How to Use surveil in a Sentence

surveil

verb

• The stork took flight, did a loop to surveil the boat and perched on a lamppost near the bank.
  — Safak Timur Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• How much more of my life does this behemoth want to surveil?
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• The mission was more than an effort to surveil Russian forces.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• But getting close enough to surveil the Russians is a risky endeavor.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• For months, the state has relied not on state-of-the-art software, but thousands of spreadsheets to surveil the industry.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The group that helped him escape used drones to surveil the prison in preparation for the operation.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 3 July 2018
• Google seems inclined to surveil, Instagram to stage lives.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2019
• Law enforcement could do more to surveil these toxic sites.
  — NBC News, 15 May 2022
• The idea is that the chips will allow the government and corporations to surveil people who get the vaccine.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• Their data and networks help the government surveil the public.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• The rise of door cameras have led some homeowners to surveil those who take treats from their no-contact candy bowls.
  — Annie Atherton, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• In fact, the FAA may hold the key that unlocks information about drones used to surveil domestic protests.
  — Samuel Woolley, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
• Can police legally surveil a huge swath of a city from the air, using software to track people’s movements?
  — Dwight Weingarten, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2021
• And officials may need to constantly surveil sewage or airports for signs of new pathogens.
  — Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
• The Navy was able to use advanced reconnaissance drones to surveil the ocean floor, and was able to easily locate the debris.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 7 Feb. 2023
• This is not the first time the Ethiopian government has been accused of using spyware to surveil critics.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2017
• Security cameras and a drone will also be installed to surveil the area.
  — Fox News, 3 Dec. 2021
• If being able to surveil every message on Anom was so effective, the FBI might say, why not simply do it more, and in more places?
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 11 June 2021
• For years, executives have openly scoffed at the idea that their app could be used to surveil Americans.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
• The only people who would be easy to surveil would be people who didn't care about government surveillance in the first place.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2019
• The public should determine what police officers use—and do not use—to surveil them.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
• And the worst thing that can happen is for people to open one up whose real purpose is not to protect an American, but to surveil them.
  — Time, 11 Dec. 2019
• Even electric vehicles and connected cars have been caught in the crosshairs, seen as a covert way to surveil Americans.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 9 July 2024
• And yet at any single moment just about anyone with a smartphone has the ability to surveil millions of people across the globe.
  — Chris Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
• Democrats responded that the dossier was neither the only nor the critical piece of information the FBI used to get the warrant to surveil Page.
  — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2018
• There are trail cams and drones and night-vision goggles that could be used — perhaps illegally — to surveil the landscape in hopes of catching the hider.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2017
• Police in Gresham found that Plympton was living in Troutdale and began to surveil him.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2024
• Dana Taylor: So, airports and police stations have been using AI to surveil the public for years now, but this week there was a new addition to the list.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• The case file does not mention any efforts to surveil Lau or monitor her phone, and Lillienfeld did not respond to a request for comment.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
• This affordability could allow states to send swarms of drones—some designed to surveil, others to attack—without worrying about attrition.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024