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 aerospace giant will first tear down the decades-old OBB Building there; plans show it will be replaced with the multistory office building.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2024
  • Only 43% of all multistory homes have both a bedroom and a full bathroom on the first floor, per U.S. Census Bureau data.
    Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • 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 downtown operation was a multistory complex of more than 50 buildings, one of which spanned a city street.
    Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • Chanel recently opened a multistory emporium on Rodeo Drive, its largest store in the United States.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But in a matter of minutes on Saturday, the sprawling, multistory mall instead became a site of panic, chaos and terror.
    Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The child and her father are among the handful of people whose bodies are still under the rubble of a multistory apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was razed in Friday’s air strike.
    Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Advertisement In one video obtained by AP, three soldiers can be seen picking up what appears to be a stiff body and then dragging it toward the edge of a multistory roof as troops stand on the ground below.
    Julia Frankel and Majdi Mohammed, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • One of these is a multistory school that Abu Issa, her two young children and her extended family — 20 people total — now call home.
    Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • The Norwegian Escape offers several restaurants and lounges on board as well as Broadway shows, five multistory waterslides, and the largest ropes course at sea.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The researchers say that the discovery could enable food to be grown hydroponically in multistory buildings rather than fields.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 25 Oct. 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

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