How to Use apartment building in a Sentence

apartment building

noun
  • We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
  • Adding live-work units to all apartment buildings.
    Joe Marusak may 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2026
  • Teenagers pass the time scrolling on their phones on an apartment building’s stoop.
    Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • The shot opens on the nighttime façade of an apartment building.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Henadii Sydorenko sat on the porch of his apartment building for a break.
    Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • They'd been cooped up in their houses and apartment buildings for weeks.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The tax wouldn’t apply to apartment buildings with more than four units.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Fire crews searched the apartment building, but found no one else inside.
    Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The blood-red color of the apartment building was from the light cast by the fire trucks.
    Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • She was then taken to and left in the lobby of her apartment building.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The crash also set off a fire in a nine story apartment building.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Here is a list of some of the apartment buildings with the most vacancies.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The location is a large apartment building with a day care on the first floor.
    Ali Bauman, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The apartment building would be on the most southern portion of the project site.
    Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2022
  • When police arrived, the men were found dead in an apartment building.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Video from the scene showed shattered glass at the entrance to an apartment building.
    Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Water pressure is so low in some cities that taps in apartment buildings run dry for hours on end.
    Leily Nikounazar Arash Khamooshi, New York Times, 26 July 2025
  • The bill would largely end no-fault evictions in apartment buildings with five or more units.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Bolton drove to a two-story apartment building, where a woman had said her son stole her car.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • An apartment building is being built where the restaurant once stood.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Smoke could also be seen coming from the apartment building.
    Christina Merino, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, that is a high rise apartment building less than a quarter mile away from a mansion near the park.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Due to Sorokin's house arrest, the event was held on the rooftop of her apartment building.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Harley did not open the door, instead going around the side of the apartment building to see who was there.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Crews searched the rest of the apartment building and did not find fires anywhere else, Nolan said.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
  • Davis said the suspects also fired at apartment buildings.
    S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Roth takes the same image every day in the hallway of his apartment building.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The suspect then got out of the car and ran into a nearby apartment building.
    Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The plaintiff says she was then taken home and left in the lobby of her apartment building.
    Liam Quinn, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025

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