How to Use apartment building in a Sentence

apartment building

noun
  • We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
  • There’s an apartment building with a dog park and dog wash, a courtyard pool, bike storage and a fitness center.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Three other victims of the shooting inside an apartment building survived the attack.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Aaron Boisvert said that the apartment building is not an area that often sees criminal activity.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And is Dahmer’s infamous apartment building still standing now?
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2022
  • These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Peoples Gas, the provider that services the apartment building, turned off the gas after the explosion on Tuesday.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Police located a vehicle that was shot multiple times outside of an apartment building on Boswell Avenue.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Three people died after a fire broke out at a North Little Rock apartment building early Tuesday, firefighters said.
    Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Owners of single-family homes, apartment buildings and commercial properties would end up paying higher taxes, driving up housing and business costs.
    Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Teenagers pass the time scrolling on their phones on an apartment building’s stoop.
    Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Due to Sorokin's house arrest, the event was held on the rooftop of her apartment building.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • The sound echoed off the glass front of the apartment building across the street and got louder as more people showed up.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Here is a list of some of the apartment buildings with the most vacancies.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The location is a large apartment building with a day care on the first floor.
    Ali Bauman, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Wells agreed but wanted Delancey to see the view from the rooftop of his apartment building.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Harley did not open the door, instead going around the side of the apartment building to see who was there.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Roth takes the same image every day in the hallway of his apartment building.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The crash also set off a fire in a nine story apartment building.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Construction of the first apartment building could start in 2025.
    Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Look for tiny red signs outside the apartment building.
    Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
  • Police set up black screens around the fire-scarred apartment building where the woman and her daughter were killed.
    Ahmad Seir and Aleksandar Furtula The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The apartment building where the film was shot contributes much of the film’s atmosphere.
    The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • There were no witnesses to the killing and no one was seen leaving her apartment building.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
  • The person was in the back parking lot of an apartment building, according to a news release.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The shooting took place two and a half blocks from Galloway’s apartment building, where news of her death stunned tenants.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
  • The final death toll in a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro reached at least 44 people.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The fire took place at a four-family apartment building.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the new units are in apartment buildings and condo complexes.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023

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