How to Use in development in a Sentence

in development

idiom
  • The small space was one of the first to open last fall in the mall that has been in development for nearly a decade.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 28 June 2024
  • So The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been in development for quite a while.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • That’s largely because of the boom in development since the levees were built in the 1960s.
    Luke Ranker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The podcast has been in development for more than a year.
    Peter White, Deadline, 3 July 2024
  • That project spent 10 years in development hell without a movie to show for it.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 July 2024
  • The project has been in development at Amazon for pretty much the whole year.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
  • There are so many new cities in development around the world, all with their own agendas.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • But now, The Lowlands Group has confirmed that the project is no longer in development.
    Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The show had been in development for a number of months before it was dropped, sources said.
    Will Steakin, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The project was in development for years, with Spears sitting in on one of the early workshops.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • At the outset of the pandemic, she was hired to write a screenplay about the late singer Janis Joplin, a project that’s in development.
    Kturnqui, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In the grand scheme of things, the amount of stories about things in development that actually achieve fruition is very slim.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
  • At present, no other spacecraft bound for the Kuiper Belt is in development.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
  • It’s been in development for a while, but there’s no release window just yet–but one to add to your wishlist.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Because there’s a lot more that’s in development and coming in.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Wi-Fi 7 has been announced, but the standard is still in development.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 9 July 2023
  • Also getting the pass are two projects that had been in development — Split and Sweetness.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
  • Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley wrote the script for the project, which is described as being in development.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
  • The Cocoa Press has been in development for an entire decade.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Of the 23 films, six are in development, 14 are in production and three are in post-production.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Then again, six of those are still in development, drafted in 2020 or later.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
  • Alicia Vikander took the reins from Jolie in 2018's reboot of the film series — a sequel to which has long been in development.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
  • At the time, SpaceX's suit for spacewalking was still in development; SpaceX unveiled it just this month.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • Azaz now has 30 D-FW stores either open or in development.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The project is still in development and does not have any dates set for production yet, according to the network.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But his conflicting tour and script revisions now have the project back in development — without a star on the books.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Exactly how West End homeowners can go about seeking this loan is still in development, as are the terms of the loan.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2023
  • Garrett also sensed the duo grew impatient during the two years the show was in development.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Braun has about a dozen film and TV projects that have been announced in development, mostly at Netflix and Amazon.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The nuclear thermal propulsion engines in development by these groups will need to comply with specific performance and safety standards.
    Dan Kotlyar, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'in development.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: