How to Use survey in a Sentence

survey

1 of 2 verb

• The teacher surveyed the room.
• Engineers surveyed the property to see what could be built on it.
• People were surveying the damage after the storm.
• A total of 250 city residents were surveyed about the project.
• Of the districts surveyed, the most one spent per pupil on legal fees was about $75.
  — The Enquirer, 1 Aug. 2023
• Some of the key highlights state that 43% of those surveyed have quit their job because of their toxic boss.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 Sep. 2023
• One in ten students surveyed by FIRE in 2023 reported the same thing.
  — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
• Brown was preferred by 48% of those surveyed, to 41% of voters who preferred Moreno.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• In the clip, Katie Crutchfield surveys a city from up above in an empty apartment while pacing around and singing along to the song’s lyrics.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, tent encampments had returned to a third of the sites surveyed.
  — Claire Rush, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• A little over one-third of the surveyed said college was too expensive.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 17 Dec. 2023
• The full extent of the damage wouldn't be known until inspection crews were able to survey the fire zone.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 22 Dec. 2023
• Ice Spice surveyed a tray of burgers, which were ferried around the room by servers, before opting to pass for the moment.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• Millennials surveyed expressed this the most (60%), compared to less than a third of baby boomers who feel the same.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Pew Research Center found 32% of those surveyed own a gun, while 10% do not personally own one but live in a home that does.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
• Project monitors had surveyed the site and found fewer trees than South Pole planned to claim credit for.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• A little more than a year ago, the Wall Street Journal surveyed economists about their forecasts for 2023.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• In October, 16% of those surveyed said DeSantis was their first choice, while 19% say that now.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• David Ellingson Eddington surveyed 1,700 Utahns to measure what’s unique — and what isn’t — about how Utahns speak.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• But nearly two-thirds of those surveyed were not concerned about the state’s northern border with Canada.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Ruiz said there were a few key reasons the people surveyed cited for hiding their culture.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Take a brief stroll around the two main food and beverage areas to survey your options before buying your lunch.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
• In it, Donald Trump leads the field with 48% of those surveyed — down just a little bit since the last Register poll in early December.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
• Residents began to survey the damage by boat and by drone.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• As a result of the incidents, traps were set and Animal Services surveyed the park and the surrounding area.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
• It's led 42% of retailers surveyed by goTRG to shorten their window for returns this year.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Start your market research by surveying those close to you, ask questions, and get feedback.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The president will survey the site of the devastation and meet with state and local officials.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• When helicopters show up to survey the land for a third line, the family’s dog, Peaches, who is prone to seizures, goes into a barking frenzy.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
• Before removing any pieces of the bridge, divers are tasked with surveying the murky underwater wreckage and assessing how to safely extract the various parts.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024

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survey

2 of 2 noun

• A new land survey changed the borders of their property.
• We conducted an opinion survey on the issue and found that most people agree.
• A survey of recent corporate layoffs reveals a new trend in business management.
• The survey found some surprising tendencies among the population.
• Surveys of each department were conducted earlier this year.
• That’s just not the kind of question that finds its way into polls or surveys.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The survey found that 86% would continue to support the strikes, while 10% would oppose them.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• Those who complete the survey have the option to enter a drawing for one of 11 gift cards to a Fayetteville restaurant.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 13 Mar. 2024
• The survey may have been an outlier, but for DeSantis the bad news keeps coming.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Hardeman developed surveys and bought shiny new iPads for moms to fill out.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 12 Jan. 2024
• Price reductions were in part a result of feedback received from a fan survey conducted at the start of the year.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Pew survey did not include a question about such suborbital trips.
  — Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• As the paper notes, the study followed a broader survey of syphilis in the still deeply segregated region.
  — Caitjan Gainty, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• The storm currently hitting the Sierra will be factored into the April snow survey.
  — Sara Tonks, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• That was higher than the median estimate of 7.8% in a Bloomberg survey as well as the 8.1% expected by the Riksbank.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• The airport will be sharing the survey responses with Chik and releasing them online for the public to read, too.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 1 Mar. 2024
• According to most surveys published ahead of the election, the center-right incumbents are ahead in polls.
  — April Roach, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2023
• What's more, 16% of savers don't earn any interest on money in their accounts, according to the same survey.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
• That represents a 10% rise in support since a survey conducted by the same center three months ago.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• Uebel said survey results would also be shared with any new broadband providers who would like to do business in Carroll.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
• Trump’s campaign and allies feel emboldened by the surveys.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• This tracks with the AASM survey, which found that 77% of sleep tracker users said the device was helpful, and 68% changed their behavior after using it.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 12 Mar. 2024
• Only 30% of Americans still watched movies on a disc over the last year, according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
• Analysts in a Wall Street Journal survey predicted a draw of 50 Bcf.
  — WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• The findings come from the Singles in America survey, conducted by Match Group.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• The current uptake is far short of survey data from last month that indicated more than half of American adults planned to get the shots.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Regular surveys by the Census Bureau since the start of the pandemic have also showed rising hunger.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The percentage of Guatemalans who identify as Methodist is small -- two-tenths of 1%, according to one recent survey.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
• In the Scott interview, a viewer can recognize those gestures of Andrew’s that decades later seem seedy rather than winning: the lordly tuck of the chin, the arrogant survey of the eyes.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2024
• Attitudes about the economy improved in previous months but remain well below pre-pandemic levels, the survey showed.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024