How to Use surveying in a Sentence

surveying

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  • 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 | [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
  • 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 | [email protected], 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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