flophouse

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Recent Examples of flophouse When Abercrombie does offer up interiors, they’re sparsely furnished and dingy, like rooms in a flophouse. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner. Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 The first night at the flophouse, Barbosa slept on the floor. Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024 When Elwood retrieves Jake from Joliet Prison at the start of the film, their eventual destination is a flophouse apartment in the Loop, a downtown space defined by L tracks. Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for flophouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouse
Noun
  • Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.
    Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
  • True enough, perhaps, but Isabel was not pleased on finding herself in the company of boardinghouse people.
    Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Sprawling dormitory resorts like Fregene and Ladispoli are up next: seaside cities that double as Rome’s seaside.
    Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The plaintiff further claims that the school hired Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro in 1972 as a dormitory counselor, a former employee who had been forced to retire years before because of child abuse allegations.
    Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Cornett appears to be the victim of a vicious and false internet rumor that resulted in her being overwhelmed with harassing texts and voice mails, barely able to leave her dorm room, having to switch to online classes, and getting her family house Swatted.
    Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • In the run-up to evening events, the hotel’s long hallways had the vibe of a college dorm, with barefoot teens pattering from room to room.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Harvard must investigate and carry out meaningful discipline for all violations that occurred during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years, including the Harvard Business School protest of October 2023, the University Hall sit-in of November 2023, and the spring encampment of 2024.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • He was targeted because of his position as the lead negotiator for the pro-Palestinian encampment on Columbia University’s campus last year.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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