How to Use prostitute in a Sentence

prostitute

1 of 2 noun
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  • When one of the agents refused to pay, the prostitute protested and word leaked out.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Howard is tossing a prostitute out of his car in full view of Cliff Main.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2022
  • The victim, a prostitute, had a male customer come to her room.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Read more: In Ingram's case, the lawsuit claims deputies accused the boyfriend of trying to pick up a prostitute and seized the car.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
  • No kid needs to watch a movie about a Manhattan prostitute who kills one of her johns.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The corner drug peddlers and prostitutes are all but gone.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 16 Mar. 2020
  • It’s got to be tough being in that kind of business, being a prostitute.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The host then paired each up with a prostitute, and hand-in-hand the couples left for private rooms, Shedd testified.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • For his part, Napthaly dredged up an old story that de Young’s mother had once been a prostitute.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Their only friend is the son of a prostitute who lives in a sagging cabin nearby.
    — Washington Post, 3 May 2021
  • That’s the case with Miss Beauties, a prostitute who has been brutalized.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • There's even an insane sequence in which a young Kravitz saves a teenage prostitute from a pimp and stashes her in his bedroom.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The teen is described in court documents as a prostitute.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In a more recent outrage, a group of officers passed around a 19-year-old prostitute.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
  • That, and sheltering the prostitute Roslyn with whom he's fallen madly in love.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 24 May 2022
  • Three young boys befriend a prostitute named V. After a striptease, V drives the boys home to the suburbs but ends up staying once her car breaks down.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The night Maricella died, she was punished for yelling at a fellow inmate who had called her a prostitute at 6:30 p.m.
    — jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Blake Lively stars as a druggie prostitute whose family was lost in a plane crash.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The aging prostitute and the young orphan clash at first but soon grow to see each other in a way that no one else does, and the song rides on the emotions of their story into the end credits.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • In 1836, as the Sun and the Herald dueled over coverage of a prostitute’s murder, Bennett fully made his name.
    — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Otto gets a tip from none other than Mysaria, the (now former) prostitute Daemon fled to Dragonstone with in episode two.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Sep. 2022
  • His mother was an addict and a prostitute; what childhood did Coco have?
    — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The video shows the girl asking the employee for food, then being encouraged by the employee to become a prostitute.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • An ex-convict chauffeurs a tall, thin prostitute around London for a mobster.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The woman involved was not a prostitute, the sheriff’s office confirmed.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • A week later, a second prostitute, Matilda Clover, woke neighbors with her screams.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
  • They were all charged with soliciting a prostitute, Judd said.
    — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • He was released on bond and was busted during the sting for soliciting a prostitute.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • In a slight twist on the film’s plot, Bernthal plays a male prostitute who was wrongfully convicted of murder and served years in prison before his sentence was overturned.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But Monterey becomes far less appealing when a young prostitute turns up dead on the outskirts of town, then another and yet another.
    — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
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prostitute

2 of 2 verb
  • In a follow up interview, the girl said that a pimp was prostituting her out.
    — Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
  • His mother, who could not read or write, sometimes prostituted herself to keep food on the table.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The woman testified that Tawfeeq talked to her about how to prostitute herself to make extra money.
    — Amanda Marrazzo, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The episode begins with the radical feminist and writer prostituting herself in the back of a car with a man whose name does not matter.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The victim told police that Veasley spoke to her about prostituting herself and provided her with a pack of condoms.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020
  • But over the years, like in Venice and Barcelona, floods of visitors have overwhelmed local lives -- from puking stoners to prostitute stalkers.
    — Ruben Munsterman, Fortune, 9 June 2020
  • At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
  • A Bridgeport man who prostituted and beat a 15-year-old girl pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of sex trafficking of a minor.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 12 May 2017
  • At night, while her mom prostituted, Deshae would often stay with Khaled’s brother or at a 24-hour day care—but even that was common in Vegas, where parents tend to work odd hours.
    — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 10 May 2018
  • Kamala doesn’t care if Willie was good...women who prostitute themselves only care about money and prestige.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2019
  • Celia now takes refuge in a ravine beneath a highway overpass with other homeless children who dumpster dive for food and prostitute themselves for a few dollars or the promise of a hot meal or drugs.
    — Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Two Georgia man are under arrest in Alabama, accused of taking a woman to Tuscaloosa to prostitute her.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • From the age of eight, Moochie was brutally tortured and grotesquely enslaved, raped, and prostituted by a sadistic stepfather.
    — Nell Scovell, Vanities, 22 Mar. 2017
  • And young girls continued to be prostituted on the site, the federal indictment alleges.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
  • A man who pleaded guilty to forcing women to prostitute themselves on Backpage.com was sentenced to federal prison yesterday.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 28 June 2017
  • Science and legalities aside, the reality is that no child who is prostituted does so free of compulsion.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 23 Feb. 2017
  • But eventually a story emerged about a couple of women who had gone to Lusaka for school, run out of money for food, and wound up prostituting themselves and being trafficked, never to return to their village.
    — Kate Cunningham, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
  • The indictment discusses another girl who was murdered after being prostituted on Backpage, a case in which the killer then attempted to burn his victim's body.
    — Author: Tom Jackman, Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Police found other similar accusations against Koalani, as well as a woman who prostituted for him.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Usually such efforts lead to sagas of unrelenting grimness: mothers who prostitute daughters, and men who forcibly inject runaways with drugs to hook them, a practice known as guerrilla pimping.
    — Author: Jan Hoffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Prosecutors said that Hood was involved in prostituting four other people on Backpage.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
  • A Boynton Beach man is facing the possibility of life in prison for allegedly prostituting a 16-year-old girl, federal authorities said Thursday.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 June 2017
  • Her pimp, Anthony, simply could not pass up another opportunity to prostitute a woman Lee knew as Misty, and whom Anthony had savagely beaten one day.
    — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Court documents suggested that the girl had a falling out with Horenstein and allegedly ended up being prostituted by another woman, 27-year-old Souprina Blanc.
    — Fox News, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The problem is these institutions of higher learning have prostituted their academic integrity and turned themselves into institutions of higher earning.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • In a follow up interview, the girl said that a pimp was prostituting her out.
    — Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
  • His mother, who could not read or write, sometimes prostituted herself to keep food on the table.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The woman testified that Tawfeeq talked to her about how to prostitute herself to make extra money.
    — Amanda Marrazzo, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The episode begins with the radical feminist and writer prostituting herself in the back of a car with a man whose name does not matter.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The victim told police that Veasley spoke to her about prostituting herself and provided her with a pack of condoms.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020

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