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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Pedro Brito learned that his brother and sister-in-law were found dead beneath the rubble of their apartment building.
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Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
On the sixth day of France’s heat wave, when temperatures reached record highs, shoppers scrapped over box fans, and Americans and Europeans beefed on X, a neighbor in our apartment building near Paris finally broke down and texted me.
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Jessica Roy,
Curbed,
29 June 2026
Authorities eventually recovered the painting from a bush outside an Upper East Side apartment building.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
29 June 2026
Even before the earthquakes, conditions in Venezuela were also dire, with two-thirds of its residents living in poverty and housing often unattainable — something that’s likely to worsen after thousands of homes and apartment buildings were destroyed in the quake.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2026
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Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
On the sixth day of France’s heat wave, when temperatures reached record highs, shoppers scrapped over box fans, and Americans and Europeans beefed on X, a neighbor in our apartment building near Paris finally broke down and texted me.
—
Jessica Roy,
Curbed,
29 June 2026
Authorities eventually recovered the painting from a bush outside an Upper East Side apartment building.
—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
29 June 2026
Even before the earthquakes, conditions in Venezuela were also dire, with two-thirds of its residents living in poverty and housing often unattainable — something that’s likely to worsen after thousands of homes and apartment buildings were destroyed in the quake.
—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2026
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 30 Jun. 2026.
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