TENEMENT in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for TENEMENT, such as:

1. I should rent a tenement, and devote myself to the education of my children.
2. His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.
3. It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements.
4. Ostrinski's home was in the Ghetto district, where he had two rooms in the basement of a tenement.
5. So he got up, and she gave him the new address of the family, a tenement over in the Ghetto district.

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 Meanings and Examples of TENEMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tenement
 n.  apartment barely meeting minimal standards
Classic Sentence:
1  So he got up, and she gave him the new address of the family, a tenement over in the Ghetto district.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
2  Ostrinski's home was in the Ghetto district, where he had two rooms in the basement of a tenement.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
3  The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
4  His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  I should rent a tenement, and devote myself to the education of my children.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  The worst tenement abominations of New York do not have above twenty-two persons for every ten rooms.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  There's messuages; tenements; napery; cattle; my dowry; an inventory.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
8  A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  This tenement is new also because of the pedagogical organization of the "Children's House".