tenement

Example Sentences

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I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times

Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal

And when she earned her first role, Lena was the first person she told, racing to her battered tenement in the waning daylight.

From Literature

“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.

From Los Angeles Times

Ginsberg lives on the Lower East Side in what Hujar calls “the most rundown tenement,” not far from a cluster of the burned-out buildings that marked New York’s gritty ’70s.

From The Wall Street Journal