How to Use prankster in a Sentence

prankster

noun
  • At first, the prankster wasn’t going to let Ben in on the joke.
    Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Thomas said at the precise moment the prankster emerged.
    Variety, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • According to the prankster, his marks weren’t even that miffed.
    Fox News, 16 June 2017
  • Some prankster god has a mild grudge against me or something.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Dwayne Johnson’s balloons fell prey to quite the prankster.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The Queen City Clowns, one of the 20 teams competing over the weekend, are a throwback to those pranksters of the past.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • But take a step back, and some of these guys truly respect a great prankster at work.
    Joe Boozell, ajc, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Always the prankster, Hernández grabbed the groin of third-base coach Dino Ebel on his trot.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Then there's pranksters out there that take advantage of it.
    Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • But look out Ashton Kutcher, there’s a new prankster in town.
    Tara Edwards, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • Yet on his Bitcoin joyride, the merry prankster’s got no more control than a drunk at the wheel.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022
  • The prankster, dressed in a black suit, then appeared from the opposite side of the audience and ran up the stairs to join them.
    Variety, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • For that, Americans can thank the long line of pranksters who came before us.
    Lesley Bannatyne, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Brando, a consummate prankster, won the contest in the end.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • There are also a lot of pranksters, who love to use Photoshop to spread this idea that cougars are all over the place.
    National Geographic, 22 May 2016
  • The pranksters recruited their 14-year-old friend and are seen traversing Kroger.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But this time, the prank has resulted in backlash against the pranksters themselves.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Quite the prankster, Valastro closed out the hilarious video with a wink.
    Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Known as a prankster with a penchant for great quotes, Burdette would have been a fan favorite in any era.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Prank shows are nothing new, but Griffin and his Double Cross team have drawn up a twist: The prankster is the one who gets pranked in the end.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2021
  • On Twitter, the online prankster known as Big Daws claimed to be the mastermind behind the stunt.
    Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • His face says it all: Like any good prankster, Lizette posted the exchange on Twitter.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 16 Nov. 2016
  • Tonight, the Canadian prankster has returned with the new full-length album This Old Dog, his fifth in the last five years.
    Rob Arcand, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • The above is a quote from Cesc Fabregas, when quizzed on who the biggest pranksters he's ever played with were.
    SI.com, 17 June 2018
  • Middle-of-the-night pranksters often use the metal surf spray around the boy's board as climbing holds and that's worn them to the breaking point.
    Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The law’s passage followed a Ukrainian prankster’s hoax that built on a real tragedy.
    Stanislav Budnitsky, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The next day Plawecki blamed the incident on clubhouse pranksters.
    Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 1 June 2017
  • The club’s founder, Len Tyrrell, died in 2015, and none of the other original pranksters were able to make it to San Antonio this year.
    Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Our thoughts: This salad is pleasing to the eye and palette, yet is a bit of a prankster in the texture department.
    cleveland, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Clooney said his prankster reputation has made his friends fear him.
    Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'prankster.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: