flophouse
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For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Part of the scheme involved an alleged plan to remove permit violations in the flophouse owned by Mr. Pelosi.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Sure, your mom might think your bedroom looks like a flophouse, but how many people are in your bedroom regularly?
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2020
“He was a young father, he had a flophouse, he had the secondary life where he kept other things away from people… Everything came together as a bit of a perfect storm for him.”
From Fox News ● Jan. 25, 2020
“Three months ago Wylan turned up at a flophouse near the Slat. He was using a different surname, but Kaz keeps tabs on everyone new to the Barrel, so he had me do some snooping.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Sleeping in flophouses and on bus stop benches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Towles revels in boxcars, flophouses and seedy bars, the junkyards of failed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
CBGB’s, at 315 Bowery, has become a legend, but in those days it was a dive bar on the ground floor of one of the many flophouses that lined the avenue.
From Fox News ● Sep. 30, 2019
The $10-a-night flophouses that once housed the bohemian surfer crowd have largely been replaced by high-end boutique hotels, and more than a dozen new restaurants have opened in the last year alone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2016
Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
