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
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
