How to Use brothel in a Sentence

brothel

noun

• 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
• Richard Pryor talks about growing up in a brothel and having to sit there and then watch men come in and out of his mother’s room.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
• In the early 20th century, the restaurant served as a brothel.
  — Claudia McNeilly, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2018
• The place may have been a brothel, too, according to what Jarman has heard from previous landlords.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2018
• Brown, who grew up in San Antonio, eventually sold the house that served as the brothel.
  — Melissa Renteria, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Sep. 2024
• One of them was seen leaving the Dougherty Road brothel with Liu in 2017.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Their divorce was postponed in 2015 when Odom was found unconscious in a brothel.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Originally opened in 1908 as a saloon, this building went on to serve as a brothel and later a boarding house before falling into disrepair.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• An underaged prostitute in a brothel catering to a wealthy clientele with illicit appetites, the immigrant victim is too poor to be of interest to the police no matter how grotesque the nature of his death.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2018
• The past two Portals described how the prostitutes who tried to escape were severely beaten or killed by tongs, the secretive, brutal organizations that ran the brothels.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 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 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
• 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
• 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 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024