plural brothels
: a building in which prostitutes are available
For recreation, there were bars, after-hours joints, pool halls, strip joints, brothels, and transient motels.—
Darlene Nall
Darlene NallElizaveta is happy to become the madam of a high-class brothel.—Jonathan Fast
Jonathan FastIn the brutal red-light district of Chicago, at the dawn of the 20th century, most brothels emphasized "efficiency instead of fantasy."—Ada Calhoun
Ada Calhoun
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Examples of brothel in a Sentence
the district is infamous for its brothels and drug dealers
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Women were featured on websites that falsely claimed to advertise nude Asian models for professional photography, and high-end apartments with monthly rents as high as $3,660 were used as brothels, prosecutors say.
—Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
Larkin and Lacey faced federal trial in 2021 in a proceeding that was set to see prosecutors call two former Backpage executives to testify that the website was essentially an online brothel.
—Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
These were cheaper paintings that could be sold via auction or lottery and hang in family homes, butcher shops, or brothels.
—Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Feeling out of place in a current world, clinging to old world values such as virility but, as captured in a first scene in a brothel, Toribio can’t even get it up.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
Instead, Boten’s few thousand residents are overwhelmingly Chinese workers building new residential towers and those working in services catering to them — Chinese restaurants, Chinese shops and brothels.
—Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
By night, young women sit outside brothels bathed in purple and pink neon lights, while their handlers try to cajole Chinese men walking outside to come in.
—Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
These human stories unfold against a backdrop of enormous human suffering in the prisons, workhouses, brothels and streets.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
But relations between the two countries remain troubled by Japanese right-wing denials that Korean women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
Larkin and Lacey faced federal trial in 2021 in a proceeding that was set to see prosecutors call two former Backpage executives to testify that the website was essentially an online brothel.
—Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
These were cheaper paintings that could be sold via auction or lottery and hang in family homes, butcher shops, or brothels.
—Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Feeling out of place in a current world, clinging to old world values such as virility but, as captured in a first scene in a brothel, Toribio can’t even get it up.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
Instead, Boten’s few thousand residents are overwhelmingly Chinese workers building new residential towers and those working in services catering to them — Chinese restaurants, Chinese shops and brothels.
—Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
By night, young women sit outside brothels bathed in purple and pink neon lights, while their handlers try to cajole Chinese men walking outside to come in.
—Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
These human stories unfold against a backdrop of enormous human suffering in the prisons, workhouses, brothels and streets.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
But relations between the two countries remain troubled by Japanese right-wing denials that Korean women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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