How to Use cracked up to be in a Sentence

cracked up to be

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  • But the move likely isn't all it's cracked up to be, say fitness experts.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • Holly wants the perfect guy — but is perfection all that it's cracked up to be?
    Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Hand-washing, though still important, was not all it was cracked up to be, and herd immunity, in the end, was a mirage.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe journalistic objectivity isn’t all it was cracked up to be?
    Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Second, recent research suggests that enabling video in group settings might not be as good for communication as it’s been cracked up to be.
    Jeremy Tooley, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • While so many of us would definitely loved to play a role in the Twilight movies, Anna Kendrick is revealing that filming the series wasn't what it was all cracked up to be.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 9 June 2020
  • In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a group of high schoolers fight monsters and demons while attempting to live normal lives, before coming to the realization that perhaps normal lives aren't all they were cracked up to be.
    Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 June 2020

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