How to Use tower block in a Sentence

tower block

noun
  • In the tower blocks, restoration feels far off.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • To watch the sunrise, the inebriated couple climb to the rooftop of a high-rise tower block, where Lux falls asleep and Jessie stands too close to the edge.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 May 2026
  • Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era, now left without power for most of the day.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
  • At least seven of the eight tower blocks within the complex were affected by the blaze, forcing those who were able to escape the flames into temporary accommodation.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The former kindergarten teacher has severe rheumatoid arthritis, and has been trapped for weeks on the 19th floor of her Kyiv tower block, 650 steps from the ground.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Kyiv residents endure long daily blackouts as Russia devastates the power system, leaving tower block dwellers freezing in apartments with no heat or light.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Some of his previous pictures have been published by major news outlets across the globe, including similar images of an Israeli strike on a tower block in Beirut’s southern Shiyah suburb.
    — Max Butterworth, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Firefighters had arrived on the scene, but the fire had already spread to other tower blocks, which were all under renovation and covered in bamboo scaffolding, a traditional construction material.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The 39-year-old photographer from Beirut captured a stunning sequence of images in the early hours of Wednesday, showing an Israeli missile demolishing a tower block in one fell swoop.
    — Max Butterworth, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The 39-year-old photographer from Beirut captured a stunning sequence of images in the early hours of Wednesday, showing an IDF missile demolishing a tower block in one fell swoop.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The kitchen-sink drama follows five working-class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who grew up together in a tower block in Birmingham and are now in their thirties, finding themselves on increasingly divergent, and for most of them increasingly constrained, paths to the future.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The blaze started at Wang Cheong House, a 32-story residential building and one of eight tower blocks that make up the Wang Fuk Court complex, which was undergoing renovations, Derek Armstrong Chan, the fire department’s deputy director of operations, said.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Rakesh Pai, 47, Aditi Paralkar, 46, and their 9-year-old son Sid, died after falling from their 36th-floor apartment in the Highpoint tower block in Elephant and Castle, south London, on May 27, according to the BBC, The Telegraph and The Tribune.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026

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