How to Use tenement in a Sentence

tenement

noun

• 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
• The Art Hotel, a standby in the old city, is in a converted tenement, parts of which have survived since the 14th century.
  — Laura Moserb, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2024
• 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
• Born in a New York tenement to Jewish immigrant parents, Markoff had just an eighth-grade education, but was nonetheless a lifelong learner.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024