tower block

noun

chiefly British
: a tall building (such as a high-rise apartment building)

Examples of tower block in a Sentence

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Rakesh Pai, 47, Aditi Paralkar, 46, and their 9-year-old son Sid, died after falling from their 36th-floor apartment in the Highpoint tower block in Elephant and Castle, south London, on May 27, according to the BBC, The Telegraph and The Tribune. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026 To watch the sunrise, the inebriated couple climb to the rooftop of a high-rise tower block, where Lux falls asleep and Jessie stands too close to the edge. Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2026 The kitchen-sink drama follows five working-class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who grew up together in a tower block in Birmingham and are now in their thirties, finding themselves on increasingly divergent, and for most of them increasingly constrained, paths to the future. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026 The 39-year-old photographer from Beirut captured a stunning sequence of images in the early hours of Wednesday, showing an IDF missile demolishing a tower block in one fell swoop. Raf Sanchez, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tower block

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tower block was in 1966

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“Tower block.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tower%20block. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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