How to Use brothel in a Sentence

brothel

noun
  • This is a public place, not a brothel.
    — Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Cheryl, once again, begs her mom to stop using their house as a brothel.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The teenager says that she was tricked by her boyfriend and sold to the brothel.
    — Scroll Staff, Quartz India, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The brothels that lined Fourth Street tried hard to stand out.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 20 Apr. 2018
  • He was seen leaving a brothel in Brazil.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the boys and girls laboring in this brothel were even younger.
    — Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Legal brothels like ours do not just provide a safer space for clients.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
  • Was its owner bound for a brothel, a playhouse, a bear fight?
    — Sophie Dahl, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Saloons, brothels and gambling halls sprang up to serve them.
    — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • One of the three houses (in the story) is a brothel — that’s the play.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018
  • To put a fine point on it, the opening scene of the series takes place in a brothel.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The brothel made as much as $5,800 a day, dozens and dozens of men each.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • After a night on the job, Anne failed to return to the brothel.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There were two new women at the brothel when the police raided it last month.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • The brothel girls sent Dorothy on errands and paid her with their dime novels.
    — cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
  • But life at the brothel didn't bring shopping sprees with Richard Gere.
    — Ryan McKinnon The Herald-Tribune, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • At first, the tango was danced by working class people across bars and brothels.
    — Charis McGowan, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Did Jane get a tourist’s thrill from visiting the brothel?
    — Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Music could also be heard day in and day out in the bars and brothels that drew mill workers.
    — Rashad Shabazz, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2020
  • No one wants to rent to a person who used the last rental as a temporary brothel or drug den.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Many of the women and girls wind up pregnant and raising children in the brothels.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • To aid selection in the brothel, the names of flowers were pinned to their bedroom doors.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • First, Ahlam said she was brought to a casino, before being sold to a brothel.
    — Arwa Damon, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • Days later, she was taken to a brothel to service up to 30 clients per day.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • There are guns, shootouts, and an abundance of skin — since the three women are on the run, having escaped from a brothel.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 June 2021
  • Ted slumped on to the sofa, his long legs bent, his feet in brothel creepers, his fingers drumming on the bones of his knees.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Fort Worth was the last chance to stop for supplies and rest, and maybe even to pay a visit to a saloon or brothel.
    — Tamara Gane, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Later at a brothel, Daemon announces to the room a toast to the King’s dead son.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Most striking among them is the eldest son, dressed in a long velvet frock coat and a battered pair of brothel creepers.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025

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