red-light district
Example Sentences
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A stone's throw from the US border and around the corner from Tijuana's seedy red-light district, Afghan families say they feel safe inside a first of its kind Muslim-only shelter.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2023
Ahmad’s extraordinarily accomplished first novel revolves around Faraz Ali, born to a prostitute in Mohalla, Lahore, Pakistan’s red-light district.
From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022
The program was a culmination of a five-day residency for artists that took place in Treme, the neighborhood where Storyville, New Orleans’s former red-light district, sat.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022
It was Kirchherr’s boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, who insisted that her and their friend, Jürgen Vollmer, came with him to the spectacularly seedy Kaiserkeller in Hamburg’s red-light district on an October evening in 1960.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2020
Short, impressionistic chapters flit between the fictional town of Ventor, Georgia; boho New York City; San Francisco’s red-light district; the coast of Florida; and a grad-school program in Maryland.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2019