How to Use underdeveloped in a Sentence

underdeveloped

adjective

• The baby was born with underdeveloped lungs.
• His body was still underdeveloped, though, and the Colts took him in the sixth round last year to start as a kick returner.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2022
• A couple of states in the underdeveloped north account for much of it.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• This makes the vaccine easier to be shipped to underdeveloped parts of the world.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• Since my references at the time were underdeveloped, his work stayed with me for a long time.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 16 June 2023
• Holloway opened its doors in 1852, on a ten-acre plot in an underdeveloped part of North London.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2021
• Since the discovery of oil in the North Sea in the late 1960s, Norway has gone from being one of the most underdeveloped countries in the region to one of the richest on the planet.
  — Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
• Due to malnourishment, the girl’s teeth were underdeveloped and may have appeared small and out of place for her face.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• The issue has been finding companies to take a chance at an underdeveloped part of the city that hasn’t had much success.
  — Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• If your core is underdeveloped, your body will compensate and have the lower back take on the extra work.
  — Women's Health, 11 Feb. 2023
• His lungs were underdeveloped, and his fingers were as thin as strands of spaghetti.
  — Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• The young Pirates fan was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome — which meant the left side of his heart had been underdeveloped at birth.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Not much later, things got a lot worse when the Karma, a pretty yet overhyped and underdeveloped full-size plug-in-hybrid sedan, hit the wall.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 31 July 2023
• The characters work well enough, though the plot is a little underdeveloped.
  — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2021
• Much to her credit, Conis does not end her book with some pat lesson or underdeveloped call to arms.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
• My profile revealed an underdeveloped upper jaw and a flat face to match my long, flat head.
  — Ariel Henley, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
• That could be possible if the team finds a way to fund a new home on an underdeveloped, 62-acre site near the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Clark Street.
  — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• At least two pumpkin-toadlet species have inner-ear structures so underdeveloped that the frogs are deaf to their own mating calls.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Prey doesn’t reinvent the franchise as much as show how underdeveloped and under-utilized it’s been all these years.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2022
• The street was an underdeveloped photograph, the colours leached.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
• As a soon-to-be 25-year-old with an underdeveloped skill set as a pass rusher, Young had to do something special to grab teams' attention.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Sweetie is a 6-year-old Siamese, born with underdeveloped eyes.
  — cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
• The effort is there as a blocker, but the functional strength is underdeveloped.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• That death toll may rise as rescuers work to reach remote villages in one of the country's most underdeveloped regions.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2022
• Landon's condition means the left side of his heart was underdeveloped at birth.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
• Its findings confirmed the site met the criteria of blighted and underdeveloped, as outlined by the state of Illinois.
  — Gregory Harutunian, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2021
• In an underdeveloped country with lots of labor, that’s a straightforward way to boost GDP.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• Because Alaska is so isolated from the rest of the nation, Lujan believes there is a lot of underdeveloped talent that dwells in the 49th state each year.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2023
• With its return, Elite brings the kinds of chaos that can only be caused by underdeveloped brains with overdeveloped wallets.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• Passages that should be romantic are composed to be matter-of-fact, and on the whole, Ricki’s voice feels underdeveloped.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024