flophouse

Example Sentences

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Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels.

From Los Angeles Times

“These are old, turn-of-the-century buildings. They used to be flophouses. It’s not an ideal living situation for a chronically homeless person to be in.”

From Los Angeles Times

For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.

From Seattle Times

The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

He hopped from one flophouse to the next, sending what little money he could earn from construction jobs back to his wife and children.

From Los Angeles Times