How to Use apartment in a Sentence

apartment

noun
  • We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house.
  • The bedroom, open to the rest of the apartment, is up a staircase.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 June 2025
  • Further, the apartment boom in San Diego may be on the wane.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The timeline lists the fall of 2026 for the hotel and apartment units to open.
    — Shonda Novak, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The three spent more time in the car with the A/C on to keep the dog from panting in thestuffy apartment.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Phoebe tries to drive Rachel out of Joey's apartment and move back in with her.
    — Eric Todisco, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The sale of the Park Avenue apartment did end up taking a while.
    — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But one apartment on the first floor has a bad odor that emanates from it.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2025
  • In the last week, Jeff helped Jac move his stuff into a new apartment.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 June 2025
  • Our apartment was once a theater of hopes and dreams, full of life and laughter.
    — Kevin Lavelle, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The third-floor unit has two bedrooms and a deck, while the fourth-floor apartment just has one bedroom.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The girl and the woman were found in a Cape Coral apartment in May 1990, officials said.
    — CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • Three other children were in the apartment at the time of the shooting — a 6-year-old girl and 6-month-old twins.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The blaze destroyed the top-floor apartment in the building, home to the Abu Raya family.
    — Fatima Shbair, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Police had to ram the apartment’s front door to open it, Contee said.
    — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • All the kids and her grandchild were living in her apartment.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The young man took Mejía’s keys and tried to use them to get into his girlfriend’s apartment.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Finding a spot out of the way, whether in your garage or in your apartment, can induce all kinds of headaches.
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But one apartment on the first floor has a bad odor that emanates from it when walking past the door.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • On the day of the shooting, records show James followed Hall and her friend to the friend’s apartment and forced his way inside.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, 13 June 2022
  • Poole was also staying at a friend’s apartment in Wilton Manors at the time.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN, 3 June 2022
  • Perec wrote about apartments too, in Species of Spaces.
    — Joanna Walsh june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
  • The building houses a Chase Bank at the bottom and apartments up top.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • Like that stunning view from the back door of my parents’ apartment.
    — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Cops were called to the second-floor apartment on E. 148th St. near Courtlandt Ave.
    — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Later, she was locked in a bedroom in their New York apartment and raped again.
    — Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Barry, the apartment appraiser, said the sticker shock might slow in the months to come.
    — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Now, her daily life is miles away from that tiny apartment.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 10 May 2022
  • Kim is up in the middle of the night barricading the apartment door in case the bad man returns.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
  • The grant announced this week would be used for the apartment construction.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 Dec. 2022

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