Examples of flophouse in a Sentence
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If the land trust homes were going to be long-term investments rather than flophouses, the residents were going to need more than Cunningham’s handyman skills.
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Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
One success Possert cites is the Palace Hotel in Medford, a former single-room occupancy hotel (once known as flophouses) in southern Oregon.
—oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
The flophouse cots were stained and rusted.
—Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
Twenty years after the Royalton, the Ace Hotel turned a seedy flophouse on 29th Street into a 24-hour living room with leather couches and a DJ spinning late into the night, luring the creative set north of 14th Street to a formerly unremarkable stretch around Madison Square Park.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
But the pad isn’t a flophouse for stoners.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2022
At the time of the shooting, the boy lived in what Busch described as a flophouse.
—Christina Maxouris, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
After serving over the years as a movie palace, a performing-arts venue and even a flophouse for sailors, the Balboa closed without ceremony in early April 1986, acquired by the city through eminent domain.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
This wasn’t some flophouse that rented rooms by the hour.
—David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
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Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
One success Possert cites is the Palace Hotel in Medford, a former single-room occupancy hotel (once known as flophouses) in southern Oregon.
—oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
The flophouse cots were stained and rusted.
—Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
Twenty years after the Royalton, the Ace Hotel turned a seedy flophouse on 29th Street into a 24-hour living room with leather couches and a DJ spinning late into the night, luring the creative set north of 14th Street to a formerly unremarkable stretch around Madison Square Park.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
But the pad isn’t a flophouse for stoners.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2022
At the time of the shooting, the boy lived in what Busch described as a flophouse.
—Christina Maxouris, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
After serving over the years as a movie palace, a performing-arts venue and even a flophouse for sailors, the Balboa closed without ceremony in early April 1986, acquired by the city through eminent domain.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
This wasn’t some flophouse that rented rooms by the hour.
—David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
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1916, in the meaning defined above
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flophouse. Accessed 3 Oct. 2023.
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