for kicks
Example Sentences
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It blows water off slow-to-dry surfaces—plastic cups, reusable bags, exhaust-fan grease traps—in such a satisfying manner, you might wash them twice for kicks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
A clock for kicks at goal is already in operation in France's Top 14.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2022
In the 1990s, OutKast had that capital “K” while Eminem and Korn occasionally reversed certain letters in their monikers for kicks.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021
On Monday of last week he giggled with his fellow CBS host James Corden; on Tuesday he slapped John Bolton around for kicks.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2020
“Kath, you don’t...Well, if it’s for kicks, you don’t do it like that. You’ve got to look at the pictures much more carefully. It doesn’t really work if you go that fast.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
