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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Fires continue to plague the Parade Park housing complex, as Kansas City firefighters were called to extinguish another fire at one of the complex’s vacant apartment buildings Tuesday night.
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 31 Dec. 2025
Catt hires Paul Garcia, a recovering alcoholic recently out of prison for petty fraud, to manage her apartment buildings, becomes romantically involved with him, and then gets embroiled in trying to extricate him from the pincers of the criminal-justice system and debt.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The Sears store, which closed in 2015, will be replaced with a 9-story apartment building.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
Instead of the more typical block-type apartment buildings found throughout San Diego County, the building has setbacks and staggered edges on its exterior.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 31 Dec. 2025
Catt hires Paul Garcia, a recovering alcoholic recently out of prison for petty fraud, to manage her apartment buildings, becomes romantically involved with him, and then gets embroiled in trying to extricate him from the pincers of the criminal-justice system and debt.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The Sears store, which closed in 2015, will be replaced with a 9-story apartment building.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
Instead of the more typical block-type apartment buildings found throughout San Diego County, the building has setbacks and staggered edges on its exterior.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 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 3 Jan. 2026.
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