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 | Jsharp@al.com, al, 30 July 2023
  • As part of the surveying project, workers placed orange flags on top of the unmarked graves.
    Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Glasper intends to keep surveying as wide a landscape as ever.
    Michael J. West, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • 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 | Wthornton@al.com, 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
  • The first will include surveying and planning the trip's logistics, followed by treating, measuring, and monitoring the treatment's success.
    Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024

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