woman of the streets

Example Sentences

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“I always honour something that commander Chávez told us: that while we were in these posts we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.”

From The Guardian

“It’s amazing to be able to be a part of a film showing that everyone is worth saving, everyone is worth investing in, and Christ made the ultimate sacrifice for us all, no matter if we are man or woman, no matter if you are addicted to drugs or you are clean, no matter if you are a woman of the streets or a woman who got to go to the Oscars,” Freeman said.

From Washington Times

It was told of him that he restricted himself to a diet of dry bread and coffee for a month in order that a poor woman of the streets, dying of consumption, might enjoy luxuries in hospital.

From Project Gutenberg

What I could no more than vaguely hint to the mother was that she had in some part prepared her son for the moral catastrophe by attiring herself after the manner of a woman of the streets.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, she's got a common woman of the streets here in the house as a sort of maid-companion to her young daughters!

From Project Gutenberg