tower block
[ tou-er ]
nounChiefly British.
a high-rise building.
Origin of tower block
1First recorded in 1965–70
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How to use tower block in a sentence
I have to climb my tower block by stairs, my refrigerator has turned off, I cannot take online classes, cannot study, no water, no electricity and no gas at home.
Will China’s Energy Crisis Make It More Reluctant to Fight Climate Change? | Charlie Campbell / Shanghai | September 30, 2021 | TimeEach year, China builds about 15 million new homes—over five times those in America and Europe combined—yet a quarter of the current stock already lies empty, with forests of unoccupied tower blocks ringing many second and third-tier cities.
Why the Fate of Troubled Property Developer Evergrande Group Is Posing a Huge Headache for China | Charlie Campbell /Shanghai | September 17, 2021 | TimeToday, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact.
Elsewhere, a railway on stilts circles a group of multicolored tower blocks.
AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities | Will Heaven | September 22, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
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