tower block

noun

chiefly British

: a tall building (such as a high-rise apartment building)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The original film found a gang of criminally-minded teenagers facing off against alien creatures in and around a London tower block. —

Clark Collis, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2023 The spark appeared to be a fire in a tower block in the city of Urumqi, in the northwest Xinjiang region, which killed 10 people. —

Time, 1 Dec. 2022 During an intense round of fighting with Hamas in May 2021, Israel drew global condemnation for destroying a tower block in Gaza that housed the offices of The Associated Press and other media. —

Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2022 His repertoire included the use of a monstrosity called the Helepolis (city-taker), a type of mobile tower block estimated to be between 98 and 131 feet tall, with a base of 69 feet. —

Charlotte Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022 On the ground in Ukraine, meanwhile, nine people in Mykolaiv were injured on Saturday — four of them children — following Russian strikes on a tower block there, the regional governor said. —

Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022 That echoed Salesforce, which put up half of its eponymous San Francisco tower block for sublease in mid-July. —

Wired, 5 Aug. 2022 The film begins with the recent arrival of nine-year old Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum) and her family to a remote, East Oslo tower block, encircled by the dense wood that will serve as her playground. —

Erik Morse, Vogue, 9 May 2022 Georgio Petrovic, 21, was born a year after the bombing and lives in the same imposing, angular tower block. —

Marc Santora, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022 See More

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