high jinks
Example Sentences
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A lot of time-travel high jinks follow, familiar in their broad outlines but unconventional and highly entertaining in their specifics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
McDonald is game for the high jinks but doesn’t always seem natural gamboling about the stage.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025
Yet the comic high jinks, star-crossed lovers and long-lost relatives that pop up in his play “The Miser,” first produced in 1668, will be instantly familiar to anybody who has ever seen a Shakespeare comedy.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
“Ain’t Got No Home,” which reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100, became Henry’s signature hit and definitively captured his humor and his vocal high jinks.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
“Well, Lance,” said Arthur cheerfully, “these are some high jinks, and no mistake about it Jenny can hardly sit still, with all her captives.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
