Example sentences for: pedophile

How can you use “pedophile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's no accident that Solondz's pedophile protagonist is a shrink and that the characters who get things off their chests go ahead and act on them anyway.

  • American parents, who suspect all strangers, see a pedophile lurking under that bushy white beard.

  • Turturro is wasted as a bowler named Jesus, a convicted pedophile in Spandex.

  • At the same time that the picture was winning an international critics' prize at the Cannes Film Festival (where it was shown outside the main competition), Universal, the studio that financed it (through its recently acquired "indie" wing, October), unloaded it in a panic--largely because its new owners, the Bronfmans of Seagram, feared being associated with a movie that featured a pedophile.

  • Baker's pedophile is so furtive that he's almost immobile, but we register the darting eyes under the bland, Mr. Rodgers-like façade, and as he waits for a little boy to eat a drugged tuna sandwich, we hold our breaths the way we did in Psycho when Norman Bates watched the car with the body of Marian Crane almost not sink into the swamp.


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