How to Use untapped in a Sentence

untapped

adjective
  • But there’s so much more untapped talent that needs to be reached.
    Andrew Beers, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • As Jiao sees it, cities are a huge untapped market for AI.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That leaves 93% of the world untapped and unrelatable to you.
    Stacey O'Byrne, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The untapped market is in mom-and-pop restaurants, which make up 40% of the restaurant industry in the U.S.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Last month, the British government gave the go-ahead to develop Rosebank, the largest untapped oil-and-gas field in the North Sea.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • With the 2023 Ram Rampage launching in Brazil, there are clues the new small truck could come to our shores and help the brand cash in on an untapped segment.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 June 2023
  • Texas was the state with the most untapped potential, 7.8 million acre-feet of urban area runoff each year.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The figures might not add up now, but the amount of untapped energy available ought to be hard to ignore.
    WIRED, 26 Oct. 2022
  • That said, some funds may already be available–just untapped.
    Tim Requarth, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Worsham’s 6-foot, 185-pound frame and untapped skill set could give a boost to the unit that’s returning five receivers who caught a pass last year.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 4 May 2022
  • There could be untapped potential there for the Red Raiders if their other options do not work out.
    Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Claude Gilbert always thought Colorado was an untapped oil well.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • This has allowed the alkali flies—also known as brine flies—to make use of an untapped resource.
    Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • His fingers are on the laces, gripping untapped potential with the understanding that the wrong move can lead it to burst.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The market for tactical rifles, such as the AR-15, was still largely untapped.
    Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The goal was twofold: to sell to an untapped audience and to encourage little girls to take an interest in STEM fields.
    Mary Kenney, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The result is that vast quantities of metal have been left stranded over the decades in mine-waste piles on the surface, as well as in untapped deposits.
    Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Large portions of New York sit atop massive but untapped sources of natural gas.
    Claudia Tenney, WSJ, 11 May 2022
  • That through line, say Cutler and Rice, is an untapped, powerful way to increase health and well-being.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune Well, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The mourning, in this instance, includes the loss of enormous untapped potential.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
  • India is already the second largest smartphone market in the world and much of the potential remains untapped.
    Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • This gave me a unique opportunity to tap into a niche that was untapped at the time, which was men’s jewelry.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • For the most part, the brains represent untapped, enormous potential.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Bridging this gap is the key to unlocking an untapped potential.
    Adam Ayers, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
  • But its great, untapped potential could bring significant riches to the kingdom in the long term.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 July 2022
  • But more likely it’s because the region has largely been an untapped reservoir of good stories.
    Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Rundown is just blocks away from Heaven Skate Park, a hub for local skate culture, which Scott says is an untapped market.
    Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • But in my faith walk, Special Forces was actually pushing me to the limit in that area, which is an area that's kind of an untapped source, even for me as a person.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This collector’s house in the heart of Beato is the perfect place to discover this untapped labyrinth of galleries and restaurants, while still being just a 10-minute drive from the city center.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 24 June 2022
  • How can the rest of us then take these examples and harness routinely the untapped power of subtraction?
    Leidy Klotz, Scientific American, 12 May 2022

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