How to Use multistory in a Sentence

multistory

adjective
  • Even the colossal multistory cruise ships are reduced to the scale of beetles.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2025
  • Rather than acres of asphalt for parking, there are multistory parking lots.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In Dnipro district, parts of a drone damaged a multistory building and a fire broke out.
    — CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Two of the strikes hit near a preschool and a multistory residential building.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The scars left behind were shocking, with great gashes sliced through multistory complexes along the main street.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Footage from the city shows many multistory buildings completely flattened and others ripped apart by blasts.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The multistory podium is the concrete-heavy structure at the base of the complex that connects all five towers.
    — Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Chen is now planning to open another multistory food hall at the Louvre in Paris.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • If the restrictions stayed in place, a multistory building surrounded by the three walls could be built, Sims said.
    — Neal Franklin, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Inside the multistory bar, there were overturned tables and drinks left behind by fleeing customers.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But the multistory building at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets was more than just a place to eat.
    — Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Television footage showed firefighters battling the flames as large plumes of black smoke billowed from the multistory building.
    — ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • Its downtown operation was a multistory complex of more than 50 buildings, one of which spanned a city street.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
  • In their place, Selfridge built a multistory palace that was designed expressly to house the world’s best department store.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The new airstrikes, which hit Gaza overnight Monday and again in the evening, hollowed out one floor of a multistory concrete building and killed five people.
    — Fox News, 18 May 2021
  • Many buildings remained intact, some of them old and weather-worn; others modern, multistory concrete-and-glass structures.
    — Siyi Zhao Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Highlights include a theater, multistory apartment buildings, and a bathhouse, and a latrine.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The location had earlier been considered for a multistory apartment complex, but that idea was withdrawn.
    — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • But in a matter of minutes on Saturday, the sprawling, multistory mall instead became a site of panic, chaos and terror.
    — Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The researchers say that the discovery could enable food to be grown hydroponically in multistory buildings rather than fields.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Ringed by mountains and a bald expanse of Arizona desert, red and yellow cranes cast spindly shadows over the cubic skeletons of what will become multistory buildings.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Floors are removed in every house — renderings show residents sitting on their laptops with the old house exteriors forming a kind of multistory lounge wall.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
  • By this week, Ecco was the only remaining tenant in what was once a bustling, multistory retail hub at Market and Fifth streets.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The quake — one of the three largest to hit the region in a century — gouged open roads, toppled century-old religious monuments and destroyed many multistory buildings.
    — Matthew Cullen, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Our next stop was the Alpbach Valley, an area known for its traditional multistory wooden farmhouses.
    — Thomas Rogers, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The remains of a line of multistory buildings along the southern edge of the town were completely unrecognizable on Monday morning.
    — Yutao Chen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The girls are grown, and Veronica, an unseen presence in the towering, multistory boarding house, is dying, upstairs and offstage.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Chanel recently opened a multistory emporium on Rodeo Drive, its largest store in the United States.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The aerospace giant will first tear down the decades-old OBB Building there; plans show it will be replaced with the multistory office building.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2024
  • One of these is a multistory school that Abu Issa, her two young children and her extended family — 20 people total — now call home.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024

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