unbuildable
- a word derived from build.
Example Sentences
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In 1983, he championed an apparently unbuildable entry for a sports club in Hong Kong by the then-unknown young Iraqi British architect Zaha Hadid.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
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
He was able to buy the steep lot in 1962 for $17,000 because it had been deemed unbuildable.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2019
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
