How to Use pratfall in a Sentence

pratfall

noun

• He slipped and took a pratfall into the mud.
• Even the most graceful and godlike among us are prone to pratfalls.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
• The boat pratfall, the picture frame… That was a hard thing to shoot.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 June 2026
• The pratfalls and hijinks land as solidly as the performers do (ouch).
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• But not for long, when there are still pratfalls to stage and pants to drop and robot prostate exams to supervise.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 June 2026
• Some would say this season has been Aldridge’s best effort to atone for last year’s playoff pratfall.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• The Democratic pratfalls in Iowa may be good for a laugh today.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2020
• After a season of pratfalls, break-ins, and quite a lot of grieving, the finale reveals all.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
• There may be a case for the nation that avoids Lowry’s historical pratfalls.
  — Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2019
• His clowning isn’t the circus kind, taking pratfalls and climbing out of little cars.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• Perhaps one thing has been learned by the Ducks through their recent postseason pratfalls.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2017
• Despite Aja starting as a swindler, his good heart carries him through pratfalls and perils.
  — Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• Just edging out of the top five this week is a behind-the-scenes clip of Ben Stiller taking a pratfall.
  — Vulture, 15 Apr. 2022
• The start of the Mavs’ new era didn’t get off to a good start, a pratfall noted in this space in November.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Then, in another sequence, Mahomes took a pratfall, aka flop.
  — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025
• Perhaps that is why this spring’s pratfall down the stairs is leaving especially florid bruises.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 9 May 2017
• From there the Cards alternated much of the night between promise and pratfall.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2023
• But the idea picked up steam with the pratfall by Oklahoma, which lost at Kansas State.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2019
• The dancers power through as though possessed by mischievous spirits, with pratfalls for levity.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The execs longed for the past, for Roseanne Roseannadanna or Chevy’s pratfalls.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• Fortunately, that moment was the one pratfall in a project that, a decade after completion, has held its own.
  — Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 10 Dec. 2024
• Their second-half pratfall in Boston could well lead to a four-game losing streak, a tough blow for a team in the thick of a playoff race.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 1 May 2021
• For all their pratfalls this season, the Giants are 5-2 in extra-inning games.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 20 May 2017
• Harvey reemerged in a 2015 team on a Mets team that seemed to put its usual pratfalls behind it.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• And Brooker would likely be the first to acknowledge the pratfalls of such an endeavor.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
• Missick goes from a series with a lot of heavy action sequences to one with more talking and an occasional pratfall.
  — Rick Bentley, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• This is in the era of 'That Darn Cat,' (when) family movies were silly or filled with jokes and pratfalls.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Their scenes call for broad comedy, and both deliver, never wasting a line delivery or a pratfall to wring (or try to wring) a laugh.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 17 June 2022
• Even so, Cooper, whatever his pratfalls, doesn’t tumble into the trap of derailing his own movie.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
• The pratfall was, in one producer’s memory, a small eureka moment.
  — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025