How to Use undeveloped in a Sentence

undeveloped

adjective
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The properties are the largest undeveloped portion of the Mountain Creek development which dates back to the 1980s.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Aside from the lab complex, the island has remained largely wild and undeveloped.
    Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The truck was found in an undeveloped area of southwest San Antonio near railroad tracks.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 July 2022
  • There were farms here long into the 20th century and lots of undeveloped forest.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • Large centers like this new one need to build from the ground up in undeveloped areas to accommodate the scope of work and storage, Huffman said.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 9 June 2023
  • More than 4 acres of undeveloped lots along Henderson were included in the sale.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The park offers 21 miles of undeveloped shoreline and miles of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Our now-undeveloped parcels will be built out with developments which pay for themselves and enhance the small-town charm of Carefree.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2022
  • One evening, while staring at the stars, a forward-thinking Neanderthal sets their undeveloped mind on food.
    Greg Coticchia, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The district’s purchase agreement on the undeveloped property is set to expire at the end of February, Funk said.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Many tried, and failed, to build something on the property, which was touted as the finest piece of undeveloped land left in Southern California.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • But Glass pressed the action into the sensational tropes of horror and left the characters and the subject undeveloped.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Sunbelt cities have also seen an influx of investors who buy up vacant lots to keep them undeveloped and wait for values to rise.
    Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Breuer’s house in Wellfleet sits on a hill overlooking 4.2 acres of undeveloped waterfront, and the town assessor has valued the land alone as worth $1.2 million.
    Helen Stoilas, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The undeveloped land that would be affected includes, according to FOGP, 26 trees and shrubs protected by the city.
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Aside from the airport, the area is relatively undeveloped, just an expanse of woods and wetlands along Back River.
    Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2022

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