How to Use stripper in a Sentence

stripper

noun
  • She worked as a stripper for a few years.
  • The stripper didn’t have any teeth.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The rich kid and the stripper get hitched in a chapel off the strip.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Back in the day, strippers came to a lot of the good rock shows.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Some go for the slots, some for craps, some for strippers, and some for the shows.
    — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • This stripper road trip shows what a movie looks like for the female gaze.
    — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 31 May 2018
  • Plus kitchen hanky-panky this time, and even a stripper in the mix.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Um, yeah, that’s just being a stripper.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The team hired two women to act as strippers at the party.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Strippers who failed to dance on stage on schedule were fined $50.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Hey, guys, get yourselves a keg, some strippers and hookers, and chill.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Some versions of the tale hold that the song's name came from a stripper Roth knew.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2024
  • While the men have moved on from their stripper days, they do get recognized for their old gig.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • Then use your wire strippers to remove 1 inch of wire coating from each wire.
    — Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Agents searching his home this month found pipe nipples, iron end caps, wire and wire strippers.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The drug dealers be paying the strippers.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, Murph hasn't spent as much time around strippers as the song's lyrics may suggest.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • If the paint is oil, use 5F5 paint stripper and then power-wash.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 18 July 2019
  • On the surface, Hustlers is, of course, about strippers who scam wealthy men.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • When playing strippers, the most important skill to learn is, of course, how to pole dance.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • That’s a real paint-stripper of a voice, an acidic sort of vocal that’s just marvelous.
    — Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • For him, watching Janet with someone else — even a stripper for hire — was a turn-on.
    — Hallie Goodman, Redbook, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Our tools would be handsaws, bark strippers, and white plastic buckets.
    — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
  • Pitino, who Louisville had gone to great lengths to protect in the stripper case, was fired for cause.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Work in a small section at a time rather than applying the stripper onto the whole deck at once.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
  • After allowing the stripper to do its work, use a putty knife to scrape away the residue.
    — Laura Fenton, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • The hero of Strip Tease is a very beautiful, very smart stripper.
    — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
  • In the decades since, the station saw heavy damage by metal strippers and vandals.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Apart from the strippers, Alamo doesn’t have a female working on the inside.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023

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