play jokes
Example Sentences
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Whatever its origin, we’re happy to take this day to play jokes on each other.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023
"Or you'll play jokes on targets that they never know about, but everybody else does. That creates a divide."
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2021
"You see 'the brotherhood' is real when you see them on the golf course, just the way they stand together, laugh, talk, play jokes," Kim Ronaldson says.
From Golf Digest • Sep. 10, 2013
“You watch the other ships, you read what there is to read, and you play jokes on the ship’s cat.”
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2010
First he would play jokes on the dog pulling next to him.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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