sex worker

Example Sentences

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Vicky Hernández, an HIV-positive sex worker, was shot in the head with a single bullet on the night of the coup, when a curfew was in place and only military and police were allowed outdoors.

From BBC

Since her breakout role in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," Leigh has commanded viewers' attention with the characters she plays, from Tralala, the sex worker in "Last Exit to Brooklyn," and Hedra Carlson, the roommate from hell in "Single White Female," to her Dorothy Parker in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" and her Oscar-nominated turn in "The Hateful Eight."

From Salon

Additional zest is brought to the proceedings by Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, as Mathilde’s sensitive boyfriend, and Gustav Lindh, who plays a gentle Ukrainian sex worker found, half naked and bound, at the scene of Markus’s first crime.

From Washington Post

Recently, two mutual friends revealed to me that my ex has become a sex worker.

From Washington Post

In a photo from her 1978 trip to India’s red light district, a teenage sex worker wearing schoolgirl braids and lurid makeup prepares for a night on the street.

From Washington Post