tenant
noun
a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee.
untenanted
-
a word derived from
tenant.
Example Sentences
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The garden was dressed for winter — bare branches, untenanted beds, patches of dirt.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
Instead, the relationship of Australia to its pre-European past is like that of the coastal cities to the vast and untenanted wilderness which constitutes the majority of its landmass.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2013
Neither of them dealt with Youssouf Mulumbu's long punt forward, each blaming the other as Peter Odemwingi rolled the ball into an untenanted net.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2011
It led to a home-building binge that now, as Ireland enters another year of contraction, has left empty houses clustered in untenanted “ghost estates.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010
Today, the docks were empty of commerce, the wide squares untenanted.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
