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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This same motive was given in the notes left by two of the three high school girls who died after falling from a Busan apartment building Saturday in what police suspect was a group suicide.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Kara Pod is a great fit for anyone who lives in an apartment building with questionable pipes or for those who want to reduce their environmental impact.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
Shortly afterward, an apartment building in the nearby city of Nabatieh was struck, killing one woman, wounding 11 and knocking out the building’s top floor, according to Lebanon’s state news agency.
—Ahmad Mantash, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Nathan Mensah was sitting in his living room on the 21st floor of an apartment building in Tel Aviv, Israel.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Kara Pod is a great fit for anyone who lives in an apartment building with questionable pipes or for those who want to reduce their environmental impact.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
Shortly afterward, an apartment building in the nearby city of Nabatieh was struck, killing one woman, wounding 11 and knocking out the building’s top floor, according to Lebanon’s state news agency.
—Ahmad Mantash, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Nathan Mensah was sitting in his living room on the 21st floor of an apartment building in Tel Aviv, Israel.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 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 11 Jul. 2025.
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