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Example sentences for: tenements

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They built the six- and eight-story tenements you see today, cramped quarters in buildings twice as high as those permitted elsewhere, with some floors no more than 6 ft 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.
The tenements of the Old Town and Georgian buildings of the New Town are still in residential use, with a range of stores, restaurants, pubs, and theaters sustaining the population.
Within ten years of the Young Pretender’s occupation of Holyrood, Edinburgh’s town council proposed a plan to relieve the chronic overcrowding of the Royal Mile tenements by constructing a New Town on land to the north of the castle.
Also, the boom in guilt museums: Slavery, tenements, Japanese internment camps, and radiation experiments are all subjects of new ones.