How to Use pratfall in a Sentence
pratfall
noun- He slipped and took a pratfall into the mud.
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Even the most graceful and godlike among us are prone to pratfalls.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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And of course Gerald Ford was a legendary pratfall artist.
—Mike Ervin, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
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The execs longed for the past, for Roseanne Roseannadanna or Chevy’s pratfalls.
—Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
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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
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But the idea picked up steam with the pratfall by Oklahoma, which lost at Kansas State.
—George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2019
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The Democratic pratfalls in Iowa may be good for a laugh today.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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From there the Cards alternated much of the night between promise and pratfall.
—Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2023
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The humor was broad and shameless, embracing bad puns and big pratfalls.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
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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
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For all their pratfalls this season, the Giants are 5-2 in extra-inning games.
—Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 20 May 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps one thing has been learned by the Ducks through their recent postseason pratfalls.
—Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 16 Apr. 2017
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Despite Aja starting as a swindler, his good heart carries him through pratfalls and perils.
—Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
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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
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His clowning isn’t the circus kind, taking pratfalls and climbing out of little cars.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 9 Apr. 2020
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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
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The ups and downs in extra innings included a pratfall by Marlins catcher Sandy Leon.
—Steven Wine, sun-sentinel.com, 22 May 2021
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Players suffered frostbite as well as endured pratfalls slipping on the frozen field.
—Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 31 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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