How to Use high jinks in a Sentence

high jinks

plural noun
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  • Come for the high jinks, stay for a clever Tiffany Haddish cameo.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • This new tour will have the kind of dunks, stunts, hoops and high jinks that made the team famous decades ago.
    — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The break has allowed for high jinks, hanging at home and hope.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Imagine the high jinks this boy and this toy will get into.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The mind is also a place of exploration and wacky high jinks.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • In a film propelled by high jinks, the gag that stays with us the longest is Jamie’s accent.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But thanks to some movie high jinks, the bus ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff, Caine and the boys on one end, the gold on the other.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • His isn’t the goofball humor and high jinks that are as old as baseball.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • At some point, amid each episode’s high jinks, there is a trivia contest.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • In that time, the lovable pooch has come to be known for two things: his playful high jinks and his enormous size.
    — Asher Perlman, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Fans wanting more Martin and Martin high jinks should tune in to the special event at 6 p.m.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The show was filled with high jinks — the group grappled with pirates and outlaws in some episodes — and was unabashedly light and airy.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • What kind of holiday high jinks will unfold in Single All the Way?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Only a handful of games outside Baltimore could put a damper on the highs and high jinks of a third straight win.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Botte owned a camcorder, and recorded all of the behind-the-scenes high jinks that teenagers get up to during the dog days of Shakespeare rehearsals.
    — Luke Winkie, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Over the course of 2020, Affleck and de Armas got matching necklaces and embarked on high jinks.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Masks may recall killers and robbers, or even a night of more modest high jinks, like Halloween.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The showers start in April, when a freewheeling dude enters your world and some very hot high jinks ensue.
    — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
  • While Tammy bought furs, her husband Jim got up to some financial high jinks — and worse.
    — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
  • All the sci-fi intrigue and alien high jinks will give them plenty of material.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Bears have been up to these kinds of high jinks for as long as people have been building houses, or maybe since people and bears fought over the same caves.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Your insistence that your past is just a series of mild high jinks doesn’t completely track with me.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Their first set of pics freaked Kris out so much — and brought them so many laughs — that the duo decided to carry on with the hilarious high jinks.
    — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Reading about Murray's real-life high jinks or watching them on screen is one thing.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 23 May 2018
  • The second season of Hulu's The Great is almost here, and if the new full-length trailer is anything to go by, more shenanigans and high jinks will be afoot.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Bonding moments, the reappearance of an old flame and high jinks ensue, from a car breakdown on the way to Tuscany to getting tossed in jail.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • Kentucky is not the only place beset by remote court hearing high jinks.
    — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
  • These modes both add an extra layer of physical high jinks to the game since players must chase after their golf balls.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • The resulting series of escalating high jinks, which includes the use of blowfish poison, verges on the farcical, but the novel’s major chord is one of rueful longing.
    — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • The finale alone gave us a wealth of high jinks independent of the trial featuring the anti-Larry character witnesses.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024

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