prank

Example Sentences

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The villagers thought it was a prank, a bad joke, but then the visitors unveiled the thing in the truck and set it before them.

From Literature

She was described as a thoughtful, kind teenager who loved pranks and was a natural leader who was in the Army Cadets.

From BBC

How were so many otherwise reasonable people pranked into venturing to an empty Brooklyn Bridge Park in the bleak midwinter as 2025 ebbed to nothing, for nothing?

From Salon

Part of the prank is that, after watching 11 episodes, a viewer is left out on a cliff, hanging.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a video shared by the Met Police, Hart claimed he "made a lot of prank calls" but nothing "threatening".

From BBC