Example Sentences

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“In order to maintain the idea of himself, he needs someone to play along,” said the British actor, recently seen as a mischief-making ambassadorial spouse in “The Diplomat” on Netflix.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Nonetheless, he added, Russia’s capacity for mischief-making in the Balkans has been severely constrained by the war in Ukraine.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Michael Riedel, the New York Post’s mischief-making Broadway columnist for more than two decades, has chronicled with incendiary flamboyance the backstage dramas of megalomaniacal producers, peremptory divas and the cowering artists caught in the crossfire.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2020

The mischief-making magazine, which ended its print publication last year, was a formative influence on countless comedy writers, satirists, filmmakers and artists.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020

Elisha called this private upper floor “a sort of sanctuary; a retreat to which we are driven by mischief-making eyes and tongues. There, like wounded deer we escape the hunters.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock