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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:

The chambers stand on the site of St. Mary’s Close, an old tenement abandoned in the mid-17th century after the entire population had been wiped out by bubonic plague.
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.
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.
Gravestones rest along the tenement walls marking the outer perimeter.