How to Use brothel in a Sentence

brothel

noun
  • The brothel made as much as $5,800 a day, dozens and dozens of men each.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • One of the three houses (in the story) is a brothel — that’s the play.
    James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018
  • The brothels that lined Fourth Street tried hard to stand out.
    Darryl Levings, kansascity, 20 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • One of them was seen leaving the Dougherty Road brothel with Liu in 2017.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Woodward believed the bed had once been used in a brothel.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Cheryl, once again, begs her mom to stop using their house as a brothel.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2018
  • To Area 51's west, there's the Alien Cathouse which is advertised as the only alien-themed brothel in the world.
    Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Jamie lives in the brothel and Claire is quietly seething.
    Roxane Gay, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2017
  • As their day ends, the Frasers go to a brothel where the Madame Jeanne, the proprietress, is none too pleased to learn Jamie has a wife.
    Roxane Gay, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2017
  • For a time, in Odessa, Tex., the family lived in one half of a house; the other half was used as a brothel.
    Enid Nemy, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The play is based on madam Joann Kitchen, who was married six times and ran a brothel on Indy's west side in the mid-1800s.
    Stephanie Wang, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Many of the women and girls wind up pregnant and raising children in the brothels.
    Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • For instance, it’s long been rumored that the Glen Tavern Inn, which opened in 1911, had a brothel on the third floor.
    Gwynedd Stuart, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • No one wants to rent to a person who used the last rental as a temporary brothel or drug den.
    Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The women in the brothels weren’t allowed Christian burials, and so they'd be buried there, and they were known as the Winchester Geese.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In that case, police accused a man and a woman with operating six brothels around the Bay Area.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024

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