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block of flats

n. A residential building consisting of apartments.

Usage examples of "block of flats".

The block of flats looked fairly new, and Kowalski thought the JoJos must have made a good thing of their station food trolley.

At Hammersmith he got out and I followed him through several streets until we reached an old-fashioned, rather dingy block of flats.

Carhow Mansions is a tall block of flats overlooking the southern edge of Helenwood Common.

A few hours later, police searching a nearby block of flats found that a lavatory was blocked up with a child’.

A few hours later, police searching a nearby block of flats found that a lavatory was blocked up with a child’s intestines.

Just an old-style block of flats on the corner of Wilmslow and Platt.

In which Morse views a luxury block of flats in central London, catching an enigmatic glimpse of one of its tenants and looking longer upon our second corpse.

The whole atmosphere of the huge block of flats, the richness and spaciousness of everything, the unfamiliar smells of good food and good tobacco, the silent and incredibly rapid lifts sliding up and down, the white-jacketed servants hurrying to and fro -- everything was intimidating.

A new block of flats was up and new thoughts and ways were on the go.

Jericho has altered little since the events described in these chapters, although the curious visitor will no longer find Canal Reach marked upon the street map, for the site of the narrow little lane in which Ms Scott and Mr Jackson met their deaths is now straddled by a new block of flats, in which Mrs Purvis (together with Graymalkin) is happily resettled, and where one of her neighbours is the polymath who once regaled Morse on the history of Jericho and who is now a mature student reading Environmental Studies at London University.

A block of flats similar to Marta's fell to its knees of its own accord, reminding him of Mickie upside down.

I couldn't wait to hear all her news, knowing that she would be impressed to learn that we now owned nine shops, a new home in Gilston Road and at any moment would be adding a block of flats to the Trumper portfolio.

As a distraction, he tries to identify the block of flats where Mary took him, but without success.