How to Use bordello in a Sentence

bordello

noun
  • Even more so, the master bedroom, a shock of gaudy bad-taste bordello style.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Eventually, the pimp takes the teenage boy to live in a blue bordello by the sea.
    — Edmund White, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Anyone who wants bordello-cloth seats and tacky, ankle-deep shag that runs up the wall is in the wrong place.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 15 May 2020
  • The dark alleys, the fog banks, the filthy streets, the mortuary lab, the bordello decor.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Over the years the building has been a boarding house, a bordello and a piano repair shop.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Of course, my writing skills were not the only tools getting honed in that virtual bordello.
    — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2004
  • Legend has it that the spirit of a bordello girl crawls in bed with gentlemen guests, scratches the walls and stomps around at night.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • The front room, painted bright red and gold, looked like a San Francisco bordello.
    — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Peck wore a series of leather masks with strips of dangling bordello fringe, which obscured most of his features, but not his searching blue eyes.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2022
  • As the war rages on outside the bordello, Hugo risks capture under the noses of its Nazi patrons.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Some Russians set up a bordello down in the industrial area, and everybody knew about it.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Jerome went from mining powerhouse to ghost town and is now an artsy tourist magnet filled with eclectic shops in buildings that once housed bordellos and bars.
    — Terry Gardner, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • The specters include an uncle named Eddie, a customer with a love of snapper soup and a lady of the evening who was stabbed in the bordello days.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Among the survivors is Patricia, the Venezuelan who was trapped in the bordello in Cali.
    — John Otis, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
  • To get a taste, stay at the Red Garter Inn, a former saloon and bordello built in 1897.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Yes, women actually wanted to strut down a catwalk looking like what may have happened if Big Bird had his way with a bordello.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2021
  • Yes, the 1930s mansion, with its open patio, high wood-beam ceilings, and red terracotta floors, was once a bordello.
    — Kylie Madry, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2022
  • That nude bordello really edged the whole vibe in a fratty direction, and the long running time required a lot of take-forever talk about prophecies and destiny.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Over time, as the property was sold and neglected, boarders were arrested for stealing, running a gambling den and using the dwelling as a bordello.
    — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2020
  • In the past, the neighborhood was bustling—and occasionally raucous, full of fishermen and grocers working next to bordellos and bars.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Even if the gilt ceiling is wallpaper and the red-velvet upholstery skews bordello, the Nines has proven that scenesters can get into Cole Porter.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
  • No one meeting Pearl Adler on the street would have taken her for a fallen woman, let alone the proprietress of Manhattan's most renowned bordello.
    — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Houses could be rented for $15 a week and converted into bars, bordellos and gambling dens, with liquor licenses and health certificates optional.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Style is a language, and to turn away from Suspiria‘s fuchsia-blood-splattered, art nouveau gothic bordello-a-go-go aesthetic is to deprive yourself of one of moviedom’s great visual pleasures.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 June 2018
  • Catherine Deneuve stars as a housewife moonlighting in a bordello in director Luis Buñuel's 1967 classic.
    — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Established in 1850, the Inn has gone through a few name and business changes, serving not only as a tavern before and after prohibition, but also as a bordello.
    — Kimiko Martinez, Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Because the music emerged, in part, in the bordellos of New Orleans’ Storyville vice district at the turn of the previous century, the world has viewed jazz as embodying the illicit.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Deneuve plays an ordinary French housewife who ends up working in a bordello in this stylish commentary on class and sexuality, one of Buñuel’s biggest hits upon its release in 1967.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The Noodle’s website claims the inn’s exciting history includes stints as varied as a stop on the Underground Railroad, a Prohibition-era distillery and a bordello.
    — Emily Udell, Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2017
  • Originally designed as a restaurant, gambling den and bordello, the Music Hall was built just one year after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2018

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