How to Use tower block in a Sentence

tower block

noun

• Many of the wide avenues and tower blocks of the new city on the edge of the Gobi desert are still empty.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• The spark appeared to be a fire in a tower block in the city of Urumqi, in the northwest Xinjiang region, which killed 10 people.
  — Time, 1 Dec. 2022
• His legacy is one of huge, dispiriting tower blocks—the main focus of the book Maspero and Ms Frantz produced in 1989.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• At the heart of the plot lay Mranata’s creation, a brutalist tower block about seven storeys tall.
  — 1843, 22 Nov. 2019
• One of those strikes brought a multi-story tower block tumbling down.
  — CNN, 12 May 2021
• Cladding on hundreds of tower blocks across England which was tested in the aftermath of the fire failed safety tests.
  — James Masters, CNN, 17 May 2018
• In the suburb of Wolfen Nord, boards are nailed over the windows of old factories, and communist-era tower blocks stand empty.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• One of the largest Kurdistan flags in Irbil can be found draped over a large, hollowed-out luxury tower block.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 27 Sep. 2017
• The tower block is home to hundreds of people who take the elevator multiple times each day.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
• In tearful tributes, families told of final phone calls with those trapped as the fire swept through and of frantic journeys to the low-income tower block in search of them.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 21 May 2018
• Its skeleton and giant winch-wheel loom over a tangle of highways and communist-era tower blocks.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Residents live in colored tower blocks, linked by walkways; also on-site is a nursery, a playground and a church.
  — Mirren Gidda, Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2016
• That echoed Salesforce, which put up half of its eponymous San Francisco tower block for sublease in mid-July.
  — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
• Seventy-two people were killed, many of them children, in the blaze that tore up the 24-story residential tower block.
  — Hilary Clarke, CNN, 14 June 2018
• Georgio Petrovic, 21, was born a year after the bombing and lives in the same imposing, angular tower block.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Today, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
• The original film found a gang of criminally-minded teenagers facing off against alien creatures in and around a London tower block.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2023
• By the 2000s, the tower blocks were infamous for deprivation, violence, and drugs.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• Tenants in tower blocks in Britain are typically advised to stay in their apartments when there is a blaze elsewhere in the building, as firefighters try to contain the flames.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• Five miles away Chelmsley Wood, whose tower blocks absorbed Birmingham’s post-war slum clearances, was 72% for Leave.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2019
• One aspect of the investigation will be the role of combustible aluminum cladding installed during a refurbishment to the 1970s tower block.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• Puffs of thunderhead smoke rising between tower blocks.
  — Louise Doughty, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• One focus of investigation is the role of combustible aluminum cladding installed during a refurbishment to the 1970s tower block.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• Seventy-one people were killed when a blaze engulfed a residential tower block in North Kensington, west London on June 14.
  — James Masters and Diana Magnay, CNN, 14 Dec. 2017
• On the ground in Ukraine, meanwhile, nine people in Mykolaiv were injured on Saturday — four of them children — following Russian strikes on a tower block there, the regional governor said.
  — Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• If the government can manage the shift in investment in Lanzhou without unleashing the excesses of the past decade, the city may eventually fill its empty tower blocks and once again become a bridgehead for China’s western development.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• The incident comes two weeks after a tower block in the southwestern city of Abadan collapsed due to shoddy construction work, triggering anti-corruption protests in a traditionally restive region that’s also the center of Iran’s oil industry.
  — Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2022
• Likewise, tower blocks and air conditioning systems are very effective ways of insulating people from the mosquitoes that transmit Zika and other diseases.
  — Time, 7 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024