Example sentences for: surveying

How can you use “surveying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • HDS collects information on household mail by surveying a random sample of 5,300 households per year.

  • Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal’s neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.

  • The technique of RNAi, whereby the introduction of a sequence-specific double-stranded RNA leads to degradation of matching mRNAs [ 62 ] , has allowed the systematic surveying of thousands of C. elegans genes for phenotypes following transient gene knockout [ 63 64 65 ] . Such information is potentially transferable to understanding which genes have crucial roles in parasitic nematodes where high-throughput RNAi is not yet possible.

  • Although the line-item veto had been the darling of several Republican presidents, the Wall Street Journal , after surveying Clinton's targeted cuts last week of federal subsidies to such corporations as Westinghouse and 3M, complains today that the administration's line-item decision process "can appear often arbitrary and highly vulnerable to politics."

  • Coping with Methuselah consists of seven essays, mostly on the economics of life extension but also including one essay surveying the biology of aging and one on the ethics of life extension.


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