buildable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Confidence among U.S. home builders inched higher from last month, but builders still continued to express affordability concerns stemming from elevated construction costs and shortages of buildable lots and labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
“The new price reflects the splitting of the two buildable waterfront lots, so the gross price remains the same,” Emmett Laffey, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty, said back in May.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025
The slogan signified a resistance toward outside investors looking to buy up the droves of suddenly buildable lots.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
Defenders of the Virginia site said the Greenbelt has the smallest buildable area for future expansion, has restrictive wetlands building restrictions and has the greater distance between itself and other FBI stakeholders.
From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2023
Geographical difficulties long made it an impossibility, but the steam-engine gave man the triumph over geography, and by 1860 an intercolonial railway, though not built, was evidently buildable.
From The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by Grant, W. L. (William Lawson)
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