How to Use unimproved in a Sentence

unimproved

adjective
  • The market for unimproved land is not perfect, but the players in it are not a bunch of idiots.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • It was towed and a citation for unimproved parking was issued.
    — cleveland, 26 Nov. 2020
  • There’s also a section of unimproved alley that would need to be vacated.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This parental control system has remained nearly unchanged and unimproved for many years.
    — PCMAG, 5 June 2024
  • The grounds are maintained but otherwise unimproved and ripe for a savvy landscape designer.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024
  • These roads are typically unimproved and often present a number of hazards.
    — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The City has owned this trail for 20 years and is now designing improvements to grade and pave the unimproved trail.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Newer buildings to the west are more stable and marketable, while unimproved buildings to the east are struggling and emptying.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
  • Even with those areas renovated, there still would be unimproved sections of the roadway remaining.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • Artists actually lived in Soho, in unimproved or barely improved loft spaces.
    — Frederick Peters, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • That amount of money can buy a lot of ranches, especially in a part of the country where unimproved rangeland sells for less than $500 per acre.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Its shallow draft and articulated ramp give it the ability to operate in shallow, unimproved ports.
    — al, 9 June 2021
  • Few papers are published that don't have any flaws and stand the test of time as an authoritative and unimproved upon statement about scientific truth.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2011
  • For most of America’s history, the area was a white space on the map, unimproved land suited neither to agriculture nor industry.
    — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 20 June 2021
  • The program is not available for vacant homes, unoccupied vacation rental properties or unimproved parcels.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In that instance, the helicopter had flown out of the Marine base in Twentynine Palms to practice landings in unimproved zones.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The 8-mile-long singletrack crosses an unimproved 4WD road that leads back to the trailhead, so there are multiple bail options.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Mar. 2026
  • For the farmer, rancher, or woodland manager who needs 365-day access to the unpaved and unimproved, these are add-ons to an already useful workhorse.
    — New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Most backpackers stick to the higher elevations in the mountains; the desert is more suited to overlanding, with its prevalence of unimproved roads and roadside campsites.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Both those ships still will be multipurpose workhorses capable of delivering hundreds of troops and a parking garage worth of vehicles to shallow or unimproved ports.
    — al, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The city is currently using our general fund to reduce scalloped streets where contiguous development does not exist then placing a lien on the unimproved property.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Instead, visitors are treated to the sights of 1 million acres of expansive plateaus, rugged canyons, and Mojave Desert, all traversed by a series of unimproved dirt roads and hiking trails.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Advertisement The new survey is also an opportunity for the city to begin tackling 62 miles of unimproved roads that were recently added to the city’s streets network.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Following the end of World War II, the Willys Jeep proved ideal for use on farms and for transport in rural communities with unimproved roads.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Since the volume of funding is generated by vehicles using the roads, priority for maintenance and repairs should be given to those used the most over other uses such as paving unimproved streets or additional bike lanes.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Councilmember Eric Joyce also cited concerns about traffic on the unimproved road, but said a bigger issue for him is how the dense residential development would affect wildlife in the area.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Their mostly unimproved bullpen has been every bit the liability many predicted, and their rotation ERA is a lot closer to the Rockies’ than the Dodgers’.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • Certain annoyances seem perpetually unimproved, with tape measuring falling into that category, until now.
    — Kathy Barr, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Only a portion of Wilmette Junior High School still remains unimproved with the expectation that it will be completed in 2025.
    — Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Perhaps more importantly, community leaders say the unimproved dirt streets and alleys can damage neighborhood pride and leave first-time visitors and potential developers with negative images of the areas.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020

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