How to Use surveying in a Sentence

surveying

noun
  • So, surveying and picking out the right stars in the disc takes time.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 27 May 2026
  • Our dad got us a job holding the pole, the guy sights on through the thing, surveying.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
  • This style of surveying has been in use by the agency for seven decades.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There is some surveying and geotechnical work that will be done in the next few weeks.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], 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
  • Unlike Dart, Hera will not strike but will tag along for months of surveying.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Glasper intends to keep surveying as wide a landscape as ever.
    — Michael J. West, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 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
  • His cover job — site surveying — gave him credentials to pull deeds and housing floor plans.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Gilbertson’s goal wasn’t just to climb the mountain, but to use high-tech surveying tools to measure its precise height.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The increase is partly down to better surveying techniques, but also more garbage being in the patch.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 20 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Data collection and surveying is the first step to the Christopher Creek restoration.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • In the coming weeks, Cooper said official surveying will increase.
    — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The rankings are issued by the NFL following fan surveying of every home game.
    — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • There are 246 of them, drawn from the everyday realms of agriculture, land surveying, and taxation.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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