How to Use mischief in a Sentence
mischief
noun- It's hard to keep him out of mischief.
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The mischief is just all the way in there, and there's more to come.
— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2022 -
The god of mischief is back — alongside old and new faces.
— Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023 -
The god of mischief is coming back to our TV screens soon.
— Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023 -
By the finale, the god of mischief had honed his skills to control time at will.
— Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023 -
The pet parent said the trio of pooches are known for causing mischief.
— Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Clothing that spoke of the good of our world, the delights of the human body, the mischief of the human mind.
— Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2022 -
The Caviar Hotline has a tinge of nostalgia and just the right amount of mischief.
— Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2023 -
But the wives set about on a creative plot of revenge to end his mischief.
— Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022 -
Many of the demonstrators face mischief charges, and some have been jailed.
— Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022 -
In the meantime, your girl will have to court mischief to eat or go hungry.
— Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023 -
But where those projects carried a whiff of mischief, the new wave of trance feels like a more earnest and direct homage.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2023 -
The cards are then spread on a round table where Wind will sit and conjure his mischief.
— David Segal, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022 -
Bryan Ferry has been making mischief for more than 50 years, on the margins of the rock world.
— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024 -
He was charged with criminal mischief, a felony, and his bond was set at $1,500.
— Greg Wehner, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2023 -
Stonehouse said Mason's mischief happened on the one night a month his mom Kristin goes out with the girls.
— Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2023 -
There are all these shots of them making mischief on the train from New York to Washington.
— Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024 -
My mother loves to embark on kitchen mischief with my sons.
— Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022 -
Misty is always on hand to help the children in the show through their emotion, whilst causing a little mischief along the way.
— Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2022 -
There was nothing to do after school, so teen-agers found mischief.
— Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 -
The pieces are mostly set in the 1980s and chronicle adolescent mischief, a search for love and the struggle to make ends meet.
— Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
There was a mention of teens causing mischief, cars being damaged out in the garage.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023 -
Do poets lead more turbulent lives, or does our short form leave more time in the day for mischief?
— Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2023 -
My way of making mischief – that’s not just me – that’s my whole Polynesian side.
— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, the god of mischief, sets out to try to repair the damage.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Aug. 2024 -
North West is getting into some mischief while her mom is away.
— Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023 -
At one point in the film, Orlok arrives in his new village by ship, joined by a mischief of rats, which then spread plague throughout the town.
— Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2022 -
And was the remark made innocently or with mischief in mind?
— James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024 -
On a night that's traditionally associated with mischief, the sad reality is that some people take things too far.
— Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 -
Foreign governments including hackers working at the behest of Russia, China or Iran may be involved, too, as well as those who simply delight at using social media to cause mischief and spread hoaxes.
— Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
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