How to Use multistory in a Sentence

multistory

adjective
  • The new airstrikes, which hit Gaza overnight Monday and again in the evening, hollowed out one floor of a multistory concrete building and killed five people.
    Fox News, 18 May 2021
  • Two of the strikes hit near a preschool and a multistory residential building.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Chen is now planning to open another multistory food hall at the Louvre in Paris.
    Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The scars left behind were shocking, with great gashes sliced through multistory complexes along the main street.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Rather than acres of asphalt for parking, there are multistory parking lots.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Its multistory turret includes three round rooms: a family room on the main level, her daughter's bedroom on the second floor, and her home office on the third floor.
    Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In their place, Selfridge built a multistory palace that was designed expressly to house the world’s best department store.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The second jolt caused a multistory apartment building in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa to topple onto the street in a cloud of dust as bystanders screamed, according to video of the scene.
    Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • In a daily update on his Facebook page, Governor Josh Green said the number is holding steady even as searchers scour multistory buildings.
    Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The second jolt in the afternoon caused a multistory apartment building to topple face-forward onto the street in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa.
    Suzan Fraser, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The remains of a line of multistory buildings along the southern edge of the town were completely unrecognizable on Monday morning.
    Yutao Chen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Vehicles extracted from the building lined the street after a multistory parking garage in New York City collapsed on Tuesday.
    Heavier Vehicles, Curbed, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The complex has four new, multistory apartment buildings.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Two other multistory office buildings, Hunt Tower and Northgate Plaza, had previously been built in the area.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Many buildings remained intact, some of them old and weather-worn; others modern, multistory concrete-and-glass structures.
    Siyi Zhao Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Highlights include a theater, multistory apartment buildings, and a bathhouse, and a latrine.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Each version begins at or near the same event, one that’s unusually violent for a Kore-eda film: the arson of a multistory commercial building in a small lakefront city in the mountains of central Japan.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In 2016, warehouse industry giant Prologis built a multistory warehouse in Seattle, a first for the US.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Our next stop was the Alpbach Valley, an area known for its traditional multistory wooden farmhouses.
    Thomas Rogers, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The location had earlier been considered for a multistory apartment complex, but that idea was withdrawn.
    Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • Ukraine’s interior minister and at least 17 others were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a multistory apartment building just east of Kyiv, according to police.
    Volodymyr Verbyany, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Evanston Fire Chief Paul Polep said drills reinforce skills necessary to conduct fire suppression in multistory structures.
    Brian L. Cox, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • For premiere days, fans often hire marching bands to play outside theaters and create towering multistory wooden structures in the likeness of their favorite stars, and then smother the structures in flower garlands and confetti.
    Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • An immersive, multistory theatrical experience was named after her and ran in Los Angeles for a whopping nine years.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • Windfall Light Living here before multistory buildings made taller by elevators must have been a perpetual light show.
    Christine Rosen, National Review, 28 Sep. 2023
  • With every toppling of a building, every pancaking of a multistory structure, every roof suddenly tipped diagonally, sheets of icy snow crashed onto the ground below.
    Zeynep Karatas, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Inside, classrooms are stacked in a multistory configuration around a sunlit atrium.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But Israel has not provided accounting for targeting in individual strikes, some of which have leveled entire city blocks and complexes of dozens of multistory apartment towers.
    Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Zaporizhzhia regional governor, Oleksandr Starukh, who provided the casualty figure, said more than 20 people were rescued from the multistory apartment buildings.
    Adam Schreck, ajc, 6 Oct. 2022
  • New offices, a handful of retailers and a recreation facility have come on line along with several multistory residential buildings, many of them emblematic of how surrounding neighborhoods are changing.
    Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023

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