tower block
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tower block
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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The 33-year-old is currently living in a hotel after being evacuated from her flat, in east London, following a fatal fire in her tower block earlier this month.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Residents in a noted brutalist tower block in east London have been stranded in their homes after the 26-storey building's two lifts stopped working.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
Seventy two people died when the tower block in west London caught fire in June 2017.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Police Scotland said the decision to evacuate the tower block was taken as a precaution following the discovery of the suspect object.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
It took a clobbering in the Blitz—I wasn’t there, thank God—and the replacement buildings and the tower block are a national disgrace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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