How to Use brothel in a Sentence

brothel

noun

• Lamar Odom's family has rushed to his side in the wake of his drug overdose at a Las Vegas brothel.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 15 Oct. 2015
• Yara and Theon Greyjoy make a pit stop at a brothel during their escape from Uncle Euron.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2016
• Though hundreds of thousands of women are thought to have been forced to serve in military brothels, only a few hundred came forward, due in part to social stigma.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 3 Jan. 2017
• To fight this, the religious sisters often dress as prostitutes and integrate themselves into brothels.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 21 Nov. 2015
• And later on in the night, chimaek is often ordered to room salons, the quasi-brothel hostess karaoke bars where many of the corporate business deals in Seoul get finalized.
  — Wesley Yang, Bon Appetit, 9 May 2017
• A warrantless raid by Denver police went awry even before officers kicked open the door of a house that a tipster told them was occupied by men running a brothel and selling drugs.
  — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
• 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
• Some of the boys and girls laboring in this brothel were even younger.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Sai, in her gorgeous new confessional look that is like a brothel couch come to life, says that Erin failed her own test.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
• The boom also brought the usual social accompaniments —gambling houses, brothels and frequent killings in the oilfields.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Feb 2025