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

A chihuahua has been rescued from a building destroyed by fire in Perth after surviving for nearly two weeks in the tenement.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 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

If Katz had followed us back to the tenement, that meant she was in danger as well.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros