apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building One part of his apartment building was almost entirely blown off, leaving walls gaping. Regina Garcia Cano, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2026 The fire broke out at an apartment building under construction. Jason Volack, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2026 Upon arrival, crews found smoke coming from the eaves of a two-story, eight-unit apartment building, the news release said. Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026 Their apartment building was in foreclosure; heat and hot water had become spotty, and someone was hanging up posters in the hallways threatening to bring in ICE. Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 2 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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Noun
  • Investigators said Kaylee Goncalves, 21, was fatally stabbed on the third floor of the apartment house in the same room with another victim, Madison Mogen, 21.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025

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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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