Sentence examples for sit undeveloped from inspiring English sources

And it is studded with carefully composed topic sentences for major ideas which one expects to be followed by paragraphs, pages, and chapters of development but, instead, merely follow one another and sit undeveloped until the next equally well-wrought topic sentence.

The parcels have sat undeveloped since 1967, when the city razed 14 tenement buildings on them and displaced their 2,000 residents in the name of urban renewal.

Instead, they have sat undeveloped for 42 years, their prospects frozen by bitter disagreements over whether they should be made into commercial spaces or low-income housing or parks.

The Taystee Bakery had been awarded to an affiliate of the Citarella food markets in 2001 but after it sat undeveloped for years, the New York State Supreme Court awarded it back to the city in 2009.

And every unit that is delayed raises prices: developers have to pay interest on loans while land sits undeveloped, and have to pay enormous legal, architectural and consulting fees.

And homebuilders are still bleeding money as they sit on vast tracts of undeveloped land that they'd like to slap homes on as soon as they find some buyers.

Property speculators often sit on chunks of prime city land; to discourage this, China's government slaps a 20% tax on the value of tracts left undeveloped for a year.

Sit, sit.