How to Use streetwalker in a Sentence

streetwalker

noun

• Nights are drowned in beer, in the company of the streetwalkers from the neighborhood.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
• There is an internet dating episode, a school bully episode, a scene in which a streetwalker is taken to a fancy restaurant.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Nana, published three years later, is the account of her zigzagging and ruinous ascent from streetwalker to courtesan during the last three years of the Second Empire.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• At these Winter Games, however, few ice skating costumes have looked like outtakes from a streetwalker’s trousseau.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• The Midnight Cowboy–looking streetwalker offers back-alley back scratches for $11 a pop.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• From his teens onward, Simenon had enjoyed the company of prostitutes, and there’s rarely an unsympathetic streetwalker, call girl, bar girl, dance-hall girl, mistress, or courtesan to be found in his books.
  — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Vincent’s bar is home base for a vast demimonde ensemble: mobsters, cops, pimps, pornographers, construction workers, streetwalkers and the post-Stonewall gay community.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• And at one unfortunate point, someone suggested that instead of being employed as one of Santa’s helpers, the character ultimately played by Zooey Deschanel should be a streetwalker.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024