Tenements
[tenəmənts]
Examples
- As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In tenements, where there is no yard for the family washing, clothes often appear flapping in mid-air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Now, these tumbling tenements contain, by night, a swarm of misery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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