How to Use bordello in a Sentence

bordello

noun

• The dark alleys, the fog banks, the filthy streets, the mortuary lab, the bordello decor.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• Eventually, the pimp takes the teenage boy to live in a blue bordello by the sea.
  — Edmund White, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Anyone who wants bordello-cloth seats and tacky, ankle-deep shag that runs up the wall is in the wrong place.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 15 May 2020
• Even more so, the master bedroom, a shock of gaudy bad-taste bordello style.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
• Among the survivors is Patricia, the Venezuelan who was trapped in the bordello in Cali.
  — John Otis, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
• Over the years the building has been a boarding house, a bordello and a piano repair shop.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
• The front room, painted bright red and gold, looked like a San Francisco bordello.
  — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• Legend has it that the spirit of a bordello girl crawls in bed with gentlemen guests, scratches the walls and stomps around at night.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• The specters include an uncle named Eddie, a customer with a love of snapper soup and a lady of the evening who was stabbed in the bordello days.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Twenty guests had assembled in a red-lit room that looked like the foyer of a hipster bordello.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• The young Morton cut his teeth playing in the bordellos of New Orleans' famed Storyville red-light district in the early 1900s.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Of course, my writing skills were not the only tools getting honed in that virtual bordello.
  — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2004
• Peck wore a series of leather masks with strips of dangling bordello fringe, which obscured most of his features, but not his searching blue eyes.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2022
• Yes, the 1930s mansion, with its open patio, high wood-beam ceilings, and red terracotta floors, was once a bordello.
  — Kylie Madry, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2022
• Henry eventually opened two bordellos on Sixth Street, the heart of St. Louis’ red-light district.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Even if the gilt ceiling is wallpaper and the red-velvet upholstery skews bordello, the Nines has proven that scenesters can get into Cole Porter.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• No longer was this a matter of a U.S. senator frolicking at a male bordello: The security of the nation was now at risk.
  — James Kirchick, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Rob Lowe drops in to play a bordello-owning Canadian mayor.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
• No one meeting Pearl Adler on the street would have taken her for a fallen woman, let alone the proprietress of Manhattan's most renowned bordello.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2021
• Jerome went from mining powerhouse to ghost town and is now an artsy tourist magnet filled with eclectic shops in buildings that once housed bordellos and bars.
  — Terry Gardner, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• Their goal was to rein in the bordellos that were sprouting up all over the city and confine them to one central walled enclosure where the trade could be easier monitored and controlled.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2023
• Because the music emerged, in part, in the bordellos of New Orleans’ Storyville vice district at the turn of the previous century, the world has viewed jazz as embodying the illicit.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Yes, women actually wanted to strut down a catwalk looking like what may have happened if Big Bird had his way with a bordello.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• That nude bordello really edged the whole vibe in a fratty direction, and the long running time required a lot of take-forever talk about prophecies and destiny.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• Over time, as the property was sold and neglected, boarders were arrested for stealing, running a gambling den and using the dwelling as a bordello.
  — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2020
• Catherine Deneuve stars as a housewife moonlighting in a bordello in director Luis Buñuel's 1967 classic.
  — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• Style is a language, and to turn away from Suspiria‘s fuchsia-blood-splattered, art nouveau gothic bordello-a-go-go aesthetic is to deprive yourself of one of moviedom’s great visual pleasures.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 June 2018
• Originally designed as a restaurant, gambling den and bordello, the Music Hall was built just one year after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2018
• Established in 1850, the Inn has gone through a few name and business changes, serving not only as a tavern before and after prohibition, but also as a bordello.
  — Kimiko Martinez, Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2017
• The lawyers who went to Tijuana denied coaching any of the roughly 400 people in the caravan who recently arrived in Tijuana, camping out in shelters near some of the city's seedier bars and bordellos.
  — CBS News, 29 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024