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surveying

adjective as in seeing

noun as in engineering

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Example Sentences

By refusing to even acknowledge that there was a campaign kept major polling and media organizations from surveying the race.

Then he pauses and looks up, doing a quick bout of surveying in his head.

Were they checking in on conditions at the hospital and surveying local veterans?

Then, she brings the talk back to Burger Chef, and the surveying she did in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

ADAM hit its peak in the 2000s, surveying arrestees in 35 counties and inspiring international survey of the same kind.

There, too, was James Duane, with never so great need of his "surveying eye" to enable him to size up the situation.

The writer having carried the surveying chain, was present at the trial at the Bodmin assizes in 1829.

“The sun will be down in a few minutes,” said the mate, turning round and once more surveying the western horizon.

He glanced at Rita, who was standing very near him, surveying the evil little room and its owner with ill-concealed disgust.

He took her by the shoulders and held her at arms' length, before him, thus surveying her, and there was trouble in his keen eyes.

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On this page you'll find 127 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to surveying, such as: attentive, discerning, discriminating, intelligent, mindful, and perceptive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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