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 site of what was once a public school is now an apartment building with affordable housing for seniors.
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Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2025
The equipment was put to use in an overnight raid in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, when agents clad in tactical gear rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter and burst through the windows of an apartment building to pull families from their homes.
—Andy Rose 19 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
The University of Massachusetts Amherst confirmed in a statement that one building affected was an off-campus apartment building that housed hundreds of its students.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Masked men rappelling from a Black Hawk helicopter in the middle of the night onto an apartment building.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2025
The equipment was put to use in an overnight raid in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, when agents clad in tactical gear rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter and burst through the windows of an apartment building to pull families from their homes.
—Andy Rose 19 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
The University of Massachusetts Amherst confirmed in a statement that one building affected was an off-campus apartment building that housed hundreds of its students.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Masked men rappelling from a Black Hawk helicopter in the middle of the night onto an apartment building.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, Mercury News, 7 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 15 Nov. 2025.
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