16 example sentences using prank.
Prank used in a sentence
Prank in a sentence as a noun
Honestly, when was the last April Fool's prank that "got you" or made you laugh?
I had a similar situation when I was 14 years old making prank phone calls.
Isn't the whole "security industry" a prank gone bad?
April first isn't a generalized satire day, it's about pranks.
You have to have a pretty addled mind in order to find an obvious prank such as this "terrifying.
I don't think that really qualifies as a good prank, more of a harassment/endangerment tactic.
Analyzing cell tower data over a harmless prank?
Example: some kids in the middle school my son goes to played a prank in the computer lab: they swapped a bunch of keys of some of the keyboards.
Prank in a sentence as a verb
They're probably mad that some pranksters conclusively demonstrated that, for all the security theater in NYC, the police can't even stop people from planting stuff on a major bridge.
There are lots of more reasonable explanations for text getting deleted than "state agency wanted to play a juvenile prank on me and be glaringly obvious about it".
Given that this could have easily resulted in a death, calling it a "prank" and suggesting that "Whomever instigated the swatting should be ashamed of themselves" seems the wrong of language for what is a pretty serious crime.
Authorities are refusing to confirm or deny the rumour that his death was caused by an internet prank, as his stamp-collecting site was repeatedly flagged as terrorist material by members of the discussion site 4chan.
Because it's a ridiculously sensational article.> ...Swartz and arguing that his college prank aimed at liberating a collection of academic articles with little commercial value was a serious crime.
If you pranked me by pretending that HN has a good track record for dealing with OT submissions, I say "well-played" and redouble my argument in favour of moderating April 1st submissions: Your comment is funnier than most of the so-called prank posts I've seen.
When I was brought into the room I discovered most of the board of the company as well as various senior leadership, and I was grilled about my 'prank' felony for better than a half hour by investment banking types in their upper forties and fifties.
Choose one of the two following explanations for the iPhone behavior: one, a well-funded and resourceful state agency is hiring people to track a journalist writing a book about the biggest intelligence leak in recent history, and the people they're hiring are juvenile enough to use methods straight out of Hollywood to play a prank on their target's iPhone when he sends a text with possibly the most milquetoast insult about their methods in the history of ever; or, two, the iPhone crashed.
Prank definitions
acting like a clown or buffoon
See also: buffoonery clowning japery frivolity harlequinade
a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
dress or decorate showily or gaudily; "Roses were pranking the lawn"
dress up showily; "He pranked himself out in his best clothes"