How to Use tenant in a Sentence

tenant

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  • A tenant is now leasing the apartment.
  • The case was dismissed when the tenant failed to show up in court.
    — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Have them in private, which means out of earshot of the tenants.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Over the years, the co-op has hosted a fair share of A-listers and celeb tenants.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
  • About 93% of the tower is leased to tenants at quoted rents of more than $40 per square foot.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The city moved to place the buildings in receivership out of concern for the health and safety of the tenants.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Amel Ben Jmaj, a biotech student from Tunisia, is one of the newest tenants and already loves the place.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Joe’s Crab Shack, which has been a port tenant for more than two decades, is not the first to occupy that site.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In the end, Syed had a few applications, enough to find a tenant and a backup.
    — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Pour one out for your long-suffering tenants, who might have to eat some of those costs for you.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • However, the dog’s owner no longer lived there, and the new tenants didn’t know the dog, leaving the couple with the dog for a bit longer.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • While vouchers seek to give tenants more choice, many landlords refuse to take them.
    — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Cho said upgrades to the office towers should catch the eye of new office tenants.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Thousands of tenants across Oregon could soon face the same dilemma.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Bertram expects tenants will be able to move in starting in late summer.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Ultimately, the goal is to find a permanent tenant for the space.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But in May 2022, the Phoenix location closed and the space was sold to its current tenant, Snapback Pizzeria.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That said, for the majority of students, there are a few tenants of a great laptop.
    — Christian De Looper, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023
  • After being an owner for 40 years, the idea of being a tenant felt like a backslide.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Both teams are longtime tenants of the Midway-area arena.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Along with Johnny Mac, the esteemed prewar building has played host to dozens of famous tenants since it was built in 1929.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The apartments in the building are full of tenants and when one unit becomes available, there's no issue in finding someone to lease it to.
    — Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That new law requires a landlord to pay a tenant two months’ rent in the event of a no-fault eviction but does not restrict rent increases.
    — Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The law provides free access to lawyers for tenants in eviction cases, but there are not enough lawyers available.
    — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Yet in the District, there are no laws that protect tenants against secondary exposure to smoke in their apartments.
    — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But Vargas said some of the tenants have had trouble making an adjustment.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Since filing the suit, the tenants, Damin Dixon and Alison Bradford, are no longer facing eviction.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The story follows a group of tenants cooped up in their Lower East Side apartment building who gather on the roof every night.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • My husband came into a community room (the kitchen) where a tenant and I were already present.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In June, the members of New Haven’s first two tenants’ unions rallied outside the offices of their corporate landlord.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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