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Example sentences for: tenement

How can you use “tenement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Because rent regulations say you can't evict people when their leases are up (if they even have leases), one obstinate tenement dweller can block the creation of a 50-story high-rise.
Gravestones rest along the tenement walls marking the outer perimeter.
Highlight is a musical number set in the tenement basement where Cagney dances and screams, "Top of the girl, Ma!"
Next to the weaving center, across narrow Ramsey Street, are the Outlook Tower and its camera obscura, set high above the tenement chimneystacks.
"Santa Claus visited the East Side last night," the New York Tribune noted on Christmas Day, 1904, "and hardly missed a tenement house."