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How to use tenant in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Tenant means one who holds a lease (a tenancy). Example: “The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.”

Examples of tenant by meaning

nounOne who holds a lease (a tenancy).

  • Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.a. 1945, Arthur Morrison, The Thing in the Upper Room

More sentences with tenant

  • The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.From the entry whatsoever
  • The vacator of the dwelling is responsible for any damage before the next tenant moves in.From the entry vacator
  • The condo was stripped clean by the previous tenant.From the entry clean
  • The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.From the entry hike
  • The tenant exercised his option to renew the tenancy.From the entry exercise
  • The apartment was stripped clean by the previous tenants.From the entry strip
  • We have a room for a non-smoking tenant.From the entry non-smoking
  • The tenant owed a variety of obligations to his overlord—usually including military service or serjeanty—but these were gradually converted into monetary rents.From the entry overlord
  • A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.From the entry base
  • The tenant was annoyed by the proposed rent increase, but the cost of moving would be even higher, so he bit the bullet and signed the new lease.From the entry bite the bullet
  • Tenants who have given 30 days' notice who do not leave on the last day of the month will be charged on a pro rata basis.From the entry pro rata
  • Tenants have a right to breach a landlord for a failure to undertake necessary maintenance.2025 February 27, “Tenant rental rights you need to know about”, in RentCover. From the entry breach
  • Never calls to fix nothin'." In other words, a perfect tenant.2020, John McMahon, The Evil Men Do, page 176. From the entry venmo
  • I've had a fall out with Nora, one of my tenants.2019, Angela Barton, Magnolia House. From the entry fall out
  • Did that mean Sunrise Village was now free to rent it to a new tenant?2017, Judith Arnold, Kick The Bucket: A Lainie Lovett Mystery, Judith Arnold, →ISBN. From the entry finagle
  • While the Korematsus were able to leave their nursery, the tenants let it go to waste.2015, Lorraine K. Bannai, Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice, University of Washington Press, page 32. From the entry Korematsus
  • The back door leads to a poky kitchen, tiled brightly in the taste of a previous tenant.2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry poky
  • Some time ago, a tenant called me and said her refrigerator was on the fritz.2010, Ralph Bowersox, Ralph's True Stories: Entertaining Chronicles of Life in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, Late 1920s through the…. From the entry on the fritz
  • “very single tenant living in a decontrolled apartment can file for overcharges.2009 March 6, Charles V. Bagli, “Rents at Stuyvesant Town Were Wrongly Raised, Court Says”, in New York Times. From the entry decontrolled
  • If tenants want uncovered floors, then let them install cork underflooring.2009 August 20, “Be Quiet Up There!”, in New York Times. From the entry underflooring
  • Louis, now primarily a marketplace, and in Kansas City, where a science center is the main tenant.2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor. From the entry science center
  • Skinner said airports would not have to rely as much on their airline tenants to approve expansion.1990 November 5, John H. Cushman Jr., “Airports planning for big windfall”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Nov 2017. From the entry on bended knee
  • Tenants complained about incoveniences arising from the new owners' attempts to renovate.1981 February 19, “The City: Rent Strike Settled At Ansonia Hotel”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2011. From the entry rent strike
  • I remembered my father's concern for the tenant farmer and for the workers' need for collective bargaining.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104. From the entry remember
  • Sheridan was speaking about the council fleecing tenants and used a pygmalion word.1960 April 28, The Times. From the entry Pygmalion word
  • Some developers suggest that a lease covenant spell out penalties for tenants whose employees mispark.1958, CSA Super Markets - Volume 34, page 202. From the entry mispark
  • There were densely tenanted houses on the main road, pigsties hugger-mugger with people, fireplace ashes thrown out at night.2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian. From the entry hugger-mugger
  • A bakery is due to open in time for Christmas and a tenant is being sought for a sixth unit.2016 December 2, Jonathan Prynn, “Pavilion Road: artisan food and drink street opens near Sloane Square”, in The Standard. From the entry artisan
  • After the Easter and Michaelmas law-courts more stock is killed off to regale the tenants with a dinner.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
  • Back then, Annibale spoke of the tenants with deference.2014, Alberto Savinio, "A Head Goes Flying", in Signor Dido: Stories, Richard Pevear (tr.) (Counterpoint Press), p. 26. From the entry generaless
  • He said "Signor Commendatore Pirco." He said "Her Excellency the generaless Puti di Valmescia" (the tenant of the third floor).2014, Alberto Savinio, "A Head Goes Flying", in Signor Dido: Stories, Richard Pevear (tr.) (Counterpoint Press), p. 26. From the entry generaless
  • When calculating allowances for needed square footage, each tenant is responsible for one-half of the thickness of all demising walls.2012, Christine M. Piotrowski, Designing Commercial Interiors. From the entry demising
  • The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry recent
  • Tenants have complained for years that the elevators are unsafe and unreliable, often stalling midfloor or refusing to work at all.2009 February 7, Ray Rivera, “New York Documents Show Elevator Mechanics Caught Skipping Work”, in New York Times. From the entry midfloor
  • “All of a sudden it became totally unfinanceable —— no private office tenants, retailers pulling back, banks not lending,” he said.2009 August 13, Diane Cardwell, “Stimulus Aid Planned for Two City Projects”, in New York Times. From the entry unfinanceable
  • Sokolski said that he doubted that this would be enough to make shareholders and nonpurchasing tenants “dissimilar” as cable subscribers.2007 January 28, Jay Romano, “Seeing Red Over the Cable Bill”, in New York Times. From the entry nonpurchasing
  • DiPrinzio joined the tenants committee that negotiated a noneviction condominium conversion plan and a 40 percent insiders’ discount.2007 September 16, Dan Shaw, “Opportunity Knocks Twice on Central Park West”, in New York Times. From the entry noneviction
  • As the number of viable anchor tenants continues to contract, the bargaining leverage of these anchor tenants has increased.1996, John R. White, Kevin D. Gray, Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties, page 59. From the entry anchor tenant
  • As defined by English judges, common law itself offered tenants some minimal protections that eighteenth-century New York rentiers had often ignored.1991, Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry landed society

Meaning of tenant

  1. noun One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
  2. noun One who has possession of any place.
  3. noun Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

Full definition of tenant

Questions about tenant in a sentence

How do you use tenant in a sentence?
Tenant is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.”
What is a short sentence with tenant?
“We have a room for a non-smoking tenant.”
What does tenant mean?
Tenant means one who holds a lease (a tenancy).

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