Sentence examples for be a practical joke from inspiring English sources

It must be a practical joke of some sort.

Collins was so stunned at the call from the White House, he initially thought it might be a practical joke.

Speaking separately, each said his first reaction to an interview request was that it must be a practical joke.

One of them, Tom Athans, accepted the package anyway; he had a ex-girlfriend in France and thought it might be a practical joke.

(Where would she put it?) Sue did appear pregnant, years later, but this turned out to be a practical joke involving a cushion up her dress.

I thought it must be a practical joke or a Nigerian scam," said Cornelia Bargmann, 51, who has pioneered work on neural circuits and behaviour at the Rockefeller University.

Rosen thought it was a practical joke and hung up.

I briefly wondered if this was a practical joke.

"I actually thought that was a practical joke," he tells me.

He added: "If this is a practical joke it has gone too far".

First of all I thought it was a practical joke but it was a genuine letter.