whore
/hɔː/
US pronunciation
American sound/hɔː/
whore
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> whore
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- ‘Each room is occupied by girls like me, girls with broken homes; rape victims, prostitutes, and whores.’
- ‘The whores in the brothel next door to my work are listening to REM's ‘Everybody Hurts’ on their radio.’
- ‘The waterfront was busy, traders and merchants displaying their items for sale, while on the corners of the streets hookers and whores waited for their evening's employment.’
- ‘At the Bridewell in London, single women suspected of being whores were inspected by other women to establish if they were virgins.’
- ‘The album is content to rely on the old hip-hop cliches, piling on the swear words and overloading each track with references to whores, pimps, hookers and drugs.’
- ‘‘Most of the money was spent on booze and women of easy virtue - whores in other words, ’ he told me in an interview.’
- ‘Women have two kinds of power, historically: as the courtesan and as the whore.’
- ‘Sherman typically enacts a series of portraits - Elizabethan whores, gangster's molls, and now a series of clowns.’
- ‘From Kings to paupers, all of them had their mistresses and concubines and whores.’
- ‘He finally shed his obsession with cross-eyed prostitutes when he learned to put Descartes before the whores.’
- ‘The popular belief amongst local lads is that the inmates at the Magdalene are whores and trollops.’
- ‘A whore captivates a rich man with her coquettish prettiness and is rescued from life on the streets.’
- ‘He was also involved in a string of violent incidents with the swordsmen and whores of the Roman streets, ending with his killing of Ranuccio Tomassoni in a gang fight in May 1606.’
- ‘After learning that his son visits a whore, Wang Lung goes to the prostitute, paying her not to see his son anymore.’
- ‘In the streets he is accosted by whores, hustlers and queer-bashers.’
- ‘In this particular case, however, the child born to a whore is named after a particular adulterer.’
- ‘In a matter of decades, Makiki's artistic focus had shifted from the virtues of the Madonna to the transgressions of the whore.’
- ‘One woman reporter, in tears, told Weffer about being called a puta, a whore, when she tried to enter a poor neighborhood wearing a press pass.’
- ‘He didn't need to surround himself with sluts and whores.’
- ‘She falls in love with John but he attacks her calling her whore and strumpet.’
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