How to Use multistory in a Sentence
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The new airstrikes, which hit Gaza overnight Monday and again in the evening, hollowed out one floor of a multistory concrete building and killed five people.
— Fox News, 18 May 2021 -
Two of the strikes hit near a preschool and a multistory residential building.
— Ian Lovett, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Chen is now planning to open another multistory food hall at the Louvre in Paris.
— Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023 -
The aerospace giant will first tear down the decades-old OBB Building there; plans show it will be replaced with the multistory office building.
— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2024 -
Only 43% of all multistory homes have both a bedroom and a full bathroom on the first floor, per U.S. Census Bureau data.
— Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 25 July 2024 -
The scars left behind were shocking, with great gashes sliced through multistory complexes along the main street.
— New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022 -
Rather than acres of asphalt for parking, there are multistory parking lots.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023 -
Its downtown operation was a multistory complex of more than 50 buildings, one of which spanned a city street.
— Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024 -
Its multistory turret includes three round rooms: a family room on the main level, her daughter's bedroom on the second floor, and her home office on the third floor.
— Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023 -
In their place, Selfridge built a multistory palace that was designed expressly to house the world’s best department store.
— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021 -
The second jolt caused a multistory apartment building in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa to topple onto the street in a cloud of dust as bystanders screamed, according to video of the scene.
— Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023 -
Chanel recently opened a multistory emporium on Rodeo Drive, its largest store in the United States.
— Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 -
But in a matter of minutes on Saturday, the sprawling, multistory mall instead became a site of panic, chaos and terror.
— Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024 -
In a daily update on his Facebook page, Governor Josh Green said the number is holding steady even as searchers scour multistory buildings.
— Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023 -
The second jolt in the afternoon caused a multistory apartment building to topple face-forward onto the street in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa.
— Suzan Fraser, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023 -
One of these is a multistory school that Abu Issa, her two young children and her extended family — 20 people total — now call home.
— Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024 -
The remains of a line of multistory buildings along the southern edge of the town were completely unrecognizable on Monday morning.
— Yutao Chen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023 -
The Norwegian Escape offers several restaurants and lounges on board as well as Broadway shows, five multistory waterslides, and the largest ropes course at sea.
— Meena Thiruvengadam, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2024 -
Vehicles extracted from the building lined the street after a multistory parking garage in New York City collapsed on Tuesday.
— Heavier Vehicles, Curbed, 21 Apr. 2023 -
The complex has four new, multistory apartment buildings.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2022 -
Two other multistory office buildings, Hunt Tower and Northgate Plaza, had previously been built in the area.
— Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021 -
Many buildings remained intact, some of them old and weather-worn; others modern, multistory concrete-and-glass structures.
— Siyi Zhao Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 -
Highlights include a theater, multistory apartment buildings, and a bathhouse, and a latrine.
— Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023 -
Each version begins at or near the same event, one that’s unusually violent for a Kore-eda film: the arson of a multistory commercial building in a small lakefront city in the mountains of central Japan.
— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023 -
In 2016, warehouse industry giant Prologis built a multistory warehouse in Seattle, a first for the US.
— Camille Squires, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2022 -
Our next stop was the Alpbach Valley, an area known for its traditional multistory wooden farmhouses.
— Thomas Rogers, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023 -
The location had earlier been considered for a multistory apartment complex, but that idea was withdrawn.
— Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023 -
Hale said Pereira’s original concept called for the complex to grow to 24 stages and 2.5 million square feet of production space, including several multistory office buildings.
— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024 -
Ukraine’s interior minister and at least 17 others were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a multistory apartment building just east of Kyiv, according to police.
— Volodymyr Verbyany, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2023 -
One opponent suggested the developer had trespassed after the R.D. Olson team showed photos of the outside of a home as part of a presentation to prove multistory buildings already exist near the river.
— Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2024
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