Use "practical joke" in a sentence

1. “Herb, can I call you Herb? After all, we go back what, 5 years? All those times I busted your balls for being incompetent? How you never seemed to actually solve anything but somehow managed to take the credit for everything? The way I treated you with such disrespect every time I ran into you? The practical jokes, teasing you about your social ineptness, I know I’ve been an asshole to you and I’m sorry

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2. A part of me thought that this was just too bad to be true, and I just had to believe that it was a very big practical joke, or some kind of huge, honest misunderstanding

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3. practical jokes and it was possible that someone at work had

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4. as I do that he’s always playing practical jokes on us

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5. Vic must me a practical joker; he probably had an air horn placed nearby

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6. some could be practical jokers, too

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7. There’s a little of the practical joker in Him--and not

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8. Still chuckling at the huge practical joke they were going to pull on the South African

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9. I stared at Annabeth, figuring she’d crack up at this practical joke they were playing on me, but she looked deadly serious

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10. It made him look as if he had just played a practical joke on someone and was dancing sneakily away before the firecracker went off

11. This could have been the biggest elaborate practical joke ever played on a sucker like me

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12. After the jibe about executives playing solitaire I’d stopped caring, even though the rational part of my mind kept trying to tell me that it was wrong to blame the entire HR staff for one person’s silly practical joke gone wrong

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13. But he should have known , Graziella wasn’t someone who played practical jokes

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14. I cracked up laughing thinking that this had to be a practical joke

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15. practical jokers I wasn’t about to wait there and see

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16. Despite the discreet but frantic signs by Gridley not to say it, Hurst was too happy to pay him back for the countless practical jokes the gunner had made in the past

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17. She paused for a moment trying to shrug off the feeling that someone was watching her, waiting for her to speak into the lock, waiting to jump out and tell her it has all been a practical joke and what a fool she had been

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18. ―Are you putting me on? Is this a practical joke?‖

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19. He bought them the moment he began talking about all the practical jokes he’d been playing on me for several years

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20. "Do you really think there's enough hours in a day to individually count all those chickens? Somebody is playing a practical joke on you

21. Lenar and Tatiana somehow thought it would be fun to tell the story of how Garcia went naked to class at the academy due to a practical joke, which Garcia complained was an

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22. were playing a practical joke

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23. “I’d be more than happy to talk to him, ask him to stop the practical jokes,”

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24. stop making practical jokes is a sure fire way to escalate the attacks

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25. “I would like to negotiate a truce from the practical jokes

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26. He wondered if the book was some sort of ill-advised practical joke

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27. I called Diane and told her about the carving, that it might be a practical joke on Pinga’s part—there were just too many

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28. The mysterious messages, which appeared on mirrors and windows, were the doing of the next-door neighbor, a man given to practical jokes, who wanted to buy the house at an inexpensive price and thus double his living quarters

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29. But were they the real thing? Munro was a notorious practical joker

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30. My own best guess is that I was the victim of one of his more elaborate practical jokes

31. Munro always admired what he termed “the delayed effect” of some practical jokes, a topic he never stopped talking about, and he may have seen in me the perfect potential dupe

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32. All this, of course, was a lot of work to go through for a practical joke, but there were a few reasons why Munro may have done so, one of them being his nature and the other being mine

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33. After all that he was subsequently educated by a succession of tutors and led them a merry dance with practical jokes, including leaving a horse in one of the tutor's bedroom

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34. Mott thought that this was some sort of a cosmic practical joke till he saw the dead bodies on TV"

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35. Seeing is no longer believing, but possibly being an unwilling target of a grotesque practical joke

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36. I had plenty of friends who were big-time practical jokers and I said, “Yeah, right,” and hung up

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37. Poland’s city planners all got together and on the off chance I’d show up at some point and then get a woman pregnant, they played a massive elaborate practical joke on me

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38. The sheriff knew the mentioned man to be the town reprobate and practical joker

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39. These people had a profound sense of humor, they loved practical jokes if there was no serious or dangerous consequence and they could sit around and tell

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40. ” At that point the captain and the other two officers realized that they had been the butt of an Artonian practical joke and they

41. never allow trust to stand in the way of a delicious practical joke

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42. that to the number of His other practical jokes, corruptio per se and corruptio per

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43. "Practical jokes with wax?" I ask

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44. She answered that it was some senseless practical joke, and that I should not take any notice of it

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45. "'What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?' said I

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46. They told and retold stories of practical jokes that they’d played on each other

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47. practical jokes of this sort

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48. "Unless we have come upon a primitive practical joker," Summerlee suggested, "which I should think would be one of the most elementary developments of man

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49. Sometimes he seemed to her like the County boys with whom she had grown up, the wild Tarleton twins with their obsession for practical jokes; the devil-inspired Fontaines, teasing, mischievous; the beneath Rhett’s seeming lightness there was something malicious, almost sinister in its Calverts who would sit up all night planning hoaxes

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50. of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing Virginia

51. All the other men she had known she could dismiss with a half- Her father, the Tarleton twins with their love of teasing and their elaborate practical jokes, the hairy little Fontaines with their childish rages, Charles, Frank, all the men who had paid court to her during the war—everyone, in fact, except Ashley

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52. And old friends came trooping back, laughing as though they had not been dead these many years: Stuart and Brent with their long legs and their red hair and their practical jokes, Tom and Boyd as wild as young horses, Joe Fontaine with his hot black eyes, and Cade and Raiford Calvert who moved with such languid grace

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53. We must not forget that the managers had an idea at the back of their minds, all the time, that this strange incident might be an unpleasant practical joke on the part of their predecessors and that it would not do to divulge it prematurely

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54. ‘If this is a practical joke…’

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55. “If this is a practical joke

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56. “ ‘Some preposterous practical joke,’ said he

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57. I am convinced that the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with the warnings

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58. There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own

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59. It seemed like a practical joke, for there was nothing to grind

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60. No boisterous practical jokers or very fast men frequented it

61. He had invented only one practical joke, a single one which amused him for nearly a year in our convict prison

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62. Katia, it appeared, did not like this practical joke

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63. Our hero passed a very bad night; that is, he did not get thoroughly off to sleep for five minutes: as though some practical joker had scattered bristles in his bed

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64. "There can be only two reasons for the strange theft—it is either a practical joke, or some one saw the stones who was able to decipher them—which we could not—but the joke theory seems the more probable," said the Doctor

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65. I thought of the pleasure that would be experienced by the ordinary "romp" at home were he able to make so vast an impression with his everyday practical jokes; and it was to me a matter of tremendous wonder that a harmless biscuit-tin, a common or garden firework, and a "domestic" pig could possibly combine to cause such intense excitement

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66. All was a practical joke—some one had let this pig loose with a biscuit-tin tied to his leg, and this had started the alarm

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