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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Elizabeth was found dead inside a trash chute of her son’s apartment building in Miami Beach on Sunday, during a welfare check requested by her son-in-law.
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
But because the phones’ locations seemed to switch back and forth between the apartment building and church, that seems unlikely, experts say.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 22 July 2025
But the facility never received a permit for the renovations or changed the building’s use from an assisted and independent living home to apartment buildings, according to city officials.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
Trammell Crow Residential, the firm under contract to buy the site, has developed a host of apartment buildings along the Front Range.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 21 July 2025
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
But because the phones’ locations seemed to switch back and forth between the apartment building and church, that seems unlikely, experts say.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 22 July 2025
But the facility never received a permit for the renovations or changed the building’s use from an assisted and independent living home to apartment buildings, according to city officials.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
Trammell Crow Residential, the firm under contract to buy the site, has developed a host of apartment buildings along the Front Range.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 21 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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