How to Use prank in a Sentence

prank

1 of 2 noun

• He enjoys playing pranks on his friends.
• He is best known for his stunt and prank videos.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
• Jokes and pranks and magic tricks.
  — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
• And that prank might go overboard.
  — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
• Or pulling pranks on their teammates.
  — Hailey Salvian, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• The two asked around but brushed off the messages as a prank.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
• Suffice it to say, the prank did not go over so well.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
• Someone who has the power to play a prank on you.
  — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
• It was supposed to be a silly prank.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
• What a great prank to pull on your deer hunting buddy.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
• The youngsters sulk, stomp and scamper, pull pranks and horse around.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The staff was more than happy to go along with the innocent prank.
  — Seth Carnell, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
• Or maybe something happens on set and somebody gets up to play a prank.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
• Lupe knew the prank was going to pique her interest.
  — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
• What’s not a prank is the release of new summer flavors.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 1 Apr. 2026
• But many of us spend weeks planning the perfect prank to play on people.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 Feb. 2023
• The caller did not say how many students were involved in the prank.
  — Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
• Last week, the girls learned that the alien invasion was indeed a prank.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• But at the same time, this monologue feels like one big prank on the audience.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• But Fleury’s jokes and pranks also kept light-hearted off the ice.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
• Like anything, our pranks revolved around the zeitgeist of the time.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026
• As an online genre, the street prank looks bottomless.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• But she was known for her voices long before that, starting with prank calls to friends.
  — Terry Flores, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
• Of course, the pranks are all in good fun, with owners keeping things safe and playful.
  — Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
• But the prank could come with legal consequences.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
• This is not the first time a prank video has resulted in violence.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2023
• In what appears to be a cruel prank, the child soon vanishes.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• Later during the show, Sajak dragged the joke along with a prank.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Drew Barrymore's daughter loves to pull this one prank on her mom.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, Adam is gets caught in a Field of Dreams prank gone wrong.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2022

prank

2 of 2 verb

• Kuch made her move to prank her husband back.
  — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• Thank you for not pranking me back, by the way.
  — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
• YouTube brims with videos of people trying to prank or harm bots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• There was no evidence the victim knew she was being pranked.
  — David K. Li, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025
• The plan might have been to prank her mother, but Adams ended up pranking herself.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
• Enjoy watching this mother duck prank her ducklings.
  — Cate Martel, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025
• These people were pranked by being given mock gifts or invited to fake parties.
  — Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Watch the video above to see Marine prank his little brother with a surprise homecoming.
  — Seth Carnell, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
• Several shared how their own pets would have reacted if they were similarly pranked.
  — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
• Indy 500 fan 'thought somebody was pranking me' when flying runaway tire hit her car.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• McKara jumped on an ongoing social media prank where kids prank their pro athlete parents with their stats.
  — Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
• The character identified as white to prank his boss’s diversity goals.
  — Chris Lamb, Fortune, 3 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That includes watching The Walking Dead, going on trips around the world and even pranking each other.
  — Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
• 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
• Elsewhere in the segment, JT also got her revenge for when Kali Uchis pranked her in May.
  — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Hughes' family told multiple news outlets in a statement that the teacher knew the teenagers were coming to prank him, and was waiting to catch them in the act.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Capping it all off, Stern enlisted Andy Cohen to prank his listeners on his return show.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025
• To some degree, the speculation that Carrey was pranking us was understandable.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
• Hoping that Paul Rudd never stops pranking Conan O’Brienwith this long-running gag.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
• Mel initially thought her sister might have been pranking her before becoming nauseous at the thought that her own brother was behind the murders of four college students.
  — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 4 Jan. 2026
• Clooney has been known to prank his celebrity friends, including Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
• Those scenes' lighthearted whimsy, featuring late-night hijinks with classmates pranking grumpy instructors, pays off in the story's earliest tragedies.
  — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026