Example Sentences

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Towles revels in boxcars, flophouses and seedy bars, the junkyards of failed dreams.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

CBGB’s, at 315 Bowery, has become a legend, but in those days it was a dive bar on the ground floor of one of the many flophouses that lined the avenue.

From Fox News • Sep. 30, 2019

Once, the buildings were skid row flophouses, but many were converted to apartment buildings and other uses in the late 1970s.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2016

Instead of tilling fields of cucumber, melon and asparagus locals catered to the influx with minivans, hotels, flophouses, packed lunches and hiking supplies.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2015

Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride