Sentence examples for doss from inspiring English sources

Beggars line the streets and doss in doorways.

CouchSurfing got there first, in 2004, with its free exchange of places to doss down (only a one-time fee for a background check fee levied).

From there it plunges into a murky late-Victorian London of secret gentleman's clubs, glittering ballrooms, East End doss houses, steam trains and rattling carriages.

IN LONDON doss houses during the Great Depression, the destitute could pay tuppence to spend the night sleeping on the rope.

Jobless students can hitch lifts via Craigslist (a website for classified ads), or doss down in someone else's flat via CouchSurfing, another website.Adjusting to this new world can be hard.

He doss only orthodontia, or teethstraight enting, and all his patients are children.

Thanks to this, some of the homeless earn enough to sleep in a doss-house at least one night a week, though not enough to qualify for unemployment insurance.

The police are still there, holed up in the "Mammoth", a multi-storey police box that overlooks the biggest of San'ya's doss-houses.

It was known as the biggest doss-house in Europe.No longer.

He was encountering things he'd heard about as a child: "the ghastly smell of cabbage in doss-house corridors, and fag ash in the basin".

In one doss-house, where the sheets "stank so horribly of sweat that I could not bear them near my nose," a man is lying in bed with his trousers wrapped around his head, "a thing which for some reason disgusted me very much".