build
verb (used with object)
to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials.
unbuildable
-
a word derived from
build.
Example Sentences
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Violeta Autumn’s vertiginous redwood-and-concrete house perched along a cliff in Sausalito — a site others deemed unbuildable — demonstrates how terrain could inspire formal innovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Molchanov said solar has become the fastest-growing power source in the world, in part because it can work in a variety of settings and in large areas of land that might otherwise be unbuildable.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022
And yet, much of that newly exposed shoreline — which was essentially marshland — “was thought to be unbuildable and to have little use and less value,” according to John Caldbick of HistoryLink.org.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
Empty lots stretched across mile after mile of unbuildable land.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
These could no longer be removed, having long since started to rot; the land, therefore, was unstable and unbuildable.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
