A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
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Examples for "tenement "
Examples for "tenement "
1 And in the same direction lies the remedy for the tenement evil.
2 He was the owner of the poor tenement in which they lived.
3 They moved into a room in a tenement in South Fifth Avenue.
4 What has been the general effect of it in the tenement districts?
5 It was the vastest, the most populous tenement area of the city.
1 Remember that every hollow tree is a tenement house of the woods.
2 The address proved to be a shabby tenement house hedged by saloons.
3 It was a typical tenement house of the Lower East Side.
4 The stone stairs to the tenement house were thronged with women.
5 A dark dreary little room upstairs in a noisy tenement house .
6 A week ago, a family may have been living in a tenement house .
7 But the white slaves of the tenement house sound every deep of human agony.
8 Nothing but the bare tenement house wall, broken here and there with other windows.
9 A crowd of men standing before a tenement house started to run toward him.
10 Perhaps so, if you don't live in a tenement house .
11 How endless was the way to this East-Side tenement house !
12 He stood in front of a gloomy tenement house .
13 They were at the door of a tenement house with steep stairs leading into darkness.
14 David Livingstone grew up in a one-room tenement house on Shuttle Row, as it was called.
15 Now one or two rooms on the upper floor of some tenement house constitute his habitation.
16 The tenement house became a menace to cleanliness.
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