apartment building
noun
: a building containing separate residential apartments
called also apartment house
Examples of apartment building in a Sentence
We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
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According to court documents cited in the release and as admitted in Nash’s guilty plea, the harrowing incident unfolded as Christina Yuna Lee, 35, entered her apartment building near Grand Street and Chrystie Street around 4:20 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2022.
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Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
In 1996, Wharton was raped at gunpoint outside her apartment building in Baltimore.
—Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
Some of that fire still glows in the Morningside, the decrepit, historic luxury apartment building where Sil and her mother join her great-aunt, Ena, who is the super there.
—Sarah Chihaya, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
On Tuesday, Justin Stein, a leader with KC Tenants, said that even before the fire, residents in the apartment building have continued to suffer in the summer heat, despite a court ordering new management for the building.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
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Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
In 1996, Wharton was raped at gunpoint outside her apartment building in Baltimore.
—Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
Some of that fire still glows in the Morningside, the decrepit, historic luxury apartment building where Sil and her mother join her great-aunt, Ena, who is the super there.
—Sarah Chihaya, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
On Tuesday, Justin Stein, a leader with KC Tenants, said that even before the fire, residents in the apartment building have continued to suffer in the summer heat, despite a court ordering new management for the building.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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