tenement

Example Sentences

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“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Scenes switch effortlessly from Prague, with its shadowy bridge looming over the Moldau, to a Brooklyn tenement, a busy office, a tony art gallery, and the roof of the Empire State Building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 23, 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

The narrow street was lined with four- and five-story brick tenement buildings, many of them in the process of being torn down and replaced.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin