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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Interest in the use of both for apartment buildings has been steadily growing in California over the last decade.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
Tenants of a low-income senior apartment building reported dangerous activities and a lack of security.
—Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Miami’s South Beach, Florida South Beach, Miami, is the perfect place to admire Art Deco architecture—its blue, pink, and purple pastel apartment buildings and hotels could be the settings of a Wes Anderson film.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 15 Feb. 2026
The company wants to build a one-story, 13,000-square-foot retail building and two five-story apartment buildings between 112,000 square feet and 120,000 square feet.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
Tenants of a low-income senior apartment building reported dangerous activities and a lack of security.
—Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Miami’s South Beach, Florida South Beach, Miami, is the perfect place to admire Art Deco architecture—its blue, pink, and purple pastel apartment buildings and hotels could be the settings of a Wes Anderson film.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 15 Feb. 2026
The company wants to build a one-story, 13,000-square-foot retail building and two five-story apartment buildings between 112,000 square feet and 120,000 square feet.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 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 19 Feb. 2026.
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