How to Use high jinks in a Sentence

high jinks

plural noun
  • All the better to discuss their high jinks, right?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The dynamic is matey and punchy, with lots of high jinks and backslapping.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Knowing the high jinks these characters always get up to, don't hold your breath.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In its 10-episode first season, the show could use a little more heart and soul behind its high jinks and gaffes.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Smith’s memories of the inseparable pair are a blur of giggles and teenage girl high jinks.
    — Tanya Babbar, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • Romantic feelings and high jinks ensue.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • With apologies to those who love to tell a stoner story, this new paradigm means fewer high jinks and less rebellion.
    — Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The new episodes leave room for seriousness and depth amidst high jinks and naked murderers on the loose (seriously).
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • And, of course, there was all the humanitarian work Biffle did — under all those high jinks, there was an enormous heart.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Just two good old-fashioned American spies, the Soviet Union, the Cold War and a lot of high jinks.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The radical outliers self-destruct during the high jinks (they get arrested or killed), but most people exhaust themselves and are happy to return to their workweek lives.
    — Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In fact, this is a pretty transitional episode in general, reestablishing stakes and getting back in the swing of day-to-day work high jinks after last week’s bombshell aborted wedding.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Butthole Surfers—their name, high jinks, and toilet paper stagecraft aside—were a rigorous, conceptual band.
    — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There are a multitude of absurd high jinks and shenanigans (really the only words applicable here) that lead to Greg's decision to stay and inevitably fill each episode.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Last year’s installment, V/H/S/Beyond, tweaked the genre instead of the era, putting an explicitly sci-fi spin on the horror high jinks.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That was especially true in the visitors locker room at FedExForum, which was filled with laughter, friendly arguments and high jinks.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That means our television screens will soon be graced with more of Barrymore’s hilarious high jinks, emotional heart-to-hearts, and (hopefully) walks down memory lane with some of her famous pals.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But the writers, like Noah and Joanne, are ignoring that fundamental fork in the road in favor of inane high jinks from the couple and their increasingly irksome friends and family.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The pilot has moments both sweet and funny, and sets up the possibility of romance amongst the characters, as well as further high jinks from a rotating cast of license seekers and citizens ignorant of the requirements for a Real ID.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The show followed the destitute Cuylers — father Early, his illegitimate son Rusty, his meth-loving sister Lily, and his crabby grandmother Granny — and their various moneymaking high jinks.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Durrell alternates between slapstick domestic high jinks, wanderings through the lush natural landscape, and increasingly ambitious investigations of biological life, from tracking twitching bacteria in pond water to the mating habits of insects.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
  • Gabby follows Kenzie following Bobbie, for maximum high jinks, which USA TODAY can preview in an exclusive clip (above).
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Carousing dandies like Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Oasis' Liam Gallagher also know that rock stars should be larger than life; their Union Jerk high jinks were refreshing after years of fame-shy American alt-rockers.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • On Thanksgiving Day, the flurry of food and family time (or family drama, as the case may be) calls to mind nothing so much as the halcyon days of Gossip Girl—in particular, the holiday high jinks of Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, Jenny, et al.
    — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
  • While a growing flock of more than 280,000 Instagram followers appreciate posts showing the sisters' high jinks and capers — such as Sister Rita's boxing sessions — the provost's spokesperson, Harald Schiffl, is less enthusiastic.
    — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025

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