How to Use fanfare in a Sentence

fanfare

noun
  • The new jet was introduced with great fanfare.
  • Walker then placed the small box behind him on the ground, with little fanfare.
    cleveland, 25 May 2022
  • The laughs start right out of the gate, as an off-key gay men’s chorus performs the studio’s fanfare.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 May 2022
  • We are known for tearing down our historic buildings without fanfare — replacing them with parking lots or soulless big-box stores.
    Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • Prince William and Kate and Charles and Camilla processed together to take their seats following a fanfare.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 June 2022
  • After a similar plan died without much fanfare this year, Ivey called it her biggest disappointment of the legislative session.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 17 May 2022
  • Coldplay’s Australian tour has been met with major fanfare, partly due to the band’s first performances in the country since 2016.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Most Hollywood stars make their red carpet debuts in their late teens or early 20s, usually without much fanfare and at relatively small-scale events.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Some of Counsell's milestone wins in a Brewers uniform passed without much fanfare (understandably), but there's a pretty good chance some of these still linger in your memory.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2022
  • Most of the time, there’s no fanfare — the show just moves on.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • The arrival of bet365 in Ohio has been met with a great deal of fanfare.
    cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
  • In 2008, amid much fanfare, the Met returned it to Italy.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • No fanfare: Turn on the toaster oven to 325°; set on the bake function.
    Anna Francese Gass, Bon Appétit, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Still, despite the fanfare surrounding the OBC, a game will have to be played.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
  • Cam Rising and the injury The back-to-back champion of the league, Utah, won’t have the most fanfare on Friday.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • There’s no fanfare, no crash-banging thuds and whirring smoke.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Then boom, Brock and his symbiote are whisked right back to their world with little to no fanfare.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Two of the most-beloved directors in the industry have stepped into the race, to great fanfare.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There's something about weddings, and the fanfare, and the bachelorette.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Opened to much fanfare last September, the venue cost $2.3 billion to build.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 July 2024
  • The movie has inspired all kinds of fanfare—from Hocus Pocus costumes to drinking games to tours of the town where it was filmed.
    Megan Stein, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Slowly and without fanfare, around the end of the aughts, social media took its place.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But as Ford revived the Bronco to great fanfare, GM has stayed quiet.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The Cruise news, which was first reported on Aug. 1, brought fanfare and shocked the internet.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
  • So great fanfare accompanied the release in 2019 of the first image of a black hole.
    Katie McCormick, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The ship was launched with great fanfare on June 17 and has been in the final stages of construction at a Shanghai shipyard.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The building opened with fanfare in 1928 as the Real Estate Building.
    Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Earlier that day, just across the Bay and to far less fanfare, my mom delivered me.
    Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • The hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of his birth, on October 20th, passed with little fanfare.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Damien Leone, the series’ gruesomely inventive writer-director, knows how to stage a splatter opera of an opening fanfare in which a family gets chopped to pieces.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024

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