How to Use surveyor in a Sentence

surveyor

noun

• Or should surveyors drill down to the peak’s rock base?
  — Kai Schultz, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• The surveyors marker in Konkel Park will be the fifth for the society.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
• Both were named by their father, William, who used to be a surveyor.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
• In the center of the yard is a grouping of small boulders that Ken’s brother Randy, a surveyor, picked up from the desert.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
• The surveyors are at their computers nearby, ready to direct him to keep the ship on the new line.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• Her job, like that of many surveyors across the rich world, has been getting harder.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• This is the same principle that surveyors use to map cities.
  — Mark J. Reid, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2020
• On the academic side, Alice, now a surveyor, set the bar high for both kids.
  — cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
• For a surveyor trying to find the closest length match, this is a key attribute.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2021
• Banks used the surveyor’s wheel from his job at the gas company to mark off distances.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2021
• The surveyor in Hong Kong is back to working in-office five days a week and is stressed by her lengthy commute.
  — Nicholas Gordon and grady McGregor, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• According to Russo, the buying process was very smooth thanks to the support of the local surveyor in charge of the project.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• The right of way would be equal to three rods, or 49.5 feet, including the lanes; a rod is an arcane unit of length used by land surveyors.
  — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• Splaine included Shekarchi in an email when Langseth filed the complaint about the surveyor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Jones said storm surveyors will find out whether the tornado went the entire distance along the ground or touched down in spots along the way.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• There was a slight dip in the number of surveyors during the pandemic.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• In the Bronx, the surveyors later found water reaching close to six feet in Van Cortlandt Park.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• The report notes early wealthy settlers were the ones who had access to surveyor’s maps and knew where those ridges were.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Her father is a surveyor for the coal mines; her mother works for the local landfill.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• One for instance deals with the way surveyors use coordinates to map the state.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2020
• The city hired Richard Toombs, a surveyor, to create a series of maps that would show every block in Brooklyn with the new numbers and names.
  — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• And so, last week, surveyors with ground-penetrating radar and long probes cleared the underbrush next to the the low stone wall around the cemetery.
  — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 28 June 2017
• Stong said the surveyors are on site now for work on the storm water asset management plan.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2018
• In them Ellen’s father – who was a surveyor, a lawyer, and an enslaver – legally gives her as a gift to his daughter Eliza.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2023
• At night, surveyors can stand on boats and cast bright lights across the water surface in a zigzagging pattern.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• The early days of tomb building look to have been an ad hoc affair, no surveyors involved in the layout.
  — Andrew Boyd, NOLA.com, 22 May 2018
• Locust Grove was built in 1792 and owned by William Croghan, a surveyor who conducted his business from the home.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2021
• Using a plane lets surveyors cover a lot of ground in a short time, and one recent survey covered the largest area so far.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• After high school, Tucker worked as a surveyor on the Queensgate railroad before joining his parents at Tucker’s.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
• The intrigue: William Byers, a surveyor and farmer, is credited with establishing much of the current Baker neighborhood.
  — John Frank, Axios, 22 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024