Example sentences for: tenements

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

  • Equally fascinating are the two parallel, partly residential streets — O’Reilly and Obrapía — where grand neoclassical and colonial buildings intermingle with decrepit tenements.

  • Also, the boom in guilt museums: Slavery, tenements, Japanese internment camps, and radiation experiments are all subjects of new ones.

  • "Only the electric sign of the Jewish Daily Forward , burning high over the tenements of the East Side," he writes, "suddenly stilled the riot in my heart."

  • Some of the buildings date from the 16th century, but it is also lined with buildings of almost every era, including numerous 17th- and 18th-century tenements called “lands,” sometimes 13 stories high.

  • Edinburgh’s population grew fast between 1500 and 1650, and a maze of tall, unsanitary tenements sprouted along the spine of the High Street.


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