How to Use apartment building in a Sentence

apartment building

noun
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  • We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Construction of the first apartment building could start in 2025.
    — Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 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 person was in the back parking lot of an apartment building, according to a news release.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The final death toll in a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro reached at least 44 people.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Many of the new units are in apartment buildings and condo complexes.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The restaurant is located on the ground floor of The Frederic apartment building.
    — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The county has made one big purchase so far, buying a 63-unit apartment building, the mayor said.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The fire was reported after 6 p.m. Tuesday, when crews found the apartment buildings burning, the city said in the news release.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Prosecutors said Harley did not open the door, but instead approached from the side of the apartment building to check who was there.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The project will also have park space for civic events and concerts, along with a seven-story apartment building.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Most units in her apartment building have kitchen bathtubs, a relic of the tenement era.
    — Jess Eng, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The wounded deputy and two other deputies were trapped on the second-floor balcony of the apartment building while the suspect was still inside the home and firing a gun.
    — oregonlive, 26 July 2023
  • The young girl walked out of sight for a moment toward the parking lot behind an apartment building and never came back.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Eaton lives in an apartment building in front of the spot where the shooting happened Saturday, police said.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Police said that the victim then entered an apartment building, and that the suspect fired at least one shot from outside the apartment.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In addition to the vehicles, the fire destroyed the carport and caused minor damage to the front of a nearby apartment building.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Upon arrival, officers discovered a 38-year-old man with stab wounds to the chest, lying in the hallway of the first floor of the apartment building.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Moore said Wyoming police are very familiar with the apartment building.
    — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Aya was found in the rubble of a five-story apartment building where her parents lived prior to the quake leveled the building, the AP reported.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Google maps The highway patrolman and the man shot are both residents of the apartment building on Crawford Street, police have said.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The apartment building was searched but he was not found, the chief said in a briefing early Saturday, and police continued to look for him.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The shooting happened June 19, and the two teenagers were found in a breezeway at the apartment building with gunshot wounds to their chests, according to a police report.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 25 Jan. 2023

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