tenement house (Meaning)
tenement house (n)
a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
Synonyms & Antonyms of tenement house
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tenement house Sentence Examples
- The dilapidated tenement house stood as a grim reminder of the city's poverty-stricken past.
- The narrow, overcrowded tenement house was home to immigrant families who struggled to make ends meet.
- The landlord of the tenement house was known for his extortionate rent and inhumane living conditions.
- Disease spread rapidly through the cramped rooms of the tenement house, claiming countless lives.
- Social reformers fought tirelessly to improve the living conditions in tenement houses.
- The "Five Points" neighborhood of New York City was notorious for its squalid tenement houses.
- Architects designed tenement houses with narrow, airless rooms and inadequate sanitation.
- The tenements provided cheap housing for the city's poorest residents, but came at a great cost to their health and well-being.
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which occurred in a tenement house, resulted in the tragic deaths of over 140 workers.
- The construction of housing projects after World War II gradually replaced the overcrowded tenement houses.
FAQs About the word tenement house
a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
apartment building,apartment house, railroad flat, duplex apartment, efficiency, studio apartment, garden apartment, bed-sitting-room,wing, efficiency apartment
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The dilapidated tenement house stood as a grim reminder of the city's poverty-stricken past.
The narrow, overcrowded tenement house was home to immigrant families who struggled to make ends meet.
The landlord of the tenement house was known for his extortionate rent and inhumane living conditions.
Disease spread rapidly through the cramped rooms of the tenement house, claiming countless lives.
