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Recent Examples of fleabag
Hiding out from capture in a ramshackle fleabag hotel somewhere south of the U.S. border, Eddie and Venom banter about the nature of the universe, with Venom teasing that no human could handle the mutliversal realities alien symbiotes have experienced in their lifetimes.
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Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Oct. 2021
The Berkeley Inn, known to Geyer’s generation as a fleabag hotel, once stood on the parcel of land.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
The idea was that after years as the most famous and majestic fleabag in Manhattan, the Chelsea was going to be made over into a boutique hotel, one that would draw on its layers of legend.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 July 2022
The women have criticized the league for putting them up in fleabag motels — literally.
—Mark Goodman, The Denver Post, 12 July 2019
That meant—and here something of a mythical fog descends—living in Washington Square Park and fleabag hotels, and rotating through the sofas and beds of various friends and lovers.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
The movie is a glimpse into the daily lives of two little girls and a boy — Moonee, Jancey, and Scooty — living in two adjacent fleabag motels in Orlando that amount to bottom feeders in the tourism ecosystem.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
Downtown is rife with greasy diners, fleabag hotels and steamy dive bars.
—Karen Schoemer, New York Times, 30 May 2017
Why did Schwartz, the most promising poet of his generation, end up dying at the age of 52 in a fleabag hotel in Midtown Manhattan?
—James Atlas, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Oct. 2021
The Berkeley Inn, known to Geyer’s generation as a fleabag hotel, once stood on the parcel of land.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
The idea was that after years as the most famous and majestic fleabag in Manhattan, the Chelsea was going to be made over into a boutique hotel, one that would draw on its layers of legend.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 July 2022
The women have criticized the league for putting them up in fleabag motels — literally.
—Mark Goodman, The Denver Post, 12 July 2019
That meant—and here something of a mythical fog descends—living in Washington Square Park and fleabag hotels, and rotating through the sofas and beds of various friends and lovers.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
The movie is a glimpse into the daily lives of two little girls and a boy — Moonee, Jancey, and Scooty — living in two adjacent fleabag motels in Orlando that amount to bottom feeders in the tourism ecosystem.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
Downtown is rife with greasy diners, fleabag hotels and steamy dive bars.
—Karen Schoemer, New York Times, 30 May 2017
Why did Schwartz, the most promising poet of his generation, end up dying at the age of 52 in a fleabag hotel in Midtown Manhattan?
—James Atlas, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fleabag
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The first night at the flophouse, Barbosa slept on the floor.Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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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
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At the boardinghouse, proprietress Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant, Herr Schultz, who owns a fruit store, begin a serious romance with plans to marry.Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
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Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
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An outreach worker found them all and helped connect the family to several services, including the nonprofit Housing 4 the Homeless, which currently provides them with two motel rooms in Point Loma.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Rain gets incredibly sick from the surgery, which was organized by some of the club’s less-than-reputable mean girls and performed in a motel room.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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By the numbers: Of the 166 hauntings reported in Colorado between 1994 and 2022, about 61% happened inside elementary, middle and high schools, as well as on college campuses and in dormitories, the data shows.Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 27 Oct. 2024
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Calling it the Fair View, Mulrooney was meticulous in choosing the lace curtains, plush carpets, brass bedsteads and other finery that would make her new hotel the envy of the region’s other hoteliers, who housed most guests in rough dormitories.Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Today’s great photo is from staff photographer Wally Skalij, who was recently on assignment for a story about how a student at UCLA transformed his dorm room into an escape room.Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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The dorm room, for example, needed to feel intimate yet big enough for a dance number.Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Nov. 2024
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