hijinks

Example Sentences

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And with the bowl season starting Saturday, football fans can expect plenty of such hijinks, especially in games scheduled around the holidays.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

Over the past quarter-century, however, a greater focus on corporate governance and a new investor appreciation of return on capital helped limit management hijinks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Sam Bankman-Fried, a onetime rival of Zhao’s, has been behind bars since the summer of 2023, when the judge presiding over his trial ordered him jailed over pretrial hijinks.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2025

This, of course, creates the opportunity for plenty of hijinks, and for Froehlich to do what this show does best: put these women in situations and see how they react.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2025

By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt