Examples of 'tenement' in a sentence
Meaning of "tenement"
Tenement is a noun referring to a run-down and often overcrowded apartment building, typically in a poorer area of a city
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- A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
- Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
- Dwelling; abode; habitation.
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I grew up in tenement buildings in the inner city.
There is a shortage of rich women in our tenement.
It was the prettiest tenement house in the district.
Now this woman here in this tenement.
With the tenement housing came ghettos.
I snuck in through the tenement next door.
Her tenement was just one building that was targeted.
A perfect example of how a tenement slum commences.
You are going to be born and raised in this tenement.
We will tear down the tenement house while we are at it.
It is his only known example of a tenement house.
More tenement flats are under construction.
Everyday my life began from that tenement.
We stayed in a poor tenement building area.
There was this crowd around this tenement.
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Workers lived in tenement houses owned by the railroad.
You have to live in your own tenement.
Tenement presents an early modernist style.
He signed deeds for six tenement houses.
The tenement itself is pretty common.
They mean to take control of the tenement expansion.
This tenement has been recently renovated.
I like my barkeeps to be quicker than their tenement rats.
The tenement still retains nice architectural details.
You are welcome to move in to my new tenement.
Tenement living is the life and always has been.
Revenge is a tenement that must be observed.
Tenement houses are filled with local dregs of society.
This hotel was a tenement which today is fully recycled.
Tenement houses and back alleys.
They both died in a tenement fire.
Our tenement house is in the middle.
I am desperate to get out of that tenement.
Ten tenement houses acquired based on false documents.
The address turns out to be a huge tenement building.
The tenement reform finally succeeds.
In the last century as tenement housing.
Like to a tenement on a pelting farm.
I have business at the tenement house.
Living in a tenement on a day like this is living boiled alive.
A heavily pregnant woman in a tenement corridor.
New tenement houses and old churches do not interest me.
Two dark little rooms in a tenement.
In a crowded tenement section nearby.
Outside that sweaty little tenement.
There is a tenement for ya.
We just have a railroad flat in a tenement.
They lived in a tenement in filth.
He set up his shop in the basement of his tenement.
We will give up on that tenement house for now.
