Sentence examples for it's a prank from inspiring English sources

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.

Any demystifications of the project that we can muster — it's a folly, it's an illness, it's a prank — are addressed in the poem, which, taking its own plausibility as a chief concern, thereby becomes only more plausible.

"If the intent is just to say 'gotcha,' it's a prank".

"The question is whether they are stolen, or if it's a prank and someone is playing a game of gnomes".

"In this day and age, when we have to worry about terrorists, I think the tolerance for throwing things or trying to hurt somebody else -- even if they think it's a prank -- it's no longer a prank in this day and age".

(Eliot especially courses through the poem — the word 'sempiternal,' for example, comes straight out of 'Four Quartets.') It's a prank, and for that reason, 'Pale Fire' [the novel] is a pretty tedious and minor work of art according to my own personal canon.

If you get rejected, don't lose your cool and just tell her that it was a prank you played on her as part of April Fool's Day.

Initially, he thought it was a prank.

"It was a prank," he said.

"I assumed it was a prank," she says.

Park, the story goes, thought it was a prank call.