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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Last September, two developers proposed a 27-story apartment building also in the downtown area at the current Church Street Plaza.
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Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Four people are dead and hundreds displaced after a fire at a multistory apartment building in Milwaukee Sunday morning sent residents jumping from their windows for safety.
—Susannah Cullinane, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
Oakland fire department crews extinguished a fire at an apartment building Saturday afternoon in Oakland.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect on suspicion of murder in the February killing of a man at a northwest Fort Worth apartment building where the victim’s former girlfriend lived.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2025
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Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Four people are dead and hundreds displaced after a fire at a multistory apartment building in Milwaukee Sunday morning sent residents jumping from their windows for safety.
—Susannah Cullinane, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
Oakland fire department crews extinguished a fire at an apartment building Saturday afternoon in Oakland.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect on suspicion of murder in the February killing of a man at a northwest Fort Worth apartment building where the victim’s former girlfriend lived.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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