streetwalker
Example Sentences
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In the finale, Tamara Toumanova, a legend of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, is a streetwalker dancing by lamplight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
A wealthy man with multiple well-appointed homes in glamorous cities, and also a bedraggled streetwalker who compulsively picks up roadside garbage by the bagful.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
She won Joseph Jefferson Awards — the city’s premier theater honor — in plays such as Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead,” portraying a streetwalker, and Lynn Siefert’s “Coyote Ugly,” as an ill-fortuned young wife.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2017
As Ms. Kent glides from one act to the next — the ingénue becomes a courtesan and, finally, a shattered streetwalker — that tension instills her Manon with a wistful complexity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2014
There was no interesting toil to relieve their unhappy lot, and no distinction was made of the insane, the law-breaking criminal, and the wretched streetwalker or demimondaine.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
