: a tall building (such as a high-rise apartment building)
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To watch the sunrise, the inebriated couple climb to the rooftop of a high-rise tower block, where Lux falls asleep and Jessie stands too close to the edge.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2026 The kitchen-sink drama follows five working-class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who grew up together in a tower block in Birmingham and are now in their thirties, finding themselves on increasingly divergent, and for most of them increasingly constrained, paths to the future.—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026 The 39-year-old photographer from Beirut captured a stunning sequence of images in the early hours of Wednesday, showing an IDF missile demolishing a tower block in one fell swoop.—Raf Sanchez, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026 More than a hundred protestors mobilized Friday afternoon near the 2000 block of Main Street in Irvine, just steps away from a tower block where there have been reports that space has been leased for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 20 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tower block