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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One particularly aggressive military style raid on an apartment building in south Chicago saw dozens arrested and children separated from their parents.
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Connor Greene, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Police said Ava had stepped out of the car at some point as strong winds blew a 2-foot by 12-foot scaffolding board from a nearby apartment building that was under construction, according to the report.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Some stops along the trolley in National City and Chula Vista already have tall apartment buildings nearby or zoning that allows them, but others have almost no nearby development.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged fan outside of their Upper West Side apartment building, the Dakota.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
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Connor Greene, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Police said Ava had stepped out of the car at some point as strong winds blew a 2-foot by 12-foot scaffolding board from a nearby apartment building that was under construction, according to the report.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Some stops along the trolley in National City and Chula Vista already have tall apartment buildings nearby or zoning that allows them, but others have almost no nearby development.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged fan outside of their Upper West Side apartment building, the Dakota.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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