How to Use practical joke in a Sentence

practical joke

noun

• One of the children filled the sugar bowl with salt as a practical joke.
• This, of course, isn't the first time Reynolds has played a practical joke on his loved ones.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2020
• But no, this wasn’t any kind of practical joke or movie scene.
  — Vogue, 23 Feb. 2018
• The idea goes back to a practical joke team members often play on a new bat boy.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 30 June 2021
• Gabourey Sidibe is taking her love for practical jokes to the next level.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 3 July 2023
• All this takes place on Prank Day, when Sims play practical jokes on one another.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 June 2023
• Detroit Free Press Will Dowell loves few things more than a good practical joke.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2020
• Spring-training suspense revolved more around what practical joke would come next more than who would make the team.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• All of a sudden, the party was over—my dad’s greatest practical joke was kaput.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• The crowd also was incensed by a practical joke that brought a fire department hose cart and a hook and ladder truck clanging up to the Lee home.
  — Ben Welter, Star Tribune, 29 May 2020
• Brady tried to loosen things up by playing a practical joke that involved letting a ferret loose in the training room.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• So this isn't some anonymous troll or a fly-by-night company that was set up just to play a practical joke on the Internet.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 19 June 2019
• His second thought: Some rogue curator might have done it as a practical joke.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
• Others find humor and stress relief in a good laugh and an amusing practical joke.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• Buss never minded being the butt of the players’ mocking or practical jokes, as long as everyone got a laugh out of it and got work in.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• This strikes me as a practical joke of cosmic proportions.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2017
• George loved practical jokes, going to extreme lengths for the ultimate prank.
  — courant.com, 26 Oct. 2019
• The counter-pasta video in question seems to be a mash-up of the two genres — a three-minute-long video featuring questionable food that just has to be a practical joke, doesn’t it?
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 12 May 2021
• Three times this has happened to me; once, regretfully, the charge was led by Herr Doktor, who at least was playing a practical joke.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 15 May 2018
• The cost of the fish, packaging and international shipping amounted to about $150, all for what Meeks calls a big practical joke.
  — Tim Hackett, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Snipe hunting is a practical joke, a fool's errand, like being asked to find a left-handed screwdriver.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 19 Nov. 2020
• From flying tackles to fishing rods, from heavy drinking sessions to practical jokes, there was true off-pitch madness amid all the on-pitch greatness.
  — SI.com, 24 June 2018
• DeZago said the signs were most likely taken from other locations during the night by local youths and placed on that one lawn as a practical joke.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
• The card game, more a practical joke, is when a dealer creates the false impression of a legitimate game and then simply throws the deck into the air and instructs players to pick up the cards.
  — AZCentral.com, 28 June 2021
• The practical joke was in poor taste, given Bassett had already lost a close coworker and friend, Chadwick Boseman.
  — Essence, 8 Nov. 2020
• This raised new problems for Heflin, who now realized the practical joke had spread beyond Mission Control.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2020
• The disguise played a superbly Tuscan practical joke on his unwitting hosts.
  — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• Only then did Simon realize that Onassis had played a practical joke on her.
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2019
• Over the years, his greatest practical jokes include: Filling towels with shaving cream.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• This could be a big practical joke by Embiid, or the work of some crazed Sixers fan, or just another brilliant maneuver by Danny Ainge.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 30 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024