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Recent Examples of tenement Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025 At the same time, the Lower East Side increasingly hosts a population of pricey restaurants, little boutiques, and buyers and renters younger than 40 whose great-grandparents might have lived in tenements on those same blocks. Frederick Peters, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 The courtyard was essential, a way for mostly Jewish immigrants to replace the tenement’s narrow, stinking air shaft with a form of genuinely gracious living. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025 In the 19th century, greedy landlords in New York could rent tenements with poor lighting, inadequate ventilation and no indoor bathrooms. Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tenement
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Noun
  • Jack Klugman portrayed Oscar, and Tony Randall played Felix, and their differing household standards led to lots of comedic clashes as the pair shared a New York City apartment.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 25 May 2025
  • The hope is that the two will settle many of their most serious conflicts ahead of their January 2 trial date. September 27, 2023: Turner is photographed leaving a Tribeca apartment that reportedly belongs to none other than Taylor Swift.
    Glamour, Glamour, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Take world cruises in the penthouse suites of luxury liners.
    Herb Cromwell, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2025
  • Price ranges from $4.9 million to $100 million for the penthouse.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025

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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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