tenement house
Example Sentences
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Aug. 7, 1883: A building in Mount Vernon, New York that the New York Times describes as “the pickle-works and tenement house of George Frieschel” burns down.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2020
A wealthy young man causes a stir within his family when he decides to purchase a tenement house in the ghetto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
“That means an obligation to the coal-miners and sharecroppers, the migratory workers, the tenement house dwellers and farmers who cannot make a living.”
From Time ● Oct. 3, 2017
Set in the author's native Odessa, The Courtyard tells the intermingled life stories of ten families that occupy a single tenement house.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was to find out later that he lived in the tenement house next door.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
