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Example sentences for "pranked"

Lexicographically close words:
prances; prancing; prandial; prandium; prank; prankish; pranks; prao; praps; praste
  1. The church hath been pranked out most gaily, Master Thornbury," he said.

  2. The innkeeper, with Darby and Debora, stood on the threshold and watched the two take the road to Stratford; and the sky was pranked out with many a golden star, for the storm had blown over, and the night winds were at peace.

  3. Pretty Jewesses, pranked in their prettiest clothes, hastened, metaphorically speaking, to the port to welcome the wanderer; for they knew it was from among them he would make his pick.

  4. Women and children, not at synagogue, showed themselves at the doors, pranked in their best.

  5. But the midsummer, the gallant midsummer, pranked in manifold splendours, is the true season of poetry for the toilers.

  6. On, as the sun slopes, and his beams fall slant over solemn mounds of cool gray hue and woody fields all pranked in gold.

  7. All over the country the churches are being pranked for Whit-Sunday.

  8. And nearer to the river's trembling edge 25 There grew broad flag-flowers, purple pranked with white.

  9. See, my wings are the richest of all, mother, and bright is the sun in which thy peacock shall spread his pranked plumes.

  10. The poles were pranked with nosegays, and a chaplet was hung round the horns of every ox.

  11. The grape-gatherers of modern Nola and Capua ridiculed their neighbours with obscene jests, and pranked themselves in travesty, like the earliest Oscans or the first colonists from Hellas.

  12. He's pranked out gaily; and a gay bird he be for your honour's cage.

  13. I marvel if it might not be pranked out for our coming.

  14. In a mood thus admirably fitted for the encountering of some marvellous adventure, did she mount her little white palfrey, all pranked out and caparisoned for the occasion.

  15. All pranked out and bedizened as he was, the puissant knight plunged into the gulf; but his exertions were fruitless, and he gave up the search.

  16. Ensigns and symbols of unknown meaning, and rich regalia pranked the dull gray faces of the pile with holiday splendors.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pranked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.