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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Recent Examples of tenement
Ng writes of growing up among these bachelors, who spend their days drifting around the crowded tenements of Chinatown.
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Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
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
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Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for tenement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenement
Noun
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The officers fired at Gainer, who retreated into the apartment.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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But several projects — including the conversion of a former factory at the corner of Bartholomew Avenue and Hamilton Street into apartments — have been hit by rising construction costs and financing delays.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
Noun
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The condos are selling for $5 million to $25 million for the penthouse units, Teixeira said.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2025
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Those with a keen eye for art and fashion may notice the duplex penthouse’s resemblance to the modern, monochromatic offices of a late iconic fashion designer (known to use red as a neutral) in Manhattan.—
World of Hyatt,
AFAR Media,
10 June 2025
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