flophouse
Example Sentences
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Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024
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
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
On colder nights he would head to a flophouse, colored a bluish- purple next to another church.
From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020
She has left the flophouse and her annoying roommate and is back to living in her truck.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
