tenantable
Example Sentences
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Three or four times in twenty years the outgoing tenant will make good his dilapidations, and the house-agent will put the premises into tenantable repair—as these things are settled for us by lawyers and surveyors.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
It was a fantastic chateau, much dilapidated, and indeed scarcely tenantable through age and neglect.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan
In the case of houses for occupation, the tenant would have to keep the house in a tenantable state of repair during the term, and deliver it up in like condition.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
In 1837, not one third of the public school-houses in Massachusetts would have been considered tenantable by any decent family out of the poor-house or in it.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira
Vast sums of money must be expended before it can be made tenantable.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
