flophouse

Example Sentences

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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

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

On colder nights he would head to a flophouse, colored a bluish- purple next to another church.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

Dad called it a flophouse, but Mom said it was an SRO, and when I asked what that stood for, she told me the hotel was for special residents only.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls