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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The owners of an apartment building in Manhattan where three people were killed in a fast-moving fire early Monday are being sued by the city for neglecting fire hazards at a neighboring property, court documents show.
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 5 May 2026
Firefighters received mutual aid from a number of departments while battling a fire at an apartment building in Rocky Hill on Monday.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
Over on State Road 7, an apartment building named Pinnacle 441 opened at the Johnson Street intersection, a few miles south of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Just on Sunday night, a drone hit a high-rise apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of western central Moscow, according to local authorities and videos from the scene.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 5 May 2026
Firefighters received mutual aid from a number of departments while battling a fire at an apartment building in Rocky Hill on Monday.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026
Over on State Road 7, an apartment building named Pinnacle 441 opened at the Johnson Street intersection, a few miles south of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Just on Sunday night, a drone hit a high-rise apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of western central Moscow, according to local authorities and videos from the scene.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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