How to Use fieldwork in a Sentence

fieldwork

noun
  • Thomas, too, has fieldwork planned in the far north this year.
    Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2020
  • By the end of the fieldwork, that figure had dropped to a third.
    Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This type of fieldwork is a bit like that on a much longer timescale and over a much larger area.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
  • Those findings pushed her to expand fieldwork.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Five years of fieldwork in Manchuria formed the basis of her thesis.
    Naï Zakharia, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • During the fieldwork, researchers found some pale yellow fish, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The fieldwork is slated to begin next week, researchers said.
    NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • During their fieldwork, researchers found four reddish snakes, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Seville team plans to conduct more fieldwork to confirm its findings.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Without research and fieldwork, fiction can fall apart like sugar in the sun.
    Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The team encountered just six during their fieldwork.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But fieldwork has been complicated by the fact the river sits in the middle of a war zone.
    Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 9 June 2023
  • These aren’t the old times of multi-day orientation and fieldwork.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Don’t just film fieldwork; include people, places and behind-the-scenes action.
    Marcus Squier, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • At Howard, she was drawn to the idea of spending long periods of time in nature for fieldwork.
    Erin Berger, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Dating shows have guests who are meeting in person again, and the latest podcasts are heavy on the fieldwork.
    Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Many more remain, containing decades' worth of research and fieldwork.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Antarctic fieldwork requires sending tons of fuel, food and survival gear ahead of time.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Linnaeus made many drawings as part of his fieldwork and the Lapland journal is full of them.
    James Prosek, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • If money is secured, the lab or fieldwork begins and the team documents their findings.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2021
  • None of them is currently doing fieldwork in Indonesia, and all are based abroad.
    Bydyna Rochmyaningsih, science.org, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the first half of this hybrid seminar-studio, students conduct fieldwork around the city.
    Richard Fadok, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • That’s what these three scientists have had to figure out this year, as the global pandemic has kept them from their fieldwork.
    Miriah Kelly, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The other problem is funding the fieldwork to discover the reservoir host of a new virus after the horse is out of the barn.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The measurement also marked a two-day decrease in days ideal for fieldwork over the previous week this year.
    Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 26 July 2021
  • But Wright’s fieldwork largely predates the AI shock that has breathed new life into this push.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But Wright’s fieldwork largely predates the AI shock that has breathed new life into this push.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
  • After the day of fieldwork in Glacier, the men packed up their gear and started slipping and sliding their way back down the snowfield.
    Kylie Mohr, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2022
  • In casting the film, Caballero sought to bring in talent that had close proximity to fieldwork.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Travel bans in early 2025 threatened his fieldwork.
    Rachana Pradhan, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026

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