apartment building

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Recent Examples of apartment building The Fort Worth Fire Department is currently working a 3-alarm apartment building fire. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Aug. 2026 That March, Tahmasbi noticed strangers loitering around his apartment building. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 The suspect, who has work connections in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, was spotted two nights ago leaving his apartment building with packed bags, police said. — David K. Li, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2026 The housing there is Solis Midtown, a 328-unit apartment building on Harding Place, along with Canopy Realtor Association’s headquarters. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment building
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  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
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
Definition of tenement house

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