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Example sentences for "surveyed"

Lexicographically close words:
surtout; suru; suruey; surveillance; survey; surveying; surveyor; surveyors; surveys; survival
  1. Bissell surveyed the candidates doubtfully and the man who was pitching, quailing under the disapproving eye of the coach, threw his next ball over the batsman's head and so completed his disgrace.

  2. With a mutter of disgust at himself for the entertainment of such a wild suspicion, he jumped up and surveyed the room.

  3. Approaching a looking-glass that hung against the wall, he surveyed himself reproachfully and began to heap cruel insults upon the reflection of his features.

  4. With what a disdainful glance the magistrate had surveyed him!

  5. For a moment Couturier surveyed Lecoq with a knowing air, as if he hoped to discover whether he were speaking the truth or attempting to deceive him.

  6. Sir Edward Belcher has since surveyed Labuan in her majesty's ship Samarang, and finding an excellent harbor, named it Victoria Bay.

  7. Having beat up this coast twice, and carefully surveyed the whole, I can declare a finer and clearer coast does not anywhere exist.

  8. The geographers who, with the most skilful accuracy, have surveyed the form and extent of the Hellespont, assign about sixty miles for the winding course, and about three miles for the ordinary breadth of those celebrated straits.

  9. With what feelings of pride, not unmixed with awe, must the brothers have surveyed their career.

  10. It was in this spirit that he surveyed the Polish Question.

  11. A town site is surveyed by the municipal surveyor.

  12. Flinders had marked these shores with a dotted line on his chart, to signify that he had not surveyed them.

  13. But the fact that he surveyed the gulfs and Kangaroo Island on the second visit, in 1803, is quite sufficient to account for the improved cartography of this region in the French atlas.

  14. The saint beside the ocean prayed, The soldier in his chosen bower, Where all his eye surveyed Seemed sacred in that hour.

  15. Farnworth stood back a pace and surveyed his handiwork in the upslanting rays of the lamp set upon the floor.

  16. The observer leant over the chassis and critically surveyed the two figures in German uniforms.

  17. So rapid was the influence of climate and example, that the Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed with curiosity and affright the portraits of their savage forefathers.

  18. On the fragment of a rock Aligern stood alone and unshaken, till he calmly surveyed the hopeless condition of his country, and judged it more honorable to be the friend of Narses, than the slave of the Franks.

  19. The emperor himself, clad in a linen tunic, surveyed each day their rapid progress, and encouraged their diligence by his familiarity, his zeal, and his rewards.

  20. The remaining four of the five islands may be in the future identified with the incompletely surveyed intersected mass of land to which the general name of Florida is applied in the present chart.

  21. When this island was being surveyed by the officers of H.

  22. This large bay, which deeply indents the Californian peninsula, is named in the present maps the bay of Sebastian Vizcaino, after the Spaniard who surveyed this coast in 1602.

  23. The elder of the two boys had, meantime, surveyed the room with great confidence.

  24. On coming in sight of the village, he stood still, listened to the song of the bell, and surveyed the forest of white-blossomed orchards in which the hamlet was imbedded.

  25. Ay," answered Robert casually, as he surveyed the group.

  26. The night was far gone before she accomplished her task, and she stood and surveyed her humble home with weariness in her heart.

  27. And yet you were cut out for a farmer," thought Vesper, as he surveyed Agapit's sturdy frame.

  28. The stable-man moved away to his sulky, as if he preferred the vicinity of his roan horse, who gazed at him so benevolently, to that of Vesper, who surveyed him so indifferently.

  29. Rose surveyed her companion in astonishment: "I thought all the Bay knew.

  30. There were tears of agony in her eyes, and Agapit faltered as he surveyed her.

  31. He had suddenly become as rigid as marble, and Bidiane surveyed him in bewildered surprise, until a sudden illumination broke over her, when she lapsed into nervous amusement.

  32. Vesper in suppressed astonishment surveyed Mirabelle Marie, who, at the conclusion of her story, burst into a fit of such hearty laughter that she seemed to be threatened there and then with a fit of apoplexy.

  33. I have been in both, surveyed them inside and out attentively.

  34. But Strabo, who was an uncommonly accurate observer with respect to countries surveyed by himself, appears to have been wretchedly misled by his informers on many occasions.

  35. She stopped and surveyed him an instant as he slowly approached.

  36. The men looked at each other, and surveyed their athletic young chief, who stood like a youthful Mars, with the look and bearing of resolute command.

  37. He surveyed his visitor's evening-dress with a touch of contempt.

  38. The old man stopped and surveyed him with sour disapproval.

  39. He surveyed the man who addressed him with a touch of hauteur.

  40. Piers loaded her with as many oranges as she could carry, and they finally departed through the great hall which Gracie surveyed with eyes of reverent admiration.

  41. Avery surveyed him also, and as not very favourably impressed.

  42. The Archduchess surveyed the two remaining culprits with a terrible gaze.

  43. She entered unannounced, save by a jingle of chains, and surveyed the room with a single furious glance.

  44. Nikky and his companion bowed, and Nikky surveyed him through his goggles.

  45. He had surveyed stonily the costume in which the little Prince was to be taken away.

  46. The Countess turned and, separating the curtains, surveyed the room within.

  47. From the full manhood of his twenty-three years Nikky surveyed Karl's almost forty, and considered it age.

  48. The man and the boy who had been working on it stood back and surveyed it.

  49. And Prince Ferdinand William Otto had caught him in the act of thinking; and had stood before him and surveyed him anxiously.

  50. Mathilde admitted her, and surveyed her uncompromisingly.

  51. Miss Chalmers made an eloquent and helpless gesture with both arms, then surveyed her light field-equipment--six trunks and a grip.

  52. She returned to the end of the wharf and surveyed her six trunks.

  53. Reginald surveyed the great, grown man with pity and contempt.

  54. By the feeble light of the lantern that stood on a seat he surveyed his costume and frowned.

  55. The boatman stepped back, surveyed his work, and grinned.

  56. Miss Chalmers resumed her seat and surveyed her costume by the yellow light of the lantern.

  57. Mr. Davidson stepped back a pace and surveyed his nephew.

  58. She sat up briskly and surveyed the interior of the boat-house, at first with bewilderment, then with quick understanding.

  59. He surveyed the river, the islands, and the passing craft.

  60. Mr. Witherbee greeted her effusively and surveyed her from head to foot.

  61. Trixy was winded, and for a moment Haig rested her, while he surveyed the scene.

  62. At six feet from the golden horse he halted, and surveyed him with shining eyes.

  63. Then straightening himself up, face to face with his victim, he surveyed him from head to foot with a half-quizzical, half serious look.

  64. We stopped at Dunbarton, and though the approach to the castle there is very steep, Dr Johnson ascended it with alacrity, and surveyed all that was to be seen.

  65. After breakfast we surveyed the castle, and the garden.

  66. We surveyed that part of the palace appropriated to the Duke of Hamilton, as Keeper, in which our beautiful Queen Mary lived, and in which David Rizzio was murdered; and also the State Rooms.

  67. A moment later the interior of the fort was lighted up by the flare of half a dozen candles, Frank turned and surveyed the prisoner.

  68. With the candles lighting up the interior of the room, the prisoners surveyed their surroundings.

  69. He leaned back in his chair and triumphantly surveyed his partner, who had collapsed into a crushed and perspiring heap.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surveyed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assessed; measured; plotted; quantified; valued