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Examples mischief examples
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Simple sentences
Tom likes mischief.
Boys are fond of mischief.
The unsupervised children got up to all sorts of mischief.
Tom got up to a lot of mischief at school.
Alcohol has done great mischief to his body.
That child is full of mischief.
Thoughtless speech may give rise to great mischief.
Movie subtitles
There in the gloaming they sat, their faces alight with mischief, but all the while his heart was singing.
They can smash delicate apparatus. They can do endless mischief.
I knew he was up to some mischief.
Up to mischief already.
Yet canst thou work in mischief on the way.
It was just as though all the rest he had was, well, too much for him, and he had to get into mischief to blow off steam.
They're liable to get into mischief.
Really, you're quite a dark horse. I shall telephone Fred in the morning and make mischief.
These gentlemen will overlook your mischief, just as the prosecutor here has done me the great favor of suspending all proceedings begun against me.
Always making mischief.
He gets out and does mischief.
He's going to make good that mischief.
Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, wherever in your sightless substances you wait on nature's mischief!
I'll do you mischief, a mischief worse than that. if you say much more.
Are we going to have a lot of fun and mischief?
While I'm gone, please don't get into any mischief.
Oh-ho-ho! Up to mischief already.
And it was just as though all the rest he had was too much for him and he had to get into mischief to blow off steam.
Can you take care of her? Come on girl, give us a hand. Don't stand there getting into mischief.
Get her into mischief, I keep telling her. Would bring me here.
I'm full of all sorts and descriptions of mischief.
It's the sort of mischief that would have appealed to you in school, for the experience, the excitement, the danger.
We made excuses for your mischief. because you harmed nobody but yourself.
And please don't get into any more mischief.
Don't smash a vase or get into mischief!
Mischief in the town.
You've been in plenty of other audacious mischief.
Keeps me out of mischief.
I promised my friends in California to see you didn't get into mischief.
What mischief have you been up to?
Don't get into mischief.
If you like, but you won't get up to any mischief, will you?
Always getting into some mischief.
Did they say how the whale marked him inside and out. and a mischief was worked on his soul?
News and current affairs
Fourth, the IMF and others should stop peddling monetary mischief such as currency boards and fixed exchange rates.
But the containment argument fails, because the Kremlin can still make mischief around the world by acting with Syria or Venezuela in an irresponsible manner.
Indeed, with the UN and the Western alliance in disarray, the region could fall victim to further Russian policy mischief.
After all, political honesty - and honest politicians - is more likely to take root in a society marked by a culture of tolerance, solidarity, and the equal enjoyment of individual rights. Political mischief-makers do poorly in such soil.
Even before Vladimir Putin became Russia's president, the Kremlin was making mischief in Georgia, issuing Russian passports to citizens of Abkhazia (the largest breakaway region) and pouring money into its economy.
In 1995, when I was serving in the Pentagon, China began building structures on Mischief Reef, which is claimed by the Philippines and lies much closer to its shores than to China's.
When the dispute over Mischief Reef erupted, Chinese officials failed to clarify the meaning of the nine-dashed line, but, when pressed, they agreed that the dashes demarcated areas where China had sovereign claims.
Infuriated by what he considered to be guerilla tactics, Trichet effectively silenced the mischief-makers by the bold stroke of pre-announcing the rate hike two weeks before the meeting.
Political mischief-makers do poorly in such soil.
In South Korea, the remarkable Park Guen-hye's bid to become her country's first woman president may provide an excuse - as if any were needed - for North Korean mischief-making.
Given North Korea's continued potential for military mischief and the fluid state of security in Asia in the wake of China's rise, such tactics could have serious, if unintended, consequences.
The discriminatory treatment of GMOs creates widespread mischief.
There was also China's seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974, and the 1995 occupation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, amid protests by the Philippines.