tenanted

Example Sentences

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They are mainly tenanted by mining giants BHP and the Rio Tinto group.

From Nature • Oct. 16, 2018

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by anyone who put money into Cobalt Data Centres 2 and 3, nor that they were aware they would not be tenanted and functioning within a reasonable time.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2016

You get the titanic limestone façades of the early twentieth century and the vast impenetrable steel-curtain façades of the mid-century, all of them uncertainly tenanted.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2016

Bulkin is buying up mostly tenanted pubs—he’s acquired 363 since early May.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 10, 2014

A stranger with a flair for cocktail-party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger