How to Use surveying in a Sentence

surveying

noun

• Hope said that surveying work will begin in the weeks ahead.
  — al, 24 Feb. 2021
• There is some surveying and geotechnical work that will be done in the next few weeks.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 30 July 2023
• In this case, except for the surveying illustrations, the rest of the paved floor is blank.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019
• As the bear neared, Minish held up the pointed end of his surveying pole and pushed it toward the bear to keep it away from him.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2021
• Today, Jay is a lawyer and owns a land surveying business.
  — Ann W. Schmidt, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2020
• Most of the surveying is done between February and May.
  — Bob Helbig, oregonlive, 21 June 2023
• The spacecraft — a roughly cube-shape craft about eight feet on each side — will spend about a year surveying and mapping Bennu.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Active surveying for whales began on the second day at sea; the team saw only a few dolphins.
  — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
• The weather service said there were still a few areas that needed surveying, and that would take place on Monday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 Mar. 2021
• As such, the researchers turned to the hospital's water sources, surveying sinks, showers, and ice and water machines on the floor.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• Data collection and surveying is the first step to the Christopher Creek restoration.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• That was one of three times in his 45-year surveying career that Buddemeyer was called to a murder scene.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2022
• The rankings are issued by the NFL following fan surveying of every home game.
  — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• The increase is partly down to better surveying techniques, but also more garbage being in the patch.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2018
• Where investigators would have spent five to six hours surveying and recording, the drone can do the same job in about thirty minutes to an hour.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 20 Sep. 2021
• His cover job — site surveying — gave him credentials to pull deeds and housing floor plans.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• Thanks to today's better surveying, the order is clear: Whitney, then three Colorado peaks, then Rainier.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2017
• Recent surveying and Election Day polling give a glimpse into what voters are thinking as the campaign rolls along.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
• The tourists found far fewer hyenas than the researchers, but their photos were the only surveying method to identify cheetahs at all.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2019
• Their gauges measured the snowpack at 5% of average, the lowest ever recorded in decades of surveying.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2021
• The researchers believe that Plimpton 322 could have been used in surveying and construction, planning large projects like palaces and pyramids.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2017
• That number is higher when aerial surveying is used, but plane data over the last 20 years is less consistent.
  — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
• Rainie says in Pew’s surveying, this mode of communication and interacting with the world came up as well.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2021
• With prices having dropped on small consumer models, drones are everywhere, used for fun and for business like land-surveying.
  — Brian McGill, WSJ, 20 May 2021
• The first students to receive bachelor's degrees from the college graduated in the spring of 2021 through the land surveying program.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 8 June 2022
• But Mohan said Yembo’s AI app surged in demand during 2020, as more and more companies saw a need for a remote surveying tool.
  — Brittany Meiling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
• In Texas, the president is expected to spend most of his visit surveying damage with Gov. Greg Abbott.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
• That delay was tied to some foundation piles being driven in the wrong location due to a surveying error.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2022
• Despite all of our modern surveying tools and careful planning, the earth will still surprise you, adds McKinnon.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
• As the last weeks of May stretched into June, Gazans took stock, surveying which families survived and what was destroyed in the latest conflagration.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024