How to Use unmapped in a Sentence

unmapped

adjective
  • An unmapped road led to an extraordinary place where scant few go.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • No one knows where the world’s deepest cave is, and vast expanses of the ocean floor remain unmapped.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
  • But there was still data scattered in the wind, untagged, unmapped, untracked.
    — Will Evans, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
  • In between was an inhospitable and mostly unmapped desert.
    — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Along with the agility and feedback of a sports car, this Lambo can tow heavy loads and tackle unmapped roads.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The unmapped ones are left to flood, with little warning or remedy for homeowners.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 30 June 2020
  • The fault that shook tens of thousands of people was on an unknown, unmapped fault 9 miles beneath the earth’s surface.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Exploring the 80-plus percent of the ocean that remains unmapped?
    — Vulture, 27 July 2022
  • Exploring unmapped territory on the moon could soon be as easy as slipping on a backpack.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The chase leads into an unmapped sector of space ruled by a powerful force calling themselves the Metrons.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Recent heavy rainfall and floods in the region have exposed land mines, which are largely unmapped and remain a threat to civilians.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Three of the six men, including Worsley, hiked across unmapped mountains and glaciers to reach a small settlement.
    — Daniella McCahey, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But the process is expensive and time consuming, leaving as much as 80% of Earth's seafloor unmapped.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
  • More than 80 percent of the ocean is unmapped and unexplored, which leaves open the question of how many species there are yet to be discovered.
    — Paul Chesley, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
  • As late as the 1970s parts of the Western Desert were still unsurveyed and unmapped.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Sep. 2014
  • Engineers and managers had to scramble over unmapped terrain and solve unprecedented problems.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The archaeologists chop through the palm trees in the interior of the peninsula, frequently getting lost in the unmapped heart of the jungle.
    — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The doc would benefit from more such moments, which use images to move beyond the intellectual and embrace an unmapped emotional terrain.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Reporter Peter Fimrite explains why the fault was unmapped and what’s changed in earthquake safety since 1989.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Even if the seamount’s origin remains something of a mystery, the discovery shows how the oceans’ abyssal plains, largely unmapped, are fertile places for discovery, Soule adds.
    — Akila Raghavan, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
  • And given that 95 percent remains unmapped, the marine realm is our generation's great unexplored frontier.
    — Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2010
  • The Waymo spokesperson also noted that its cars autonomously navigate some unmapped areas, such as construction zones.
    — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Beatrice Blackwood, the single-minded eldest child of a widow, traveled into the unmapped jungles of New Guinea.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • Railroad officials said the space presented a fire hazard because rescue workers would have had difficulty accessing an unmapped room.
    — chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The figures in the story have emerged in recent months and inhabit an unmapped but potentially vast new territory in the investigation.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 21 May 2018
  • European and Asian talk of an as-yet unmapped territory could just as easily have referred to Australia or Oceania.
    — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • This study could provide the first in a series of data points needed to understand the extent of tsunami risk along East Africa's vast coastline of unmapped seafloors and buried sand layers.
    — Christian Fogerty, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • In Utah, such projects endanger irreplaceable cultural artifacts and fossils that remain buried and unmapped.
    — Jennifer Oldham, National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The inner depths of the giant planets remain unmapped and unknown, with familiar elements behaving very differently as they’re crushed by pressure.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 10 July 2023
  • Despite technological breakthroughs, more than 80 percent of the ocean remains unexplored and unmapped.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023

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