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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Roth takes the same image every day in the hallway of his apartment building.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were no witnesses to the killing and no one was seen leaving her apartment building.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
  • The person was in the back parking lot of an apartment building, according to a news release.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The shooting took place two and a half blocks from Galloway’s apartment building, where news of her death stunned tenants.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
  • The final death toll in a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro reached at least 44 people.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Many of the new units are in apartment buildings and condo complexes.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The restaurant is located on the ground floor of The Frederic apartment building.
    Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The county has made one big purchase so far, buying a 63-unit apartment building, the mayor said.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • His name surfaced when police searched the apartment building, records show.
    Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The fire was reported after 6 p.m. Tuesday, when crews found the apartment buildings burning, the city said in the news release.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Prosecutors said Harley did not open the door, but instead approached from the side of the apartment building to check who was there.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The project will also have park space for civic events and concerts, along with a seven-story apartment building.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Most units in her apartment building have kitchen bathtubs, a relic of the tenement era.
    Jess Eng, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The wounded deputy and two other deputies were trapped on the second-floor balcony of the apartment building while the suspect was still inside the home and firing a gun.
    oregonlive, 26 July 2023
  • The young girl walked out of sight for a moment toward the parking lot behind an apartment building and never came back.
    Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • One missile struck an apartment building next to a hospital in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 July 2024
  • The shooter paused for a second, as if to make sure Hughes was dead, then limped off east into the darkness between apartment buildings.
    Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

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