Example sentences for: brothels

How can you use “brothels” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The area around the south end of Columbus Avenue was once known as the Barbary Coast, a seedy and boisterous waterfront district, with sailors on shore leave haunting the bars and brothels, while their captains shanghaied drunken civilians to make up lost crew.

  • Good news for porn fans: The Internet makes it possible to learn which brothels and strip clubs are reliable.

  • Don’t be surprised to find offices, shops, and restaurants living side by side with the brothels here — it’s all part of Amsterdam life.

  • This area, known as Storyville, became a legend in its own time, where the mixture of glamour, depravity, and color in the local brothels attracted almost every visiting celebrity, and where saloon drinkers, gamblers, and rakes waiting their turn could tap their feet to a developing style of music — jazz.

  • (Formerly, syphilis was transmitted through brothels, where it was spontaneously generated.


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