How to Use unbuilt in a Sentence

unbuilt

adjective

• The fate of about 1,000 unbuilt homes is now uncertain.
  — Joshua Mitnick, latimes.com, 19 June 2017
• Even unbuilt, the project violated the spirit of his work in Vals.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• The primo location has made the area the number one spot for unbuilt ventures.
  — Greg Goldin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• The swamp remains undrained, the wall is unbuilt, there is no major infrastructure plan.
  — Megan McArdle, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Many young skateboarders there were riding on the foundation of an unbuilt house.
  — AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Over the next two years, the play’s festival stage sat unbuilt in two trailers outside Baltimore.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• The first lot on the corner remains unbuilt, the casualty of a years-long insurance dispute.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Land was rezoned, permits were issued, buyers lined up for unbuilt condo units as fast as they could be imagined.
  — al, 2 Jan. 2022
• His brilliant projects went mostly unbuilt, and the yellow press covered his messy divorce and daily exploits.
  — Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But in the ghostworld of imaginary structures, every unbuilt building stands.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 22 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Meta has signaled a willingness to move beyond the social media space toward something unbuilt and unknown.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024