apartment

noun apart·ment \ ə-ˈpärt-mənt \

|Updated on: 16 Jul 2018

Examples: apartment in a Sentence

Definition of apartment

plural apartments

1 : a room or set of rooms fitted especially with housekeeping facilities and usually leased as a dwelling

2 : a building containing several individual apartments

3 British : a large and impressive room or set of rooms —usually plural

Assured that the Queen and Prince Philip had retired to bed, Mr Hillyard tried to pass through the Royal apartments as the train left Aberdeen on its journey to London.
—Jonathan Petre

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apartmental

play \ə-ˌpärt-ˈmen-tᵊl\ adjective

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Examples of apartment in a Sentence

We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house.
a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house

Recent Examples of apartment from the Web

Just off Plant Street, 26,000-square-foot Tremaine Boyd building is under construction on South Boyd Street, which will have 22 apartments as well as 8,000 square feet for retail and restaurants.

— kyle arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, "6 new things to check out in Winter Garden and 3 coming soon," 13 July 2018
The housing bond would raise taxes on city of San Diego property owners an average of $72 per year to pay for 7,500 subsidized apartments for the chronically homeless, veterans, senior citizens, the disabled and low-income families.

— david garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, "$900M housing bond still alive pending fate of convention center measure," 11 July 2018
Angela Wright and her fiancée, Victoria Owen, had been living in their Brentwood, Tennessee, apartment for about two months when the home became overrun by venomous brown recluse spiders.

— char adams, PEOPLE.com, "Woman Bit by Venomous Spider Discovers Dozens More in Her Apartment: 'We Kept Finding Handfuls'," 9 July 2018
Kadir had decorated their apartment for Ruya’s big day.

— maria l. la ganga, idahostatesman, "Mother of 3-year-old slain in mass stabbing wants justice for daughter: "She is gone."," 3 July 2018
Kinner had been granted access to an apartment for a few days but was asked by its resident to leave because of his behavior, police said.

— ruth brown, nicole blanchard and jason lantz, Anchorage Daily News, "Attacker stabs 9, including 6 children, in Idaho," 2 July 2018
Bones said Kinner had met and then stayed with a resident of the apartments for a few days within the last week.

— john bacon, USA TODAY, "Boise promises 'kindness for those fleeing violence' after attack on refugee children," 2 July 2018
As her 2-year-old son Rylan turned a bluish purple from choking on a grape, Amber Strother ran to a neighboring apartment for help.

— melissa nelson gabriel, ajc, "Marine honored for saving toddler's life," 2 July 2018
Gary Lindsey, a 35-year-old man from Orlando, barricaded himself in an apartment for almost 24 hours with four children.

— johanna a. Álvarez, miamiherald, "Florida among top states for murder-suicides," 2 July 2018

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