashionistas know the hype of GAP athleisure wear.2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan…. From the entry chokehold
- She’s a non-character hyped up to sell merchandise.2023 February 14, penguintruth, “Asking out of geniuine curiosity: Do you really like Mari? Why?”, in reddit.com/r/evangelion. From the entry noncharacter
- Still, not everyone's onboard the Gendrya hype train.2019 April 14, Jen Glennon, “Will Gendry And Arya Get Together On 'Game Of Thrones'? Premiere Hints 'Gendrya' Could Happen In Season 8”…. From the entry Gendrya
- Barty, though, insisted the hype was easy to block out.2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian. From the entry to start off with
- To say that Cavendish’s distaste for hype and self-promotion extended to his personal life would be an understatement.2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York…. From the entry taciturn
- This panoramic backbone of South Korea’s Gangwon province is a tourist destination that actually lives up to its public relations hype.2013, “Gangwon Province”, in Rebecca Lovell, editor, South Korea (Insight Guides), 10th edition, Apa Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages…. From the entry Gangwon
Meaning of hype
- noun Promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims.
- verb To promote or advertise heavily.
- adjective Hyped; excited.
Questions about hype in a sentence
- How do you use hype in a sentence?
- Hype is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.”
- What is a short sentence with hype?
- “Local hypes copped in L.A.”
- What does hype mean?
- Hype means promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hype (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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