How to Use streetwalker in a Sentence

streetwalker

noun
  • Nights are drowned in beer, in the company of the streetwalkers from the neighborhood.
    John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
  • There is an internet dating episode, a school bully episode, a scene in which a streetwalker is taken to a fancy restaurant.
    Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Nana, published three years later, is the account of her zigzagging and ruinous ascent from streetwalker to courtesan during the last three years of the Second Empire.
    Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • At these Winter Games, however, few ice skating costumes have looked like outtakes from a streetwalker’s trousseau.
    Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The Midnight Cowboy–looking streetwalker offers back-alley back scratches for $11 a pop.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • From his teens onward, Simenon had enjoyed the company of prostitutes, and there’s rarely an unsympathetic streetwalker, call girl, bar girl, dance-hall girl, mistress, or courtesan to be found in his books.
    Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Vincent’s bar is home base for a vast demimonde ensemble: mobsters, cops, pimps, pornographers, construction workers, streetwalkers and the post-Stonewall gay community.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • And at one unfortunate point, someone suggested that instead of being employed as one of Santa’s helpers, the character ultimately played by Zooey Deschanel should be a streetwalker.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020

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