Sentence examples for school prank from inspiring English sources

"It wasn't a high school prank.

Some students called it an assault; others said it was just a stupid high school prank, fueled by alcohol.

A spokesman for Mr. Madigan described the event as "a low-grade high school prank" and said Mr. Madigan did not know the candidate in question.

The tournament's single-elimination format makes it seem like a reality show or a conceptual art school prank, not necessarily a sporting event.

By Alec Wilkinson The New Yorker, March 28 , 1994P. 53 ANNALS OF FRIENDSHIP about a junior high school prank played by the young Larry King, now a TV and radio personality, with his friend Herb Cohen.

That's a message many parents would like to send to their children, and the way a high school "prank" has come back to cast a shadow over Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is an example that speaks louder than our words ever will — and parents should take advantage of it.

It is a metaphorical journey from teenage secondary school pranks into full-blown "adulthood" that cries out for a sequel.

Even at his otherwise-strict school, pranks were tolerated with boys-will-be-boys indulgence, and the term "bullying" was decades away from being a subject for assemblies and school psychologists.

And Mr. Romney's response shifted from a do-not-remember to a vague apology for any high school pranks taken too far, and efforts to deal with any damage.

The setting is Palermo in 1978, when the Red Brigades' murder of a former prime minister dominates the news, inspiring Nimbus and two equally hateful young friends to form a gang that moves from school pranks and symbolic protests to senseless acts, including the kidnapping of a classmate.

But only half the essays — one about the sale of his mother's house, another on the unintended effects of some high school pranks, another on the author's pubescent experience of a Christian youth group — properly count as "personal history".