tenement
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Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Roy Porter’s kaleidoscopic portrait of 18th-century England captures high and low society, from stately home to poor tenement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
It is the second major fire to hit a building in the city in the space of a week after a tenement on the corner of South Street and Scott Street was destroyed last Saturday.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025
She sat there and enjoyed the smell and the dark greenness of it.Oh, the mystery of a great tree, a prisoner in a tin wash bucket in a tenement front room!
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing tenement
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