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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An apartment building in downtown Berkeley has been bought by an East Bay real estate investment firm.
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George Avalos, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
The film, based on a novel by Karina Sainz Borgo, stars Natalia Reyes as a woman forced to grapple with the death of her mother against the backdrop of a crumbling city and a gang that has overtaken her apartment building.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
In May 2017, Kalbinur Sidik, a teacher now in the Netherlands, was summoned to her district government office in a yellow brick apartment building in Xinjiang’s capital.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
David Patrick Kelly, who plays Miller, the trash guy in the building, was showing me pictures from visiting apartment buildings in New York and having long conversations with the people who manage all of that.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
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George Avalos, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
The film, based on a novel by Karina Sainz Borgo, stars Natalia Reyes as a woman forced to grapple with the death of her mother against the backdrop of a crumbling city and a gang that has overtaken her apartment building.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
In May 2017, Kalbinur Sidik, a teacher now in the Netherlands, was summoned to her district government office in a yellow brick apartment building in Xinjiang’s capital.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
David Patrick Kelly, who plays Miller, the trash guy in the building, was showing me pictures from visiting apartment buildings in New York and having long conversations with the people who manage all of that.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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