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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Surveillance footage appeared to show the colonel being ambushed outside an apartment building while walking toward a vehicle.
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Ronn Blitzer , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
Along with the stylish modern townhomes, it is now packed with architecturally distinct apartment buildings, many built in the past five years by mortgage mogul Dan Gilbert's Bedrock real estate firm.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 11 July 2025
Built in 1997 as part of the city’s millennium commemorations, the memorial is located outside the apartment building where Cissi lived with her parents and brother.
—Dan Fellner, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
Step inside the apartment building today, and middle school nostalgia comes flooding back.
—Liliana Fannin, jsonline.com, 10 July 2025
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Ronn Blitzer , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
Along with the stylish modern townhomes, it is now packed with architecturally distinct apartment buildings, many built in the past five years by mortgage mogul Dan Gilbert's Bedrock real estate firm.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 11 July 2025
Built in 1997 as part of the city’s millennium commemorations, the memorial is located outside the apartment building where Cissi lived with her parents and brother.
—Dan Fellner, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
Step inside the apartment building today, and middle school nostalgia comes flooding back.
—Liliana Fannin, jsonline.com, 10 July 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 26 Jul. 2025.
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