Get to know Tenement better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Tenement meaning
- A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
- Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
- A dwelling; abode; habitation.
Synonyms of Tenement
Using Tenement
- The main meaning on this page is: A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one. | Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned. | A dwelling; abode; habitation.
- Useful related words include: tenement house, apartment building, apartment house.
- In the example corpus, tenement often appears in combinations such as: the tenement, tenement buildings, in tenement.
Context around Tenement
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 14 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tenement
- In this selection, "tenement" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, floor, populated, project, flat, hallway and largely stand out and add context to how "tenement" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a manhattan tenement during the and densely populated tenement largely made. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tenement" sits close to words such as aas, abaco and abramovich, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tenement
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The front door entrance to the tenement flat which is found on the first floor. (15 words)
Her family suffered tragedy soon after she was born, when their tenement was hit in the Blitz. (17 words)
Riddle’s Court is a picturesque Category A-listed merchant’s tenement on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. (17 words)
Ms Rennie's concerns come as Scotland’s new short-term lets legislation is ready to go live in October, when operators of accommodation from guest houses to tenement flats must have applied for a licence to do business. (39 words)
Brennan died with his wife at his side a few blocks from the third-floor tenement housing on Munjoy Hill where his Irish immigrant parents raised a family of eight children, Frank O’Hara, a longtime friend, said Saturday. (39 words)
But Tsui sets the action in Kowloon’s walled city, a largely lawless and densely populated tenement largely made up of refugees that hit peak wildness between the 1950s and 1980s when controlled by local triads. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
At 7.40pm, 23 officers poured into the tenement hallway and split into assigned groups at doorways on each floor.
But Tsui sets the action in Kowloon’s walled city, a largely lawless and densely populated tenement largely made up of refugees that hit peak wildness between the 1950s and 1980s when controlled by local triads.
Five young children were thrown from a top-floor tenement window onto the hard stony ground below with only one intention in mind – to kill them all.
Galan’s Key Greenbushes South Project tenement, E70/4790, is located only 3 km south of the Greenbushes Lithium Mine (Figure 2).
Her family suffered tragedy soon after she was born, when their tenement was hit in the Blitz.
I know of small construction firms who spend a fortune on parking tickets for the privilege of fitting a new bathroom in a tenement flat.
More than one in three households live in a flat or tenement, the most common type of property, and half of all residents rent.
Ms Rennie's concerns come as Scotland’s new short-term lets legislation is ready to go live in October, when operators of accommodation from guest houses to tenement flats must have applied for a licence to do business.
Riddle’s Court is a picturesque Category A-listed merchant’s tenement on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
To give visitors an idea of what the conversations among Black Americans in the 1860s might have sounded like, the Tenement Museum partnered with the Black Gotham Experience, an organization offering walking tours across the city.
A key objective for the Company is on near term gold production and exploration upside within our large tenement package of 939 km2.
Attending one recent call, the police managed to trace a child hours after he went missing from his tenement in the Achole area.
Back in January 2021, council solicitor Alison Marr had explained: “So the tenement buildings were demolished and we now have a kind of floating shape in Campbell Street that we don’t own.
Brennan died with his wife at his side a few blocks from the third-floor tenement housing on Munjoy Hill where his Irish immigrant parents raised a family of eight children, Frank O’Hara, a longtime friend, said Saturday.
Douglas Preston took work contributed by Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Margaret Atwood and many others to create a single story, set on the rooftop of a Manhattan tenement during the pandemic.
Drillhole 1 or DDH-1 currently in progress at the Maria Magdelena tenement of the Rio Grande Sur Project.
Figure 2 below shows a plan view of the location of the foreign estimate in relation to the tenement boundaries and demonstrates that the mineralisation appears open in most directions offering significant future mineralisation upgrade potential.
If you take the tenements in Glasgow, they’re not getting air-source heat pumps strapped to the sides of each tenement flat.
The couple are also enjoying the energy-efficient and cost-effective benefits of their new-build home compared to their old tenement apartment.
The front door entrance to the tenement flat which is found on the first floor.
Common combinations with tenement
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tenement 13×
- tenement buildings 6×
- in tenement 4×
- tenement flat 3×
- tenement is 2×
- tenement the 2×
- tenement flats 2×
- tenement museum 2×
- large tenement 2×
- tenement in 2×