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flophouse

NOUN
  1. a cheap lodging house

How To Use flophouse In A Sentence

  • I am strangely drawn to a scungy flophouse which, as the night advances, turns out be a brothel.
  • It is a flophouse for deluded officers who believe in the ability to defeat the resistance.
  • By 18, Fellig was living alone among the flophouses of the Bowery and worked a succession of jobs - as a labourer and taking passport photographs - until 1924, when he found employment in the darkrooms of Acme Newspictures.
  • He didn't like it one bit and claimed it made him sick to run a flophouse.
  • Japan does not count the thousands of people in shelters and flophouses in such data.
  • Today, only a handful of flophouses, virtually unchanged for half a century, are all that remain of this once teeming world.
  • Arriving there, he moved from flophouse to flophouse because none of his fellow tenants could endure his hacking cough.
  • A walk along the Rue des Martyrs is scented with the souk-sweat of cumin and open sacks of cardamom pods bubble on the pavement between the sex shops and flophouses.
  • Are they flophouses for shiftless young people?
  • A hopeless alcoholic living in a flophouse on the seamy side of town, he was a promising boxer chewed up and spit out by the corrupt amateur circuit.
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