How to Use shenanigan in a Sentence

shenanigan

noun
  • Some shenanigans may have gone too far.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The plots were full of shenanigans.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But this is just a taste of all the shenanigans that went down.
    — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Mack and Will back at it with the shenanigans.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But again, there’s no place in the game for those kinds of shenanigans.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And that dude was always up to some weird shenanigans.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • So dust off your green gear and let the shenanigans begin!
    — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Radar is a weekly roundup of theme park shifts and shenanigans.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Read on to learn how this treat inspired such shenanigans.
    — Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
  • More pastel shenanigans are on the way.
    — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But some neighbors are fed up with the shenanigans that come with the race.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Does that seem like your run-of-the-mill youthful shenanigans?
    — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 24 Aug. 2016
  • To watch all the shenanigans take place, tune in live or watch for free tonight with Fubo.
    — oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • New year, new shenanigans in the little ol’ town of Riverdale.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The next six weeks will be both challenging and fun thanks to team shenanigans.
    — Stan Son, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What other shenanigans do you guys have planned that isn’t on the website?
    — Curtis Silver, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2009
  • The bear's shenanigans were caught on the home's Ring camera.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That's right, more Schwooper shenanigans are on the way.
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • This is a game where the margin of error is not big enough for shenanigans like that.
    — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The games, shenanigans, and resulting fun were just par for the course.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
  • The duo hatch a revenge plot, and shenanigans ensue.
    — PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Time may have passed, but George Clooney is still up to his old shenanigans.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Even with all the shenanigans that have ensued since then, he's still got to be top five in the world.
    — SI.com, 8 July 2019
  • Time-travel shenanigans wouldn’t work in just any gangster movie.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But in the past, there has been no will to discipline the stock traders and stop the shenanigans.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And there was a lot of shenanigans going on with the commercial side.
    — Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Pax is the one who keeps getting the duo in trouble with his boyish shenanigans.
    — Fred Topel, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But the superhero shenanigans don't end there!
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Amid the cute critter shenanigans, this one has plenty of lessons for the parents.
    — Mark Kennedy, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
  • The frat boys move in next door and quickly start shenanigans on the block with their partying.
    — EW.com, 5 July 2024

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