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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Among those who never received relief in time is José Jiménez, known to friends and family as Pepe, who federal agents arrested during the infamous overnight raid of a South Shore apartment building.
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Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
From pre-war apartment building vestibules to farmhouse bathrooms to kitchen backsplashes, penny tiles have graced spaces of all kinds since their inception in the early twentieth century.
—Heather Bien, The Spruce, 8 Mar. 2026
The apartment building would wrap around a seven-level parking structure that would begin below grade with 658 spaces and include amenities such as a leasing office, fitness center, coworking space, pet spa, outdoor gathering areas, and a rooftop pool deck.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
In Kyiv, three people were injured, and the heating was knocked out in 2,806 residential apartment buildings in four districts across the capital after Russian strikes hit an energy infrastructure facility, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
—Reuters, NBC news, 7 Mar. 2026
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Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
From pre-war apartment building vestibules to farmhouse bathrooms to kitchen backsplashes, penny tiles have graced spaces of all kinds since their inception in the early twentieth century.
—Heather Bien, The Spruce, 8 Mar. 2026
The apartment building would wrap around a seven-level parking structure that would begin below grade with 658 spaces and include amenities such as a leasing office, fitness center, coworking space, pet spa, outdoor gathering areas, and a rooftop pool deck.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
In Kyiv, three people were injured, and the heating was knocked out in 2,806 residential apartment buildings in four districts across the capital after Russian strikes hit an energy infrastructure facility, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
—Reuters, NBC news, 7 Mar. 2026
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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