And the world over, tenement houselife is an excellent school for the life of the streets.
Susan shook her head, went to the window and gazed into the snowy dreary prospect of tenement house yards.
A detective testifies that he went with her into a tenement houseon Seventeenth Street west of Sixth Avenue.
Also it suggests the courtyard of a tenement house, an alleyway or something shut in and confined.
They may live neither in a tenement house nor in a disreputable house.
In the country the fresh air, fragrant with the breath of new-mown hay, or sweetened from ten thousand clover blossoms, is free to the poorest, but to be sick in a tenement house is something terrible.
We must also remember that the bad tenement house is the birthplace and cradle, and to a large extent the schoolroom, of multitudes of boys and girls who are to exert their influence on every phase of our city life in the near future.
The people understand--to what an extent is shown in a report of a Tenement House Committee in the city of Yonkers, which the postman put on my table this minute.
The worldly effects of the family are all in the hands of the creditors of the "head," and the family themselves are either in a more modest home in the country, or in a tenement house.
But a short while ago a family may have been living in the humbler quarter of the city, or even in a tenement house.
He may live in a tenement house, and his expenses will still be disproportioned to the return received.
The joint-tenement house was in the nature of a fortress, and held an intermediate position between the stockaded village of the Lower, and the walled city of the Upper Status.
Persons who removed from one village to another could not transfer their possessory right to cultivated lands or to a section of a joint-tenement house to a stranger; but must leave them to his gentile kindred.
It is not unlikely that it was composed of related families who occupied a joint-tenement house, and practiced communism in living in the household.
She lives alone, in a tenement house, poor and friendless, having been driven from her home by her relatives because she has become a Protestant.
Visiting lately in a tenement house, a woman came out, telling me that I would never go to Heaven, and using other insulting language.
Some time ago, visiting in a tenement house, I inquired at one of the doors if there were any children there who did not go to Sabbath-school, and was answered by a boy that he did not go.
She is not willing to receive a governess from a tenement house.
But the idea of receiving in my house an inmate of a tenement house!
Yes, or a tenement house, than become the wife of one I loathe.
Only a very small choice of male and female baptismal names is resorted to by tenement house folk.
If rent days are the fearful anticipations of tenement house life, meals and their preparation are the pleasurable anticipations of it.
Sad is the fate of a baby orphaned in a tenement house.
In this way I lived the dull life of a tenement house child, made more dull in my case by the lack of a certain inexplicable something in my relations to my parents and in my home conditions.
It is certainly genuine, for it induces an occasional charity visitor to live in a tenement house as simply as the other tenants do.
The girl is born and reared in a tenement house full of children.
The keeping of horses, cows, pigs, sheep, goats or poultry in tenement houses is prohibited, also the use of any part of a tenement house for a stable or for the storage of anything dangerous to life or health.
The keeping of inflammable or combustible material under any stairway in a tenement house is prohibited.
The "Old Brewery" was used as a tenement house, and contained one thousand inmates, and a viler, and more wretched set of people was not to be found in the great city.
A week ago, a family may have been living in a tenement house.
A poor sewing girl, whose only riches consisted of a "wealth of hair," died in a tenement house in one of the most wretched quarters of the city.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenement house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
