Example sentences for: parlors

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

  • Its two destinies come together in the Piazza del Duomo, where open-air cafés and ice cream parlors look up a long monumental staircase to the Arab-Norman campanile and polychrome mosaic façade of the Romanesque cathedral, built as a symbol of the republic’s glory.

  • Leaving his harried wife (Catherine Keener) and infant daughter in wintry Pennsylvania, the detective travels from Cleveland to North Carolina to the subterranean S/M parlors of Los Angeles to a production office in the meat market of New York City.

  • If the goal of feminism is greater economic and social independence for women, then storefront manicure parlors are a feminist success story for the 1990s: They've turned a generation of new female immigrants into small-business owners.

  • More than 200 such outfits have started up in recent years, creating concern that the government should establish public health standards for the field, like it has already for funeral parlors.

  • East Shinjuku is really two places: a daytime quarter of department stores, vertical malls, and discount stores, and a nighttime quarter of bars (straight and gay), cheap restaurants, strip joints, game parlors, jazz clubs, rooms-by-the-hour hotels, raves, and honky-tonks — most of the latter in a seedy, neon-lit neighborhood called Kabuki-cho.


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