Example Sentences

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He says yes, but then explains that the callers are pranking him.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

“I’ve gone sixty paces past the pond, and . . . I think my cousins are pranking me.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith