How to Use undeveloped in a Sentence

undeveloped

adjective
  • The tract of land is the largest that is undeveloped near the train station.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2024
  • The site is one of the last undeveloped areas left along the lagoon.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The park is in the middle of a wide swath of undeveloped woodland and its woods are full of birds.
    Bonnie Gross, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The land is the largest chunk of undeveloped land owned by Broward County.
    Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2021
  • Maybe that was why there was so much of it undeveloped right here in the center of town.
    Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Jose Vasquez shows the undeveloped corn grown near his home.
    NBC News, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The land being added to the park was one of the largest undeveloped tracts near Birmingham along U.S. 280.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But the study said the bulk of the floodwaters would have come even had the watershed been undeveloped.
    Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • The ranch has thousands of undeveloped acreage to the south and west, while housing developments sit to the north and east.
    Brianna Griff, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The site will be located on undeveloped land at Glaze and Quinn roads west of Athens.
    Tribune News Service, al, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The undeveloped and overgrown site also is very close to New Haven.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2024
  • The neighborhood was largely undeveloped at the time after years of use by the U.S. Navy for building weapons and ships.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The agreement required the company to sell the remaining undeveloped land to the town.
    David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The first use for these organoids could be for a rare condition in which babies are born with undeveloped lungs.
    Paolo De Coppi, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Most of Noblesville’s undeveloped land is on the east side in Wayne Township, nearly 35 square miles.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2022
  • At the private beach, there has been a conscious effort to keep things undeveloped.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Smith said Pala will keep the 720-acre site as an undeveloped nature preserve.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • All undeveloped Arctic oil and gas resources would need to be left untouched, the study states.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The project is the latest boost for Otay Mesa, which has more acreage of undeveloped industrial land than anywhere else in the city of San Diego.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • Critics say the project threatens salmon habitat and the wilderness character of an undeveloped part of the state.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • The project remains unbuilt on one of the area’s last large undeveloped coastal properties.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • At the time of the transfer, the parkland was undeveloped and marked by piles of debris from ongoing street paving efforts.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Newport Beach, which like many O.C. cities has little undeveloped land, must find room for more than 4,800 new homes.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The properties are the largest undeveloped portion of the Mountain Creek development which dates back to the 1980s.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • There was a part of the basement that was really undeveloped.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The Willow project would be constructed on the nation’s largest swath of undeveloped land, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, trailheads circle the outskirts of the city, marking the entrance to the undeveloped red-rock landscape.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The island remained mostly undeveloped for decades as investors sold and resold the land.
    Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
  • Photo : Shutterbug Studios / Compass A second fire pit in a undeveloped area of the ranch.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2024
  • As planning moves forward for construction on new single-family homes in the undeveloped foothills of East Orange, what can the city do to address concerns of wildfire, rising home insurance costs and loss of open space?
    Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024

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