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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The project would demolish the existing office building and replace it with a five-story condo or apartment building with 412 units and 542 parking spaces.
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The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
In Massachusetts and elsewhere, conversations about zoning cannot be detached from the fact that historically, some saw rules against apartment buildings as a way to keep their towns affluent, and mostly white.
—Jenna Russell, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Yet while this by itself would be a large residential development, the new apartment building would be just one piece of a vast mosaic that has begun to emerge at 2620 Seely Avenue in San Jose.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
According to Chicago Fire Department officials, fire crews were called to the blaze in the multi-story brick apartment building at 2744 W. Granville Ave.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
In Massachusetts and elsewhere, conversations about zoning cannot be detached from the fact that historically, some saw rules against apartment buildings as a way to keep their towns affluent, and mostly white.
—Jenna Russell, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Yet while this by itself would be a large residential development, the new apartment building would be just one piece of a vast mosaic that has begun to emerge at 2620 Seely Avenue in San Jose.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
According to Chicago Fire Department officials, fire crews were called to the blaze in the multi-story brick apartment building at 2744 W. Granville Ave.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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