Example Sentences

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Deloitte, which has surveyed Americans’ travel plans since 2021, finds that this year in particular, more people are planning trips of three nights or fewer.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2025

Natalie Brown, who works with the Welsh Institute of Performance Science, has surveyed teachers and pupils about period education in schools.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

One of the great pleasures of recent seasons, Doppelgänger has surveyed Schubert’s late quartets while commissioning new works that respond to them.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Kim Jones, Bluffton's watershed resilience manager, said the city has surveyed septic systems, looking for failing tanks.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023

The nebular hypothesis has surveyed, worked, and perfected many long reaches of this road, but the rivers are not bridged, the chasms not filled, nor the mountains tunnelled.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White