Example sentences for: tenement

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

  • "Santa Claus visited the East Side last night," the New York Tribune noted on Christmas Day, 1904, "and hardly missed a tenement house."

  • Highlight is a musical number set in the tenement basement where Cagney dances and screams, "Top of the girl, Ma!"

  • Gravestones rest along the tenement walls marking the outer perimeter.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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