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 -
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 -
Here, politicians and pranksters had equal weight, serious policy and society-defining jokes were birthed, and internet culture was shaped.
— Callum Booth, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024 -
Both series were created and hosted by pioneering prankster Allen Funt.
— Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 26 June 2024
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