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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Surveillance video captured at the scene shows Ater, Marchbanks and Pennington arriving at the parking lot of the apartment building in the same car, according to court documents.
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025
The report recommends shifting to denser housing, like apartment buildings, in areas that are less likely to flood.
—James Barron, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The new apartment building at 3627-3633 N. Sheffield typifies this troublesome direction.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Emergency crews carried black body bags from a burning apartment building as onlookers wept and hugged in the dark.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025
The report recommends shifting to denser housing, like apartment buildings, in areas that are less likely to flood.
—James Barron, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The new apartment building at 3627-3633 N. Sheffield typifies this troublesome direction.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Emergency crews carried black body bags from a burning apartment building as onlookers wept and hugged in the dark.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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