apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building State records show the developer plans to build a 308-unit apartment building with retail space. Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026 Denise worked as a resident manager in the apartment building where the couple lived on the third floor. Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026 Nataliia, who was seventy-three, lived on the seventh floor of a blocky Soviet-era apartment building on Kyiv’s Left Bank, not far from a power station. Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Ten days before Hughes was killed, 32-year-old Robert Dailey, a Richmond resident, was gunned down outside a 35th Avenue apartment building after returning from another homicide victim’s candlelight vigil in West Contra Costa. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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Noun
  • Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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 4 May. 2026.

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