How to Use apartment building in a Sentence

apartment building

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  • 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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