He resembled not the sole occupant of Apartment 3B, but a visitor.
Also, it will probably require an agreement stating that the current owner and her family will be the sole occupants of the apartment, and that upon the owner's death, the apartment may not be occupied or transferred by anyone without the consent of the board.
The apartment's sole tenant had died, leaving for posterity a bathtub turned orange from rust and a pair of dentures that sat uncovered in the medicine cabinet.
It has been a monk-like existence in the sixth-floor apartment, the sole excursion being to my beloved Galerie Mazarine at the La Bibliothèque Nationale de France again.
Barker, a slight woman with a ready smile, showed me a full-size mattress that had been pushed into a corner of the apartment's sole bedroom and covered with a black sheet.
Had we crated Thing 1 at night when we brought her home, the wife and I might not have had to abandon our apartment's sole bedroom to her and sleep on a futon in the living room.
He grew up with the woman he believed was his mother, in a tiny, one-room apartment where the sole "luxury" was a radio.
Ms. Hui often shoots Mr. Lau by himself in the frame, alone in his apartment or the sole person in a row of empty airport seats.
"I have a T-shirt from David Beckham, so I think I need to put that in my estate declaration," Aurélie Filippetti, the culture minister, told France 2 television last week, while insisting that her 71-square-meter Parisian apartment was her sole possession of consequence.
For the past two years, Ms. Lecroc's clientele has run the gamut: fashion editors, models, students, architects, stylists and socialites have climbed the four flights of winding steps to her tiny apartment for the sole purpose of having their handbags and their contents sit for a portrait.
