apartment building

Definition of apartment buildingnext

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of apartment building The neighborhood kids on Stockton’s south side would gather for rowdy games of tackle football in front of Jamon’s apartment building, and one day Jamon saw Jonah toddling around with them, the smallest kid around. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 June 2026 Military strikes in Ukraine and Russia Meanwhile, in the war in Ukraine, Russian bombs struck an apartment building Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a 6-year-old child, authorities said. Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026 The Justice Police Department received multiple 911 calls June 11 near Muellman’s apartment building, according to Fred Schuerg, deputy police chief. Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026 An apartment building damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, on Thursday. Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment building
Noun
  • The heavy equipment was then set to take off the front of the apartment house where the fire began, because investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire and needed access to find out.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, one such residence occupies a stately 1920s apartment house designed by renowned architect Rosario Candela.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this early-20th-century tenement house.
    Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
  • Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
    Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

More from Merriam-Webster on apartment building

Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster