How to Use prank in a Sentence

prank

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• He enjoys playing pranks on his friends.
• And the award for best April Fools' Day prank of 2023 goes to ...
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 3 Apr. 2023
• The group won over many of the attendees with their prank.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, Adam is gets caught in a Field of Dreams prank gone wrong.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2022
• This was one of many pranks Jones played while growing up.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• But that Wilhelm-esque scream isn’t the end to the couple’s prank war.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2024
• The youngsters sulk, stomp and scamper, pull pranks and horse around.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Last week, the girls learned that the alien invasion was indeed a prank.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• Later during the show, Sajak dragged the joke along with a prank.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• As part of his teammates’ pranks, the yellow icing from the cake ends up on Prescott’s face.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• No one wished the emergency had been a prank more than Dr. Amundson.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• But many of us spend weeks planning the perfect prank to play on people.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 Feb. 2023
• Morgan Miller is making chores fun, one prank at a time.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 28 July 2023
• As the officer returns to his car to process the ID, the duo continues their sale prank.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2023
• But even for someone with an eye for pranks, Gladden, 30, met his match on this one.
  — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Or maybe something happens on set and somebody gets up to play a prank.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
• Meanwhile, Dwight and Jim are entangled in a prank war.
  — Aurelie Corinthios, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• Knoxville then emerged and revealed that the whole thing was a prank, and that all of the participants were actors.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
• And Jeanne Moos has a story involving two dogs and one epic prank.
  — CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• In what appears to be a cruel prank, the child soon vanishes.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• This is not the first time a prank video has resulted in violence.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2023
• My birthday was in between shooting the studio stuff and shooting the prank stuff.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
• But she was known for her voices long before that, starting with prank calls to friends.
  — Terry Flores, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
• Cohen has been the subject of several death-prank videos.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• His name and the image appear to have been a prank or joke mocking a victim of racist terror.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Even more surprising than the April Fools' Day prank was not all commenters thought the flavor was a bad idea.
  — The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
• And, apparently, that was the point, according to to the activist group behind the prank.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Drew Barrymore's daughter loves to pull this one prank on her mom.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• Showrooms across the globe play host to first dates, birthday parties, epic games, disco naps and an eye-rolling amount of pranks.
  — Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Okay, but actually: on-set prank culture in the year 2022?
  — Vulture, 28 Nov. 2022

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• Plus, some sneaky stuff the actor used to prank his guests.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Jack Black is gonna call Musk’s bluff: Mark Hamill didn’t get pranked … yet?
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• YouTube brims with videos of people trying to prank or harm bots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Enjoy the day by pranking – or being pranked – and take a look back at Cincinnati's April Fools' Day jokes over the years.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023
• Instead of pranking a stranger, the 13-year-old left a message of kindness on a pair of doorbell cams.
  — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• The plan might have been to prank her mother, but Adams ended up pranking herself.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
• Ray says the group would prank Warhol by dangling a blaring radio on a rope outside the artist’s window.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• The best content creators use social media to dance, sing and prank their way via videos and photos to millions of views.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 31 Mar. 2022
• After Michael's father confirmed the news to his wife, Braun revealed that their son wanted to prank the pair with the exciting news.
  — Lanae Brody, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• Some viral videos from earlier this month showed adults pranking other adults with the egg trend, one of which has more than 14 million views.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Women prank their boyfriends, dads and brothers by pretending to groom their brows just to reveal the results on their front-facing cameras.
  — Devan Díaz, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Indy 500 fan 'thought somebody was pranking me' when flying runaway tire hit her car.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Among those pranking him is James Marsden, who plays a not-quite-real version of himself and buddies up to Gladden as the two of them are chosen to serve on a jury.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
• And unlike the Jackass crew’s how-low-can-you-go competitions and Borat‘s politicized exposés, there’s almost a sweetness to the way these folks prank the public.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2021
• Guffey’s son was a free spirit who liked to prank his dad Guffey knows all too well the emotional toll sextortion takes on families.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2023
• In another, a father who gained a following for pranking his children urged his son to slap his daughter, leaving the girl crying.
  — Fortesa Latifi, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• The late-night host pranked The Voice coaches by secretly trying out for the show on Tuesday night's episode, but Shelton caught on to his shenanigans instantly and refused to spin his chair around.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• The character identified as white to prank his boss’s diversity goals.
  — Chris Lamb, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
• One night, to break the tedium, Kraft's key lieutenant, Gene Kranz, decided to prank his boss the next day when two activities were due to occur simultaneously.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2020
• Two San Antonio men were arrested on suspicion of robbing a teenager at gunpoint who reportedly pranked them while playing ding-dong ditch.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Regular Zoom hangouts with friends inspired the filmmaker to prank his buddies with a haunted attic stunt that went viral — and got the attention of streaming platform Shudder, which gave Savage a tiny budget to turn it into a feature film.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• The Franke family was criticized for their parenting decisions, including banning their oldest son from his bedroom for seven months for pranking his younger brother.
  — CBS News, 17 Dec. 2023
• Entertainment & Arts Banksy pranks auction by shredding million-dollar painting.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Plus, some sneaky stuff the actor used to prank his guests.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Jack Black is gonna call Musk’s bluff: Mark Hamill didn’t get pranked … yet?
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• YouTube brims with videos of people trying to prank or harm bots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Enjoy the day by pranking – or being pranked – and take a look back at Cincinnati's April Fools' Day jokes over the years.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023
• Instead of pranking a stranger, the 13-year-old left a message of kindness on a pair of doorbell cams.
  — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• The plan might have been to prank her mother, but Adams ended up pranking herself.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
• Ray says the group would prank Warhol by dangling a blaring radio on a rope outside the artist’s window.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023

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