Example sentences for: mischief

How can you use “mischief” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."

  • The paper quotes the DOD Y2K czar saying nevertheless that "there's very little real mischief going on here."

  • Think of all the mischief Chairman Rangel (Ways and Means) and his unreconstructed colleagues could make if freed from Republican constraint.

  • Curse John - In 1774 Philip Fithian was reminiscing in his diary about his undergraduate days at Princeton when “they often practised mischief by parading bad women and burning Curse John.”

  • and its brother's appetite for mischief."


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