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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Two people died, and a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out at a Crown Heights apartment building in Brooklyn.
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Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
From a window, Jude looked down on a scrubby expanse where multiple apartment buildings were under construction.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
An apartment building boom has resulted in rent decreases, though not necessarily uniformly across the region.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
By the 1970s and 1980s, landlords were burning apartment buildings to collect insurance money instead of investing in repairs, leaving low-income, mostly Puerto Rican and Black families without socioeconomic opportunity.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2026
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Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
From a window, Jude looked down on a scrubby expanse where multiple apartment buildings were under construction.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
An apartment building boom has resulted in rent decreases, though not necessarily uniformly across the region.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
By the 1970s and 1980s, landlords were burning apartment buildings to collect insurance money instead of investing in repairs, leaving low-income, mostly Puerto Rican and Black families without socioeconomic opportunity.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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