How to Use flophouse in a Sentence

flophouse

noun

• At the time of the shooting, the boy lived in what Busch described as a flophouse.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
• This wasn’t some flophouse that rented rooms by the hour.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• The street was lined with flophouses and soup kitchens, the last stop for the downtrodden and down-on-their-luck.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
• The place became a flophouse, a dope den and the scene of multiple homicides.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020
• After spending 10 nights in his Chevy, Smith locates a mattress for rent on the floor of a flophouse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2021
• The assassin James Earl Ray shot King, who was standing on the balcony, from a flophouse bathroom across the street.
  — Latoya Ruby Frazier, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2018
• There's plenty of livestock, lots of Lone Star sunshine, but nothing so much as a flophouse or an outhouse in sight.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• The poolrooms, flophouses, bars, cheap restaurants, wine stores and missions remained, but their customers, and the atmosphere on the street, had changed for the worse.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• Mystery Train is set in a dingy Memphis flophouse and follows the travelers who pass through its doors, telling sweet and sad stories of their lives.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2020
• The area where the attacks occurred centers on the Bowery, which has a long history of sheltering — both on the streets and in flophouses — people who are down on their luck.
  — New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• He and his wife, who is five months pregnant, sleep at a flophouse provided for free by a local transportation company.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• The flophouses and nickel-a-drink saloons have given way to nightclubs and luxury condos.
  — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• 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.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• The Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan, has been the site of many flophouses, and the place where the attacks occurred lies just south of the Bowery Mission, one of the city’s oldest and most important aid organizations.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Before its days as an intellectual flophouse, the building was home to Columbia’s Department of Slavic Languages.
  — Ian Volner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Yukio Takazawa, executive director of a support group for the poor in Yokohama’s Kotobukicho, an area of flophouses where homeless people also tend to congregate, worries the worst is to come.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• As a young adult Georges settles in Portland, Oregon, where her home becomes a kind of artists’ commune-cum-flophouse, throbbing with punk energy and alternative creativity, but hardly ideal for a dog of nervous temperament.
  — Sigrid Nunez, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Compare him with Hitler, the dank, sexless, humorless, milk-drinking vegetarian invert, nursing dreams, in his Viennese flophouse, of Judaeocide and world domination.
  — Martin Amis, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Defectors from Venezuela's police and military, they had been rounded up from flophouses and streetside encampments for a secret mission to liberate their homeland from the socialist government of autocratic President Nicolás Maduro.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024