How to Use prank in a Sentence

prank

noun
  • 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 | Mheim@al.com, 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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