How to Use unbuilt in a Sentence
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The fate of about 1,000 unbuilt homes is now uncertain.
—Joshua Mitnick, latimes.com, 19 June 2017
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Even unbuilt, the project violated the spirit of his work in Vals.
—Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
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The primo location has made the area the number one spot for unbuilt ventures.
—Greg Goldin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
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The swamp remains undrained, the wall is unbuilt, there is no major infrastructure plan.
—Megan McArdle, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2017
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The Colburn expansion site, which the school bought in 2016, has been unbuilt for more than half a century, Kardan said.
—Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
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Many young skateboarders there were riding on the foundation of an unbuilt house.
—AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2022
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Over the next two years, the play’s festival stage sat unbuilt in two trailers outside Baltimore.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
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And every infill home is one that goes unbuilt on the edges, preserving rural and open spaces and prevent sprawl.
—Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 June 2018
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The unbuilt centerpiece of this trio was to have been a massive 60-story structure flanked by two smaller buildings.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2017
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The first lot on the corner remains unbuilt, the casualty of a years-long insurance dispute.
—Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
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They’re filled with bland high-rises, underused public spaces, and the circular hole in the ground that was to form the foundation of the unbuilt Chicago Spire.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
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Some 72 years later, and after more than a dozen commissions, reports and white papers on where to put it, the third runway remains unbuilt.
—The Economist, 28 June 2018
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Land was rezoned, permits were issued, buyers lined up for unbuilt condo units as fast as they could be imagined.
—al, 2 Jan. 2022
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His brilliant projects went mostly unbuilt, and the yellow press covered his messy divorce and daily exploits.
—Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
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Citizens would do well to revisit these unbuilt cities, to let their alternate histories roll around in the head.
—Darran Anderson, The Atlantic, 17 June 2018
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On the wall to my right were pictures Pedraza had drawn, projections of unbuilt buildings from his imagination.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
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The project remains unbuilt on what is one of the area’s last large undeveloped coastal properties, which reportedly is for sale.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022
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These artful mini-homes aren’t quite the same thing as the scale models architects craft to give unbuilt structures a sense of physicality.
—Liz Stinson, Curbed, 2 Apr. 2018
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But in the ghostworld of imaginary structures, every unbuilt building stands.
—Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 22 June 2017
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Car dealers mailed the Fed keys from unsold vehicles, builders sent two-by-fours from unbuilt houses and farmers drove tractors around the Fed building in Washington in protest.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
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There, the power company asked for a rate increase to cover more than $500 million in sunk costs related to the unbuilt Lee nuclear power plant.
—Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2017
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The cellscapes created by Goodsell and Olson are best guesses—like an architect’s 3-D renderings of an unbuilt house.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
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Meta has signaled a willingness to move beyond the social media space toward something unbuilt and unknown.
—Scott Nover, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2022
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Some projects got started and never finished, like a prison in Diyala province, shown above, that languishes unbuilt nearly nine years after the government spent $40 million to build it.
—Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2013
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Borisov told Putin that Russia would fulfill its commitments through 2024 and turn its focus to an unbuilt independent space station.
—Kenneth Chang, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
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Zaha Hadid drew up an unbuilt scheme to take the building down to its skeleton, add 40 floors, and (if the rendering was to be believed) somehow magically append a nonexistent park in front.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2021
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When the dust settles, this spectacular billion-dollar listing may remain unbuilt and available for a buck, white-tailed or otherwise.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
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The unbuilt paean to the college game featured a towering, flat facade, upon which video would be broadcast at a scale big enough to turn the parking lot into drive-in, according to critic Witold Rybczynski.
—Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2018
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The day before his company was taken to court, Trump appeared in Texas, spinning lies about his unbuilt border wall and his unwon Presidential campaign.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 July 2021
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As apartments went unbuilt, fed up home buyers across China refused to make further payments at hundreds of properties last year, according to one crowdsourced list.
—Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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