How To Use Jinks In A Sentence
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There was a lot of high jinks and pillow fights.
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It is to the likes of constant Billy that Michael turns when he thinks that maybe his festival, his humanitarian dream of righteousness and virtue, is getting a little soft-shelled and modish, a bit too grand and deluxe, Glyndebourne on mild magic mushrooms, baby-boomer Butlins, an X and Y generation package holiday, an excuse for mere excursionist hijinks.
Billy Bragg's Glastonbury tips
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Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
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Of course, teachers responded to his pranks and high jinks with wrath and hours of detention.
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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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But behind the high jinks and the fun lay a serious purpose.
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Admittedly, the tackling was suspect, but the searing pace and impossible jinks demonstrated by the winger would cause problems for any defence.
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‘I didn't have any leftover time,’ she recalled tartly, ‘for high jinks.’
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Something tells me that when Martha Stewart burst onto the scene a few decades ago -- only to watch her celebrity soar as a modern-day Happy Homemaker -- she may not have ever imagined she'd be thrust into the high-tech hi-jinks of 2011.
Greg Archer: Martha Stewart Moves Into A New Era (VIDEOS)
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There was a lot of high jinks and pillow fights.
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The opening allegro crackled with masculine high jinks.
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It has not always been high jinks, though.
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Jinks, with the Cattanooga Cats trying to appear but being too "bubblegum" LOL Beats me as to who I'd cast to replace the great Daws Butler and Arnold Stang.
What Current Shows Would Make Good ’80s Cartoons? - TV Guidance - Macleans.ca
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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.
Theater review: 'Fox on the Fairway' at Signature Theatre
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The club indulges in revelries which it calls "jinks" -- high and low, at intervals -- and each of these gatherings is faithfully portrayed in oils by hands that know their business.
American Notes
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Many images involve cute little medicine pills, pieces of candy, or sushi rolls gen-bap engaging in zany hijinks and speaking in talk-bubbles.
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Something tells me that when Martha Stewart burst onto the scene a few decades ago -- only to watch her celebrity soar as a modern-day Happy Homemaker -- she may not have ever imagined she d be thrust into the high-tech hi-jinks of 2011.
Greg Archer: Martha Stewart Moves Into A New Era (VIDEOS)
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The author and his friends failed to get up to any hijinks on their mancation in San Francisco
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The whole topos of winebibbing and the flouting of sober outward convention, so dear to Persian Sufi poetry, can seem in earlier translators' work to be little more than a kind of rowdy undergraduate hijinks, and in more recent versions it can take on the ethos of Haight-Ashbury in the late sixties.
Languagehat.com: THE POETRY OF THE INEFFABLE.
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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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‘Wanna shop now,’ he says, as he jinks and jives down Oxford Street with his entourage trailing behind.
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Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its 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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For posterity's sake, the high jinks and low humour were documented extensively on social media.
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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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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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Do original Victorian houses inspire such high jinks?
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While millions don't have food to put on the table .... he HI JINKS around the world in AF-1for photo op's
Obama aide: Copenhagen accord 'a great step forward'
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She looked like she might be frosted by our hijinks but she surprised me, calling out, `Nice to see you, Doug.
SNOWJOB
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High jinks follow - and both end up better people.
The Sun
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Let the high jinks begin.
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I briefed the crew on all the maneuvers I planned to complete, including mild aerobatics, SAM defenses, and, finally, low-level defensive jinks.
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The funny thing is, if he had it all to do over again, doubled the jab and threw the "jinks" as a lead, he might have won.
East Side Boxing
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jinks" were over, and that was quite enough to make it unpopular.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
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His high jinks, exuberance and grandstanding were the marks of an eccentric, a playboy, a socialite.
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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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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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While the incident curbed her wilder high jinks, Diana was always game for a dare.
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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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There's a method to Mr. Freese's marketing high jinks.
When a $5 Download Just Isn't Enough
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Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
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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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Their unease was made worse by the sparkling little jinks of the Jed Kiwi Yule, who very nearly went clear to the line.
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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.
Seen & Heard: Fox TCA Party
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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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Maybe all that walking into glass doors and getting beaned with water bottles was Justin Bieber's way of telegraphing to MTV execs that not only is he a hit with the kids, as they say, but capable of spontaneity, physical humor and mayhem that stops just short of "Jackass" level hijinks.
Rumor Mill: Justin Bieber gets 'Punk'd'
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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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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?
Friday list: Seven great road trip movies you may have forgotten
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The giggle that implies that at the sight of each other's curvacious, water-slick naked bodies his admirers forgot all about him and are now busy indulging in lesbian hijinks?
13th June '06
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Taking off from the classic film “Revenge of the Nerds”, the writers decided to put the nerds in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where they run into the same old enemies and engage in the same old sex-jinks.
Top 10 Worst Sequels » Scene-Stealers
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Amusing hijinks, but there's a moral here, too: The Internet empowers us to become our own media outlet, even providing metrics—from pageviews to number of followers—to gauge popularity.
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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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Don't tell me there were no high jinks.
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After his marriage to one-woman wank factory Scarlett Johansson was confirmed by publicists, Ryan Reynolds has been dubbed “The flukiest, most undeserving git on two legs” by Hollywood columnist Jinks Firetrap.
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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 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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Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well - publicised high jinks.
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The thrilling high jinks of last weekend had the crowd anticipating similarly spectacular bursts of action.
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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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No, my wife is a formidable person who would not put up with such high jinks.
The Sun
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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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Ronaldo once again terrifies the Zambrotta-Gattuso axis as he jinks on the edge of the area.
Real Madrid v Milan – as it happened
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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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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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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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While Johnstone's many jinks included that drunken-sailor routine off the coast of Largs, his body double prefers to use a rowing boat for more respectable reasons.
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The inevitable high jinks follow.
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The main features marking the presence of a poltergeist are moving objects, electrical high jinks, or mysterious noises.