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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This may sound good given Russia’s missile and drone assault on Ukrainian hospitals, apartment buildings, and other civilian sites across the country.
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Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Ukraine launched multiple drone strikes into Russia overnight Thursday, damaging several apartment buildings in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and injuring more than a dozen civilians, according to acting governor of the region, Yuri Slyusar.
—Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Since that building boom, there has been almost no new apartment building in Manhattan, and what was a tenants’ market five years ago has suddenly turned into a landlords’ market today.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
Video footage shared by Russian Telegram channels showed the moment a Ukrainian drone struck an apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, which the local governor said left at least thirteen people injured, two of them seriously.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
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Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Ukraine launched multiple drone strikes into Russia overnight Thursday, damaging several apartment buildings in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and injuring more than a dozen civilians, according to acting governor of the region, Yuri Slyusar.
—Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Since that building boom, there has been almost no new apartment building in Manhattan, and what was a tenants’ market five years ago has suddenly turned into a landlords’ market today.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
Video footage shared by Russian Telegram channels showed the moment a Ukrainian drone struck an apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, which the local governor said left at least thirteen people injured, two of them seriously.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 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 22 Aug. 2025.
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