Sentence examples for quickly survey from inspiring English sources

That moment when you enter a room full of strangers, quickly survey it for wine and canapés (if you're lucky) and try to keep yourself occupied while you search for that lone person drifting on the sidelines to approach and engage in conversation.

The objective of the preliminary survey was to quickly survey the area for potential voids that might exist under the road surface and subsequently a more detailed survey of those areas was performed to confirm the existence and determined the lateral and vertical extension of the potential void(s) identified in the preliminary GPR survey.

In this discussion, Gao and I quickly survey a range of topics, from the state of e-books today and what we can can expect in the future, what Amazon may do in this space, and how Hyperink's technology crawls the web for content and pairs that information with human curators to create a "book-like" experience for the customer.

The ability to quickly survey responses and enter into dialogues -- a kind of interplay of facts and ideas -- is increasingly important, as is the ability to conduct initial research, accessing library databases worldwide, as well as digital versions of journals and research papers.

While many businesses in Katmandu had reopened a week after the quake, the U.N. says that nearly 1 million children won't be able to return to school unless officials can quickly survey schools in the affected areas and provide temporary places for them to learn.

The surgeon ideally would have a wide field of view to quickly "survey" the tissue, but should also be able to view suspicious regions under higher magnification down to cellular resolution.

"Adam, is he here?" Mr. Rangel said, quickly surveying the room.

The curly-headed 26-year-old quickly surveyed the hard-drinking crowd and set off toward a very vocal group of guys surrounded by piles of dingy hockey gear.

Mr. Joffe, quickly surveying the history of traditional European diplomacy, describes a centuries-long exercise in aggression and containment, with the great powers seeking to maximize their advantage while frustrating their rivals, usually through temporary alliances.

This doesn't just apply to lunch: most people will have reached for the takeaway leaflet after quickly surveying the fridge and not being able to stomach yet another omelette.

The other day at lunch, the owners quickly surveyed the room and pointed out the lawyer Martin Lipton, and, across the restaurant, two preteen boys seated with two older women in furs.