How to Use apartment building in a Sentence

apartment building

noun
  • We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
  • In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The blood-red color of the apartment building was from the light cast by the fire trucks.
    Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Henadii Sydorenko sat on the porch of his apartment building for a break.
    Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The mural is on the side of an apartment building on Colter Street west of 16th Street.
    Jeremy Duda, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Teenagers pass the time scrolling on their phones on an apartment building’s stoop.
    Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Due to Sorokin's house arrest, the event was held on the rooftop of her apartment building.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • Williams was found on the ground near an apartment building.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 July 2022
  • The apartment building would be on the most southern portion of the project site.
    Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2022
  • The sound echoed off the glass front of the apartment building across the street and got louder as more people showed up.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Here is a list of some of the apartment buildings with the most vacancies.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The location is a large apartment building with a day care on the first floor.
    Ali Bauman, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Wells agreed but wanted Delancey to see the view from the rooftop of his apartment building.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Harley did not open the door, instead going around the side of the apartment building to see who was there.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • She was then taken to and left in the lobby of her apartment building.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • With videos and photos from the scene, the site said Heche first crashed into a garage of an apartment building.
    cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Turns out it’s because the Huey House is not an apartment building.
    Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 4 July 2022
  • They'd been cooped up in their houses and apartment buildings for weeks.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Roth takes the same image every day in the hallway of his apartment building.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The crash also set off a fire in a nine story apartment building.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The plaintiff says she was then taken home and left in the lobby of her apartment building.
    Liam Quinn, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Construction of the first apartment building could start in 2025.
    Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Look for tiny red signs outside the apartment building.
    Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
  • From the outside, the restaurant looks like an extension of the apartment building above it.
    Linnea Covington, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Police set up black screens around the fire-scarred apartment building where the woman and her daughter were killed.
    Ahmad Seir and Aleksandar Furtula The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The apartment building where the film was shot contributes much of the film’s atmosphere.
    The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Bolton drove to a two-story apartment building, where a woman had said her son stole her car.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Siguta came to the courtyard of the family’s apartment building to meet with Natalia.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The raids continued at an apartment building on Creston Ave.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Olympia’s team discovers that the truck ended up at an apartment building where Sam’s former co-worker Irv (Ron Rogge) lives.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025

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