How to Use brothel in a Sentence

brothel

noun

• Sam Osbourne regularly visited brothels around the camp and left her for months on quixotic quests for wealth.
  — Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
• The brothel made as much as $5,800 a day, dozens and dozens of men each.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• The teenager says that she was tricked by her boyfriend and sold to the brothel.
  — Scroll Staff, Quartz India, 25 Feb. 2021
• After a night on the job, Anne failed to return to the brothel.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• To put a fine point on it, the opening scene of the series takes place in a brothel.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• But life at the brothel didn't bring shopping sprees with Richard Gere.
  — Ryan McKinnon The Herald-Tribune, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Both treated the same canon of modern-day subjects: the racecourse, the brasserie, the milliner’s shop, the brothel.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2024
• Later at a brothel, Daemon announces to the room a toast to the King’s dead son.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 21 Aug. 2022
• Woodward believed the bed had once been used in a brothel.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• The brothel girls sent Dorothy on errands and paid her with their dime novels.
  — cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
• Lan Mart Building, built in 1876 and former home of a brothel.
  — Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• Was its owner bound for a brothel, a playhouse, a bear fight?
  — Sophie Dahl, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• To aid selection in the brothel, the names of flowers were pinned to their bedroom doors.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Fort Worth was the last chance to stop for supplies and rest, and maybe even to pay a visit to a saloon or brothel.
  — Tamara Gane, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023
• Music could also be heard day in and day out in the bars and brothels that drew mill workers.
  — Rashad Shabazz, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2020
• Jamie and Claire go to the brothel, wanting to question the women about Bonnet.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• There were two new women at the brothel when the police raided it last month.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• First, Ahlam said she was brought to a casino, before being sold to a brothel.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 3 July 2019
• There are guns, shootouts, and an abundance of skin — since the three women are on the run, having escaped from a brothel.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 June 2021
• The scene was painted on the wall of a building that likely functioned as both a tavern and brothel.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Oct. 2019
• Rhaenyra and Criston's scene had to be different than Rhaenyra and Daemon's moment in the brothel.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• In May 1907, the city allowed the rink’s contract to lapse after park staff learned that the rink was moonlighting as a brothel.
  — Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2021
• Starr worked about a week every month at a brothel in Pahrump, Nev., outside of Las Vegas.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• He was born a few doors down from the biggest brothel in Alton, Illinois, a racially mixed city, in 1928.
  — Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• In Meiji-era Japan, a 15-year-old girl is sold to an exclusive brothel far from her home.
  — Jenny Comita, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The stone streets are filled with tour guides walking backward and pointing out the sites: the entrance to the Red Keep, Littlefinger’s brothel.
  — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Kimberly's time at the brothel in Bradenton was short-lived.
  — Ryan McKinnon The Herald-Tribune, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Al is getting older and feels his control over his brothel and the town slipping.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• The slave lodge served as a brothel for passing sailors and other European men.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• Kathryn Hunter is superb in the role of Madam Swiney, the Parisian brothel owner, and delivers some of the most memorable lines.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024