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• On a gapsite between two crumbling tenements a bonfire was blazing and lethal-looking kids galloped around it.2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 197. From the entry gapsite
• Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy, →ISBN, page 205. From the entry scholarship
• Tenement landlords sue for back rents with voices like the fineprint of loan-contracts.1977, Clyde Fixmer, “Canal Street, Chicago”, in David Kherdian, editor, Traveling America with Today’s Poets, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan…. From the entry fineprint
• The uniform was leading them across the wasteground, where one side of a great black square of tenements had been demolished.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18. From the entry wasteground
• Aria tells you that Morinth’s last victim was a young human woman who lived in the tenements near Afterlife.2010, Catherine Browne, “Walkthrough”, in Mass Effect 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide (Science Fiction), Roseville, CA: Prima Games, →ISBN…. From the entry aria
• Not when you are baiting and switching down from a stately antebellum manse to a tenement crack house.2008, Sarah Bird, How Perfect is That, page 242. From the entry bait and switch
• His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building.2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me. From the entry thrilly
• Though poverty lurked in tenements and alleys, joviality flourished in taverns, foodstalls, bawdyhouses, odeions, the homes of the well-to-do.1987, Poul Anderson, Karen Anderson, The King of Ys, volume 1 (Roma Mater; Gallicenae), Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 401. From the entry odeion
• The old tenements are reminders of nineteenth-century village China.1984, “Exploring Hong Kong”, in Fodor's Hong Kong and Macau, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry Tai Ping Shan
• Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm.1934 April 2, “Business: Tenements”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2012. From the entry rookery
• Shooting up out of the tenements.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 230. From the entry odiferousness
• Built in huge tenements of sixteen houses, one block was needed to accommodate an entire stairful of people from the condemned area.1936 September, Fred Urquhart, “The Daft Woman in Number Seven”, in I Fell for a Sailor and Other Stories, Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd…. From the entry stairful
• By and large these numbers throng not tower blocks but alleyfuls of low-rise tenements that differ little from the housing stock of, say, a thousand years ago.1998, Max Rodenbeck, “Beginnings”, in Cairo: The City Victorious, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry alleyful

Meaning of tenement

1. noun A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
2. noun Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
3. noun A dwelling; abode; habitation.

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How do you use tenement in a sentence?

Tenement is used as a noun. For example: “The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.”

What is a short sentence with tenement?

“Ruins and tenements.”

What does tenement mean?

Tenement means a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.