How To Use High jinks In A Sentence
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There was a lot of high jinks and pillow fights.
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It may be a classic but it's a naff classic, surely: Harry Potter may have given boarding school life a shot in the arm but tales of fagging and prep-time high jinks are hardly the stuff of progressive drama.
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The high jinks consist of handcuffing themselves to the mace in the House of Assembly, or blocking the Prime Minister's path and getting arrested and quietly let go.
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It's a comedy rule, it seems, that the louder you can say a line or caterwaul in reaction to some hoary bit of high jinks, the more uproarious the moment becomes.
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It has not always been high jinks, though.
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The opening allegro crackled with masculine high jinks.
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There was a lot of high jinks and pillow fights.
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‘I didn't have any leftover time,’ she recalled tartly, ‘for high jinks.’
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But behind the high jinks and the fun lay a serious purpose.
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He said that there are more students from comprehensive schools and that they are quieter, enjoy fewer high jinks and take some weeks to settle in.
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Of course, teachers responded to his pranks and high jinks with wrath and hours of detention.
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Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well - publicised high jinks.
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His high jinks, exuberance and grandstanding were the marks of an eccentric, a playboy, a socialite.
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Let the high jinks begin.
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High jinks follow - and both end up better people.
The Sun
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Do original Victorian houses inspire such high jinks?
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Medical students have a well-earned reputation for studying hard and playing harder, and high jinks are part of student life.
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It's been not quite a week since the Sydney Olympics came to a clashing close with all the high jinks and foofaraw entailed in a closing ceremony.
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For posterity's sake, the high jinks and low humour were documented extensively on social media.
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Dick Tuck, the grandfather of political high jinks, arranges for an adoring crowd, holding signs in Chinese, to greet gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon in Los Angeles's Chinatown.
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Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks.
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Dave Mertens was a doyen of the newsdesk, so it was good that his leaving do last week was conducted in that traditional high jinks spirit.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Glee's Heather Morris teased that in the Super Bowl episode there are more high jinks in store for ditzy Brittany, as Sue makes it her mission to shoot the cheerleader out of a cannon.
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Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
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I mean, who doesn't love watching a film in which incompatibly matched people gas up the car and head out on the road, only to encounter numerous travel-related high jinks?
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Kids find Carrey's manic high jinks a hoot, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas grossed $55 million on its first weekend.
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It's a good thing the young'uns have scared the nasty nabobs that run the labels with their high jinks.
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Dick Tuck, the grandfather of political high jinks, arranges for an adoring crowd, holding signs in Chinese, to greet gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon in Los Angeles's Chinatown.
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There's a method to Mr. Freese's marketing high jinks.
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Mr Hedley, of Carr Meadow, says he hopes the incident is not treated as merely high jinks or horseplay.
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While the incident curbed her wilder high jinks, Diana was always game for a dare.
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As night falls and temperatures drop below zero, the Bolivians start to party with fireworks and high jinks into the early hours.
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Now, if you're interested in getting to the bottom of these sorts of high jinks you want to see dust-ups like this because if things get ugly - and especially if they go into the courts - you know all the details are going to come out.
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High jinks and fast-moving action prove another winning combination for Bad Boy cops Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in this long-awaited sequel.
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The main features marking the presence of a poltergeist are moving objects, electrical high jinks, or mysterious noises.
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The inevitable high jinks follow.
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The bulk of the screen time goes to a team of undead children and the wacky high jinks they get into while searching for human blood.
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Whether it is heavier birth weights, amplified testosterone levels or simple, hair-raising high jinks , boys seem to take an extra toll on the women who gave birth to them.
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We more or less behaved ourselves on the train, but we had some high jinks.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Don't tell me there were no high jinks.
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No, my wife is a formidable person who would not put up with such high jinks.
The Sun
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This is a special issue on bêtises d' enfance (childhood high jinks, goof ups and silly mistakes).
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The thrilling high jinks of last weekend had the crowd anticipating similarly spectacular bursts of action.
