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How to use overbuilt in a sentence

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Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
But, first of all, Grand Case is the soul of Saint Martin, the last authentic fishermen village not overbuilt on the island.
It's a perfect situation, because as you were saying, Mr. Cruickshank, Alberta has a flat terrain and it's not overbuilt yet.
It's easy to read themes of ecology and anti-industrialism into what are extremely overbuilt industrial cities where nature has to fight for a toehold.
Because lumber comes in only a few standard sizes, many exterior walls are overbuilt, wasting wood.
And, artificially protected by the controls, banks would no doubt have carried on lending, including to the overbuilt property sector.
Housing market weakness brought sovereign debt risk to the overbuilt countries of Ireland, Spain and Portugal.
For example, CTA '96 allowed CN and CP to more easily address the costs associated with an overbuilt railroad system.
And while London may be overbuilt, demand for property, especially retail space, is stable, and even strong, elsewhere in the country.
We had a transportation system that was overbuilt, over-regulated and oversubsidized.
While I had heard many rumors of O'ahu being overbuilt, it was nice to see that it was only in reference to the southern shore.
Export into other markets considered a solution to overcapacity but emerging markets becoming overbuilt.
As a result of the weak clay soils available, piled foundations and a drained construction platform with overbuilt access roads were required.
The system was overbuilt and too expensive for the small amount of freight traffic it carried.
Much of our system is overbuilt and we can no longer afford it.
And in this metropolis overbuilt with malls, real shopping as opposed to virtual, will likely remain the most popular pastime, regardless of how interactive and alluring a web-mall might be.
End performance specifications will improve the economics of the pavement: at the moment, with empirical specifications, pavements tend to be overbuilt, to ensure their competency.
In 1996, the Canada Transportation Act recognized the need to reorganize feeder lines to address the costs associated with an overbuilt railroad system.
The system was overbuilt and much too elaborate and expensive for the small amount of freight traffic it carried.
Multistoried buildings have been erected to meet the ever-increasing demand for space, and the traditional government compounds have become overbuilt.
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Unlike the collapse of the market during the 1980s, there is little chance that the New York City market will be overbuilt.
Spain overbuilt its fleet in the 1980s, and fish off of Chile like the Patagonian toothfish have paid the price ever since.
Finally, Fedele is bullish on Massachusetts because it has not overbuilt over the years.
But their plans hit a snag when banks, having decided that the area was overbuilt, stopped making building loans.
He theorizes that the structure was overbuilt to accommodate for the site's poor soil conditions.
Taranto is overbuilt into the semblance of a medival if not a modern city.
The growth of the 85-year-old-plus population and a virtual halt in nursing home construction will turn even overbuilt markets into good investments.
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