How to Use smut in a Sentence

smut

noun
  • Smut is not allowed in this house.
  • There are so many of us who make fanart of our favorite fics, and a lot of the time that involves smut.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Who knew reading soft-core smut could be life-changing?
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 18 May 2018
  • Spicy BookTok is the sister kingdom to the smut queens of Bookstagram.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Bermudagrass smut shows up in early to mid-summer each year.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 13 July 2017
  • Corn smut makes pale, shining, swollen galls that burst and release powdery black spores.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2016
  • More cases take the detective’s attention: a teenage girl is found slain in a park; a smut peddler falls to death from a roof.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • Grilled corn with caviar and creme fraiche flavored with the Mexican corn smut called huitlacoche.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
  • Short of real smut, why cover up such objects of desire?
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The prized delicacy can be found on tostadas at Tumerico in Tucson, where where the restaurant also sells the corn smut in jars.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In the series, Eve Googles the term after her friend jokingly calls her the same name, which leads her to the internet’s iceberg tip of online smut.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Most of the reading was of a higher quality than smut however.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
  • In fact, smut is one of the only forms of speech the government consistently regulates.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
  • During an opening preview, there were tacos filled with saucy birria and others laced with crispy cheese, huitlacoche (corn smut) and mushrooms ($13 for three).
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • If necessary, destroy affected plants to keep smut from spreading.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2016
  • Nevada's notorious Sheri's Ranch has kitted out the room with smart home tech, letting punters create their own smut films using voice-control.
    — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Taken as a whole, this vast trove of smut is the Kinsey Report of our time, shedding light on the multiplicity of erotic desires and sexual behaviors in our midst.
    — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 11 June 2017
  • What started as sincere smut being read for a laugh around Morton’s kitchen table has turned into a literary adventure.
    — Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader, 6 Mar. 2018
  • At the same time, events indicate that Brendan’s lifelong easy access to smut has left him with some disgraceful notions about women and intimacy.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The British hosts' deadpan commentary on this singularly unsexy smut is liable to draw actual tears of laughter.
    — Emma Dibdin New York Times, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020
  • But this anthology is more subversive than a satisfying soupçon of smut.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Choosing biblical subjects allowed Gentileschi to repel charges of smut.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2021
  • The upshot seems both obvious and hard to argue with: In a society with so much to answer for, so much real indecency and genuine cause for moral outrage, why the uproar over a few minutes of amateur smut?
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The grill turned a Caesar salad into a dank brown and green mess unrecognizable as a Caesar or a salad, and a stiff, dry rabbit roulade came with a huitlacoche custard that sapped its namesake of its corn-smut funkiness.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
  • That's how my job eventually descended into harlotry: through the endless cat-and-mouse game of porntrepreneurs subverting Google's anti-smut policies.
    — Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017
  • The idea was that open Internet platforms where smut prevailed seemed to enjoy more protection in law than those entrepreneurial outfits that wanted to create family-friendly zones.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • From smut readers to hockey lovers to Pedro Pascal, everyone seems to be a fan.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however.
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Curiel uses the corn smut in the chile relleno in the form of huitlacoche esquites, too.
    — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Excessive moisture can cause corn smut, a type of fungus that grows on the ears.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025

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