TOURIST in a Sentence

Learn TOURIST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. He is much run after by our tourists.
2. A fine view of the valley lay before the tourists.
3. The group are holding two western tourists hostage.
4. Travel agency jacked the whole thing up for the tourists.
5. Prices on the island seem absurdly low to Western tourists.

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tourist
 n.  someone who travels for pleasure
Classic Sentence:
1  This tourist performance of enjoying oneself is too hopelessly humiliating: it's such a failure.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  In one place, far from the section usually traversed by tourists, the names "BECKY & TOM" had been found traced upon the rocky wall with candle-smoke, and near at hand a grease-soiled bit of ribbon.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  Ordinarily one could find half a dozen bits of candle stuck around in the crevices of this vestibule, left there by tourists; but there were none now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  He was one of those English tourists who consume a large fortune in travelling.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 69. The Inquiry.
5  He lived in London, England, and in Stratford-on-Avon, which many American tourists loved to visit, a lovely town with many curios and old houses well worth examination.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Her only struggle was in coaxing Kennicott not to spend all his time with the tourists from the ten thousand other Gopher Prairies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Her house had a floating population made up of tourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man and, occasionally, artistes from the music halls.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
8  He is much run after by our tourists.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
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16  The graffiti was found carved on an ancient stone relief by a tourist named Shen, who visited Luxor three weeks ago.
17  Denuded of their social and political context, they serve, alongside Copacabana and the palm-fringed beaches of its northern coasts, as code for languid tropical hedonism, the brand identity of Brazil in the global tourist market.
18  Dozens of people are believed to have been killed by a flash flood in a popular tourist area.
19  The modern tourist will encounter very little linguistic difficulty as English has become an almost universal language.
20  To celebrate Independence Day, the Paris tourist bureau will be distributing gifts to visitors from the US and draping offices and hotels in the colors of the American flag.
21  Terrorist activity in the area has frightened most tourists away.
22  Surprising as it might seem, some tourists actually enjoy the British weather.
23  Travel agency jacked the whole thing up for the tourists.
24  The area is under threat from the sheer number of tourists using it.
25  The Story of the Loch Ness Monster has attracted many tourists to the area.
26  We like to travel in the autumn when there are fewer tourists.
27  A fine view of the valley lay before the tourists.
28  The group are holding two western tourists hostage.
29  Prices on the island seem absurdly low to Western tourists.
30  Under the old regime black marketeers would buy almost anything from Western tourists and resell it at an enormous profit.