Examples of brothel in a Sentence

the district is infamous for its brothels and drug dealers

Recent Examples on the Web The difference between what exists at the moment and, say, a brothel denizen on Westworld is the difference between an ox cart and a Tesla. — Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 Krell charged the motel owner and manager with conspiracy to commit prostitution and pimping — essentially, owning and operating a brothel. — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022 Born in 1775, historians speculate that Madame Ching may have started out as a prostitute or madame on a floating brothel. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2022 Their success at eluding Daiyu’s predatory madam and the Hip Yee tong, the bloodthirsty gang that controls the brothel, is one of many junctures where Zhang’s novel seems to tilt toward a conventional redemption story. — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022 The story focus on a forlorn band of prostitutes, forced to pick sides when the American military invades and the soldiers hole up in their seaside brothel. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022 An early and influential example is the journalist and novelist Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s The Dead Girls (1977), a novel about killings at a brothel written to resemble a police report, and based on real events. — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021 Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s spectacle about Ganga’s rise from a demure small-town girl who’s forcefully sold off to a brothel, to the queen of Kamathipura, Mumbai’s red-light district, is inching towards the Rs100 crore club. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022 During their stays in the neighborhood between jobs or over holidays, laborers might send letters home, visit a barber or brothel, or gamble in a game of pai gow dominoes. — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022 See More

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