How to Use porn in a Sentence

porn

noun
Definition of pornnext
  • One of his early girlfriends, Koo Stark, appeared in a soft-porn movie.
    — Sarah Lyall, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2013
  • The Kremlin’s latest victim, where the child-porn card is concerned, is Yuri Dmitriev.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Over the past decade, revenge porn has emerged as a major Internet scourge.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
  • The goal seems to be to slut shame Chyna and expose her body online — in other words, this could be revenge porn.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 5 July 2017
  • Both of my breasts were engorged to porn-star status, and the pain that radiated from them took my breath away.
    — Erin Zammett Ruddy, Redbook, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the early years High Times was often sold in the same plastic bags newsstands used to shield the covers of porn magazines.
    — John Rogers, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
  • The intimacy involved in porn's workplace means that the line that can't be crossed might seem blurry.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • In the first few weeks until the child porn was found, the things that were said about me, the things that were said about Jamie (Dantzscher), who was anonymous at the time, were really quite vile.
    — Stephanie Wang, Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Others, including some former porn stars, feel the fact that Rua was formerly a man should prevent her from the role.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Think of the man who can’t stop watching porn, even at work, and gets fired, or who visits prostitutes several times a week and doesn’t use a condom.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The original plan had been to hold the sale in one of Paris’s last remaining adult theaters, on the punny logic that Margiela, for those who love it, is fashion porn.
    — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Teekell faces two counts of distribution of child porn, the U.S. attorney's statement said.
    — Annie Zak, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The men that do care tend to either be inexperienced or can only get off while watching porn.
    — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 31 Mar. 2017
  • In 2013, revenge porn was made a crime under the California Penal Code.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2017
  • Nat Bailen, who manufactured a peep show machine for cartoons, started to sell his units to sex-shop owners who used them for porn.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 June 2017
  • Police say Kern admitted to conversations with the boys and to showing them porn on his cellphone, the report said.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 June 2017
  • The classmates who confront her come off as snotty mean girls who need to forgive their friend and get over it, not people sticking up for a survivor of revenge porn.
    — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Despite the lawsuits that followed, an internet porn mogul acquired a copy of the pirated tape and marketed it as a triple-X film.
    — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Just about every search that is looking for violent porn is roughly twice as common among women than men.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • But the ‘no excuses’ thing has a feeling of condescension to it, mixed with a certain vibe of inspiration porn.
    — Elizabeth Millard, SELF, 24 Oct. 2017
  • An official told the Associated Press that the child porn case predates the Las Vegas shooting.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • According to Maryland state law (pdf), if convicted, Williams could face five to 10 years in prison on each count of possessing and distributing child porn.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 16 Oct. 2017
  • That raises the second critical question beyond porn's possible harm to users: the right to privacy of nonusers.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The interrogations that Winston undergoes in the play’s second half are graphic enough to verge on torture porn.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
  • Other women, including a Las Vegas club promoter and a porn star, start to come forward with their own stories of affairs with Woods.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 29 May 2017
  • Last month, for example, the Washington Supreme Court upheld the conviction under state child porn laws of a 17-year-old boy who sent a picture of his own erect penis to a 22-year-old woman.
    — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The idea that porn prevented him from killing women was a self-serving delusion that justified his impulse to write and draw portrayals of torture.
    — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 June 2017
  • Based on real events, Brazil’s official Oscar submission charts the wild career ride of a drug-snorting porn star who finds television fame as a blue-haired clown.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Unbeknownest to her, Meza, who was five years older, was leading the double life of a porn actor and prostitute, picking up gay men on escort websites.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • In one story, a police detective is haunted by ghosts with bells for eyes; in another, a survivor of rape acquires the ability to read porn actors’ minds.
    — Nora Caplan-Bricker, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017

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