Example Sentences

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No one disagrees that undeveloping certain areas of the coastline will be messy and expensive.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2018

What are the social and economic trade-offs of undeveloping one neighborhood to protect another?

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2018

Franklin looked about him at the squat buildings of the little town, at the black loam of the monotonous and uninviting fields, at the sordid, set and undeveloping lives around him.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

Unproductive, undeveloping middle-years and a solitary old age.

From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth

These, and such undeveloping leaves, wherever they occur, are called 'bracts' by botanists, a good word, from the Latin 'bractea,' meaning a piece of metal plate, so thin as to crackle.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John