tenantable

Example Sentences

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If any rent roll was to be derived from such a property there must be, in the first place, a large outlay in many ways before the land could be made profitable, or indeed tenantable.

From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

The shade was not comfortable and within doors those apartments which denied entrance to the sun had to be made tenantable by braziers.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

Three or four times in twenty years the outgoing tenant will make good his dilapidations, and the house-agent will put the premises into tenantable repair—as these things are settled for us by lawyers and surveyors.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

In 1837, not one third of the public school-houses in Massachusetts would have been considered tenantable by any decent family out of the poor-house or in it.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

Vast sums of money must be expended before it can be made tenantable.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various