pranks

Example Sentences

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Prime Video’s award-winning series returns with a new unwitting hero, who is hired as a temp at a hot sauce company — gentle, funny pranks ensue.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

The catty media site Gawker noted that corners of the internet like 4Chan could be expected to respond with heinous pranks, without realizing how vile the rhetoric of regular people was about to get.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026

When she got in the game, she says, she was happy to feed the algorithm with memes, pranks, dances — whatever it took to attract somebody’s attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

We picked rosehips from hedges too, which we split open to make itching powder, perfect for playground pranks.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

We’d peeked in the windows many times before, often with pranks in mind.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn