How to Use demimonde in a Sentence

demimonde

noun
  • In its day, Cristina’s work was very much a product of its demimonde.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The film’s strength is its dizzyingly affecting portrait of a deeply distressed life in the demimonde.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Finger and Weber talk for an hour or so, spelunking deep into the demimonde with convivial delight.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Weegee, a New York photographer famous for his shots of crime scenes and the city’s rarely photographed demimonde.
    — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Weegee, the New York photographer famous for his shots of crime scenes and the city’s rarely photographed demimonde.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Leviss joined the Vanderpump demimonde in season 5 as Kennedy’s new girlfriend.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Truth be told, the list of collaborators doubles as a who’s who of New York's creative demimonde.
    — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 2 May 2019
  • Runyon’s sense of the racing demimonde, though, promises deeper pleasures on offer.
    — Max Watman, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Some are John’s friends, recruited from the downtown demimonde that inspired his idea for Shortbus; some have never met him.
    — Mark Harris, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2022
  • As an author, essayist and historian of the urban demimonde, Lucy Sante is a cultural rover of the old school.
    — Marc Weingarten, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The film’s attitude toward the demimonde of Hong Kong sugar daddies and the models who pretend to love them boils down to a cheeky and rather thoughtless shrug.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
  • The job lasted six months, but his fascination with the demimonde on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street persisted.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • In between Shanghai was a sprawling, hyperenergetic demimonde of opium dens, gambling casinos, and illicit dance halls.
    — Monitor Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2018
  • The movie’s a character study of a scene, the Soviet rock demimonde of the early 1980s, with characters based on real people and a deep sense of inside baseball.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • But nobody in particular can be identified except some members of the scroungy New Orleans-Dallas-Galveston demimonde.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
  • These people now have to exist in a demimonde of informal work, welfare, and other handouts such as SSDI, without the dignity and security of work.
    — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Shawishes are the primary brokers between the demimonde of refugees and the aid workers, municipal officials, employers, security agents, and journalists who interact with them.
    — Alexander Dziadosz, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • In both cases, that means a larger brass section and a chance to really hear the sometimes tense dialogue between strings reflecting soaring romantic aspirations and the brassy, Runyonesque undertow of Nathan’s demimonde.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2017
  • This debacle plunges the Marvins into Sydney’s criminal demimonde, where Susi is part of an organization headquartered in an amusement park and led by another brother-sister duo, this one terrifyingly unhinged.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Mar. 2026

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