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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Several people asked why Fern Hill wasn’t planning to preserve lakefront views by putting the main apartment building on the west side of Sheridan Road, and the smaller building on the synagogue’s present location.
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Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The suspect then got out of the car and ran into a nearby apartment building.
—Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
The housing project sought to combine the benefits of standalone houses—such as gardens and multilevel properties—with the density of a traditional apartment building.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
Videos purported to be from Bahrain’s capital, Manama, showed what appeared to be an Iranian Shahed drone slamming into an apartment building.
—Richard Hall, Time, 1 Mar. 2026
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Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The suspect then got out of the car and ran into a nearby apartment building.
—Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
The housing project sought to combine the benefits of standalone houses—such as gardens and multilevel properties—with the density of a traditional apartment building.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
Videos purported to be from Bahrain’s capital, Manama, showed what appeared to be an Iranian Shahed drone slamming into an apartment building.
—Richard Hall, Time, 1 Mar. 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 4 Mar. 2026.
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