How to Use massage parlor in a Sentence

massage parlor

noun
  • Seuzeneau said a handful of massage parlors have opened in Slidell in the last year or so.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • He was cleared of a rape charge and death threats against an employee of a massage parlor.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • Chris Wilburn talks about the morning raid at west side massage parlor.
    Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2018
  • On the same block, near Cheshire Bridge Road, there is another massage parlor, a tattoo shop and a strip club.
    New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Shutting them down is not as simple as rounding up the men and women in the massage parlor.
    Jenifer McKim and Phillip Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Xing, who ran three massage parlors, could be a nasty boss, scolding or firing those who crossed her.
    Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Setsuko reluctantly agrees, and sticks to her promise even though the school, in a dicey part of town, looks like a massage parlor.
    Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Some guys across the road cackled at a joke between them, leaning on a massage parlor’s windows.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The film was to have been a biopic of Gill, the late proprietor of a massage parlor and prostitution business in Pittsburgh.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 July 2018
  • The company owns Thermae-yu, a bath and spa in a Tokyo red-light district that features a massage parlor, a pub and all-night service.
    Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2022
  • All hair and nail salons, barber shops, spas, massage parlors and tattoo parlors must close their doors to the public.
    Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2020
  • A month later, a shooting at a massage parlor in Atlanta killed six Asian women.
    Nina Luo, The New Republic, 20 May 2021
  • Simmons said the city made Varner agree to some limits for the project — like that there can’t be any tattoo shops, package liquor stores nor massage parlors.
    Ben Brasch, ajc, 26 June 2018
  • Swenson stopped by the massage parlor a few weeks earlier.
    oregonlive, 15 July 2022
  • Two years later, he was accused of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor and making death threats against her.
    Sam Mednick, ajc, 16 June 2023
  • With Luis' support, Roach opens a janky massage parlor below the empanada joint in an effort to start a new chapter.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, the officer also saw the owner of the massage parlor, identified as 55-year-old Ying He, in the parlor.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Last week, a gunman killed eight people in shootings that targeted a massage parlor and two spas in and near Atlanta.
    NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • These systemic forms of violence cannot be divorced from the brutal killings of massage parlor workers in the Atlanta area on March 16.
    Elena Shih, Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Both victims appear to be connected to the massage parlor.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2024
  • The Continental, at the corner of Cedar and Union streets, was built on a 5,000 square foot site that was once the location of a former bail bond business with a massage parlor above.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Five other massage parlors were closed a week earlier, cops said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • She's climbed atop and made out with all three in various unique locations, like a pool table, massage parlor, and fishing boat.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 3 July 2019
  • This could include places like pot bars, movie theaters, yoga studios, and massage parlors.
    Timothy Naimi, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
  • On Wednesday, the newlyweds stepped out for some burgers and a trip to a massage parlor after returning to LA on Tuesday night.
    Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Robert Aaron Long, 21, faces four counts of murder and one count of assault in the shooting at a massage parlor in Cherokee County, authorities said.
    Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The other four are related to shootings at a massage parlor in Cherokee County.
    Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Biden was taking a round-trip flight to Atlanta to meet with Asian-American community leaders in the wake of the massage parlor massacre.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • In 2013, Zheng allegedly became involved in the aftermath of the incident in which two thugs beat up the father of a massage parlor owner.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
  • Hallinan had recently been calling out their other opponent, Bill Fazio, for getting caught in a massage parlor during a raid, for example.
    Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024

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