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
  • This rural, undeveloped area is home to the Hana Highway and the towns of Pa'ia and Hana.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Much of the Cuyahoga River through the park is undeveloped.
    John Pana, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The undeveloped and overgrown site also is very close to New Haven.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2024
  • More is at stake than just the sale of prime undeveloped real estate.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Curtis says the land will remain undeveloped and will serve as a nature path connecting the area to the town park.
    Bill McHugh, NOLA.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Guinea is home to Simandou, the world’s largest undeveloped iron-ore deposit.
    Ougna Camara, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The undeveloped coastline north of the town provides miles of peaceful sand to explore.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2025
  • 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 sinkhole – estimated to be 50 feet deep and close to the size of a football field – took place on an undeveloped patch of land within the zoo.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 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
  • Biden also prevented roads from being built through the Tongass National Forest, a huge swath of undeveloped land in Alaska.
    Miyo McGinn, Outside Online, 22 Jan. 2025

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