How to Use unmapped in a Sentence
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As late as the 1970s parts of the Western Desert were still unsurveyed and unmapped.
— Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Sep. 2014 -
No one knows where the world’s deepest cave is, and vast expanses of the ocean floor remain unmapped.
— Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017 -
Along with the agility and feedback of a sports car, this Lambo can tow heavy loads and tackle unmapped roads.
— Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Exploring the 80-plus percent of the ocean that remains unmapped?
— Vulture, 27 July 2022 -
The fault that shook tens of thousands of people was on an unknown, unmapped fault 9 miles beneath the earth’s surface.
— Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019 -
More than 80 percent of the ocean is unmapped and unexplored, which leaves open the question of how many species there are yet to be discovered.
— Paul Chesley, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019 -
But the process is expensive and time consuming, leaving as much as 80% of Earth's seafloor unmapped.
— Brad Lendon, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021 -
But there was still data scattered in the wind, untagged, unmapped, untracked.
— Will Evans, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021 -
The chase leads into an unmapped sector of space ruled by a powerful force calling themselves the Metrons.
— Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Three of the six men, including Worsley, hiked across unmapped mountains and glaciers to reach a small settlement.
— Daniella McCahey, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023 -
Recent heavy rainfall and floods in the region have exposed land mines, which are largely unmapped and remain a threat to civilians.
— Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019 -
An unmapped road led to an extraordinary place where scant few go.
— Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023 -
Reporter Peter Fimrite explains why the fault was unmapped and what’s changed in earthquake safety since 1989.
— Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019 -
The unmapped ones are left to flood, with little warning or remedy for homeowners.
— Lisa Song, ProPublica, 30 June 2020 -
Exploring unmapped territory on the moon could soon be as easy as slipping on a backpack.
— Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022 -
The archaeologists chop through the palm trees in the interior of the peninsula, frequently getting lost in the unmapped heart of the jungle.
— Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022 -
This study could provide the first in a series of data points needed to understand the extent of tsunami risk along East Africa's vast coastline of unmapped seafloors and buried sand layers.
— Christian Fogerty, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020 -
Even if the seamount’s origin remains something of a mystery, the discovery shows how the oceans’ abyssal plains, largely unmapped, are fertile places for discovery, Soule adds.
— Akila Raghavan, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021 -
Beatrice Blackwood, the single-minded eldest child of a widow, traveled into the unmapped jungles of New Guinea.
— Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 18 June 2021 -
Then, suddenly, an unmapped stream flowing with cool water.
— Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 5 Sep. 2019 -
Scattered between the novels are short stories that fill out Le Guin’s archipelagic world like small, previously unmapped islands.
— Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018 -
For example, Bradford has more than 50 sewer overflows and many more frequently unmapped drains from roads and factories.
— David N Lerner, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019 -
The northwest corner of the continent represented one of the last unexplored and unmapped regions on the planet—along with interior Africa, Australia, and both poles.
— Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Large parts of the globe remain digitally unmapped; in India, only 21 percent of the road network exists in digital format.
— WIRED, 21 Jan. 2023 -
The challenge for the Israeli military will be doing this while avoiding fighting inside Hamas’s warren of unmapped, dark, and claustrophobic tunnels.
— Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023 -
The doc would benefit from more such moments, which use images to move beyond the intellectual and embrace an unmapped emotional terrain.
— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023 -
However, the wealth never reached the Angolan people, who during and after the civil war were at risk from large areas of unmapped minefields and had little access to basic amenities, such as running water or roads.
— Barry Hatton, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022 -
The figures in the story have emerged in recent months and inhabit an unmapped but potentially vast new territory in the investigation.
— Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 21 May 2018 -
And given that 95 percent remains unmapped, the marine realm is our generation's great unexplored frontier.
— Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2010 -
Engineers and managers had to scramble over unmapped terrain and solve unprecedented problems.
— Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2020
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