Fanfare is an English word with synonyms like ostentation or line. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fanfare meaning
- A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
- A show of ceremony or celebration.
Synonyms of Fanfare
Using Fanfare
- The main meaning on this page is: A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. | A show of ceremony or celebration.
- Useful related words include: ostentation, line, melodic line, strain.
- In the example corpus, fanfare often appears in combinations such as: much fanfare, great fanfare, the fanfare.
Context around Fanfare
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fanfare
- In this selection, "fanfare" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, great, little, horn, orkest, orkesten and orchestras stand out and add context to how "fanfare" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amid much fanfare and was and amid much fanfare at an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fanfare" sits close to words such as analytica, bauer and camouflage, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fanfare
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It came and went without great fanfare. (7 words)
Fanfare Kimbanguiste: 6:30 p.m., Western Promenade, Portland. (9 words)
Charles and Camilla travelled in the Diamond State Coach amid great royal fanfare. (13 words)
I am afraid that a yes vote will receive much fanfare but nothing will change and indigenous people will suffer for decades more because everyone will wring their hands and say you’ve got the voice, it’s not our problem anymore. (42 words)
I feel like if it were going to be Toni Time there’d be a lot more fanfare around this match, and not just one of these “oh right the women’s title should be on PPV” matches. (38 words)
HBO's adaptation of the critically acclaimed video game has finally debuted amongst great fanfare and hype — and initial responses suggest it was well worth the time and investment on the network's part. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cornet resembling a French horn Fanfare orkest Fanfare orkesten (" fanfare orchestras "), found in only the Netherlands, Belgium, Northern France and Lithuania, use the complete saxhorn family of instruments.
A bona fide room-temperature superconductor would be a big deal, worthy of fanfare.
A Dunedin commercial fisher has launched his newest vessel, Elodie, amid fanfare at Careys Bay.
As Edgin and Holga trudge from classic Faerun locale to locale with little to no fanfare (but with a good amount of scenic shots) they fail to find their kid.
As much as the “Barbenheimer” fanfare has been driven by internet fascination, it’s in many ways an old-school movie weekend.
But after the initial fanfare has come the much tougher business of plotting a path to those goals.
Charles and Camilla travelled in the Diamond State Coach amid great royal fanfare.
City did just that, announcing his permanent arrival from Hearts amid much fanfare at an end-of-season awards night.
Congress’s victory in the Karnataka elections was celebrated with great fanfare at the Congress office in Ranchi.
Every branch of the service is recognized by a flag or banner outside the complex on Columbia Road, and without fanfare, it is a place where service and sacrifice are remembered.
Fanfare Kimbanguiste: 6:30 p.m., Western Promenade, Portland.
Having opened with little fanfare last week, the owners are planning a grand opening this week to bring Shahi Dining to Wollongong.
HBO's adaptation of the critically acclaimed video game has finally debuted amongst great fanfare and hype — and initial responses suggest it was well worth the time and investment on the network's part.
Hours later, DeSantis, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024, quietly signed the ban into law with little fanfare, underscoring just how complicated the issue has become for Republicans.
I am afraid that a yes vote will receive much fanfare but nothing will change and indigenous people will suffer for decades more because everyone will wring their hands and say you’ve got the voice, it’s not our problem anymore.
I feel like if it were going to be Toni Time there’d be a lot more fanfare around this match, and not just one of these “oh right the women’s title should be on PPV” matches.
In 2021, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation announced with great fanfare the creation of a new commemorative scholarship, the first of its kind.
Ironically, The incident occurred months after a pact was signed between Assam and Meghalaya amid much fanfare and was hailed as тАЬhistoricтАЭ by the BJP dispensation.
It came and went without great fanfare.
Joel Engardio introduced with great fanfare in April legislation that would “streamline” the planning process for new housing.
Common combinations with fanfare
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- much fanfare 39×
- great fanfare 21×
- the fanfare 19×
- little fanfare 18×
- fanfare in 16×
- of fanfare 13×
- and fanfare 13×
- fanfare and 12×
- without fanfare 10×
- fanfare as 10×