tenements
- plural of tenement.
Example Sentences
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Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Growing up in Glasgow's tenements, Lulu - whose name then was Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie - lived in a "war zone".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
It’s one of the world’s largest and densest slum clusters where families of six often live in 100-square tenements and 80 people may share a toilet.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024
Bodega had had a beautiful row of five newly renovated tenements and now the middle one looked like a missing tooth in a pretty woman’s smile.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
