under construction

Example Sentences

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In the last quarter of 2025, the number of new apartments under construction in San Diego County rose 10% from three years earlier, CoStar data show.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

The number of homes under construction, for instance, dropped early this year to a 5 ½-year low.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

Huge housing developments are under construction across the city, including thousands of homes on the old steelworks site in Llanwern.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

From the ground, the next generation of aptly classified Extremely Large Telescopes, some of which are under construction, will attempt to do the same thing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

And we use fitted when we speak of someone whose clothes are, shall we say, under construction: Alice was fittedfor a new dress.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner