How to Use apartment building in a Sentence

apartment building

noun
  • We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
  • Henadii Sydorenko sat on the porch of his apartment building for a break.
    Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Their plans called for 59 units in a four-story apartment building, as well as eight townhouse units.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
  • From the outside, the restaurant looks like an extension of the apartment building above it.
    Linnea Covington, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The gruesome discovery was made at a Queens construction site for a new apartment building.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The quake knocked down an apartment building and trapped four people inside, though they were eventually rescued.
    Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2022
  • This means that walking into the hotel’s modest entrance feels more like entering your own apartment building.
    Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The Sixers nixed plans to build a 25-story apartment building as part of their arena proposal.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The apartment building — where the band lived while trying to make a name for themselves in Boston — has become a landmark for Aerosmith fans.
    Spencer Buell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Photos of the home shared by the fire department appeared to show a three-decker apartment building with its rear second-floor porch collapsed onto the first-floor porch and a nearby fence.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Eighteen months later, her home is rebuilt, but the apartment building remains gutted and vacant with bricks and other debris falling to the pavement and alley below.
    Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The apartment building will consist of studios, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments on the 27-acre property.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But large purchases of rental homes and apartment buildings by private equity firms like KKR are another cause, research shows.
    Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Due to the players hailing from across the country (several from North Carolina), the program put them up in a luxury apartment building with chaperones.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In the 1960s, many more were razed to make way for apartment buildings.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Teenagers pass the time scrolling on their phones on an apartment building’s stoop.
    Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Due to Sorokin's house arrest, the event was held on the rooftop of her apartment building.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • The sound echoed off the glass front of the apartment building across the street and got louder as more people showed up.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Here is a list of some of the apartment buildings with the most vacancies.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The location is a large apartment building with a day care on the first floor.
    Ali Bauman, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Wells agreed but wanted Delancey to see the view from the rooftop of his apartment building.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Harley did not open the door, instead going around the side of the apartment building to see who was there.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Roth takes the same image every day in the hallway of his apartment building.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The crash also set off a fire in a nine story apartment building.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Construction of the first apartment building could start in 2025.
    Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Look for tiny red signs outside the apartment building.
    Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024
  • Police set up black screens around the fire-scarred apartment building where the woman and her daughter were killed.
    Ahmad Seir and Aleksandar Furtula The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The apartment building where the film was shot contributes much of the film’s atmosphere.
    The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • There were no witnesses to the killing and no one was seen leaving her apartment building.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
  • The person was in the back parking lot of an apartment building, according to a news release.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023

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