Примери за flophouse

• The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies. 

• Quarters in flophouses are typically very small, and may resemble office cubicles more than a regular room in a hotel or apartment building.

• It was essentially a flophouse in dilapidated condition, but they set to work repairing and upgrading it.

• The hotel was known as a flophouse which provided cheap accommodation to many impoverished and elderly people.

• American flophouses date at least to the 19th century, but the term flophouse itself is only attested from 1904, originating in hobo slang.

• The slang term flophouse is roughly the equivalent of common lodging-houses.

• Frantic to leave town and desperately needing to sleep, the penniless man gives the check as security for a 10 cent bed in a flophouse.

• At that time, the area was known for its hobo jungles and flophouses.

• The suburban house disintegrates into a flophouse, the stork repossesses the baby, and the wife packs a suitcase and leaves.

• By the 1970s, the building was a flophouse.

• He lived in model lodging houses, government-run houses for homeless men, slightly better than flophouses.

• The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, with something different going on in each.

• All of the floors were rebuilt with single room cabins, bunk rooms, and communal bathrooms to maximize occupancy and the hotel became more akin to a flophouse.

• Crane himself rented a room in a flophouse near his office and put in several 16 to 20-hour days of the work on the project.