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 car was parked in a garage at the Ayla apartment building ahead of Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour performance in Atlanta.
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Building it—the final phase of the project—will likely require knocking down some adjacent apartment buildings and displacing residents.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
With sweeping city views, bustling amenities and hallways that felt more like a five-star hotel than an apartment building, who wouldn’t want to wrap up a school day here?
—Kira Golenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Officers arriving at the complex spotted a man run to an apartment building and enter a stairwell, police said.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Building it—the final phase of the project—will likely require knocking down some adjacent apartment buildings and displacing residents.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
With sweeping city views, bustling amenities and hallways that felt more like a five-star hotel than an apartment building, who wouldn’t want to wrap up a school day here?
—Kira Golenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Officers arriving at the complex spotted a man run to an apartment building and enter a stairwell, police said.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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 18 Sep. 2025.
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