Sentence examples for prank like from inspiring English sources

It's smart to pull a prank like this".

He does uproarious mugging in the knockabout jamboree "Gunga Din" — a moviemakers' prank, like "Beat the Devil".

Rush Limbaugh compared the prison torture to "a college fraternity prank," like a Skull and Bones initiation.

An observer watching them race around a country estate together might think they are planning some prank, like filling the decanters in the Commons waiting rooms with vinegar.

"When we were fifteen, we would've gone crazy with a chance to pull a prank like this, but here we failed miserably.

Back in the day you used to be able to tell your friends you were engaged, pregnant or had Cancer without them gushing all over your Facebook page or Twitter and immediately freaking out people who you didn't want to prank, like your family.

Chiasson is not wrong about the prank-like quality of "Pale Fire" — the book tricks us into thinking it's one thing (a poem, loaded down with the usual academic appurtenances) before we realize it is in fact something else altogether (a novel!) — but pranks were something Nabokov took very seriously.

But the gratuitously violent and gory YouTube pranks likes "chainsaw massacre" only serve to terrify.

The old punks had deployed Nazi imagery as a kind of prank (Sid Vicious and Johnny Thunders liked to wear swastikas), but some hardcore bands took a more unsettling approach.

Roman Atwood likes to prank people (like pretending to blow up his son) and his seven million subscribers want to see more of that; most of them parents who regret having children.

It was a time of scrutiny, silent treatment and crude pranks like men urinating in the women's boots.