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 break has allowed for high jinks, hanging at home and hope.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2020
  • At some point, amid each episode’s high jinks, there is a trivia contest.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • The mind is also a place of exploration and wacky high jinks.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • Come for the high jinks, stay for a clever Tiffany Haddish cameo.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • His isn’t the goofball humor and high jinks that are as old as baseball.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • 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 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 a film propelled by high jinks, the gag that stays with us the longest is Jamie’s accent.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • All the sci-fi intrigue and alien high jinks will give them plenty of material.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Kentucky is not the only place beset by remote court hearing high jinks.
    — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Reading about Murray's real-life high jinks or watching them on screen is one thing.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 23 May 2018
  • Judy are returning after more than two years, so fans may need a binge-watch refresher on their high jinks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But fans who come for the show’s trademark rich-people-behaving-badly high jinks are in for a lot more this time.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Matafeo is a comedic delight, a master of both physical high jinks and witty repartee.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
  • 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 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
  • Out in the field, over decades, the sculpture was subjected to the elements — and campus high jinks.
    — Mary Logan Bikoff, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • What kind of holiday high jinks will unfold in Single All the Way?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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

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