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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The film also birthed one of the best horror heroines in the genre's history in the form of Angela (Manuela Velasco), a TV reporter on a seemingly ordinary assignment following a group of firefighters on a night call at a Barcelona apartment building.
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
The project includes a seven-story, 505-unit market-rate apartment building, a five-story, 132-unit, 100% affordable apartment building and 100 for-sale townhouse units configured in 14 three-story buildings.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Worrell said his office’s research has concluded that less than 30% of the city’s housing inventory consists of apartment buildings with 30 units or more.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
California also passed legislation this month permitting apartment buildings near major rail and bus stations around the state.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
The project includes a seven-story, 505-unit market-rate apartment building, a five-story, 132-unit, 100% affordable apartment building and 100 for-sale townhouse units configured in 14 three-story buildings.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Worrell said his office’s research has concluded that less than 30% of the city’s housing inventory consists of apartment buildings with 30 units or more.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
California also passed legislation this month permitting apartment buildings near major rail and bus stations around the state.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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