as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s
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My mother’s parents grew up in the same tenement building in Red Hook, Brooklyn, during the Great Depression, in the kind of poverty that might have been depicted by a Puerto Rican Charles Dickens.
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Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
Upon being granted probationary asylum, finding tenement housing, and teaming with a case worker named Mark (Smith), the couple’s fortune worsens further with an apparently evil force living in their home.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 30 July 2024
Milk’s contemporary image-making began in mid-nineteenth century New York City, where a growing population crowded into tenements plagued by malnourishment and disease.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Police and volunteers — including some of Joey’s school chums — searched every cellar, vacant tenement, alleyway, junkyard, and loft for nearly 80 blocks.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024
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Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
Upon being granted probationary asylum, finding tenement housing, and teaming with a case worker named Mark (Smith), the couple’s fortune worsens further with an apparently evil force living in their home.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 30 July 2024
Milk’s contemporary image-making began in mid-nineteenth century New York City, where a growing population crowded into tenements plagued by malnourishment and disease.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Police and volunteers — including some of Joey’s school chums — searched every cellar, vacant tenement, alleyway, junkyard, and loft for nearly 80 blocks.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tenement
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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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