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Sentence count:59Posted:2017-03-07Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: tenement houseSimilar words: atonementconfinementpostponementlinemencommencemententitlemententicementunemploymentMeaning: ['tenɪmənt]  n. a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards. 
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1 They lived in a crumbling Glasgow tenement.
2 A complete tenement block was burnt to the ground.
3 The landlord has dispossessed the old tenement building.
4 An urchin showed her which tenement house was his.
5 In her tenement there lived a rich man.
6 She lived in a big old tenement block.
7 One result was a considerable amount of low-cost tenement building by philanthropic associations in the cities from the early 1880s.
8 The sight of figures at the charred tenement took him and his binoculars to the window.
9 The tenement was very old, the stairs concave from constant use.
10 His portrait hung over the fireplace in every tenement room and whitewashed cabin.
11 On the left is the first tenement block to be built in Prague in 1813-47 and designed by J. Hausknecht.
12 Behind the fragmented Dublin tenement of the first act we see massed ranks of silent soldiers.
13 The tenement reared up, a coaly silhouette flaring red, from the steep bank below them.
14 She lived in a red-brick tenement in Chelsea, an old walk-up building with gloomy stairwells and peeling paint on the walls.
15 The great photographer posed them in front of a row of tenement.
16 Coming home from school on a Friday afternoon,(www.Sentencedict.com) the delicious smell emanating from our kitchen permeated the entire tenement.
17 He found himself walking slowly through narrow and murky slum streets flanked by tall tenement houses.
18 Then flames burst from an upper window of the abandoned tenement a mile away across the river, reddening the low clouds.
19 Take the apartment, up on the top floor of a smelly tenement on Prospect Avenue.
20 It was on the top floor of one of those grim tenement blocks.
21 Flashback to 30 March 1968: two kids playing in a deserted tenement block discover a corpse.
22 I still officially resided in four tiny rooms on the first floor of a West Village tenement.
23 But when the car skidded across the mud beside the demolished tenement, the clown was waiting bare-faced for him.
24 The home was not for most a country house or a cottage, but a town villa or tenement.
25 All in all, it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford.
26 Miguel thought for a moment about the big fire he had seen two nights ago, the big tenement on Jackson Avenue.
27 Although different, I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London.
28 Heart thudding uncomfortably in my chest, I ran up the unlit stone stairs of the tenement.
29 Art historians conclude that William de Brailes headed a workshop of manuscript artists based at his tenement in Catte Street.
30 As yet the streets were almost deserted, and so he couldn't resist driving by the tenement before making for the school.
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