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 blaze tore through seven high-rise apartment buildings in a large housing complex in the Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon, a suburban area in the New Territories.
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John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The fourth floor of an apartment building was damaged.
—Fadi Tawil, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2025
Images showed smoke coming from an apartment building in a crowded part of southern Beirut.
—Tricia Escobedo, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
After a five-alarm fire devastated a Mount Vernon apartment building over the weekend, leaving more than 100 people homeless days before Thanksgiving, donations poured into the temporary shelter for those who lost everything.
—Vanessa Murdock, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2025
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John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The fourth floor of an apartment building was damaged.
—Fadi Tawil, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2025
Images showed smoke coming from an apartment building in a crowded part of southern Beirut.
—Tricia Escobedo, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
After a five-alarm fire devastated a Mount Vernon apartment building over the weekend, leaving more than 100 people homeless days before Thanksgiving, donations poured into the temporary shelter for those who lost everything.
—Vanessa Murdock, CBS News, 24 Nov. 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 29 Nov. 2025.
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