flophouse

Example Sentences

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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

They don’t live in a motel or flophouse, like many intermittent laborers, but on the McGrath property itself, in a trailer home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2020

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

Perhaps because he was nervous, or perhaps because he kept moving from one flophouse to another, he couldn’t remember his address.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady