How to Use gigolo in a Sentence

gigolo

noun
  • The murder victim is a dancer-cum-gigolo engaged to a rich widow.
    — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But when Mara meets 25-year-old gigolo Milan, the walls come down.
    — Anna Tatarska, Variety, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Kubiak had not aspired to be a gigolo, and his path to Las Vegas was a circuitous one.
    — Hallie Lieberman, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The woman is wearing a chic Eres bikini; the man's suntan is nut brown, like a '70s gigolo.
    — Vassi Chamberlain, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Gere stars as a high-end gigolo based in Los Angeles who becomes the prime suspect of a murder after a client is killed.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Men's Health, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The complaint challenged her mother’s competency and led to criminal charges against the man, who was portrayed as a gigolo.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The 3,136-pounder is not just a gigolo, brought in to serve Joan, Basilla and Kulu.
    — Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
  • Joey Evans is a charming cad, a heel, an unapologetic womanizer, a gigolo.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Belgian Matteo Simoni is best known for his role in Callboys, a cult comedy series about a group of hapless gigolos.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Andrew, good-looking and glibly sophisticated, becomes a gigolo to some very rich sugar daddies in San Diego.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Isn’t that fantasy of the gender-fluid gigolo appealing to all genders, and ingrained in our collective memory?
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The concept for the series was inspired by his movie How to Be a Latin Lover, about a fading gigolo dumped by his wealthy 80-year-old wife.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • McCormack, who makes a believable-enough gigolo, is both underused and overshadowed.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 24 July 2023
  • But this Latin lover gets some competition for her affections from his best friend, another conniving gigolo (Rob Lowe).
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The movie is about an unhappy nurse, Martha, and a scuzzy gigolo, Ray, who draws Martha into his scheme of luring lonely old ladies into their nest and killing them for their pensions.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • That’s where Khalid comes in, a charismatic guy from Brooklyn who embarks on an amateur gigolo quest in a small vacation town on the Black Sea.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) teaches in a fast food worker uniform and inspires with math problems about gigolos.
    — Michelle Kung, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • By 1944, Vélez was dating a handsome Austrian gigolo named Harald Ramond.
    — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
  • When Kier moved to London as an 18-year-old, British singer Michael Sarne spotted him in a coffee shop and later cast him in his first role — as a gigolo in a short film.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • On the other hand, others characterized him according to prevailing stereotypes of African Americans at the time — a lazy, half-witted and drunken gigolo who could hardly keep a job.
    — Paul Minifee Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Tavish, who just moved to New Zealand from Los Angeles with his bride, is a gigolo whose three previous aging lovers died under mysterious circumstances.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Helmy, the more sensitive elder brother, has been out of regular work for three years; Erich, the younger brother, has been serving as a ski instructor at a resort hotel and performing as a gigolo to some of the wealthy older women who stay there.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Their biggest commercial success — a relative term — was with Trash, the 1970 pic starring Dallesandro as and junkie gigolo and Holly Woodlawn as his wife.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The pilot introduces us to former gigolo Julian Kaye (Jon Bernthal) when he’s suddenly exonerated of wrongful murder charges after serving 15 years in prison.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Cunanan, a gay gigolo with a genius-level IQ who lived his formative years in California, is known to have murdered at least five people throughout his 1997 killing spree, which began with his murder of an acquaintance in Minneapolis.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2021

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