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tower block
[ tou-er ]
noun
- a high-rise building.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tower block1
Example Sentences
In Bangkok, where soft soil made the shaking more intense, an unfinished tower block collapsed, burying many who had been working at the site.
Worapat Sukthai, deputy police chief of Bang Sue district, told the French news agency AFP that he could hear the sound of people screaming under the tower block collapse.
The external cladding was removed from five tower blocks following fire safety inspections in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb paid tribute to Prosper's family, whose noise as they were being killed alerted neighbours in their tower block in the Marsh Farm area of Luton.
The government will fund the removal but because the couple have more than three properties they too are non-qualifying leaseholders and will have to pay towards the costs of making the tower block fire-safe.
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