How to Use untapped in a Sentence

untapped

adjective
  • Sukhoi Log mine, thought to be one of the biggest untapped gold mines in the world.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • Here, a design lover's guide on where to stay and what to do in the untapped region.
    — Jaimie Potters, ELLE Decor, 23 Dec. 2019
  • But there’s so much more untapped talent that needs to be reached.
    — Andrew Beers, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • As Jiao sees it, cities are a huge untapped market for AI.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That leaves 93% of the world untapped and unrelatable to you.
    — Stacey O'Byrne, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • There is a lot of untapped wisdom in the citizens of this state.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • One of the best parts about CBD is its untapped potential.
    — Maria Loreto, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The untapped market is in mom-and-pop restaurants, which make up 40% of the restaurant industry in the U.S.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Last month, the British government gave the go-ahead to develop Rosebank, the largest untapped oil-and-gas field in the North Sea.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The trade-off: a decline in the industry’s reserves of untapped oil.
    — Bradley Olson, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
  • People look out at the expanse of the bay and see this untapped potential.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2019
  • That means the marketers are back in the hunt, searching for new pools of untapped listeners.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2022
  • With the 2023 Ram Rampage launching in Brazil, there are clues the new small truck could come to our shores and help the brand cash in on an untapped segment.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 June 2023
  • The method puts you in touch with untapped bass, even on heavily fished waters.
    — Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 29 June 2020
  • Texas was the state with the most untapped potential, 7.8 million acre-feet of urban area runoff each year.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The figures might not add up now, but the amount of untapped energy available ought to be hard to ignore.
    — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Broadnax said much of the city's land mass remains untapped, and offers plenty of room for more growth.
    — Hayat Norimine, Dallas News, 6 July 2019
  • There’s an untapped need for long commutes in chilly weather.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
  • But the games rarely got play on the biggest platforms, so the untapped potential could never be met.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
  • With his newfound free time, the father of two vowed to acquire an untapped skill every week.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • That said, some funds may already be available–just untapped.
    — Tim Requarth, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Worsham’s 6-foot, 185-pound frame and untapped skill set could give a boost to the unit that’s returning five receivers who caught a pass last year.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 4 May 2022
  • Australia is known for being home to huge nuggets of gold and for having untapped gold reserves.
    — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2020
  • And the home games against Tigres, Cruz Azul and similar clubs over the years suggest there’s an untapped market in Utah.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Beneath their feet lay the world’s biggest known untapped deposit of copper and gold.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Stroud is 7-1 as a starter and has flashed plenty of potential yet untapped, but nobody cares about that.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Space is a refuge, a frontier, or an untapped market; Earth must be saved, or escaped, or writ large across the cosmos.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • There could be untapped potential there for the Red Raiders if their other options do not work out.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • There is surely much more than that in untapped wealth, whether uranium, rare earths, or oil, to be had in Greenland.
    — Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The Trump administration sees the agreement as a way to get a return on U.S. investment in Ukraine, which has vast untapped mineral wealth.
    — Dave Lawler, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025

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