How to Use tower block in a Sentence

tower block

noun

• In the tower blocks, restoration feels far off.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
• Black smoke poured upward, while an orange glow burned though the haze from a fire in the tower block.
  — Garrett Haake, NBC news, 19 Nov. 2025
• One of those strikes brought a multi-story tower block tumbling down.
  — CNN, 12 May 2021
• Last year, Mustafa bought an apartment on the eleventh floor of a new tower block in Antakya.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Many of the wide avenues and tower blocks of the new city on the edge of the Gobi desert are still empty.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Its skeleton and giant winch-wheel loom over a tangle of highways and communist-era tower blocks.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• At the heart of the plot lay Mranata’s creation, a brutalist tower block about seven storeys tall.
  — 1843, 22 Nov. 2019
• The tower block is home to hundreds of people who take the elevator multiple times each day.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
• Residents live in colored tower blocks, linked by walkways; also on-site is a nursery, a playground and a church.
  — Mirren Gidda, Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2016
• Today, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
• Cladding on hundreds of tower blocks across England which was tested in the aftermath of the fire failed safety tests.
  — James Masters, CNN, 17 May 2018
• In tearful tributes, families told of final phone calls with those trapped as the fire swept through and of frantic journeys to the low-income tower block in search of them.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 21 May 2018
• Manchester tower blocks and rows of houses featured, as well as buzzing bumble bees — the city’s symbol — crawling over the visuals.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
• Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Seventy-two people were killed, many of them children, in the blaze that tore up the 24-story residential tower block.
  — Hilary Clarke, CNN, 14 June 2018
• In the suburb of Wolfen Nord, boards are nailed over the windows of old factories, and communist-era tower blocks stand empty.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era, now left without power for most of the day.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
• That echoed Salesforce, which put up half of its eponymous San Francisco tower block for sublease in mid-July.
  — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
• By the 2000s, the tower blocks were infamous for deprivation, violence, and drugs.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• Tenants in tower blocks in Britain are typically advised to stay in their apartments when there is a blaze elsewhere in the building, as firefighters try to contain the flames.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• His legacy is one of huge, dispiriting tower blocks—the main focus of the book Maspero and Ms Frantz produced in 1989.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• At least seven of the eight tower blocks within the complex were affected by the blaze, forcing those who were able to escape the flames into temporary accommodation.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• The feature is a bleak exploration of the decisions made that led to a London tower block being engulfed by a fire in the summer of 2017.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2025
• The 30-something computer engineer had settled in one of Forest City's tower blocks, in a one-bedroom apartment with a sea view.
  — Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
• The former kindergarten teacher has severe rheumatoid arthritis, and has been trapped for weeks on the 19th floor of her Kyiv tower block, 650 steps from the ground.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
• Kyiv residents endure long daily blackouts as Russia devastates the power system, leaving tower block dwellers freezing in apartments with no heat or light.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026