How to Use pornographer in a Sentence

pornographer

noun
  • Vespoli is far from the only pornographer who feels that way.
    — Lynsey G., Glamour, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Far better to be the son of a pornographer than of a serial killer.
    — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 June 2017
  • Nobody in his right mind would call Bogdanovich a pornographer.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Will he be remembered as a pornographer or a free speech champion?
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 July 2018
  • Letting the decision stand against the girl would amount to convicting her as her own pornographer, the girl’s lawyers wrote.
    — Ann E. Marimow, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In short, Snider might have been a pornographer and pimp, but so, too, were Hefner and Bogdanovich.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This will not apply to child pornographers or domestic abusers, however.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
  • My opponent spends his days and money marketing and attracting child pornographers and child abusers to put them back out on the street.
    — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But the real sucker punch came when one protester branded me a pedophile, pornographer and groomer of children.
    — Martha Hickson, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Breitbart had beaten not just the pornographers but also the journalistic elites who’d scorned it for years.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 June 2017
  • The list of charges against Ryan Spencer and his conspirator, both accused child pornographers, is growing.
    — Michael Todd, The Mercury News, 15 May 2017
  • That’s a lot of brain power, which will hopefully be harnessed for the good of humanity, rather than just to enrich pornographers or scam artists.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The speed-freak who next year will stalk King to Memphis, here gets a nose job while trying to learn hypnotism and become a pornographer.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The decision gave pornographers an imprimatur of free-speech righteousness, and in its wake the industry mushroomed.
    — Mary Harrington, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The court ruled that the statute banned all distribution of child pornography, with no exception for cases where the pornographer and the victim was the same person.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But without a mistress to ridicule, political pornographers targeted the queen.
    — National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2016
  • For the new pornographers like Adam Sutra, technology can erase the material world.
    — Susannah Breslin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2018
  • At least 22 women featured on the site have sued the site's owners, charging that the pornographers used lies and coercion to gain their participation.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Since they weren’t trademarked, the X, which barred entry to underage viewers, was soon appropriated by pornographers, who changed it from a warning to a boast.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • Despite his career as a pornographer, Andrew’s willingness to say and do anything to attract attention appeared to resonate with at least some right-wing figures.
    — Ioana Erdei, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In impersonating a would-be pornographer, Jake discovers how thin the line is that separates his own sober enterprise from the business of pornography.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Tehran’s chief prosecutor claimed that the service is used by pornographers and terrorists and ordered that the ban be enforced in a way that would prevent users from bypassing it via a virtual private network.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 May 2018
  • This same Walter Fritz later turns up in Florida as an auto parts dealer, an art dealer, and finally an internet pornographer.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Nin was already a celebrated author (and pornographer) by the time of her 1947 arrival in Los Angeles.
    — David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • That’s why the FBI resorts to old-fashioned methods of going undercover as drug buyers, child pornographers, and hit men in an effort to catch criminals there.
    — Brian Merchant, Harper's magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Lawrence, so recently enshrined as a mascot of the swinging Sixties, had been unmasked by second-wave feminism as a sadistic pornographer who merely pretended to care about women.
    — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2019
  • His defense lawyers rebutted that Combs was an amateur pornographer who had toxic, yet fully consensual relationships with his accusers.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Lee, the performer Nina Hartley and the feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 May 2018
  • Creating your own site is another option, but that prospect requires a level of technical expertise, and willingness to deal with the headaches of billing and customer service, that many aspiring pornographers just aren’t up for.
    — Lux Alptraum, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
  • And much of the rage directed at school boards and school administrators has been dumb and embarrassing, all that hooting and cursing and denouncing Toni Morrison as a pornographer.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022

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