apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building Missiles have killed dozens of Ukrainians, including more than 20 people recently in an apartment building in Pryluky. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026 Chicago firefighters battled a big fire at a four-story apartment building on the North Side Tuesday night. — Cbs Chicago Team, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Russian strikes across Ukraine caused injuries and deaths overnight Monday and into Tuesday, with Zelenskyy saying that in addition to the four deaths in the apartment building in Kharkiv, 41 people were wounded in the city in one evening alone. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 The owners of the property have filed early paperwork to level the structure and replace it with an eight-story apartment building. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment building
  1. apartment house
  2. tenement house
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  • The heavy equipment was then set to take off the front of the apartment house where the fire began, because investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire and needed access to find out.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, one such residence occupies a stately 1920s apartment house designed by renowned architect Rosario Candela.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Definition of apartment house
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  • 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
Definition of tenement house

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