How to Use unbuilt in a Sentence

unbuilt

adjective
  • This is what’s happening to the long tail of unbuilt digital work.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • The primo location has made the area the number one spot for unbuilt ventures.
    — Greg Goldin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Many young skateboarders there were riding on the foundation of an unbuilt house.
    — AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Even unbuilt, the project violated the spirit of his work in Vals.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The swamp remains undrained, the wall is unbuilt, there is no major infrastructure plan.
    — Megan McArdle, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Land was rezoned, permits were issued, buyers lined up for unbuilt condo units as fast as they could be imagined.
    — al, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The project remains unbuilt on one of the area’s last large undeveloped coastal properties.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And every infill home is one that goes unbuilt on the edges, preserving rural and open spaces and prevent sprawl.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 June 2018
  • In construction, homes would go unbuilt, causing housing prices, already painfully high, to soar.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2024
  • His brilliant projects went mostly unbuilt, and the yellow press covered his messy divorce and daily exploits.
    — Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Over the next two years, the play’s festival stage sat unbuilt in two trailers outside Baltimore.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • Michigan City’s remaining unbuilt portion of the trail is funded, to be built within the next two to three years.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But in the ghostworld of imaginary structures, every unbuilt building stands.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 22 June 2017
  • Citizens would do well to revisit these unbuilt cities, to let their alternate histories roll around in the head.
    — Darran Anderson, The Atlantic, 17 June 2018
  • The Elliott was the epitome of everything his unbuilt design was not.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The first lot on the corner remains unbuilt, the casualty of a years-long insurance dispute.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The unbuilt centerpiece of this trio was to have been a massive 60-story structure flanked by two smaller buildings.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2017
  • The project remains unbuilt on what is one of the area’s last large undeveloped coastal properties, which reportedly is for sale.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022
  • Meta has signaled a willingness to move beyond the social media space toward something unbuilt and unknown.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2022
  • On the wall to my right were pictures Pedraza had drawn, projections of unbuilt buildings from his imagination.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • These artful mini-homes aren’t quite the same thing as the scale models architects craft to give unbuilt structures a sense of physicality.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Some 72 years later, and after more than a dozen commissions, reports and white papers on where to put it, the third runway remains unbuilt.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Renderings of the unbuilt townhouses are available on West Fork’s website.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • When the dust settles, this spectacular billion-dollar listing may remain unbuilt and available for a buck, white-tailed or otherwise.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The Colburn expansion site, which the school bought in 2016, has been unbuilt for more than half a century, Kardan said.
    — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • They’re filled with bland high-rises, underused public spaces, and the circular hole in the ground that was to form the foundation of the unbuilt Chicago Spire.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
  • Nonetheless, the unbuilt residence in Paradise Valley has been put on the market for a whopping $29 million.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The cellscapes created by Goodsell and Olson are best guesses—like an architect’s 3-D renderings of an unbuilt house.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Copenhagen has still built only a fraction of its three hundred ecological projects; the unbuilt portion includes the green streets and cloudburst boulevards meant to link them into a functioning network.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Some projects got started and never finished, like a prison in Diyala province, shown above, that languishes unbuilt nearly nine years after the government spent $40 million to build it.
    — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2013

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