apartment house

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment house
Noun
  • The largest outbreak in New York City’s history happened in 2015, when outbreaks of legionella in multiple apartment buildings in the Bronx infected a total of 138 people, killing 16, according to a case study from the National Institutes of Health.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • For people living in tall apartment buildings, that can mean no water supply at all.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 31 July 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 house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20house. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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