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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Brewer allegedly shot his wife Jacklyn Berry, 47, at an apartment building on Beacon Street Sunday morning, the DA’s office said.
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Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 May 2026
Police in Winthrop, Massachusetts are investigating after a woman died following a shooting Sunday morning at an apartment building.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 24 May 2026
Suarez lived in the neighborhood, where Saint-Hilaire grew up and where the other victim who died in the crash, Jason Negron, worked for years as a doorman at a residential apartment building.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 23 May 2026
Its opening scene, which has a camera trail slowly over the exterior of a New York City apartment building, nods to Rear Window, with its wild array of sunbathing, dancing, bickering neighbors, carefree and fully exposed.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
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Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 May 2026
Police in Winthrop, Massachusetts are investigating after a woman died following a shooting Sunday morning at an apartment building.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 24 May 2026
Suarez lived in the neighborhood, where Saint-Hilaire grew up and where the other victim who died in the crash, Jason Negron, worked for years as a doorman at a residential apartment building.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 23 May 2026
Its opening scene, which has a camera trail slowly over the exterior of a New York City apartment building, nods to Rear Window, with its wild array of sunbathing, dancing, bickering neighbors, carefree and fully exposed.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 28 May. 2026.
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