How to Use prostitute in a Sentence
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The victim, a prostitute, had a male customer come to her room.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 30 Jan. 2020
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When one of the agents refused to pay, the prostitute protested and word leaked out.
—William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
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Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought in the space of four days.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Nov. 2025
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Later that day, he was stabbed to death in a drug deal gone bad by two transients and a prostitute.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
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Howard is tossing a prostitute out of his car in full view of Cliff Main.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2022
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It’s got to be tough being in that kind of business, being a prostitute.
—Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2021
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No kid needs to watch a movie about a Manhattan prostitute who kills one of her johns.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
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Their only friend is the son of a prostitute who lives in a sagging cabin nearby.
—Washington Post, 3 May 2021
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Wuornos was a prostitute and claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her.
—Peter White, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
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For his part, Napthaly dredged up an old story that de Young’s mother had once been a prostitute.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
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Blake Lively stars as a druggie prostitute whose family was lost in a plane crash.
—Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 8 Feb. 2020
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They were all charged with soliciting a prostitute, Judd said.
—NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
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His mother was an addict and a prostitute; what childhood did Coco have?
—Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2021
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An ex-convict chauffeurs a tall, thin prostitute around London for a mobster.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
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The next year, he was arrested again for robbing and assaulting a prostitute.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
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In a more recent outrage, a group of officers passed around a 19-year-old prostitute.
—Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
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That, and sheltering the prostitute Roslyn with whom he's fallen madly in love.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 24 May 2022
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Tourists used to come to King’s Cross for heroin, prostitutes and the train to Scotland.
—Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
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There's even an insane sequence in which a young Kravitz saves a teenage prostitute from a pimp and stashes her in his bedroom.
—Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
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That’s the case with Miss Beauties, a prostitute who has been brutalized.
—David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
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The host then paired each up with a prostitute, and hand-in-hand the couples left for private rooms, Shedd testified.
—Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
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He was released on bond and was busted during the sting for soliciting a prostitute.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2022
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The woman involved was not a prostitute, the sheriff’s office confirmed.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2021
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They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.
—Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
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A week later, a second prostitute, Matilda Clover, woke neighbors with her screams.
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
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So Kruzan was just considered a child prostitute, and a murderess who robbed and killed her trafficker.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
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He is also alleged to have forced a shotgun into a victim’s mouth who refused to work as a prostitute, threatening to kill her and her child.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
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The nine were picked up on outstanding warrants, ranging from trespassing to living off the earnings of a prostitute.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
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Legend says both Watson and Bemis were prostitutes, for instance.
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
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The video shows the girl asking the employee for food, then being encouraged by the employee to become a prostitute.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
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In a follow up interview, the girl said that a pimp was prostituting her out.
—Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
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His mother, who could not read or write, sometimes prostituted herself to keep food on the table.
—New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
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The woman testified that Tawfeeq talked to her about how to prostitute herself to make extra money.
—Amanda Marrazzo, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
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The victim told police that Veasley spoke to her about prostituting herself and provided her with a pack of condoms.
—Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020
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The episode begins with the radical feminist and writer prostituting herself in the back of a car with a man whose name does not matter.
—Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2017
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At least two women who were prostituted and abused by Epstein and his clients had Colorado connections.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
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And young girls continued to be prostituted on the site, the federal indictment alleges.
—Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
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Science and legalities aside, the reality is that no child who is prostituted does so free of compulsion.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 23 Feb. 2017
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Driscoll said that Combs did not make any money from prostituting women and so he could not be classed as a pimp and should face a lesser sentence under the Act.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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But over the years, like in Venice and Barcelona, floods of visitors have overwhelmed local lives -- from puking stoners to prostitute stalkers.
—Ruben Munsterman, Fortune, 9 June 2020
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Celia now takes refuge in a ravine beneath a highway overpass with other homeless children who dumpster dive for food and prostitute themselves for a few dollars or the promise of a hot meal or drugs.
—Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
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From the age of eight, Moochie was brutally tortured and grotesquely enslaved, raped, and prostituted by a sadistic stepfather.
—Nell Scovell, Vanities, 22 Mar. 2017
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Police found other similar accusations against Koalani, as well as a woman who prostituted for him.
—Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
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At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
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Two Georgia man are under arrest in Alabama, accused of taking a woman to Tuscaloosa to prostitute her.
—Carol Robinson, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
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Prosecutors said that Hood was involved in prostituting four other people on Backpage.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
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The indictment discusses another girl who was murdered after being prostituted on Backpage, a case in which the killer then attempted to burn his victim's body.
—Author: Tom Jackman, Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
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Prosecutors said Price met the two underage girls from Texas through Instagram and encouraged both to prostitute themselves.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
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At night, while her mom prostituted, Deshae would often stay with Khaled’s brother or at a 24-hour day care—but even that was common in Vegas, where parents tend to work odd hours.
—Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 10 May 2018
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But eventually a story emerged about a couple of women who had gone to Lusaka for school, run out of money for food, and wound up prostituting themselves and being trafficked, never to return to their village.
—Kate Cunningham, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
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The problem is these institutions of higher learning have prostituted their academic integrity and turned themselves into institutions of higher earning.
—Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
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Compare that to how Bondi prostituted the Justice Department to a vengeful president and bungled the entire Epstein matter.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
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Her pimp, Anthony, simply could not pass up another opportunity to prostitute a woman Lee knew as Misty, and whom Anthony had savagely beaten one day.
—Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
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Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten don’t account for filmgoers’ ironic awareness that actors can prostitute themselves and occasionally redeem lousy assignments with exemplary work.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Apr. 2022
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Court documents suggested that the girl had a falling out with Horenstein and allegedly ended up being prostituted by another woman, 27-year-old Souprina Blanc.
—Fox News, 4 Dec. 2019
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