April Fools'

Example Sentences

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"April Fools' is sort of our Super Bowl," Knight said.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Every year, journalist Ben Black publishes a playful fake story on his community news site Cwmbran Life for April Fools' Day.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

He inadvertently led this tiny band of eccentrics, plucked from the upper rungs of British society, into a historic plunge off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, on April Fools’ Day in 1979.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Maybe it was all a big and unwieldly April Fools' joke, one without a punchline?

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2023

Did you hear him telling Seamus what he did to that witch who shouted ‘Boo’ behind him on April Fools’ Day?

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling