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How to use tenement in a sentence

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The flat was on the first floor of a tenement block, and had a lovely front room.
Finally they had arrived at a run down tenement that advertised rooms for cheap.
His militia, the Army of the Mahdi, is running courts and jailing people in the basements of tenement buildings.
He apparently rebelled again and was soon back on the streets, where he spent many a night in old tenement buildings and flophouses.
But when I apply pressure nothing comes out and the flames grow even more ferocious, enveloping the room in what might be a derelict tenement.
He lived next door to me just through the wall from my bedroom in his own wee 1-bedroomed tenement flat.
The dismembered body of Alan Wilson was found buried under garden rubbish at a tenement in the west end of Edinburgh.
In spite of the light drizzle, the crowd milling around a filthy mud tenement continued to swell.
He may have been casting around for a suitable site in 1331, when he bought up a quitclaim to a tenement on the north bank of Millfleet.
Where the commandment does fall down is its lack of relevance to tenement life.
He said the town's essence was encapsulated in the sounds echoing around the air shafts of the tenement blocks.
A hugger-mugger horizontal tenement of ugly, awkward, moulded plastic bathroom fittings bobbing in cess.
With all his savagery, he was not half so savage, so unclean, so irreclaimable, as the tenant of a tenement in an East London slum.
He would walk through the gambling dens, tenement houses, grog shops and houses of prostitution located on the estate.
A servitude right of access enures to the benefit of the dominant tenement and no other.
Buying coal by the pailful in the great east side tenement district has always been the custom, and probably always will be.
Do you say you can proceed against Aboriginal native title claimants for trespass if they happen to wander across any part of your tenement?
Once personal and environmental filth came to indicate an absence of morality, Boston's tenement districts seemed like cesspools of sin.
Permission had not been granted by the owners of the servient tenement for them to park their vehicles.
The roadway is being used for obtaining access and egress to and from land outside the dominant tenement.
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Grant called out the groups of seven and each lodging house, tenement and car on the railroad siding was parceled out to a group.
They form the tenement district, or, in the newer phrase, the slums of Boston.
But the majority of the mansions had been turned into Italian tenement houses.
For the lords purposes that system was at its best when it was rigid and no tenement was partible.
Was this right appurtenant to the manor, or was it also appendant to a frank tenement in a particular vill?
At the present day, an Auster tenement is a species of copyhold, with all the incidents to that tenure.
Her visits to the Schulenberg tenement were always an alleviation to her unhappiness.
Thus tenure at a money rent would become the typical tenure of a burgage tenement.
Something that was not of the tenement, something vital, with which his old life had no concern, welled up in gimpy at the touch.
That evening everyone in the tenement was discussing Coupeau's strange malady.
It's the sleaziest, cheapest, most run-down tenement in one hemisphere, but I love it.
If the tenement selected for this honour could not be ancient and embrowned, it should at least have been detached.
The mildness of it brought the tenement dwellers to windows and doors.
Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.
The islanders, while employed in erecting this tenement, reminded me of a colony of beavers at work.
Herbert put it to me, what did I think of that as a temporary tenement for Tom, Jack, or Richard?
Why, one 98 day I lost her in a tenement on Kosciusko street.
In this well-situated tenement, Mr Cophagus got on swimmingly.
Who would feel cramped in a tenement, with such royal privileges as these?
The area is very accessible with the Muir Highway traversing the tenement and the ground consists mostly of blue gum plantations.
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