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  • verb Present participle of tenant.

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Examples

  • Inquiry into the cirumstances of a would-be customer sometimes had ludicrous results; a newly-married couple, for instance, would be found tenanting two top-floor rooms, the furnishing whereof seemd to them imcomplete without the piano of which their friends and relatives boasted.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • Inquiry into the cirumstances of a would-be customer sometimes had ludicrous results; a newly-married couple, for instance, would be found tenanting two top-floor rooms, the furnishing whereof seemd to them imcomplete without the piano of which their friends and relatives boasted.

    The Piano Business Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • I have part of it on lease; the farmer now tenanting the premises found the whole more than he wanted, and the owner allowed me to keep what rooms I chose.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • "You are tenanting — rent-free! — premises which I own," she said.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • They have every right in the world to inhabit the palaces of Italy, which many a needy owner is glad to find them tenanting; they cannot but admire the noble proportions, the solid construction, the magnificent decorations, which meet their eyes on every side, whether at Genoa, at Verona, at Venice, at Florence, or at Rome.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • She had acquired undisputed control over the Indian tribes still tenanting the forests unexplored by the European man.

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • My friend the Triumphant Democrat, fiercest of radicals and kindest of men, expresses his scorn for monarchical institutions (and his invincible love for his native Scotland) by tenanting, summer after summer, a famous castle among the heathery Highlands.

    Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • I have part of it on lease; the farmer now tenanting the premises found the whole more than he wanted, and the owner allowed me to keep what rooms I chose.

    A Changed Man; and other tales Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Inquiry into the circumstances of a would-be customer sometimes had ludicrous results; a newly-married couple, for instance, would be found tenanting two top-floor rooms, the furnishing whereof seemed to them incomplete without the piano of which their friends and relatives boasted.

    In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

  • This block, for instance, came from the large schooner which now lies at the end of Castle Hill Beach, bearing still aloft its broken masts and shattered rigging, and with its keel yet stanch, except that the stern-post is gone, - so that each tide sweeps in its green harvest of glossy kelp, and then tosses it in the hold like hay, desolately tenanting the place which once sheltered men.

    Oldport Days 1873

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