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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Their Manhattan apartment building is home to a motley ensemble of residents that could’ve come straight from Central Casting.
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Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
The restaurants join tenants like Cava and Starbucks at the $137 million mixed-use development, which includes two four-story apartment buildings called the Grand Station Lofts.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2025
Though dubbed the mansion tax, the measure applies a 4% levy to nearly all property sales in the city over about $5 million, including apartment buildings, mini-malls and warehouses, and a 5.5% charge to sales above about $10 million.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Some live in rows of neat white apartment buildings whose one-bedroom units sell for around $45,000, while others occupy lavish villas.
—Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
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Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
The restaurants join tenants like Cava and Starbucks at the $137 million mixed-use development, which includes two four-story apartment buildings called the Grand Station Lofts.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2025
Though dubbed the mansion tax, the measure applies a 4% levy to nearly all property sales in the city over about $5 million, including apartment buildings, mini-malls and warehouses, and a 5.5% charge to sales above about $10 million.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Some live in rows of neat white apartment buildings whose one-bedroom units sell for around $45,000, while others occupy lavish villas.
—Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 11 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 23 Apr. 2025.
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