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 group is the same one that provides the undeveloped land for Maria’s Field of Hope.
    Jane Morice | Jmorice@cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • One new feature of the agreement is that the nuns agreed to keep at least 60% of the site undeveloped.
    Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • At the time, there was still plenty of undeveloped earth among the small farms and woodlands.
    oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Houses and docks line much of the shore, but there are sections of marshy grassland and undeveloped woods as well.
    al, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Li built the Friendship and Love Hospital on a plot of undeveloped land next to his home.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The area was undeveloped and no major roads drove traffic to the center.
    John Ewoldt, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • At the time most of the area was undeveloped, so the official plan didn’t mean that much until more roads were built and more people settled the area.
    Longreads, 26 Sep. 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
  • On the campus would be the data center, a water treatment plant, and undeveloped land to act as a buffer to neighboring properties to the north, application materials show.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The stadium and its auxiliary fields will be on about 31 acres on an undeveloped parcel near the Broncos’ training facility, according to the memorandum of understanding.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2025

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