How to Use porker in a Sentence

porker

noun
  • The result was the birth of 12 healthy, less-porky porkers.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Row crops, sensitive wetlands and the floor of many forests have been chewed up by hogs as the voracious porkers look for their next meals.
    Sammy Fretwell, charlotteobserver, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Be prepared to partake in the saltiness and smokiness from the belly of the porker with an entire day filled with bacon and beer at the San Diego Bacon Fest.
    Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • To celebrate the Year of the Pig, the French company is selling a playful swine-themed bag charm, while Gucci launched wallets with three little porkers.
    Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The premise involves a major company that claims to have bred the aforementioned porkers -- elephant-sized creatures that will help feed a starving world.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 June 2017
  • The highlight is the weekly pig roast; every Wednesday a local porker is spit roasted for seven hours under a mango tree.
    SI.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The swimming pigs of Exuma to be exact, a group of porkers on a small island called Big Major Cay, who over the years have taken up the hobby of paddling around in the area’s crystal blue waters.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The swimming pigs of Exuma to be exact, a group of porkers on a small island called Big Major Cay, who over the years have taken up the hobby of paddling around in the area’s crystal blue waters.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The prize-winning porkers were not in residence, thank goodness, but their memory lingered on.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2017
  • In terms of salmon sizes, Bowers said there were no surprises, unlike recent years where Bristol Bay sockeyes ran small and Kodiak pinks were porkers.
    Joe Eckdahl, Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Oct. 2017
  • This year is the start of a markedly upward trend again — count on values rising again next year — and it’s on taxpayers to keep government porkers from getting so obese that they might be considered ...
    Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 June 2017
  • Also popular is the Double Porker featuring pork tenderloin with fried bacon, topped with beer cheese and served on a ciabatta bun with chips.
    Jessi Virtusio, Post-Tribune, 21 June 2017
  • McCain and other reformers eventually got the practice stopped, at least temporarily, though resourceful Capitol Hill porkers continued pursuing other ways to get their pet priorities funded.
    azcentral, 2 Apr. 2018

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