practical joke
Example Sentences
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Jason Hughes, 40, came out of his home to surprise the students who were tossing toilet papers over trees as part of a practical joke.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Was it all some kind of practical joke?
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2023
It's almost as if McCarthy was playing some kind of elaborate practical joke.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2023
As Günter descends into the rabbit hole of his origins, the film morphs into something else entirely, in what feels almost like a practical joke, too dryly delivered, on van Warmerdam’s part.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
In a way this was Finny’s view, except that naturally he saw it comically, as a huge and intensely practical joke, played by fat and foolish old men bungling away behind the scenes.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
