How to Use tenement in a Sentence

tenement

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  • The greatest loss of life was in the tenement district.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • And many of them were stuck in tenements in large eastern cities.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The sky-blue limousine drew up in front of the tenement where Carla lived.
    — Michael Hofmann, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • There’s not going to be a tenement or a blue dress or spools of thread at 10 cents each.
    — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
  • The tenements came down, but the fight over what to do next continued.
    — Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Erik is the first to arrive, entering the tenement from the street.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • In your tenement in Five Points, or pretty much any place in New York in those days, there were no locks on the doors.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In 2005, six New York City firefighters were trapped on the fourth floor of a burning tenement in the Bronx.
    — Mike Hendricks, kansascity, 13 July 2018
  • The film starts with Ederle as a child on death’s door with measles in a New York City tenement.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • Bowles lived alone in a chilly tenement apartment in a back street of Tangiers.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The palace is less than a mile from the tenement in Fountainbridge where Mr. Connery grew up.
    — Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
  • His was the stuff of drawing rooms, while the theater of the future belonged to the blowsy kitchens and bedrooms of tenement houses.
    — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Then the Lower East Side changed, snuffing out the spirit of the gritty tenement.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Housed on the second floor of an old tenement apartment in D1, 289e is a good place to start exploring it.
    — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The apartment was in a brick tenement down a narrow alley.
    — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In March, the cousins began to worry about how to adapt the cramped, tenement-style store to the demands of social distancing.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Washington sensed he was being watched from the windows of the tenement.
    — Michael Hofmann, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Her tour of the tenements opened her eyes to the horrific living conditions of her city's poor.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2016
  • Most units in her apartment building have kitchen bathtubs, a relic of the tenement era.
    — Jess Eng, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Occupying the ground floor of a small tenement building, the store, Ellen, is about the size of a master bath in a fancy apartment.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The Jews toiled in the garment trade, at first in stifling tenements, then in factory sweatshops.
    — Jack Schwartz, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2016
  • Two lovers step off a tenement fire escape and pirouette up and down the walls of the building in a sweet and thrilling defiance of gravity.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2021
  • The storefront has since become a trendy shop, and, as an indication of the change of times, apartments in the former tenement rent for as much as $7,500 a month.
    — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • His neighbors were the Hells Angels, who had purchased the tenement next to him presumably for next to nothing in 1969.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • And Mr. Flower was fretting about an 1890s get-up themed to Jewish tenements.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • The home, which was once owned by Revere and sold in 1800, served as everything from a boarding house to a local shop to tenement apartments.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Forty-four glass slides produced by a Chicago church in the 1920s trace black people from cotton fields and sugar mills in the South to tenements and factories in the North.
    — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2018
  • The Cheap Trains Act of 1883 allowed working-class people to move from grim tenement blocks to railway suburbs.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The tenement at 97 Orchard St. appealed to the museum’s founders in part because the building behind it had been torn down.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • In it, a family moves from Ireland to a tenement in New York City to pursue the father's dreams of making it as an actor.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023

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