apartment building
noun
: a building containing separate residential apartments
called also apartment house
Examples of apartment building in a Sentence
We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
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Meanwhile, Russian air defenses intercepted four Ukrainian drones over Moscow, with one damaging an apartment building near the Kremlin.
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Also Thursday, an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in a suburb of the capital, wounding three people, one of them critically, Syria's state media and a paramedic group said.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
The backdrop: Three others have already pleaded guilty to running the brothel network that shuttled women between luxury apartment buildings in Cambridge, Watertown, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. before federal officers shut the ring down in 2023.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
On Thursday night, about 100 people gathered outside the low-slung brick apartment building in the Edgewater community where Jayden lived with his mom and brother.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Also Thursday, an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in a suburb of the capital, wounding three people, one of them critically, Syria's state media and a paramedic group said.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
The backdrop: Three others have already pleaded guilty to running the brothel network that shuttled women between luxury apartment buildings in Cambridge, Watertown, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. before federal officers shut the ring down in 2023.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
On Thursday night, about 100 people gathered outside the low-slung brick apartment building in the Edgewater community where Jayden lived with his mom and brother.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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