Sentence examples for apartment compound from inspiring English sources

"Snapshots" is too active a word for Chaudhuri's portraits of life in his family's middle-class apartment compound.

I live in an apartment compound near the financial district which has a mix of local Shanghainese families, non-Shanghainese working professionals and expats.

He spends most of his time at his studio, in a drab apartment compound near the Beijing Film Academy, where he once studied.

I had fun with Bouchara, sometimes joining her and other girls in peeling grasshoppers from the stucco walls of my apartment compound and throwing them down dresses with the glee of a grade-schooler.

During a briefing Tuesday on the plenum, a senior Communist Party academic told a mournful anecdote about his daughter's loneliness growing up as an only child in a Beijing apartment compound with few other children.

In fortress Kabul, Soviet civilian advisers shuttled among ministries and apartment compounds deep in the center of the ringed defenses, secure from kidnapping.

In addition to some 2,000 single-story apartment compounds, the ruined city contains great plazas, temples, a canalized river, and palaces of nobles and priests.

But some fellow expatriates told her not to consider lane houses, saying they were not as safe as the gated apartment compounds favored by many foreigners.

Work in the 1990s focused on the city's subterranean tunnels and on the apartment compounds, which were found to be decorated with vividly painted murals.

As an attempt to bring avant-garde ideas to high-rise housing, the development is impressive, but at another level it's not unlike the gated apartment compounds that now fill much of Beijing's rapidly developing outskirts.

Those who applied for permission to protest were persuaded by police to change their minds, sometimes menacingly.But residents of middle-class apartment compounds with odd-sounding names such as Berlin Symphony, Apple Pie and New Sky Universe were quick to test the post-Olympic waters.