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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Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
New York — An explosion at a New York City apartment building blew off a floor-to-roof chunk of the high-rise – terrifying residents in the Bronx and fueling frustration and outrage as to how this could have happened.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Footage captured overnight showed agents converging on an apartment building in the area.
—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Investigators found Turner at an apartment building in the 3500 block of Broadway.
—Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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