Example Sentences

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“I didn’t expect it because Dave had been pranking me with fake proposals for the past six months,” Ms. Clark said.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

The cow-boy had been pranking with a new game, had lost $1,000, but had plenty more left.

From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.

She thought only, and talked only, of her malady, which had been pranking in the oddest manner all day, and had settled, at last, in her "limbs."

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell