Example Sentences

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“Maybe some of the fame whores, I don’t know,” said Dixon, a four-time IndyCar champion.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2017

“Among these unheroic transplants were roguish highwaymen, mean vagrants, Irish rebels, known whores, and an assortment of convicts shipped to the colonies for grand larcenies or other property crimes.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2016

Kaling pooh-poohs the New Yorker, in which several of Novak’s stories appear; he replies in French, “We all must be whores for commerce, no?”

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2016

Brett Ligon indicated that he plans to file a motion asking the judge to recuse himself after Case allegedly called the attorneys handling the case "media whores."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2014

And so murderers, adulterers, thieves, whores, drunkards, idolaters, and all malefactors got protection under the Queen’s wings, under colour that they were of her religion.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford