How to Use brothel in a Sentence

brothel

noun

• The brothels that lined Fourth Street tried hard to stand out.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 20 Apr. 2018
• The prostitutes who were found at the brothels were detained, Stroeher said.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• Instead, his office was in a block a little distance away, a location shared with a brothel.
  — Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• 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
• If successful, the referendum would eliminate nearly half of the state's 20 brothels.
  — David Montero, latimes.com, 6 May 2018
• Anything short of not dying from a drug overdose in a brothel after years of cheating is essentially a win in the Khloé Kardashian book of love.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 18 Apr. 2018
• At Jezebel’s, a brothel that Fred takes her to, June is asked by the resistance, also known as Mayday, to smuggle a package to the outside.
  — Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
• Brassaï captured both high and low society: beautiful couples and couture shows as well as the grittier side of Parisian nightlife, including hookups in bars and moments in brothels.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 10 May 2018
• 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 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
• There’s the off-camera rape of Fergus (again by Randall) at a brothel in Paris.
  — Wendy Naugle, Glamour, 7 Jan. 2019
• First, Ahlam said she was brought to a casino, before being sold to a brothel.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 3 July 2019
• Saloons, brothels and gambling halls sprang up to serve them.
  — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024