How to Use poser in a Sentence

poser

noun
  • Get paid, hang out like the rest of these posers.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Costumed reporters and awkward celebrity posers.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Rideshare posers have also allegedly raped passengers.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
  • This means not undershooting to the point of looking passive and not overshooting to the point of looking like a poser.
    — Gorick Ng, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Newsom became, by his own definition, a poser.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Portman plays a desperate, well, gallerist looking to offload a corpse as art during Miami’s annual poser-heavy Art Basel conference.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026

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