apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building The second phase envisions the development of a five-story, 45-unit apartment building on a section of the site that’s behind the existing hotel, according to city documents. George Avalos, Mercury News, 18 May 2026 Colicchio grew up in a four-family redbrick apartment building in Elizabeth; his grandfather lived in the apartment behind theirs. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026 Russia did not immediately comment on the strike on the apartment building. Reuters, NBC news, 15 May 2026 One attack destroyed the entire clock of an apartment building in the capital. Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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Noun
  • Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Investigators said Kaylee Goncalves, 21, was fatally stabbed on the third floor of the apartment house in the same room with another victim, Madison Mogen, 21.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The chef’s table inside the kitchen proves the best seat in this early-20th-century tenement house.
    Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
  • Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
    Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025

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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20building. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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