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 pair arranged to meet for a custody exchange when Payne fatally shot Lane inside the entrance of her apartment building.
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Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2026
Two people and a firefighter were taken to a hospital following a fire at an apartment building in Derby on Sunday.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
In the inside part of the apartment building’s mailbox — accessible only to building management and mail carriers — law enforcement found notes indicating that mail should be delivered to Cynthia’s apartment for several of the pseudonyms used in the scheme, authorities said.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
An 81-year-old man was found dead on a Brooklyn apartment building rooftop, police said Sunday.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
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Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2026
Two people and a firefighter were taken to a hospital following a fire at an apartment building in Derby on Sunday.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
In the inside part of the apartment building’s mailbox — accessible only to building management and mail carriers — law enforcement found notes indicating that mail should be delivered to Cynthia’s apartment for several of the pseudonyms used in the scheme, authorities said.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
An 81-year-old man was found dead on a Brooklyn apartment building rooftop, police said Sunday.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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