Sentence examples for a prank of from inspiring English sources

A prank of serving tea in a cup stuck to the saucer was all the better because people having tried and failed to lever them apart with spoons or brute strength still attempted to sip nicely.

But Zuckerman had made it through the dreary summer of 2008, feeling, along with the team, the sting of learning that the Texas Rangers manager had made a prank of telling one of his pitchers that he'd been traded to the lowly Nationals.

"I am deeply outraged by a prank of a Gdansk Fine Arts Academy student whose pseudo-art desecrated the memory of 600,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the fight for Poland's freedom and independence," wrote Alexander Alekseev, the Russian envoy.

It's a prank of fate that the grade-school news gatherer's mother would be the one to toss out yearbooks, class pins and rings, stories, artwork -- not to mention the hoard of Pied Peeper columns from The Yardbird, the mimeographed newspaper of the City and Country School in Greenwich Village.

After that, around his 27th birthday (when he says he will be at his moodiest), he plans to record, with another backing band he has already assembled, the ultimate alt.country album -- as a prank of sorts to commemorate the death of the genre.

Now that the new regime in Argentina has u earthed all that wealth peron stashed away, we suggest that in the interest of international amity a modest portion of this be set aside for Signer Tomassi, who otherwise stands destined to become the last of Peron's shirtless ones - a descamisado saddled by a prank of politics with several tons of petrified dictator.

Think of a prank to pull!

He accused the "Sons of Anarchy" star of resorting to a prank instead of stopping Weinstein from preying on women.

Punk Prayer had been designed and performed very much in the Moscow Conceptualist mould: it was a brilliant prank of an artwork, and no one had planned to go to prison over it.

In 1929 President Coolidge named Stryker to a judgeship through a freakish prank of fate, the nomination miscarried.

"It's not a prank — none of my friends would do that," Clooney said.