Sentence examples for prank of from inspiring English sources

A good prank, of course, involves good stagecraft.

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

The seemingly harmless prank of a tossed egg has been perceived as a kind of ultimate insult, the sudden splatter and mess touching off a rage in people.

Silly and engaging, these rappers have room for everybody in their surreal (and not at all accidental) prank of a career.

This is what accounts for I'm A Celebrity, and manipulating the Libor rate, and the student prank of "milking", and politicians doing Gangnam Style.

The tour-de-force prank of last summer took the form of an extended fantasia on the sign attached to David Soyer's music stand in Happy Valley.

One news broadcast "said it was the pranks of hooligans," Ms. Ongarova said.

"We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind".

Young Peregrine has a predilection for practical jokes (the violent pranks of English boarding school fiction have their origins here).

Eight years later, with Mr. Clinton vacating and Mr. Bush's son incoming, the pranks of yesteryear were not forgotten.

One of the comic servants, or zanni, Pedrolino functioned in the commedia as an unsuccessful lover and a victim of the pranks of his fellow comedians.