How to Use pratfall in a Sentence

pratfall

noun

• He slipped and took a pratfall into the mud.
• Even the most graceful and godlike among us are prone to pratfalls.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
• The start of the Mavs’ new era didn’t get off to a good start, a pratfall noted in this space in November.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Just edging out of the top five this week is a behind-the-scenes clip of Ben Stiller taking a pratfall.
  — Vulture, 15 Apr. 2022
• And of course Gerald Ford was a legendary pratfall artist.
  — Mike Ervin, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
• The execs longed for the past, for Roseanne Roseannadanna or Chevy’s pratfalls.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• This is in the era of 'That Darn Cat,' (when) family movies were silly or filled with jokes and pratfalls.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• But the idea picked up steam with the pratfall by Oklahoma, which lost at Kansas State.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2019
• The Democratic pratfalls in Iowa may be good for a laugh today.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2020
• Harvey reemerged in a 2015 team on a Mets team that seemed to put its usual pratfalls behind it.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Their second-half pratfall in Boston could well lead to a four-game losing streak, a tough blow for a team in the thick of a playoff race.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 1 May 2021
• Some would say this season has been Aldridge’s best effort to atone for last year’s playoff pratfall.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• From there the Cards alternated much of the night between promise and pratfall.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2023
• The humor was broad and shameless, embracing bad puns and big pratfalls.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• The biggest pratfall, though, and one that still haunts Chargers fans, came with San Diego leading 21-13 with just more than six minutes to play.
  — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 9 Feb. 2021
• For all their pratfalls this season, the Giants are 5-2 in extra-inning games.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 20 May 2017
• It’s not the violence that puts a smile on your face, but the riotous back-slapping that follows the screams of agony after each pratfall, prank and punch.
  — Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2022
• Instead, the Blue Jays can pick any one of three unsettling sights from their Game 1 pratfall against Seattle.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
• Jack Weller’s verbal pratfall inspires me to tell you a story: A pair of animals died at a small zoo.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• Lee’s one-out pratfall in Game 4 was rescued by stellar bullpen work and late home runs from Swanson and Jorge Soler.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps one thing has been learned by the Ducks through their recent postseason pratfalls.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2017
• Despite Aja starting as a swindler, his good heart carries him through pratfalls and perils.
  — Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• And hand-wringing about his health and the possible long-term pratfalls doesn’t change the core truth at the base of this deal: The Sharks had to pay Karlsson this much or lose him forever.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• His clowning isn’t the circus kind, taking pratfalls and climbing out of little cars.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• There are also lots of comedic pratfalls and bonks on the head, Willy mourns his late mother, and his young friend Noodle (Calah Lane) is locked up in a dark, dirty bird coop by one of the villains.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The ups and downs in extra innings included a pratfall by Marlins catcher Sandy Leon.
  — Steven Wine, sun-sentinel.com, 22 May 2021
• Players suffered frostbite as well as endured pratfalls slipping on the frozen field.
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• Zak takes frequent pratfalls and is often seen in various un-self-conscious states of undress, but the movie never makes him a figure of fun.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• Their scenes call for broad comedy, and both deliver, never wasting a line delivery or a pratfall to wring (or try to wring) a laugh.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 17 June 2022
• In a career that spans more than half a century, President Biden has long been known all too well for mangling words, names and dates in verbal pratfalls known, perhaps gently, as gaffes.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024