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Example sentences for "tenanted"

Lexicographically close words:
tenaculum; tenait; tenancies; tenancy; tenant; tenanting; tenantless; tenantry; tenants; tenas
  1. Fifty years ago the farm of Ardlarich, near the west end, was tenanted by three farmers, who were in good circumstances.

  2. There is not a smoke there now,’ he used to say with pathos, of the glens which he had known tenanted by a manly and loyal peasantry, among whom lived song and story and the elevating influences of brave traditions.

  3. Carrying with him, in his first adventure, his original energy of mind and frame, he is astonished to see the land tenanted by human beings who are content with mere existence.

  4. Khafra was entombed in the second pyramid of Gizeh, and that known as 'the Upper' at the same place was tenanted by the corpse of Menkaura.

  5. Here, again, it is hard to imagine how the conception of a tree as tenanted by a personal being could be more plainly expressed.

  6. I felt it rather an uncertainty this morning, whether I should have found the posada tenanted by friends or enemies; but the doubt has been agreeably resolved.

  7. For, as Rome itself is built on an exhausted volcano, so in similar security the inhabitants of the South tenanted the green and vine-clad places around a volcano whose fires they believed at rest for ever.

  8. The only house at all near us was tenanted by Mrs. Erskine, with whose sons I used to beguile the tedium of the road.

  9. Huge lake-trout are to be found in the erstwhile eel-tenanted deeps of New Zealand.

  10. There was a solitary woman, of middle age, who tenanted a chamber in this house, upon the same floor with my own.

  11. He had rented a house close to his own, the shop of which had been tenanted for seven or eight years by a wine merchant.

  12. The party consisted of three women and an ecclesiastic, who boarded, for meals only, with the woman who tenanted the dwelling; the other two were near neighbours.

  13. Seen at anchor from Arcachon they look like boats laid up for the winter season; but every one is tenanted night and day.

  14. Box and Cox, Genoa is tenanted by two distinct populations.

  15. It was only very late in the afternoon that I discovered the domicile to be tenanted by three adults and seven children, most of whom now cheerfully curl up on the floor.

  16. The flakes that had been deserted, that morning, became tenanted again by an eager crowd, and on the sharply slanted roofs of the little fish-houses some boys secured precarious perches.

  17. He led us up some rivers tenanted by strange beasts wallowing in fetid mud which, when disturbed, sent forth bubbles that burst with foul odors, and made more unbearable the tepid moisture one had to breathe.

  18. The house tenanted by the Jelliffes belongs to a man who is off to the Labrador, trapping cod with a crew of sons and neighbors.

  19. To one side of us there was a rocky hill, once swept by a storm of flames and now tenanted only by the gaunt skeletons of charred firs and tamaracks.

  20. Unfortunately Gulays is tenanted by the Habr Gerhajis, and Wagar by the Eesa Musa, treacherous races.

  21. Reaching our destination, after an hour's lively sail, we passed through a thick belt of underwood tenanted by swarms of midges, with a damp chill air crying fever, and a fetor of decayed vegetation smelling death.

  22. Necessity is the mother of invention; but these men in their difficult adventurous travel through unknown seas and pathless jungles tenanted by dangerous beasts, learn only how to forget.

  23. The sound of the bugle, wildly winding its notes, broke on the stillness of the morning in the little village in which was situated the cottage tenanted by Sir Edward Moseley.

  24. The room on the other side of the American's--for there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel--was tenanted by an old English physician of rather doubtful reputation.

  25. Beneath are mounds of earth, each tenanted by a dead friar with similar labels.

  26. The old palace of the Carraras is half ruined, and what remains is tenanted by the commandant of the place.

  27. Two or three poor-looking monks still tenanted the ruins of the abbey.

  28. The other person who tenanted that room was one whom we have lost sight of for some time.

  29. The apartment itself he could not at another period have tenanted without secret emotion.

  30. The hero, no way discountenanced by the horrors of his situation, took to his arms, and defended himself manfully against Assueit, or rather against the evil demon who tenanted that champion's body.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenanted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    occupied; populous; settled