Sentence examples for make prank calls from inspiring English sources

People get scanners for Christmas, and then they make prank calls to the police so they can listen to the response.

When he was in elementary school, his friends would gather around a pay phone to listen to him make prank calls, disguising his voice as a grownup's; only he could make such calls without laughing.

In his six years as host of that show, Mr. Norton has been known to scour dozens of pornographic Web sites, make prank calls to fetishists and invite unsuspecting audience members to test-drive erotic toys.

You can do all kinds of fun stuff with this little gadget: make prank calls, record horrible electro-pop songs, and piss off everyone in your immediate surrounding.

In the early 1970s, Steve Jobs and his co-founder at Apple, Steve Wozniak, worked out how to "hack" the American phone system by using high-pitched tones, so that they could make prank calls to people such as the Pope (he was asleep at the time).

Occasionally, it was amazing -- there were mixed tapes and people used the phone book to make prank calls!

(Angelo) 'Prank You' (Saturday) Meryl Van Meter makes prank calls live in this silly crowd-pleaser of a show.

Which DJ in the history of the world hasn't' made prank calls?

Having grown up making prank calls, Martin found that being seated in front of a switchboard "was thrilling".

"He liked practical jokes and messing around, knocking a guy's hat off his head, making prank calls, sneaking up behind people to startle them," Posnanski goes on.

"So many people have had the same problem before," said Danny Start, a computer systems analyst in Birmingham, England, who made prank calls to Price Rite and posted recorded conversations on the Internet late last year.