How to use "tenement" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "tenement" in popular movie and book plots

  • In Harlem, Howard investigates screams coming from a tenement building and finds two black men fighting.  - Lost Boundaries
  • A motorist witnesses a woman falling or jumping from a tenement building.  - The Pyx
  • 504 of an old tenement named Migum Apartments.  - Sorum
  • Then, Harry/Harriet takes her to a small tenement room in Kingston so that she can join a clandestine revolutionary group.  - No Telephone to Heaven
  • Underhill and Maggie alert Michael after finding a bloody knife on a lower level of a tenement building that they were hiding in.  - Koko (novel)
  • The play opens on a disordered tenement household where six of the seven children, two parents and Granny of the Morrison family live.  - Men Should Weep
  • Dejected, Falco returns to his dilapidated tenement in the Aventine Hill and there finds Helena waiting for him.  - The Silver Pigs
  • Max Devlin (Elliott Gould) is a shady landlord of a rundown tenement in Los Angeles who is rather jaded and callous towards his fellow man.  - The Devil and Max Devlin
  • Ex-Nazi Franz is on the roof of his tenement with his pigeons reminiscing about the grand old days ("In Old Bavaria").  - The Producers (musical)
  • Frank returns to Tampa and takes up residence in an old tenement building, along with Dave, Bumpo and Joan.  - The Punisher (2004 film)
  • In Mile End, Montreal, Léo Lauzon is a young boy living in a tenement with his dysfunctional family, who serves as the unreliable narrator.  - Léolo
  • In the other ending, Lilya and Volodya are both angels happily playing basketball on the roof of a tenement building.  - Lilya 4-ever
  • With Frankie home, Zosh smothers her husband in their small tenement apartment and hinders his attempt to make something of himself.  - The Man with the Golden Arm
  • The next morning, Joe sneaks out of his tenement home to join the excursion, where he sees the countryside and the ocean for the first time.  - The Land Beyond the Sunset
  • The address turns out to be a huge tenement building.  - The Trial
  • In June 1580 he purchased a tenement and seven acres of land near Aldgate in London from the Italian merchant Benedict Spinola for £2,500.  - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

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