TOUR in a Sentence

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64 example sentences for TOUR, such as:

1. Sometimes, love is like a tour.
2. I suggest a tour of the museum.
3. Our American friends are touring Europe.
4. The other item on the agenda is the tour.
5. It was a private Seeing Main Street tour.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tour
 n.  a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
 v.  make a tour of a certain place
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Her personal fastidiousness had a moral equivalent, and when she made a tour of inspection in her own mind there were certain closed doors she did not open.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  It was a private Seeing Main Street tour.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  So they began a tour, among sights that made Jurgis stare amazed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
4  The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
5  Miss Ophelia, after passing on her reformatory tour through all the other parts of the establishment, now entered the kitchen.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  It is good practice for me, and with my sketchbook will give you a better idea of my tour than these scribbles.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
7  If, moreover, you have a fancy for making a tour in Hellas or in the Peloponnese, I will yoke my horses, and will conduct you myself through all our principal cities.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
8  With some difficulty, I got him to make the tour of the house.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  I have been making the tour of the park," he replied, "as I generally do every year, and intend to close it with a call at the Parsonage.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33
10  Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
11  With his dogs in attendance he set out and made a careful tour of inspection of the farm buildings, the other animals following at a respectful distance.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
12  A deputation of neighbouring farmers had been invited to make a tour of inspection.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
13  She was off, they guessed, on a circular tour of the imagination--one-making.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
14  After a moment's silence he added to Platon: "I am beginning to think that the tour might help you to bestir yourself."
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  Everything in life fulfils its function, and Chichikov's tour in search of a fortune was carried out so successfully that not a little money passed into his pockets.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  The group will shortly go on a ten-city European tour.
17  This tour takes in the area's best-known natural features, including the Gullfoss waterfall.
18  The other item on the agenda is the tour.
19  The tour manager's role is a cross between hostess and courier.
20  Sometimes, love is like a tour.
21  I suggest a tour of the museum.
22  The pianist made a conquest of every audience on the tour.
23  The opening up of nearly thirty European countries to Chinese tour groups unlocks whole new vistas for the narrow but growing slice of the population with the disposable incomes to take advantage of it.
24  A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it.
25  Google needed two instructional videos and a website offering a visual tour to demystify Google TV.
26  Moving a tour the magnitude of a Stones outing is an epic, expensive affair, potentially involving millions of dollars in travel, transportation and other expenses.
27  In his public apology tour last week, Donald Graham, the family scion who sold the newspaper and related assets to Bezos, said he could not in good conscience continue to lose his shareholders' money.
28  After touring the hospital, Her Majesty unveiled a commemorative plaque.
29  Our American friends are touring Europe.
30  The town is an ideal base for touring the area.