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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Fire crews battled a blaze overnight Friday at a northeast Minneapolis apartment building.
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 8 May 2026
In more of a symbolic blow due to the fact there were no casualties, a drone hit a high-rise apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of western central Moscow on Monday.
—Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
The city is currently considering a proposal from a local developer to turn a long-vacant downtown property at Illinois Street and Route 31 into a 12-unit apartment building with a parking garage.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 May 2026
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 8 May 2026
In more of a symbolic blow due to the fact there were no casualties, a drone hit a high-rise apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of western central Moscow on Monday.
—Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
The city is currently considering a proposal from a local developer to turn a long-vacant downtown property at Illinois Street and Route 31 into a 12-unit apartment building with a parking garage.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 May 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 12 May. 2026.
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