practical joke

Example Sentences

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Even at the Evening Sun into the early ’90s, we played practical jokes on one another.

From Salon

"I thought, 'Is this a practical joke? Is someone doing something perverted? This is really, really strange,'" she said in her testimony.

From BBC

The hit, she said, made her briefly think that the collision could have been anything from an intentional assault to “something perverted” to a practical joke.

From New York Times

"Is this a practical joke. Is someone doing something perverted?" she told the court she recalled thinking in that moment.

From BBC

A: It’s so impossible to not feel like being transported into some weird practical joke . . . but one that’s not funny.

From Washington Post