tenement

Example Sentences

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I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Roy Porter’s kaleidoscopic portrait of 18th-century England captures high and low society, from stately home to poor tenement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

The red sandstone-fronted tenement blocks radiating off the town's Robert Street were built just after World War One by shipbuilder Lithgows to house its workforce.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

As they left one dark tenement and headed toward another, they spotted a group of about forty boys standing a short distance away.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti